How to Use pixie in a Sentence

pixie

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• For her, the ‘60s were all about mini ‘fros and pixie cuts.
  — Akili King, Essence, 19 Dec. 2023
• Just two months ago, in June, Berry wore a brighter blonde pixie haircut with the back shaved.
  — Jill Lupupa, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
• For 2022, the pixie's gotten a makeover, so expect to see the cut get much more creative.
  — Elle Turner, Allure, 12 Apr. 2022
• Her blonde pixie cut was slicked down with a middle part.
  — Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 9 May 2023
• Will you be tempted to dip your toe into the magic pixie dust in the new year?
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Jan. 2022
• In the photo, Siwa grinned at the camera and showed off her new pixie cut that's short on the sides and long on top.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 27 July 2022
• This new pixie for Roar joins a fleet of iconic movie and TV hairstyles.
  — Christopher Ros, Glamour, 22 July 2021
• In all three sets of photos, RiRi is rocking a sleek pixie cut.
  — Iris Goldsztajn, Marie Claire, 24 Aug. 2021
• Since then, her hair has been bleached to the whitest blonde, chopped into a pixie, and snipped into a mullet.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 10 Mar. 2023
• She’s been the face of the sweet best friend, the face of manic pixie dream girls, even the face of the twee renaissance (and its current revival).
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• Though Florence Pugh has had this cut for less than a month, this may not be the first time she's changed up the color of her pixie.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 18 Dec. 2021
• RiRi kept up with the short hairstyles in 2008, going for a pixie cut with sweeping bangs.
  — Janae McKenzie, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2022
• Ever wonder how a good pixie cut gets that chic sort of ✨ je nais se quoi ✨?
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 23 Sep. 2022
• In the photo, Siwa, 18, grins at the camera, showing off her new pixie cut that's short on the sides and long on top.
  — Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• But even with that going for it, some more pixie dust might have been helpful.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Pugh's hair was freshly bleached and styled into a cute pixie.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 29 July 2023
• Rihanna returned to the pixie cut in 2012 with this chic style.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2023
• In her last appearance in the Scream franchise, the 33-year-old actress had a short pixie cut.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 13 Mar. 2023
• Those of you who are rocking the pixie cut, look no further than Zoe Kravitz for inspo.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 19 Jan. 2023
• In recent memory, bob trends have run the gamut from to French bobs to blunt bobs to bixies (aka a bob and a pixie).
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
• Haven’t had a chance to pick up your share of Ojai pixie tangerines this season?
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• The boyish, blunt style will forever be marked as the classic pixie in our minds.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2024
• Meanwhile, Fantasia dressed her pixie cut in tight curls on the side with looser curls on the top.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 29 Jan. 2024
• Lori Harvey tried something new with a blonde pixie cut wig and eyebrows to match.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 18 Mar. 2024
• While a wavy bob or a coifed pixie cut may look effortless, knowing how to style these cuts is key.
  — Katie Berohn, Good Housekeeping, 12 May 2021
• Nixon could be seen with her chic silver strands in a sleek pixie cut, while Parker let a few bits of gray hair emerge from her roots.
  — Katie Campione, PEOPLE.com, 20 July 2021
• The cut featured long textured layers and a pixie cut on the sides and was styled into her usual side part.
  — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2022
• Her signature pixie cut is parted on the side with her hairs short on either side of her head and a bit longer on top.
  — Addison Aloian, Allure, 10 May 2022
• The 27-year-old singer wore her hair in a gamine pixie cut—all polished and piecey along the crown of her forehead—which framed her striking eye moment.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 5 Feb. 2023
• Many hairstylists still reference her iconic bold red pixie when creating new-gen styles.
  — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2024

