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.
Step 1: Use a Volumizing Shampoo
"It's key to make sure your hair is light and fluffy—oil can weigh your hair down so avoid leaving your hair too long between washes. Using a volumizing shampoo in the shower will be your best bet."
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."
“The original Rachel was so iconic because it was the mid '90s and we'd just come out of this period of grunge; people were getting bored of this no-hair hair and no make-up make-up,” says hairstylist Luke Hersheson. “When Rachel Green appeared she was the opposite to all of that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To pineapple, gather hair into a high ponytail and slip a scrunchie over the base, just enough so it loosely holds hair without creating tension. Half of your curls should fall to one side and half to the other, resembling the shape of a pineapple.
If you aren't familiar, a doobie is created by wrapping your hair around your head in a circular pattern, then securing it with bobby pins. The purpose of this is to keep your hair bouncy and neat following a wash and set. Most women, like myself, still use the method as a protective style after a blowout.
A finger wave is a method of setting hair into waves (curls) that was popular in the 1920s and early 1930s and again in the late 1990s in North America and Europe. Silver screen actresses such as Josephine Baker and Esther Philips are credited with the original popularity of finger waves.
The jellyfish haircut sports disconnected layers that resemble a short bob with longer layers underneath. If the name is any giveaway, it truly resembles the round body and longer, billowy tentacles of a jellyfish.
As celebrity and editorial hairstylist Neil Moodie explains: “A wolf haircut is a mix of the shag haircut and a mullet, but generally created on longer hair. It has shorter choppy layers on the top and longer choppy layers around the sides and back.”
Meet the ponytail method, also known as "The Unicorn Cut." This DIY haircut method that's been blowing up on YouTube has people tying their hair into an extremely high ponytail that looks like a unicorn horn and giving themselves a refreshed haircut with a single snip.
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.
Asking for a “warm golden barley or vanilla blonde” would recreate a similar shade to Aniston says Seeley, but using the right wording and phrases will get you a similar tone, but one that suits your own skin tone.
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Rachel's hair is noticeably longer than it was in the previous episode: Jennifer Aniston clearly has hair extensions in due to the fact that she was shooting Rock Star (2001) at this time, a movie based in the 1980s, which required her to have long hair.