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Trendy Broccoli Teenage Haircut Tutorial

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Trendy Broccoli Teenage Haircut Tutorial

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.
Hime Japanese Princess Haircut Tutorial

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Hime Japanese Princess Haircut Tutorial

A Japanese princess cut has a very distinct look. It's a long-standing traditional hairstyle that dates back to the Heian Period. It is characterized by straight hair that's one length in the back, a straight fringe and hime sections that frame the face shape. There are no layers, just distinct sections. The styling is easy and just requires a round brush and blow dryer. Hime style hair represents high status and a look of elegance.  The hime cut hairstyle has been re-interpreted in Japanese culture through anime, music groups and other pop culture influences. This Japanese hime cut tutorial will walk you through the full haircut using scissors and explain how to do the front bangs with long hair and of course the hime sections. Watch the tutorial below and follow along with the transcript.    Hime Japanese Princess Haircut Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing the most classic of all haircuts, the hime cut. This is made popular in Japan by all the princesses. The princesses would wear this haircut to designate that they were royalty. So all the girls that wear this, they're designating that they're princess and they're royalty. It's very iconic with all one length. The longer the hair, the better. Blunt bangs straight across and then this accent piece that usually hits right around the jawline, maybe a little longer. It's very iconic and I love this shape in this haircut. We're going to show you how to do it perfectly, how to get nice blunt lines, how to measure where you want to get your bangs and you want to get your jawline. So, let's get started. So, the foundation of our hime cut is basically everything's one length in the back and all the way around. I have my blunt bangs that are probably a little soft and then I have my hime piece.   Establishing the Length So to start with my overall length, I'm going to take a center part to the occipital bone, occipital bone to the mastoid. That's going to separate the flat in the back of the head. This is the area where this skin on the neck on the nape of the neck expands. So if their head is tilted down, it actually expands. So when I cut it and they look straight back up, it's going to actually undercut the section. If I have them looking straight forward, it's going to tend to cut the section much more blunt, especially if I'm keeping everything perpendicular and blunt. Now, if I have someone with very, very thick hair that tends to get broom-like, I'll tilt the head forward so I can undercut that and soften that edge. If I have someone with finer hair, I may want to keep it as blunt as possible and have them just looking straight ahead. So, we're going to start right in the center. I'm going to section this out and keep it nice and clean. So, since we're going to go through and cut this blunt, I'm going to go through and practice my fundamentals on cutting everything really, really blunt. So, to do that, I want to make sure I maintain very, very clean sections. Clean sections makes it easier to comb. Clean combing is imperative to cutting a clean blunt line. Then, I'm going to use my Jatai Kyoto Scissors. This is the sharpest scissor I have. It's a nice fat blade, so it has a lot of weight behind it when I go through and cut. So, it gives me the cleanest cut that I can get. The blade is very, very sharp. The metal is very hard, but it wears really, really well. It lasts for a long time. This is my favorite Jatai scissor. Now, I'm going to comb clean from the root all the way down. You'll notice that I'll flip my comb away from me so that I can comb everything at the root nice and clean. Comb that all the way down. Flip my comb to build up any kind of tension. That's the only tension that I'm getting is right from the comb tension. I have no tension being built up from my fingers. You'll notice that my fingers are now perpendicular to the section. I'm not flipping that at all. I want to keep this as blunt as possible. Now I'll take my scissor and cut on the backstroke to maintain a nice clean cut. If I just close the blade, it pushes the hair out of the blade and I end up with a line that hooks to a little point and then cuts back in. So I end up with a crooked line. Clean from the root all the way down. Make sure I got my line there. Perfectly straight and through.   Follow us on your favorite social media @JataiFeather   Everything gets combed straight down in its natural fall. No tension other than what the comb gives me. There's my line. Cut that straight across and through. Now, I'm going to work on the other side. If I feel like my fingers aren't long enough to cut the whole section. I can break that in half. So, I have the center as my guide. I have my first half. I'm combing in natural fall. Now, I notice that the head's tilted a little bit. So, I'm going to comb everything tilted. If that throws me off visually and I tend to drag, then I want to make sure everything is nice and square and perpendicular so that when I go to cut it, it gives me the greatest chance of going through and cutting a blunt, clean, even line. Last section. Cut that down and through. Now, from here, I will go through, check the sides, make sure that they're even, and they look pretty good. So, now I'm going to go through and continue taking parallel sections all the way up until I run out of hair. It's important that I keep the moisture content of the hair all consistent throughout the whole cut. I don't want one part to be really wet and one part to be drying. I'm going to get inconsistent results. So, I'm going to use some Jatai Blade Glide. This is going to go through, slightly detangle. It works as a leave-in conditioner, but it also compacts