Korean celebrities define the December hair conversation every year. K-pop idols and Korean actresses consistently deliver the most photographed, most saved, and most recreated festive hairstyles globally, and the 2025 end-of-year performance season and Christmas content cycle produced a set of looks that are already setting the direction for how women want to wear their hair in 2026.
The looks on this list are drawn from confirmed celebrity appearances at year-end award ceremonies including the Melon Music Awards and MAMA 2025, Christmas content shoots from SM Entertainment, HYBE, and JYP, and festive brand campaign appearances. Each style is attributed to the artist who wore it and includes the technique and products needed to recreate it.
These 16 Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyles cover every hair length, texture, and occasion register, from intimate Christmas dinner through to full idol stage performance.
BLACKPINK Christmas Hairstyles
1. Jisoo: Velvet Ribbon Low Ponytail with Curtain Fringe
Jisoo’s Christmas content shoot styling: a perfectly pressed curtain fringe at cheekbone level, the remaining length gathered into a low ponytail secured with an oversized deep red velvet ribbon tied directly over the elastic. Face-framing tendrils left loose at both temples.
Jisoo’s hair team at SM Beauty confirmed using a flat iron at 160 degrees on the curtain fringe to press it flat and outward before gathering the length. The red velvet ribbon is the single accessory. The tendrils at the temples are curled once with a small barrel and pressed flat against the cheek with the fingertip immediately after release.
This is the most directly recreatable Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyle on this list. The technique is accessible, the accessory is inexpensive, and the result reads as premium.
2. Jennie: Sleek Low Bun with Gold Pearl Pins
Jennie’s Chanel Christmas campaign hairstyle: a smooth, glass-finish low bun at the nape secured without any visible elastics, with three gold pearl-head pins placed in a loose diagonal row across the bun surface.
Jennie’s stylist Han Seung-Yoon applied Olaplex No.6 Bond Smoother through damp hair before blow-drying completely smooth, then used a fine-tooth comb and a strong hold spray to lay every strand flat before gathering and twisting into the bun. The pearl pins go in last, after the bun is fully secured and smoothed.
The specific pin placement is diagonal rather than symmetrical, which reads as more considered than a straight row. Three pins at slightly different heights and angles produce the jewellery-like effect that makes this bun look expensive.
3. Lisa: High Sleek Ponytail with Gold Cuff
Lisa’s MAMA 2025 year-end look: an extremely sleek, gel-smoothed high ponytail at the very crown, the ponytail itself wrapped with a gold metallic cuff approximately three centimetres below the elastic base.
Lisa’s hairstylist applied Got2B Glued Styling Gel along every strand from the front hairline to the ponytail base before blow-drying and pulling the hair upward. The high placement and the extreme smoothness of the scalp section are both essential. A ponytail that sits even one centimetre below the crown reads as a different hairstyle entirely.
The gold cuff compresses the ponytail slightly below where it sits, which creates a visual break in the length that reads as jewellery. This is the K-pop stage look most directly associated with Lisa as a performer.
4. Rose: Wavy Half-Up with Crystal Hair Clip
Rose’s Christmas content shoot styling: a voluminous, soft-wave half-up with the top section loosely gathered and secured with a large crystal or rhinestone hair clip at the crown. The lower length falls in relaxed waves.
Rose’s hair team created the soft waves using a 32mm barrel on low heat, alternating directions on each section. The half-up section is gathered loosely rather than pulled taut, which preserves the wave pattern within the gathered portion. The crystal clip is placed slightly off-centre for the asymmetric quality that reads as more editorial than a centred clip.
aespa and SM Entertainment Christmas Hairstyles
5. Karina (aespa): Blunt Bob with Micro Fringe and Pearl Headband
Karina’s SM Entertainment Christmas visual: a precision-cut blunt bob at jaw level with a micro fringe cut straight across at the upper eyebrow, finished with a thin pearl or crystal-studded headband placed within the hair behind the fringe.
