Short Hair

No question about it, Halle Berry has the most envied pixie in Hollywood. Her cut is always perfectly tousled to appear undone. But it's a major misconception that short hair is a simple wash-and-go style. If you're rocking cropped strands, celebrity stylist Neeko (who styled Halle for the Cloud Atlas premiere) has a few suggestions to make your daily hair routine an easy encounter instead of a drawn-out ordeal.

If you have a great cut to begin with, you may be able to pull off Halle's "disheveled pixie" in 20 minutes or less. Start by mussing up dry hair with a blow dryer and your fingers. Then use a product like Bumble & Bumble Thickening Lotion ($20) to achieve height on top. "The trick of getting short hair to stand up is creating a great base," Neeko says. "No teasing of the hair, but using root-thickening products." Finish the look by molding hair into a piecey pattern with a flat iron.

Luckily, the list of products needed for short hair maintenance is, well, short. Neeko recommends keeping a leave-in conditioner on hand to separate strands. To spike hair upward or slick it down, use a pomade. But achieving an even faster second-day style may require a trip to the home decor department. "I always suggest just sleeping on it, using rayon or bamboo sheets and pillowcases," Neeko said. We might not be able to live like Halle, but with practice, anyone can get close to her hair.

Making a drastic change can heighten emotions, and Anne Hathaway admitted that her newly ultrashort cut caused her to turn on the waterworks. "I was inconsolable," she said while appearing on Live! With Kelly. And even though she's been faced with difficult tasks during her career, Anne revealed that this one was high on intensity. "I've done backflips out of windows, I've jumped off of buildings, [but] cutting my hair reduced me to mental-patient-level crying."

Anne's latest look comes as a result of her role as Fantine in the upcoming film adaptation of Les Misérables. "[The haircut] is something I wanted to do for a long time, and I knew it was something the character did," she said. But as the time drew nearer for the big chop, she had reservations: "I thought, 'I really can't take it back now!'" A few months have passed since she debuted her pixie, and if a picture is worth a thousand words, it seems like Anne's more comfortable with her gamine look. Are you loving it? And have you ever had a cut that's made you cry?

If you have shorter hair, then you'll know that it's easy to get stuck in a styling rut. Not if you're Evan Rachel Wood, however. At the LA premiere of Ides of March yesterday, Evan wore a waved coiffure that celebrity hairstylist Marcus Francis described as a balance of feminine and masculine, or "androgynous sexy elegance" in his exact words. "The clean silhouette of her white suit inspired me to keep the look strong yet sexy," Francis explained. "It was the glam-rock eye that added to my vision of a new take on a classic: combed-out finger wave with a David Bowie twist." So to see how to get the edgy-chic style, just keep reading.

Brilliant! I already love Carey Mulligan's pretty short cut, but last night, she really showed off the look's versatility with a fake-out bouffant that made her hair look long and voluminous. It's a perfect style for nights out or whenever you'd just like to change things up a bit. It's also a really easy style to create — all you need is a teasing comb, hair spray, and bobby pins. So to find out how to fake Carey's big, sexy hair, just keep reading.