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Her name is Ginger Zee. But as far as we know, she's never been a redhead. Since she moved from Chicago to ABC News, and as she advanced to Chief Meteorologist, Zee's hair color has tended to be blonde. Yet she's changed her style at other times - and as you might guess with someone who tracks the weather, changing seasons can have something to do with it. Take late September, when Zee declared on Facebook: "I love a change up for fall." Not with leaves changing shades, but a cut of several inches to slightly below the shoulders.
We asked on X/Twitter what sort of grade you've give Zee. No one said "A" or "F", but the shorter look won 83% approval in our eight-day question (5-1). It "frames her face better," one voter explained; "more natural with less product," wrote another. Yet this is a shift by our voters, as a similar "summer" cut in 2014 was voted down two-to-one. (Should she bring backs the bangs which Hair Fans liked in 2023?) Zee has been nominated for Crown Awards four times. Whether or not this brings more is the sort of "long-range forecast" we'll leave to her.
Thanks to all of you who take part in our polls! And we welcome any news tips you have on changing celebrity styles. Contact us at: SuperHair@Gmail.com - or via X/Twitter: @SuperHairNet.
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Kelly Clarkson has been tricking hair-watchers for a long time. September marked 24 years since the singer won the first American Idol title with brunette hair that she admittedly dyed for TV. One recent episode of The Voice showed Clarkson removing pieces of her "long hair" on-camera. So perhaps Hair Fans should not have been surprised with what Clarkson did after taping the final episode of her daily talk show. She apparently cut all that length - appearing on NBC's Today Show with blondish-gray shoulder-length waves which some called a bob.
Has Clarkson finally found a style she can keep? Our voters seemed puzzled by this change, as a one-week question ended in a deadlock (2-2). "Go back to the curls!" one Hair Fan pleaded. Another asked, "Is she playing a 1999 housewife?" We can understand that comparison, although the exact age may vary based on how old you are. But at least Clarkson didn't go back to the "shaved side" approach she took in 2015. Clarkson said she did that to "feel less like a mom." Apparently she's more comfortable with that now.
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Hair Fans who like variety can find plenty of it in Zendaya. The actress goes long. Then goes short. Then does something in between. (All of which has some people thinking she has a wig collection.) It appears her recent marriage to actor Tom Holland hasn't changed her thinking much. Zendaya surprised people by cutting her long locks to a "pixie" cut for the 2026 Emmy Awards - quite a change from our left vidcap, taken as she won an Emmy in 2022.
Once and for all, what should Zendaya's length be? Our voters aren't thrilled by the fall 2026 approach. An eight-day poll (extended for our international travel) found 80% support for a longer look (4-1). "I've enjoyed some of her shorter looks with a little more length," one voter wrote, "but the full Halle Berry-pixie was a couple inches too far." It didn't impress us enough to put Zendaya on the ballot for the best hair of Emmy night. But at least it beat the 2026 Oscar style, which she let dangle in front of her eyes.
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Actress Emmy Rossum and her tremendous natural curls go way back with us. It's hard to believe she was a Hot List entry way back at the start of 2005. Rossum has appeared many places since then - most recently in the Hulu drama Furious (apparently not fast). So that brought the woman named Emmy with an Instagram account named Emmy to the stage at the Primetime Emmy Awards. And it was only fitting that her blown-back waves won your vote as the top style of the show.
Our seven-day contest started shortly before the show ended, and Rossum fought her way to the front. She went on to win half te votes, with Baywatch newcomer Brooks Nader a close second at 38%. (NBC didn't help, by not making clear which member of the cast was which in a group appearance.) Third place went to Hair Fan's Hall of Fame member Reba McEntire with 12%. Yet the only comment was about a finalist who received no votes at all...
"How and why is Seehorn on here?" Rhea Seehorn actually won an Emmy, her short sidepart was daring yet well-sprayed for control - and her style held better than Mariska Hargitay's did during the host's opening production number. (Does this make Sofia Vergara fourth in our contest, with no votes and no negatives?)
