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Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Tutorial
In this tutorial, Russell Mayes Director of Content for Jatai, demonstrates how to create Kourtney Kardashian long hair. She wore this style before she cut it into her more popular bob shape.
Kourtney Kardashian has had many hair looks over the years. From short hair to long, blonde to dark, blunt cut to soft cut, styled ponytails and more, Kourtney has shown she is a fashionista. But you won't usually see Kourtney Kardashian bangs.
Just take quick look at her Instagram profile @kourtneykardash and you'll see many posts with different hair styling. Kardashian hair, whether it be Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian or the Jenner sisters, is always thick and healthy. Hair care is an important part of being able to carry different looks.
Watch this tutorial and learn how to create Kourtney Kardashian's long hair look and follow along with the transcript.
Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Tutorial:
Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a study on Kourtney Kardashian's hair before she cut it off into a bob. So we're going to get the texture right. We're going to get the lengths right. We're going to get the styles right. So let's get started.
Now the thing with Kourtney Kardashian's hair is she's got a lot of hair. It's very thick and the thing that's remained constant through all of her hairstyles or through the majority of them is that the root of it has always been very very solid and full and thick.
And the ends of it have been very airy and wispy and light. So that's what we're going to focus on today is how to maintain a very solid shape from the center half up and then maintaining a very light airy shape on the bottom.
Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair - Razoring the Bottom
So I'm going to go through and use my Feather Styling Razor to create that effect. I'm going to take a natural or center part. Now with this haircut it's going to focus mostly on the texture of it and less on the overall style and shape of the haircut.
So we got our first section of the nape, occipital to the mastoid. This just gives us our baseline that we can build our length and shape off of. So I'm going to start right in the middle.
So instead of going through and cutting a baseline and then trying to texturize it, I'm going to do everything at the same time. So I figure I want to go about right here and I want to start maybe not quite halfway but certainly fairly deep in and then start channel cutting that all the way down to the tip of my fingers.
So we're going to start and just real gently go through and take a nice wispy angle and I'm not moving my left hand at all. I'm keeping that the same so that way I know that is going to be my length overall and then putting that texture in just the bottom is going to make each of these little pieces here separate.
I'll take a small little piece as my guide, comb this straight down. There's my guide right there. So I'm going to plant my fingers and now go through and cut me a nice little soft wisp.
I want to try to be consistent with the thickness of my wisps that I'm cutting and the angles that I'm doing but there's obviously going to be some variation to that and that's okay.
We're going to continue on the other side. Comb this straight down, plant my fingers right where my guide is and then once I get to my fingertips there that's going to be my length. I'll cut that off. Right through there. Right through there. Parallel to the previously cut section.
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Alright, so I've got my next section here and I want to be conscious of the hair that I've cut before my previously cut section. I don't want to go through and re-thin that every time because I'm doing a channel cut and there's a possibility that I can cut that again.
So what I'll do is I'll remove that out of my hand. I'll take the next section comb it down. There's my previously cut section. So now I have where the guide was but it's not in my hand and I can get close enough to the overall length and then go through and do the exact same methodology that I was doing before with this really really deep channel.
So now when I combine those together I still have a nice soft texture and I don't re-thin the previously cut section. I have my next section. Let's go through and remove the previously cut section.
There is my guide from underneath. Comb this straight down without picking up the hair from underneath just using that as a visual guide and then going through and doing my deep channel to cut my length and to cut my texture at the same time.
Same thing on the other side. I want to remove the previously cut hair, comb my neck section down. There's my guide length.
Then go through with my deep channel. Vary it up a little bit according to the thickness of the hair. If the hair is really thick I may take the channel a little bit deeper. If it's thinner maybe a little bit less.
Take my next section, hold that straight down. Then with my Feather Styling Razor, deep channel cut all the way to the perimeter length. Now as I come into the side since I don't have any previously cut hair underneath I'll take a small piece from the back as my length guide, comb that straight down.
There's my length from the back. Then we'll go through channel that through and down, down and through. Perfect. Same thing on the other side. Okay so here is my last section on the left side. We'll pin that out of the way there.
Comb everything down and through. Try not to pick up any of my previously cut hair. There's my guide length.
Not a whole lot of hair here to cut but I still want to maintain the same sort of texture. So even though I'm not cutting a lot of hair off right through here, here I am but through there I'm not cutting a lot of hair off. I still want to maintain the same sort of textures so that everything flows together evenly.
There's my length. This is probably the most solid section of the whole haircut that she has. So let's go through. Oops! I cut a little bit too much off there but that's okay. That's okay.
There we go. Perfect. Now that we've got our perimeter shape done, I want to go through and lighten a little bit of layering just around the front to help it get out of her face a little bit.
Face Framing Layers
So we're going to go through and take a section from the first bump of the head to the high point of the ear. Same thing on the other side here. Alright. So I have everything that has the tendency to fall in her face and I'm going to start right in the middle.
So I'm not trying to cut this too short. I want to go through and keep this fairly long, but I just want to start to put an etching in to help get this back out of the face. So I'll start right in the middle, work to the right, right in the middle and work to the left.
So this is going to be my shortest layer for both sides. So now I'll take this right side, comb everything straight down. There's my guide length. So now we're going to go through and real gently, evenly with care and love and sweetness and tenderness cut that all the way down.
So I'm cutting a real steep angle going down. I'll take the hair behind it, comb all of that straight down. There might be a little bit that hangs over right here on the bottom.
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And that's basically the only part of layering that I'm going to put in this section. Now we'll take our section on the other side and do the same thing. Now you notice I cut the top down.
So I'm going to cut top down on this side. There's my line. There's my guide and then I'll go through and gently tenderly with intent cut that down to my guide length down here at the very perimeter.
