4 photos in galleryI don’t feel weird spotlighting these Twitpics because: a) they were also made available by a professional photo service, and b) Miley Cyrus has eight million Twitter followers, so clearly, she’s not going to feel like we’ve hijacked a precious private moment. You don’t Tweet something you don’t want the world to see, unless you are incredibly misinformed as to what Twitter is. And she’s no social media dunce, so obviously she felt good about that shirt. Which… says a lot. Really, this is a backdoor into the topic of her new hairdo, but bless her for sharing it with the world along with some really terrible outfits. Keep bein’ Miley, yo.
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This hair is a vast improvement to the extensions. I think it’s actually cute on her, although these are the only photos of it that I’ve seen.
I like that she chopped it off. Good for her and I think she wears it well. Her clothes are awful, but she is 19 and I am old.
I love the hair, but thank dog you said something about her house – that’s what I was all WTFug about when I originally saw these pictures.
So, yeah. What the fug with her house!? I mean, even if she’s too lazy to clean it herself, she must have a housekeeper or cleaning lady – and WHO SHOWS THE WORLD that?
(Reminds me of that pic I kept seeing last year of the girl in the bathroom showing off for the camera in the mirror, clearly displaying the unflushed toilet with no toilet paper and a #2 sitting there.) Okay, on second thought – this isn’t that bad. But STILL. BAD.
Hair is cute.
She is in Philly for a movie that Liam is shooting here. (I live here and there are Miley sightings written about every.single.day. Today’s is “Miley at the Betsy Ross House!” – check out philly.com). So, I think that is some lovely rental apartment/house in Rittenhouse Square they have that is absolutely trashed.
Oh god. That sucks! I would hate to be her landlord!
I’m totally in favor of Miley cutting her hair, I’m just not 100% sold on this cut. Although it is a vast improvement over those ratty extensions of hers, so there’s that.
Total agreement. When you are 19 you are SUPPOSED to do crazy things, experiment etc…. I’m not a fan of the cut, but it’s hair, it grows.
yes! yes! blonde emo (blondemo?!) is just not my favourite, regardless of age.
I agree. I like the IDEA of the cut…but the color and layers could have been so much better! One of my friends has a similar cut, and it looks amazing because a skilled person did it. Miley’s cut looks self done. And yellow.
If these are the things she is getting out of her system, I’m all for it. The hair is quirky, the kleenex shirt is awful, however I would hate to see what I experimented with at that age.
Now, Miley, please please pick up after your dog and clear your table. The dirty house is the most disturbing of all. I feel I can smell the must from here.
More importantly, can someone please remind me why this girl is still famous.
AMEN! She’s been dead to me since, well, ever. Do. Not. Want.
Child Star turned Slag, with cut and color to match.
I think the cut is fantastic. What is even more important, however, is that it’s a welcome change from the sister-wife-length hair that every celebrity is sporting these days. We need more diversity, and we need to step away from the princessification (and associated normative gender roles) of teens.
LOVE this comment. amen! she’s not really androgynous as she has very feminine features, but i appreciate her boldness and hope that it resonates with her fans.
I agree with you guys 100%. Whether I love the hair or not (I do, actually) is irrelevant. I just love that there’s a famous teen out there doing something different but not Momsen crazy.
Girlfriend needs to pick up her stuffed animals and let the maid clean the rug. That was a disgrace.
I’m going to say it – I’m a short hair lover and I’ve grown mine out for months now. When The Chop comes, this really might be what I do. Probably not bleached blonde, because I’ve got red hair and that never goes well, but if you had asked me to ever put odds on me saying “I want a haircut like Miley Cyrus”…
Life, like her “pants”, is weird indeed.
I love the cut but hate the color. The clothes/college movie dorm room mleh. Whatever the girl wants.
I am waiting to see her hair in pics that are not of crappy smartphone quality and in what is – most obviously – a highly casual atmosphere.
She has the bone structure and gorgeous eyes that help carry off a very short style. It will be interesting to see how it appears in a more formal appearance when (hopefully) properly styled.
As for the style – again, she’s 19, I doubt she’s had the best style role models to look up to, and she’s never had to really think about her clothes since she can afford anything she wants to wear. I’m still hoping she settles down into something a little more put-together.