the cuticle, so I have an easier time of combing it and give more consistent results. As I work up the head and I start getting into sections that cover from the back into the sides, a lot of people will separate the back from the side of the head. I don't do that. I keep my consistent sections going all the way around. If that is my angle that I'm working on, I'm going to take the exact same angle, come on baby, as I work from sides into the back so that as I cut my line, I can continue that around the front. I find it's more difficult to cut the back and then come in and cut the sides than it is to just cut from the back into the side in one stroke. Now, here in the back, I'm going to go through and do exactly the same pattern and methodology I was doing before, combing everything clean from the root. Anytime I see these little bands of hair, I want to make sure I get everything combed clean from the roots all the way down. Turn the comb away. Once I hit about the hairline, I rotate. No tension. Just whatever the comb gives me. Follow my previously cut guide. All the way down. There's my previously cut guide from the back. Cut that blunt all the way through. Perfect.   Cutting the Fringe All right. So, now let's go through and section out our fringe, our little bangs. I'm gonna take the first bump of the head where the head starts to curve back and I'm gonna go right to the corner of the hairline right at the recession. Take about half of it because if the section gets too thick and I'm trying to cut it, it just doesn't want to cooperate. It always becomes difficult to cut. So, I want to make this as easy for me as possible. And especially since I'm trying to get something so strategically placed where it's right at the eyebrow. So, I'll start right here in the center. And I'm going to do the same thing I was doing in the back. Comb everything clean from the root. Lay my finger right at the crux of the nose. No tension other than what my fingers give me. And then let's go through, cut this straight across on the backstroke. That way I can get that nice and blunt. If I feel that that's going to be a little too long when it dries, I can cut more off. And I think I'm going to, I'm going to cut a little bit more. Just a wee bit more. I'd rather it be too long after everything gets dry than it be too short. Because if it's too long, it's easy to go through and fix. If it's too short, it's a little more difficult. So, let's continue on with that length. Everything straight down. Cut that across. See how that's looking. Come on, baby. Your eyelashes are getting in the way. There we go. Take our next section. Comb this straight down into my previous section. And the exact same thing. Comb clean from the root all the way down. There's my guide. Cut directly on top of the guide. Not longer, not shorter, exactly on top of the guide. That's why doing a one length haircut is so good for your fundamental skills is because you're having to focus on everything. You're focusing on body position. You're focusing on cutting directly on top of the line. You're focusing on combing everything clean, not getting your body in the way and hooking your sections as you comb it. Everything clean straight down. This will magnify any flaws in your technique. We're going to look at that. And I think that that's looking pretty good. When I dry it, I may modify it a little bit. I think I'm going to point cut it a little bit just to soften it up.   Creating the Hime Sections Now, let's put our hime piece, which I want to kind of hit right at the jaw. I think that's the most striking. Depending upon how exaggerated I want my Hime piece to be is going to determine how thick the section is. I could take it from the second bump all the way down to the front corner of the hairline and have a pretty strong piece. Now, I can take less. I could take less of this and push that back. And I want to just kind of comb this down and see how much of a piece I want to stick out. So I think I'm gonna go right at the bottom of the recession from the second bump of the head. Comb that straight down in natural fall. Angle my fingers the same as the jawline.   Give us a thumbs up. Click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   And I think that that's going to be pretty righteous. Yes. Then when I comb all of this down, yes, I think that's going to be the perfect amount to give me a little pop right there at the front but still have all this hair long on the sides. What you got to watch out for is taking the section too far back and this becoming uh to where it falls behind the shoulder, not in front of the shoulder. Now, let's go through and do the same thing on the other side. And I think that that's looking pretty fire. Pretty fire. Pretty fire. Pretty sugoi (amazing). There we go. All right. So, now let's blow it dry and see what we got. See what we need to modify.   Final Look of the Japanese Hime Haircut There we go. I think we're looking pretty good. We got a nice end result. We have the hime piece that hits right at the jawline, which is my favorite length for it to hit. Sometimes it's a little longer. And as long as it exaggerates itself and pops away from the rest of the hair, I think the shape really looks good. We have Japanese hair bangs that are straight right at the eyeballs and that's really the style. Especially in Japan, those girls, I don't see how they can do it. They have it just perfect right in the eyeballs. It drive me crazy if I had hair. But such is the style. We got nice one length straight cut hair here. Everything's nice and clean. And this shape really lends itself to like ponytails or even, you know, pigtail type of shapes like Atarashii Gakko. And I think it looks really good, really modern with this kind of shape. Even though this is the most classic of all classic haircuts that there is. So please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hair stylists and barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much.
Timothee Chalamet Haircut Tutorial from Dune