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pixie

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• Swipe through the list of the best pixie haircuts of all time, below.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Sep. 2019
• Coulee, in a pixie ice-blue wig and neck to thigh-high-boot pleather, danced circles around Velour.
  — Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• This year, pixie cuts are all the rage, especially for the celeb set.
  — Joane Amay, Allure, 21 Sep. 2017
• To complete the luxe life, even nails are getting a hit of pixie dust this season.
  — Emily Dudding, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 Nov. 2014
• The photo shows the actress in a pixie brunette wig, pink lipstick, and off-the-shoulder floral gown while singing at the mic.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Mar. 2018
• There are a lot of double entendres amid the pixie dust.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
• Paris Jackson's Oscars 2018 look was made of faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust.
  — Zoë Weiner, Teen Vogue, 5 Mar. 2018
• Zoë stans will recall that she's worn pixie cuts multiple times in the past.
  — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 27 Nov. 2019
• But there’s not enough pixie dust in the entire universe to turn Siemian into Ryan.
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2017
• Want to drop a few tears into your beer, at a joint sprinkled with a little celebrity pixie dust?
  — Sarah Rodman, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• There are a lot of people that have been involved in this, but his pixie dust is spread throughout this building.
  — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Though the trailer has a Sabrina-esque flair to it as pixie dust-like sparks burst from the girls' fingertips.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• The pixie dust, the halo around media moguls is still financially there anyway if not maybe there in the eyeballs.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 28 June 2018
• BoulotDodo is the French manic pixie dream girl of Etsy.
  — Anna Hezel, Bon Appetit, 10 Mar. 2017
• BoulotDodo is the French manic pixie dream girl of Etsy.
  — Anna Hezel, Bon Appetit, 10 Mar. 2017
• Cyrus has recently changed her signature bleach blonde pixie to brunette.
  — Emily Rekstis, Marie Claire, 13 Sep. 2013
• Friedman left plenty of pixie dust in St. Petersburg, still a launching pad for top baseball jobs.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2020
• Yes, the manic pixie dream girl trope is on full display, and some of the jokes haven’t aged well, but the mash-up of characters and relationships are hilarious.
  — Patia Braithwaite, SELF, 31 Mar. 2020
• Digging my hands through the water left sparkly white trails — what Igel calls pixie dust — because of phosphorescence in the water.
  — Jared Whitlock and Donald Miralle, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2017
• Snow White’s Enchanted Wish, a cheery attraction that’s been sprinkled with large handfuls of pixie dust.
  — Scott Craven, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2021
• Rosales caught the attention of the footwear brand Camper, whose spring 2018 campaign spotlights her suite of characters: auburn-haired exec, mop-head in pink, pixie sunbather.
  — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 23 Aug. 2018
• Halle Berry exploded on the Hollywood scene in the early 1990s with a short, pixie hairstyle that would become her signature.
  — NBC News, 12 Nov. 2019
• Add Lawrence to the list of actresses who have recently gotten pixie cuts and look absolutely fab.
  — Lauren Le Vine, Redbook, 6 Nov. 2013
• Without the help of pixie dust, Jansen had plenty of her own island adventures getting the whimsical costumes just right.
  — Lindsay Weinberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2020
• Chico’s actual performance consists of a couple of numbers on the piano in that famous pixie style.
  — Johnny Miller, SFChronicle.com, 28 June 2018
• This ever-so-slightly-waxy (in a good way!) spray acts almost like a much less heavy pomade, creating definition and control in braids, ends, and even pixie cuts.
  — Stephanie Saltzman, Allure, 13 Sep. 2018
• The ogle-worthy fashion is aplenty, and yet the beauty equation takes a simpler route: faces stripped back and completely free of makeup; hair cut pixie-short, swept back into a bun, or hanging long and loose.
  — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 2 May 2018
• Too often, the adventure is curtailed, with women surrendering their pixie dust to ensure that their own children can learn to fly.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 2 Mar. 2020
• So not what lots and lots and lots of fans were dying to hear, but coaches and managers usually stick with logic, not hunches, not Tinkerbell, a sprinkle of catchy music and a fistful of pixie dust.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2021
• Unfortunately, some fans of the beauty products might need a little pixie dust and a lot of magic to get their hands on these goodies, as the new line is currently only available in Japan.
  — Lauren Rearick, Teen Vogue, 15 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024