I HATE HATE the side of her head that is shaved but I like the side that is longer. I too am not a fan of ANTM bottle blond. It just does not flatter. But hey, it’s not my head nor am I marrying the person attached to that head (thus meaning I have to look at it everyday) so whatever she wants to do. But what she really needs to do is run the damn vacuum.
HA!!! Stefanie, I couldn’t have said it better myself!
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the fact that – beyond the hair, outfit, and whatever natural distaster swept through her house – it’s a little disturbing that this girl appears to spend her day doing nothing but taking/tweeting photos of herself. I think that says a lot about her emotional state these days.
I agree. I think I could get behind the hair IF I didn’t feel like it was part of a larger cry for help. I feel like I’m witnessing Britney 2.0 here, and we know how well that turned out.
Oh, I think a LOT of 19 year olds spent loads of time taking and tweeting pics of their hair. Seriously. Esp. since it only takes like…five minutes. I don’t think that’s all that weird.
Yeah. You guys, she’s 19. 19 year olds like attentions, especially when they’ve been getting oodles and boodles of it since they were young. Tweeting habits are not ususally indicative of one’s emotional state.
*attention… not attentions. Argh. Proofreading fail.
I’m 37 and I still tweet pictures of my hair when I get a slammin’ new cut/color.
I am loving the cut and the color. She’s 19. It’s her time to go wild. The year I was 19 I think my hair was 3 different [manic panic] colors!
Exactly all 19 year olds up load photos,of themselves all day long – nothing unusual. I actuall love her shorts with the black tee – hot!!
She’s 19, not going to school, and her *job* is to be in the public eye and retain/gain some kind of relevance. Of course she’s going to be taking pictures of herself and posting them all day long. What else does she have to do?
honestly, i love it. it’s funky and reminds me of the punk ‘dos from the 80s and 90s…and that’s a good thing. if i were ballsy and 19 again, i’d rock something similar.
the clothes are forgettable, but again, she’s 19.
Like the cut. Hate the color. Is she really only 19? Hard to believe. Seems as if she’s been around forever. And it shows.
The hair, I don’t mind. It does emphasize her face and eyes, which is a good thing. Anything to take the emphasis off of her clothes.
The state of the room in which she took pic #2 is very disturbing. If she did have a raging party and/or her dogs tore the house apart, either a.) clean it up or b.) at the very least, don’t take a picture there and tweet it to millions of people.
Clearly, she has a lot of growing up to do. She’s 19, so she has time. I just…don’t know. I hope the best for her.
I love her hair. I cut all my hair off when I was 16 and again when I was 22. Never did anything crazy color-wise, but I’m a natural dark blonde so I’ve been highlighting since I was old enough to dye my hair. Kids SHOULD do crazy things with their hair, they SHOULD live in filth and and then scramble like a crazy person to clean before their parents visit, they SHOULD wear horrible outfits and be embarrassed about them in later years. Hell, even Posh Spice looked as bad a Miley, back in her WAG days…
Miley Cyrus may have many, many issues that are documented or not, but I think these images are just of a kid who is feeling awesome and badass with her new haircut. Which is how it should be.
Better a pixie than extensions. I’m so OVER extensions.
Amen. I don’t want this haircut, but then I am old enough to be her mother. On her — 19 years old — I think it’s fun. And soooo much better than those ridiculous extensions.
The hair looks cut with hedge clippers and styled with an egg-beater, but yeah, she’s a kid. I’ll sign the “don’t get married yet” petition. Some folks who tie the knot super-young turn out just fine, but if you’re still trying to figure out who you are, you probably hadn’t ought to make any life-long promises.
Why does she want to be Robyn when there already is a Robyn? Terrifyingly, Miley doesn’t even have Robyn’s fearless style. But she is back on the road to one of the last brackets of Fug Madness, so that’s something.
I really like the haircut, and I think it works well on her. I’m a bit puzzled by the handful of people who are wondering whether it suggests some sort of crisis in her life, when you have to consider that long hair has been the thing for so long now, soon it’s going to be the last word in ‘so yesterday’. Either she or her agent/publicist realized that now is the time to go really short, so she’s in the vanguard of the trend, not just following along.
Then again, what she has now is essentially the same as my haircut, except I have curly hair, so mine looks like it was styled with an immersion blender (next salon visit, it’s all coming off, I’m tired of this nonsense).