And so I know since I'm starting at the same point and I'm going to the same point I can get my angles pretty close to being the same.
Comb everything else down. See if anything hangs over. We got a little bit right there. That's looking pretty good. I don't like that one but that looks pretty good and I think we got the basic shape built in.
Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Final Look
So now let's go through and blow dry and see what we got. Here's our end result. I think we're looking very reminiscent of when Kourtney had her long hair and the whole point of it is to keep these ends really nice and airy and soft so that when you curl it, it has a little bit of separation to it.
It doesn't have that 70s you know beauty pageant kind of look to it. And also with that real steep angle around the front it gives us just a little bit of movement to be able to keep it out of her face and I think that this works really really well.
So just remember that this haircut is more about getting the texture right and focusing where that texturizing is going to be in the lower half of the hair.
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Rosemary's Baby Mia Farrow Haircut Tutorial
In this Mia Farrow haircut, we look at her iconic pixie cut from Rosemary's Baby. Also featured in Vogue, this Mia Farrow short hair style created instant buzz due to its very short nature. Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby sported this pixie cut 1960s look and since then many others have followed. Learn how to create the Mia Farrow pixie haircut by watching this tutorial and following along with the transcript.
Rosemary's Baby Mia Farrow Haircut Tutorial:
Welcome to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to go retro with a classic done by Vidal Sassoon himself, the Mia Farrow pixie that she wore in Rosemary's Baby. So let's get started.
Addressing the Sides and Back
We're going to start right at the side of the head halfway in the center of the recession to the quarter part. And we're going to go to the drop crown, not all the way down to the occipital bone, but there we're going to take this section on both sides.
So since I'm working in smaller tighter sections, a smaller scissor will give me much more control. So I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo scissors in the 5-1/2 inch variety and then we're going to start with a section that's going to be parallel to the front hairline.
Now what I want to keep in mind here is I want to keep a little bit of length over the ear, but I'm still going to crop this in pretty tight. Pull this forward to the front of the section at 90 ° straight up from the head.
I want to make sure I leave some length at the bottom and then we're going to go through, cut that straight down and through. Make sure my line is clean. If I need to take that in two sections we take it in two sections.
So that gives me my length here around the front and it also gives me a little bit of softness over the ear. I'll take that next section parallel to the first section and I'll comb these two into the center of both of those sections.
Hold it straight out. Cut that off. Comb each section to look at it. This section will go right back to the mastoid. I'm going to remove the first section. Now I have the second and third. I will combine those two and cut that down and through.
Now we're going to continue that section all the way down into the nape and then this is where it's going to change. So right at the mastoid I'm going to bring my fingers in and taper that in a little bit so I have a nice clean nape.
I have a little hair left over the ears but a nice clean taper into the nape. Comb that into the previous. I can remove the previously cut section. Now I have section three and four. Hold that straight out 90 from the head, comb that out, follow through.
Once I hit the mastoid, then I'll change my finger angle and taper this in much tighter. So it's going to be a little longer there and then it's going to taper in nice and clean right here in the nape.
Follow the same guide as I work all the way back into the nape. So I'm going to work this guide all the way through to the center back of the head until I run out of hair. And I'll keep going until I reach over the center half of the back of the head and I have everything tapered in exactly like I want that fits the head.
And I think that that's looking pretty good. After I've gone through and cut both sides, I want to cross check it. And the way I'm going to cross check it is hold it out in the exact opposite way that I held it the first time to cut it.
So I'll start here in the nape. I'll comb right there parallel to my hairline. Comb that out. If anything sticks out, I will cut off. I'm not looking for big differences in length and big gaps in it.
I want this to be as smooth and as even as possible and the more precise I am with my technique in the beginning, the less cleaning up I'll have to do. And that's what I'm ultimately trying for.
That's my goal is to try to get this as even and as smooth as possible in the first pass that I have very very little hair to clean up here on my cross check. If I have big pieces of hair sticking out, I need to go back in and recut that section vertically to make sure everything flows like I want.
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Blending the Top with the Bottom
So now after I've gone through and cut my entire underneath, I want to go through and make sure that the top will blend with the bottom before I even start to cut the top. So I'm going to take a parallel section to the previous section that I had where I separated the bottom from the top, comb this down.
And exactly like I cross checked it, that's how I'm going to cut this. So I'll take a small section from underneath hold that up and out. There's my guide from underneath. So cross cutting the entire top just to make sure it blends and doesn't hang over the underneath hair.
Now how much I cut off is all dependent upon how much hair was there previously on top, how longer that is, how much shorter it is etc. So I'm still continuing to work that through until everything is cut that could hang over.
I just find that it's easier for me to cross cut this horizontally than it is to go through and vertically take each section. Because all I'm looking for here is a blend.
Check this out. Now we know that everything on the top and the bottom is going to blend. So let's go through and do the same thing on the other side. Make sure that blends and then we'll cut the top.
We got everything looking like we want on the bottom half and the top blends now. So now let's go through and take a center section.
Addressing the Top of the Head
Now a lot of times when I'm doing short hair I need to make a preference between a round shape or a square shape. Since this is, you know, Mia Farrow and it's a pixie, I want to keep this shape rounder and more feminine. If it's more of a masculine shape, then I may keep it square.
So we're going to start with a center section right above the nose. Now I'm going to take this section, pull everything straight up 90 ° off the head and cut everything the same length from front to back following the head shape. So I want to keep everything nice and round and soft.
Taking a small piece of my guide from my previously cut section and work that down and through into the crown and the nape.
Now we're going to check it on my way back to the front to make sure I got everything nice and smooth. And that's looking pretty good. So now I'm going to go through and take a parallel section to the first section that I cut.
Comb these two together and cut right into the center of each of those sections and still following the length guide that I established with my first section. So there's the next two sections, the center and the first new additional section.
And now I will follow that all the way through. Now the hardest part about cutting hair is cutting directly on top of your guide and making the next section that you're cutting the same length as the previously cut section without cutting into the previously cut section.
Now here I'm going to have very little hair that reaches that top section. Going to use my second section as my guide. Anything else that hangs over will get cut. And since we went through and already established a blend with the side, there should be very little hair to cut.
Now after we've cut the right side I'm going to go back, take my center section that I established as my initial guide and do the exact same thing on the other side. So I'll add section one which was the center. I will add a parallel section. I will make sure both of these are cut into the center of these two sections.
So I'm basically walking my guide from the center over to each side. Small piece is my guide. Everything held straight up 90 ° from the head and follow that on through into the nape.
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Mia Farrow Haircut Bangs
The Rosemary baby pixie that Sassoon did to her for her movie was really really iconic and it was a blunter more solid shape. So I want to keep this kind of blunt and solid and I'm not going to add a whole lot of texture to it, but I do want to keep the bangs soft.
So instead of cutting them blunt across I am going to go through and point cut them just to make sure we can keep her fringe nice and soft. And I'll go through comb everything down into my hand, roll the comb over so that the hair kind of gets combed down and then go through and just deep channel point cut some of this around the front to make sure everything is nice and smooth and gives us a little bit of something to play with around the face but still has that short kind of pixie shape.
There we get that. Cut that. Cut this. You have less hair over here girl. Do you sleep on the right side? I bet you sleep on the right side.
There we're going to go through a little point cutting just around there to make that blend through and I think that that's looking pretty good. Now let's go through and dry it, take a look and see what we got. See if we need to add some more texture.
Final Mia Farrow Haircut Look
Here's our end result. I think we got a really nice solid shape without it being chunky and lumpy. I think making it fit the head is really really important. And you know I think Sassoon really hit this haircut out of the park when he did it for her for her movie Rosemary's Baby. And I love this. This is one of my favorite iconic shapes and just follow through. Practice and you'll be able to do the same.
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Final Thoughts on this Mia Farrow Haircut
The Mia Farrow Vidal Sassoon haircut was an iconic haircut that has stood the test of time. Since then, there have been many other celebrities with pixie cuts. The style is popular among those who can pull it off. We hope you learned one version of how to pixie cut hair.
Note: This is not a tutorial on how to trim your own pixie cut. To do this is much more difficult since you cannot see the back of your head easily. Making sure the hair is even all around is difficult to do by yourself.
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Selena Gomez Bob Haircut Tutorial Using Scissors
In this video, you'll learn how to create a Selena Gomez bob. With her naturally thick hair, it's important to get the technique down to keep the hair sleek and manageable with little movement. To do this Russell uses Jatai Osaka Scissors and Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors to complete the look.
Selena Gomez is one of the biggest pop stars of the 2010s and beyond. Her impressive Instagram following @selenagomez, her successful Rare Beauty line, her singing and acting have catapulted her to stardom. She has become one of the faces of fashion not only in her clothing but with her hair. Looking at past Getty Images, her time on the red carpet and film festivals, Selena has debuted many different hairstyles. From bobs to long hair, blonde to dark hair and bangs to no bangs, she marches on to her own beat.
Follow along with the video and the transcript.
How to do the Selena Gomez Bob:
Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a one length bob that's inspired by Selena Gomez. Now Selena Gomez has a lot of hair. So in order to create this nice sleek one length bob we're going to have to introduce some texturizing.
So I'm going to show you how to do that today that thins the hair keeps it sleek and smooth without introducing any kind of movement. So let's get started.
I always like to start with a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide. It makes the hair easier to comb. It puts a slight conditioning effect to it, constricts the cuticle and gives me a cleaner cut. Now we're going to start here with a natural or center part right down the middle and I'll brush everything back and push forward and see where it wants to split.
I'll take that all the way down to the center of the nape and then from there I'll take the occipital bone over to the mastoid. That gives me a flat section in the back using my Osaka Scissors from Jatai. That's the blade that has the nicest point. So it makes it easiest for me to go through and point cut.
The more pointy your scissor is, the easier you'll get a point cut and it'll be cleaner an you can go deeper onto it. So we're going to take a center section. We're going to comb this straight down the middle. Now I'm going to put clips on the hair on either side just to get the hair out of the way. It wants to keep falling in my hands.
Point Cutting the Perimeter
So now I'll comb everything down straight from the part, straight down, make sure my fingers are not flipping and then I'll go through and do a deep point cut. Because the whole idea behind this bob shape is to prevent the hair from bulking up and building a bell type of shape.
I don't want this to stack and have all this fullness. I want a sleek kind of shape. So going through and doing a deep deliberate point cut like this will enable the hair to collapse a little bit but still retain the bob type of shape. So I'll go through point cut center towards the front.
So in the middle I'll point cut that, doesn't matter. But on each side I'm always point cutting from the center towards the front so that way the movement is going to be the same with each of my point cuts on both sides of the head. If I always point cut from left to right, then the left side of the head is always going to move to the right.
Point Cutting the Next Section
Taking my next section which is going to be parallel to my previous section and then taking my center section where I started and using my guide from underneath to cut the one length exactly like I was doing before.
Now when I comb everything down since I've been point cutting, the line of my guide is not going to be real prevalent. I'm going to see kind of a ghosting of the image of the previously cut guide and I want to use that to mimic what I'm point cutting on top of it.
Now here again point cutting from the center of the head towards the front and I'm not being real persnickety and diligent about making sure I'm directly on top of the guide. The more variance that I have in my line that I'm cutting, the more sleek the shape can be, the less stacking effect that I'm going to get.
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Now I'm just going to continue on with my section from the center working towards the front making sure that looks good. We're going to do the same thing on the other side. Now I always am cutting parallel to my parting and I will continue to comb that clean from the parting all the way down until I get everything nice and smooth.
And something else that I want to expand on here is that my partings are just as much of a part of my guide as the actual previously cut guide is. So every parting that I take my fingers are going to be parallel to the parting. So the line that I'm cutting is actually the line that the parting is.
So if the parting is at an angle, my fingers are in an angle, the line I cut is at an angle. So that way as long as I know that my parting is the same on both sides and I have everything nice and balanced it makes it a lot easier for me to make sure that the sides are even.
Point Cutting the Top of the Head
Now here when I start to move up to the top of the head I'm not taking my quarter part. I'm going to take that part all the way around from the back into the front and to the side. I want to make sure that's parallel to my previously cut section and the same on both sides.
Now I'm going to comb everything clean and I'll keep combing until I get everything perfectly smooth and clean and then go through and clean up my line just like I was doing in my previously cut sections. I want to make sure that I'm keeping the same depth of my point cut as I go through.
Now if I need to clean a little bit up I'm cleaning a little bit up, but I'm not worried about everything being perfectly pristine. I want some variation and some softness in the line.
So now we're working from the back into the front and continuing to work from the center towards the front with my point cutting. Here, the last section, combing everything down as evenly as I can around the parting and around the natural center part and the crown, and just anything that hangs over we're going to cut off.
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Flat Ironing for the Selena Gomez Bob Sleek Look
Now after we've gone through and we've done our base cut, we're going to go through and blow everything dry, get everything up off the scalp as we dry it and then I'm going to go through and flat iron it. Now when I flat iron I'm going to flat iron in exactly the same way that I cut it so horizontal sections.
I'll lift the iron up on the bottom as the iron touches the hair and then close the top down and pull with my left hand to make sure everything is fed into the iron nice and smooth. Now we're going to take a vertical section in the center of the back and I'm going to hold this out vertically.
Removing Internal Weight
So section that hair out of the way. Get it out of the way. I'm going to hold this out vertically and going through and using my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors. I'm going to go through and about 2 to 3 inches in just go through and point cut some of that internal weight out.
I don't usually go deeper than about halfway and here I'm keeping it about a third of the length out. So just going through removing some of the weight from the ends. I'm not trying to remove so much internal weight as much as I'm trying to remove the weight from the ends.
Now here in the back of the head you can remove a lot more weight without any kind of fear of any alfalfa sprouts sticking up or anything kind of getting out of control because that hair will always hang straight down. As I move up the head I take the next section. This is more or less the parietal ridge.
I'm going to hold that out at the exact same you know elevation and then go through and point cut that through. Now as I start to point cut this through I'm taking it a little deeper at the bottom of the parting and then as I get to the top of the section I take it more towards the tip.
So I'm thinning more underneath and less on top. And here you'll see I'll start deeper and then just go toward the tip on the very top because I don't want a lot of texturizing on the top surface layer of the hair. I want this texturizing underneath to remove weight so I can still keep a nice smooth slick shape without all that bulkiness of someone that has a lot of hair and it getting very broomy.
Here on the last section, I finish everything up on the last section. I'm going to comb everything down. I tend to not do a whole lot of texturizing on the top layer. Just make sure everything blends there. I want to keep that top surface layer very very smooth and very very glassy.
The Final Selena Gomez Bob Haircut Look
Here's our end result. I think we got a really nice sleek, smooth head curving kind of style for someone that has a lot of hair. That's the way I would go through and texturize it and remove weight without introducing any kind of movement to it.
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Taylor Swift Haircut - Short Bob with Heavy Bangs Tutorial
The Taylor Swift haircut. While she has always had a classy style and has sported various haircuts from long to short, at the 2016 Grammy's she had a cute bob with heavy bangs and then did it again during her Eras Tour. The singer seems to have an affinity for this style so in this video we recreate it.
Taylor Swift hairstyles have usually included some sort of bang. Whether it's a heavy straight bang or side swept bang, she loves her bangs! But she has always had hair with style, sometimes short, long, curly or straight. In this video, we look at a Taylor Swift short haircut, specifically a bob with heavy bangs.
Follow along with the tutorial and transcript below.
Taylor Swift Haircut:
Welcome to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a study of the Taylor Swift bob that she wore when she went to the Grammys, that nice textured solid bob with a real heavy bang.
So we're going to figure out how to add more bangs to an area when the hair is not necessarily the thickest and also how to get texture in it so it always stays modern and soft.
And this is my inspiration picture which I'll put kind of right here. Looks good. Yes, I like that. So let's get started.
Perimeter with Internal Texture
So instead of everything being completely blunt, I'm going to keep the blunt shape, but I want to put some internal texture in the last 1.5" to 2" of it so it makes those ends softer and easier to blend and easier to style in a lot of different ways.
We have gone through and cut our one length already. I've gone through and re-sectioned out from ear to ear. So I have the nape of the head which is where the bulk of the hair is on most people.
So I want to go through and thin this out and put a little texture on the bottom and I'm going to use my Tokyo Thinning Scissors from Jatai. So this is the perfect middle-of the road thinning scissor for me. It's seamless and doesn't leave any kind of marks and removes just the right amount of hair.
So I'm going to start with a section right in the middle. I'll pin this hair out of the way. I want to be mindful to only texturize and thin each section one time the first pass through.
So now I'm going to take my vertical section. I'm going to hold this out 90 ° from the head and then with my scissor I'm going to take the straight blade underneath and the tooth blade on top.
Hit it right in the middle and then once towards the ends. Right in the middle, once towards the ends. Pull that hair out. So I hit, hit. Maybe on the longer lengths I hit it three times. I just want to go through, remove some weight and build some softness on the tips.
I'm not trying to thin the snot out of this to where it becomes real wispy. I still want to maintain my blunt shape, but I want to go through and remove some of that weight so it's more pliable and easier to move around. Now I'll pin that hair out of the way. I'll take my next section, pull that out and I'm going to do the same thing.
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And as I start to do this I get a feel for where the hair is thicker and where the hair is thinner. So where it's thicker you can see where it's thicker right there and it's thicker here underneath.
So where it's thicker underneath I may hit it a little bit more to even that out. Where it's thinner like right through there maybe I just do the tips. Thicker here all the way through.
And that way I can even out the thickness and the thinness. Like right here you see nothing so I'll just do underneath and just a little bit on the tips. And that goes through and gives me a nice even amount of texturizing from about middle the way underneath only on the surface layer on the top. So we're going to go through same thing on the other side.
Top Section of the Taylor Swift Haircut
Now as I'm working on the top section I want to maintain a really blunt heavy shape. I just don't want it blunt and heavy underneath. So I'm going to start pivoting out of the crown. I'm going to comb this hair at peak elevation which is going to be right there.
And I'm only going to do the very tips. I'm not going to worry about thickness on the top because I want that, but I do want the ends to have movement and swing and pliability.
So we're going to pull that out at peak curvature, ribbon that together and then only work on the last 2" of the hair. Continue to work that all the way around. Let's see. Let's take a little bit of that. I'm going to pull this out over the ear just to maintain some solidity over the ear.
Get that out of the way. This is not going to matter because we're going to do a heavy bang on you. So we're going to do it anyway. Now we're going to go through and do the same thing on the other side.
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Bangs
Now let's move on to the bangs or the fringe if you want to be fancy. Now to make sure that we have a really heavy fringe we're going to have to add more bangs, more hair to the bang section than we would normally do.
A normal bang section, unless their hair is very very thick, it's not going to give you enough solidity to make that real heavy. The normal bang will go to the center of the recession and the first curvature of the head on the hairline, right on the parting.
So now this would be the normal amount of bangs per this person's head shape. It's not enough to make a real heavy bang so we're going to have to add a little bit more. How much more do you add? It all depends.
So we're going to start here and get our basic shape in and then we're going to add a little bit more when it's wet. We're gonna get to the point where we think it's right, blow it dry and add more if we need to. It's going to be a trial and error sort of approach because we don't know exactly how much hair it's going to take to make that bang kind of heavy.
So to keep the bangs solid but still have some softness on the ends, I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor. And I'm using the fancy silver one because it's fancy.
I'm going to comb everything forward. I want this to be right at the bridge of her nose. So I'm going to pull this forward. The bridge of the nose is there and I'm going to go a little longer and then lay the razor right there and take a stroke of about an inch.
That way I can keep everything nice and heavy but still have a little bit of movement to it. Now on the side pulling this forward but because I'm going to elevate it a little bit on this side I'm not going with the curvature of the head. I'm going to elevate it a little bit. It's going to get a little longer towards the edges.
Lift up. Elevate. There's my line about an inch through. And I think that's looking pretty good. Same thing on the other side. Make sure I elevate my knuckles and keeping my finger tip right exactly where I cut the previously cut section. Same razor stroke. If I can help it, cut that down and through.
Now knowing that this is going to shrink up a little bit when it's dry, I want that to hit right at the bottom of her eyeball. That way it shrinks up a little bit and it's still below her brow and we can kind of sweep it over to the left or sweep it over to the right.
Adding More Fringe to the Taylor Swift Haircut
If I feel I need to fine-tune this, I can fine-tune it with my Tokyo Thinning Scissors. Now I think she needs a little bit more density to this. So we're going to add a little bit more. The way I'm going to do that is I'm going to keep my go-to point the same and add a little bit more hair from the parting.
Pin that out of the way. Now that's going to add a little bit more density to this and make this a little bit stronger and heavier.
Since I'm using a razor and the hair is getting a little damp, I could use water but if I use a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide it makes everything easier to comb and makes my blade slide through the hair easier for better more consistent results.
Comb everything through and smooth. There is my line. A little shorter stroke, not as broad right through there. Next piece, same methodology I was using before. There's my line. Cut that down and through. Next section, the other side down and through.
That might be enough. So since I think it might be enough we're going to go through and blow it dry and then take a look at it and see if we need to add more.
Looking pretty good. Now after blowing dry it seems that the way that the head curvatures on my model here, this hair here in the back wants to flow forward. So I'm just going to go ahead and add a little bit more to her fringe to her bangs.
So I'll separate that where that hair is wanting to fall forward. I will pin this hair back. Look and see where it's wanting to come from and that seems about it. I don't want to use a razor on dry hair because it tends to explode the cuticle.
I'm going to go through and use my Tokyo Thinning Scissors again and get me a razor sort of texture without using a razor. So I'll just start and vary in and out as I go through and cut anything that hangs over my fringe off.
So I'll take comb the same way I was with the razor. There's my line and I'm varying in and out and just cutting anything that hangs over off. That's going to give me a nice heavy solid bang. If I feel I need to clean something up I shall go through and clean that up with my thinning scissors. This side not as much.
Taylor Swift Haircut Final Look
Let's put a little hairspray on you right there. Little hairspray right there. There we go. Nice. A little swept over. Just a little bit. Just to get it out of her eyes like she wears in a lot of her pictures where it's longer or you can wear it heavy straight down.
I think the end result looks pretty good. We got a nice little beveling in the bottom to soften it up, but it still has a heavy solid bob shape and then we have a little bit of a solid bang.
And I think about the bottom of the eyeball is about the perfect length for this kind of in-your-eye in-your-face bang without being completely irritating. That'll probably only last a week or two depending on how fast their hair grows. But anyway I think it looks pretty good.
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Final Notes
Taylor Swift haircuts are always fun, beautiful and romantic. In this case, the bob with a heavy bang is a classic haircut that can be styled in many different ways. This hairstyle of Taylor Swift can be curled, left straight or made more edgy. There are many ways to style it. The best style of hair is one that your client feels the best in. This haircut is for all the Taylor Swift fans out there!
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An Asymmetrical Prince Haircut Tutorial
This inspired Prince haircut is a fun take on asymmetrical haircuts. This spicy style is far from boring. By making the left and right sides asymmetrical, you get a funky, fun and trendy haircut. Prince had many hairstyles, many of which were iconic but the asymmetrical look was always a standout.
In this video, you will learn how to give this Prince cut using a Feather Styling Razor with a little scissor over comb. Watch this video tutorial and follow along with the transcript.
Asymmetrical Prince Haircut Tutorial:
Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a study of asymmetry, what makes a haircut asymmetrical versus a symmetrical haircut that appears asymmetrical and how to fit that to the head shape. So we're going to study some head shape and we're going to study some hair cutting so let's get started.
Understanding Asymmetrical Haircuts
Now when we look at asymmetrical haircuts on the internet a lot of times what we're going to see is basically things that have just been undercut and the top of the head is disconnected and it flops to one side or the other giving the appearance of being an asymmetrical haircut but it's actually symmetrical.
Then you go back into like the 80s where Prince had his you know asymmetrical thing where one side was cut short and the other side was kind of a bobbish kind of graduated bob look and the whole left side was long and the whole right side was short.
So when you're doing anything like that where you're going to have some asymmetry whether it's a symmetrical cut or an asymmetrical cut, the most important thing is fitting it to the head.
If it doesn't fit the head then it always looks a little funky so in studying the head shape first thing I want to pay attention to is separating the front half of the head from the back half of the head.
Planning Out the Prince Haircut
So I've got everything separated like I want. I've got the front separated from the back and I got the back split in half. So now I'm going to take a smaller section. I've already got this short graduation underneath so I want to change the angle of that because this is a pretty low kind of bob stack graduation and I want to bevel that out because I want to put a lot more texture in it.
So I'm going to start in the center and I'm going to keep that even until I get to the corner of my hairline and then I'm going to pull everything back to that so I can start building my length on the left side at that point.
On the right side I'm going to keep everything even all the way over and I'm probably going to end up cutting this side really short.
Razor Cutting the Back
So now I'm going to go through and start cutting the back. I'm going to hold this out and I want to make sure I keep it at that elevation and then just choose whatever length that I think would be appropriate and cut that down and bevel that line.
Right through here what's a little tough I'll just go through and cut on the inside of my fingers. Now I've started to bevel the shape. I will go through and take a parallel section on the left side, pull this to the center of the first section and the second section. Pull that out and through. Work that down until I run out of hair.
Now I'm going to remove the first section. I have my second section that I've cut right there. I will add my third section, comb these two to the center of both of those sections. There's my guide. Cut that through. Check that out. That looks good.
Remove the second section. Now I have the third. I'm moving into the fourth section. I'll comb to the center, keep my elevation proper. Work that down and through with my Feather Styling Razor. I'm using the R-Type Blade so it exposes more blade so it gives me a cleaner easier cut. I do have to be more mindful because I could cut myself.
Now at this point it's right over the corner of my hairline. So now here I'm going to pull this hair back into my fourth section. So fifth is being pulled into the fourth. Work that down through.
Make sure I got that cut like I want. Now I'm going to comb down, check everything. I start to see a little buildup of length right there behind the ear. Now I'm going to go through to the other side.
I'm going to start with my center section. And I'm going to do the same thing I did to the left side on the right side except when I get to the corner I'm not going to pull that back. I'm going to continue to walk that around so this part here is going to get shorter than the other side.
So now I'm going to move on to the rest of the back and I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to take a center section, start in the middle, hold this horizontally out and then cut anything that hangs off over that. Here's my guide dropping out.
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Take that short and the idea behind this is I want this whole thing to bevel around the head. I don't want to build up a whole lot of corner in the back. I just want the weight. So by me pulling it out I get the weight.
The razor softens it and by me following my elevation which is this elevation I bevel that whole shape in the back. Now I'm going to pivot from the center, do the same thing as I pivot around to the left side. There's my guide, work that through.
Now this last section remember I pulled everything back to the corner of the hairline so I'm going to continue to do the same thing here. Pull this back to the corner of the hairline. There's my length cut that down and through to make sure I have my length build up as I'm going towards the front. You can certainly see that building up through there but yet I still have a nice bevel around the back.
Addressing the Top and Sides
So now I'm going to do the same thing on the other side following my guide. Okay now want to see where the hair wants to separate naturally so I'll brush everything back see where it wants to kind of fall through here, what I can get away with.
I want as much hair going over to my left side as possible and I want to keep this right side as short and as clean and as light as I can but that's going to depend upon the way that the hair grows and the head shape.
So I want to keep combing that back. I think I can get away with about right there so we're going to comb all of this over based upon the way the hair grows and I don't want to go too low on this side of the head because then it's going to start to look like a comb over but if you're going for that emo comb over then I can go lower.
