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InStyle's editorial guidelines Updated on December 21, 2017 Pin Share Tweet Email Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images See how the actress's looks have changed through the years. 01 of 27 1955 John Swope//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images The fresh-faced Vassar student used her modeling wages to fund classes at the legendary Actors Studio. 02 of 27 1959 Everett Collection Bouncy waves and major makeup for the up-and-coming actress! Fonda described her first Warner Brothers studio makeover in her autobiography, My Life So Far: "I was horrified, dumbstruck. My lips had a new shape and my eyebrows were dark and enormous, like eagle's wings." 03 of 27 1960 Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Fonda was stunning in her screen debut, Tall Story, but the behind-the-scenes feedback wasn't as encouraging: "[The studio rep] suggested that after filming I might consider having my jaw broken and reset and my back teeth pulled to create a more chiseled look." 04 of 27 1962 Rex USA She went brunette to play the seductive Kitty Twist in Walk on the Wild Side and earned a Golden Globe for the role. 05 of 27 1963 Everett Collection After filming Sunday in New York, Fonda was introduced to director (and future husband) Roger Vadim in Paris, leading to a Bardot-inspired new look. 06 of 27 1963 Everett Collection Wigging out! Fonda sported a black flip for In the Cool of the Day. 07 of 27 1966 Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Living in France as a strawberry blonde. 08 of 27 1967 Everett Collection The Barefoot in the Park star wore her glossy mane pulled into a low ponytail-and prepped to play the ultra-sexy titular character in Barbarella. 09 of 27 1971 Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images An iconic new look (and soon an Oscar)! "I had my first real hair epiphany," Fonda wrote. "The men in my life liked it long and blond, and I had been a blonde for so long that I didn't even know what my own color actually was. I simply said to [N.Y.C. hairstylist] Paul McGregor, 'Do something,' and he did. It was the haircut that became famous in Klute, the shag, and he dyed my hair darker, like what it really was. I knew right away that I could do life differently with this hair." 10 of 27 1976 Phil Roach/Globe Photos The activist and mother of two (now married to politician Tom Hayden) made The Blue Bird-and wore her brunette strands in a grown-out shag. 11 of 27 1979 Everett Collection Loose waves and glossy lips for the China Syndrome-and a second Oscar for her role in Coming Home. 12 of 27 1982 Getty Images A busy beauty: In the early '80s Fonda produced 9 to 5, On Golden Pond and her trailblazing Workout video. 13 of 27 1984 Everett Collection After winning an Emmy playing a weather-beaten Appalachian folk artist in The Dollmaker, she rocked big hair and pure '80s glam for a publicity shot. 14 of 27 1990 Eugene Adebari/Rex USA Divorced from her second husband and dating media mogul Ted Turner, she worked a voluminous blowout at the Academy Awards. 15 of 27 1993 Lisa Rose/Globe Photos She wore a luxuriant waist-length faux braid to celebrate the Fonda family's induction into the Hollywood Entertainment Museum. 16 of 27 1993 Jim Smeal/WireImage Cowboy hat? Absolutely! Both she and husband Ted Turner won Golden Boots Awards for their work in westerns. 17 of 27 1994 Jim Smeal/WireImage The narrator of A Century of Women attended the N.Y.C. premiere with her layered locks worn loose. 18 of 27 2001 Andrea Renault/Globe Photos The actress/activist sported a new cut courtesy of super-stylist Sally Hershberger when she was honored with a Lincoln Center Gala Tribute. 19 of 27 2005 Gregg DeGuire/WireImage After a 16 year break from the big screen, a radiant Fonda returned to the red carpet for the premiere of Monster-In-Law. 20 of 27 2010 Matt Baron/BEImages Auburn locks and a few extra tweaks. "I thought it would be good to have something minimal done," she told People of her very public plastic surgeries. "I wanted to look less tired." 21 of 27 2011 George Pimentel/FilmMagic Back to blond and better than ever at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. 22 of 27 2012 Emiley Schweich/Everett Collection Once again, Fonda looked spectacular at a Golden Globes after-party. 23 of 27 2013 Jason Merritt/Getty Image Her layered cut provided body and movement at the 2013 Oscars. 24 of 27 2014 Steve Granitz/WireImage Shimmery shadow and glossy lips finished Fonda's look at the This Is Where I Leave You premiere in L.A. 25 of 27 2015 Amanda Edwards/WireImage Fonda was dressed to the nines while attending the 46th Anniversary Gala Vanguard Awards in Los Angeles where she was an honoree. 26 of 27 2016 Jason LaVeris/FilmMagic Fonda paired her signature blonde 'do with a silvery shadow and peachy lip. 27 of 27 2017 Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images The celebrated actress arrived at the premiere of Our Souls at Night with her blonde locks swept back, a pale pink lip, and bold liner brightening her face. 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