I can’t muster any real reaction to the shirt. The transparent shirt over a dark or bright bra is popular a trope, so it is way far from shocking, especially if you view it in a broader time/place perspective (and okay, I live in an EU country where bare breasts show up all over the billboars, and you don’t get busted for wandering down main street with your top off, but still).
She’s having fun + ensuring that she gets plenty of publicity = everything is as usual for a nineteen-year-old pop singer.
I think the hair cut is fabulous, I think the color is a little harsh. I wish I had the face for a cut like that because I would do it in a heartbeat.
I just keep imagining Liam making his trademark smirk after each photo (as seen in your epic “Last Song” review). The hair’s cute, a nice change of pace after the uber-extensions she used to wear.
I love her whole haircut so much that it almost makes me want to bleach out my short hair and get the sides whacked again. However, I am twice her age, and I’ve already done that — and it was the only thing I’ve done to my head (out of a long list of many not-found-in-nature things — hair grows back) that really looked so terrible on me that even I couldn’t enjoy it.
Miley, however, looks fantastic, I think, even if she is taking a bit too much wardrobe inspiration from lookbook dot nu. However — nineteen.
As Chasmosaur said, I’ll need to see a better quality photo before I can decide for sure, but from what I can see, I like it. The new cut is fun and great for her age. It is much better than the ratty extensions. I don’t like the color, though–it looks too harsh on her.
Also, I kind of like her “pants” in the first picture *hides head in shame*
Stop that! I sort of like the pants too, and I refuse to be ashamed of my possibly gruesome taste in clothing!
In the last picture, she really reminds me of Natalie Imbruglia.
Love the hair, and she’s totally rocking it.
At 19 I dyed my waist length thick enough to give me a headache hair jet black…. not only that, but I did it myself ( I think I used like six boxes of Colorsilk)……
It took me nearly a year and a major haircut to fix that issue…
Party on Miley. As long as it’s with crazy clothes and wild hair and not crazy drugs and wild boys…you’re doing it right, girl.
It’s growing on me. Like a fungus.
I LOVE her hair. I think it’s super flattering on her, and edgy without veering into “trying too hard” territory (I’m looking at you, Katy Perry). She does look slightly like Draco Malfoy’s rebellious, TopShop loving sister…but hey, some girls would consider that to be a compliment.
I’m also confused by people saying that cutting off her hair is a cry for help. Really? She’s NINETEEN. Dramatic (non-surgical) cosmetic changes are par for the course. I dyed my hair bright pink and got a set of cartilage piercings at nineteen, and no one thought I was anything other than a girl enjoying the newfound freedom to make her own fashion and grooming choices. My college dorms were FULL of girls dying and cutting their hair in the bathrooms – and yes, then posting their pictures on Facebook/Twitter.
Her being nineteen also explains the state of the room. Have you ever been in a college student’s (or recent graduate’s) apartment? Sure, Miley’s room is bigger and her furniture is nicer, but it showcases the same slovenly attention to her abode that only a young adult living on their own for the first time can give. I mean, sheesh, you should have seen where I lived senior year of college. (Miley can probably afford a cleaning service, though…so, you know. Maybe get on that, girl.)
It’s a great cut and so much more flattering than the mousey brown middle aged Meredith Viera cut she used to sport.
But showing the world that you live like a pig is incomprehensible from someone who could afford to have her place cleaned for her. Much like Gwyneth Paltrow’s horrid stringy fried blond locks yesterday- showing this out in public, no less! The rich, they’re not like us.
Why are people on about “the shock” of someone having short hair, about Miley “getting it out of her system”, about her “getting crazy”, or justify her as being “only 19″? (Some gossip rag or another even wondered if Miley was having “a Britney moment”!!) Why do people in the US behave like short hair is the equivalent of an eyeball tattoo? Some hair is short and some is long and there is nothing newsworthy in either situation. For what it’s worth, I like her hair, it suits her perfectly (this is the first time I’ve ever found her pretty), and it’s infinitely better than the fairy princess extensions everyone is wearing. Now that – aiming to look like a doll from the ’70s – is something I find shocking.
Co-signed. Totally. Except I would just point out that she accompanied the cut with tweets of self-realization, which feels very 19-years-old and very much a stage of personal development, so that might be where the age-focus originates (i.e., “Ah, yes. To be nineteen and going through self-actualization manifesting itself in a haircut…”). If she had just gotten the cut and taken a few photos without some of the commentary, maybe the cultural response would be different…though, maybe not.