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Timothee Chalamet Haircut Tutorial from Dune

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.
The Star Trek Mr. Spock Haircut Tutorial

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The Star Trek Mr. Spock Haircut Tutorial

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.  
Short Faded Mohawk Haircut Tutorial

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Short Faded Mohawk Haircut Tutorial

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

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Military Haircut for Women Using Scissor Over Comb Deep Dive Tutorial

When it comes to a military haircut for women there are certain criteria that must be met. Hair should be well groomed with a neat appearance. While hairstyles for military women have more versatility, their hair must be secured above the collar and not interfere with headgear. This means female military hair is often worn as a ponytail or bun. Hair can be short or long as well. But in this tutorial we will look at the iconic G.I. Jane buzz cut without using clippers. This is a bold look that can be done in a way that's not the same length all the way around. Watch the video tutorial and follow along with the transcript.   Watch this Military Haircut for Women Scissor Over Comb Tutorial: Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of content for Jatai. Today we're going to be doing a G.I. Jane inspired buzz cut, like a military kind of haircut, and we're going to use this as an opportunity to take it into a technical deep dive of scissor over comb. It'll give us an opportunity to practice. We're going to cover all the key points, how to move the scissor, how to move the comb, what kind of scissor you want, how to apply it and when to take a break. So let's get started.   The Military Haircut for Women Tools So the first thing I want to start with is my scissor. I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo Scissor. This is a 6-inch scissor. Longer scissors work better for doing scissor over comb. Sometimes a fatter blade works well when you're trying to just motor hair off, but I find a good basic normal scissor that's not too thick or not too thin but long enough gives me all the options that I need for being able to do scissor over comb well. The next thing I need to pay attention to is how you hold your comb. Holding your comb properly will enable you to do better scissor over comb more smoother and apply the technique much faster. So I'm going to start by taking the butt of the comb putting it right in the crotch of my pinky. I'm going to put my thumb and forefinger on the spine and the teeth side of the comb. Now this way I can rotate my comb back and forth and it allows me to get into a rhythm as I start to go up and down. And as you start going over this you're going to go over this a lot of times. So this enables me to have a nice smooth scissor flow and enables me to focus on what's being cut, not on the comb itself. Scissor Over Comb So the first thing we want to do is go through and I'm going to lay the comb against the head, pull it out a little bit and just cut this across. I'm doing a very crude cut. I'll move up maybe a half inch maybe a quarter inch as I go up the head straight this way until I run out of hair. Now you're going to see little lines in it and that's okay. I'm not worried about it being perfectly flawless at this point. I want to go through and get that extra length off so I don't have to waste my time going through and cutting all of my length off. And I'll just attack this horizontally across the back and just go up and out. Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather Now at this point I want to go through and start really cutting it short. At the bottom I'm going to cut it the width of the comb. As I go up, the comb is slow going to start to come off of the head just slightly as I go up and round it to the crown. Comb down. Start low. Put my comb in. Follow the head. Put my scissor in same width as the comb. So whatever the comb width is that's going to be the length that I leave. Once I get about right here that comb starts to leave the head as I come up and out. Now I start to get a nice smooth transition as I'm going from against the head to away from the head. I'm not worried about all the little scissor lines that I have right now. I'm starting to whittle the shape down. So I start very crude with maybe five or six passes and then as I continue up the head I go maybe 15 passes and by the time I'm finished I will probably have gone over this a couple of hundred times with my scissor as I start to work up the back of the head. And I'm working to the ear.   Addressing the Finer Details Now I'm going to change my comb to something that's a little more detail oriented. The bigger the comb, the more crude the shape is. The smaller the comb, the more detail I'm focusing on. So now I'll start and do exactly the same methodology I was doing before, but this time I'm going to go through and scissor it a hell of a lot more. So as I start to start low I'm uh-oh. I'm following the head shape as I slowly come up and once I hit the occipital bone I start to come away from the head a little bit. After I've got that section done through there I'll go through and do the next section and the next section and the next section all the way over. And what you should see is a light dusting of small little baby hairs that are going to land on your hand. As I get to the occipital bone I start to come out from the head a little bit and what I'm looking for is this very very light dusting of hair. I want it to be almost fur like so that that way I can be assured that I'm getting a nice detail cut. When I'm focusing on scissor over comb, it's less about how much hair I take off and if I can see it as much as I get into a rhythm of going through and cutting my shape and I hear the scissor cutting. Cuz sometimes the amount of hair that gets cut off is so small that you can't see it and it starts to fine-tune the shape. And when it gets really fine-tuned I'll see something that looks like a little bit of a line right, but I can't judge how much hair I'm going to cut off. Or I'm used to cutting in my fingers, I can see how much I'm cutting. Here I can't see so what I have to do is go through and just trace what's already there and once I trace that line anything that sticks out that's not supposed to be there will get cut off. Now we're starting to get a nice soft shape through there and I'm going to go through and do the same thing on the other side. That's looking pretty good through there. I'm liking the way that that's looking and that didn't take me too long. So now let's continue our tapering into the sides of the head. Just going through and crudely starting to whittle my shape in and down against the head. And once the head starts to round then the comb will come off of the head slightly as I work up and over.   Smoothing & Tightening the Military Haircut for Women Once I got that shape done I got that down to where I feel that that's as good as I can get with my big comb then I will go in with my smaller comb and smooth that out and tighten that. Now why don't I just go with the small comb in the first place? Cuz it's too hard to deal with that much hair. The longer the teeth are on the comb, the more hair that I can deal with. The smaller the teeth are on the comb, the less hair I can deal with. And it forces me to deal with smaller sections of hair. Start here at the bottom if I need to come under the ear. Get the motor running and slowly start to go up as the comb. As the head starts to round I leave the comb from the head and start to round the shape out a little bit. I will generally do this right to the mastoid. Very good. Now once I've got this done and this done you'll notice I got this little transition here between the front and the back. So when that happens I'm going to tilt the head. We've got this hairline and this hairline which is parallel. So now I'm going to go through parallel to that and work that up and out. What that does is that allows me to still follow the head shape and then continue to work that up and out. So I'm pretty comfortable with that. Now we're going to go through and do the same thing on the other side. Alright, so now we're going to start here on the top and in the front. I'm going to take this section, pull it back just a little bit so I leave a little bit of length right here at the front and just crudely start to remove... come on baby...my length up here on the top. And I'll do that until I get to the crown. Next section. And I'm doing the same sort of methodology that I was doing underneath. It's just now I'm working from the front going back and then I'll work on the sides blending into the top, but I just want to get a rough shape of all this hair on top being cut short. So what I'm going to start doing is just going through and working in little pie sections just to go from short and rounding my shape out. Cut that up and over. Give us a thumbs, up click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Freehand Haircutting As I get close to everything being dialed in like I want I can go through and then freehand over the shape just to get those little whispers of hair off, but I want to be very very mindful and conscientious because as I start to tire out I don't want my hands to start shaking and then I end up cutting a hole in the haircut and then I have to go back in and recut the whole thing around it because I got sloppy near the end. And that's usually when things are getting dialed in where you have a momentary loss of muscular coordination and the next thing you know boom! There's a hole. When you first start doing scissor over comb it's going to be rough on your hands and your hands are going to cramp, your thumbs are going to cramp. You know it's not going to be pretty. So I want to work a little bit and if my hand starts cramping I'll take a break. And it's okay. You don't have to power through it. I mean I've got 30 something years of experience and my hands are strong from all the years of doing this and your hands will be too when you're doing it as long as I have and as much as I have. Practice. Practice practice practice. The key to this technical deep dive about doing scissor over comb is the flipping of the comb, the motoring of the scissor. Make sure you have a blade that's long. If it's too short it's going to take you forever. A longer blade allows you to cut through more hair at one time than a smaller blade. Smaller blades force you to deal with small sections. Larger blades you can deal with larger sections and then just follow the shape and follow your guide and keep dialing it in and dialing it in and dialing it in until you get everything nice and smooth like you want.   Final Military Haircut for Women Look You look very G.I. Jane. Anyway, alright I hope that this technical deep dive has helped you picked up some pointers. Practice. Get your hand strong and you'll be able to do it great as well. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kind of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hair stylist or 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. When it comes to female military haircuts, the styles are simple, groomed and have a neat appearance. Military hairstyles for females can be short or long but pulled out of the way. This very short cut is reminiscent of G.I. Jane and while it's not a military women haircut that's common, it is a possible style that can be worn!   Tutorial
1990s Layered Jennifer Aniston Meets Gwen Stefani Hair Tutorial

