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[[File:WinonaRyderSept08.jpg|frame|link=Winona Ryder|[[Winona Ryder]] showing off her pixie cut in 2008. (Photo by Eric Weiss, licensed under CC-BY.)]]
The hairdo for women who think that a [[Bob Haircut]] is too
The most famous pixie in the 20th century, [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Disney's version of Tinker Bell]], adds a [[Prim and Proper Bun]] to her pixie cut hairdo.
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Compare with [[Boyish Short Hair]] and (as already mentioned) [[Bob Haircut]]. Anything shorter would be either a buzz cut or [[Bald Women]]. Contrast with [[Long Hair Is Feminine]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Lisa in ''[[éX-Driver]]'', to go along with her [[tomboy]] personality.
* After her [[Traumatic Haircut]], {{spoiler|Aika S. Granzchesta}} in ''[[Aria]]'' cuts off most of what hair she had left, leaving herself with a pixie cut.
* Chihiro in ''[[The World God Only Knows]]''
* Haruhi Fujioka from ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''
* Nana Osaki from ''[[Nana]]''
* Akane Tsunemori from ''[[Psycho-Pass]]''
* Videl and Bulma from ''[[Dragon Ball Z]]''
* Kiyomi Takada from ''[[Death Note]]''
* Seishirou Tsugumi from ''[[Nisekoi]]''
* Miwa Yamamura from ''[[Barakamon]]''
* Rikka Takanashi from ''[[Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions]]'' adds a sidetail to her pixie 'do.
* Phos from ''[[Land of the Lustrous]]''
* Haruka Ten'oh / Sailor Uranus from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''
* Riko Aida from ''[[Kuroko's Basketball]]''
* Mahiru Inami from ''[[Working!!]]''
* Kazari Uiharu from ''[[A Certain Scientific Railgun]]'' - not a tomboy, but a female [[Playful Hacker]] has many character traits in common with tomboys.
* Chihiro Fujimi from ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'' by Diane Castle: In one of the first changes she makes to her appearance to facilitate the [[Secret Identity]] she's creating as the superheroine Terawatt, [[The Secret
* In ''[[Hermione Granger and the Boy Who Lived]]'', also by Castle and set in the same world, [[Teen Superspy]] Hermione Granger gets one in her sixth year, to make it easier to wear a series of wigs for her various false IDs. (And possibly as a reference to [[Emma Watson]]'s post-''Potter'' cut.)
== [[Film]] ==
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* Rosemary {[[Mia Farrow]]} in ''[[Rosemary's Baby ]]''
* Jinx ([[Halle Berry]]) in ''[[Die Another Day]]''
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce) in ''[[Blake's 7]]''
* [[Goldie Hawn]] wore a pixie cut with a permanent wave when she was a regular on ''[[Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In]]''.
* [[Mary Martin]], and [[Sandy Duncan]] after her, when performing as [[Peter Pan]] on television.
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== [[Music]] ==
* Caterina Valente wore a pixie cut when she performed on '' Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall'' in 1966.
* [[Jennifer Hudson]], in 2020
* [[Katy Perry]], in 2017 and 2020
* [[Janelle Monae]], in 2017
* [[Kehlani]], in 2016 (one of several styles)
* [[Salt-N-Pepa]]
* [[Halsey]], in 2016
* [[Rita Ora]], in 2015
* [[Miley Cyrus]], in 2013
* [[Rihanna]], in 2012
* [[Madonna]], in 1986
* [[Beyoncé]], on occasion
* [[P!nk]]
* Averted with [[The Pixies]] - the group's only female member, original bassist/vocalist Kim Deal (a.k.a. Mrs. John Murphy), is no longer with the band and never had a pixie cut anyway.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* It's Victorian-era and modern folklore that says [[Our Fairies Are Different|pixies]] wear their hair in pixie cuts.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Haley wore a pixie cut for a short time in ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', after getting a [[Traumatic Haircut]].
* Ivy Collins, the protagonist of webtoon ''The 101ˢᵗ Heroine'', which along with her tomboyish personality and her [[Penny Among Diamonds]] situation in the Royal Consort Contest makes her contrast even more with the long-haired princess she has to compete against.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* As mentioned above, Tinker Bell in [[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Disney's version of ''Peter Pan'']].
== [[Real Life]] ==
* As soon as she had been released from her decade-long contract to make the [[Harry Potter (film)|''Harry Potter'' movies]], [[Emma Watson]] ''immediately'' disposed of the hairstyle she had been contractually obligated to keep from age 11 to age 21. Her [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emma_Watson,_2011.jpg subsequent appearance in public with a Pixie cut] generated favorable comparisons to [[Mia Farrow]] and [[Audrey Hepburn]]. (She's since let it grow out again.)
* Actress [[Larisa Oleynik]] shifted from shoulder-length blonde locks to a darker pixie cut when she "graduated" from [[Former Child Star|child and teen roles]] to being an adult actress.
* In the late-1960s, Twiggy near-singlehandedly changed the modelling world's preferences from "voluptuous models" to "waif-like models" with her thin build and her pixie cut, as seen [[w:File:Twiggy promo.jpg|in this promotional photo on Wikipedia]].
* [[Diahann Carroll]], [[Shirley MacLaine]], and [[Barbra Streisand]] all wore their hair in pixie cuts in the 1960s.
* [[Audrey Tautou]] and [[Charlize Theron]] are modern-day actresses who have appeared in public wearing their hair in pixie cuts - Ms. Tautou at the [[Cannes Film Festival]] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Audrey_Tautou_Cannes_2006.jpg in 2006] and Ms. Theron at the [[Academy
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