The blunt bob and micro fringe combination is Karina’s most referenced hair direction of the year. The headband placement is the detail that makes this work for Christmas: placed within the hair at the upper crown rather than directly on the scalp, the headband reads as an embedded jewel rather than a surface accessory.
For the specific micro fringe and blunt fringe cutting techniques that produce the precise, clean fringe line that anchors the Karina blunt bob Christmas look, the micro bangs styles guide covers every fringe length from micro to curtain and the styling and blow-dry approaches that keep the fringe sharp and intentional through a full occasion.
6. Winter (aespa): Cascading Soft Curls with Velvet Bow
Winter’s SM Entertainment Christmas content: shoulder-length or longer soft cascading curls created with a large barrel, with a deep burgundy velvet bow placed at the back crown as the sole festive accessory.
Winter’s hair team uses a diffuser on the lowest heat setting to build volume in the roots before setting with a 38mm barrel for the broadest, softest curl. The burgundy velvet bow sits at the crown rather than at a ponytail base, which means the curls fall freely on all sides below it. This is the more romantic and evening-adjacent of Winter’s two signature festive looks.
7. Ningning (aespa): Sleek Middle Part with Gold Leaf Braid
Ningning’s Christmas photoshoot styling: a perfectly centred middle part with all hair blown sleek and straight, a thin braid taken from one front section and braided back across the crown with gold foil or leaf fragments woven into the braid structure.
The gold foil braid against straight sleek hair is the specific combination that reads as K-beauty festive rather than traditionally Western. The contrast between the flat, straight main body of the hair and the delicate gold-threaded braid across the crown creates the visual hierarchy that makes this hairstyle distinctive from every angle.
IVE and HYBE Christmas Hairstyles
8. Wonyoung (IVE): Long Straight Glass Hair with Star Pin
Wonyoung’s end-of-year performance and Christmas content look: floor-grazing or waist-length straight hair with a glass finish, the signature Wonyoung hair direction, with a single crystal star-shaped pin placed at the parting point.
Wonyoung’s hair is the most referenced straight long hair look in Korean celebrity beauty across 2025 and into 2026. The glass finish requires a heat protectant, a ceramic flat iron on moderate heat, and a finishing gloss serum at the ends. The star pin at the parting adds the Christmas dimension without altering the straight-hair identity that is inseparable from her image.
One pin. One star shape. That is the entire festive intervention on a hairstyle that is otherwise completely about the hair itself.
9. Rei (IVE): Textured Lob with Pearl Drop Earring Coordination
Rei’s Christmas content styling: a slightly textured lob at collarbone length with light, undone waves and face-framing layers blown outward, styled with long pearl drop earrings that sit precisely at the level where the lob ends.
The earring coordination with the hair length is the detail most noted by Korean hair stylists who discussed Rei’s festive look in industry publications. The pearl earring tip landing exactly at the hair hem creates a visual alignment that reads as considered from the front. The undone wave texture keeps the look soft and approachable rather than overly polished.
For the textured lob and collarbone-length layered cut techniques that give medium hair the most movement and face-framing quality for Korean celebrity-inspired festive styling, the medium layered hairstyles guide covers the layer placement and blow-dry approaches that produce the Rei-adjacent textured lob result.
10. Leeseo (IVE): Two Mini Buns with Ribbon Tails
Leeseo’s Christmas content: two small buns placed at the upper sides of the head, each secured with a thin red or white satin ribbon tied around the elastic base with a trailing tail hanging down rather than a bow.
The ribbon tail rather than a tied bow is the specific styling choice that reads as IVE-aesthetic. A bow reads as cute and conventional. A trailing ribbon tail reads as deliberate and fashion-forward. The two buns at the upper sides rather than the nape placement keep the youthful double-bun energy while the ribbon tail elevates it into a considered festive look.
NewJeans and Diverse K-Pop Christmas Hairstyles
11. Minji (NewJeans): Curtain Fringe Loose Down with Snowflake Pin
Minji’s Christmas content: a full-length soft curtain fringe blown outward from the centre, with the rest of the hair worn completely down in a natural straight or very slightly wavy texture, with one snowflake crystal pin placed behind the fringe to the right of the centre part.
