Designed by Aniston's hairstylist Chris McMillan to repair her damaged hair and grow out her bangs, "The Rachel" is a voluminous shoulder-length haircut, with several distinct layers that frame and turn outwards from its wearer's face. It has been described as a variation on both the shag and bob haircuts.
The 'Rachel haircut' is back in all its '90s glory. The voluminous shoulder-length style with long layers was popularised in the '90s after Jennifer Anniston's character Rachel Green in hit US TV show Friends.
Jennifer Aniston is still close friends with her hairstylist Chris McMillan, the person behind "The Rachel" Jennifer Aniston has never been one to shy away from discussing her true feelings about "The Rachel."
20-years on and the Rachel haircut is well and truly back in business. Over the last few years, the likes of Chrissy Teigen and Renée Zellweger have showcased bouncy, layered styles that undeniably paid homage to the Friends-born OG.
Karen: Symbol for Entitled White Women
The memes always feature a woman wearing the same short, angled, and layered haircut. Additional “Karen” haircut characteristics are having the hair in your back be shorter than the hair in your front and having harsh blonde highlights.
Heart Faces
“The 'Rachel' cut” from Friends is perfect for heart-shaped faces,” according to Hannappel. In addition to bangs, hairstyles with a middle part are flattering for the shape.
Similar to a mullet, the style features more body and volume at the crown of the head (the head of the octopus) and then longer, thinner, shag-like layers from the mid-shaft to ends (the tentacles). Though the octopus haircut is inspired by both the mullet and shag, it is neither.
Coined by Brook, the butterfly cut is a very layered, feathery haircut that's longest layers fall just below the shoulder. Shorter layers are cut around the crown of your head to create the illusion of having shorter strands. “The shortest top layer falls about two to three inches below your chin,” Brook says.
Her experience with extensions led to Rachel's bob, Aniston revealed to InStyle. "The real reason I cut my hair? My real hair was getting thinned out again from all the extensions," she explained of the chin-skimming chop. "It was starting to look fake."
Television actress Jennifer Aniston (1969–) sparked a worldwide style craze in 1995 when her distinctive shag hairstyle was copied by women everywhere.
The octopus haircut is one of the hottest hairstyle trends for 2022. The haircut is a reinvention of the iconic short to medium-length layered "Rachel" haircut that was popular in the '90s.
And what is old will always be new again, as the cute cut is back, but with an updated take for 2022. The bouncy, flippy “Rachel” haircut is now a bit more full and shaggy this year, and of course, some curtain bangs are a fun twist that make the chop feel a bit more modern.
The Rachel
Even though '90s-inspired haircuts are having a moment, if you have fine hair, Blake recommends avoiding haircuts like "the Rachel," which tend to have flicky layers through the lengths of the hair. "Fine hair just can't flick at the ends as easily, and so this haircut will just looked wilted," he says.
If you're wondering how the actor gets her hair so sleek and shiny, well, some of the credit has to go to her longtime hairstylist Chris McMillan, who she has worked with since the Friends days. However, Aniston has also been known to have keratin hair treatments to smooth frizz and boost shine.
Caucasian, Asian and Indian hair samples were put to the test for the World's Best Hair study. Their results put an end to any splitting of hairs over the issue: in terms of health, the Indian hair is the best, topping other ethnic groups on all four counts.
Classic layers can keep your hair looking on-trend and stylish, while also flattering the soft angles of round faces. "A medium-length, shaggy hair style accented with side bangs that hit at the cheekbones is a great look for a round face," says Nunzio Saviano, hairstylist and owner of Nunzio Saviano Salon.
Top La hairstylist, Sal Salcedo, reminded us just how phwoar the cut is with an outgrown, shaggier rendition, he called The Rachel 2.0, which featured collarbone-length strands complete with choppy jaw-length and face-framing layers.
It's anything shoulder length or shorter. There's the bob, the long bob (lob), the pixie, the Kate Gosselin, and several other styles. But the general consensus is, a mom haircut is a short, low maintenance style which moms adopt after they get sick of a perpetual messy bun.