Zodiac Hairstyles: What Cut and Color Best Fit Your Sign?

Libra Scorpio Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces

Whether you’re an astrology enthusiast or just curious about your sign, you’ve no doubt looked up your zodiac traits to see how well they fit you. But have you ever considered what haircut or color suits you based on your zodiac sign?

The results may (or may not) surprise you!

The Hair In Astrology: More Than Meets the Eye

But a hairstyle is a hairstyle, right?

Hmmm… not quite.

Any of us at Alkali could write a book about just that one question for obvious reasons (but I'll try to stay focused on the task at hand).

Here’s the thing.

When you have a great haircut and color it feels AMAZING. Times that by 100 when it’s a cut and color that truly fits your face shape and skin tone. It only stands to reason, then, that a hairstyle that aligns with your zodiac sign could be downright … astronomical.💫

Haircut and Color Match Made In the Stars: Are You Wearing the Right Hairstyle for Your Zodiac Sign?

Our stylists have seen a lot of clients over the years, most of which are long-time, repeat clients. And because many of our stylists are astrology nerds (and just damn good at their jobs), they’re great at matching hair with personalities.

Methodology for this blog:

Astrology research, common Sun sign information, and collaboration with Alkali owner and beauty educator Amber Woodall for deeper, expert hair insights.

Now for the moment of truth—find your Zodiac hair!

Aries | Mar 21-Apr 19 Fire Sign

Hey there, Aries, you fiery Ram you. Your bold and competitive personality means you dislike routine. You need a fun and flexible look to keep things interesting and exciting.

Best Haircut for Aries: Short Pixie

The key to this look is that it’s cut on a bias. This gives you the ultimate flexibility to style it differently to match your impulsive decisions.

But, but… I like my hair long, you say.

That may very well be, and that’s fine. I’m sure it looks beautiful on you (especially if we cut it😉).

But have you ever tried a pixie? Don’t tell us you are too afraid to try, Aries.

Pixie cut in a light shade of red by Alkali

Best Hair Color for Aries: Panels of Colors AKA Color Blocking Techniques

Since your power color is red, you can’t go wrong with shades of red, yellow, orange, or pink because it matches your fiery personality and energy. But really, it’s about color boldness, so shades are flexible. You might want to shy away from blue, though, as it’s considered an unlucky color for Aries.

Best Products for the Aries Look

To style your zodiac haircut, all you need is Oribe Flash Form Finishing Wax and Oribe’s Swept Up Volume Powder Spray. Davines’s Alchemic Tinted conditioner will help you maintain your bold color. If you’re an all-natural Aries, go for Oribe’s Signature Shampoo and Conditioner. It'll keep your hair healthy, soft, and shiny.

Alkali Aries:

Nina Nguyen
Danielle Palm

Taurus | Apr 20-May 20 | Earth Sign

Ah Taurus, the dependable but stubborn bull. In light of your determined, hardworking, and perfectionist ways, paired with your love of luxury and comfort, we know the style just for you!

22-24 “ Hand Tied Hair extensions by Ani Cela at Alkali

Best Haircut for Taurus: Mid to Long Locks or Long Hair Extensions

Why this look? Oh, come on, Taurus. You know you want to look like a million bucks but aren’t willing to put much time into it. And because you enjoy pampering yourself with a weekly blowout or for a night on the town, but also like to lay low and still look fabulous, this style is a no-brainer.

Best Hair Color for Taurus: Rich, Vibrant Shades

Because you tend to enjoy the finer things in life, you crave hair color that’s worthy of making the cover of Vogue. It needs to be rich and shiny, and it absolutely must attract attention.

Admit it, my bullish friend, you love it when someone asks who your colorist is.

This makes vibrant reds, rich chocolate browns, and bright blondes with a youthful, golden reflection a perfect choice for you.

Best Products for the Taurus Look

Oribe’s Supershine shampoo, conditioner, and styling products are a must-have for the Taurus. This line will keep your locks super lustrous. Most importantly, it’ll give your hair an extravagant look that screams: Damn straight I’m high class, baby.

Alkali Tauruses:

Wren Woodall
Becca Sizemore

Gemini | May 21-Jun 21 | Air Sign

Gemini, the socialite of all the zodiacs. Because of the Cosmic Twin in you, you need a look that’ll spotlight your high intelligence while showcasing your fun, energetic style. We got you!