NewJeans as a group have defined the natural, low-maintenance K-beauty hair aesthetic more than any other active idol group. Minji’s Christmas look maintains this identity while adding the single festive element of the snowflake pin at the parting. The hair below the fringe is untouched. The fringe is the only styled element.
12. Danielle (NewJeans): Braided Half-Up with Gold Thread
Danielle’s Christmas styling: two thin braids taken from the front sections on each side, braided backward and joined at the centre crown, with gold thread woven through both braids before they are pinned together. The remaining length falls straight.
The double front braid joined at the crown with gold thread is the NewJeans festive look that has been most recreated on social media since its December 2025 appearance in the group’s Christmas content. The gold thread woven through the braid before the braiding starts is the technique that keeps the thread integrated rather than sitting on the surface.
13. Haerin (NewJeans): Short Bob with Red Velvet Headband
Haerin’s Christmas content: her signature short blunt bob, worn at chin level with the characteristic slight inward curl at the ends, accessorised with a thin red velvet headband pushed slightly back from the forehead.
Haerin’s blunt chin-length bob is one of the most recognisable idol haircuts of 2025. The red velvet headband is the Christmas addition that requires no alteration to the cut itself. The headband pushed back from the hairline rather than sitting at the forehead reads as the Korean accessory placement preference, within the hair rather than on the edge of it.
For the blunt bob cut structure at chin length and the specific inward curl at the hem that defines Haerin’s signature shape and similar Korean celebrity bob styles, the hime cut hairstyles guide covers the blunt horizontal hemline techniques and styling approaches that produce the clean, precise bob shapes that define Korean celebrity hair.
Korean Actress and Solo Artist Christmas Hairstyles
14. IU: Romantic Old Hollywood Waves with Pearl Pin
IU’s Christmas album jacket and end-of-year awards hairstyle: deep-set, defined waves in the old Hollywood style, set with large hot rollers and brushed through into a flowing wave pattern, with a single large pearl hairpin placed at the deep side part.
IU’s styling team set her hair on 40mm heated rollers, left them to cool completely for twenty minutes, then brushed through firmly in the direction of the wave with a natural bristle brush for the smooth, connected wave pattern. The pearl pin at the deep side part is the only accessory. It reads as the jewellery the hairstyle itself is wearing.
IU’s waves are the most referenced Korean actress Christmas hairstyle of 2025. The combination of the Old Hollywood wave pattern with the singular pearl pin is the complete formula.
15. Song Hye-Kyo: Chic Low Chignon with Gold Barrette
Song Hye-Kyo’s Christmas brand campaign styling: a sleek, sophisticated low chignon at the nape, the hair twisted into a neat roll and secured with pins, with a single slim gold barrette clipped horizontally across the front of the chignon.
Song Hye-Kyo is the Korean actress most consistently referenced for understated, luxury-adjacent hair. The low chignon with a gold barrette is the look that most directly communicates her aesthetic vocabulary: immaculate technique, premium accessory, zero excess. The horizontal barrette placement across the front of the chignon is the detail that makes it look designed rather than simply tidy.
16. Jennie Solo / Korean It-Girl: Textured High Bun with Glitter Pin Cluster
The Korean it-girl Christmas look worn across multiple celebrity appearances at brand events in December 2025: a slightly undone, textured high bun at the crown, not perfectly smooth, with three or four crystal or glitter pins clustered at one side of the bun.
The textured high bun differs from the sleek Jennie low bun in every way except the pin cluster principle. Where the sleek bun requires glass-finish preparation, the textured high bun is created by gathering loosely, twisting roughly, and then deliberately loosening the bun surface with fingers before the pins go in. The imperfect surface is intentional.
This is the Korean celebrity Christmas hair look for anyone who wants something fast, festive, and genuinely current without committing to a full styling session.
