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hairy situations
December 28, 2016

Remembering Carrie Fisher’s Best Star Wars Hair

By Kathleen Hou

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Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images

Buns are what you eat for breakfast, preferably with icing — unless you’re Carrie Fisher. Her iconic Princess Leia hair was one of the many things that made the late actress legendary.

Ironically, Fisher famously “loathed” the Leia hairstyle, which purportedly took up to two hours each day to construct and always made her hot. Her mother, Debbie Reynolds, once even jokingly cautioned her against roles that require “weird hairdos.” She affectionately called them the “hairy earphones” and a “hair don’t,” claiming they widened her face. “The buns are tired now,” she teased fans who asked whether they’d see a futuristic take on the hairstyle in the new movies.

Rest in peace, buns and Fisher. Click through the slideshow below for more of her famous hair looks from the Star Wars franchise, all of which existed before Pinterest was even a thing.

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Armed and dangerous. Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Doing braided updos years before Pinterest was even invented. Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Even though everyone refers to Princess Leia's hair as bagels or buns, the hairstyle was actually inspired by "a kind of Southwestern Pancho Vill... Even though everyone refers to Princess Leia's hair as bagels or buns, the hairstyle was actually inspired by "a kind of Southwestern Pancho Villa woman revolutionary look" and took over 30 tries to perfect. She still hated them.  Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
She's enslaved by Jabba the Hutt and by this cumbersome chain braid.  Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
An "active" hairstyle for the woods that retires the buns.  Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
This variation on the braid is a little sweeter. Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
But still dangerous.  Photo: Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
This braided updo is less intergalactic music festival, more regal. Photo: ©Lucasfilm Ltd./Courtesy Everet/©Lucasfilm Ltd./courtesy Everet
What princess hair looks like on the forest moon of Endor. Photo: ©Lucasfilm Ltd./Courtesy Everet/©Lucasfilm Ltd./courtesy Everet
A grown-up General Organa with a hairstyle to match.
Consistent to the end, Carrie Fisher called this hairstyle from The Force Awakens "the babboon asses."
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