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Louise Brooks No one personified the Roaring ‘20s as much as Louise Brooks in her flapper bob and bangs. They are razor-sharp and perfectly press... more
Louise Brooks No one personified the Roaring ‘20s as much as Louise Brooks in her flapper bob and bangs. They are razor-sharp and perfectly pressed in almost every picture of her, which is pretty impressive for those pre-modern-flat-iron times.
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Bettie Page Bettie is responsible for single-handedly sexing up baby bangs. Thousands of hipster girls and dominatrices (and Katy Perry) are fore... more
Bettie Page Bettie is responsible for single-handedly sexing up baby bangs. Thousands of hipster girls and dominatrices (and Katy Perry) are forever in her debt.
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Reese Witherspoon Reese spawned the phrase “divorce bangs” after she showed up on the 2007 Golden Globes red carpet looking hot in a bright-yello... more
Reese Witherspoon Reese spawned the phrase “divorce bangs” after she showed up on the 2007 Golden Globes red carpet looking hot in a bright-yellow Nina Ricci dress, red accessories, and the now-infamous “Go fuck yourself, Ryan Phillippe” fringe.
Photo: Frazer Harrison/2007 Getty Images
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Zooey Deschanel Because she is completely unrecognizable without her “adorkable” trademark blunt, heavy bangs, Zooey is going to have to keep the... more
Zooey Deschanel Because she is completely unrecognizable without her “adorkable” trademark blunt, heavy bangs, Zooey is going to have to keep them forever.
Photo: Jeff Vespa/2014 Jeff Vespa
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Alexa Chung Alexa is to bangs as Gisele is to beach waves. That "It"-Brit fringe is perfect and will never look as good on you as it do... more
Alexa Chung Alexa is to bangs as Gisele is to beach waves. That "It"-Brit fringe is perfect and will never look as good on you as it does on her.
Photo: Dominique Charriau/2013 Dominique Charriau
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Taylor Swift Taylor’s bangs are as much a part of her persona as her perfect red lipstick. Sometimes they’re straight, sometimes they’re swoopy, ... more
Taylor Swift Taylor’s bangs are as much a part of her persona as her perfect red lipstick. Sometimes they’re straight, sometimes they’re swoopy, but they’re always there.
Photo: Eamonn McCormack/2014 Eamonn McCormack
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Emma Stone Emma doesn’t always have bangs, but when she does they elevate her even higher than she already is on the global beauty pedestal. She ... more
Emma Stone Emma doesn’t always have bangs, but when she does they elevate her even higher than she already is on the global beauty pedestal. She knows how to make the long bang work for her.
Photo: Jason Merritt/2013 Getty Images
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Michelle Obama For her 49th birthday, and just ahead of her husband’s second Presidential Inauguration, Mrs. O. decided to shake things up and ge... more
Michelle Obama For her 49th birthday, and just ahead of her husband’s second Presidential Inauguration, Mrs. O. decided to shake things up and get some midlife crisis bangs . They became an international sensation and helped everyone forget about Mitt Romney.
Photo: Vallery Jean/2013 Vallery Jean
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Susie Bubble The British blogger is rarely without her signature topknot and never without her long, straight bangs.
Photo: Larry Busacca/2014 G... more
Susie Bubble The British blogger is rarely without her signature topknot and never without her long, straight bangs.
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Naomi Campbell Occasionally someone will give Naomi a center part on the runway, but she usually favors curtainlike, brow-grazing straight bangs.... more
Naomi Campbell Occasionally someone will give Naomi a center part on the runway, but she usually favors curtainlike, brow-grazing straight bangs.
Photo: Eamonn McCormack/2014 Eamonn McCormack
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Sophia Amoruso The Nasty Gal founder’s bangs prove that a #girlboss no longer has to have a practical, respectable hairstyle. Baby bangs are now ... more
Sophia Amoruso The Nasty Gal founder’s bangs prove that a #girlboss no longer has to have a practical, respectable hairstyle. Baby bangs are now totally appropriate in the C-suite.
Photo: David Livingston/2014 David Livingston
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Beyoncé The internet generally fawns over everything Bey does, but her recent experiment with baby bangs showed that even she is human and... more
Beyoncé The internet generally fawns over everything Bey does, but her recent experiment with baby bangs showed that even she is human and occasionally blinded by the siren call of the bang.
Photo: Keith Hewitt/2014 Keith Hewitt
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Freja Beha Erichsen Freja is a little bit Patti Smith, a little bit Alexa, and the queen of edgy model bangs.
Photo: Donna Ward/2011 Donna Ward
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Rooney Mara The nipple piercing probably helped Rooney get into character for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but those extreme bangs surely sec... more
Rooney Mara The nipple piercing probably helped Rooney get into character for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, but those extreme bangs surely secured her the Oscar nod.