I don’t think it’s short hair per se — I think it’s the fact that she has one half shaved.
Even that. Undercuts are huge right now. Heck, I’m a forty-something civil servant, and I’M growing out an undercut that went half up my head. This is… not in any way, really… a _groundbreaking_ do, even if she wasn’t 19. It’s cute and maybe a tiny touch magazine-punk, is all.
Why do people have this insatiable urge to police women’s heads for proper submission to stylised femininity?
Seriously, in a lot of places, buzzing out the sides, even down to the skin has been on trend for quite a while, now, it isn’t even new or edgy.
… erm, anyone remember REAL punk?! You know, a freaking actual hammer as an earring (‘Yeh, it’s kinda uncomfortable, but it’s pretty gnarly, man’)? A bright blue, two-foot-tall ‘hawk? You saw those people every day in big cities, and it was just Tuesday.
As I mentioned, I’ve had this same cut for over a year now, and I’m lots older than hMiley. No one was surprised by it, or asked me WHY?! It’s fun, because at first glance it’s just an ordinary short cut, then you pull your hair away from your face so you can see, and BAM, it’s another cut! It’s just fun…
After all, if you’re a typical female, your options in terms of doing things to your hair are limited to the top of your head, since we don’t do whole moustache/beard thing.
The planning on marrying thing seems very unwise at this stage, but the hair, the clothes, the spectacular slobbiness are things that seem pretty ordinary for a nineteen-year-old. And going on Twitter with this? Well, of course (I may be the only person left on the planet who doesn’t have a Twitter account, and even I know this!)! That’s what Twitter is for. That, and the 803rd image of your cat doing something NO one else’s cat would ever do ().
Picture #1 with the tissue T is the one we’ll pull out when she shows up one day with melons on the red carpet and people try to say she didn’t get a boob job.
I think the hair is cute and maybe she got all the memos about dressing too old for her age. She’s right on target now, I’d say.
I’m all for 19-year-olds doing interesting things with their hair, so I’m supportive of this. And honestly, if you’d asked me beforehand how I’d think she’d look with a punksie (punky pixie!), I would have emphatically said “Not. Good.” because let’s be straight here: She does not have the traditional pixie-friendly face. And in some angles with this cut, you can see why I say that. That said, overall, I think it looks a lot better than I expected.
And yes, any hair cut is better than extensions, in my opinion, but I will just note, however, that I was REALLY digging her hair right before she did this–the blondish shoulder length cut (that did not appear to utilize extensions). That is the best her hair has ever looked in my opinion, but alas, it was so fleeting…
I chopped off all my hair when I was her age too, so I get it. *shudder* never thought I’d have something in common with her. It was pointed out in another blog that she now looks like Draco Malfoy and I can’t get that visual out of my head, anyone else see it too?
You make that sound like a bad thing :p
She sooooo thinks she’s all that and a bag of chips. And I am soooo over it.
I do think Miley is living her college years – minus the education. Have you read the tweets that go along with her pictures (I have to for work – honestly)? Girlfriend shows no ability to construct a well-formed sentence or even a basic understanding of grammar.
I think it’s totally appropriate for her actual age. Definitely the hair and even the clothes.
I hate the hair. Sorry, but it just looks like a girl trying too hard to be rebellious. I don’t care if it’s short, it just doesn’t suit her. It makes her look a bit unfeminine. Although I didn’t like the fakey extensions either. As for her house – what a slob! I am not necessarily against someone getting married at a young age, but in my opinion she comes across as someone who is not very mature for her age, and therefore, not ready to be married.
Y’all are going to hate me, but I kind of like the tights/jeggings/leggings (whatever they are, the patterns on them are funky/cool).
How could you not mention those leggings??!!
When she first did it, pictures came out of her (I guess she tweeted those as well) with a big mess of red lipstick on. I GENUINELY thought it was Courtney Love. So now she’s toned it down a bit, I think she looks quite okay. Good, even.
I hate Miley – I really do. But goddamn I respect a girl (esp a young one) that does something different (even though truely this hair is very common atm) that goes against the grain of only ultra feminine can be interesting and beautiful.
Every woman should get a pixie or a short cut at one point in their life. It is liberating and teaches how you can be a women without playing into the bombshell sterotypes.
