Feathered Long

Feathered long is the 1970s Charlie's Angels cut — long layers angled away from the face so the front sections appear to feather backward like a bird's wing. Farrah Fawcett wore it most famously through 1976-77, and the shape has cycled through fashion every decade since. The technique uses point-cutting along the layers to create the soft, wisped edges instead of blunt lines.

It flatters oval and heart faces — the feathering moves volume away from the face, which works when bone structure can carry the openness. Wavy hair is the ideal texture because the natural movement matches the feathered shape; straight hair can fake it with a round-brush blow-dry; curly hair adapts to a softer variant.

Medium daily maintenance — the look depends on the blow-out. Use a round brush to dry the front sections away from the face, ten to twelve minutes. Trim every ten weeks. The feathered cut peaked in 1976-78 and has revived twice since (the 1990s 'Rachel'-adjacent variants and the 2022-23 butterfly layers, which is essentially feathered's modern descendant). Ask for 'long layers feathered away from the face' — describing it as 'Farrah Fawcett' to a stylist over thirty will land exactly right.