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Let's take a look at the famous David Cassidy hairstyle popularized in the 70s. This Partridge family icon made the men's shag haircut a fashion statement for the times. In this tutorial you will learn how to cut the original classic 70s shag that David wore and bring it back to life, not the modern version of it. Why? Because sometimes learning how to cut classic styles can inspire new creativity in your haircutting as the techniques are totally different from modern haircutting.  Watch this David Cassidy 1970s shag haircut tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.    David Cassidy Hairstyle Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a study of the original 60s-70s man shag made popular by David Cassidy. His hair was iconically 70s and made the shag popular. Now this is the original version of the shag, not the modern reinterpretation of it where it's really highly textured. This is going to be the original. So, we make sure that we get the layering in it really short to get fullness on top. Make sure you get some bangs in it. Get the feathers because the feathers are very, very important. They're imperative to have in this shape. So, we're going to show you how to do all that. So, let's get started.   Pulling Everything  Up So, let's go through and section everything out before we even start cutting to make sure that we can work as cleanly as possible. Take a center section to the crown from the high point of the head to the top of the ear. Then in the back half of the head, I'm going to take the center section out. It's probably about a 3-in wide section. I'm using my Feather Styling Razor. This is the one with the guard. And the blade is very, very sharp on these Feather Styling Razors. So, I can work with a very large, thick section of hair as long as I'm patient as I go through and use my razor motion. I'll cut that right at the top of the crown. I'll continue on taking section by section and pulling that into my original section. So, the first section was held straight up at the crown. Everything else is going to be pulled up into the crown as well. So, by pulling everything into the crown and having a stationary guide, that's actually going to give me an inconsistency in my elevation. So the first section's held at 90° straight up and then everything else gets held at a greater elevation. So that allows me to build up an increase of length very very quickly, but it also gives me an inconsistent weight distribution which will cause the shape to collapse. So I'll get a lot of fullness at the crown, but as it continues onto the perimeter, the shape is not going to be as round and as full. So, it's going to be fuller on top, less full on the sides, which is really iconic of the 70s type of look for this type of classic shag. So, we're going to continue section by section, pulling everything straight up into my original section and just being patient with the razor. I'm not trying to force and muscle the razor through the hair. I'm allowing the razor to do the work by just laying it against the sections of hair. So, it's the razor motion that's actually doing the cut. It's not me pressuring it against the hair. If I start pressuring it against the hair, I'll actually start pushing the hair and it's going to dull the blade fairly fairly quick. So, just the razor motion is what's cutting it. Pulling everything up to the center again until I run out of hair. Now, we're going to go through and take the center section, split that in half, use one half of the center as my guide for the left and one half for the right. Starting at the top again, right at the crown. Pulling everything straight up into the crown. Using my center section as my guide and cutting that straight across. Everything gets pulled up. The same sort of methodology I was doing in the back. And just using my guide and trying to be right on top of the guide as I cut that forward.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now, we got our last section right here on the left side. Pulling everything up and just following my guide and making sure everything blends where I've cut the original guide at the top. Checking out my layering on both sides. And I think we got that short enough. Now, we're going to go through and take a center section using the guide at my original crown section that I cut. Pull that straight up into the center of the head and then cut that forward. Now, when I cut this section, I cut it too long. I didn't feel like it was short enough. So, I've gone back on this and cut it about an inch shorter. So, it's important to kind of monitor your lengths and make sure that they're appropriate as you're working towards the finish of the haircut because once you get finished, you don't want to go back and do the whole haircut again. So, I'm going to try to check and make sure I cut it the right lengths as I'm going through step by step as opposed to trying to catch it at the very end. Now, we're going to continue working down towards the the perimeter of the head, pulling everything straight up into the center, following my original guide, and cutting that short. Now, when I'm layering this, it is quite a bit shorter than I would layer most hair for this particular length. It feels a little uncomfortable, but practicing on a doll head really helps you get over that fear of cutting it too short, which is something that's been instilled in us since beauty school, the fear of cutting everything too short. Now, we're going to continue to pull everything straight up into the middle of the head. There's my guide from underneath. And continue to cut everything that hangs over that off.   Follow us on your favorite social media at @jataifeather   Continuing to work that forward until I run out of hair. After I've cut the other side, I'm going to go back and now I'm going to cut the perimeter shape.   Cutting the Perimeter Shape I'll take a horizontal section across the nape area. Hold that straight down. Wherever I want this length to be, that's what I'm going to cut straight across. Using the razor to give me just a little bit of texture on the ends to soften it up, but I'm still keeping this shape fairly blunt. You know, I'm trying to keep it with the original feeling of the 70s shag. And it was a blunt shape. It was a blunt cut. It wasn't real overly textured. I'm putting a little bit of texture in it to keep it a little more modern, but I want the shape to be really representative of what the original haircut was, which was overly layered on the top, very, very blunt but with a lot of movement to it. So, we're holding everything down. Once we get our perimeter length cut, then we shall move on to the front. One more little piece right there we go. Perfect.   The Bangs Now, we're going to section out our bang section. I'm going to take about half of that so I can start face framing our bangs here. I'm going to comb that first center section straight down with no tension at all. Cut that right at the bridge of the nose. I'll take a blunt little shape and then put a little bit of softening into it as I cut that shape across. So, it's giving me a blunt shape, but then that one razor stroke really softens it up a little bit, but I'm not trying to make the whole thing real super soft. I want to keep a solid shape but give it a little bit of airiness so that one long razor stroke helps lighten it up without it getting too piecey or too light. There we go. We've got that. I like the lengths there. Now, we're going to continue and see if anything else hangs over. And anything that hangs over, we're going to cut off. Holding that straight down just like I cut the original section. Anything that hangs over. Boom. There we go. Got that off. Now I'm going to go through and take a little bit in the center underneath and just lighten this piece up because I noticed that in a lot of the photos that I studied that he had a little bit of lightness right at the center where it kind of feathered back. So I'm taking a little bit of that bang out and making it lighter.   Blending Now, we're going to take a diagonal section. I'm going to pull everything on the side of the head straight forward. I'm not worried if this blends in with my perimeter length. If it does, great. If it doesn't, that's okay. We're going to keep it disconnected. But I want to make sure that I pull everything straight forward and cut that off. And this is where my feathers are coming from is because I'm pulling it all straight forward and blending it in with the bangs. If I don't blend it in with the bangs, it tends to not really have that feathery look to it. So, it has to blend with the bangs. After I've pulled everything forward, I'll comb everything straight down. And anything that gets revealed from the underneath hairline, I'll go through and make sure that that blends through. Pulling everything straight forward from the back and seeing if anything hangs over, which it doesn't look like there's a whole lot. So, we're just going to make sure that that all blends through. There we go. Perfect. I like that. Now, let's blow everything dry. Pull everything forward and blow it back. And then lean his head over and blow everything dry to get it nice and full and voluminous. Then use a vent brush just to polish everything off and get it all moving righteously.   Final Look And here's our end result. And I think that we're looking pretty good. We got the key elements of the shape and we got the proportions right. You know, the key things are over layering it more on top than you think you need to, pulling everything forward on the sides and cutting that nice and short and so that you have this, you know, disconnect right here at the top of the ear. And it makes everything feather back. And we got just the right amount of texture to it. And because of the way we layered it, it makes this top really full, but then collapses the weight on the sides. And by collapsing it, it forces the bottom to flip. So this is a very versatile shape. If you have someone that wants really short full layers on top and wants it kind of out of their face. Sometimes a study of the old classic shapes can really break you out of your creative box because this really will test you because if you're used to doing modern shapes, they're not anywhere close to this. This breaks a lot of modern rules by layering it so short and by pulling everything forward and feathering it all back. But I still think it looks pretty good. I think it's really cool. If I had hair, I'm telling you, this is what I'd be wearing. I think it looks great. Feathers are very, very important. You have to have the feathers if you're going to do a 70s hardcore shag. Anyway, please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you better hairstyles and barber. Also, let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.  

