Chris Maynard is obsessed with feathers. The artist, based in Olympia, Wash., thinks feathers show “life’s perfection,” in the way that they overlap and contour to a bird’s body.

The best way to do that is with this step cut. The layers, which produce the feather impression and curve out at the ends while still looking crisp, look great on shoulder-length hair. Soft and ...

Bass: Another area is the use of feathers as a medium to make representational art and abstract art. The cutting of feathers into different shapes to make compositions. During our visit to the Yale ...

She started cutting with her razor ... She smiled and recommended a cheap feather styling razor, assuring me that I could achieve similar results myself. A few weeks later, it was time for ...

The feather is an extraordinary biological invention ... Imagine gluing a bundle of matches together and cutting them cross-ways. You could see the fibres that make up the component matches ...