Best Haircut for Gemini: Mullet or Shag

A mullet? Yes! A fashionable one, of course. And here’s why. It’s spectacular for displaying your “dual personality” as the structure in the front makes you look super intelligent while the back highlights your fun side. If a mullet is just too extreme for your tastes, you can achieve a similar look with a shag cut.

Best Hair Color for Gemini: Split Dye

Like the mullet, a split dye will showcase the twins in you and speak to your natural expressiveness. If a split dye is a little too dramatic, go with a golden blonde. It’ll make you feel the most powerful and confident. Stay with warm colors and avoid cool colors for comfort.

Best Products for the Gemini Look

Since you like to mix it up, keep people guessing, and be the life of the party, you need products that are high-performing, yet playful. That’s where Oribe’s Alchemy Heatless styling balm comes in. It’s perfect for styling mullets or straight and curly shags. It also lets you set your hair wet and let it air dry.

And since you love educating others, you can explain how this balm has fermented Yerba mate extract and what it does to the hair. We won’t spoil it here, because we know you want to do it, don’t you Gemini?

Alkali Geminis:

Kascondra Hushbeck
Courtney Mercer
Alec Maruki

Cancer | Jun 22-Jul 22 | Water Sign

Hey there Cancer, our sensitive yet brave crab. You need a style that speaks to your hot and cold nature, tenacity, and creativity. We know a style that’s calling your sign!

Cancer zodiac haircut and color by Alkali

Best Haircut for Cancer: Soft Mid-Length and Fringe

Cancers will look and feel best when rocking a soft mid-length haircut with playful fringe. Add a flirty swoosh of soft layers to comfortably draw people in without bringing too much attention to yourself. This style fits your want-to-be-wanted and slightly romantic vibe.

Best Hair Color for Cancer: Beautiful Brunette Shades

A brunette shade like mushroom brown, mocha, or espresso formulated with a beautiful clash of warm and cool tones will feel best to your hot/cold nature. Careful not to lean too light though. If you’re thinking of going blonde, you’ll want to stick with cozier shades.

Best Products for the Cancer Look

A color-protectant shampoo and conditioner is vital to balancing the delicate line between warm and cool colors. Oribe’s Beautiful Color or Davines’s Alchemic shampoo in Tobacco will do the trick.

Alkali Cancers:

None yet!

Leo | Jul 23-Aug 22 | Fire Sign

Leo the lion, let us hear you roar! You need a polished mane that makes you stand out in a crowd and highlights your larger-than-life personality and creative impulses.

Best Haircut for Leo: Classic French Bob

A precise French bob will make you look as regal as the lion you are! The key to making this style work best for you is the bluntness of the cut, so be sure you avoid getting a lot of layers. This will give you the sophisticated, luxurious, yet eye-catching style you crave.

Best Hair Color for Leos: Dimensional Reds

Nothing will make a Leo stand out more than red, but a dimensional red will feel best. If your skin tone allows, go for copper as it’ll really pop and turn some heads!

Best Products for the Leo Look

To keep your vibrant and show-stopping shade, color protection is a must. Along with Oribe’s Beautiful Color Shampoo and Condition, Invisible Defense Universal Protection Spray will protect your color from heat and UV rays, add moisture, and prevent frizz. For styling, use Oribe’s Royal Blowout, as it’ll ensure a sleek look to your blowout with plenty of holding power.

Alkali Leos:

Charity D'avi
Maxine Williams

Virgo | Aug 23-Sept 22 | Earth Sign

Ah, Virgo the sophisticated fixer. Because you tend to be a perfectionist that's inspired by beauty, yet overthinks every detail, you need a style that's both precise and striking.

Best Haircut for Virgo: Baroque Bob

Precision is the key to any haircut a Virgo chooses, but the Baroque bob will look and feel best. This is especially true when paired with a delicate 90s blowout that complements your face shape. It gives you an air of sophistication that’ll capture just enough attention to make you feel amazing, but won't put you “center stage.” That way you can still stay in your comfort zone.