Today we have a fun treat! As Halloween approaches it's only fitting we do a haircut that could potentially be a costume. In this tutorial we look at the Star Trek Mr. Spock haircut. While Star Trek had several main characters including those played by William Shatner, George Takei and Nichelle Nichols, Leonard Nimoy was one of the biggest. Playing Mr. Spock he had a haircut characterized by straight bangs and pointed sideburns. The Spock haircut name has stuck but elements of this style have continued to show up in contemporary styles like the emo and edgar haircut.  Watch this Spock hair tutorial and follow along with the transcript.    Spock Hair Tutorial:   Welcome back to Jatai Academy. Today I'm going to be sharing with you the most versatile haircut in the entire universe, the Mr. Spock. Now, and I know what you're saying. You're saying that is not the most versatile. But hear me out. I'll show you how to do the haircut and then I'll explain why it is the most versatile. Let's get started.   Scissor Over Comb So, my first section, I'm going to start here in the nape. I'm gonna go through and taper that in a little bit tighter and fit that in a little cleaner with some scissor over comb. I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo Scissor. I tend to like a long, skinny, pointy, sharp blade when I'm doing my scissor over comb. I feel that it gives me a little bit more a better ability to get more detailed and fit everything in close like I want. A fatter blade I can't get as tight in. So, a skinnier blade I like better. So now I'm going to comb this a little bit to the side just so when I bring this up and out I can get a little bit more tension on it. If I comb everything straight down and I come up some types of hair I don't get as clean of a cut. So by combing it a little bit to the side when I pick it up I get a little bit more tension and can get a little bit cleaner scissor over comb. I'll start real close here at the bottom and then just visualize in my mind's eye what type of tapering that I want as I go up and out. Then I'll comb everything down and say, "Okay, I like those lengths. Now let's go through and clean that up." So at first I did a crude shape. So now I'm going to go through and start refining my shape. So, how do I refine my shape? As I go through and I try to trace the previously cut line that was already there. So, I'll go through and do that again. On wet hair, it's going to be a little bit harder to see than if I was to do this on dry hair. The more times that I pass and the more scissor strokes that I apply, potentially the cleaner the cut can be. After I get the center like I want, then I'm going to take a step over to the right. Now I have a guide. The guide is in the center. The first section I didn't have a guide. I was just using the force to cut everything like I want. Now that I have a guide, I'll use that center section as the guide length. And then anything that hangs over off to the side, I will cut a little bit shorter. I want to make sure I don't go through and cut this section shorter or less consistent than I cut in the middle. So, I'm going to take a little bit more time as I start to refine that in. Now, I'm going to go through and do the next section. And I'll continue to work this over all the way to the ear until I run out of hair. I'll start with a crude cut and then fine-tune my crude shape and fine-tune and fine-tune until I get it as smooth as I can see. Give us a thumbs up, click the subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Layering And once I got that dialed in to where I feel that that's good enough while it's wet and I can refine it more when it's dry. Once we reach this point, we're going to start working on our layering now. A center part right down the middle all the way into the nape. Okay. Now, from here, I'm taking this and I'm going to go through and head shape layer this all the way into the back. Since I did my Bettie Page bangs on this model before, I'm going to use that as my guide. But you don't have to have that, I'm just going to go through and take a flat section of head. And what I mean by that is the section against the head is flat. So that's a flat section. I pull that straight up. Oops. Cut that straight across. Remove a little piece. Take a small piece as my guide. Take my next flat section. Hold that up 90° from the head shape where that section is flat. There's my guide. And cut the head shape into it. Tilt the head down to make it more comfortable. A small piece where it's flat. Hold that straight up. There is my guide length. And cut that. Oops. Take a small piece as my guide. My next little flat section. Now, if I have a model who has a flat-ish head, then I understand what the optimal head shape is. So, I will go through and mimic what that would be as I work back. After I finish that, I will go through and separate that in half and pivoting from the crown. I will now blend this length into my tapered length small piece as my guide. So I have the center section as my guide and also the length I'm cutting to. Cut that down and through my next section. Hold into the center of both of those two sections. Pin that out of the way. And there we go. And that's looking pretty good. I will go through remove my center section and then pivot adding my next section. So I have my second section, my third section. I will go through and start at the top. Take a small piece from the inside as my guide. Hold that straight up off the head shape. Cut that down and through my next little flat piece. There's my guide from underneath. Cut that through and work that all the way into my taper. And now at this point I no longer pivot. Once I get to the ear I will take a parallel section. Small piece is my guide from the middle parting and from the previously cut parting. There's my guide. Cut that through. Small piece as my guide. There's my guide from underneath. Blend that into my tapering. And that's looking pretty good as we go through there. Now I will take the parallel section, use that as my guide, and continue to take parallel sections, working forward until I run out of hair. Starting at the top, there's my guide length from underneath. Small piece as my guide. Take my next section. There we go. Small piece as my guide. Working that down and through into my previously cut guide. So, I will cut it from the top down and then cut it from the bottom up just as a cross check or as an opposite check to make sure that my line blends in nice and smooth. And I have a nice round beveled shape. Remove the previously cut guide. And then I have my last cut piece parallel.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Creating the Spock Point on the Sides Small piece as my guide. Make sure I have enough of my guide from the previously cut section. There we go. Small piece as my guide. Basically, the shape that I'm cutting is a round tapered shape. So, it's going to be a little bit longer in the top and it's going to taper down as it gets to the edges and around the hairline. It's going to taper down really tight in the back and then on the sides, I'm not going to taper that in. I want to keep that kind of solid-ish so I can really exaggerate that little Spock point. Since my mannequin head doesn't have a whole lot of sideburn, I am going to go through and cut a little bit of that in. So, I'll comb this down. Determine where I want it to hit, which is going to be about half of the ear. Start there. Get my length cut in. After I get my length cut in, I'll go through, start cutting some of this hair off to reveal the peak over the ear. We want to make sure that his pointy ears are revealed. So, I'm taking it from the back, being gentle over the ear, just letting everything fall in its natural fall, and just fine-tuning that shape in from my taper in the back up and over the ear. And I'm going to take my time. I'm not going to try to rush this. This is the very, very important part of this particular cut. If I had decided to modify this and just taper the whole thing in on the side, that's okay. I don't have to spend so much time making sure that my little point is so strong here in the front. But on this particular head of hair that I'm working on, I need to make sure that that's really dialed in. So, I'm taking my time just combing everything down and point cutting my shape in.   The Front Straight Line All right, after we've got our sides dialed in, now let's go through and work on our front. Now, we did some Bettie Page bangs earlier, and this was my model for that. So, they already have the short bang, but Mr. Spock doesn't have Bettie Page bangs. So, I'm instead of curving this, I'm going to take my short piece and try to blend that across so it's a straighter line. Maybe not as exaggerated of a curve. So, we'll start whittling that down a little bit in the middle to cut some of that curve off.   Fine-Tuning All right, here is our finish after we've blown everything dry. And I think we're looking pretty solid here. I do need to go through and clean some things up, though. So, I want to go through and the first thing I want to focus on is making sure everything in the back here is glassy, smooth, and seamless in its tapering. So, I'm going to go through with my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissor. This is the perfect blending scissor. It removes enough hair that when I need to remove weight, it distributes the weight perfectly, but also if I just want to retrace what's already there and make sure everything blends, it's perfect for that. So, that's what we're going to start with. I'm going to start right in the center. And all I'm going to do is I'm going to put the straight blade on the bottom. All I'm going to do is go through and retrace what's already there. I'm not trying to cut more hair off. I'm just trying to hit the very tips and make sure everything blends glassy smooth by just hitting the tips of the hair. And that's already making that smoother. So, just retracing what's already there as I work from the nape all the way up into the crown here around the front. Just comb everything down in its natural fall the way it's going to live. And then just take my time and fine-tune this line around the front.   The Versatility of Spock Hair The reason that I say that this is the most versatile haircut in the entire universe is that it's fundamentally a classic shape that has been modified into so many different ways. If you take this even shorter and you cut the sideburns off, you have a Caesar. If I let the top get, you know, longer and I take the sides and the back and taper that really, really short, then I have kind of the lad haircut that's very very popular in Britain. If I let the top and the sides get a little bit longer and have it kind of brushed over, then I end up with a more of a mod kind of bull cut, a Bieber-ish type of shape. If I let the top get longer and I take the sides and the back really, really short and perm the top, it looks like a modern Edgar that's very, very popular right now. So, the basics of this shape make it the most versatile haircut that you can do on any of your masculine clients. tapering it, rounding the shape, and just keeping your proportions varied and the textures varied, and you can do a lot of different types of haircuts. If you only knew this one haircut, you could modify it to fit a large proportion of the masculine clientele that's available today. Anyway, check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hair stylist and barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.  

Let's explore a Brad Pitt hairstyle. But which one? The famous actor has had many hairstyles over the years and has sported distinct styles in movies like Fight Club, Fury, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Inglorious Bastards. His red carpet looks from his days with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie have always been of interest to fashion gurus. And his hair is versatile making him a great candidate for a variety of looks. In this tutorial, we dissect the Brad Pitt haircut from Seven, a 90s oldie but goodie. Follow along with the video below and follow along with the transcript.   Brad Pitt Hairstyle in Se7en Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a study of Brad Pitt's short haircut that he had in the movie Se7en. It was one of my favorite looks that he had because it wasn't a real polished look. It was a little more lived in, a little more raw. So we're going to study how to get that raw look but still have it look like it is a complete and well done haircut. So let's get started. So in the movie Se7en Brad Pitt plays this young rookie detective and he's teamed up with this veteran, you know, detective to show him the ropes. So you can kind of see in his character that he's young, he's new to the job, he's new to the gig, he's learning how to do everything. And that's reflected in his style as well. He's not real polished in his clothes. They're like they fit but they're not real expensive and also you can see that especially in his hair because his hair is this young raw kind of cheap rookie detective haircut. It's not real polished. It's not real clean. It's literally the opposite of Miami Vice that was glitz and glam and perfection. And now you're seeing Brad Pitt who's usually impeccably dressed with perfect hair, because the dude has great hair. In this movie, his hair is a little lumpy. It's a little raw. It's a little disheveled. It's not polished. So I'm going to try to repeat that basic shape and keep that rawness to it without it looking like it's a cheap terrible haircut. To get started I'm going to go through and separate the top from the bottom. We're going to take a recession...center of the recession straight back to the quarter part, quarter part's going to go down to the drop crown which is between the occipital bone and the crown. It's that little bump right in the middle. That is basically the parietal ridge that I'm separating the top from the bottom from.   Scissor Over Comb Now that I've got the top separated from the bottom, I'm going to go through and do some scissor over comb. I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo Scissor. This is a 6-inch scissor with a nice even blade all the way through. It's not a real heavy blade so it doesn't tire out my hand by doing a lot of repetitive motion, but it still has a nice sharp blade and a good clean point to it. So we're going to start here on the side and in the movie I noticed that his hair was tapered closer here in the front and it was a little longer in the back. So that's what we're going to do. I'm going to angle my comb here. I'm going to start real low and just crudely go through scissor over comb. I'm not taking a whole lot of strokes just yet. I just want to go through and get my lengths proper to where I think that they should be. This is still going to be a little tapered. So we're going to go through and feel it out and get everything where I think that should be. And I think that that's probably a pretty good length. I'll probably take that a little shorter right through there and then I will continue to work this back. After I've got to the mastoid I'm going to go to the back of the head, the nape of the head, and I'm going to start here at the bottom. I'm going to leave a little bit more length than I did on the side and taper that up. It's not a real steep taper but it's still tapered a little bit nonetheless. Now once I come to the point where the mastoid is, I was cutting the side going up, I was cutting the back going up but because of the way that the angles are on the parietal ridge now I'm going to come in at an angle like this and work that up and out and through. So I'm working my tapering parallel to my parting. Okay now I'm going to go through and separate in the back. I'm going to take from the crown to the high point of the ear and separate the front from the back. And I'll go through and take a center section and I want to continue the angle of tapering that I've already started from underneath as I get longer towards the crown.   