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The broccoli teenage haircut is a popular textured crop style that consists of a curly textured top and a taper fade in the back. Popularized by teens, specifically boys, it's a natural look that requires just a little styling cream. Disheveled mod teen haircuts usually have natural movement and a low fade. The hair has a longer top and the texture adds volume. This leaves somewhat of a fringe where the hair can go right to eye level. It works best with normal to thick hair types and curly or wavy hair.  Watch this broccoli teenage haircut tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.    Disheveled Broccoli Teenage Haircut Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing the messy curly mod that's got a slight taper to it. Better known as the broccoli or the llama cut. All the kids love this haircut today. So, we're going to show you how to make sure you taper in the sides just enough to keep it clean without removing all your length. We're going to show you how to taper in the back real nice, but also more importantly, how to blend the bottom to the top where it transitions from straight hair to curly hair without getting a shelf. And we're also going to leave the bangs long enough just to irritate your mom. So, let's get started. Cutting the Sides Starting off with my Jatai Tokyo Scissor. It has a long, thin blade, so I can cut a lot of hair at one time because the blade is so long, but also because it has a nice clean point on it that I can do a lot of detailing with it where I need to. So, I'm going to take my first section at an angle right there at the front of the hairline, and I'm going to pull that slightly forward and angle my fingertips away from the head. So, I'm getting longer at the top of the section and tapering it in shorter at the bottom of the section near the hairline. So, you'll see my knuckles are planted and my fingertips are actually elevated away from the head as I'm pulling it slightly forward. So, what this does is this not only gives me graduation from the hairline as it gets longer up the section, it also graduates it from the front to back. So, I'm not only introducing graduation from the bottom to the top, it's graduation from the front to the back. Now, I'll just follow this same hairline, the same sectioning that I started at the front hairline all the way down into the nape into the center of the head. I'll follow that same section. I'll walk my guide back. I'll pull this slightly forward to the previously cut section. And as I get behind the ear, you'll see that it will continue to taper in tighter and tighter at the nape. Now, I can only cut it as short as my fingers show. I can't cut it shorter than my fingers holding it in my hand. So, this is just giving me a foundational shape that I will go back and fine-tune with the clippers to taper it in cleaner down at the nape. Now, I'm walking my guide from the front all the way into the center of the back. And the way you walk your guide is you take your first section, you hold it however you want, you add section number two to the first section, and you cut section number two. I remove section number one, and then I add section number three. And then so on and so on until I get all the way to the center of the back of the head. Now, once I finish this section right here, I'm going to check the lengths and make sure everything is exactly like I want it. After I got the lengths on both sides like I want, I'm going to go back and just make it cleaner around the ear. So, I'm not going to taper the sides really, really tight like I will the back, but this will make the whole shape look super clean just by outlining the ear a little bit. Now, I'm going to add a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide. This keeps a consistent moisture content throughout the entirety of the haircut and also makes the cuticle compact so it's easier to comb and detangle and gives me a cleaner cut. Now, we're going to go back and do the same thing on the other side. I've got my first section here. I'm going to try to match sides. Now, easy way for me to match is after I take that first section, I'll check the lengths at the top because I know that length at the bottom is going to be tapered tight. So, I'll just change my angle to make sure I get everything the same on both sides. Tapering with Clipper Over Comb Now, I'm going to go through with my clipper and do a little clipper over comb just so that I can make that nape a little bit tighter. I want to make it clean and tight and a little tapered. I'm not going to necessarily go through and fade the whole thing in, though you can if you want to. I just want to taper this in nice and clean.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe, and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content. Now, we're just going to continue our clipper over comb so I can taper that in nice and tight. And I'm working from the center over to the ear. I'm not going to go up past the mastoid, which is that bump right behind the ear. I'm taking everything up to that. And I will tend to not round this out. The modern barber tapering that they're doing on these longer cuts is kind of a square-ish taper around the back where they're leaving a little bit of length right there behind the ear at the mastoid. Graduating the Back So now after we finish tapering in the back like we want, we're going to go through and take a center part on top where the head starts to curve back. That's going to separate the front from the back of the head. So where the head is curving down, that gives me all the hair that falls behind the back and then all the hair that falls in the front. So now we're going to take a center section after we've taken our center parting. Now we're going to take a center section. I'm going to hold this out vertically and using the length that I had from underneath where my initial taper was. I'm going to continue that same angle of graduation up and out. So, I'm just following whatever that angle was and taking everything up and out. Now, as I'm working on this shape, I'm not too concerned with that transition area between where the hair is shorter and straighter and where the hair starts to curl. You