The Whoville project began 12 years ago when cosmetology teachers showed the movie to students. They turned it into a lesson, requiring students to create Whoville-inspired hairstyles.

A Christmas gift box themed hairstyle is seen for the 13th Annual Whoville Hairdo event at the Carroll County Career and Tech Center. (Brian Krista/Staff) Senior Monica Mata adds hair spray to her ...

Sabrina Carpenter's holiday hairstyle would be right at home in Whoville.. For the premiere of her new Netflix holiday ...

It's giving Whoville-meets-classic 80s perm. That said, as Gaga has previously proven with her otherworldy hair transformations, this look would have been achieved via a wig.

Lady Gaga Is in on the Cindy Lou Who Hair Trend—See Her Whoville Transformation Here. Story by Christina Perrier ... as she rocked two other hair styles in the show's Christmas special.

So when she dressed for the futuristic-fashion-themed 2016 Met Gala, she didn't have a low-key hairstyle. Nyong'o seemed to channel the stylings of Whoville (the fictional Dr. Seussian town) with ...

Many media mavens said her towering coiffure was a nod to Dr. Seuss' hair-raising town. Nope. It was inspired by the stylings of Africa.

Some of these styles can be seen in the late Nigerian photographer J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere's anthology of nearly 1,000 Nigerian women's hairstyles: elegant, braided, complex, architectural masterpieces.