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1990s Layered Jennifer Aniston Meets Gwen Stefani Hair Tutorial

Watch, read and learn in this 90s Jennifer Aniston meets Gwen Stefani hair tutorial! Hair in the 1990s had some notable styles that have remained iconic to this day. One of the most popular were Gwen Stefani hairstyles and particularly the one where her hair flips out. Of course, Jennifer Aniston also had the iconic Friends hairstyle that everyone remembers. Learn how to re-create that fun 90s layered look with this blended Jennifer Aniston and Gwen Stefani hair tutorial!   1990s Layered Jennifer Aniston Meets Gwen Stefani Hair Tutorial:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing '90s layering. Layering in the 90s was all about getting the hair to flip out and to get some pieciness to it and some softness and a lot of movement to it. It was about having glamour but a casualness to the glamour, a more of a lived in kind of glamour. So we're going to use Gwen Stefani and Jennifer Aniston as our inspiration and I'm going to show you how to get the hair to piece out and flip on the bottom, how to get some fullness and force the hair to flip. So let's get started.   Cutting the Perimeter Okay I'm going to start with a natural center part. So I'm going to start right in the middle. Take a flat section right there in the center. This is going to be my guide length for both sides of the head. Now when I comb this, I'm going to comb this just like I do all of my other perimeter shapes. I'm combing clean from the root down. Once I get to my fingers I am going to switch it up because the 90s layering is all about hair that flips and has a lot of movement and a lot of flickiness to it. And to encourage that I am going to turn my fingers up. So as I point cut, that's going to slightly cut the top layer of this section shorter than the underneath and will encourage it to flip. We're going to comb everything straight down. I am using my Jatai Osaka Scissor. This is 5-1/2." It's got a good amount of sharpness to it and it's got a nice blade point to it so I can go through and point cut this very easily, making sure that the line is even on both sides but not necessarily blunt. I want this to have some soft separation so I'm going through and doing an exaggerated point cut with my fingers flipped. After I finished the first section I'm going to continue taking parallel sections all the way up the head until I run out of hair and I have cut my entire perimeter shape. My next section here I'm going to start right in the center again. I'm going to comb everything out of the way. In the middle, comb everything straight down curving my fingers up as I go through and point cut that through. Next section, there's my guide from underneath, a nice exaggerated point cut as I continue to work from the center of the back into the sides of the head. Exaggerating my flip. Aright so we got our last section here. We're going to comb everything down, still flipping my fingers, making sure everything blends through. Length is looking pretty good. So now let's move on to our layering. Flickered Layering Okay on my layering we're going to start right in the center. I'm going to take a center section and where it's flat that's going to determine the width of my section so I got a center section from the front running all the way down to the center of the back. So now I'm going to right at the crown, separate the front from the back. Straight up in the air measure where I want that to hit around her face. Let's start with about right there. Go through deep point cut that to keep the textures the same and to keep my layering really flicky. I'll take a small piece as my guide. I'll take the next section working towards the back. Comb everything clean from the root all the way up straight up and cut that horizontally straight across point cutting it to keep the texture really soft and flicky. Small piece as my guide. Go right back to my crown. There's that. Cut that all the way through. So far we're doing just regular layering, but as of right now to make it 90s, I'm going to take my next guide and from here instead of pulling that at 90 or over-directing up, I am now going to pull this straight out the back. There's my length. Cut that straight up and down. My next piece, the perimeter starts to fall out. There's my guide. Cut that straight up and down. So what I'm effectively doing is leaving a corner in my layering right through the crown. So what happens is when this falls that's going to build up weight. Because it's layered more underneath, it's going to cause the shape to collapse and force this to flick out even more. So I'm forcing as much flip into this as I can get by layering it this way. Straight across and then once I get to the crown, straight out the back. The next section parallel to this first section all the way straight back into the crown, into the nape. Pin this hair out of the way and now at this point I'm going to pull everything, this next section, into the center section right here into the center of the head. There's my guide. Cut that across. Small piece as my guide. The center section and the new section straight up. There's my guide length. Everything gets pulled straight up towards the ceiling. I reach the crown right here. Straight up again and I'm pulling everything into the center. Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   There's my guide from underneath and the top. Pulling everything to the center. Come on. There you go. Now we got the first two sections. So now I'm going to take the rest of this whole right side and do exactly the same thing. I don't think very much hair is going to reach but I'm going to hold it up and check and make sure that nothing does. And if anything does I'm going to cut it off to the previous guide that I had in the center of the head. There we go. Small piece is my guide. Quarter part to the crown. Pull everything to the center. Using my center first, mohawk section as my guide, cut that through. Small piece as my guide. Next section pull everything straight back into the center. Cut that down and through. Now that we've cut this whole side, let's comb it back and take a look at it and see how it's looking. So as I start to shake it you can automatically see how it's forcing the hair to flick out into these pieces and it's getting really separated and you can really see individual little pieces of layers flick out. So let's go through and do the same thing on the other side. So since I held everything straight up, I need to go through and make sure that my layering really fits in around the front because if I pull everything straight up when the hair falls, it's going to show, it's going to mirror this hairline in the end result of my perimeter. So when I comb this down, it's actually going to go back down, recession and then down. So I need to go through and make sure I have a smooth blend so that my layering doesn't get lumpy around the front. Very simply take the first bump of the head to the high point of the ear over the hairline. Do this on both sides. So now that I got this sectioned out. This is all the hair that has the ability to fall in the face. So I want to make sure that that smoothly blends and it doesn't reflect the hairlines from me pulling it up.   Blending So we'll comb this forward. Now I don't want to go through and recut everything. I just want to go through and blend this line around the front. So I'll take a deep point cut. Take half of it to the right side and half of it to the left. I'll continue to hold this hair straight down combing it clean from the part all the way through and clean up any little discrepancies that I have from pulling it up in the air.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   We're going to continue. Comb everything straight down a natural fall. Place our fingers. You can see right through there. So I'm going to take a little bit of that out, a little bit below it. I want to cut that a little deeper there. There we go. I like that. So now I have that blended so I don't have to worry about my face framing being lumpy. Alright, so let's blow it dry see what we got.   Jennifer Aniston Meets Gwen Stefani Hair Tutorial: End Result Here's our end result. I think we're looking pretty good. I think this is you know very much spot on to what Gwen Stefani was doing when she was going to all the award shows in the 90s and she grew her hair out. She was wearing the flip, but it's also reminiscent of Jennifer Anderson when she had her Rachel cut where it was really layered but it was flippy on the bottom. And I think the flip gives it a more casual kind of glamour as opposed to this overtly voluminous glamour. And I think it's a nice little technique to have in your back pocket when you need it. So 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 like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much for watching.   Tutorial
Simple Long Layered Haircut Tutorial

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Simple Long Layered Haircut Tutorial