can see that kind of corner pop out right there. I'm just going to pivot from the center section. So, now I have my center initial section. I have pivoted around to the right side. I'll use the center as my guide. Hold that out. Cut whatever hangs off from my previously cut guide and continue that graduation up and out. Now, as I was saying before, I'm not worried about where it transitions from straight to curly cuz you'll always tend to get a little bit of a ridge and sometimes an indentation there. But I'm not worried about it. We'll go back and clean that up and fine-tune that later. Right now, I'm just getting my lengths to fit in to make sure everything blends from bottom to the top. I'll remove my center section, which was the first section, and continue to walk my guide over towards the corner of the hairline. So, whatever hangs out from my previously cut guide, I'll cut that off. And then make sure everything is nice and clean. And that's looking pretty good. Now, my last section here, I'm not continuing to pull this all the way 90° from the head. I'm actually going to take it right to the corner of the hairline right there. So where that is, that's where I'm pulling that side section to because I want to build up a little bit of a corner right through there so that I can transition into the sides. It's just a more modern interpretation of this that you see a lot of these barbers doing where they're leaving a little weight behind the ear right there as opposed to tapering everything all the way around. Give us a follow on your favorite social media at @JataiFeather Now going back and doing the same thing on the other side. Taking my center section and then pivoting on the other side. Cutting the Top Sides After I finish that, I'll come into the side of the head. Take a horizontal section. Hold this straight out. Find my guide from the back, not from underneath. Hold that out at elevation. And then go through and point cut, leaving a little longer length in the front, but using that length from the back of the head as my guide length. I want this to hit just at the top of the ear. A little over the ear is okay, but I don't want to get it too long over the ear where it starts to look kind of mushroom-y. I want to make sure that I have enough length to maintain the shape, but not so much that it starts to puff out. And that's why undercutting that side helps keep it from being too puffy. The next section after I've cut the first. I'll follow that and continue to elevate each section a little bit higher as I work up the head. So, I'm not pulling it down. I'm pulling it perpendicular to the top of the parting. So, wherever the top of the parting is, that's the elevation that I'm holding it up at. Continuing to follow everything through to make sure nothing hangs over. And following that all the way through, leaving a little bit of length right there at the front. And that's looking pretty good right through there. My last section and very little to cut. So, no problem there. Very little. Perfect. After we got that cut, we want to check the lengths and make sure everything blends like we want and it's the right length for the shape. Now, we're going to take a section straight across the front of the head. Because I'm pulling everything to the sides, I want to make sure I don't have too much of a point build up right there at the front. So, that was already cut, so I don't have to worry about that. But, if there was a point, I would cut that off. Clipper Cutting Now, we're going to go through and diffuse just to get all the curls kind of dry and exaggerate that shelf in the back so that I can fine-tune and clean that up. Now, after I've got everything dry, cuz clippers cut better on dry hair, I'm going to take the guard. This is about a one and a half. And I want to just go through and taper that in a little bit tighter right there at the nape. So the last probably 1 in of the hairline right there, one inch of the of the section, I'm just going to taper that up and out. So I make sure that the clipper is touching the head right at the hairline and then kind of freehand that up and out. This will make it much cleaner and tighter around the nape. Now I've moved down to a half size blade and I'm just taking that little bit of hair off right at the hairline just to make sure it fits in real nice and clean. The take your time and be patient. Make sure it's clean. Refining with Thinning Scissors Now I'm going to go through and use my Jatai Tokyo Scissor. This is the perfect thinning scissor, blending scissor to make sure you can get all your shapes blended and have the right amount of texture to it. Now, where that shelf is, I'm just going to go through and freehand scissor. Just freehand it. Anything that sticks out, I'm going to go through and thin off to make sure I can blend any kind of shelf that happens to stick out where I'm transitioning from short to long. If it's thicker, I use a little scissor over comb just to make sure everything blends. Be patient and diligent and it will all blend perfectly. Final Look Alright, here's our end result. And I think that we're looking pretty good. We've got a nice amount of irritating curl in the front that they can hide behind. They can hide their eyes behind or if you push it to the side, you get a little bit of a K-pop feel for teenage guys. But, you know, the whole idea of this haircut is to just have this mess of curl and it's not real structured. So, then we taper it in around the edges. We taper it in our nape. But there are no tapered sides, just the back.  And the hardest part is just the transition from the bottom to the top where you go from straighter to curlier hair. And that just all requires fine-tuning on your part. Fine-tuning of free-handing it, thinning it out a little bit, and then free-handing it again to make sure it pops in just right. And I think we're looking pretty good. I think this is just enough to make your mom angry that she's asking, "Why didn't you cut more of it off?" So, I think it's perfect. Anyway, check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you better hair stylist and barber. Also, let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so for Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.

