History Main / BoyishShortHair

** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'', pre-timeskip Leonie and post-timeskip Ingrid have this hairstyle. Leonie has very few feminine characteristics and is a clear-cut {{Tomboy}}, and if not for her bust size, could easily pass for a boy, although she does grow it out slightly into a short side ponytail after the timeskip. While Ingrid has loosely braided long hair pre-timeskip, she cuts it to barely chin-length after, and even before, she's dedicated to her training rather than her looks. Ingrid's voice is also [[ContraltoOfDanger one of the deepest among the female cast]].

* In ''Film/{{Tomboy}}'', Laure's haircut is sufficiently boyish that no one sees any reason to doubt her when she introduces herself as "Mikael".

* ''{{Film/Sappho}}'': Sappho has hers cut into a bob as part of her cross-dressing. Bobs were a [[TwentiesBobHaircut common style]] among many women then however, so this doesn't stand out that much.
* ''Film/{{Anna}}'': Maude sports a buzz cut, though her looks and interests are otherwise feminine. However, she is a lesbian.
* ''{{Film/Margarita}}'': Margarita's girlfriend Jane has hers close-cropped as part of her butch look.

* ''Film/RiotGirls'': Punk girl Scratch sports a mohawk, and she's a {{butch lesbian}} too.
%%* Amanda Young sports this hairstyle in ''Film/SawII''.
* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': Lena has short, dyed black hair at the start as part of her goth style. She's also something of a tomboy, dressing in a very masculine way at first and fighting off Tom (although she gets a more feminine style later).
* ''Film/{{Girlfight}}'': Diana actually has long hair, but she achieves this affect during the first half of the movie anyway by pulling it back, making her look like she's just got corn rows, which fits with her tomboy looks.
* ''Film/MaggieAndAnnie'': Maggie and her lesbian friends have their hair cut short. Eventually Annie follows suit, along with her daughter Jenny, copying the style as she embraces being bisexual.
* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': Imperator Furiosa has short hair cut very close to the scalp which helps her to blend in with the War Boys who are all bald due to their poor health. Of the Five Wives, only Toast the Knowing has short hair and she's easily the toughest of the group as shown by her knowing how to handle a gun.
* ''Film/TheyThem2022'': Butch bisexual girl Veronica has very short hair in a punk-like style which is dyed partly red.
* ''Film/{{Rafiki}}'': Kena wears her hair in a very short style, as part of her boyish style overall (she's a lesbian as well).
* ''Film/SomebodyIUsedToKnow'': Cyrina, a band mate and friend of Cassidy's, has very short hair that's dyed pale blue as part of her pretty butch style.
* ''Film/HowToBlowUpAPipeline'': Xochitl cuts her hair short right before committing herself to violent direct action.

* In ''Film/SomeKindOfWonderful'', tomboyish teen Watts only wears masculine clothes and has a short haircut.
* Tomboy Scout Finch has short hair in the film version of ''Film/ToKillAMockingbird'' (in the book, her hair length is not mentioned).
* The main character in ''Train'' is shown to have cut her hair short in the end, after [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge killing]] all the villains. It also probably symbolizes how she's serious about being on the wrestling team now since witnessing your teammates being horribly tortured to death will apparently do that.
* In ''Film/{{Tomboy}}'', Laure's haircut is sufficiently boyish that no one sees any reason to doubt her when she introduces herself as "Mikael".
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Of the earlier {{Action Girl}}s among the [[GirlOfTheWeek Bond Girls]], only [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/58/88/75/58887593f4702ea97405654aaddf8da0.jpg Pam Bouvier]] from ''Film/LicenceToKill'' sports this, trimming it down from EightiesHair after an (offscreen) ExpositoryHairstyleChange.
** Later on there's [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyVN9pn_Om6p0L7qxo8K2jrfJYPGUKNrFR_g&usqp=CAU Jinx]] from ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.
** Creator/JudiDench's M in both the Creator/PierceBrosnan and Creator/DanielCraig era films wears her hair short as a reflection of the fact that she has to suppress her femininity in order to lead an organization like [=MI6=] in a field as male-dominant as national intelligence. She notes in ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' that she had to ignore her instincts as a mother when advising Sir Robert King not to pay the ransom for his kidnapped daughter, intending to use her as bait to try to draw out the terrorist behind her abduction.
* In ''Firefighter'', a biopic of Cindy Fralick - the first woman to become a firefighter at the Los Angeles County Fire Department. She is informed that she must cut her long hair above her ears and above her shoulders to conform to the safety regulations - which of course were written for men. Her superiors are unhappy with it and insist she cut it even shorter. On seeing the new result she cries that she looks like a boy.
* Joan Webster, in ''Film/IKnowWhereImGoing'', sports short hair, and is assertive, determined, and stubborn at times.
%%* Beverly in ''Film/It2017'', unlike [[Literature/{{It}} the book]] or [[Film/It1990 the previous adaptation]], has short hair after an ImportantHaircut. She is the only girl of the Losers' Club so it makes her fit in.
* The titular character in ''Film/{{Domino|2005}}'' has one, as befitting a tough ActionGirl and bounty hunter, as did the real Domino Harvey on whom the film was based.