The clothes go with the hair. So meh. Go forth and have a grand time Miley.
I’m embarrassed for her and sorry for Liam Hemsworth! FUG!!!!!!!!!
I don’t care about the hair, but I hate the endless pictures she takes of herself posing: baring her teeth, flaunting her bra and sticking her tongue out. This weird-looking girl is in love with herself.
The hair is fine, though the color makes her sallow. I do wish she’d stop with the stupid faces, though.
It doesn’t look totally awful in some pics, but the half shaved thing with the long pieces in the front is not the best look. Neither is the yellow-blonde. I cut all of my hair off and bleached it when I was 18, loved it for about three hours, then spent the next six months wearing hats, scarves, headbands, etc., and feeling regretful. I wouldn’t be surprised if she pops up with extensions in another few weeks/months.
I’m all for the letting teenagers experiment with anything but their health/ safety in order to be able to find themselves asap. Miley is a wealthy young woman with all the means and time in the world to define her priorities and apparently, right now her personal appereance is one of them – if not the only one.
I personally think she could do so much better by travelling, studying or sharing real quality time with friends, family and fiance but again: Miley is not me or my daughter.
Thus said, I see nothing original about her look: it is 80′s punk fashion combined with a 90′s haircut, already sported in the very recent 2010′s by this British model with an elphic name that was everywhere three years ago. If anything, I concur she looks so much better with the Long Extensions from H.ell.
The fact her house seems to be so untidy disturbs me since she’s about to get married or something. IDK the household they are intending to run afterwards will be a sane environment for a marriage, not too mention prospective children.
Draco Malfoy.
Butters.
I think the hair is ADORABLE–really suits her personality. I’m so sick of all the long, straggly, fake-looking extensions, and this is a nice change.
From some of the EW commentary I read, the cut was at least done with some stylist input taking it out of “freak out” zone (ala Britney). I was pretty “meh” on it until the last photo – it is really flattering to her eyes/cheekbones (not so much the BLACK eyebrows, maybe lay off the pencil and do brown instead). I get the feeling she’s trying to hash out her style – kind of like how Rooney Mara jumped 100% on the Lisbeth Salander look for GWTDT and never looked back.
The clothes…well, that’s never going to change.
i only love it because it’s MY haircut that i ripped off of La Tilda Swinton. mine is cuter than Miley’s of course, though not as amazing as Tilda’s.
I’m of two minds about this, I WANT to believe that she is young and being fun and spontaneous….but the hair combined with the weeks worth of posting self pics in “sexy” clothes and poses concerns me. Makes me think of Brittney shaving her head.
I’m just confused as to where Liam fits into all this, is our Gale really just a fame-whore using her to get press, roles, and money? It just doesn’t seem his vibe at all to be with somebody who acts out as much as she does.
Super duper YES to the hair. NO to being engaged at nineteen unless you are one of a couple of people I’ve known who really did find their true love in high school and just had to wait until they were grown to get married like the world was a damn Beach Boys song. But you could see that they were really ready, bless their hearts. And I can see that she is not.
Is it wrong that I love the tights? But only because I’d rock them at the climbing gym in a heartbeat.
And she likes the hair, which is half the battle when you suddenly chop off all your hair. I think it’s a cute cut.
I have been WAITING for this!
I really love her hair because it’s SO bold and extreme and I can respect & envy her being able to make such a drastic change. I’m not sure about that shade of blonde but she seems to be really happy about and apparently has said that she would one day chop it all off like Twiggy so this, while not Twiggy, isn’t completely out of left field.
I think the cut’s an improvement, it just seems like a huge turn on style. Agness Deyn, anyone oystermag.com/agyness-deyns-dr-martens-collection
I think a cute short ‘do being described as being so outrageous shows how much things have shifted since I was young. As teenager in the 80′s, the girls in my junior high and high school had all different hairstyles: short pixie cuts, bobs, long hair, big hair with claw bangs OF COURSE, asymmetrical short do’s, you name it. Today, whenever I pass a junior high or high school or just see a bunch of teenager girls together, I am always shocked at how homogenized they are: long hair, long hair and more long hair. The same goes for young celebrities.
Though I’m not fond of the color for her complexion and I didn’t realize half was shaved, I think in general the cut is kicky and cute and wonderfully against the grain and BRAVA for not getting another set of ratty extensions!