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Get ready to make room for a new crop of tress trendsetters who are breaking rules, pushing the style envelope, and setting a new hair standard.
Whether it’s Solange with her funky, retro braids, or Rihanna with her parade of fire-engine-red styles, these seventeen starlets are the ones to watch.