Transformation

"I'm not a look-at-me girl," Renee Zellweger once told InStyle. We hate to argue with an Oscar winner, but it's pretty hard not to stare at the Texas-born beauty with her retro-inspired hair and flawless makeup. "She has a subtle glamour few share," hairstylist Louis Angelo has said of his client. Since her breakout role in Jerry Maguire, Zellweger gone from all-American blonde to sultry brunette to edgy mop top. Soon to star in My Own Love Song, the actress has been faking length by pinning her bob into tricky updos. Worth a look? We'd say a double take.

"I'll give you three hints: eighties, curling iron, hairspray," the Katy, Texas native has said of her high school 'do. "I defied Mother Nature and all her humidity with every ounce of tenacity and hairspray I had."