Blending the Sides and Back So I'll take this section right in the back in the middle using my wood-look Feather Styling Razor limited edition, by the way. This gives me enough texture to keep everything soft and allow me to fine-tune it here later on. But it also can go through and cut a nice clean shape. I'm going to pull that out. There's my length from underneath. Go through and continue that angle straight up. I'm not worried about this length being right because I'll cut that with the top. All I'm looking for now is to blend this into the back. I will pivot from the crown. There's my pivot angle. I'll pull this out from the head at 90. There's my line from underneath and my previously cut guide. I'll go through take that length off and make sure that we have a nice little blend through there. Pivot again as I start to work towards the side. Remove the center section. Now I only have my second and third section. Going to pull this straight out from the head. There is my line from underneath. Going to take that out, remove my second section. Now I have my third and my fourth on this side. There's my length from underneath. We're going to go through blend that through. Now let's go through and work on making sure that the sides blend. I'm going to go through and take a parallel section to my previously cut section which was halving the parietal ridge. We have this length here so I'm going to pull this straight out from the head using my razor. There's my length underneath and cut this using that length as my guide from the front all the way to the back.   Follow us on your favorite social media at @JataiFeather   Next section. And I'm gonna keep going through and following this methodology until I get to the center of the head and then I'll go through and do the same thing on the other side. We've got everything blended through with our sides and the back and I think that we don't have to worry about any hair hanging over that looks funky but the top is still too long for the shape.   Blending the Top So what I want to do is go through and cut the top, but I want to cut it as inconsistent as possible without being completely out of shape so what I'm going to try to do is just use my fingers to put in, pick up and then cut anything that hangs out over my fingers off. Lift this up, put my fingers in, try to find that length that I want and then go through using my Feather Styling Razor and just start cutting anything that hangs out over my fingers off. This is going to be very crude and very raw. And I may have to go through and do it a couple of times. But this is how I'm going to start getting that really crude shape on top and I'm not trying to cut everything at one time. This starts to give me my guide length and now as I start to look at that front, that's looking more like the photo. He's looking like a detective more and more. Another way that I can go through and cut this, pull back. There's my length. I'm going to lay my finger against the flat part of the blade and anything that's really long I'll just push into the blade and cut that off. After we got the front, I'm going to go through and take a little more here. Hold this up in my fingers. There's my guide from the front and then we're just going to go through take this off. I would probably use the regular blade as opposed to the R-Type Blade to give myself a little bit more protection. And I'm not jamming this into my hand. I'm just running it across the top of my fingers. So it's starting to crudely cut the shape, but not real cleanly. So take your time and be patient. It's a technique that requires a little bit of patience. So let's work this a little bit more internally and take some more of this weight out in the crown. So I'll pull out, go through, channel cut some of that because I want some weight removal and some separation. Continue to go through and channel some of this out until I feel like I got the weight and the length like I want here in the crown.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   I think that's looking pretty good. So now let's go through and blow it dry and see if I need to do any texturizing on the top. I like the length that we got on the front. I think that that's looking you know pretty good through there. I like the length on the sides and the back down through here but we need to take a little bit more out through the ridge here because this shape is a little beveled and rounded off.   Thinning & Removing Length So I'm going to go through and use my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissor. Now this is a nice clean middle of the road thinning scissor to take out some weight. The more times that I hit it, it will start to remove more length so I'm going to go through and thin this ridge out a little through here and I'm going to thin it a lot but I'm going to thin it on the end so I can take some of that length out and bevel the shape a little bit. So we're going to start low here. Make sure that my straight blade is on the bottom. Start at the bottom. Get the motor running and then go through and work that up and bevel my shape a little bit. The more that I do this, the cleaner that the shape is going to be. Now you don't want to necessarily go through and give a really really crude haircut on your client but you still want to keep that kind of rough and raw texture to it. So there's a fine line that I'm walking here between how much of this shape can I make it crude and how much of it needs to be clean and presentable and even. There we go. We're going to take some of that out through there. I like that better. Take a little bit of clay.   Brad Pitt Hairstyle from Se7en End Result Alright, here's our end result. I think we're looking pretty good. I think we got the texture right. I think the lengths are pretty good and it still has that kind of rawness to it that I think he had in the movie and so I'm pretty content with this. I'm pretty happy with that. When you're going to do the razor texturing on the top like I did where you're going across your fingers, make sure you turn the blade away from you as you're going across. If the hair is real thick it doesn't work too well. So just take a mohawk section and pinch it off like the other technique that I showed you if the hair is really really thick. That works just as well and it will give you a very very similar shape. I think you're looking pretty good. You're ready to go catch some criminals, but don't look in the box. Don't look in the box. Check out Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.   Tutorial

The men's French crop cut hairstyle is known for its short sides and cropped textured top with a short fringe. The sides can have a high or low fade or taper and the top works well with thick hair and even curly hair. A blunt fringe or textured fringe give a distinct look. The French crop haircut is a great style to learn how to cut. Watch the crop hairstyle tutorial below and follow along with the transcript.   Men's French Crop Cut Hair Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a practice on the French crop. The French crop taper fade is very very popular. It's very versatile. You can use it on a lot of different textures and a lot of different types but there are some fundamental skills that you really need to hone in and practice and get good at in order to deliver a very very good French crop. So let's study that. Let's get started. To get started what we've done is we've taken the center of the recession straight back to the quarter part down and curved that around into the back so that we have half of the parietal ridge sitting up top, half of it sitting on the bottom.   Tapering and Fading with a Clipper So I'm going to start and just remove some hair. So I just want to get most of this hair out of the way before I start worrying about my taper. So I'm gonna use a number three guard on my clipper and then just go straight up and take all of this hair off. Now as I start to go, sometimes this hair gets pushed up and out of the way. So if I just grab it and pull it into the teeth it makes it easier for me to get all this off. Now whenever I'm doing some short hair like this I don't want to go through and necessarily cut everything in my fingers first and then go through and cut it shorter with scissor over comb or clipper over comb or whatever that may be. Sometimes I just need to remove some hair so I can start whittling my shape in. So now that I've got my overall length cut off and I've established my length that I'm cutting to here at the top, I can go through and approach my taper in one of two different ways. I can skin the bottom up to where I want the skin part to be and then fade from short into long or I can work from long to short. It's really a personal preference on what style works best for you. I find personally if I'm doing something really high, like a French crop high fade, like I'm skinning it up really high, then I'd prefer to skin it first and then work out my line. If I'm keeping the taper lower and the skin fade very low, then I'll go from long to short. So let's go from long to short for a French crop low fade. So I had a three. Now I'm going to go down to a number two and I'll go up about a finger length away and as I start to run up the head I want to rock the clipper away from the head. That's going to allow me to cut this hair underneath short and then as I rock it out it allows me to blend into that longer length. So I finished with my number two. I got everything done like I want. I can look at it from a profile and see that it tapers quite nicely. Now I'm going to go down to a 1-1/2. And on the one and a half I'm going to do the same methodology that I was doing before where I'm not going up as high as the last one and as I get closer to where I want it to start to fade, I start rocking the clipper away from the head. So it's this type of arching motion that's coming from your wrist. I finished my one and a half so you notice that the steps went from three to two to one and a half. Now I'm going to a one. So as I get shorter the steps become smaller because you notice the difference much more as the hair gets shorter and you see more skin sticking out. Now we got a number one. Going to do the same thing. Start low where I stopped before. Run up to that point. Arc the clipper to start working on my blend. Now we're to our 1/2 so I run a 1/2 right at where I want my shortest bit. And then I open the blade a little bit and I start using my arcing motion of my wrist to help the clipper go through and blend that through as best I can. Now I'll take the clipper itself with no guard and just here on the very bottom take all of that little residual hair off. That's not looking too bad.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   So I've gone through and finished my tapering. Now I've gone and washed the hair because the clipper cuts better on dry hair and I can see everything a little bit better on dry whereas the scissors and razor cut better on wet hair.   Cutting the Top Back with Scissors So I've gone and shampooed. Now I've sectioned off from the high point of the head over to the top of the ear and I have the whole back of the head. I want to make sure that this blends well with the underneath without them getting a flat head. So I'll start right in the middle and I will take a parallel section. Now I'm going to separate this according to where the crown is. I'm going to hold this hair at this elevation because I want to make sure I continue this angle of graduation so it prevents me from getting a flat head. So I'll hold that straight out, plant my fingers, there's my guide I'm cutting from. Now I'm going to pull that out and continue that angle that I had there. Take that a little shorter through there by building up a little bit more length in the crown when the hair falls. It's going to continue this natural fall of head shape. So now from here after I've got that length going up from there, I'll use that as my length and follow the head shape from there forward. Oops! Once we got that through now that should be a nice curved shape blending right into my longest part of my taper underneath. I will go through, I will pivot the section from the center, get this other hair out of the way and continue to work that around into the sides. Now I'm using my Jatai Tokyo Scissor this is a 6 inch scissor. It's got a nice little point on it and it gives me enough scissor length that I can really work in larger thicker sections of hair. And it's also good if I need to do some scissor over comb type of blending. Continue up the head working to the center top of the head. One more pivot. Pin this hair out of the way. Take my previous section, hold that out. There's my line from underneath. Follow my tapering angle and then start to head shape the rest of the cut so I continue this nice smooth bevel. I would rather have too much hair through here than not enough because I can always take it down. If I end up with not enough hair, then I end up with a flat head. Fine-tune this a little bit with some scissor over comb, just trying to get a rough shape into it. Get my lengths even. Get everything blended in the back. There we go. Now I'll go through, separate my center section again. This was the original section that I cut and I'm going to go through do the same thing on the other side.   Cutting the Top with Scissors After I finish the back I'm going to go through and take a center section right down the top of the middle and here I know that my bangs are already here. I can go shorter than that or longer. I'm going to leave that about that length so I'm going to go through and cut from this length to this length, going from back to front. Now I like to cut from the shortest part to the longer part. So I'm going to turn to the other side, pick this straight up. There's my short part and cut from longer. I'm sorry from shorter to longer. Holding this straight up into the center of the section straight up towards the ceiling to this length right in the front, comb that forward. Check the lengths out. Think that's okay cuz I can cut this a little bit more in the front. All right, so once we've got that we're going to go through and take a parallel section. I have my center section and my first section that I'm adding to. I will comb those two into the center of both of those sections, cut that going from back to front, from shorter to longer. Get that done. Okay very good. Now I will remove my first section, my first guide that I cut. I'm going to go through and remove that. I no longer need it. I have a new guide now. I'll take my next section and do exactly the same thing, work from short in the back to long in the front.