In this Timothee Chalamet haircut tutorial, we look at a rising star who has been in many big name movies including the Dune series, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, A Complete Unknown and Marty Supreme. In this video we re-create the Timothée Chalamet Dune haircut which is a longer style with curly hair. Follow along with the transcript and watch the video here.    Timothee Chalamet Haircut Tutorial:  Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing the best hair in Hollywood, Timothée Chalamet. It is iconic from him starring in Dune. I think it's the coolest haircut that we have seen in a long time. It has just enough length to give it some style, but not so much that it looks completely disheveled and out of sorts. I'm going to show you how to get the right amount of graduation, the right amount of layering to keep it from looking too bubbly and round, but just the right amount of style. So, let's get started.   Establishing the Length in the Back So, we're going to start in the center back. We're going to take a middle part all the way down the back. We're going to go from the occipital bone to the mastoid. That's going to give us our first flat section in the back. I'm using my Jatai Tokyo Scissor. I want a nice long blade. This is 6 in. It's got a good clean point, so I can cut a lot of hair with one section with a longer blade. Tilt my head down. Take a center section right through here. Now, when I'm cutting curly hair, I want to minimize the amount of tension that I put on the hair. So, that minimizes the amount of push back that I get when I cut it and release it. The more tension that I put on curly hair when I cut it, the more graduation that I'm going to get. Comb straight down. Find the length that I want. Look at the face. See where that wants to be. Little to no tension. The only tension I'm getting is whatever the comb gives me. I'll clamp my fingers down. Cut that straight across. Comb it again to check and make sure that looks good. That looks good. Now, we're going to take our next section. I'm going to split that in half because it's so wide. Comb that straight down in its natural fall. There's my guide. The only tension that I'm getting is from the comb. After I cut the first section, I want to encourage the curl to see how short it's going to fall in relation to the rest of the haircut and the rest of their head. I want to see where that's going to fit. So, I'm going to encourage that to kind of curl up. I'm not looking for a clean line. I'm looking for overall length. Take a parallel section.   Follow us on your favorite social media @JataiFeather   Again going through and taking a center section. So since I saw his haircut and it's graduated on the bottom lengths and layered on the top lengths, I'm going to start my graduation. Now I may increase it as we go, but I'm going to start here and I'm going to hold it at that elevation right there. So that's going to bevel my line as I go up and give me a little bit of stack. It's also going to encourage this hair to curl up. There's my length from underneath. Cut that straight across. So, by elevating it, it's going to cut that top layer a little shorter than the underneath layer, which will encourage graduation. And I'm just going off the elevation that the head shape is showing me. So, I put my comb there. That's the elevation. That's the elevation. That's the elevation. As I go up the head, the elevation increases. Again, let's encourage that curl. See what my lengths are looking like. And I think that that's going to be just fine. Next section in the back, right to the top of the hairline, right above the ear. Now, we're going to see if any hair reaches, but I am going to continue at the elevation that the comb is showing me. So, I'm going at that elevation. Take a center section. Comb that out. There's very little to cut there. Next section. Only tension that I'm getting is from the comb. I am not introducing any tension by me gripping my fingers as I take that section to the cut point. Now the last section here and nothing is going to reach but I am going to check it just to make sure. And I have nothing really reaching there. Yeah, we're good. So, no problem. If he had hair, I would still continue to go until I ran out of hair. Following the same pattern I did underneath.   Establishing the Length in Front Now, let's come to the side and I'm going to take a natural or center part. And I'm going to go from the first bump of the head right to the hairline directly behind the ear. So from here, I want this length to be about right at the nose. So I'm going to comb this straight down. Whatever tension the comb gives me, that's what I'm going for. And I'm going to cut it right at the tip of the nose. I'm going to this length here. I want this to almost be one length. A little bit longer here is okay, but I don't want to go really angular at the front because I want this hair to get out of the face and show the jawline. If I angle this down, it's going to hide the jawline. So, going straight back gives me the ability to push the hair out of the face, but also reveal that jawline. So, we're going to comb that forward off of that elevation. Angle this back using my guide right at the front. There's my guide. Angle this back. So now I have this slightly increasing in length from my shortest point right at the center of the nose. Take a parallel angle all the way down into the nape. Comb that forward. Find my guide underneath. Not a whole lot to cut, but going off the elevation of the head. Finding my length underneath. Pulling that 90 degrees to my part. and then cutting whatever the angle was underneath. Now, once I reach the back of the ear, now I'm going to pull this still at 90, but I'm going to change my finger angle. So, I had this sort of shape going through here. If I continue that on, I'm going to end up with a hellacious bull cut. It's not going to be cute. So, right at behind the ear, I'm going to change my level, change my angle, go from short to this corner of the hairline, right through here, and blend the two together. So, I'm changing the angle of graduation that I have right there as I transition from the side into the back. Perfect. Now, as I start to brush this back, you can see how I still get this to fill in through here, but I exposed the jawline because I held it down and back and then forward to create my graduation on the sides.   Blending So, now we're going to take parallel section. I'm going to go through and re-wet the hair so I can have a consistent level of moisture throughout. Especially on cutting curly hair, it makes it a lot easier to comb and smooth by using some Jatai Blade Glide. Even though I'm not using a razor, this will still help me get a cleaner cut because it compacts the cuticle, makes it easier to comb. Coming in right here, finding my level. Nothing to cut right there in the middle. That's good. Still 90. Find my level. Nothing to cut there. That's good. Here. Very little to cut right there. Now here. Finding the right elevation and then continuing that angle down into the nape.