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In soccer, the color code is rather simple. A yellow card is a warning - you've done something dangerous or unseemly, but you're still in the game. A red card means you've gone too far and you're out of the game. Carlota Vizmanos, who hosts Premier League matches and other events on Telemundo, has been "on a yellow" with her hair for a long time. Her long hair can be daring at times, but the color has stayed the same. Yet with the FIFA World Cup 2026 approaching, Vizmanos's true colors might be showing. The native of Spain displayed red hair on a weekend in mid-April - a main color of her homeland's team.
Should our Hair Fan "referees" reach into their pockets and show Vizmanos the red card for this change? Our one-week question found many of them would. Half the voters say she should stay blonde. One-third like the redhead approach, although one voter said it "doesn't look natural." And one voter suggested Vizmanos try some other color (3-2-1). We don't know if that came from a Chelsea or France fan, wildly dreaming she'd dye her hair blue.
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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We don't normally do "reruns" in this part of the website; there are plenty of women making hair changes on a regular basis. But a gap in our archives allowed one to slip through. It involved Catherine Anaya, a Phoenix news anchor whose short hair won the Crown Award for Best Bangs in 2007. She grew out that look in the 2010s, and our voters loved it in 2014. We came across Anaya again in the spring of 2026 - well after she left the anchor desk at one TV station and landed where so many ex-anchors seem to land: PBS.
Anaya doesn't have this "messy bang" look of 2014 anymore. It's more polished now, but still showing probably added waves.
Our "second run" with Anaya turned out similar to the first - only with a much smaller vote count. The long hair is preferred by 80% of you (4-1). "The short style worked for its day," one voter explained. Now hold on: we award a "Best Short Hair" Crown every year. Could Anaya's winning look of nearly a generation ago still compete now? It wasn't as big as Daisha Graf's curls - but anything could happen.
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When Lynda Carter disguised her identity as "Wonder Woman" on TV in the 1970s and 80s, she put on glasses and became "Diana Prince." But what if there was a more ingenious way to throw suspicious people off the track - such as changing your hair color? Gal Gadot, the 21st-century movie Wonder Woman, may be experimenting with that approach. A photo shoot on social media in late February showed the usually-brunette Gadot looking blonde. The hair was shorter, too - stopping around her shoulders. instead of the length you'd expect the superhero to have.
Is Gadot on to something here? If she is, our voters don't like it; 75% in our one-week poll say she should stay brunette (6-2). No one left a comment about any color, but we admire how some online writers describe Gadot's change. "A major dose of blonde energy," one wrote - and shouldn't Wonder Woman be filled with energy to defeat all comers? Another called it the "fiercest hair transformation," defined online as "violent in force, intensity." But to be honest, we're more intense for Gadot's long movie style - more challenging to fight, bring down and defeat. (Like we could ever defeat Wonder Woman, much less her Super-Hair - or even come close?!)
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Not since the legendary Bonnie Bernstein has a sportscaster impressed Hair Fans like ESPN's Malika Andrews. The host of NBA Today has won three consecutive Crown Awards for Best Hairstyle in Sports Reporting. And her winning percentage has increased each year. It's all due to the natural shoulder-length curls she displays - so soft-looking, yet undoubtedly strong-holding and often seemingly unmussible. But Andrews doesn't bring those curls out every day. Sometimes she braids, sometimes she pins back - and in an interesting development late in 2025, she showed a blown-out straight look at times. Andrews even displayed that during a short stint co-hosting Good Morning America.
After four Crowns in five years, is is time for Andrews to make a permanent change? NOOOO, our voters cried. They all preferred the shorter approach in a one-week question (7-0) - and all the comments had a similar reason. "Voted for shorter, but because of the curls not the length," one explained. Another put it simply, yet profoundly: "Curls!!!" It's almost hard to believe Andrews has won only one "curl Crown" for them (2021). Perhaps her new duties hosting tennis coverage will put them to a wind test - because as romantic tennis players might say, her curls are easy to "love."
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One is a veteran actress. The other is not an actress at all - but a magazine executive whose life became a famous movie role. Gwyneth Paltrow and Anna Wintour both took the stage at the 2026 Academy Awards and caught our eye with two different styles. Paltrow's look was her usual long, sleek approach. Wintour, who retired from Vogue magazine in 2025, had her usual short bowl-type bob (one Meryl Streep didn't try to copy in The Devil Wears Prada). They wound up tying for your vote as the outstanding hairstyle of "Oscar night."
Paltrow and Wintour both gained 40% support in the week after the awards. Felicity Jones, whose soft perfectly-placed sidepart thrilled us during ABC's On the Red Carpet preview, was third with 20%. But all in all, the styles this year seemed to be greeted by Hair Fans with a yawn. "That's not a great selection," one wrote. "That's the best there was?" Well, Zendaya and Jessie Buckley went on-stage with somewhat daring short cuts - but only after we had finalized the ballot. Michele L.M. Wong was a surprising inclusion as a producer of the animated film KPop Demon Hunters, yet no one voted for her. But we wonder if a social media controversy about Chase Infiniti's long braids (which didn't thrill us) scared some voters away. We tried to engage one person in a discussion about it on X/Twitter, but had no response.
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She came from South Dakota, so she probably knew about one form of "ice." But Kristi Noem became known by critics as "ICE Barbie" during her time as U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary. Perhaps that was because of her makeup. But more likely, it was because of her long hair. Is it all really hers - or has she resorted to extensions? It turns out Noem has won Crown Awards at two different lengths. A short sidepart won the 2010 award for Best New Original Style (which now is retired). Then she won for the Best Hairstyle in Government/Politics in 2023.
We don't know exactly when Noem went longer - but our voters want her to go shorter. The older look won 62% support in opur week-long poll (5-3). "Without the extensions," one voter wrote. DHS soon will be without Noem, as she was fired/moved/shifted from her cabinet-level position days before our question. She'll now oversee the "Shield of the Americas" - and if she wants to partner with our next "Cup of the Americas" in 2027, banner ads are now available.
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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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