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A simple long layered haircut is a popular style among women with long hair. If you're looking to update and refine your techniques for long layering, this tutorial can help. Long layered haircuts are classic, timeless and beautiful. Hair layers give volume, dimension and depth. It removes weight and makes hair come alive. To learn how to cut long layers in hair, follow along with this YouTube video tutorial and transcript.   Simple long layered haircut tutorial:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be studying how to cut a layered haircut. Long layering means you're going from really short to really long and trying to make sure everything stays nice and smooth. It's not very easy, but I'm going to show you a pattern that works really well without making it lumpy. So let's get started.   Sectioning You know one of the fundamentals of cutting hair is excellent sectioning. Until you can really section hair properly, every haircut you do is going to be amateur at best. So let's spend a little time making sure that we get nice clean sectioning that fits the head, that positions the haircut properly on that particular person's unique head shape. And that will all go towards making the end result so much better. So we're going to take a natural or center part all the way down to the center of the spine, occipital to mastoid, match that on both sides if I can. There we go. Establishing the Long Layers Cut Baseline After I've gone through and done all my sectioning properly, I'm going to go through and establish a baseline. A baseline is the overall length of the entire haircut. I'm going to be using my Jatai Osaka Scissors. Now the Osaka Scissor is a long thin blade. So the long blade allows me to deal with a large section of hair, but also since it's got a little point, I can go through and point cut to it. But since it's beveled a little bit I don't have to worry about jamming myself and point cutting my finger. I can focus on point cutting the hair. Also the metal that this is made of is very very good. So it's going to stay sharp for a long time. First thing as with all of our baseline establishing haircuts will start right in the middle. Comb everything straight down. Get to the desired length that I want and then I'll go through and point cut my baseline because I want to keep this baseline very very soft. If the hair is too fine or overly fine, I may go through and blunt cut this. I just find it's so much easier to go through and point cut a line as opposed to blunt cut the line and then try to soften it afterwards. So after I've established my length, I'm going to go through and parallel section this all the way up section by section until I run out of length and just make sure everything's the same length all over. Layering Around the Front So after I've gone through and established my baseline all the way around either by blunt cutting or point cutting as I did, I'm going to go through and start fitting the layering in around the front because it's technically part of the perimeter of the shape even though it is the layering. And the layering, usually the most important part is going to be the shortest piece around the face because that's the piece that they see and that's where it's the most important to them. So I want to make sure I get that piece of layering right before I continue that on to the rest of the head. So to section that out, I'm going to put my finger right at the high point of the ear. And then I'm going to lay the comb against the front of the head where that falls through. You can start to see where the short piece around the front is going to fall. Now sometimes, if the client has a lot of bang like she does which is pretty short, it's going to be kind of hard to establish where I want my shortest layer to be if I don't have enough hair. So in that instance I will go through and take the section a little further back and take that to the mastoid which is that bump right at the base of the ear behind it. So that way it gives me more hair to determine my layering around the front and also gives me a little bit better blend. Take a little piece right in the middle. This will be the length of my shortest layer. So let's just say that she wants this to fall right around her mouth. Maybe when it shrinks it'll be between her mouth and her nose. So I want to go somewhere in between there.   So I'll measure visually and then kind of pull that up and leave my hand planted there in the air. Re-comb everything to my fingers where I'm holding it and then cut that length. See that falls right at the middle of her mouth. Keep my section clean. There's my guide from. Visualize where it's going to. Support my scissor and then go through. Cut that down and through and continue to build upon that angle as I get further and further down the head. And as long as I don't cut that piece of hair off at the longest piece of my layering I'm fine. If I cut that too short then I bevel my layers around the front and it becomes Farrah feathers as opposed to face framing layers.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Get that out of the way. Go all the way down to my length. There we go. Perfect. Okay after I've got both sides, the initial face framing done, I'm going to take the rest of the hair comb this down and forward. And anything that hangs off down here at the lower part, I'm just going to lightly blend that down and through. There shouldn't be a whole lot and it's just basically this little area right here that I need to make sure it doesn't overhang the layering in the front.   Creating the Haircut with Long Layers To start my layering I want to go through and take a center section from the front all the way to the back. This is going to be my mohawk section. After I have my mohawk section, I'm going to hold this up 90 ° from the head. This first piece is my bang. Here was my established length that I determined around the front. So that's going to be the length that I'm going to use to determine the shortest with my layering that I can go. We'll cut that straight back using our guide in the front. Small piece as my guide. The next piece is going right to the crown of the head. I'll hold that up. You see how much length I'm starting to take off right through there. So at this point, whereas before I was cutting the same as the head shape, at this point at the crown I'm going to now start angling my fingers so that the length will start to get longer the further back of the head that I go. I'm not going to start dragging the hair forward. I'm just going to lift it up at 90 and then angle my fingers. That gives me a consistent amount of elevation so that my layering has a consistent amount of weight. Next piece, 90 from the head angling my fingers. Working that down and through until I run out of hair which should be right around the occipital bone. Perfect. So now I've effectively gone from being short to long with a perfect blend that is an even amount of weight all the way through. So from here, to be able to start pivoting this and making sure I work that layering around, I'm going to go to the high point of the head, pivot from there down to the corner of the hairline. I'm going to do the same methodology I was doing in the back half of the head which is holding everything at 90, angling my fingers. There's my previously cut guide. I also have the length guide here on the top and my length guide there on the bottom. So I have three guides. Continuing this 90 ° from the head, angling my fingers, point cutting that through. Next section. Same thing. 90 ° up and out. Perfect. There should be very little if anything right there on the bottom. Now I'm going to remove the previously cut section as my guide. Pivot which is going to be right to the mastoid. And follow the same pattern that I was working. There's my angle. 90 ° angle that up and out. There we go. As I start to work around the head, that angle is going to feel like it really really increases and that's okay. Okay because we now have less head to go through and blend top to bottom so that angle does feel like it increases and it's okay and that's why we've gone through and done our face framing layering first so that we don't have to worry about so much hair around the front blending through with the back. Remove the previously cut section. My next section I will take right in top of the ear right there. It's more important that this section blends top to bottom than it does to the previously cut section. So I could go through completely disconnect these sections, every one of them from the previous, as long as they blend top to bottom. That's all that matters. So don't freak out if you're getting pretty short. You can always disconnect front to back as long as it blends top to bottom. It takes a little practice to get this kind of methodology down because you're working with such an extreme angle. Remove the previously cut sections. There we go. Hold this up. Now as I'm starting to get into the sides, there should be very little to cut as I'm starting to reach my face framing layering that I started with. And you can see right through there, the angle of the face framing is the same as the inverted angle of my layering.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Maybe a little bit right there. Very good. So after I finish the layering on one side, I'm going to go back and take the exact same center section that I started my layering with and then do the exact same thing on the opposite side.   Long Layered Hairstyle Final Look Here's our end result. I think we're looking pretty good. The layering, the face framing around the front gives me a smooth transition and I'm really pleased with that. The evenness of the layering and the weight distribution throughout the back through the layering I'm very very happy with that. And I threw a little curl in it just to be extra, just to make it look fancy. But the overall shape works really really well. I hope that helps. A little bit of practice goes a long way and I think you can really add something like this and make your layering vastly improved. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of a fantastic information on there that will make you a much better hairstylist and barber. And also let us know what you like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much. Long layers in long hair is a classic style that will never go away. While there are various ways to create long layered cuts, this method is easy to understand and emulate. Let us know if the techniques used in this layered haircut how to video was helpful! For more, visit Jatai Academy which features many different hair tutorials for layered hair, short hairstyles and more using scissors and razors.   Tutorial
Zendaya Bob Haircut from the SAG Awards

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Zendaya Bob Haircut from the SAG Awards