Best Hair Color for Virgo: Cool-toned Blonde or Brunette

Sorry, Virgo, but red is not your friend. You need a color that fits your practical, down-to-earth nature but still looks stunning, such as a highly sophisticated enhancement of your natural shade. Is it colored or were you born with it? This could be blonde or brunette, depending on your skin tone. If you’re into fashion shades, stick with blues and purples for a good balance between sensible and head-turning.

Best Products for the Virgo Look

As a Virgo, you love your hair to look healthy, shiny, and professionally done. To achieve this, you can’t go wrong with Oribe's Brilliance and Shine shampoo and conditioner or for the virgo blonde, Back of Bottle's True Hue shampoo and conditioner.

To style your Baroque bob, use Oribe’s Gel Serum. Just like you, it’s practical and can accomplish many things! It provides humidity defense, a strong amount of hold, and glitter for a magical blowout.

Alkali Virgos:

Mary Lea Dominick
Amber Woodall

Libra | Sept 23-Oct 23 | Air Sign

Hey there, Libra, our fair and peace-loving social butterfly. Because of your indecisiveness and tendency to go with the flow and mirror others, you need a style that can be molded to fit the moment.

Best Haircut for Libra: Long Layers With Curtain Bangs

As a Libra, you can’t go wrong with a long layered cut and curtain bangs, as it can be easily styled for different occasions. But your best bet is to let your stylist guide your decision. Answer their questions truthfully and you’ll get a haircut conducive to your lifestyle and personality.

Best Hair Color for Libra: Multi-Dimensional Color

Since others tend to inspire you, trendy colors are your best friend. A fun color for you would be a light brown or blonde with pink undertones. It’s all the rage right now and since it’s not a single color, it helps curb your indecisiveness. In other words, you won’t have to make a pros and cons list for this one, Libra.

Best Products for the Libra Look

Use Oribe’s Serene Scalp shampoo and conditioner to complement your harmonious side. It will keep your hair beautiful and healthy and ensure your scalp’s PH is in perfect balance.

Alkali Libras:

None yet!

Scorpio | Oct 24-Nov 21 | Water Sign

Scorpio, the bold, determined, and mysterious scorpion. Since you like pushing boundaries and there's not a challenge you won't back down from when you set your mind to it, we have a great hair match for you.

Best Haircut for Scorpio: Disconnected Layers

Why a disconnected haircut? Because it looks edgy and modern and speaks to your unpredictable nature. You can also go long or short with this type of cut, so you can choose which best fits your face shape.

Best Color for Scorpio: Deep, Dark Colors

Since you love being dark, mysterious, and striking, you should go with as dark a color as your skin tone will allow. Deep violet or dark red undertones would be excellent choices for your style and energy.

Best Product for the Scorpio Look

Orible’s Supershine Prep will keep your dark moody locks shiny and hydrated while Cleansing Cream will ensure it doesn’t fade. To style your disconnected haircut, use Oribe’s Rock Hard Gel. It basically lets you boss your hair around and ensures once you’ve got it the way you want, it’s not going anywhere—all while retaining your hair’s softness.

Alkali Scorpios:

Heather Martinez
Lydia Clendenin

Sagittarius | Nov 22-Dec 21 | Fire Sign

Sagittarius, the playful archer. Always looking for a laugh and something new, you need a hairstyle that speaks to your grand sense of humor, adventurous spirit, and strong sense of self.

Best Haircut for Sagittarius: Layered French Bob

A layered French bob gives you plenty of freedom to play with your hair’s natural texture or curls. It also gives you the flexibility you crave as it can be styled in various ways. Perfect for your frequent desire for change, amirite, Sagittarius?

Best Hair Color for Sagittarius

While the French bob speaks to your need for freedom and flexibility, you can let your hair color speak to your adventurous spirit. As a Sagittarius, you’re a prime candidate for fashion shades and pastels or blonde with strawberry or pink undertones.

Best Products for the Sagittarius Look

To keep your colorful shades vibrant, you can’t go wrong with Oribe’s Beautiful Color line. There’s a reason we recommend it so much!

For styling, you’ll love Dry Texturizing Spray as it speaks to your playful side. Use it to build volume, get instant texture, and hold. And the best part is, it’s, very forgiving as long as you don’t overuse it, so you can play with it until you get your hair just right.