Photo: Anita Bugge/2012 Anita Bugge
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Audrey Tautou in
Amelie If you look up the phrase “French ingénue,” Audrey in this film — with her shiny, too-short bangs — will pop up e... more
Audrey Tautou in
Amelie If you look up the phrase “French ingénue,” Audrey in this film — with her shiny, too-short bangs — will pop up every single time. Photo: Copyright © Everett Collection / Everett Collection
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Uma Thurman in
Pulp Fiction Mrs. Mia Wallace accessorized her coke habit with a mean Cleopatra-style blunt bang.
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Princess Diana Princess Di’s bangs were a feathery, curling-ironed symbol of the ‘80s, and a true testament to the strength of the hair spray of ... more
Princess Diana Princess Di’s bangs were a feathery, curling-ironed symbol of the ‘80s, and a true testament to the strength of the hair spray of the time.
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Baby Spice Because the two high ponytails she always wore weren’t enough to convey that Lolita look Emma Bunton was going for during her Spice Gi... more
Baby Spice Because the two high ponytails she always wore weren’t enough to convey that Lolita look Emma Bunton was going for during her Spice Girls days, she also added a wispy fringe.
Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./1997 Ron Galella, Ltd.
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Shannen Doherty, the
90210 years Brenda Walsh’s bangs were such an integral part of her character that Doherty was fired from the show when she ... more
Shannen Doherty, the
90210 years Brenda Walsh’s bangs were such an integral part of her character that Doherty was fired from the show when she got rid of them. (Well, that and all the fights with Tori Spelling. Allegedly .)
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Kate Middleton Remeber when Kate had bangs? They're baaaack.
Photo: Samir Hussein/2012 Samir Hussein
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Courtney Love in the ‘90s Grunge bangs were the best. One has to assume that no styling products were needed. That messy, greasy separation was p... more
Courtney Love in the ‘90s Grunge bangs were the best. One has to assume that no styling products were needed. That messy, greasy separation was probably achieved by good old-fashioned personal neglect.
Photo: Terry McGinnis
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Suzanne Somers No one has seen Suzanne Somers’s forehead since the '70s. What’s under there?
Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/2014 Imeh Akpanudosen
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Debbie Gibson Obviously one could fill up an entire slideshow with examples of memorable '80s bangs, but Debbie Gibson’s “Only in My Dreams” grav... more
Debbie Gibson Obviously one could fill up an entire slideshow with examples of memorable '80s bangs, but Debbie Gibson’s “Only in My Dreams” gravity-defying bangs were pretty emblematic of what an entire generation of girls actually looked like.
Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./1989 Ron Galella, Ltd.
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Mia Farrow Mia’s Sassoon pixie cut included pixie-length bangs that served as a cute juxtaposition to her devil spawn in Rosemary’s Baby .
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Mia Farrow Mia’s Sassoon pixie cut included pixie-length bangs that served as a cute juxtaposition to her devil spawn in Rosemary’s Baby .
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Jane Birkin Birkin isn’t even French, but she’s become the poster girl for effortless French-girl bangs. It’s not fair that she has perfect hair ... more
Jane Birkin Birkin isn’t even French, but she’s become the poster girl for effortless French-girl bangs. It’s not fair that she has perfect hair plus arguably the world’s most famous handbag named after her.
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Lou Doillon Proving that great bangs — her mom is Jane Birkin — are genetic.
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Marianne Faithfull The '60s and '70s were the golden age of cool-girl bangs, and none were cooler than Marianne Faithfull’s heavy, blonde version... more
Marianne Faithfull The '60s and '70s were the golden age of cool-girl bangs, and none were cooler than Marianne Faithfull’s heavy, blonde version.
Photo: David Redfern/1965 Getty Images
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Peggy Moffitt She may be famous for modeling that topless Rudi Gernreich swimsuit, but it’s much more impressive that she’s kept her original fiv... more
Peggy Moffitt She may be famous for modeling that topless Rudi Gernreich swimsuit, but it’s much more impressive that she’s kept her original five-point Sassoon cut, complete with curtain bangs, since the '60s.
Photo: David Livingston/2011 David Livingston
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Penelope Tree Iconic '60s model Penelope Tree generally had two points of view when it came to her forehead: heavy bangs or severe forehead expos... more
Penelope Tree Iconic '60s model Penelope Tree generally had two points of view when it came to her forehead: heavy bangs or severe forehead exposure. Both were always accompanied by Twiggy-esque lashes.
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Françoise Hardy Pretty sure women still take old pictures of this French chanteuse to their hairstylists to copy her bangs.
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Françoise Hardy Pretty sure women still take old pictures of this French chanteuse to their hairstylists to copy her bangs.
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Brigitte Bardot Everything about Bardot in the '60s was larger-than-life: Her teased hair, her lips, her boobs, and, yes, her heavy bangs.