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   There we go. I will remove my second section. So now I have the third section and the last section on this side. I'll comb that straight up. There's my guide from the back. There we go. Cut that shorter to longer than the front. Now I'll go back, find my very first section that I took right here into the center, pin this other hair out of the way so I don't get confused. I will add my next section on the opposite side and go through and do exactly the same thing that I did on the right side. Now I'll go through and do that on the left using my center guide to walk my guide all the way to their left side.   Blending and Sculpting So to work on my blend, I'm going to go through and use my Feather Styling Razor. This is a wood grain so it's a wood look finish and I really like it. I think it looks very cool. You can also use all three different types of blades on it: the Texturizing, the Standard or the R-Type. I am using the R-Type Blade so I get a little bit more blade exposed so I can cut a little cleaner. So from here we're going to hold this straight out. There's my line in the back and I'll just start razoring from short to long in the front just like I was doing on the top. I want to do this little bit right here on the sides to make sure everything blends through. There pull my next section. I will probably not have a whole lot of hair reach and I don't so we'll take a little bit of that off right through there. That's looking pretty good. A little sculpture cutting right through there to make sure I take some of the weight out and have a nice blend. When I do this it's a very gentle laying of the razor on the surface of the hair to remove some weight from it, remove some solidity and I think that that's looking like a pretty good blend through there. Now we're going to do the same thing on the other side from here. Okay that's looking pretty good. I want to go through and just clean this line up here in the front, not a lot but just clean that up a little bit. Take a long stroke to take out weight as I cut my length right there, a little bit right through there. Here we're not taking off any length. I'm just going to add a little bit of texture to soften that up and we need a little bit more over here. All right, I'm thinking this shape is looking pretty good. Now let's go through and blow it dry see what we got.   Final Men's French Crop Cut Haircut Here's our finished look. I think we got a really nice kind of taper. One thing I will say is when you're doing a taper, especially when you're practicing on a mannequin head you're not going to like it while you're doing it. You're going to freak out, but wait till you wash it and wait till you get it dry before you can really judge it completely. It takes a little time to dial it in and to get your hand motions right, but we got a nice little taper. We got it blended through the crown really properly so it has a nice head shape to it. It's not the anti-head shape where it's flat and collapsed in the back. You got a nice little solid top and we've got this lad kind of look in the front where it's straight across but still has a little bit of texture. And I think that this really surmises the French crop in that it's solid, soft and short on the sides with a little bit of texture in the front. So add this to your repertoire practice and it's just skills that you need to have in your arsenal and this is really a straightforward haircut that's very versatile that you can use on a lot of different hair types and a lot of different hair textures and thicknesses. So there we go. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hair stylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time. If you're looking for men's haircut ideas, the French crop is good one. Crop fade haircuts are popular among men all over the world. Learning how to do a mens crop haircut requires precision and proper technique since it shows all flaws. Using various tools to achieve seamless crop cut hairstyles, you can create a masterpiece of your own! Tutorial

The short faded mohawk hairstyle is a popular men's cut. There are many versions of this style. You can have shaved sides for more of a skin fade or a more tapered look. You can create a mohawk burst fade for a more distinct look. You can make a high fade or low fade mohawk as well. As you can see, the variations are limitless! Mohawk fade haircuts are more edgy because there are greater differences in the length of the hair. Mohawk taper haircuts are more conservation because the sides are a bit longer and not as close to the skin. The hair length on the sides vs. the top can make it more conservative or more edgy. Watch this short faded mohawk haircut tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.   Short Faded Mohawk Haircut Tutorial:   Welcome to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing an in-depth study on one of my faves: the mohawk taper. Now, the mohawk taper can be very, very subtle and conservative, or it can be very edgy and very extreme depending on the amount of texture, the length and where you're going to place it. We're going to show you how to taper it properly, how to fit it to the head, and how to get the right amount of texture in your haircut. So let's get started. All right, so to get started I want to cut my short part first. So I'm going to take from the center of the recession back to the quarter part, and I'm going to curve that around until I get down to the nape. Now, I'm not going to go all the way to the tendon. I'm going to go a little bit further in to exaggerate the fact that my mohawk is going to be separated all the way from the sides into the back.   Tapering the Sides with Scissor Over Comb So I'm going to start with my Jatai Tokyo Scissors. This is a 6-inch scissor, and I like using a longer blade when I'm doing scissor over comb because I feel like it allows me to work with a much bigger section. And I want something that has a nice point to it so I can go through and feel like I can get a lot more detailing than if I had a really small, really rounded-tip scissor. We're going to start here on the side. I just want to go through and remove some hair, starting to taper from really short up to a little bit longer as I go up. So I'm going to go through and just, real crudely go through and cut shorter and get longer as I go toward the top of my sections. And I'm not worried about really fine-tuning everything in. I just want to get a crude shape going from short at the hairline to a little longer towards the parting. Now once I get most of that hair out of the way, I want to start fine-tuning this shape. Now to fine-tune it, we're going to put the comb in, and then I'll make a cut. I'll move the comb up a little bit more, make another cut. Up a little bit more, make another cut. So it's like - bam, bam, bam. Guess what happens next? Bam. Yes. Bam. And I just continue that as I work all the way from the bottom up to the top. The more times that I hit this section, the closer that my scissor strokes are, the smoother that my scissor over comb is going to be. So just start low - low expectation as you go up to the top and continue to fine-tune that as I get to the top of the section. And this is just to get rid of some hair and start my tapered shape in. I don't want it really long here at the top. I want to keep that closer to the head. Alright, so now that I've got all of my scissor over comb down and got my basic taper in on both sides - I got it a little longer at the top, tapered in over the ears, basically graduated - I'm going to go through and take my clippers.   Creating the Fade on the Sides The clippers, I'm going to use an attachment. I'm going to start with a 1, and I'm going to close everything down. So you can adjust open or closed. Open just means that the cutting blade is a little bit further away from the teeth, so it gives me a little softer cut and is going to be a little bit longer. Closed is going to be up closer to the cut of the teeth, so it's going to cut a little bit cleaner and be a little bit shorter. So I'll just lay it against the head, go up against the head. Once I get to where the head starts to curve, then I'll bring the clipper away from the head. So it's this sort of rocking motion to get it close over the ear, and then as I come up, I move the clipper away from the head so that it allows it to get longer. Here in the back, I'll start low, work around the ear. Since the ear doesn't really move, it's a little bit more difficult. Basically, work that angle in a little bit tighter over the ears. Now once I've got this line here done and I got everything kind of clean like I want - it's as close as I can get - then I'll open up the blade a little bit. That gives me a little bit more softness so it's easier for me to blend this a little bit higher. And now I'm just going to use the straight blade, and I have to finesse this a little shorter over the ear and do the same sort of C-shaping method that I was using to get a soft blend. Open it up real tight. Skin just over the ear. Angle this part of the blade away from the head; the bottom part of the blade is all the way touching the head. And once I get this area here real short, I'll start to open the blade and then softly blend that line out through there. Real gently open up a little bit more and that just allows me to taper that in and fine-tune that line out from the head. After I get this done on one side, I'll go through and do the same thing on the other side.   Follow us on your favorite social media: @jataifeather   Blending the Sides Back with my scissors, I'm going to go through and, whatever this parting was, I'm going to take a parallel section to that. I'm going to go through and pull this straight out horizontally, leaving it a little longer right here in the front. And then we're going to go through and point cut all of this length off. I don't want to go through and completely disconnect this. While this is kind of a tapered mohawk, I want this to be a little more on the conservative side. So we're not going to go through and disconnect and leave a lot of this hanging over. There's my parting line. We're going to go through and point cut everything off as we work this all the way down. It doesn't have to blend 100% with the previously cut hair, but I want it to be pretty close. As I get to the bottom, I may need a little more length right through there, which I think is a good thing. So we've got that cut off and I think that that length is looking pretty good. So now we're going to continue to walk my guide and pull everything over to this side. There's my guide from underneath, following my previously cut guide. Now I'm not pulling it down to my short section. I want to continue to pull this straight out at whatever the head shape elevation is. Last section, right at the nose. I'm continuing to point cut this, even though I'm going to go through and cut the top a little bit shorter to get my point taken out. But I want to make sure I have some texture to it. I don't want this being cut really, really bluntly and then having to go back and re-cut everything to have some texture in it. The more blunt the line is that I put into it, the harder it's going to be to start to develop some texture into it. Now that I've got my sides basically etched in – I will go fine-tune that in a minute - but I want to go through and cut the length on the top.   Cutting the Length on the Top And what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a parting. It's going to be a little further back so that I can pull this hair from the front into the top of that parting, right where the head starts to curve so that can leave a little more length here in the front. There's my parting. I'll lay my finger, I'm going to pull everything back into that, and then go through and point cut that to square it off and to cut the little point off that I went through and cut in it by pulling everything to the left side and to the right side. Take my next section - pull it back into that parting, follow the front guide, squaring everything off a little bit. Next parting - plant the finger, same thing. Now once I get to the crown, I'm gonna go through and do the same thing, but in the opposite motion. So here I'm pulling everything back to here. So what I'm gonna do now, is so I can develop and leave a little length in the nape, I'll do the same thing. Find where the occipital bone is and pull the hair up to that point. Square that off. Take my next parting, pull everything up into that. Square it off. Last section - back into the crown. I see my previous guide from the front and I'll match those two into the middle.   Adding Internal Texture So now I want to add some internal texture. I feel like the hair is too thick. So I'm going to take my Tokyo Thinning Scissors from Jatai. This is going to go through – and it's seamless but it will remove quite a bit of hair. So the more times I hit it, the more hair that I'll remove. I want to methodically go through and thin it on the first pass just to make sure I have an even amount of texture that going through the whole thing. So I'm going to start here in the bottom - hit that a few times in the middle and then work out toward the ends. So I lift it up right in the center of the section and take some of that weight out. Now I'll go through and do the other side - center of the length, and then a little on the ends to taper my texture and to taper my thinning so I can remove the weight internally and then soften the edges up. So I'll start here in the front, half way. Half way in the middle. And then as I get closer to the edges to smooth that texturizing out. Now I'll do one right down the center now. Oh come here. Now I want to go through and take a little bit of this edge off right through there and I'm going to do that with my texturizing scissors and just go through and trace that hair that's hanging over that I don't think blends very well and just soften that up.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe, and hit the notification bell to get notified of future Jatai Academy content.   The Final Short Faded Mohawk Haircut Look Here's our end result. I think we're looking pretty good. I think this looks, you know, cool enough without being too over the top. I think it gives it a little modernity without being so extreme and in your face. We've still got this real ultra-clean edge over the ear which - you know once you've had short hair it's hard to let it grow out. So this keeps it feeling clean but you also start to have a little more length in the back, you got a little bit more through here and the back of the head. You got some texture to it. This looks really, really good. It's really modern. And you know I'm glad my clients have been asking for this kind of haircut and demanding it and forcing me to practice at it. Check out the Jatai Academy - there's all kinds of fantastic information there that will make you a better stylist and barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.   Final Thoughts on the Short Faded Mohawk The short mohawk fade consists of short hair on the sides gradually leading to longer hair down the middle for a short mohawk. This haircut can be done on straight hair as well as curly hair. The curly mohawk gives the mohawk strip a lot of texture and fullness. Hair type can make a big difference in the overall look of this style. What you want is a lot of texture in the mohawk portion if possible. For styling, use a pomade, gel or mousse. For a stronger hold, use a pomade. For volume and body, use a mousse.