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe, and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Take the rest of this side. I doubt there's going to be a whole lot of hair that reaches. Oh, we might have a little something right there. Very little reaches there. Find the correct angle of elevation. Right through there is perfect. There we go. So, we have graduation this way. We have graduation that way. I have graduation going this way.   Beveling and Layering in Vertical Sections All right. So, let's start with a center mohawk section from the front all the way into the nape. Since I don't want to layer the top a lot, I'm going to take these first two flat sections. Hold that up just to get an idea of where my length is. And I've got my length right about there. We're going to take that. See how that progresses. Okay, I think that's pretty good. We're not taking a whole lot of length off. I just want to bevel this shape a little bit. Take a section. There's my guide. Cut that back. Take a small piece as my guide. And continue that all the way down into the nape. Continuing to pull everything at 90°. from the head until I run out of hair. I'm going to take from the high point of the head, comb that hair forward. So, I have the high point of my head right here. From there, I'm going to pivot to the corner of the hairline. So, I had my center section. Now, I'm taking a pivot to the corner. And I'm going to follow the center guide all the way down and continue my layering as I round the head. Small piece as my guide. Hold these two sections into the center of each section. Cut that through. If there's nothing to cut, there's nothing to cut. If there's something to cut, I cut it. But you got to figure I've cut this already when I cut the side. So if there's nothing hanging out and hanging over it, this is just to make sure everything blends through. Now I will remove my center section. This was the first section that I created. We're going to get that hidden out of the way.   Beveling and Layering in Horizontal Sections And now I will pivot again right behind the ear to the mastoid. And I'm going off the bones of the head so that I can match this perfectly on the other side. So now I'll take my second and third section. Hold that straight up. Take my next piece. There's my guide. Cut that through. Remove the old section. Both of those two together, very little if anything to cut because I've already cut this when I cut it with the sides. So, we make sure everything blends there. I will remove the second section that I took. So, I had the center, now this second section, now I have the third section. And from here on the top of the head, I'm no longer going to pivot. I'm gonna take a parallel section straight down to the quarter part, which is right there, that peak above the ear. So now I have my guide from the top and from the back. Pull that up. Very little comes off through there. Everything gets cut 90 degrees. Follow that all the way through and down. I will remove the third section. Remove the third. Now I'll take the rest of this entire section. Comb it into the previously cut section. There should be very little if any to cut. Just a little bit right there. All good. After I've cut this side here, I'm going to go back, take my original center section that was the guide that I used for this side. Find that again. Pin out of the way. And do the exact same thing on the other side.   Timothee Chalamet Haircut Final Look Alright, here's our end result of the Timothee Chalamet hair cut. And I think the shape works really, really well. He's worn this type of shape in varying lengths where a little longer, a little shorter, a little shorter in the back, a little longer in the front, but it's always this sort of shape where it's angled back in almost a bobbish type of shape and then angled and graduated really steeply from the ear down in the back. And that gives you the ability to open up the the jaw cuz he has a really I mean a Hollywood perfect jawline. So you want to expose that. So, you're trying to get the hair out of the face, but you don't want to cut everything too short. And I think that this works well. Graduation underneath, little bit of layering on top. Works well on all types of hair, but with Timothée Chalamet curly hair, it looks magical. Magical. So, please add this to your repertoire. It will work wonders on your male clientele and expand your booking abilities. So, please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Please let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching this Timothee Chalamet hairstyle tutorial. We will see you next time.

With all the different cut hairstyles that exist for women, some of them cross over to men's styles. The wolf haircut features longer hair with lots of texture. With feathered ends and a K-pop influence, we get a trendy look that modern men are attracted to. In this mens wolf cut hair tutorial, Russell teaches how to create this look with a razor. Follow along with the video and transcript below. Mens Wolf Cut Hair Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a wolf cut for a man. We're going to do a K-pop inspired wolf cut today, which means it's going to have a lot of texture to it, and it's going to build up a lot of weight in the crown and in the back of the head. So, it still looks longer and fuller, but has a tremendous amount of texture, and the base of it near the nape of the head doesn't get too bulky. We're going to show you how to apply the texture with the Feather Plier Razor and get the perfect amount of texture that looks intentional. So, let's get started. So, I'm going to start with my Feather Plier Razor. Now, I like this razor because it doesn't have a guard and it gives me the most precision and control over my cut line and exactly where and how much texture I can apply. With the sharp bare edge, we can get clean precise cuts.   Channel Cutting the Length So, I'll start in the nape here. I'm going to hold everything straight down at zero elevation and I'll go through and channel a section and then cut my length at the same time. So I will go in deep, try to cut a pretty good little pointed jag into it and then cut the length off. So I don't move my left hand at all when I'm cutting this. That way I can be assured of a fairly straight line. But because I'm going through and putting the texture in at the same time, this will save me a lot of time of having to go back in after I've already cut my perimeter shape and go back in and texture it. It does everything in one step. Now, I find that if I'm doing a very highly textured shape like we're doing today with this wolf cut, I will not go through and cut everything blunt with a pair of scissors and then go back in and try to create texture. Once I cut a blunt line into it, it's very, very difficult to go through and get the amount of texture that I really need to make this haircut pop. So, I basically end up going through and over texturizing the blunt line to try to get my separation and pieciness. Whereas, if I just go through like this, add my texture and the cut with the razor at one time, it's easier, it's less effort, and I can actually get a better, piecier result. So, here I'm moving up to my next section, holding everything straight down at zero elevation again, finding my guide from underneath, and going through and channeling and cutting it the same. And I'll go through and repeat this whole methodology up the entire back of the head until I get all of my lengths cut. I've gone through and started with a basic sectioning where I've sectioned down the center front half from the back half and then from just above the occipital bone to above the mastoid right behind the ears.   