Typically, the moment of growing out a haircut style is one of crisis. There’s almost always an awkward phase—not to mention an identity crisis that goes along with it. “My hair, once a mullet then a sort-of pixie, is in a weird in-between place, and I don’t know how to wear it,” British Vogue’s Daisy Jones bemoans of this experience. “It doesn’t help that I asked my partner to cut my fringe in the near-darkness while we were both exhausted, which has now left me looking like a wonky-looking bowl.”
It was all stressful until the ’90s hot chop—the bixie—began trending again earlier this summer. For Jones, it was an easy trip to the salon.
The bixie is exactly what it sounds like. Part-bob, part-pixie, the vibe is casual and undone, like a grown-out pixie cut, or a choppier, more mussed-up bob. Think: Cameron Diaz and Meg Ryan circa 1997, or else Halle Berry circa 2002—and Winona Ryder many times throughout her heyday. Essentially, these are pixie cuts that are long enough to rake your fingers through and tuck behind your ears.
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This time around, Pixie Geldof, Florence Pugh, Jourdan Dunn, and future First Lady of New York Rama Duwaji have all seen with variations of the bixie. “Rama initially came in with a classic bob and her famous self-cut bangs,” says Brooklyn-based hairstylist Lauren Sottile, who works with Duwaji. The cut they decided on was a razor-cut bixie layers, along with face-framing pieces that hit around the eyes. “It has a bit of edge, yet stays so feminine. I feel like this cut really should be called “the Rama” because it is so unique to her.”
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Hairstylist and groomer Charley McEwen, who has styled everyone from Alexander Skarsgård to Lily Allen, has also noticed the bixie “having a real resurgence right now.” He thinks that this is partly because of its versatility, as well as its throwback appeal. “It’s short enough to feel fresh and liberating, but not so cropped that it’s a drastic change for most clients,” says McEwen. “It brings together the structure of a pixie with the softness and layering of a bob, which makes it really wearable.” As for why it’s so popular currently? “It carries a bit of that late ’90s elegance, which always circles back in fashion but never feels overly trend-led,” he says.
And this isn’t just a chop for the youth. Throughout Halle Berry’s whirlwind Cannes Film Festival tour, she returned to a version of the shaggy crop she was famous for the first time the bixie was popular. Same with Sharon Stone, who revisited that iconic Basic Instinct haircut this year.
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Fortunately for everybody who has been caught by the bixie bug—the style isn’t hard to look after, either. Duwaji and Geldof both air-dry their hair, and styling is a breeze, too. “One of the strengths of the bixie is definitely how well it adapts,” says McEwen. All in all, you want this hair to feel styled but not overdone. As McEwen says, “A good cut like this should do most of the work for you.”
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