Simply once I thought we would found out what all the massive coiffure tendencies have been going to be, the bixie is right here to throw a curveball. The throwback ’90s pattern has been making its return over the previous few years, but it surely’s going huge heading into summer time.
What’s a Bixie?
The bixie is called after the 2 distinctive haircuts that mix to create it – the bob and the pixie. And whereas we have picked it again up from its heyday within the ‘90s, we don’t bear in mind it beforehand being referred to as that. Consider the inflow of brief haircuts throughout that decade—those that weren’t cropped sufficient to be referred to as pixies, however weren’t lengthy sufficient to be thought of bobs. (On the time, I believe we simply referred to as it “brief hair”?) So many stars have 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 school crop, Natalie Imbruglia. Basically, “it is a shaggy bob with a mixture of layers so as to add dimension and texture,” says hairstylist Andrew Fitzsimons.
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The evolution of the Bixie
It was an undeniably cute look that finally fell out of favour. My idea 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 the Karen’s did. (Is there any haircut extra indelibly related to the phrase, “I would like to talk to your supervisor”?) However a wave of celebrities (like Jourdan Dunn, Florence Pugh, Halsey and Rowan Blanchard) and numerous content material creators have introduced again that unique, 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 right now as a result of it looks like a extra customised tackle shorter hairstyles,” says Devin Toth, a hairstylist at Salon SCK. In essence, a bob finishes between the cheekbone and shoulder. “A pixie’s super-short size limits customisation. A bixie, nevertheless, lives in-between the 2 with extra size to work with and a mode that doesn’t really feel as weighty,” says Devin.
It’s additionally a wise warm-weather fashion alternative, as hairstylist Monae Everett attests. “They’re nice for the summer time while you wish to have a shorter coiffure whereas rising out a pixie reduce,” she says.
