Celebs Who Debuted Bold New Looks In 2017

Celebrities are style chameleons, often changing their looks for roles (or in between them). Still, the rate at which Hollywood has been switching things up so far this year feels practically unprecedented. From bold buzz cuts to hot hair hues, the stars turned 2017 into a year of transformation. Here, you can check out some of the most memorable celebrity metamorphoses to date. In full disclosure, though, these chic-shifters may give you a serious case of makeover envy. 

Zendaya experienced an epiphany this year that led to a major change of heart... and hair. Although the young star spent much of 2016 rocking a straight, blonde neo-mullet style, the star committed to wearing her hair naturally more often in 2017. "When you've spent the past however many years growing your damaged hair back, avoiding heat, wearing wigs and trying every natural product in the world and you finally see a little curl pattern comin back," she gushed on Instagram.

Always adventurous about experimenting with her hair, Emma Roberts bid adieu to her long, dark, wavy tresses this year in favor of a choppy blonde bob. It isn't the first time, either — Roberts has sported this style before. So, as dramatic as the shift from her previous style seems, this departure probably felt a lot like coming home. To make the change possible without totally over-processing her hair, Roberts turned to NYC's Nine Zero One Salon. 

"A blonde at heart can only be dark for so long. It was time for Emma to clear out old energy and that's what we did," co-owners Nikki Lee and Riawna Capri told Us Weekly. "Emma was #CayenneSpice red earlier this year and then #SmokyQuartz brown. She did it, she rocked it, and it was time to bring her back to her signature blonde. With the help of Olaplex we were able to achieve this color change in just a few hours, keeping Emma's hair healthy and extension free. Then Riawna chopped a good 4 inches off her natural hair and created a textured chin length bob. This gave Emma the edge and freedom she's been missing."

Paris inspires many things: love, art, fashion. So why shouldn't it also inspire hair? The City of Light seems to have been supermodel Karlie Kloss' hair color muse, because she took her signature sandy shade all the way up to a light and bright platinum hue while visiting. According to Kloss' hairstylist, Christina Cessna, the supermodel knew exactly what she wanted when she walked through the door. "She came in dead-set on platinum!" Cessna shared with Us Weekly. 

The process proved time-consuming, though, eating up around three hours of Kloss' day. "Her color had previously been lifted a little and her ends had been balayaged [a hand-painting technique], and we had to get all the color out," said Cessna. Ultimately, they achieved platinum success through a combination of bleach and a fortifying oil known as Olaplex. 

Sometimes, a girl's just gotta put the last year behind her and embrace a new beginning. Case in point? The Vampire Diaries' Nina Dobrev, who started the year by saying goodbye to her blood-sucking series and her signature long locks. "Short hair. Don't care. New Year. New Do," Dobrev captioned her reveal pic on Instagram. She also tagged her stylist (and apparently the stylist for all of young Hollywood), Nine Zero One Salon's Riawna Capri. Of the cut, Capri dubbed the look, "Freshly chopped."

Sure, Kristen Stewart changes up her look every so often. But it's no big surprise that when her fans think of her, they typically imagine the girl with long, dark hair from the Twilight series. But in Stewart's case, less is clearly more. 

Appearing on the Today show, the Personal Shopper star explained that — although it was her director who asked her to make the cut — she couldn't have been more pleased to oblige. "I'm doing a movie in a couple of weeks called Underwater," she said, "and I play a mechanical engineer that's working in an oil rig that's on the bottom of the ocean floor. So for me, it was like, 'It's practical.' I was like, 'I'm not gonna be able to have touch-ups once I get the helmet on, so I have to shave my head.'" When asked how she likes the style, Stewart replied, "Oh my god, it feels amazing."

You can't really put anything past Katy Perry, and that includes a platinum pixie cut. By far Perry's shortest haircut to date, the pixie followed fast on the heels of another new and exciting style for Perry: the classic undercut, where hair is shaved underneath and left long on top. Upon revealing the distinctive look on Instagram, the pop superstar explained, "I WASN'T READY TILL NOW." But that wasn't exactly the whole story. 

During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Perry joked with the hilarious host that she'd asked her hairstylist to give her "the Ellen." When DeGeneres pointed out that Perry's cut was beyond her own style, Perry confessed that it was born out of necessity. "I don't know if you've ever dyed your hair blonde and too blonde, sometimes your hair falls out when you go too blonde. So, that's the way I handled it. This is the destination that I showed up to," Perry said. 

It isn't just stars with short hair who have fallen in love with platinum tresses. Keeping her length, Kim Kardashian debuted silvery locks just ahead of Fashion Week. It's hard not to draw comparisons with the now-iconic Khaleesi character on Game of Thrones, Daenyrs Targaryen (no word yet on whether this 'do comes with tiny dragons to tame). But while GoT's Emilia Clarke must rely on the help of wigs, Kardashian could play the mother of dragons with the hair on her own head. 

It's a decision Kardashian explains was a long time coming. "I've been talking about going blonde again for a long time, and I'm so happy I did!" she wrote in a post on her website (via People). 'I know a lot of people initially thought I was wearing a wig, but it's my real hair. My amazing stylist, Chris Appleton, dyed my hair and got it to the most perfect platinum, silvery white color."

If you ever need proof that one person can pull off any hairstyle and still look bae, please refer to Big Little Lies' star Zoe Kravitz. In a two-part Insta post, Kravitz shared the start of her short-hair journey by posting a picture of her trademark dreads piled on the floor. In the next photo, Kravitz strikes a pose with her now super-short pixie cut. 

But like Katy Perry, Kravitz didn't cut her hair purely for aesthetics. Rather, her previous hair choices made a drastic change necessary. "It's rough on your hair. I've had full braids fall out," Kravitz confessed to Allure. "And it's just part of it. I think I'll just kind of figure out something short after. I think you have to accept the fact that you're losing your hair.... I think I'm gonna have to do a buzz cut or something. I've accepted it."

Feeling inspired yet? Celebrities are embracing change in 2017, and the results are living proof that change can be good. So if you've been trying to work up the courage to commit to that cute pixie cut or are considering a bold new hue, take a cue from these style-savvy stars and go for it.