The Zendaya bob haircut from the SAG Awards in 2023 was a hairstyle to remember. When she debuted the style on the red carpet, it was an instant head turner. This fashion beauty knocked this hairstyle out of the park as the old Hollywood look was elegant, classic and yet modern. In this Zendaya bob with bangs haircut tutorial, you'll learn everything you need to know to recreate this look. Follow along with the tutorial and transcript below.   Zendaya Bob Haircut Tutorial:   Welcome to the Jatai Academy.  Today we're going to be doing a supermodel bob that Zendaya wore to the Screen Actors Guild Awards. I think it's beautiful. It's luscious. It's lovely. It's elegant, graceful and modern. Alright, so if we're looking at uh you know Zendaya's hair when she wore it to the Screen Actors Guild, this is a very nice elegant one length kind of bob with just some layering around the front and a heavy solid bang with a little bit of curl in it. And I think this is a beautiful beautiful haircut on her. I think she wears it very well, but the key thing to this haircut that makes it really modern is that she has this heavy bang that's kind of brushed to the side so you get this kind of bang fill in that they used to do in roller sets, but it's a much more modern version of that. So it's got a little bit of lightness but a little bit of heaviness. And getting that right I think is the key to making this haircut really fit.   Sectioning the Hair So to start with my bob shape I want to start as neutral as possible. So I'm going to take a center part down to the crown, from the crown straight down to the occipital bone, occipital bone straight to the center of the spine. Once I got the center part, I'm going to take from the occipital bone, that bump in the back of the head, right to that bump below the ear behind the ear which is called the mastoid process. So once I got the flat part of the back of the head sectioned out, this is going to be the foundation for me to build the solid bob shape. If the hair is too thick which a lot of times it is, I will separate this in half, following the same section that I had above it keeping my lines parallel. Once I get everything sectioned out like I want and it's even on both sides, I'm going to start the section in the middle. Start that right in the center and I determine the size of that section by where the comb is flat against the head. That way I don't have to worry about inconsistent graduation because I'm cutting across a curved part of the head and elevating it inconsistently compared to a flat section.   Building the Zendaya Bob Haircut Shape And then from here I'm going to use my Jatai Kyoto Scissors. It is my sharpest scissor. It also has a nice, weighted blade so it cuts a nice clean solid section no matter how thick the section is. Comb that clean from the root down. Make sure my fingers are perpendicular to the parting. There is my section. I'm holding that as low elevation as I can. Go through cut that straight across. Make that as blunt as I possibly can. The sharper the scissor, the better. Comb this down. There's my angle. That's the way I'm combing my parting, T to the parting. So I make like a T with the hair with the parting. There's my guide. Oops, go through, cut that straight across. I push that a little bit and there's my little bit right through there. Cut that as clean as you can. Then I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. Then we're going to check and see that looks good. It looks nice and even. Now we're going to continue with the next section. I have my baseline. I'll start exactly in the middle just like I did the first section. Comb that straight down. And you'll notice when I'm combing the teeth of the comb were away from my fingers and then I hook the comb about halfway through, bring into my fingers with no tension, and then just clasp my fingers right there exactly on top of the previously cut guide. Here we start ending up with where the head is curving. So I have a flat section there, a flat section there, a flat section there. So this section requires three subsections to cut. There's my line underneath. Cut directly on top of that. My next line there, comb clean. Cut directly on top of my previously cut guide. Same thing on the other side. I'm taking little flat sections as I work around the head. Comb that down and through. There's my line from my previously cut. Cut that through. I want to make sure that I am directly on top of my previously cut guide, not cutting it shorter or longer. That's what makes this the hardest haircut to do is you have to mimic that same cut for numerous sections all the way up the head. And it gets more and more difficult to cut it directly on top of your guide. Now our next section, I followed the same pattern, the same angles of section that I was taking. I just took the next flat section up and I will start exactly the same way that I was doing before, flat section in the middle. Oops! And then as I work one, two, three. So I've got three sections on that side. As we'll continue to work down.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   I'll continue on my little flat section. There's my parting. I comb T to the parting and cut my line parallel to my parting. Now I'm going through and cutting this as blunt as I can possibly get it because Zendaya has this really solid bob shape and it's going to be different if I was to point cut it. I don't have to be as precise. But with cutting it really blunt I have to really really maintain my precision as I build the shape or it's going to start to look funky. This is kind of a key area right here where we're working over the ear. Now what makes this section so difficult is I have a protruding ear that I have to deal with that can really throw a monkey wrench in my cut line on the bottom, but we'll show you how to deal with that after I start in the center just like I was doing previously. Comb clean. Cut everything through. Okay now as I start to get into the section over the ear there's a lot of different ways that I can deal with this. I can go through and take a section directly on top of the ear cut half of the section behind the ear and half of the section in front of the ear to leave me a little bit of space there to deal with later. Or what I tend to do is comb everything smooth with only tension that I generate from the comb. Once I put my fingers in, no tension, I hold very gently and very lightly and then just push the hair under the ear and then cut my line and if I go through, oops, and check that again and I used tension on it, you start to see a little bit of a hiccup there. That is the hair that is my safety net so that when I blow it dry and clean it up at the end I don't end up with a hole. Okay tilt down a little bit, continue on 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.   Now to separate the front, I'm using the same methodology of using the flat part. So I have this flat. I have the second flat which goes to this curve of the head where at that point all the hair starts to fall forward. Usually, the second flat I take that to the top of the ear. When I start my face framing, the smaller the initial section that I take right through here, the quicker that it becomes a frame. The wider the section that I take as my guide, I get a more heavy bang and then it blends down through and if I look at the photo, it's this heavy kind of bang and that blends down.   Creating the Heavy Bang So we're going to take a pretty wide section right through here, right to the center of the recession. I'm going to elevate off the curvature of the head so that it doesn't end up being a blunt heavy bang but something that flows. So it's got a little bit of layering by me elevating. It's actually going to have a little bit of graduation. So I'll pull that forward. I think I'm going to go right to the top of the lip, right through there. Cut that blunt straight across. Comb the next section into it right next door. There's that. The next piece right next door. There's that. So now as I bring the rest of the hair down, this is the hair that I'm going to use to blend my short piece down to my long piece. The way that's going to work is I'll comb this straight down in natural fall, angle my fingers. Here's my length I'm cutting to. Here's my length I'm cutting from and then I'll softly point cut that to give me a nice blend through. As long as I don't cut this piece I'm fine and I'm going to be okay. All the way down to that corner. Same thing on the other side. There we go. Now as I start to comb this we'll see this heavier kind of bang come in and then we have our blend through the sides. Blending Bangs with the Sides Next piece. This is usually the easiest piece because I just want to make sure everything blends over. So all I'll have is a little bit of hair right there from where it transitions from front to back. And again, I will comb this in its natural fall. There's my line from underneath, point cut that down and through. I have to point cut this unless I go through and blow everything dry and flat iron it and then just free form cut it like this because it's difficult for me to go through and angle my fingers straight enough to cut it blunt. I take a center section for my layering and I'm only going to layer a little bit around the front here. As I hold my first two flat sections up, you'll see my fringe fall out. I'll pull everything else up, take a little bit of that length off cutting it 90 ° off the head shape. Next piece 90 °. There's a little bit of length there to cut. Take a small piece as my guide and as I get to the crown I should have very little if any hair that's going to reach and there's just that little bit of curvature right there. Now I'll take everything on one side. Since I'm doing very little layering it's just enough to take that edge off around the front. I'll take the entire left side of the head, pull everything straight up. There is my line. There is the hair that hangs over. We're going to continue, come here, continue this straight up. There is my line. Cut that down and through and then on this last section there should be very little hair that reaches if any at all, really. Comb everything up. Be patient and diligent. Make sure everything's clean. There's a little bit right through there. Now we'll do the same thing on the other side. We got our basic shape here. Everything's looking pretty good. We got a nice solid bang.   Zendaya Bob Haircut Final Look Let's go through and blow it dry. See how it looks. Here's our end result and uh I think we're looking pretty good. Curl looks pretty good in it. I think we got the curl pattern right. Blunt all the way around except for a little bit of layering around the front. So I'm pretty happy with that. So the whole thing about this haircut is just making sure that bang is heavy and not really uh face framed and really wispy and light. You got to have a heavy bang so that when you brush it back it falls in and fills in nice and solid around the front. Anyway, let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Check out the Jatai Academy. There are all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. And thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.   Final Thoughts When we look at Zendaya with short hair or long hair, she knows how to pull off many different looks. From this Zendaya butterfly bob to a Zendaya long bob, she gets it right. But you can recreate these looks as well with some know how and practice. For other bob haircut tutorials, visit Jatai Academy.   Tutorial  
Rosemary's Baby Mia Farrow Haircut Tutorial

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Rosemary's Baby Mia Farrow Haircut Tutorial

