Pixie cut

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Winona Ryder showing off her pixie cut in 2008. Photo by Eric Weiss.

The hairdo for women who think that a Bob Haircut is too long, the Pixie cut is a crop cut, generally short on the back and sides of the head, slightly longer on the top, with very short bangs. It's named after the mythological pixies.

The most famous pixie in the 20th century, Disney's version of Tinker Bell, adds a bun to her pixie cut hairdo.

While considered to be a feminine hairdo in Real Life, a pixie cut is often an indicator that a fictional character is a tomboy; it's a low-maintenance haircut that doesn't get in the way of being "one of the boys".

Examples of people with a pixie cut include:

Anime and Manga

• Lisa in éX-Driver, to go along with her tomboy personality.
• After her Traumatic Haircut, Aika S. Granzchesta in Aria cuts off most of what hair she had left, leaving herself with a pixie cut.

Fan Works

• The Secret Return of Alex Mack: In one of the first changes she makes to her appearance to facilitate the Secret Identity she's creating as the superheroine Terawatt, Alex Mack cuts her shoulder-length blonde hair down to a pixie cut (and starts slowly dyeing it increasingly darker shades).

Film

• Ann (Audrey Hepburn) in Roman Holiday
• Rosemary {Mia Farrow} in Rosemary's Baby
• Jinx (Halle Berry) in Die Another Day

Live-Action TV

• Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce) in Blake's 7 brought the pixie cut back into vogue in the 1970s.
• 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.
• Actress Jane Norman as the eponymous hostess of the 1960s-vintage Philadelphia-area children's show Pixanne.

Web Comics

• Haley wore a pixie cut for a short time in The Order of the Stick, after getting a Traumatic Haircut.

Western Animation

• As mentioned above, Tinker Bell in 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 movies, Emma Watson immediately disposed of the hairstyle she had been contractually obligated to keep from age 11 to age 21. Her subsequent appearance in public with a Pixie cut generated favorable comparisons to Mia Farrow and Audrey Hepburn.
• Actress Larisa Oleynik shifted from shoulder-length blonde locks to a darker pixie cut when she "graduated" from child and teen roles to being an adult actress.