Dolly Parton’s Most Dramatic & Memorable Hairstyles Through the Years

When you think about Dolly Parton, chances are you think of one of these things: her charity work, her legendary music, and of course, her iconic style. Ever since part and came on to the music scene, people were enamored with not only her larger-than-life personality, but her unapologetically magnetic, and vivacious style. And with any of Parton’s looks, you cannot talk about it without discussing her hair.

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Now, grown-up parting was often seen with teased-up bobs and pixie cuts, but her truly iconic big bouncy hair didn’t come until she started honing in on her look in the ’70s. She wrote in her memoir Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics that her appearances on The Porter Wagoner Show really started it all.

“I wear my high heels and my hair as high as I can get it. I always wore my hair all teased up. Whenever that style started, I was the first to get my hair all poofy,” she recalled. “Then, as soon as I could buy those hairpieces and wigs, I wanted them. For one thing, they were so handy. Plus, my hair would never do exactly what I wanted it to do. So the wigs became kind of my trademark.”

She added, “When I was on ‘The Porter Wagoner Show,’ we had makeup girls. They would do their basics, and then I would add on to that. I was always into makeup, but I never could stand anybody else’s version of me.”

Ahead of Parton’s 78th birthday on Jan 19, let’s take a look back at some of her most iconic hairstyles over the years. Below check out all of her show-stopping looks: