1999—Soft Crop
1999 was a monumental year for Gwyneth Paltrow fans everywhere, because it was when most of us realized that she wasn’t actually British.
Accepting her Oscar for the mega-successful movie Shakespeare in Love, she shocked the world by speaking in her real, American accent, something not everyone had heard before.
Anyway, once we had recovered from that amazement, we were free to gaze upon her stunning short hairstyle—the soft crop, which became the most popular hairdo of that year. Lovely!
2000—Super Straight
And so we come to the end of our hairdo saga, stopping at the end of the millennium with one final, iconic look.And who better to represent that look than Aaliyah, the Princess of R&B. Aaliyah was a huge star since first appearing in the scene and she worked with mage popular producers Timbaland and Missy Elliott.
In 2000, she appeared in her first film, Romeo Must Die. That same year, her single “Try Again” topped the Billboard Hot 100 solely on airplay. Sadly, a year later she tragically died in an airplane accident in the Bahamas.Here she is rocking the signature look of the year 2000, the super straight style, at the red carpet of the MTV Music Awards. Now that’s what we call fierce!