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As we mentioned in our September issue of The Herald, Noah Griffeth probably had nowhere to go but down. That's what happens when you rise to the top of Super-Hair support - from City League dominance in her home area of Columbus, Georgia to the Super-Hair Wars playoffs, from Best Mane on Campus status to a Crown Award. The freshman photo of Griffeth on the Columbus State University website led to her becoming #1 hairstyle in the world (see below). But Griffeth's sophomore season on the cross-country team brought an updated photo - and instead of seemingly endless rolls of center-parted waves, she's showing very loose waves and a deep sidepart.
This obviously called for a question, and Griffeth may not like the answer. In an expanded eight-day poll, our Hair Fans voted by a huge 89% margin for the freshman look (8-1). No one left a comment, perhaps erring on the side of politeness. Griffeth is a Christian school graduate, after all - and her Instagram account urges you to "be the sunshine." If only that account would come out of the "darkness" of privacy... but anyway, Griffeth scored 16th in her first meet of the season. We wait for photos of how her hair performed.
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Certain politicians may grumble about "cat ladies." But it was the movie Dog Days which affirmed Nina Dobrev as a star with many Hair Fans. She shared a Crown Award in 2018 for her work in a romantic comedy involving dog-lovers. What voters really loved, though, was Dobrev's thick mid-length style with full-power bangs. She hasn't displayed that look much through the years, often choosing traditional longer cuts. But in the heat of mid-August, Dobrev made perhaps an even bigger switch. In light of her upcoming film It Happened One Summer, she changed from brunette to late-summer lightness. "Turns out blondes do have more fun," she wrote on Instagram.
Fun for her, maybe - but what about the Hair Fans who admire her? They voted Dobrev down; 80% of them prefer she remain brunette (4-1). "Brunette and bangs for the win!" one proclaimed. Another said the darker shade "compliments her eyes better." And the "new" picture we posted is much more likely to fall in Dobrev's eyes, unless those waves are well-sprayed. Comments on Instagram seem more divided. One praised Dobrev for still having "healthy hair" (in caps), while another compared her to Sarah Jessica Parker during her Sex and the City years - and it didn't seem like a compliment.
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While we used to have a "Men's Top Five" list to go with Top Ten Tresses, it's a rare occasion when we focus on male hairstyles. But Erling Haaland is one time to make an exception. He's one of the world's most famous soccer players, from Norway's national team to Manchester City in England's Premier League. And he's tied his hair back for some matches in a unique way that includes a circle. (We're not sure if that's connected to his love of yoga.) So when Haaland went to a shop on the eve of the Premier League opner for a buzz cut, it created bigger buzz than any "Leagues Cup" match in North America. "Time to get a fresh start," he explained on social media.
Some would say Haaland now looks more like a "real man" - but do Hair Fans agree? Not many dared to vote on it, but everyone who did prefer the short cut (3-0). No one offered a comment about the change. But we would note that under the definition of Super-Hair, Haaland's tie-back would not qualify. His buzz cut wouldn't be in the running, either - much too short to be interesting. But headbands are OK, so Spain and Real Madrid's Marc Cucurella often qualifies. Yet if you're waiting for the Women's World Cup in 2027, we understand.
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With a first name like hers, she'd better have been born in January. Indeed, actress January Jones was. Yet her looks once made her July-hot - as in a "Hot 100 Women" list of Maxim magazine. Jones made her biggest career splash in the period-piece TV series Mad Men. She's had other roles since then - including one in the summer of 2026 that was billed by pop culture watchers as "secret." Yet a photo somehow leaked of Jones at a mirror in New York, with what some called her longest hair in years. The bob made famous on TV was several inches lower, approaching the bust line.
We have no idea what the secret project is. But we know Hair Fans are torn by Jones's change. A week-long question ended with 57% prefering her hair longer (4-3), but that came down to the final vote. "I like the color better in the shorter do," one person commented. While color was not our real issue, it may have looked brighter because Jones was on a Golden Globe Awards red carpet. That was a January in Beverly Hills - in January, if you know what we mean.
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