In this Mia Farrow haircut, we look at her iconic pixie cut from Rosemary's Baby. Also featured in Vogue, this Mia Farrow short hair style created instant buzz due to its very short nature. Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby sported this pixie cut 1960s look and since then many others have followed. Learn how to create the Mia Farrow pixie haircut by watching this tutorial and following along with the transcript. Rosemary's Baby Mia Farrow Haircut Tutorial: Welcome to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to go retro with a classic done by Vidal Sassoon himself, the Mia Farrow pixie that she wore in Rosemary's Baby. So let's get started.   Addressing the Sides and Back We're going to start right at the side of the head halfway in the center of the recession to the quarter part. And we're going to go to the drop crown, not all the way down to the occipital bone, but there we're going to take this section on both sides. So since I'm working in smaller tighter sections, a smaller scissor will give me much more control. So I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo scissors in the 5-1/2 inch variety and then we're going to start with a section that's going to be parallel to the front hairline. Now what I want to keep in mind here is I want to keep a little bit of length over the ear, but I'm still going to crop this in pretty tight. Pull this forward to the front of the section at 90 ° straight up from the head. I want to make sure I leave some length at the bottom and then we're going to go through, cut that straight down and through. Make sure my line is clean. If I need to take that in two sections we take it in two sections. So that gives me my length here around the front and it also gives me a little bit of softness over the ear. I'll take that next section parallel to the first section and I'll comb these two into the center of both of those sections. Hold it straight out. Cut that off. Comb each section to look at it. This section will go right back to the mastoid. I'm going to remove the first section. Now I have the second and third. I will combine those two and cut that down and through. Now we're going to continue that section all the way down into the nape and then this is where it's going to change. So right at the mastoid I'm going to bring my fingers in and taper that in a little bit so I have a nice clean nape. I have a little hair left over the ears but a nice clean taper into the nape. Comb that into the previous. I can remove the previously cut section. Now I have section three and four. Hold that straight out 90 from the head, comb that out, follow through. Once I hit the mastoid, then I'll change my finger angle and taper this in much tighter. So it's going to be a little longer there and then it's going to taper in nice and clean right here in the nape. Follow the same guide as I work all the way back into the nape. So I'm going to work this guide all the way through to the center back of the head until I run out of hair. And I'll keep going until I reach over the center half of the back of the head and I have everything tapered in exactly like I want that fits the head. And I think that that's looking pretty good. After I've gone through and cut both sides, I want to cross check it. And the way I'm going to cross check it is hold it out in the exact opposite way that I held it the first time to cut it. So I'll start here in the nape. I'll comb right there parallel to my hairline. Comb that out. If anything sticks out, I will cut off. I'm not looking for big differences in length and big gaps in it. I want this to be as smooth and as even as possible and the more precise I am with my technique in the beginning, the less cleaning up I'll have to do. And that's what I'm ultimately trying for. That's my goal is to try to get this as even and as smooth as possible in the first pass that I have very very little hair to clean up here on my cross check. If I have big pieces of hair sticking out, I need to go back in and recut that section vertically to make sure everything flows like I want. Follow us on your favorite social media platform @jataifeather   Blending the Top with the Bottom So now after I've gone through and cut my entire underneath, I want to go through and make sure that the top will blend with the bottom before I even start to cut the top. So I'm going to take a parallel section to the previous section that I had where I separated the bottom from the top, comb this down. And exactly like I cross checked it, that's how I'm going to cut this. So I'll take a small section from underneath hold that up and out. There's my guide from underneath. So cross cutting the entire top just to make sure it blends and doesn't hang over the underneath hair. Now how much I cut off is all dependent upon how much hair was there previously on top, how longer that is, how much shorter it is etc. So I'm still continuing to work that through until everything is cut that could hang over. I just find that it's easier for me to cross cut this horizontally than it is to go through and vertically take each section. Because all I'm looking for here is a blend. Check this out. Now we know that everything on the top and the bottom is going to blend. So let's go through and do the same thing on the other side. Make sure that blends and then we'll cut the top. We got everything looking like we want on the bottom half and the top blends now. So now let's go through and take a center section.   Addressing the Top of the Head Now a lot of times when I'm doing short hair I need to make a preference between a round shape or a square shape. Since this is, you know, Mia Farrow and it's a pixie, I want to keep this shape rounder and more feminine. If it's more of a masculine shape, then I may keep it square. So we're going to start with a center section right above the nose. Now I'm going to take this section, pull everything straight up 90 ° off the head and cut everything the same length from front to back following the head shape. So I want to keep everything nice and round and soft. Taking a small piece of my guide from my previously cut section and work that down and through into the crown and the nape. Now we're going to check it on my way back to the front to make sure I got everything nice and smooth. And that's looking pretty good. So now I'm going to go through and take a parallel section to the first section that I cut. Comb these two together and cut right into the center of each of those sections and still following the length guide that I established with my first section. So there's the next two sections, the center and the first new additional section. And now I will follow that all the way through. Now the hardest part about cutting hair is cutting directly on top of your guide and making the next section that you're cutting the same length as the previously cut section without cutting into the previously cut section. Now here I'm going to have very little hair that reaches that top section. Going to use my second section as my guide. Anything else that hangs over will get cut. And since we went through and already established a blend with the side, there should be very little hair to cut. Now after we've cut the right side I'm going to go back, take my center section that I established as my initial guide and do the exact same thing on the other side. So I'll add section one which was the center. I will add a parallel section. I will make sure both of these are cut into the center of these two sections. So I'm basically walking my guide from the center over to each side. Small piece is my guide. Everything held straight up 90 ° from the head and follow that on through into the nape. Give us a thumbs up, click the notification bell and subscribe for future Jatai Academy content.   Mia Farrow Haircut Bangs The Rosemary baby pixie that Sassoon did to her for her movie was really really iconic and it was a blunter more solid shape. So I want to keep this kind of blunt and solid and I'm not going to add a whole lot of texture to it, but I do want to keep the bangs soft. So instead of cutting them blunt across I am going to go through and point cut them just to make sure we can keep her fringe nice and soft. And I'll go through comb everything down into my hand, roll the comb over so that the hair kind of gets combed down and then go through and just deep channel point cut some of this around the front to make sure everything is nice and smooth and gives us a little bit of something to play with around the face but still has that short kind of pixie shape. There we get that. Cut that. Cut this. You have less hair over here girl. Do you sleep on the right side? I bet you sleep on the right side. There we're going to go through a little point cutting just around there to make that blend through and I think that that's looking pretty good. Now let's go through and dry it, take a look and see what we got. See if we need to add some more texture.   Final Mia Farrow Haircut Look Here's our end result. I think we got a really nice solid shape without it being chunky and lumpy. I think making it fit the head is really really important. And you know I think Sassoon really hit this haircut out of the park when he did it for her for her movie Rosemary's Baby. And I love this. This is one of my favorite iconic shapes and just follow through. Practice and you'll be able to do the same. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist 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 this Mia Farrow Haircut The Mia Farrow Vidal Sassoon haircut was an iconic haircut that has stood the test of time. Since then, there have been many other celebrities with pixie cuts. The style is popular among those who can pull it off. We hope you learned one version of how to pixie cut hair. Note: This is not a tutorial on how to trim your own pixie cut. To do this is much more difficult since you cannot see the back of your head easily. Making sure the hair is even all around is difficult to do by yourself.   Tutorial
Selena Gomez Bob Haircut Tutorial Using Scissors

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Selena Gomez Bob Haircut Tutorial Using Scissors

