Super-Hair.Net: The 24th Annual Crown Awards

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The 24th Annual Crown Awards

Super-Hair's biggest event of the year admittedly had some stumbles in 2023-24 - with one woman removed as not qualified for her category, one category receiving extended voting due to a wrong photo AND a disqualification on announcement day!

But overall voting was up about 50% from the year before, and we honored your choices as the best hairstyles of the year 14 March on Google Meet. Congratulations to all our Crown winners!

BEST SHORT HAIR: ALEXIS SAFOYAN.

A Hair Fan apparently found this actress in a FreshPet commercial. She wound up being the top cat over a golf reporter.

Safoyan 36 percent, Eilidh Barbour 29%, Nathalie Emmanuel 16%, Jamie Yuccas 13%, Jill Bauer 7%.

BEST LONG HAIR: PAMELLA AZEREDO.

An Instagram star with a law degree wins this top category for the third time in five years, and makes it four in five years for Brazil.

Azeredo 45 percent, Disha Patani 23%, Anisa Sojka 18%, Allie LaForce 10%, Susan Li 5%.

BEST CURLS: BRIT WATKINS.

A New York model who says "God bless the tress" becomes the first Black woman to win the Curl Crown outright.

Watkins 36 percent, Rachael Price 27%, Johannah Grenaway 22%, Amelia Clarkson 10%, Khrystyne Haje 5%.

BEST BANGS: LaLISA MANOBAN AND JANE SEYMOUR (TIE).

The BlackPink singer wins for the second year in a row - but again she must share the Crown, this time with a 73-year-old Hair Fan's Hall of Fame member. One voter called this the "toughest competition" of all.

Manoban 39 percent, Seymour 29 percent, Grace Palmer 22%, Melissa Rauch 17%, Valeriia Piekhova 3%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE ON TELEVISION: SAM BOIK.

After some photo confusion on our part, the host of Mile High Living in Denver survived extended voting to become the first non-network winner of this award. She now has seven Crowns in five years.

Boik 33 percent, Brec Bassinger 30%, Kendy Kloepfer 21%, Ariana Guerra 9%, Jennifer Aniston 7%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN A MOVIE: SHAILENE WOODLEY.

She appeared in Robots, but her long hair was real and really impressed our voters. A problem with counting Week 1 votes turned out not to matter.

Woodley 41 percent, Teyonah Parris 19%, Nathalie Emmanuel 16%, Hayden Panettiere 16%, Isabel Cueva 9%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN MUSIC: RACHAEL PRICE.

The Lake Street Dive singer may have slipped in the Curl Clash, but not here. A repeat performance gives her three Music Crowns in six years.

Price 30 percent, Tait McRae 24%, Adele 22%, Lauren Daigle 17%, Rita Ora 7%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN ATHLETICS: JASMINE PEREZCHICA.

Arizona's senior softball star wins for the second year in a row, as a big final week pushed her past a pro wrestler.

Perezchica 39 percent, Marna Tucker 33%, Taylor Pleasants 17%, Sara Dabritz 6%, Sunisa Lee 6%.

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR: RILEY GAINES BARKER.

A sports "traditionalist" from Kentucky finished second in the voting. But she wins the Crown because the front-runner turned out to be an artificial intelligence creation and was disqualified only hours before the ceremony.

Riley Gaines Barker 29 percent, Bela Bajaria 22%, Ashton Leigh 12%, Ice Spice 6%; "Tessa Rapunzel" 31% (AI/DQ).

BEST BLONDE (TIE): ALLIE LaFORCE AND STEPHANIE MEAD.

Sports and weather meet together, with a Turner basketball reporter finishing even with a Detroit TV meteorologist.

LaForce 27 percent, Mead 27 percent, Brec Bassinger 21%, Rita Ora 16%, Kersten Lindquist 10%.

BEST BRUNETTE: JOYCE GIRAUD.