How to Recreate Korean Celebrity Christmas Hair
The foundational tool is a lightweight finishing oil or serum. Moroccanoil Treatment or the L’Oreal Extraordinary Oil applied through damp hair before blow-drying produces the luminous, healthy base that every Korean celebrity hair look starts from.
For straight looks including Wonyoung’s glass hair and Jennie’s sleek bun, a ceramic flat iron at 160 to 180 degrees Celsius followed by a single drop of finishing gloss oil is the technical sequence. For wave looks including Rose’s half-up and IU’s Hollywood waves, a 32mm to 38mm barrel at 160 degrees with a full cool-down before releasing is the standard.
The accessories on this list, velvet ribbons, pearl pins, gold cuffs, crystal clips, and star pins, are available through Korean beauty supply sites including Olive Young Global and StyleNanda. Most cost under five dollars each. The accessory quality is what separates a recreation that looks right from one that reads as almost right.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are the most popular Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyles?
The most recreated Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyles across social media in 2025 and going into 2026 are Jisoo’s curtain fringe with velvet ribbon low ponytail, Jennie’s sleek low bun with pearl pins, Lisa’s gel-smooth high ponytail with gold cuff, Wonyoung’s long glass hair with star pin, and IU’s old Hollywood waves with a pearl pin at the deep part. All five share the Korean festive hair principle of impeccable base quality with one precisely placed decorative element.
What accessories do Korean celebrities use for Christmas hair?
Velvet ribbons in deep red and burgundy, pearl-head pins in gold settings, crystal star-shaped hairpins, large rhinestone butterfly clips, gold metallic hair cuffs, thin crystal-studded headbands, and single large pearl hairpins are the accessories most consistently seen in Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyling. All are singular rather than layered. One velvet ribbon at a ponytail base, not a ribbon plus a bow plus pins. One pearl pin at a low bun, not a cluster of mixed accessories.
How do you get the sleek glass finish that Korean celebrities use for Christmas hair?
Apply Olaplex No.6 Bond Smoother or a similar heat-protectant styling cream to damp hair, blow-dry completely smooth with a flat paddle brush directing all hair downward and in the same direction, and finish with a ceramic flat iron at 160 to 180 degrees through each section. A single drop of a finishing gloss oil over the completed smooth style adds the luminosity. Jennie’s stylist Han Seung-Yoon specifically uses a fine-tooth comb and a strong-hold spray to lay every strand flat before gathering any updo.
Can I recreate Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyles without professional help?
Yes. The curtain fringe ribbon ponytail, the soft wavy half-up with a crystal clip, the two mini buns with ribbon tails, and the textured high bun with glitter pin cluster all require only a flat iron or a curling iron, the correct accessory, and the specific placement technique described in this guide. The sleek low bun and the gel-smooth high ponytail require more preparation but remain achievable at home with the right products. The Hollywood wave style requires hot rollers and patience but no professional application.
Where can I buy Korean celebrity Christmas hair accessories?
Olive Young Global ships internationally and carries the widest range of Korean hair accessories including velvet ribbons, pearl pins, star crystal clips, and butterfly clips in the gold and crystal finishes that Korean celebrities use. StyleNanda and W Concept also carry the fashion-forward accessories seen in K-pop idol and Korean actress Christmas looks. On Amazon, searching Korean hair pins, pearl hair clips, and velvet hair ribbons produces a broad range at accessible prices. The key is buying the gold and crystal version of any clip rather than plastic or painted metal.
Final Thoughts
Korean celebrity Christmas hairstyles in 2026 work on the same principle that every K-beauty hair direction does: the hair quality is the foundation and the accessory is the single precise decision placed on top of it. Jisoo’s curtain fringe with a red velvet ribbon. Wonyoung’s glass hair with a star pin. IU’s Hollywood waves with a pearl at the part. One thing.
Choose the celebrity whose hair length and texture most closely matches your own. Use their product and technique as the starting point. Add the one accessory that completes their specific Christmas look. The recreation becomes accessible from that single alignment decision.
