Celebs With Short Hairstyles That Stunned Us All

In one trip to the salon, you can almost completely revolutionize your image. Even if you don't opt to have your hair colored, a cut alone can create quite the dramatic look. After all, there's nothing quite so transformative as an edgy pixie. Going from long hair to short is technically easy, but there are some things to think about before going in for the big chop.

Celebrity stylist Losi told InStyle that a dramatic haircut is not going to be "a solution to your problems." You might regret cutting your hair if you do so in an emotional state (ahem, Britney Spears). There are a lot of matters to consider before anyone chooses to totally change up their hair, but this decision is perhaps even more daunting for those in the public eye seeing as how pretty much everyone is going to have an opinion on their new 'do. Yet and still, that hasn't stopped some celebrities from embracing bold, short hairstyles. Here are some of the celeb short hairstyles that rocked our world the most.

When Rihanna came onto the music scene in 2005, she was just 16 years old. Naturally, her style evolved as she transitioned into adulthood. In 2007, she both cut her hair short and dyed it dark. With that change, she started transforming in other ways. "When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed," the star told Vogue.

Although Rihanna has now experimented with pretty much every style and color imaginable, it was that first big chop that mattered most. "If she didn't change her look, [the album] wouldn't have been as impactful," Rihanna's hairstylist Ursula Stephen told Billboard. "Obviously, the music would have still been good, but her changing the look really made people pay attention to her." 

Stephen added that the singer's new hair also helped differentiate her from the other artists who were emerging at the same time. The star's first album post-haircut, Good Girl Gone Bad, sold close to three million copies and spent a whopping 99 weeks on the Billboard 200 Albums. So, it seems a new haircut can literally change your life.

By 2013, Miley Cyrus was already a far cry from her former persona — Disney's squeaky clean Hannah Montana. But that was by design. "Right now I'm at a point in my career where I can just be exactly who I want to be," the actress and singer revealed in her documentary Miley: The Movement (via ABC News). Of course, a bold new hairstyle was vital to Cyrus' 180-degree transformation.

"I told my hairstylist, shave my head, dye me blonde. I need to let go of like a past in a way because I felt like we need to see change," she explained. "I felt like I had this whole new attitude. I felt like I could finally be the bad b**** I really am. Even the way I dress has opened up." Although Cyrus has toned down her look in the years since, no one will forget the half-buzzed 'do that helped jumpstart the singer's transformation.

In late February 2019, the news broke that Khloé Kardashian's husband, Tristan Thompson, cheated on the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star with Kylie Jenner's bestie Jordyn Woods. Eek. Woods sat down with Jada Pinkett Smith on her Facebook show, Red Table Talk, and attempted to clear up some of the controversy.

Following her interview, Woods started to get back to business. As her Instagram account shows, the star is, as of this writing, continuing to promote her own collection of false lashes with cosmetic company Eylure. In March 2019, Woods also debuted a new blunt bob on Instagram, perhaps following Coco Chanel's motto: "A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life." Needless to say, her new do looks amazing and, who knows, it may signify more changes in the future. "If you're reading this," she captioned the photo, "it means God has given you another day to wake up and be grateful [and] better than you were yesterday."

When Shailene Woodley was cast to play a cancer patient in the film The Fault In Our Stars, she cut her hair into a short pixie. Although she chopped her hair for a role, she quickly became a fan of her new look. And so did we. "I love it," People quoted Woodley as saying at Elle's Women in Hollywood event back in 2013. "It's so easy, man." She continued, saying, "I've always wanted to cut my hair... so it's exciting to be able to just be free and chop it off." 

However, Woodley did admit that short hair has the drawback of not being able to cover your neck. Thus, it doesn't do much for keeping you warm. The actress has grown out her hair since starring in the film, but at least we can reminisce about her short hair days when rewatching the 2014 film.

Raise your hand if you miss Jennifer Hudson's pixie. Although the singer/actress slays whether she's wearing her hair short or long, her pixie definitely blew us all away back in 2013. "It's so easy!" Hudson told Hollywood Life after getting her hair snipped short. "Then I get to explore myself and find my new swag with this! You know, it changes your wardrobe, your style, your flavor, so I'm getting used to it!"

That is certainly true — and something worth considering before asking your stylist to chop off your long locks. "Your silhouette will change after a cut, which will potentially change the way you dress and the jewelry you wear," Kenna, a hairstylist and owner of the Brooklyn, New York-based salon, Kennaland, confirmed when speaking with InStyle. "You may find yourself dressing differently to make sense of your new form." This is part of what makes short styles so fun, but also so daring. High risk, high reward, though, right?

While Nina Dobrev took off more than a few inches from her hair, she, too, proved that pixies aren't the only way to go short. "I've been wanting to cut it for years and years and years. I wanted to cut it midway through shooting [The Vampire Diaries], but I couldn't because of the character," the star admitted to Coveteur. After leaving that show, the actress said the time came for her to embrace a new look. 

Riawna Capri, a hairstylist and close friend of Dobrev's, flew to London to give the star her new hairstyle. "It was a big deal for me — it's been 15 years since I had a major change," she explained to the publication. "I wanted my best friend to do it." Despite it being a huge change for the star, she decided not to place too many restrictions on her bestie stylist. "I told her I wanted it to be short, above the shoulders, and then I said, 'Do whatever you think would be great.'" And that she did. Since Capri is basically the "it" hairstylist in Hollywood, Dobrev's hair, of course, turned out amazing.

When Emma Watson cut her hair, the resemblance between her and the 1960s model Twiggy became uncanny. We can't exactly unsee the similarities today — despite the fact that Watson has gone back to longer locks.

The actress first experimented with short hair back in 2010 when she was just 20 years old. At the time, she told Entertainment Weekly that cutting her hair short was "the most liberating thing." She continued, saying, "The stylist [Rodney Cutler of Cutler salon] just grabbed the back of my hair and took a whole ponytail of hair out. It felt amazing. I love it."

The style was a bold new look for the young actress, but it was a change she'd been wanting to make for a while. "I missed all that experimentation that most teenagers go through," she explained. Having starred in the Harry Potter series for a decade, she wasn't really able to change up her hair. "I've wanted to do this since I was about 16, so as soon as I had the chance I was like, 'Right. This is it.'" We wouldn't be mad if she brought back the pixie. Just saying.