From what we can tell, this HSN hair care regular is the first-ever Crown winner from Puerto Rico, gaining praise for "some of the lovesliest hair in the world.". A woman from Gambia was a close second.

Giraud 34 percent, Anisa Sojka 29%, Disha Patani 21%, Jackie Redmond 9%, Susan Graver 7%.

BEST REDHEAD (TIE): KAREN GILLAN AND BEKKA PREWITT.

A record third tie occurs in one of the best Crown rivalries. The Scottish actress is now a five-time "Redhead Rumble" winner, while the U.S. actress has two wins.

Gillan 27 percent, Prewitt 27 percent, Jennifer Todryk 19%, Lauren Lewis 18%, Liz Claman 8%.

BEST SILVER HAIR: "ALEX A".

A "gray hair model" from London came from behind to win, as the Week 1 leader's supporters apparently didn't stick around.

Alex A 35 percent, Annika Von Holdt 25%, Samantha Pollack 22%, Revalina Tokromo 18%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN JOURNALISM: MONIKA PLAHA.

For the first time, this much-discussed Crown leaves the U.S. A BBC News anchor and documentary producer was close last year, but overwhelmed the field this time.

Plaha 42 percent, Niku Kazori 28%, Fernanda Hernandez 20%, Sandra Smith 6%, Alex Witt 5%.

MAKEOVER OF THE YEAR: ISABELA MERCED.

Added bangs made a big difference for this one-time Nickelodeon star. A supermodel of the 1980s wound up disappointing.

Merced 42 percent, Michelle Wolfe 24%, Annika Noelle 18%, Katelyn MacMullen 10%, Kim Alexis 6%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN WEATHER/SCIENCE: STEPHANIE MEAD.

The meteorologist who moved to WJBK in Detroit is the only double Crown winner of this year. And she does it with the highest percentage of any winner - higher than last year!

Mead 52 percent, Autumn Robertson 30%, Molly McCollum 11%, Jen Carfagno 6%, Ashlee Baracy 2%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN GOVERNMENT/POLITICS: KRISTI NOEM.

She faces a lawsuit over her dental work, but the South Dakota Governor's hair fairly won her first Crown since 2010.

Noem 31 percent, Regina Romero 24%, Mattie Daughtry 20%, Amanda Ballard 18%, Maia Sandu 7%.

BEST HAIRSTYLE IN SPORTS REPORTING: MALIKA ANDREWS.

A tight three-way race goes to the NBA Today host at the wire, for her second Crown in three years.

Andrews 28 percent, Cynthia Frelund 26%, Michelle Margaux 23%, Alexis Nunes 18%, Krystle Rich-Bell 5%.

BEST PONYTAIL: CASEY KRUEGER.

She moved during the vote from soccer's Chicago Red Stars to the Washington Spirit. A spurt of votes in the final week brought her victory.

Krueger 31 percent, Lakshmi Ambati 25%, Anisa Sojka 25%, Avery Pohl 11%, Brooke Henderson 8%.

BEST HAIR IN FINANCIAL REPORTING: SARA EISEN.

She calls "foreign exchange" her first love. Voters loved her blonde cut enough to return this Crown to CNBC.

Eisen 40 percent, Becky Quick 29%, Julia Boorstin 17%, Susan Li 10%, Haidi Stroud-Watts 4%.

BEST HAIR IN A SOAP OPERA/TELENOVELA: AVERY POHL.

The actress with the most controversial photo outshone the other stars, anyway. General Hospital now has four "Soap Crowns" in five years.

Pohl 31 percent, Zuleyka Silver 27%, Brook Kerr 19%, Laura Wright 16%, Jacqueline MacInnes Wood 6%.

SUPER-HAIR WARS CHAMPION HAIRSTYLE OF THE YEAR: ALLI BAXTER.

A TV journalist in Traverse City, Michigan grew a following to win six matches in a row, including a stunning playoff victory over Stephanie Mead.

Safoyan photo courtesy iSpot; Manoban and Merced photos courtesy Wireimage.

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