If you like this video, give us a thumbs up, click subscribe, and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Cutting Anti-Head Shape So, after I've gone through with my basic sectioning, I'll start at the nape, get my baseline, and work that all the way up until I have the whole back half of the head finished. Now, I'm going to go through and take a center section, hold everything straight back, everything just pulled straight back through here. And then I'm going to cut a straight up and down line. I'm going to go through, determine what length I want my shortest layer to be, hold that straight back, and cut a straight up and down line. So, what this will do is this is actually cutting it anti-head shape. Head shape would be the same length from top to bottom. So anti-head shape is leaving it longer at the top and then shorter in the middle and then longer at the bottom. So this will give me a little bit of graduation that you see right there in the back. Right there how that starts to curve and give me that graduation pop. So I get that fullness from my graduation, but then it allows the hair underneath it to collapse and not get bulky. Now I'm going to walk my guide over to the left. So, I'll take my center section, add a horizontal section on the left side, pull everything into the center of both of those sections, and then follow my guide, cutting straight up and down again. But, as I was talking before about collapsing the nape, by pulling everything at the anti- head shape like this, it will elevate the hair underneath and allow it to collapse. So I don't get that very overly bulky hair right at the nape. It ends up being bulky or fuller right around the back of the head in the center like around the occipital bone. So I get that fullness and it still feels like I got some hair but it doesn't get that mud flap kind of look that you see a lot of those rednecked mullets have. So now we're going to go through and finish our next section. So, we've got section two and section three. I took out my center section. Now, I'm walking my guide over, and I'm continuing to pull everything straight back, you know, parallel to my previous section. Straight back. There's my guide underneath. And we're just going to go through and cut this. Now, the thing is, when you're cutting with a guardless razor, I need to be respectful of the blade. I can touch myself and it won't cut me. It's when that blade touches me and then moves left or right, that's when I start to really cut myself. But I still want to be respectful of this because these blades are very, very sharp, which makes it easy to go through and cut. But it's too easy to go through and cut myself if I get sloppy with it. There is no other tool on the market that will give you this type of look and this type of texture and result. So, I have to learn to respect the tool and then I can use it and get its maximum potential. Last section here. Pulling everything straight back. Making sure all of it blends through with my layering. And I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. That's looking pretty good. Now, here's the entire back finished. I have a nice amount of layer through the back. I get a little buildup of weight right there around the occipital bone, and then everything else under it collapses and flips. And that's the look I'm going for is this kind of flippy piecey kind of wolfy type of shape.   Cutting the Front for Movement So now we're going to section off high on the recession on the side of the head. I'm going to take an angle diagonally back that's going to be parallel to my hairlines. I'm going to pull this forward and then cut it back. So the line is actually kind of straight horizontal, but by me pulling it forward, that's actually going to introduce movement and force this hair to flow back. And you can see right there how it starts to make that hair swing back. So by pulling it forward, I cut the front slightly shorter than I cut the back. And by putting my angle into it, it ends up being a much more horizontal line, but I introduce all of that movement into it. Now, I'm not trying to insert my texture and cut the length here at the same time. I just want to focus on cutting my length and cutting the shape because it's going to be hard to go through on this type of methodology and insert texture and cut the length at the same time. It's easier to do horizontal when I start angling things like this. I want to do it in two steps. So, I'm pulling everything forward, cutting it about right to the tip of the nose, and then angling that back. Once I finish all of this here and I get everything cut to the length that I think I want, then I'll go through and start taking a section in the back of the head and angling that down into the nape.   Blending the Front with the Back So, I'll section off the top and the back here. And then angle. This angle here is going to be parallel to the first section that I took, which is going to be parallel to my hairline right there behind the ear. Now, we're going to pull this straight out from the head at 90° using the length that I established by pulling everything forward. Then, I will go through and cut that straight up and down and blend that into the length in the nape of the hair. So right there, just pulling everything out. I don't have as much hair to cut here because I've already cut the length and I've already cut my layering. This is to make sure that the sides and the back blend together. We'll check that. See how that's looking? I like that. That's pretty good. So now I'm going to continue on doing this same type of sectioning all the way to the center of the back of the head. So continuing parallel sections to my previous section and then holding it straight out to the side of the head. So I'm basically cutting a big box type of shape where it's got a corner right there behind the ear. It's got a corner on the other side and it's got a corner right in the crown. Oh, we missed that little part right there. But there's not much to cut so we'll leave it. Now we're going to get to the center. Pulling everything over. Making sure nothing really hangs over. This is just making sure that everything kind of blends through. Not a whole lot to take through here. So, being very careful, very judicious with my cut and just making sure everything blends through. Now, in the beginning when I went through and took my middle part and then I sectioned off the front of the head from the back of the head and then the nape section out. So this is my quarter part back blending. That's a mouthful right there. So what I'm doing is the section that I cut underneath vertically at the ear to make sure everything blended from the sides down into the nape. Now I'm taking the back half of the head on top and making sure that that blends through with the hair that I've cut underneath. I don't want any hair from the top hanging over and being disconnected from the hair underneath. I want this all to blend through perfectly. We got all that blended through there.   