When Joyce Maynard recently decided on a boldly short haircut, she brought this photograph of Winona Ryder — torn from the pages of W’s June 2002 issue — with her to the stylist as inspiration. She discovered that he was responsible for the very hairdo in question, and she confidently put her head in his hands. Read about the “marked elevation in energy, optimism, ambition and confidence” Ms. Maynard felt once she’d shed her locks.