In this asymmetrical haircut male tutorial, we'll guide you through creating a popular men's hairstyle that's perfect for any occasion. Combining scissor-over-comb techniques with razor cutting using the Feather Plier Razor, you'll learn how to blend different lengths seamlessly and add texture for a modern, edgy style. Asymmetrical haircuts and styles work well on all hair types from curly to straight as well as different thicknesses and textures. Mens asymmetrical hairstyles usually have one side that's a different length or uneven from the other. But this is intentional and makes the style more modern and edgy. Whether you're looking to refine your skills or try creating new hairstyles, this step-by-step guide offers clear instructions and practical hair care tips to help you achieve a precise, stylish cut. Follow along with the video and transcript below to learn how to create this asymmetrical men's haircut.   Watch this Asymmetrical Haircut Male Tutorial:   Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be working on a short masculine shape that's asymmetrical. Gives you a lot of styling options, a lot of versatility and it works on a lot of different types of hair.   Addressing the Bottom Half of the Head with Scissor Over Comb So to get started what we're going to do is go through and separate the top of the head from the bottom of the head. We're going to start at the center of the recession straight back to where a quarter part would be. To the top of the ear we're going to angle that down and section out the bottom where it gets flat. This is going to be the parietal ridge which separates the top from the bottom. Now I'm going to go through and start cutting this underneath short. So I'm going to take an angle that's going to be parallel to my front hairline which is also going to be parallel to the hairline behind the ear. Plant my fingers. Put my fingers in. I'm going to leave it a little longer at the top of the section and a little shorter underneath. And I'm using my Osaka Scissor from Jatai. This is a nice long solid blade that gives me a nice point but not too pointy that I poke myself. And the blade is nice and sharp. The sharper the blade is, the less it's going to push the hair in your hand. There's my line from underneath. Shorter at the hairline, a little longer at the top. Now again I'm not worried about this being absolutely perfect right now. I'm just following the pattern and getting this length cut off. Second section and my third section. There's my guide from underneath. Cut that down and through. And you can start to see my graduation developing. After I get to this section right here behind the ear where the mastoid is, then I can determine if I need to go shorter or if I've gone too short. So I'm looking at that and I think that that can definitely go a little bit shorter. So what I'm going to go through and do is I'm going to scissor over comb. I'm going to start low, cut that across. Go up about the width of the scissor, cut that short. Cut that short. Cut that short. And I'm working on creating the same type of shape I was cutting earlier which is shorter at the bottom longer at the top. Now I'm just doing it in my comb horizontally as opposed to in my hand which was vertically. The more scissor strokes that I take as I do my scissor over comb and the more I fine-tune it, the smoother that that will be. So now I want to change my approach because I'm going shorter than what my fingers will allow me. So I'm going to start here in the back. Take my first cut, my second cut, my third cut. Now I've removed a lot of that hair very very quickly and I can start to fine-tune my shape from there. As long as I don't cut too short it's easy to start to fine-tune. Come in at an angle. Scissor over comb that up and out. Now that I've got all that long hair cut off I'm going to go through and start to really fit in and fine-tune my scissor over comb shape. And a couple of key pointers: I'm going to start lower than I think. I'm going to make sure one blade is moving as I start low and then continue to fine-tune that up and out. Now I'm just going to continue to do this until I have the entire underneath tapered in.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Addressing the Drop Crown Using the Feather Plier Razor I've sectioned the top of the head into three. I've taken the quarter part which is going to separate the front from the back of the head. And I've also gone through since I felt like that was too much hair and too much head to worry about blending back here, I've taken the drop crown. This is going to section out all the hair that's going to blend in the back. So I'm going to take an angle that's parallel to my previous parting. Now I'm going to go through and use my Feather Plier Razor. This is a guard-less razor, just a straight blade. It gives me the most control, the cleanest cut and it allows me to get delicate little sections that's hard to control with any other type of razor. Pulling this over to the side where I can see the underneath line and then I'll go through and cut that down and through. So now from here I'll just continue that on until I get about halfway to the center and run out of hair and do the same thing on the other side. Continue to pull that over. There's my line underneath. Take a nice broad stroke. The stroke that I take with the razor should be the same and as consistent as possible through every section of the back. Last section on this side. Pull that out and forward towards the previously cut hair. Take the same broad razor stroke I was doing to keep everything nice and soft. If I get a little longer here underneath, clean that up and that's not looking too bad. Now I'm going to go through and do the same thing on the other side.   Addressing the Top Half of the Head Using a Feather Plier Razor Now whenever I'm cutting with the razor I always prefer to use Jatai Blade Glide over water. It makes the hair much easier to control and allows the blade to glide across the section to give me a cleaner cut. I'm going to go through and do the same thing I was doing in the back. As far as my section goes I'm going to take a parallel section to what was cut underneath. Comb that hair out of the way. Now from here I want to leave this front long. So I can already see I'm going from this is the short. So this is the long. If I need a guide around the front, I can go through and pull one of these sections out and say okay let's cut it about the chin. And say okay that's my section I'm cutting to. This is my section I'm cutting from. So when I angle my fingers I have a general idea of the angle that I need to cut. So I'll take the section, hold this straight out from the head. There's my hair underneath. I have a general idea of the angle that I need to cut and I will go through from short to long. Here in the front there is my piece I was cutting to. And that's not looking too bad. That's looking pretty good. Pull this out. There's my line underneath. A nice broad razor stroke to keep my line very very soft. I'll take my next section parallel and I'll just continue this until I run out of hair.   Give us a thumbs, up click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   So I'm going to cut this side here a little shorter especially around the front. So I want that instead of coming into here. I'm thinking I want that to come a little shorter and then come through to my long piece about in the middle of the head. There's my short piece. Cut that through. Now about the ear, I'm going to get a little longer in the front but not a whole lot on this first section. Continue on. Take a parallel section to my previously cut section and follow the guide from underneath.   Fine-Tuning & Styling the Asymmetrical Haircut Male Style Looking pretty good. Now with this type of shape I have a lot of variations of the way I comb it because I have one side that's long and if I want something very kind of emo I can comb everything from the short side over to the longer side. Or we could also comb the long side over the short side and because it's shorter underneath on this side, it's going to allow that hair to kick out and pop differently than if that side was really long too. So it works on both ways. Let's go through and blow it dry and then we'll talk about it. I'll comb it back and forth a couple of times to loosen that hair up so nothing gets kind of stuck down and then go through and just fine-tune that as much as I can or until my patience runs out or my next client shows up until I get it just perfect. Alright, that's looking pretty good through there. I think you need a little bit of product to kind of jelly in, but as long as it's clean over the ears and in the back you can really have a nice conservative looking shape that doesn't have to be just a short back and sides with the top cropped short. You can have a little bit of length. So for some guys that have a little bit of curl or a little bit of wave you can kind of fluff this up a little bit or you can comb it over to the other side and kind of have that pumped up a little bit. And with this short side it'll all look really really short. So this is a very very versatile shape that gives you a lot of options. I think you're looking pretty good bro. Thanks for checking us out. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much.   Final Look of the Asymmetrical Haircut Male Style 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.   Follow us on all your favorite social media @jataifeather.   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.   Give us a thumbs up if you like the video, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai content.   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. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hairdresser and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching and we will see you next time.   The Final Look Tutorial

A short shag haircut men style is not your typical classic, clean haircut. A shag haircut for men is cool, stylish, has a vibe and lots of texture. The male shaggy hairstyle is very much an LA look. When cut on a man, the shag hairstyle is short but longer than many other types of men's haircuts. It usually requires at least a little bit of grooming and styling to give it that natural volume. Shaggy mens hairstyles are popular in today's hair looks. Watch and follow along with this mens short shaggy hair tutorial and transcript.   Short Shag Haircut Men Tutorial: Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a shaggy mens haircut with our Feather Plier Razor. That's the one without the guard, and we're going to be doing a masculine shag shape, something that's very LA. So let's get started. Take a natural or center part where it's flat from the first hairline in, which is about right there. I'm taking at that angle. So I'm going to take a center triangular section. And then because I'm leaving a lot of texture in it, I'm going to leave it longer than I think, and also the more texture that I put into it the shorter that it's going to feel.   Razor Cutting from Front to Back So I'm going to go about from his eyeball to the tip of his nose and cutting that through. And then I'll look at it and see how that's going to look. And I think a little bit shorter for the kind of look we're going for, not a lot shorter but a little bit shorter and a little more texture right around the front. Alright, so we've got that. That's going to be our guide and I'm going to go to about the bottom of the ear. So I'm going to pull everything forward. There's my length. Angle my fingers to the bottom of the ear and then we're going to go through channel cut this down and through. Now when it comes to shaggy hair for guys, this differs from a female shag in that the female shag I tend to pull everything forward and go short to long. Here I'm going to angle the front and at the ear I'm going to go short to long. So we're pulling this parallel to my parting. There's my ear so I've got a little bit of a guide of where I'm going to put my texture in and then cut my length. See how that shapes up. That's looking pretty good. Next section parallel to my parting, put my texture in then cut my length. If I need to cut a little more length off no problem. Here at the ear I'm going to take a little more length off. That's looking pretty good.   Follow us on your favorite social media platform @jataifeather   We're going to go through, add a little Blade Glide to make sure everything's evenly saturated and then I'm going to follow the same pattern on this side. Find where the second flat is, go through there. From here, as I continue to work back I'm going to raise my elevation. The first section I held down here. The next section I'm going to hold at that elevation off the peak curvature of the head. So that's going to bevel my shape around the front. So it's not going to be heavy and hard. It's going to be cutting a curved line into it. So I'll take a center flat section. Hold that out. There's my line. Cut that down and through. We got a little whisper right there. Check that and I'm liking the way that's looking so we're going to continue on the same pattern, making sure I got the right elevation. There's my guide from underneath. Channel cut that through. So this is as much about getting the right texture as it is getting the right length and the right movement. There's my line underneath. There we go. Pull that forward. There's my line. Same thing on the other side. So the next section I'm going to take is going to go to the corner of the hairline from the next flat part of the head which is usually the high point of the head. Remove some previously cut hair but still make sure I have enough for a guide. Pull that forward at my elevation. There's my section. Same kind of stroke that I was using before. Make sure I got the right elevation. There's my guide falling out. Cut that forward and through. Last section at the top of the ear. There's my guide forward and through making sure I get all of that like I want. Now as soon as I get behind the ear I'm going to change the angle whereas before I'm working at this angle going back shorter in the front, longer in the back. Now I'm going to go much more vertical with my section using this length as my guide. So instead of pulling here and continuing shorter which is going to leave me longer in the back and it's going to make a point. I want to pull everything forward and then this angle is going to go straight up and down. Just like that. I don't have a whole lot of hair so I don't need to texturize that but we're going there. That way I can go through and cut the back at whatever length that I want if I want to leave it really long and mullety or if I want to bring it much more shorter. But it allows me to leave a corner when the hair transitions from the front to the back it allows hair to be seen from the front. So it leaves this little corner through here. Same thing on the other side. We're going to continue to follow the same pattern that I was doing before. I went down to the corner of the hairline in the last section. Now I'm going to go halfway between the center and the corner of the hairline. Parallel to my section, anything that hangs over cut that off. If it needs some texture, we'll put some texture into it. Not a whole lot once I get to the top of the ear. Pull that forward. There's my line. Not a whole lot to cut off but I will cut this perimeter length in the back when I make sure everything blends with the sides.   