Layering from Back to Front Now, we're going to go through and take a center section. This is a mohawk section from the front all the way to the back. Right there at the crown, I'm going to use that length as the guide for my layering. I'll pull this straight up. Cut this 90° from the head. And working from back to front. And I want to just cut this all the same length going from back to front. When I'm doing this type of layering with a Plier Razor, I have to be mindful of my sectioning. And one way that I can go through and apply this cut line cleanly without being worried that I'm going to cut myself is I have to make sure the hair that's holding the hand is gripping it for life. I mean, it's got a death grip on that section so it doesn't fall out. And then when I apply the razor to this section, gently applying it using the razor motion of up and down to cut, I can go through and cut nice and clean lines without worrying about cutting myself. After I cut the center section, I'm going to take my next parallel section, working to the side, hold those two sections up into the middle. There's my guide from underneath. There we go. There we go. Perfect. And then I'll go through and blend everything through. Anything that hangs over past my guide, I'll cut up. I got a death grip on my section there. This takes a little bit of practice. I would really recommend that before you start layering hair with a razor like this that you take a mannequin head, you practice, you get comfortable with it, and you do it very methodically and very slowly. Don't try to move fast. Moving fast is the enemy of cutting clean sections and clean hair. there My last section. Everything blending through onto the right side of the head. Anything that hangs over from the top, I'll go through and just cut off. Methodically working that through. There we go. Very little to cut there. I think I got a little bit. There we go.   Give us a follow on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Razored Bangs After I finish everything on the right side, I'll do the left side. And now we're going to section off the hair around the front. I'm going to pull the center of that right down to the tip of the nose. And I'm going to go through and razor that length off. That's the length I want my fringe to be. So I'm pulling that straight forward. Cutting that the length I want. Now we're going to split that in half. I'll take the entire right side of the head through here. There's my length that I cut at the sides and I'll blend that through with the little short piece that I cut right there at the front center of the face. Work that all the way through. Blend that all the way through. There we go. Perfect. Just like that. Now, going a little shorter in the middle is going to leave it a little longer towards the side. Wherever hair is shorter, it will move to where hair is longer. There's my length right through there. There's my guide. There it is. Right there. Now, we're going to cut that through. So, shorter hair always flows to longer hair. So if I want to create movement, cut one side shorter and the other side longer. And also because of the razor motion through here, because I'm razoring it from the center to the sides, that will introduce movement as well. Now in the back, I applied texture and length at the same time. Around the front, I couldn't do that. So now we're going to go through and add our texture and thinning around the front. These mannequin heads can get a little thick and sometimes your client's hair is very very thick and you need to go through and add more texture than you think that it needs. There are other times where the hair is a little bit finer where you don't add as much texture. So, you have to use your own discernment to apply the amount of texture that the section needs. Every person's head is going to be different. Every hair texture is going to be different. And this is something that will come with experience of you practicing.   Adding More Seamless Texture Now, we're going to go through and just start applying a little bit of texture all the way around the front half of the head because we've already applied it in the back and we won't need that there. I will go through and check it to make sure, but we want the same type of texture throughout the entirety of the haircut. Going through and just methodically applying a little bit of texture here or there or wherever it needs it. There we go. Perfect. Now, as I start to move in the back here, you can see it's already got pretty pretty good amount of texture. So, I don't need a whole lot through there. Maybe a little maybe not. Yeah, right there. That's looking good. Now, we're just going to go through and do this same type of texturizing throughout the rest of the head, throughout the front of the head (not the back, because we already did that) until everything matches and it blends seamlessly, not only from a length point of view, but also from a texture point of view. I did go through and change the blade about halfway through this haircut. Some types of hair dull blades faster than others, and it usually tends to be the thicker, coarser types of hair that will dull the blade faster. So, I don't want to go through and start pushing hair and not end up with a clean line. So, if I need to change a blade, I'll change a blade. I know some stylists that will use the same blade for years. And I'm telling you, your haircuts are going to suffer from it.   Final Mens Wolf Haircut Look Here's our end result. And I think it's looking pretty nice. I'm checking everything to make sure our texture is good. And there we go. This is our end result. And I think we're looking pretty good. Got a lot of great texture to it. And I think by pulling it straight out in the back, it gives it this nice fullness in the back, but we can still have it hyper layered underneath. It doesn't need much styling if the hair is cut right. Razor cut haircuts can do just that. So, we got a lot of texture to it and a lot of separation. And I don't know how these guys wear this hair in their face like that, but they do. That's the style. And this is very reminiscent of what you would see in in K-pop right now over in Korea with a lot of the really hyper trendy guys. And I think that it adds something. It adds some softness with having long hair, but it still keeps its style without being super messy. And this works really well on wavy hair or loose curl hair. I probably wouldn't do this on the curliest of hair. And I think that this would work really well on finer textures of hair, maybe not as much texture as we've done here. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future. You have a question or comment, please leave it below. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.  