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Brigitte Bardot Everything about Bardot in the '60s was larger-than-life: Her teased hair, her lips, her boobs, and, yes, her heavy bangs.
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Jane Fonda Her groovy shag and bangs, which she sported for her role as a prostitute in Klute , put an awesome exclamation point on her 1970 mugsh... more
Jane Fonda Her groovy shag and bangs, which she sported for her role as a prostitute in Klute , put an awesome exclamation point on her 1970 mugshot. (Model Edie Campbell is this generation’s reincarnation of this shot.)
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Farrah Fawcett Farrah’s puffy, feathered '70s bangs and bouncy hair was an obvious precursor to the era of Victoria’s Secret Angel sexed-up hair.... more
Farrah Fawcett Farrah’s puffy, feathered '70s bangs and bouncy hair was an obvious precursor to the era of Victoria’s Secret Angel sexed-up hair.
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The Beatles Let’s begin the “Mangs” section of the roundup with the Beatles’ bowl -ut beatnik bangs.
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Shaun Cassidy Dreamy Shaun Cassidy and his '70s feathered bangs were essentially the male version of Farrah.
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Justin Bieber Many a think piece — and tween love poem — has been written about Bieber’s combed forward, faux -windblown bangs.
Photo: Marco Secc... more
Justin Bieber Many a think piece — and tween love poem — has been written about Bieber’s combed forward, faux -windblown bangs.
Photo: Marco Secchi/2010 Marco Secchi
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Harry Styles Harry likes to wear his bangs in a pompadour or held back in a headband, but ultimately, nothing can contain them and gravity will w... more
Harry Styles Harry likes to wear his bangs in a pompadour or held back in a headband, but ultimately, nothing can contain them and gravity will win.
Photo: Fred Duval/2014 Fred Duval
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Zac Efron Zac and his bangs have never met a gel they didn’t like. Like Harry, he favors an occasional bang updo, but it’s best when he wears the... more
Zac Efron Zac and his bangs have never met a gel they didn’t like. Like Harry, he favors an occasional bang updo, but it’s best when he wears them resting gently and boyishly on his beautiful forehead.
Photo: Steve Granitz/2008 Steve Granitz
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George Clooney Hey, Amal, Mr. Clooney once had a Caesar cut when he was on a TV show called ER . It was the best.
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Jim Carrey in
Dumb and Dumber Great. We get to relive this bowl-cut monstrosity again, thanks to the sequel.
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Jim Carrey in
Dumb and Dumber Great. We get to relive this bowl-cut monstrosity again, thanks to the sequel.
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John Stamos, the
Full House years Squee, Uncle Jesse and his bangs were soooo cute, and OMG that mullet. No decade will ever be better for hair ... more
John Stamos, the
Full House years Squee, Uncle Jesse and his bangs were soooo cute, and OMG that mullet. No decade will ever be better for hair embarrassment than the '80s.
Photo: ABC Photo Archives/1988 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.
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Felicity Jones Felicity is a dark-horse contender for the “Alexa Chung Lifetime Acheivement Award for Best British Bangs.”
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Felicity Jones Felicity is a dark-horse contender for the “Alexa Chung Lifetime Acheivement Award for Best British Bangs.”
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Audrey Hepburn Everything about Audrey was gamine, including her adorable short, curled bangs.
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The Ronettes The Ronettes proved that the Beatles weren’t the only musical act that could make history with matching bangs. Photo: GAB Archive
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Joan Jett Joan’s wispy punk-rock bangs are full of stale cigarette smoke and secrets.
Photo: Larry Busacca/2014 Getty Images
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Tina Turner Tina’s many wigs — always with massive bangs — could surely tell some tales.
Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/2010 Getty Images
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Linda Evans In her '80s glory days, the ends of Linda’s bangs curled up like a giant, blonde mustache.
Photo: JIM BRITT/©1980, ABC Photo Archive... more
Linda Evans In her '80s glory days, the ends of Linda’s bangs curled up like a giant, blonde mustache.
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Nicole Richie She’s had many hair colors, but one thing stays consistent: Nicole’s bangs are a work of art.
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Kerry Washington Bangs are not a signature of Kerry’s but they really should be. She looks fantastic with them.
Photo: Jon Kopaloff/2013 Jon Kop... more
Kerry Washington Bangs are not a signature of Kerry’s but they really should be. She looks fantastic with them.
Photo: Jon Kopaloff/2013 Jon Kopaloff
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Miss Piggy The pig’s gone through the same bang trends we all have throughout the decades: She’s had the Farrah, the Linda Evans, and the Reese W... more
Miss Piggy The pig’s gone through the same bang trends we all have throughout the decades: She’s had the Farrah, the Linda Evans, and the Reese Witherspoon.
Photo: Paul Morigi/2012 Getty Images