* ''Film/BelowHerMouth'': Dallas has this, as part of her overall butch looks.
* ''Film/PrincessCyd'': {{Butch lesbian}} Katie has this, wearing hers in a mohawk.

* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': Sadie sports a pixie cut she dyed platinum blonde throughout the film. Initially it's just to lure Lowell, who targets young women with short hair, but Sadie likes how it looks so she keeps this. It fits pretty well with her slightly masculine clothing style.
* ''{{Film/Ophelia}}'': Ophelia gets her long hair cut short near the end to [[SweetPollyOliver pass as a man]].

** Soifon is the Gotei 13's top {{ninja}} and neither gives quarter nor asks for it. She's a grim, aggressive personality who has worked hard to build a ruthless reputation. Although she spends much of the story as a ShortHairWithTail example, after the time-skip, she loses the braids and switches to this trope instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Luz has a slightly outgrown pixie cut that's just long enough to cover her earlobes. Turns out this wasn't intentional -- it was because Luz was being careless with a sword she got at a convention.

* ''Series/TippingTheVelvet'': Kitty has hers cut short to perform in her drag king act, with Nan later doing the same when joining it. They also become lovers as well, with this echoing Nan's self-realization that she's a lesbian.

[[caption-width-right:248:It's short for [[{{Tomboy}} "all]] [[ActionGirl business"]].]]

It should be noted that RealLife adult women with this type of hairstyle often have careers that do not allow long hair or have young children which makes maintaining long hair impractical. It should also be noted that short hair on women was quite [[FiftiesHair fashionable in]] [[TheFifties the 1950s]].

** Rukia is a short-haired action girl. She's had a rough life and possesses the rough, aggressive personality to match. After the time skip, she sports chin-length hair, shorter than her shoulder-length hairstyle (which her older sister Hisana had the same hairstyle). [[spoiler:Later averted towards the very end, as a more mature Rukia is seen wearing her hair to her waist after keeping it short for the whole series. It's also timed with two very important hits in her life: [[ChildhoodFriendRomance forming a family with Renji]] [[BabiesEverAfter and their daughter]], and [[RankUp becoming a captain]].]]

* ''Anime/VariableGeo'': While Satomi's hair is always [[UnkemptBeauty short]] [[StubbornHair and mussy]], due to living [[PerpetualPoverty in poverty]], it's mainly meant to convey that [[OneOfTheBoys she's a tomboy.]] Which is further emphasized by her athletic figure and [[SupernaturalMartialArts her immense fighting ability.]]

** Maia, [[RedBaron Queen of Mercenaries]], sports short [[FieryRedhead red]] hair. She wears a tunic with a NavelDeepNeckline, prefers ale over the "[[WineIsClassy prissy]]" drink that is wine, is comparatively less refined than her [[BlueBlood Princess Knight]] peers, is an agile [[DualWielding dual-blades]] [[ActionGirl user]], and [[OneOfTheBoys fought alongside]] Vault and the Black Dogs (an all-male {{PMC}} group) in the past as a fellow mercenary.
** Sanakan's short black hair frames a fair face with a [[PerpetualFrowner perpetual scowl]]. Despite having RavenHairIvorySkin, she is a crude, HotBlooded KidHero, as well as a [[HunterOfMonsters hunter]] [[TheApprentice in training]]. Hell, she even likes [[DropTheHammer big-ass hammers]] and [[{{BFS}} big-ass swords]].

** King (pictured above) is a {{bifauxnen}} kickboxer, whose prowess nearly rivals that of deuteragonist [[SharpDressedMan Robert]] [[CulturedBadass Garcia.]] She becomes a TeamMom in ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'' since she's usually in charge of the All Women's Team.