I'm going to comb this straight out from the head see where I want that length to fall. I want to keep this very soft so I'm going to go pretty short. I can go as short as I want. I just want to make sure that this is at least exaggerated so it really pops. The shorter that I go here the longer and more exaggerated the other side is going to look.
So, I'll look and see say okay is that short enough. If it is, I'll keep moving. If not, I'll take it shorter. So, I'm not sure so let's try a couple of sections and see how it does.
So here I'll walk this section back, continue to use my previously cut section as my guide and continue to work that back until I run out of hair and everything blends. I can't get that in there as tight as I want so I'm going to move on to my Tokyo Thinning Scissors and I'm going to do a little scissor over comb to fit this underneath here shorter.
It will maintain that same sort of razor texture. Just going to take me a few more scissor strokes and a little bit more time to make sure I get everything fit in there nice and smooth and clean and this is going to be purely visual whatever my creative inspiration is going to determine looks good.
You may like this a little shorter. You may like this a little longer and that's all okay. Take a parallel section to what I was using before. Now you can see that length overhanging that. So from here I'm going to pull this straight out from the head use my guide length from the back and cut that guide length going forward.
It's still going to be slightly disconnected but it's certainly going to blend a lot better than if I leave that. So what I'll do is I'll go through cut a little bit, make sure it blends in with the back here, comb it, see how it's blending, see how it's going to flow both ways. That's okay. Take my next piece.
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Take some of that off so it's not such an extreme disconnection. My next piece there's very little. Got a little bit right there. We'll work that through. Now here I'm going to start on the long side.
I'm going to pull everything straight back to where I was cutting it before. You see my guide length there underneath and I'm going to take a very very broad stroke and take anything that hangs over that guide length from the back off and everything is going to get pulled back to that corner of the hairline.
So now we've got this longer piece here. You can see it's certainly starting to develop some length in the front. Now to make sure that this fits in, I think that's probably a little bit heavy in the front.
So let's take a little bit more weight out of the front. Pull that through. Channel some of this out so I leave length but I'm taking out weight and creating separation. We'll take our next piece. A little bit less it doesn't need as much but I want to make sure I still have separation that's going to compare to that first piece I cut right around the front.
Now we're going to take the rest of the hair on top in sections and parallel sections to what I've cut underneath and I'm going to go through and fine tune and fit that in just like I did underneath.
A little bit right there. A little bit right there. There we go. There's a lot of bit right through there. That's looking all right. This is a little heavy. So after I cut my length to fit, I'm going to go through and channel some of that weight out, see if the weight is good around the front here which I think we need to take a little bit out here around the front. Comb that over see how that's looking. It's looking pretty good.
The Bangs
I am going to go through and blend some of our bang here. I don't like the way that that's hanging out so I'm going to go through and blend some of that out and that will just be very gently razoring short to longer to get it out of the face. I think that's looking pretty good. Now let's go through and blow it dry and see what we got.
Here's our end result. We got a nice little longer side on the left side of the head, fills in nice behind the ear, nice fitted in down at the nape. We got a little shorter bits in real clean behind the right ear to our shorter side.
We've got a nice blend from our short little undercut bang over into the long side. And we've got a lot of separation, a lot of texture to really make that curl kind of stand out and I think it looks pretty good. I think it looks pretty cool. You look hip dear.
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Scarlett Johansson Short Hair Tutorial - Her Iconic Undercut
Have you ever wondered how to create Scarlett Johansson's short undercut hairstyles she rocked around 2014 to 2017? In this article and video Russell Mayes, Director of Content for JATAI, guides you in a step-by-step Scarlett Johansson short hair tutorial on how to achieve this iconic style. This look is timeless and needs no update.
You can get the full YouTube experience by watching this video below (which is also featured in our Education Connect portion of Jatai Academy. You can follow along with the transcript below.
Scarlett Johansson Short Hair Tutorial:
Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing an undercut, the undercut that Scarlet Johansson wore for a while and I think it's very cool. So let's get started.
So if I'm looking at you know some short hair that Scarlett Johansson wore. When it was really short it was basically an undercut with the top grown out longer. Then at a certain point she decided to let the undercut grow out and we started getting a little bit longer in the sides. And I think that it was very very stylish and she did a great job of the grow out period because sometimes when it's cut really short underneath it's hard to grow that out.
But you know hairstyles like this that show the in between where she was growing it out, I think are really really modern today. So let's take a look at how to do that. So we've gone through and sectioned out the top of the head from the bottom of the head.
Clipper Cutting
Now we're going to go through with the clipper and we're going to cut everything underneath pretty short. So I'm not going to go through and be really perfectionistic about my clippering right now. I just just want to go through and remove most of the length so that I can go through and change the texture a little bit later on.
Now this first section right up the middle I'm basically just guessing at the length that I want and I'll go through and just go through the motions of cutting it. Then I'm going to look at it and see is that type of length that I want. I think I want to leave this a little longer than it being cut really really short. And I think that that's looking pretty good.
So now from here I have a guide. As I start to work around the head I can use the guide in the center for the guide that I'm cutting for the hair that I'm cutting as I move left to right.
So this is a very very classic tapering technique where I'll start shorter at the bottom and get longer as I go up the head. So it's shorter here at the bottom hairline and it gradually gets longer.
So in the back I've worked horizontally. Then, I come to the side and I work horizontally. And then I'll go through and work an angle which is going to be parallel to this hairline right behind the ear. I'll work the angle to blend the two together. Now that way I've got a rough shape into it and then I can start to fine-tune my shape from here.
Thinning Scissors
And now I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors and I'm going to go through and trace what I've got cut underneath initially just to soften everything up.