Shaggy Male Haircuts - Razor Cutting the Back Okay so we're going to start right down the center and then we're going to take a horizontal section. Maybe not that thick. I want enough thickness to provide me with enough hair to get a good grip and cut on but not so much that it becomes difficult for the razor to push through. Start right in the center, pull that down and through, starting about halfway bringing that down and a channel and then cutting my length off. So we're going to go here. Same sort of thing. Work all the way through. You notice that my left hand doesn't really move. I will roll my fingers out of the way but as I'm cutting I don't cut and move my left hand. I want to keep that as stationary as possible. So now let's go through and continue up. We're going to take our next flat parallel section. As I continue up, there's my length. Go through. Continue to texturize and separate as I cut.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now here you'll start to see some elevation in my section. Right there, there's my guide length from underneath. Same channel cutting and then cutting the length off to get separation and pieciness to my section. There's my guide. Now I would bet there's not going to be a whole lot of hair here as we continue further up it's going to reach. But we're going to take our next section and it's not going to reach.   Short Shaggy Haircuts for Men - Defining with Scissors So that is looking pretty good. So I got the basic shape in and I think it looks pretty good. I think we're right on with it, but I want to make these pieces more defined. So I'm going to go through with my Osaka Scissors from Jatai and I'm going to go through and slide cut and point cut this through to make these pieces a little bit more defined. And I'm just going to go through and take my time and randomly go through and select. I'll go down. I'll go up a little bit. Now I'm not going to try to make these like real perfect, but I definitely want to get a little more definition through this cuz sometimes when you go through and you razor something you can diffuse the hair a little bit too much. And I want to make sure that I still have a little bluntness in the ends so that we can get that flickiness and that separation. And refining my sides to the back a little bit more. Come on baby. Stop moving. There we go. Refine that through a little bit more. Around the eye you got to be careful. So if it's a real person what I'll do is I'll go through and put my hand here and then point cut into it so I don't have to worry about gouging their eye out. There we go. Now here I'm going to go through and do the same thing internally. So I'm going to brush everything over one way, go through, slide through, add a little bit of bluntness internally to help that internal texture pop a little bit more.   Final Short Shag Haircut Men Look I think we're not looking too bad. We got the basic shape in it. We got a nice little bit of texture to it. Well a nice lot of bit of texture to it. And that's the whole thing is this shape is a really neutral shape but it just has a lot of texture to it and it has this length over the ear that you can kind of tuck behind, but you also want to be able to see that length from behind from the front. So I think that's the key point to shaggy hairstyles for guys. You can style it to where it's a little bit wild and free or you can style it much more smooth. Your choice. Whatever you feel is right. So please check out Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also, leave a comment. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much.   Final Thoughts Shag haircuts for men are fun, stylish and modern. Shaggy haircuts for guys can work with straight curly hair styles. Mens shaggy haircuts can be worn with or without facial hair and look good with various hair color. Male shaggy hairstyles are often worn tousled and styled to give the shape some dimension, extra pieciness and texture.   Tutorial

The ducktail haircut was a popular vintage 1950s hairstyle where the hair on the back of the head was shaped like a duck's tail. In this tutorial, it's not about any special ducktail comb or combing technique, but rather a step by step guide how to create this hairstyle with scissors. This men's coiffed hair has continued to remained an iconic look from the 50s. Watch this ducktail hairstyle tutorial video and follow along with the transcript in this article.   Ducktail Haircut Tutorial:   Welcome back to Jatai Academy! I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai and today we're going to be doing a throwback to the 50s with the ducktail haircut.   Cutting the Sides So we're going to start with a straight back section from the center of the recession that splits off the top of the head from the bottom of the head and we're going to use our Osaka Scissor because I will tend to take a larger section, so a little fatter blade and a sharper blade will make it easier to cut. I'm going to take an angled section that's going to follow the front hairline and cut that down at whatever my desired length is. I want a little bit of length so that the hair flows back. This haircut tends to look better with the hair that has a little bit of movement to it so. I'm walking my guide which means each section I take I'm combing into the previous section and cutting that as my guide. So I cut the first section. I comb section one and two together to make section two. I comb section two and three together to make section three. I comb section three and four together and so on until I reach the mastoid which is that bone right behind the ear. Now here you'll see me take the same section, the same angle and everything all the way down to the nape. And I will comb this into the previously cut section. Now at this point I can either leave it a little longer in the nape or I can taper it in. I'm choosing to taper this in slightly so most of my ducktail is going to be a little higher up. You're still going to get it all the way through the center which you know the ducktail is where everything is combed to the center and then right down the middle of the back of the head it's combed straight down. So I'm taking parallel sections as I work through the back of the head and I'm combing that to the previously cut section. Now you can see here how I'm tapering that down slightly but I'm still combing everything all the way over to where that mastoid is on the right side of the head behind the ear. I'll comb it back and check and start seeing how I build up a little bit of length and I want this length to build up as it's going towards the center of the head. So I'm taking parallel sections at the ear combing everything to the ear all the way down to the nape, just being very very methodical with each section that I take with each section that I cut. I want to keep it as consistent as possible you know and the Osaka Scissor tends to be nice, sharp. It's got a good blade length on it so it gives me a little bit of uh power behind each scissor stroke so I can cut more hair. As you'll see here I'm taking everything from the center of the head pulling it over right behind the ear and cutting that on top of my previously cut guides. Slightly tapering it a little bit as I get to the nape but still leaving that length build up in the center of the back of the head. Now let's go through and look at it, see how we're shaping up. We can see I'm getting that length in the center of the back. Now let's go through and cross check. I'm going to start right on top of the ear and since I cut this initially vertically I'm going to go through and cross check horizontally. Be sure to follow us on your favorite social media@jataifeather. We got Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and even TikTok.   Ducktail Haircut Horizontal Sections Now after I finish cross checking the sides there, we're going to go through and take a horizontal section to the initial parting that I had. Now I'm going to take all the hair on top and pull over to my previously cut sections underneath. I'm holding this horizontally straight up from the head using my guide in the back as the shortest piece to make sure I blend in the back so I'm disconnecting it underneath as I get to the front of the hairline. Whatever that front bang length is, that's the length I'm cutting it to. I could leave it longer or I could leave it shorter it's really up to your preference on how you want the top of the hair to look. I'm going for a little bit of a pomp look so I want the front to be a little longer than it is in the crown. Now here you can really see how I'm blending the top into the back of the head and then just following my guide underneath being methodical point cutting that through so I have less worries about building up too much weight and it's going to blend a little bit easier. I want to keep the top really soft, textured, point cutted as opposed to going through and cutting it blunt. Then it's much harder to blend that way and I have to be far more precise. So keep following each section until I get all the way over to the center. Make sure that's cut. Now let's go through and taper it in right over the ear just a little bit more.   Cleaning up the Sides and Nape So I'm going to go through scissor over comb shorter at the uh parting right there, shorter at the sideburn and then tapering that up and just slowly working that up until I get that blended. Now I'm going to go through in the back. I'm just going to take a horizontal section right across the bottom and I'm going to cut that length that I built up from pulling it over to the side of the head off because I want this to be square in the back. Some people will leave it longer and allow that ducktail to flip out. I'm going to keep it much cleaner and more tapered into the back. After I get everything done there, I'm going to go through and do exactly the same thing on the other side.   Creating the Ducktail After I do the other side, I'm going to come back and take a center section right in the back of the head. This section I'm going to go through and create a completely new guide. I'm going to hold it out and cut this vertically following the head shape going up the back of the head. By leaving the center in the back shorter, that allows that length build up from the sides to comb over and separate from the center of the back and gives it that really distinctive ducktail look. I'll check it. I think it needs to be a little bit shorter so I'm going to take it a little bit shorter. But I'm just going to go through very systematically, cut the center of the back out. Now I'll start combing this down check it out see how it combs over. I think it needs to be a little bit wider so I'm going to take and extend that a little bit to the right and a little bit to the left. So I'll start with a small section in the center about an inch wide see how the hair combs over it. If I need a little bit more width to be undercut in the center of the back of the head, then I'll expand that section and take a little bit more. This is just purely going to be based upon visually how you want that to look from combing the hair on the sides over the center and seeing how that falls. That's looking pretty good. I'm getting that separation right through there. So I'll do the same thing on the other side extend that a little bit to make sure I have an even amount of width in the back of the head.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and click the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai video content.   Now here you can see I'm broadening the width on the left side of the head so it matches the right side of the head. Check that out. See how that's looking. That's looking pretty good.   Addressing the Top Now let's move on to the top of the head. Now since I've already cut the top by pulling it to the left and to the right to make sure it blends with the left and the right and the undercut I'm just going to go through and hold everything up right in the center, take a center section. From my length in the front, I'm going to cut that down so it gets a little shorter towards the crown so that the emphasis of the length is right around the front and then it starts to blend as it goes to the back. Now because I pulled everything over to the left and to the right most of the length is going to be in the center of the top of the head. So by cutting this first section I will have very little hair that reaches on either side so it's mainly I have to cut the center of the top out so that it blends like I want it to. I'll just check here make sure both sides are even pulling everything to the center following my center cut guide to make sure that that has a nice pleasing silhouette from the side profile.   Styling and Finishing Touches After we do this let's blow it dry and take a look at it. I'll just use a vent brush and blow dry everything in kind of a pompadour style and make sure everything gets blown back into the center blowing each side into the center. Now we're going to take our Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors and go through and just blend where I did a little scissor over comb underneath there to make sure that's nice and soft and smooth through there. A little bit in the nape as well just to keep everything soft. I'm not going to go through and do the whole thing just right where I want it to taper a little bit more. Now we're going to go through and put a little bit of pomade on it just to get some separation right there in the front. We're going to pleat that front kind of pompadour to make it look a little more lived in and a little less Conway Twitty which is what this haircut really reminds me of. But this will keep it a little bit more modern and cooler and give it a little bit more of a distinctive look around the front. Overall, I think everything looks pretty good. I think we got a nice pleasing shape. The silhouette is really important when you're doing these pompadour type styles to have a good silhouette from a profile. And we're looking pretty good through there. Nice and tapered you can see how it's being combed into the center and then the center is being combed straight down so we got a nice little DA in the back. Check out the Jatai Academy! There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hair stylist. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will catch you next time. Thank you so much for watching.   Final Ducktail Haircut Look Vintage hairstyles of the 50's often had a distinct look. When it comes to the ducktail, we have that image of a higher pompadour look from the front and the sides combed in to the middle of the back. It's generally worn on straight hair rather than curly hair so that you can really see the ducks tails in the back. It's also distinctly characterized by greased back hair. The ducktail haircut is also known as a ducks ass haircut, duck haircut or DA duck hair. This push back hairstyle is a unique hairstyle from this time which hasn't really come back as a trendy look. However, the hair DA has remained an iconic look from this time period and will continue to do so.   Tutorial

