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Home • Hair

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde

We're all for classic cuts and colors, but every girl needs to go a little bit wild now and then! Need proof? From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.
By Essence · Updated October 28, 2020
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Wild Style: Katrina McCraney

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Channa Francis

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Keshia Evans

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Charlotte Haslem

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Whitney Mero

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Mrs. Lucas

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Latasha Jenkins

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Rita Logan

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Felise Matlock

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Ann P. Sheriff

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Adilah Abdul-Jabbar

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Elaine Hargrove

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Phyllis Walker

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Valerie Gordon

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Brit Cato

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Brit Cato

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Caran Menardy

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Ja’Shawn Cole

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Arhemia Fidai

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Penny Wren

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: (i am) isis

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Farrah Toussaint

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Christylin Brown

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Shayvonne White

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Nikimo Davis

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Nchimunya Wulf

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Barbara Dee

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Shay Campbell

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Regina Brack

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style: Kimberly Madera

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Parade-goer

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde
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Wild Style

From rainbow brite highlights to spiky, half-shaved mohawks, these real women are totally fabulous in the most avant-garde, out-of-the-box styles, ever.

Hair Gallery: Avant-Garde