A hedcut is only as good as it is accurate. As business leaders transform their public personas-cutting their hair, growing beards, sporting a clean shave—artists at the Wall Street Journal must update their portraits. In many cases, artists work in conjunction with reporters to ensure that the pictorial representation of an individual is appropriate for the story being reported.

Viewing hedcuts from a decade and a half of the Journal provides glimpses of the recent past—an opportunity to revisit the public faces of several prominent business executives as their "look" has matured-or grown more youthful.

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Top to bottom:

• Paul Allen
• Martha Stewart
• Mike Milken
• Steve Jobs

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