The medium crew cut is a very classic crew look that many men sport. You might also compare it to an ivy league crew or short crew cut. Crew cuts are very versatile and are generally short on the sides and back with a slightly longer top. The style is a popular men's haircut and it's easy to see why! Crew cut hairstyles generally don't have a very short taper fade and definitely not a skin fade. The hair is slightly longer than that. And because it's more of a rounded look, it doesn't have a flat top. It's not a buzz cut either. You can do this type of cut on curly hair but you will have to pay a little more attention to details. Watch this tutorial taught by Russell Mayes and learn how to do a crew cut. Also, follow along with the transcript.   Medium Crew Cut Tutorial:   Welcome back to the JATAI Academy! Today we're going to be doing a study on how to do a crew cut. So let's get started. So today we're going to talk about doing a crew cut. Before we get started it's good to know the differences between a typical crew cut and then just most masculine shortcuts. A crew cut is basically a short back and sides and a little longer on top which is very common. But most short masculine cuts have a squarish shape, where a crew cut tends to have a rounder shape and tends to be a little shorter on top. Now it gives you a lot of versatility. You can either go longer in the front and then blend that through or you can take everything kind of short on top. Or it can be equal to the sides so you have a lot of versatility and a lot of variation. So what we're going to cover today is we're going to take everything short in the sides and back and we're going to leave the top a little longer, a little longer here in the front as well. And then we're going to comb everything forward and see what we got.   Classic Crew Cut Clipper Over Comb So starting I'm going to start in the back and I can take a clipper and I can put a guard on it and I can run it up the back normally like I would taper most haircuts but today what I'm going to do is I'm going to work on my clipper over comb. So doing some clipper over comb work, I'm going to make sure I comb everything straight down. And clipper over comb is about getting a rhythm of the clipper motion across the comb. When I put the comb in, I angle it at whatever angle that I want my graduation to be, my taper to be, and then I just follow that up the top. Now when I first start there's no guide so I'm basically just using the force to guess where I want my tapering to be and then I can use that as my guide for going to the left and my guide for going to the right. So what that looks like is I'll turn the clipper on, put the comb in, angle that out from the scalp at whatever angle that I think I need. And then that's the angle I'm going to go up and then run the clipper across the comb. And here I'm basically just guessing at what length I want this to be. I'm not being very discerning about how perfect it is. I'm just looking for the overall lengths and I think we can go a little shorter there. So we're going to take that a little shorter through there as well. And now as I start to go up the back of the head I want to fight the urge that I have of up and out because that's most of my training is always short and up and out. But a crew cut is up and over so it keeps that shape kind of round. So once I get my basic taper in like this then I can start to work one side or the other. Now I've got my guide in the middle. I use that as my guide and then just cut this side off here. Now as I press the clipper against the comb I'm not using a lot of force. Right? It's just very lightly tracing the comb.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future JATAI videos.   And I'm just going to follow that up and through. I want to make sure that I'm not holding my breath because if I hold my breath, I tend to make my hand shake. And when you're using clipper over comb like this you want to keep as steady a hand as possible. Working that up and through. Now once I reach the mastoid which is this bump right behind the ear, I've got everything cut through here like I want. I'm not too worried about my blend right here. We'll get to that when I start using my scissors. I'm just working on tapering everything down nice and smooth. Once I get to the mastoid I'm now going to skip and go right to the sides. Now on my side I'm going to start here at the ear and I'm going to go short and work that straight up, work everything straight up. I am tapering it in two dimensions here. I'm tapering it going from ear up and I'm tapering it from the front going back. Now once I've gotten everything cut to the top of the ear I will then go through and blend at this angle and that angle is usually going to be parallel to my front hairline. It's going to be parallel to this hairline from the mastoid down to the corner of the hairline. So I'm trying to keep everything even and smooth because most head shapes arc down a little bit. So if I continue that all the way through the back I'm going to end up cutting the crown too short and it's going to make his head shape look funky. So this ensures that I don't cut my crown completely out of it. Check that out, see how we're looking. I'm going to take a little tighter right down here in the nape. Now once I've got the sides and the back done and I got my transition from the front to the back I'm going to go through and do the same thing to the other side.   Crew Hair Cut Scissor Cutting So now we've gone through and we've shampooed our model. Gloriously I might say. Now let's work on cutting the length on the top and blending that into the sides. If you've seen previous videos, you've seen me do a walking guide. I'll take the first section here on the side and I'll cut that length. I'll add the second section into the first and combine them and make one section. So I have section one and two combined. Cut that into the center. I'll remove section one. I have section two and three combined. Section three and four and four and five and so on and I'll walk that guide length all the way around the back of the head. I'm going to do the same thing here on the top, but I'm not going to take any sections. I'm going to do a very classic barber approach where I'm going to start in the front. I'm going to pull the front back to maintain length and then I'm going to walk my guide all the way through in the back. And as long as I'm consistent about how much I'm moving each time going back I'll end up with a nice clean line. So I've got my section. I'm going to comb everything forward. I'm going to comb everything back to where I think the recession is or maybe a little bit further back. I'm going to pull that up and then I'm going to go through and cut whatever length that I want. So now I've got my whole guide linked on the top. I'm going to go to the left, cut that through and I'm rounding the shape out. Usually I keep that shape pretty square and I am using my Osaka Scissors from Jatai because I have a little bit more blade length and it's got a little bit more weight to it so I can cut a thicker section of hair. I don't need to be real precise with it. Now I'm going to go back a finger length back, and I'm going to cut using my guide length from the front. I'll go a finger length back, cut using that guide length from the front. A finger length back, same thing and I'm going to keep going until I run out of hair in the crown. As long as I'm methodical with how far back I'm moving each time, I'll end up with a nice clean line. Comb forward again and now I'm going to start working on the left side. I have two guides. I have a guide in the front and a guide in the center. And I'm cutting that following both of those two guides from the front and working that all the way into the back. This is a very very quick fast way of going through and motoring through a lot of hair. I'm not worried about being real precise with everything. I just want to be very very methodical in my approach. As I work that around, go through, we'll check this out from the other angle. Now I'm going to go through and do the same thing on the other side. So now after I've got all the top done, I'm not worried about blending on the sides right now. We'll get that last. But after I've cut the whole top I want to go through and cross cut it the same way. I'm going to pull everything into the center and any little bits that may hang out I'm just going to go through and trim. And there's not a whole lot because I was very very consistent with moving my fingers back at an equal distance every time. So just go through just cross check anything that hangs out. There's a little nibble there. I'm just going to go through and clean that up. This is just to make sure everything grows out nice and smooth.   Men Crew Cut - Blending Okay so now that we've got everything cut on the top and blend that into the back, I want to make sure everything blends in my transitions from the top to the bottom. So I'll just take vertical sections. You can see where my tapering was and I'm just going to go through and make sure everything blends from the bottom to the top. And I'm going to work that line up and over and blend in. Now if you feel more comfortable starting in the front and then working to the back that's perfectly fine. There's no correct method of where you start versus where you finish. What ultimately matters is that everything blends and is proper and fits the head shape.   Follow us on all your favorite social media such as Instagram @jataifeather   And everything's looking pretty smooth through there. If I find I got a little bit too much taper through there, I can go through and this works really well with my Osaka Scissors because they're so much longer than the other scissors that I have. I've got that extra blade length that makes it easy for me to go through and scissor over comb.   Mens Crew Cut Fringe Looking pretty good. Same thing on the other side. So all that leaves us now is to deal with our fringe in the front, our bangs in the front. So depending upon if I want this brushed up and back. Right? Very very collegiate that way. Or I can have it much shorter and kind of combed over. There's a lot of things that I can do to this. So it just depends upon how short you want this and what look you're going for and how their hair reacts. If they have a lot of cowlicks then probably longer is better so you can control it a little bit easier. So let's go through and just keep it fairly long but I'm going to even it up so it doesn't come to a point in the front. So when I do that I'm going to take and I'm going to pull it out at that angle and then we're going to go through and point cut this through. A point cut soft line is going to be much more pliable and movable than if I was to cut that blunt. Blunt lines tend to not move as easy as soft textured cut lines. Just go through take a little bit of that corner off right there. Looking pretty good. See that little corner right there. It's very subtle but that subtlety will make a big difference. The only other thing I might add is if the person has wavy hair or has a lot of cowlicks or they have a bunch of indentations in their head and their heads not smooth you may get some darkness and some lightness through there you can't blend out very easily.   Tracing this Crew Cut for Men Then I'm going to go through with my Tokyo Thinning Scissors. I'm going to put the cutting blade on the bottom and then I'm going to go through and just trace what was already cut. I'm not trying to go back in and re-cut anything. I'm just tracing that previously cut taper that I put in through there and that will make everything mesh together and blend a lot smoother. And this will also help with any kind of waviness that's starting to stick out or kick out it will soften that line and like I said in the bangs it will make it much more pliable and much easier to move. With my Tokyo Thinning Scissors take that little nibble off right there, that doesn't want to act right. There we go. Much better. Looks pretty good. We got a nice even smooth clipper over comb around the bottom. We got a nice round shape on top, a little longer in the front. You can puff that up. You can bring it down. You got a lot of variety there that you'd like. You can comb it and make him look very very Wall Street or you can crop the whole thing up make him look very edgy. Yes you need to look... well no maybe not that edgy. Well only on the weekend okay. Only on the weekend. Anyway, kind of looks like Kyle McLaughlin to me. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that'll make you a better hairdresser, make you better barber. You can also check links below to find the scissors that I use. They're fantastic and for the price it's hard to beat. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and until then I shall see you next time. Thank you so much for watching!   Final Look of the Crew Cut Haircut   A crew cut can complement any face shape and can pair with facial hair. The modern crew cut is worn by many boys and men for it's versatile look. We hope this crew cut style haircut tutorial was easy to follow along and understand.   Tutorial