If you've ever watched Mad Men featuring Jon Hamm as Don Draper, you would know he had an iconic hairstyle that reflected the haircuts of the time period. He had a classic men haircut that was short and clean cut with a side part. Classic hairstyles will always be popular and so in this tutorial we focus on his haircut from the show. It's a versatile cut that works with any face shape and uses minimal products (if any). Follow along with the video and transcript below.  Jon Hamm Haircut Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a study on a masculine comb over. Now, most of the comb overs that you see today are going to be really tight skin fades with the top longer, parted on one side, really extreme and combed over. We're going to do a more Mad Men style where it's a little bit more conservative, a little bit more retro, but still just as cool. So, let's get started.   Cutting the Sides So, we're going to start here with a side parting. And I'm usually going to separate the top from the bottom around the center of the recession. Since we're going with a kind of comb over look, I'm going to take a little bit higher. So, I'm going to the top of the recession, straight back to the quarter part, down into the nape. I'm using my Jatai Tokyo Scissors. This is the 6-in variety. And I like a long pointy scissor whenever I'm doing shorter type of work like this. So, I'm taking a diagonal section back and I'm cutting it parallel to the parting. I'm going to take a little bit shorter right there at the front. Just a little scissor over comb to get my length nice and clean there in front of the ear. And now I'm going to walk my guide from the first section all the way back. And what I mean by walking my guide is I take the first section as my guide and then I add the second section into the first section. The third section I can remove the first section. So it's just the second and third section. Here I'm working on the third and fourth section. So the guide is moving with each section that I go. And I remove the previously cut guide for that section. So this allows me to cut everything fairly similar in length from the front all the way into the back. And I just have to be methodical about this and take all my sections and partings at about the same width. If I do one section thicker and one section thinner, I'm going to end up with inconsistencies in my length, meaning that it's going to get more length as I go to the back if I take inconsistent section sizes. And it's going to make my layering kind of lumpy. So, here we're going from the top of the parting down into the nape and I'm just following the same parting size or section that I took from the very front. It's the same angle. That angle right around the front of the hairline is the same angle right behind the ear. So, that hairline is very similar. And this allows me to keep everything very symmetrical and nice and smooth and also be able to match it on the opposite side. I'll work all the way back into the middle section and cross over just a little bit right here onto the left side from the right side. So then after I finish this section, I'll go through and do the exact same thing on the opposite side. Now, it's important that I take sections very, very similar on both sides so that I have a symmetry in my parting and symmetry on the top separating from the bottom. So, here I'm making sure I got everything the same on both sides. And I'll cut the right side exactly the same way that I cut the left side.   Cutting the Back Here, I just want to take it and taper it in a little bit tighter just at the hairline. Now, when I first cut this, I'm trying to cut it as short as I can at the nape, but it's only going to allow me to cut it as short as my fingers are thick. So, here, going back in and doing a little scissor over comb just at the hairline, and then blending that up and out will get it a little bit tighter and cleaner at the hairline. Now, I'm just starting here close at the hairline, cutting it really short, and then blending it up and out. As I get to the top of this section, I'm not really cutting that much hair, but I keep going through the motions so that I can keep my scissor over comb rhythm going. I find that when I have a rhythm doing my scissor over comb, even if I'm not cutting hair, if I just keep going through the rhythm and the motions of it, it will allow me to get a much cleaner result, and I don't have to go through and clean it up so many times.   Fine-Tuning the Sides Now here, just starting out crude and then fine-tuning my shape by more scissor strokes gets me cleaner and cleaner and cleaner. And just being patient as I'm going through and doing this. Right there. Good. Now, we're going to clean it up a little bit over the ears here. That's looking pretty good. I like that.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   There we go. Making sure I don't cut his ear. The poor boy there. I can't have that. And that's looking pretty good. Now, I'm not trying to get this super clean. I'm just trying to get a cleanish shape because I can go through and clean it up more when it's dry.   Graduating the Back Now, I'll take a center section just so it shows me where the head shape is and I can separate the front of the head from the back of the head. Now I'm going to go through and take a parallel parting. Like instead of a pie section that most of the time you're taking here in the back, I'm taking more of a candy bar section where it's just parallel. It's not pivoting like a pie triangular shape. It's just parallel. I'll hold that straight back and then follow whatever the line of graduation that I had underneath and I'll follow that same kind of length angle as I go up towards the crown. Once I got that cut and I've got everything blended like I want, I will take a parallel section to the right. So, I have the center part and my first section to the right that are both parallel. I'll hold it into the center of both of those two sections and follow the previously cut guide as I'm cutting from shorter at the occipital bone, longer as I get up towards the crown. Now I'll remove the first section and take my third section right here as I'm walking my guide over from the center. So there we have second and third section. Hold it to the center of both of those two sections. Pulling it straight back and then cutting any length that hangs over my previously cut guide. That's looking pretty good. Now I'll take and remove my second section. So I have my third section as my guide. The next section I'll pull straight back. I'm not rounding it out across the head. I'm just pulling everything straight back to make sure it blends in the back. And that's going to leave me a little bit more length right there as I get closer to the ear. And you'll see it right here. Right there. You can see that little bit of length right there. That's going to allow me a little bit more length as I get into the sides. But we're going to go through and do the other side exactly the same way we did in the back.   