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In a curious twist, Little Big Town was on stage to perform at the Primetime Emmy Awards (left) - but NOT the Country Music Association Awards. The group members sat in prime floor seats and joined host Lainey Wilson in singing a bit of Girl Crush. Yet even there, we noticed something different about Kimberly Schlapman and reported it on X/Twitter right away. She still had the biggest curls in country music - but we spotted bangs on her forehead. Schlapman confirmed it on her feed the next day, with photos of the big moment. "I didn't have the nerve to cut bangs," she admitted in a short video, but added in song she had "bangs for the day."
The post included this rare picture of Schlapman's hair in her eyes, as she's handled by a stylist. The bangs are supposed to prevent such moments - and 80% of our voters liked the bang idea in a five-day question (4-1). Schlapman also admitted she didn't "fully commit" to the bangs as Ella Langley has (see below). But the montage included a deep-stirring photo of them side-by-side. If they clashed in a Super-Hair War, which singer do you think would win - and why?
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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She could have been a tree-hugger - well, at least a tree-watcher. Ella Langley studied forestry at Auburn University for a time. But country music fans are glad that effort didn't last. Langley scored a trifecta at the 2025 Country Music Association Awards, as her song You Look Like You Love Me won Single, Song and Music Video of the Year. (Oh yes, her singing partner was Riley Green.) And her thick long hair with strong bangs refused to budge on stage, almost daring Hair Fans to get close to it. Put that all together, and she was the runaway choice for a fourth prize: best hairstyle of the show.
Langley's first appearance on our site was a big one, as she gained 83% of the votes in a six-day contest. The only other woman to score at all was Megan Moroney with 17% - but Moroney received almost 2,000 views on X/Twitter when we compared her song during the show to a Barbie sequel. Other highlights that we'd note: Lainey Wilson shut out lookalike comic Leanne Morgan 9-0 in a social media "Whose hair was better?" question. (If Wilson had taken off her hats, she might have contended for the top hair prize.) And Kelsea Ballerini may have become the first woman in CMA history to let her hair get soaking wet during a song.
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Norah O'Donnell has played hair games with us before. The CBS News anchor has been a textbook example of pageboy perfection for more than 20 years, beginning with our first Hair Watch from her time at NBC. But O'Donnell also has tested longer looks from time to time. The last such case came in 2023, when the hair reached her shoulders with big curl. Now, in the final weeks of 2025, she's at it again. As rumors swirl about O'Donnell possibly returning to evening news anchoring, the hair is a few inches below the shoulders - and it may be teased a bit on top for control, instead of the distinctive sidepart.
The 2023 "long game" by O'Donnell was rejected by most of our Hair Fans. But this time, it's quite different: 90% of our voters liked the added length in an extended eight-day question (9-1). No one left a comment, but this seems to be a loose and high-risk look for O'Donnell. Could a walk around New York skyscrapers in the fall do it in? Or could the skill she's shown at NASA launch pads and aboard navy warships come through again? Maybe she should do some "ambush interviews" for 60 Minutes to show us.
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Sydney Sweeney likes things fast. Her trip to the NASCAR Championship Weekend in Phoenix is evidence of that - both on the track, and with a reported spat with an ex-lover in southern California the night before. The movie star also seems willing to change her hairstyle in a hurry. Sweeney won your vote for the best hairstyle at the Primetime Emmy Awards in September with a medium-long look and curtain bangs. But almost as fast as you can say American Eagle (we'll let you look that up), she cut her hair during October to follow a late-2025 bob trend.
Sweeney admitted on social media that for her, it was a "huge change!" Our voters decided it was a bad one; the longer style won 88% of the count in an expanded nine-day survey (7-1). One critic simply wrote: "Ugh." Another was more specific: "Longer better style, but shorter had been color." (Perhaps that was written fast.) Sweeney compared what stylist Glen Oropeza did to a "little science experiment." While it seems to hold strongly in public, we hope her hair care doesn't go - uhhhh - down the test tubes completely.
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Selena Gomez is a new bride. She's an Emmy-nominated actress for Only Murders in the Building. Yet she's still offering pop songs - and more than 17 years after winning the Crown Award for Newcomer of the Year, she's still making adjustments to her hair. We don't know if Gomez was married to Benny Blanco when she recorded In the Dark, but she displays several styles in the music video for it. The hair is both wet and dry, pinned down and loose - and most noteworthy for us, she shows bangs in parts of it. Not throughout, but in parts of it.
Gomez has not appeared on a Crown Award ballot in nearly a decade. Are bangs the answer for her? Not many Hair Fans commented on this, but everyone who did recommended them (4-0). "Those are OK," one wrote, "but she's had much thicker bangs in the past." That sent us to our archives - and indeed, Gomez gained a lot of support for them here in 2012. We honestly suspect the bangs in this video were "clip-ons"; they were gone in public appearances during our poll. In fact, Gomez wrote when she tried on a wig in June: "I'd regret it, then get it redone so I simply won't #bangs." That's something that Hair Fans regret.
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Right photo courtesy Parade
Simply because you have great hair doesn't always mean you're a hair expert. TV Judge Marilyn Milian caused an online stir in June when she ruled a Black woman's long hair cannot possibly shrink by nine inches when it's wet. But perhaps Milian's never had long hair at all. Her cuts on The People's Court and more recently Justice for the People seldom drop below her shoulders. Yet she's made careful adjustments; bangs which helped her land on our Top Ten Tresses list now are brushed to one side. Milian's appearance at the Daytime Emmy Awards in mid-October confirmed they're quite lengthy.
We asked you to judge the judge, when it comes to hair - and it was a near-unanimous verdict: 86% of you think Milian is better without bangs (6-1). "Those bangs are out of style," one Hair Fan wrote. We understand; that's a photo from her Top Ten time in 2002. The current look indeed is more dramatic; a wrong move or breeze could blow hair all over her face. Maybe that moment is coming - as her current show is dramatic, with actors doing scripted cases, as Divorce Court did long ago.
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Left photo courtesy Refinery 29
Chrishell Stause's life has been filled with surprises - switching from a role in the late daytime drama All My Children to working out real estate deals in Selling Sunset. Now we're surprised to learn that Stause identifies as a Q, as in "queer", and has made a magazine's "Out100" as a result. Yet Stause has been married to a man, now is wed to a "non-binary" woman, and has impressed cable viewers for years with attractive long hair. That's become yet another surprise in recent weeks - as Stause went to celebrity stylist Chris Appleton for a major haircut (apparently in a tie-in with Shark Beauty). Stause emerged on Instagram with a well-styled look "entering bob season," to quote the post.
Is Stause's style standing stronger because of this? Our Hair Fans believe so; only one late vote kept the short cut from winning unanimous support (8-1). No one left a comment, but Stause did much better compared with her bang experiment in 2020. The video clip showing the hair clip shows it pushing into Stause's eyes more than once. Our star may not mind, though. As Stause wrote: "Glam is the only tool you need, no matter how many hair changes you go through."
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