The shag haircut isn't exactly new. The choppy, layered hair look — typically styled with tons of texture — was popularised back in the 1970s, but it has since made a comeback this year on our favourite celebrities.
What you're seeing on seemingly every A-lister from Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez to Billie Eilish and Jennifer Lopez isn't what you'd see decades ago. The updated version of the shag is what hairstylist Devin Toth told POPSUGAR would be the coolest haircut trend of the year.
"The two popular shag styles will be ultra curly, ultra layered, and then straight with long curtain bangs that sweep," he said. "The curly shag is very round with a pure release of texture. It will be a seamless transition from bangs to short layers to long layers to bottom length. The straight shag can be styled however you want, but it generally has longer layers with the focus of the style being the bold curtain bangs — sweeping but not fully connected to the rest of the style."
See the celebrities wearing this year's most-wanted hairstyle ahead.