** [[DarkActionGirl Yagami Team member]] [[BadassInANiceSuit Vice]] also has this.

* ''Webcomic/VampireCheerleaders'': Suki immediately stands out from the rest of the cheerleading team, being she's the only one with short hair. Plus, she's Japanese/American. She's also got an attitude, is [[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/suki_has_an_idea quick at the lip]], and even quicker [[http://www.vampirecheerleaders.net/strips-vc/practice_6 to pick a fight]] if someone pisses her off. Most of which wouldn't be a problem if she weren't [[CloudCuckoolander such]] [[AsianAirhead a ditz.]]

* ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate'': Chiaki has pretty short hair, though used to be a longer when she was a little kid.

** Sakura a massive {{Tomboy}} has always had short hair since her debut, her hair is longer in her [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV SFIV]] ending where some time has past but even it's doesn't go past her neck.

* Mahiru from''VisualNovel/Danganronpa 2'' is a no nonsense yet kind hearted FieryRedhead who has short bright red hair cut in a bob.

* Creator/MichelleWilliams keeps it short InMemoriam of her late boyfriend, Heath Ledger, who apparently liked her hair short like that.
* Creator/GinniferGoodwin embraced this kind of hairstyle in more recent years, on the grounds that she's a self-proclaimed lazy person, and that managing her long hair was a hassle, between cowlicks, frizz, split ends, among other issues.
* Figure skater Dorothy Hamill won the 1976 Olympic Gold Medal in a low-maintenance wedge-cut designed by stylist Yusuke Suga, and has worn her hair at least moderately short ever since.
* Creator/NataliePortman for a time had this following having her head shaved for ''Film/VForVendetta''.
* Creator/JenniferLawrence has done this a little differently for the same reason - [[DyeingForYourArt dying her hair brown]] for ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' straightened her hair and as a result, she chopped it off to this.
* Music/{{Rihanna}} had this hairstyle from around 2008-2010, again in 2012-13, later dying her pixie-cut pink, and a third time in 2021.
* Creator/EmmaWatson did this after finishing up Harry Potter movie in 2011, possibly to avoid [[IAmNotSpock I Am Not Hermione]], although she grew it out eventually. She said having short hair makes it more difficult to get certain roles.
* Anime and Video Game voiceover actress Creator/CristinaValenzuela (aka Cristina Vee) used to wear a pixie haircut.
* Funimation voice actress Creator/MadeleineMorris, sported a pixie haircut at the start of her career in 2016[=/=]2017, and after spending a couple years growing it out to shoulder length, went back to the pixie hairstyle in June 2021, and has kept it since and also bleached it blonde.
* Creator/MiaWasikowska had this for her role in ''Restless''.
* Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal tends to have her hair like this.
* Creator/TildaSwinton, leading to her perceived androgyny.
* Singer Sheena Easton had this hairstyle in the early eighties.
* Music/MileyCyrus's approval of a short, bleached blonde haircut marked her transition from former Disney star to a HotterAndSexier-stroke-DarkerAndEdgier image. She has since outgrown her hair.
* [[Music/{{Eurythmics}} Annie Lennox]]'s signature look.
* [[Music/TheCranberries Dolores O'Riordan]]'s iconic look during her band's popularity in TheNineties.
* Music/KatyPerry's hairstyle during the ''Witness'' era as well as during her first season as ''Series/AmericanIdol'' judge after a brief split with Creator/OrlandoBloom, though in actuality that was due to her dyed black hair damaging most of her hair and reverted back to being a natural blonde as a result.
* [[Music/{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson]]'s hairstyle during the ''Beautiful Garbage'' era after divorcing her husband.
* Creator/HalleBerry's iconic pixie cut hairstyle during the nineties and the aughts.

* Creator/AngelinaJolie's hairstyle from 1994 to 1998. She began wearing this during the production of ''Film/{{Hackers}}'' and then wore either hair extensions or a wig in films during that time. She had a buzzcut in 1997 before growing it back to this hairstyle months later until outgrowing her hair long and has kept it long since then.
* Creator/RachelMaddow's iconic hairstyle. She started sporting a buzzcut during the time when she was in college after being outed as a lesbian.
* Music/{{Halsey}}'s default hairstyle, when she's unseen without neither hair extensions nor wigs, though she has since outgrown it to shoulder length.

