PHOTOS: The 20 Most Iconic Celebrity Hairstyles Over The Years

Dec. 9 2014, Updated 2:09 p.m. ET
Marilyn Monroe

1950’s: Nothing says bombshell like Marilyn Monroe’s platinum bottle blonde, short curled ‘do.
Audrey Hepburn

Early 1950’s: Audrey Hepburn’s perfect pixie had women around the world chopping off their long locks.
Twiggy

1960’s: Brit supermodel Twiggy’s side-swept pageboy was considered one of the hippest hairstyles of the decade.
Brigitte Bardot

1960’s: French beauty Brigitte Bardot was the iconic blonde of her time, looking incredibly sexy with her messy bedhead as well as her sexy take on the classic pouf.
Mia Farrow

Late 1960’s: Rosemary’s Baby was Mia Farrow’s breakout role, and her classic Vidal Sassoon pixie cut, which was pretty cutting edge at the time and redefined femininity, is still setting trends decades later.
Cher

Late 1960’s: Cher’s stick straight and shiny locks had women around the world ironing their hair to achieve her iconic look for years tocome.
Diana Ross

1960’s-1970’s: Diana Ross may have started out with a conservative and perfectly put together look when she was with The Supremes, but in the 1970’s she took the mantra “Go big or go home,” to the extreme and defined disco era glam!
David Bowie

Early 1970’s: Things started going from hippy to glam rock when David Bowie’s adopted his Ziggy Stardust persona.
Farrah Fawcett

1970’s: Farrah Fawcett undeniably set the hair trends in the seventies with her Charlie’s Angels feathered and layered look. Decades later, millions of women still beg their stylist to chop them up like the bombshell icon.
Princess Diana

1980’s: Princess Diana was the style icons of her time, and her feathered bob was imitated by women all over the world.
Motley Crue

1980’s: It was not a single woman who set the, “like, totally eighties” hairstyles trends, it was the gods of rock! Bands like Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Bon Jovi had men – as well as women – getting their hair rocked out and glammed to the max!
Madonna

1980’s: Madonna’s own personal hair evolution was copied by millions, but when the icon chopped off her locks and bleached them blonde in 1986 (a la Marilyn Monroe) that she really shook things up in the hair world.
Jennifer Aniston

1990’s: Jennifer Aniston set one of the biggest hair trends ever with the help of hairstylist Chris McMillan. “The Rachel,” named after her character on Friends is undeniably one of the most requested cuts ever.
Pamela Anderson

1990’s: Pamela Anderson’s bleach blonde California locks were coveted and copied by women around the world.
Kurt Cobain

1990’s: Dirty, messy hair got super hot when Grunge took over the radio waves, and no one did it better than Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain.
Sarah Jessica Parker


Late 1990’s – 2000’s: Sarah Jessica Parker grabbed attention with her Sex and the City character Carrie Bradshaw, who rocked wavy curls when the show debuted. As the show went on, Parker’s hair evolved and continued to influence women around the world.
Gwyneth Paltrow

2000’s: Gwyneth Paltrow’s stick straight hair had women flocking to the beauty supply store to pick up a flat iron.
Amy Winehouse

2006: Amy Winehouse brought the beehive back to the world, after several decades of sleeping.
Victoria Beckham

2007: Victoria Beckham has sported so many Posh hairstyles over the years, but it was her concave bob – shorter in the back and longer in the front – that she debuted at the MTV Movie Awards that really set trends.
Kate Middleton

2011: Kate Middleton popularized the “girl next door glam” look when she went from commoner to Duchess by marrying Prince William. Every she wore sold out in minutes, and women around the world flocked the salon to steal her simple yet sophisticated hair style.