Alkali Sagittariuses:

Julie Perrott
Brittney Shanks
Krista Crafton

Capricorn | Dec 22-Jan 19 | Earth Sign

Hello Capricorn, you serious sea goat. Because you’re all about responsibility, tradition, and craftsmanship, you need a style that’s practical and down-to-earth, yet one that you can dress up to match your ambition for climbing the ladder or show your softer side when needed.

Best Haircut for Capricorn: Long and Layered

Long, layered hair is a Capricorn’s best bet. You can style it to look practical, professional, striking, or to show off your romantic side. It’s super flexible, yet still has the structure you need.

Best Hair Color for Capricorn: Deep Brunette Shades

When it comes to color, you should stick with cool tones that make you feel grounded. You can’t go wrong with deep brunettes, especially mushroom brown. Red is best avoided. It can distract from your true qualities, cause you to fly under the radar, and even make you feel restless.

Best Products for the Capricorn Look

To keep your brunette shades vibrant, go for Davines Alchemic Tobacco conditioner. Style with your favorite Oribe or Davines products depending on the look you’re trying to achieve that day.

Alkali Capricorns:

Colleen Goss

Aquarius | Jan 20-Feb 18 | Air Sign

Aquarius, the eclectic, deep-thinking water bearer. You need a style that matches your creativity, uniqueness, and desire for personal freedom.

Best Haircut for Aquarius: Shag

The haircut that’d fit you best is a shag. While trendy, it’s still relatively uncommon, which fits your fondness for obscurity. It’s not about just the cut itself, though. You love esoteric references and wouldn't be caught dead using popular lingo like butterfly or wolf cut.

Instead, you’ll ask for a Steve Nicks cut, but won’t stop there. You’ll take it all the way to “Buckingham Nicks Era” and must have a stylist who can keep up! And that’s why we love you, Aquarius.

Best Hair Color for Aquarius: Ash Blonde

Since your power color is light blue, you’ll feel incredible as an ash blonde, if your skin tone allows. That said, you Aquariuses are known for being rule-breakers, so no shade is really off-limits for you.

Best Products for the Aquarius Look

To rock your Buckingham Nicks Era shag, you need Oribe Foundation Mist for prep and Matte Waves to style. Use Oribe’s Flash Form or Davines’s It’s a Dry Wax for a flawless finish.

Alkali Aquariuses:

Antigona Cela
Yadira Dorantes
Melanie Zebron

Pisces | Feb 19-Mar 20 | Water Sign

Ah, Pisces, the dreamy, intuitive, and sensitive fish. You need a hairstyle that matches your creativity and reflects your ability to adapt to different people and environments.

Best Haircut for Pisces: Butterfly Cut

Because you like flow and expressing yourself creatively, a butterfly cut with flowing layers will feel and look best on you. This cut speaks to your flexibility and romantic side, it’s easy to style, and its natural texture and movement lets you go with the flow.

Best Hair Color for Pisces: Balayage

A warm, rich brown, golden blonde, or copper balayage is perfect for Pisces. This look showcases your imagination without being too over-the-top. But the most appealing part—balayages are low maintenance. It’s not that you’re actually lazy, you just have other priorities, like daydreaming.

Ain’t that right, Pisces?

For Pisces who love bolder looks, seafoam green or a sea blue are fitting for the daydreaming fish.

Best Products for the Pisces Look

Oribe’s Crème for Style is perfect for styling your zodiac haircut, as it provides hold but has soft memory movement. A great color protection shampoo and a color depositing conditioner like Davines Alchemic is a must-have. As a Pisces, you want your hair color to last as long as possible. This way, you don't have to leave your haven of solitude too frequently.

Alkali Pisces:

Ashley King
Heather Oliver

Zodiac Sign Hairstyles

Of course, there’s always an exception to the rule. You may find the styles you like most are the opposite of what’s in this blog. Maybe you don’t believe in astrology and zodiac signs at all.

And that’s okay.

This is meant to be fun and inspiring, not a strict must-do for your “do.” But we absolutely believe you’ll look and feel good wearing these cuts and colors when tailored to your specific face shape and skin tone. So if you want a change, why not aim for the stars?

Book Your Zodiac Look

If you love astrology and want to base your hairstyle on your zodiac sign, we recommend these stylists. They’re probably as big (or bigger) astrology fans as you are!