Bieber, Aniston make long-awaited hair changes

There are websites dedicated to mocking his hair and she once sported a hairstyle as celebrated as the famed Farrah feathers. Both of them took a seat in their stylists' chairs last week and heard the snip snip of shears as their signature locks underwent Twitter-trending transformations.

The reviews have been mixed, but we commend Justin Bieber and Jennifer Aniston for knowing when to pull the plug on a hairstyle.

"Everyone needs to revamp their hair," says Elena Machin, master stylist at Square Salon and Spa. "If not, you get stuck in a rut. It's hard. For a lot of people, their hair is their safety blanket."

Even if others find the safety blanket obnoxious. Forget that Bieber's prepubescent features have had him incessantly likened to a tween girl. If New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady -- the NFL's MVP and husband to supermodel Gisele Bundchen -- is copying his look, he probably didn't let the girl comparisons get to him. Or maybe his loyalty to the comb-forward came from the millions of little girls willing to do hard time for the heartthrob.

Whether you loved it or hated it, Bieber's hair was just as famous as the pop star himself. One thing is certain, the hairstyle had "teenage phase" written all over it. Any cut that annoys the majority of over-25 Americans and requires good grades for a mother to permit it can probably be credited as such. That's why his new look is a sign the youngster is growing up. Or at least a sign he's transitioning into the "I want to look grown up" phase.

But, his fans have been about as receptive to the new look as they were to Selena Gomez. We're guessing it has something to do with the normalcy of his new hairstyle. It no longer looks like Bieber has a tornado following him and he can now easily be mistaken for an average 17-year-old kid. That is, if average 17-year-old kids weren't all sporting his old haircut.

Jennifer Aniston knows well the dilemma in which Bieber found himself. She, too, wore a hairstyle worthy of its own Hollywood star. It was called the Rachel cut, after her character on "Friends." The long shag with loads and loads of layers had women everywhere discovering round brushes aren't as easy as they look.

In a recent interview with "Allure" magazine, she insists the Rachel was "the ugliest cut" she's "ever seen." There are a few women who've only now mastered the round brush that would beg to differ, but the rest probably agree.

Just like Farrah Fawcett before her, Aniston became known as a hair icon after the Rachel. Now her hair is watched as closely as her run-ins with Brangelina. Before this recent change, she'd been wearing long layers since her hit show's farewell season. So, not only did she favor basic black on the red carpet, but her hair was stuck on repeat, too? Aniston's entire look became the embodiment of an Ambien prescription.

And then a long bob came along like a bucket of cold water. At last, something fresh, new and exciting.

"Her new look is simple, beautiful and clean," says Machin. "To people with long hair, cutting it seems so drastic, but it's really not."

Aniston's hairstylist, Chris McMillan, says he encouraged the movie star to chop her hair off to prevent his prize client from looking like a Real Housewife. His efforts were a little late, but when the Real Housewives are concerned, late is better than never.