Razoring the Right Side and Top Now we're working on the sides. I'll take a parallel section using my Feather Plier Razor. And this is no guard. No guard razor gives me a lot more control and I can get a cleaner cut because I don't have the guard stopping me from getting as clean as I would like to or need to. Here I'm using the guide length that I had at the back of the head and working that into the side. So, I have my parallel section that I took that was parallel to the first section on the side that we took. And I'm combing everything kind of down at a graduated angle using that guide length in the back as I work forward. Now, here I'm trying to determine what's the best length for this side here as I'm working through because I want enough length that it can kind of slick back and provide me with enough to slick back and really give that full look, but I don't want so much length there that it starts to flop forward like an undercut would. So, I'm trying to balance between how much length is right and how much is too much. And I'll cut a little bit and comb it. And cut a little bit and comb it. Once I feel I got that right length, then I'll continue working up towards the center of the head, taking parallel sections. Here's my next parallel section. I have my guide length from underneath that I feel like is the right length. And I'll work that from front to back. Just taking even strokes on my razor so I have a consistent kind of razor stroke and a consistent amount of texture that's going through and thinning the hair and cutting it at the same time. Once we've got everything cut there, I'll continue to work this length all the way up into the center of the head. There we go. That's looking pretty good. I like that length. Now, if I feel that that length on top is becoming too thick, I'll take a broader razor stroke or I can go through and channel cut it a little bit or I can fillet internally a little bit more texture to remove weight. But since this is a fuller type of haircut, it has more weight to it. I'm going to go through and take very little each time so I don't over thin it.   Razoring the Left Side Now, we're going to go through and cut the left side and I'm going to comb everything back and find out where the hair wants to kind of part on its own. And then I'm going to take that parting and I'm going pretty far over. This side I'm going to completely cut different. I'm not looking to comb everything back. A typical comb over is combed over on one side. One side's going to be really short and blended in. This is the side that's going to be blended in. So, instead of taking a horizontal section, I'm taking a vertical section like the first section that I was taking on the side of the head, and I'm combing everything straight out and blending it through into the length that I cut underneath. And I'm just going to take parallel sections as I work all the way back here. You can see the angle of the section that I'm taking. And I'm just going to cut everything straight up and down that same length to make sure it blends together on this side because one side gets combed over and back. The other side just gets combed straight down. This is the side that gets combed straight down. So, I don't want any kind of overhang here. I don't want any kind of undercut on the shorter side. So, I just take my time and go through and blend this through and make sure everything blends perfectly. And I'll take parallel sections as I work all the way into the back of the head. And it's important to keep your sections very very similar in size and also in thickness. Now, if the hair gets a little thick, I may take a thinner section. If it gets a little bit thinner, I may take a larger section. But I want to try to maintain as much consistency as possible.   Follow us on your favorite social media @Jatai Feather   Here we're just continuing the same sectioning all the way back until I run out of hair. That's looking pretty good. Being careful to not go through and get too exaggerated and excited with my razor so I don't cut myself. Perfect. That's looking pretty good, the last section here. And everything's blending through quite well.   Clipper Over Comb Now, we're going to go through and blow everything dry. And just blowing everything dry as neutral as possible on the side. So, if I have anything that sticks out, I can go ahead and fix that. After everything's dry, I'm going to take my clippers and right there at the nape, I want to fit that in a little bit tighter. So, I'm taking my clipper and doing a little clipper over comb. Just getting it real clean and tight right there at the nape. Doing the same kind of methodology I was doing with my scissor over comb. But with the clipper on dry hair, I can see exactly how much hair I want to take off. I can see the exact result as I do it. If I'm doing scissor over comb on wet hair, it's a little bit hidden because the hair is wet and it hides things. But on dry hair, you can see the exact result you get. So, I like to use clippers more on dry hair than I do on wet hair. They cut better on dry hair as well.   Final Look So, here's our end result. And I think we're looking pretty good. I think we've got a nice little taper going on without it being a skin fade, which is so typical of this type of haircut. And not everybody can wear a skin fade. Someone's got a funky head, you can't do that on them. So, a little bit longer is good. So, this is a study on how to do it longer and keep the essence of the shape with a little bit more length. And I find that most of my younger clientele that's coming in is over the fade. They don't want it skinned anymore. They want a little bit of hair. So, this is a perfect transition of someone that is growing a fade out. You can still keep it really clean and groomed around the edges, but still start to grow some hair out. So, I think this is not only a great style in and of itself, but also an excellent transition style when you're going from really short to really long. And I think this looks pretty good. Please check out the Jatai Academy or our shop. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hair stylist and barber. Leave us a comment below if you have a question. And thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.  

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. 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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