* Actor Creator/BexTaylorKlaus has had short hair ever since their first professional acting role in 2013, and later on came out as pan and non-binary.
* Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang, being a ButchLesbian.
* Chinese singer-actress Faye Wong's iconic hairstyle in the early nineties, most famously in the film ''Film/ChungkingExpress''.
* Portuguese-Canadian singer Music/NellyFurtado's current hairstyle since late 2016.
* Brazilian-American actress Creator/MorenaBaccarin sported this hairstyle in 2009, starting with her role in ''Series/{{V 2009}}'' before outgrowing it in 2011 prior to being cast as Jessica Brody in ''Series/{{Homeland}}''.
* Music/{{Madonna}} had this hairstyle during the ''Music/TrueBlue'' era and again during the late ''Music/{{Erotica}}'' era.
* Creator/ScarlettJohansson has sported short hair as much as she's had long hair.
* Music/MelanieC "Sporty Spice" of the Music/SpiceGirls had this hairstyle during 1999-2000 before ultimately growing out it to chin-length. Her fellow bandmate Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham sported this during 1998-2000 (before growing it to chin-length and then wearing hair extensions), 2007 (before outgrowing it to a bob) and 2008-09 (before outgrowing it to shoulder-length and then mid-length).
* Music/BelindaCarlisle had the hairstyle in 1994-95 when her band Music/TheGoGos reformed.
* Music/AlanisMorissette surprised fans when she cut her iconic long hair to this hairstyle in 2018, though it wasn't the first time she was seen with short hair, having tried a wavy chin-length (later shoulder-length) hairstyle in 2004, though has since outgrown it to shoulder-length.
* Amber Liu of the K-pop GirlGroup Music/{{FX}}, due to her {{Bifauxnen}} image and tomboyish fashion style.
* ''Otokoyaku'' (male role actresses) for the Creator/TakarazukaRevue, as part of their {{Bifauxnen}} {{Kayfabe}}.
* Natalie Merchant sported this hairstyle toward the end of her tenure with Music/TenThousandManiacs, which can be seen most clearly in the video for "Candy Everybody Wants" and the band's Creator/{{MTV}} ''Unplugged'' appearance, as well as on the cover of the subsequent live album.
* [[Music/{{Roxette}} Marie Fredriksson]]'s iconic hairstyle from her band's second album ''Look Sharp!'' to her passing in 2019.
* Creator/BrigitteNielsen famously has this haircut.
* Alecia Beth Moore a.k.a Music/{{Pink}} was famously short-haired dyed in pink like her stage name. She outgrew her hair longer for a time in the mid aughts, but eventually cut it short back and dyed in silver.
* Creator/EvanRachelWood sported short hair as of 2015, though had to wear extensions playing Dolores in ''Series/{{Westworld}}'' around the same time.
* Music/{{Bjork}} sported this hairstyle during her early years in the Icelandic punk rock scene and again during the Sugarcubes' second album ''Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!''.
* Since coming out as bisexual in the late 2010s, Creator/KristenStewart cut her long hair short to this hairstyle and bleached it blonde.
* In late 2020, Music/DemiLovato cut her hair to this hairstyle as well as bleaching her hair blonde and recently pink.
* Creator/DemiMoore's iconic pixie hair in ''Film/{{Ghost|1990}}'' was one of the early nineties hairstyle trends.
* Creator/JadaPinkettSmith had a pixie hair during the middle of nineties before she decided to outgrow it in aughts to [[LongHairIsFeminine look more feminine and mature]].

* Fantine in ''Theatre/LesMiserables'', after [[TraumaticHaircut poverty drives her to sell her long hair.]]

* Creator/AnneHathaway has grown her hair out into this following [[DyeingForYourArt having her hair cut almost to the scalp]] for ''Film/LesMiserables''.
** Similarly, Creator/NataliePortman for a time had this following having her head shaved for ''Film/VForVendetta''.
** Creator/JenniferLawrence has done this a little differently for the same reason - [[DyeingForYourArt dying her hair brown]] for ''Film/TheHungerGamesCatchingFire'' straightened her hair and as a result, she chopped it off to this.

When an IronLady or other woman in hair, it's usually not this but the much more carefully styled PowerHair, which says ''feminine and no-nonsense''.

* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' character Charley Davidson has much shorter hair in the 2006 revival.

* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': : Connie Williams, the town mechanic, wears her hair in a pixie cut.

* Kino in ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'' has boyishly short hair. She is a {{Bokukko}} variant of {{Tomboy}} and often uses masculine pronouns to refer to herself.

* ''VideoGame/ArtOfFighting'':

* Casca from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' had short hair back when she was a tomboyish and extremely capable ActionGirl. After the Eclipse, she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation was driven insane]] and now has long MessyHair due to her status as TheOphelia. [[spoiler: As of Chapter 359 Casca cured of her mental regression has gotten her hair cut by Danann, it's longer than her original cut but still symbolic that she's returned to her ActionGirl status]].