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The 1990s was a decade when few women in country music became crossover "pop" stars, beyond Shania Twain. Jo Dee Messina was an example of that - achieving success among country fans with tunes such as Heads Carolina, Tails California (which we admittedly never realized she did first until we researched this). Maybe Messina flipped a coin in deciding to make a mid-fifties hair change in September. "I tried something new," she wrote on TikTok - although bangs for her aren't exactly new. They're were straighter and more up-front now.
Was Messina mistaken in bringing out the bangs? Not at all, our Hair Fans say; they unanimously supported the change in our week-long question (5-0). One voter called it a "more youthful look." Maybe so, but Messina's mane is messy in the "after" photo we found. It's a bit like the cover of her 2000 album Burn - which showed why she's never had the Super-Hair fame of a Faith Hill or a Carrie Underwood.
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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Has a "Snow White" ever faced such ridicule - beyond some mean relatives in the storyline? Rachel Zegler endured that when the latest movie version of the classic tale came out in March. Yet this Snow White has not been blackballed completely by the public. Zegler still has about 2.5 million followers on Instagram. But she may be making a break from that role with her hair. Zegler added bangs in recent weeks to the medium-long hair which has earned her positions in our awards show polls several times.
When Zegler went shorter overall in 2022, our voters liked it. They like the new bangs, too - even though that earlier cut was grown out. Our week-long question ended with 86% backing the bangs (6-1). One voter voiced a view echoed by many online: "Channeling Jenna Ortega." Given what we've seen from Ortega lately, we think Zegler is doing it better. If you know what we mean, she has great hair far beyond "Wednesday."
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Whatever the cancer issue with Britain's Princess Catherine (Kate), we're led to think it was not very serious. If it were, wouldn't the chemotherapy have affected her trademark head of medium-long hair more than it has? The Princess of Wales has kept it virtually the same since she was introduced as the future brideof Prince William - medium-long, thick and bouncy at times. Any style change with her gets the paparazzi's attention - and in the spring and summer, one did. Catherine displayed a lighter shade, as if she'd spent months on the beach in Bournemouth. She did the exact opposite of what U.S. celebrities such as Carrie Underwood (below) have done.
Has the Princess made a good change in her mid-40s? Our voters could not decide, as they split 50-50 on the lighter color over one week (4-4). "Lighter washes her out," one Hair Fan commented. Another was disappointed that Britain's "royal reporters" made it a big deal in the first place: "Others do it and not much is said. They should try living under a microscope." But did they really make the princess "feel bad" about it? Social media is full of ordinary people doing that - and the tumors of baldness so far lack convincing evidence.
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It could have been an unusual double play: a woman winning the prize for best hair at an awards show two weeks in a row. After taking your title at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York, actress Brittany Snow went to Hollywood and presented a Primetime Emmy Award. But that's NOT Snow pictured above. Thar's actress Sydney Sweeney - whose long hair and daring "curtain bangs" became your top choice, even though she did NOT wear the jeans which sparked a recent online controversy.
Sweeney swept up half the votes in our week-long poll, which began in the final minutes of the show. One-time Gossip Girl Leighton Meester was second with 33%. Kmberly Schlapman's usual big curls from Little Big Town came in third at 17%; she was there to help sing a tribute to The Golden Girls. (Please note Reba McEntire was not on the ballot; we admittedly didn't trust her style as real.) As for Snow - the voters said no. She failed to gain any votes, as did Angela Bassett. Did a lack of wave make that huge a difference?
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Snow in early September? Maybe at Pike's Peak or northern Michigan, but never in New York City. Yet there was actress Brittany Snow, emerging from a long absence to present one of the MTV Video Music Awards. We wondered why she was there, then discovered later that she's part of a hit series on Netflix called The Hunting Wives and an upcoming drama about the Alex Murdaugh case. Snow tied for second in our "best hair" contest at the 2017 Country Music Association Awards, but on this night she was selected as the top style of the show.
Our week-long contest ended with Snow accumulating 56% of your votes. K-pop star Rose (Roseanne Park) bloomed into second place at 31%. Then came a tie between presenter Olivia Dunne and VMA winner Lara Raj of the "girl group" Katseye at 6%. Ice Spice also was on our ballot, but one voter asked: "You think that's Ice Spice's real hair?" Well, OK - we seriously doubt it was bubble-gum pink at birth.
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Nothing tells us "time flies" quite like the realization that Meghan Trainor was on our Top Ten Tresses list 10 years ago. Much has changed for the pop singer since 2015. The woman who sang Dear Future Husband now has one - not to mention two children. But Trainor still has the impressive blonde hair which put her on our list. Yet Trainor traded her classic look in the late summer of 2025 for a forehead full of bangs. Our vidcap shows them from the day Trainor took the "Nicki Minaj Challenge" on TikTok - and since they've sung together, it's probably not a slap.
Some fans said Trainor looked "unrecognizable" with the adjustment. But our Hair Fans recognize a good change when they see one - and they gave her new bangs unanimous support in a week-long question (6-0). What you might not notice is how the bangs are angled. They're quite close to her eyes at their longest point - yet if Trainor is going for more tempting hold, this will work well for her. And to the commenter who said she "looks like Melissa Rauch", or the scoffers comparing her with Paris Hilton, we can set up Super-Hair Wars to settle that.
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When she had a spat on Capitol Hill with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in 2024, Greene accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett of having "fake eyelashes." That's not really our issue here - but we noted Greene did NOT accuse Crockett of having fake hair. In fact, the daringly long sidepart of Crockett impressed us enough to make our Top Ten Tresses list for six months. We gave the Texas Democrat the benefit of the doubt - but of course, critics outside Congress were doubtful that all the hair was real. Crockett may have quieted the critics during the summer, by changing her on-camera look to a center-parted bob. She wrote on Instagram that it gained compliments.
We wanted an up-or-down vote on Crockett - and our week-long poll was deadlocked for days. At last, the tie was broken with the shorter style favored by 57% of Hair Fans (4-3). "Shorter = no extensions or weaves, so better," one wrote. We considered emailing Crockett's office to get an answer to whether she'd been "getting wiggy with it" - but we might have been accused of taking sides in that Texas redistricting fight. Yet Crockett admitted at a July conference that she plans her hairstyle based on her daily agenda - so yes, she cares.
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