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 Bridget Jones's Baby, 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."