The ‘90s Bixie—a Hybrid of a Bob and Pixie—Is the Quick Coiffure of Summer time 2024

Simply once I thought we might discovered what all the large coiffure developments had been going to be this yr, a well-known look from a number of many years in the past is throwing a gamine wrench into issues. [Editor’s note: It might look more recently familiar too—parts of this story were originally reported way back in 2021, when the bixie made its first modern-day resurgence.] Though I truthfully do not keep in mind it being known as this again within the ’90s—and I keep in mind just about all the good portmanteaus I’ve encountered in my lifetime—the bixie is again and it is prepared to please, dazzle, and probably confuse.

The bixie known as what it’s as a result of it combines components of two distinctly recognizable hairstyles—the bob and the pixie—and creates a brand new coiffure in a grey (however very cute) space. “It is a shaggy bob with a mixture of layers so as to add dimension and texture,” says hairstylist Andrew Fitzsimons. Consider the inflow of brief haircuts within the mid- to late- ’90s—those that weren’t cropped sufficient to be known as pixies, however weren’t lengthy sufficient to be thought-about bobs. (On the time, I feel we simply known as it “brief hair”?) So many stars had been doing it: Winona Ryder, Meg Ryan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cameron Diaz, Halle Berry, Rachael Leigh Prepare dinner, Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore, and the Aussie cleaning soap opera star turned pop singer who impressed my very own faculty crop, Natalie Imbruglia.

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It was an undeniably lovely look that ultimately fell out of favor. My principle is that it developed from a carefree look to a extra closely styled, extraordinarily angular look that felt fairly cool when Victoria Beckham did it and rather less so when Kate Gosselin did. (Is there any haircut extra indelibly related to the phrase, “I want to talk to your supervisor”?) However a wave of celebrities (like Florence Pugh, Halsey, and Rowan Blanchard) and numerous content material creators have introduced again that authentic, lower-key, bob-meets-pixie vibe, and with it, an inevitability: We’re all going to be getting bixies in 2024.

“The bixie haircut is rising in reputation immediately as a result of it looks like a extra personalized tackle shorter hairstyles,” says Devin Toth, a hairstylist at Salon SCK. “In essence, a bob’s a bob—it doesn’t matter what form it’s—and will be heavy. A pixie’s super-short size limits customization. A bixie, nonetheless, lives in-between the 2 with extra size to work with and a mode that doesn’t really feel as weighty.”