Now this is going to go through and do two things: it's going to remove weight and make it softer and it's also going to make it a little bit shorter so I can get a little bit cleaner. And it just takes a little bit of time and a little bit of practice and some patience to go through and do this but the end result is going to be worth it.
So I'll start and I'm going to go through and scissor over comb and trace everything that I've already cut and just cut the last quarter inch of the hair to make sure everything is softer.
Now when I first start going through I'm not going to see a whole lot of result and that's okay. I will be able to fine-tune it once everything's dry and I've got everything in its natural fall. Now right here I don't like the way that's fitting in so I'm going to go through and hit that a few more times and see how it reacts and that's reacting a little bit better.
Now we've gone through and we've dried the underneath so that I can see exactly how the hair is going to react, how short it's getting and how much texture I'm putting in through it. Now I'm going to go through. I like this length that we got here.
I'm going to taper that in a little bit tighter around the edges in the nape and I'm also going to take this a little bit shorter over the ears. I think that that would look better if that's a little bit softer and shorter.
So now I'm going to go through and do the same sort of scissor over comb that I was doing with my Tokyo Thinning Scissors but on dry hair and I'm going to really start to fine-tune and fit this in. So what I'm going to do is basically scissor over comb everything and taper this in a little bit tighter just here in the at the bottom of the nape.
Now these mannequin heads can get a little pokey around the edges where the hair gets short and that's okay. I'm just going to fine-tune that in just like I would a shrubbery or something of the sort or I'm just going to visually cut it in to make it fit and take some of the length off and still keep it soft.
One of the pictures that we saw she was really blended here in the back and then it got longer and disconnected towards the front. So that's what we're going to do. So in order to do that I need to separate the front of the head from the back of the head. So I'll find where the crown is, take that section to the top of the ears. So now we've got from the crown going back. And the way I'm going to do that is I'm going to pivot right in the center.
Razor Cutting
Hold this out at curvature of the head which is going to be like that. So I'll just lay the comb where it sticks out. I want the top of this section to be held at that angle as I'm pulling the rest of it out vertically. So it's going to look like this right here. Now I'm going to continue that angle of my graduation that I started from tapering the underneath on up to the top. And I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor in pink.
So we're going to start right here in the middle, hold this out at the proper elevation which is going to be right there. Start where my short hair is, gradually build that out to my longer length. Don't miss anything. Comb. Look at that. See how that's going to blend. I think that's going to be fine. So we're going to continue on.
Now I will pivot my next section which is going to pivot to the corner of the hairline. I'll pull this out, same elevation right here at the top center. There's my length falling out. Pull that up and out and through.
Next section, pivot to the mastoid, that bump right there behind the ear. I'm going to pull this back. There's my line underneath. Go through. Razor that through. Anything that hangs out that I missed, cut that off. Got that. The last section, I'll pull off the peak curvature of the head. There's my guide underneath. Go through. Razor that off.
Now this is going to completely blend with the back so that when this fluffs up it's going to blend beautifully through here and it also gives me a length that I can start building my length going towards the front. So now from here I'm going to take the right half. I'm going take a horizontal section and I'm going to use this length that I created in the back here and blend that through towards the front.
So I'm going to hold this out off the peak curvature. There's my line and then I'm going to guess how long I want it in the front and I'm going to start building up more length as I get to the front holding this out at peak curvature of the head. The way that I can always check that is just hold the comb right there at the parting.
Wherever that elevates to, that's where I want to hold that. Now I'm going to continue taking the same horizontal sections until I get to the center of the head. Again, going off the curvature of the head starting at the tip of my blade.
And as I work through the section I will go towards the heel of the blade. So that way I can evenly dull the entire blade at the same time. And I think that that's looking pretty good. There we go. Now we're going to do the same thing on the other side.
Texturizing
We've got our basic shape in and now I'm going to go through and put a little bit of internal texture into it using my Jatai Feather Styling Razor that has the Texture Blade into it.
Now the Texture Blade has little gaps in it that prevent hair from touching the blade so it's only cutting like every other hair and I'm going to go through and hold the section horizontally, lay the blade against the head and just gently fillet through and you can see how that's creating separation through there and taking some weight out of the ends.
Now I don't want to go through and be very aggro and you know like He-Man it. I want to go through and gently just apply a little bit of texture to take some of that weight out and give me a little bit more separation. I'm going to go through and methodically work every section without picking up previous sections that I've already texturized. That way I don't over thin one particular area.
An area that may have a little bit more weight, I may go back through and do, but my first pass through I want to be very very judicious in my application of texture. Nice, easy. Removed the weight. Gave me some separation. I think that's looking pretty good.
Now this section right here in the front I'm going to go through and take a little bit of that point off because when I pulled it both over to the sides that's going to leave me longer in the middle. So I'm going to go through, comb this through and down and take a little bit of that point off and I'm going to do it with my Texturizing Blade so that I can keep everything really really soft and textured.
Final Look
Here's our end result. We've got you know a little longer in the front. We've got it undercut underneath on the sides and the back. We kept it really soft and a little bit longer so it's not that hard edge and it blends through here in the crown which I think looks pretty good.
And she wore her hair a lot of different ways. Sometimes it was down and kind of swept over a little fuller in the back like we did here. Sometimes it was very much up you know and gelled up and off of her face you know kind of to the side, so for the award show or the fashion show she was going to.
The Scarlett Johansson curls were elegant and striking. She wore it a bunch of different ways and this haircut is very very versatile for that. Scarlett Johansson with short hair was an iconic hairstyle for her and is still remembered to this day. Scarlett Johansson hair 2015 is still a beautiful style that's modern for today's looks.
So add it to your repertoire. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hair stylist and barber and we will see you next time. Thank you for watching.
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