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The Weather Channel has led three women to our Hair Fan's Hall of Fame - Kristina Abernathy, Kelly Cass and Heather Tesch. Tesch entered on the strength of winning five Crown Awards in seven years, including the top-level Best Short Hair prize in 2006. It was a rare day when Tesch's blonde hair dropped below her shoulder. But after taking a curious career turn and leaving meteorology for a podcast about "Near Death Experiences," Tesch's tresses have made a big change. She's grown them out well below the shoulders - sometimes letting them sit within a glasses frame of collapsing in her eyes.
While Tesch styled her short hair in several ways, which length overall is better for her? Our voters like it longer - as 86% of them approved the change in onr one-week oll (6-1). No one left a comment, but we're certainly in the minority here. It's as if Tesch seems to barely care about her hair. She's absolutely asking for a drop. And if we binge enough on her podcasts, we might actually see it. Now that would be dramatic - practically an "NDE" for Super-Hair!
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Few sports events have the potential to put Hair Fans on the edge of their chairs like figure skating. Especially if it's the Winter Olympics, and female performers dare to have loose, risky styles. Dorothy Hamill stunned the world with the "wedge" there. Linda Fratianne's short cut impressed us there. In recent years, pinned styles have disappointed and dominated. But at the 2026 Games in Italy, Alysa Liu broke that custom in many ways. Not only did her high-risk hairstyle wind up with a gold medal, but she developed hair as colorful as a skater's outfit. She called the look "halos" (others compared it to raccoon stripes) which involved bleaching sections of the hair to be blonde instead of her natural brunette.
Hamill's wedge became a worldwide hair trend, but should Liu's look do the same thing? Our week-long poll which began on the final day of the Milano-Cortina Games ended with 83% of Hair Fans liking Liu's halos. No one was impressed by the old brunette look, while one voter chose "try another approach" without suggesting what it should be (5-0-1). Her current hair has fallen during performances, so it's not officially "Super." But if you want to look like Liu, we'd leave it to the professionals. She had to find a stylist in St. Louis to make the hair exactly the way she wanted.
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She could have been a Best Mane on Campus - and perhaps she still could be. Millie Bobby Brown enrolled at Purdue University, and according to Wikipedia is taking online health courses. But celebrity-watchers know Brown better for acting, especially in the series Stranger Things She's also won awards for her acting in the teen mystery series Enola Holmes. Six years after it first appeared, Netflix plans a third season - and teased it in January with a vidcap showing Brown with long wavy hair. But Brown apparently isn't keeping it that way. She accepted a Joy Award in Saudi Arabia in mid-January with a much shorter bob, and she's gone up and down several times in recent years.
We didn't plan it that way, but we used the week of Brown's 22nd birthday to ask you which look is better. We're not sure Hair Fans were thrilled by either one we posted, but the long style won 75% support (3-1). No one left a comment, but this is no mystery for us: we'd want to get our hands on Brown's long hair. It seems well-protected and even a bit mysterious behind her ears. Can it hold under pressure - especially without exposing how she tucks the hair back? We have a Style Profile section devoted to this, but few women nowadays seem to keep their tuck-backs in hiding. Young Hair Fans can see it all, and to us that reduces the drama.
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Since fiance Travis Kelce didn't have the spotlight at Super Bowl LX, Taylor Swift was free to use that day to make her own news. She released the new music video Opalite, the name of a wonder-working spray (we'll let you watch it to understand). It's inspired all kinds of interpretations, including comparisons of one section to the TV series Friends. But Hair Fans watching the video probably didn't do that kind of analysis. They simply noticed Swift's hair was different - as she went brunette for her role, instead of her usual blonde shade.
Is a darker color something Swift should do all the time? Our voters say no; 71% of them preferred her blonde in our week-long question. Only 14% like Swift as a brunette, while another 14% suggested an alternative: "strawberry blonde!" (5-1-1) We suppose that means an "in-between" color, but that still would be blonde to us. We're now left to wonder what hair color Swift will display at her wedding later in the year - not to mention whether she'll perform at Super Bowl XLI, which might depend on whether Kelce retires from football.
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One is a country music legend, and a member of the Hair Fan's Hall of Fame. The other is a young singer with what Wikipedia calls an "indie pop band". Only the Grammy Awards could bring such diversity together on the same program - and, beyond that, land them on the same ballot for their hairstyles. Reba McEntire and Maria Zardoya battled to a time-limit draw, for the best hair of the 2026 show.
This was a show where an unusually high number of women had hair drops. Sabrina Carpenter and Lainey Wilson looked good, but missed our ballot by wearing hats. Yet "Reba" and "Maria" (her band The Marias is named after her) stayed calm and steady. They split the voting at 50% each, which meant three women whiffed with our voters completely. Karol G and Charli XCX apparently had "F" grades, while Chappell Roan's red earned no "cred." And we're going on the theory that Kendrick Lamar left a pick in his hair on purpose - but we'll leave the meaning of it up to you.
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