Watch this textured quiff tutorial and gain the knowledge to create this style! The quiff short hair style is a popular men's haircut that is versatile, classic yet trendy at the same time. A texturized mens quiff is what gives this hairstyle it's unique ability to be styled in multiple ways.  If you know how to style a quiff you can make it look more casual and rugged or make it more sleek and formal. If you know how to do a good quiff with lots of texture, it will give a man a lot of options for wearing his hair. Follow along with the video and transcript below.   Textured Quiff Tutorial:   Hello champion! I'm Russell Mayes. Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a textured quiff haircut, very fundamental, very basic. Short back and sides, lot of texture on the top. And uh I think it works on a lot of different types of hair, a lot of different types of texture, a lot of different face shapes. It's a good one to have in your arsenal. So let's get started. on how to make quiff hairstyle. We've got our haircut sectioned off. We're going to separate the top from the bottom and we're going to go right to the center of the recession to the quarter part, quarter part down to the drop crown. Same thing on both sides.   The Sides and Back This separates the top of the head from the bottom of the head. So I'm going to go through and cut the sides and the back using my Feather Styling Razor. I have the special chrome edition which I think makes me look very fancy. And since I'm going to go through and use this I'm going to start with a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide just to make the razor slide through the hair easier. My first section is going to be parallel to the front hairline at an angle. I'm going to go through and comb that clean, angle my fingers out a little bit longer, keep my knuckles planted next to the head. And then I'm going to take a nice tight razor stroke. As I go all the way down and through. Now here because it's sticking out I'm not going to freak out instantly. I'm going to go through and build the basic shape and then I can fine tune that and clean that up but I'm not looking for perfection. The first section or the second section I want to build that perfection as I go. I'm going to comb this into the previously cut section following my previously cut guide, take that all the way down and through. Take my third section comb it into the second section. There's my guide. The same razor stroke, go through and cut that down. Now here when I get to the ear I'm taking that section all the way down. And you can see from here that this angle is parallel to this hairline right behind the ear and it makes it easier for me to transition from the side into the back. Comb this into my previously cut section. There's my guide. Comb that down and through. Here I'm going to maintain the same length that I got there and as I get to the bottom I'm going to make that a little bit longer because I want kind of a ratchet little shape. I want him to have a little bit of something going on here in the bottom. So I'm going to take that. Now I'm going to go through and texturize that as we go but that's going to give me enough length that I can play with later on. Now I'm just going to continue this same methodology of taking parallel sections until I get to the center of the back.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   My last section, repeating the same thing. Comb to the previously cut section. Use that as my guide. Follow that length until I get to the very bottom and then bring that out for a little more length and his little mud flap down through here. This looks a lot better once I'm finished going through and doing the whole thing than it looked with my initial cut. My initial cut made me think 'oh my god I chose the wrong tool. Oh my gosh! What have I done? This is going to look terrible.' But I have to trust myself that I can clean that up as I go and now once I finish this whole side it looks pretty smooth and it doesn't look like it needs as much cleaning up as I initially would think it would because of that first section. So you have to trust yourself and you have to trust the methodology as you start to go through and build your shape. Now I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. Okay so now we've got our underneath section done. We got it the same on both sides but what I want to go through and do now is to taper this in a little bit tighter underneath and to texturize my mud flap here in the back.   Blending and Removing Weight So I'm going to go through and use my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissor. This is the perfect thinning scissor for taking a medium amount of hair out. It's not going to be real ultra fine. It's not going to be real chunky and thick. It's perfect for blending and perfect for removing weight. So I'm going to go through scissor over comb and I'm going to start underneath here. The reason that I'm using my thinning scissors as opposed to a clipper or regular scissor is so that I can maintain that razor texture that we've gone through and put through.   Follow us on your favorite social media platform @jataifeather   And I think that that's looking pretty good. Now here in the back I want to get some separation through here so I'm going to go through and deep point cut this with my thinning scissor. That way it gives me that razor kind of texture and that separation but it removes some of the weight so it doesn't feel so dense back here because I just want these to be you know little flicks of a mud flap not a full-blown you know straight hardcore across the back flap.   Back and Top of the Head Now we're going to go through and section out the back top of the head. So I took our quarter part which goes from the top of the ear to the crown to the top of the ear on the other side. Now I'm going to go through and fit all of this in the back so that it all blends back here but it doesn't get too short in the crown and make my head look flat. There's my length from underneath and slowly start to build length as I go to the top. Pivot from the center. Now I have two guides. I have the guide from this length underneath and I have the previously cut guide. Pull those into the center of both of those sections. Continue to hold this out 90 ° from the head as I slowly increase my length towards the crown. Next section I'll pivot again. Take the center section out. Now I have my section two and section three. There's my length. Pull that up and out and gradually increase my length as I go to the top of the head. We'll take this whole section here. Hold that straight out. There's my length. Come on there we go. Perfect. Now moving on to the top, I'm going to go through and take a horizontal section parallel to the previous section that I did to separate the top from the bottom using my guide underneath and cut this all the way through. I am going to leave this a little bit longer here in the front. So because I'm leaving it longer in the front I'm going to start my cutting in the back. So I'll pull that up. There's my length and start to work from the back going forward leaving a little bit of length and a little bit of disconnection right there in the very front. And now I'm just going to continue parallel sections, not too thick, not too thin as I continue all the way up to the top of the head and my last section. When I get to the center of the head. Hold this out. Follow my guide from underneath. Now we've got that blended on the sides and in the back and we're going to do the same thing on the other side. We've got both sides finished now. So I'm going to go through and take a center section about the size of the nose right from the front all the way through to the back. Now from here remember I cut this part back here pretty short so I'm going to use this and gradually increase my length as I go forward. Gradually increasing my length as I go from the back to the front. Now this is totally your creative choice of however short you want the top to be, how much increase of length that you want, how much you don't. I'll take a parallel section going to my client's left side. Both of those in the middle of both of those sections. Not to the center but the center of both of those two sections. Now as I don't have enough hair to hold I'll go through and use my thumb to push the hair against the blade but making sure that I'm not pushing into the blade. I'm just holding the hair and allowing the blade to go through and cut everything off that I want. Alright so now let's look at that. That's looking nice and textured through there. So let's do the same thing on the other side.   Texturing the Top for Separation So now from here I want to go through and methodically as possible texturize the top. This is what's going to give me my separation. It's also what's going to give me you know my pieciness so going through deep but gently channel cutting each and every section on the top. Now by going through and doing this it's going to make the hair feel and look a little bit shorter. So maybe I should leave it a little bit longer before I go through and texturize it so I don't end up cutting everything off and making it too short. Just continuing on to go through and each and every section as methodically as I can apply a lot of texture, deep channel cutting into the entire top of the head. I think we're looking pretty good. I think the shape's there. We may need to do some fine tuning once we blow it dry to get the textures right and get everything just to where it pops but let's go ahead and blow it dry and check it out.   Finishing Textured Quiff Hairstyle Here's our end result. I think it looks pretty good. It's a little more of a modern version of an 80s quiff than you know than the real short back and sides of it being overly tapered. I think the interesting part of it in today's masculine hair shapes is it's got more texture to it other than it just being super clean cut. I think the texture is what keeps it a little bit more edgy and a little bit more interesting visually for our eye. It works on a lot of different types of hair, a lot of different types of hair textures and you have a lot of variety with it whether you want to go really short and longer or shorter all over. It works well on a lot of different things a lot of different textures and types of hair. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. And also please let us know what you'd like to see in the future. And until next time thank you so much for watching. We'll see you soon.   Final Look of the Mens Short Quiff Haircut The male quiff style can be made to have even shorter sides or longer sides. Same with the top. But the overall concept is the same. The front quiff hairstyle is a defining feature of this look so styling the front can completely change the overall look of the haircut.  A long quiff hairstyle will be less clean cut and have a more lived-in look and a messy quiff hairstyle will have a more grungy rugged look. The versatility of the hair quiff makes this a fantastic style to learn. And learning how to style a quiff takes some practice and experimenting. A boys quiff haircut works just the same. It looks great on boys, teenagers as well as adults. Even some women can rock a quiff. How to do a High Quiff and Style for Pieciness For men's coiffed hair you need to learn how to put your hair in a quiff. You can use a clay based pomade to get the pieces to separate. This will give that added textured look.     Tutorial

It's 2023, the age of TikTok and Instagram where social media is a driving factor in hairstyle trends. Before social media, influential people like the Beatles were the inspiration for hairstyles, but today TikTok influencers like Josh Richards set the trends. And the trending haircut for teenage boys is the curly mop top haircut. This top hairstyle is characterized by longer hair that's low maintenance but with a textured appearance, also known as a wet mop. In this article we will go through the steps to creating this style using a Feather Plier Razor. Russell Mayes, the Director Content for JATAI, is an excellent educator who explains step-by step how to give this popular haircut.   Curly Mop Top Razor Haircut Tutorial:   Sectioning Start your sectioning with a center section to the occipital bone and then from the occipital bone to the mastoid to separate the bottom out of the back.   Graduation Taking the center section, comb everything straight down and with long broad stroke, go back and forth across the section with the Feather Plier Razor. Slowly, gently, methodically try to graduate the section so you get a little bit of stack. But you don't want a lot of weight. Repeat on the right and left section. Bevel the sides a bit but leave the hair a little longer towards the middle. Check the lengths on both sides to make sure it's even.   Channel Cutting Take the next flat section from the occipital bone to the top of the ear. Now go through and channel cut the section. By channel cutting one direction and then cutting the length off the opposite direction, it will give more separation of curl and removal of weight. The goal is to have light airy texture on the ends with a lived-in look. The only way to achieve this is to channel cut with the razor. Now separate the front of the head from the back of the head which is the high point of the head straight down to the high point of the ear. Elevate the hair off the peak curvature of the head. Continue to channel cut the sections in one direction and then cutting across the other direction.   Front Sections For the front, take the first flat section around the hairline to the section right behind the top of the ear. This allows you to have a little guide from the back. Come the front section down to the length that you want. In this case, it's the tip of the nose. Channel cut the section and cut across the section as before but be very diligent and methodical with your approach. You don't want to just go in and shred the hair. Continue to work the remaining sections in the same way until you run out of hair to cut. Final Look When finished, use some curl cream and ribbon out the curls to force the hair to curl together to have a nice soft texture. Take your time and get the curls to clump together. It goes a long way to fight the frizz. Use a diffuser to dry the hair or let it air dry. And there you have it! This curly mop top haircut is versatile and can work on straighter hair textures as well. No need to login or sign-up. Watch it instantly!   About the Feather Plier Razor The Feather Plier Razor is an advanced haircutting razor that should be used with caution. Since the handle uses bare blades you can easily cut yourself if you're not careful. Be sure to practice and get adequate training before attempting to use it on a real client.  You can also, use a Feather Styling Razor which uses guarded blades to achieve similar results. Since the blades have a guard, they will not cut you.    Tutorial