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Our Readers' Best Farrah Fawcett 'Dos

Fine and feathered snapshots from the past.

Last week, we mourned the passing of Farrah Fawcett, and celebrated the legacy of her signature hairstyle. Dana and Hanna shared snapshots of their youthful attempts to replicate the Farrah wings, and asked you to do the same. And you did. Here is a photo gallery of our favorite of your Fawcett 'dos.

Farrah Fawcett Playboy Cover from 1978, Photo courtesy of Playboy/Online USA/Getty Images.

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By: lmmm | Fri, 07/03/2009 - 16:07

I just had to chime in. Where I grew up the feathered hair craze started with the ice skating queen, Dorthy Hamill. Her short and sassy feathered look was everywhere. I had curly hair and it was impossible to have feathered hair. It made for some awful junior high years. Farrah with her large messy layers really worked to my advantage.

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By: sugar_k | Thu, 07/02/2009 - 12:00

Most of these photos are of wings. They're sweet, but they're nothing like true feathered hair, which keeps moving back in waves from the forehead, meeting in a DA at the back. This hairstyle not only requires copious blowdrying and/or curling every morning, but has to be refreshed at regular intervals during the day with a wide-toothed comb, which is used to push the hair forward and then back against the palm, in vertical sections from the front of the head to the back. I wish I had a photo of Amy F, the white-trash queen of the middle school I attended for one scary year, to post here: hers was the apotheosis of feathered hair.

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