In this video, you'll learn how to create a Selena Gomez bob. With her naturally thick hair, it's important to get the technique down to keep the hair sleek and manageable with little movement. To do this Russell uses Jatai Osaka Scissors and Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors to complete the look. Selena Gomez is one of the biggest pop stars of the 2010s and beyond. Her impressive Instagram following @selenagomez, her successful Rare Beauty line, her singing and acting have catapulted her to stardom. She has become one of the faces of fashion not only in her clothing but with her hair. Looking at past Getty Images, her time on the red carpet and film festivals, Selena has debuted many different hairstyles. From bobs to long hair, blonde to dark hair and bangs to no bangs, she marches on to her own beat. Follow along with the video and the transcript.   How to do the Selena Gomez Bob:   Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a one length bob that's inspired by Selena Gomez. Now Selena Gomez has a lot of hair. So in order to create this nice sleek one length bob we're going to have to introduce some texturizing. So I'm going to show you how to do that today that thins the hair keeps it sleek and smooth without introducing any kind of movement. So let's get started. I always like to start with a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide. It makes the hair easier to comb. It puts a slight conditioning effect to it, constricts the cuticle and gives me a cleaner cut. Now we're going to start here with a natural or center part right down the middle and I'll brush everything back and push forward and see where it wants to split. I'll take that all the way down to the center of the nape and then from there I'll take the occipital bone over to the mastoid. That gives me a flat section in the back using my Osaka Scissors from Jatai. That's the blade that has the nicest point. So it makes it easiest for me to go through and point cut. The more pointy your scissor is, the easier you'll get a point cut and it'll be cleaner an you can go deeper onto it. So we're going to take a center section. We're going to comb this straight down the middle. Now I'm going to put clips on the hair on either side just to get the hair out of the way. It wants to keep falling in my hands.   Point Cutting the Perimeter So now I'll comb everything down straight from the part, straight down, make sure my fingers are not flipping and then I'll go through and do a deep point cut. Because the whole idea behind this bob shape is to prevent the hair from bulking up and building a bell type of shape. I don't want this to stack and have all this fullness. I want a sleek kind of shape. So going through and doing a deep deliberate point cut like this will enable the hair to collapse a little bit but still retain the bob type of shape. So I'll go through point cut center towards the front. So in the middle I'll point cut that, doesn't matter. But on each side I'm always point cutting from the center towards the front so that way the movement is going to be the same with each of my point cuts on both sides of the head. If I always point cut from left to right, then the left side of the head is always going to move to the right.   Point Cutting the Next Section Taking my next section which is going to be parallel to my previous section and then taking my center section where I started and using my guide from underneath to cut the one length exactly like I was doing before. Now when I comb everything down since I've been point cutting, the line of my guide is not going to be real prevalent. I'm going to see kind of a ghosting of the image of the previously cut guide and I want to use that to mimic what I'm point cutting on top of it. Now here again point cutting from the center of the head towards the front and I'm not being real persnickety and diligent about making sure I'm directly on top of the guide. The more variance that I have in my line that I'm cutting, the more sleek the shape can be, the less stacking effect that I'm going to get.   Be sure to click the thumbs up. Click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now I'm just going to continue on with my section from the center working towards the front making sure that looks good. We're going to do the same thing on the other side. Now I always am cutting parallel to my parting and I will continue to comb that clean from the parting all the way down until I get everything nice and smooth. And something else that I want to expand on here is that my partings are just as much of a part of my guide as the actual previously cut guide is. So every parting that I take my fingers are going to be parallel to the parting. So the line that I'm cutting is actually the line that the parting is. So if the parting is at an angle, my fingers are in an angle, the line I cut is at an angle. So that way as long as I know that my parting is the same on both sides and I have everything nice and balanced it makes it a lot easier for me to make sure that the sides are even.   Point Cutting the Top of the Head Now here when I start to move up to the top of the head I'm not taking my quarter part. I'm going to take that part all the way around from the back into the front and to the side. I want to make sure that's parallel to my previously cut section and the same on both sides. Now I'm going to comb everything clean and I'll keep combing until I get everything perfectly smooth and clean and then go through and clean up my line just like I was doing in my previously cut sections. I want to make sure that I'm keeping the same depth of my point cut as I go through. Now if I need to clean a little bit up I'm cleaning a little bit up, but I'm not worried about everything being perfectly pristine. I want some variation and some softness in the line. So now we're working from the back into the front and continuing to work from the center towards the front with my point cutting. Here, the last section, combing everything down as evenly as I can around the parting and around the natural center part and the crown, and just anything that hangs over we're going to cut off.   Be sure to follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather.   Flat Ironing for the Selena Gomez Bob Sleek Look Now after we've gone through and we've done our base cut, we're going to go through and blow everything dry, get everything up off the scalp as we dry it and then I'm going to go through and flat iron it. Now when I flat iron I'm going to flat iron in exactly the same way that I cut it so horizontal sections. I'll lift the iron up on the bottom as the iron touches the hair and then close the top down and pull with my left hand to make sure everything is fed into the iron nice and smooth. Now we're going to take a vertical section in the center of the back and I'm going to hold this out vertically.   Removing Internal Weight So section that hair out of the way. Get it out of the way. I'm going to hold this out vertically and going through and using my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors. I'm going to go through and about 2 to 3 inches in just go through and point cut some of that internal weight out. I don't usually go deeper than about halfway and here I'm keeping it about a third of the length out. So just going through removing some of the weight from the ends. I'm not trying to remove so much internal weight as much as I'm trying to remove the weight from the ends. Now here in the back of the head you can remove a lot more weight without any kind of fear of any alfalfa sprouts sticking up or anything kind of getting out of control because that hair will always hang straight down. As I move up the head I take the next section. This is more or less the parietal ridge. I'm going to hold that out at the exact same you know elevation and then go through and point cut that through. Now as I start to point cut this through I'm taking it a little deeper at the bottom of the parting and then as I get to the top of the section I take it more towards the tip. So I'm thinning more underneath and less on top. And here you'll see I'll start deeper and then just go toward the tip on the very top because I don't want a lot of texturizing on the top surface layer of the hair. I want this texturizing underneath to remove weight so I can still keep a nice smooth slick shape without all that bulkiness of someone that has a lot of hair and it getting very broomy. Here on the last section, I finish everything up on the last section. I'm going to comb everything down. I tend to not do a whole lot of texturizing on the top layer. Just make sure everything blends there. I want to keep that top surface layer very very smooth and very very glassy.   The Final Selena Gomez Bob Haircut Look Here's our end result. I think we got a really nice sleek, smooth head curving kind of style for someone that has a lot of hair. That's the way I would go through and texturize it and remove weight without introducing any kind of movement to it. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist or barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much for watching. Tutorial
Short Layered Haircut with Side Bangs Tutorial

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Short Layered Haircut with Side Bangs Tutorial

In this short layered haircut with side bangs video, we take a look at how to create layers in short hair without it looking like a bubble. With short hairstyles, it's easy for it to start to look like a bubble when you start adding texture and layers. Layered haircuts, and in particular short layered haircuts, you may want to approach it differently. Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, creates the perfect short haircut with side swept bangs, reminiscent of the wedge haircut. This type of cut can be dome on straight hair, curly hair or even wavy hair. The wispy bangs are created as a result of combing the hair to the side. This haircut is not one you can easily do at home on yourself. View the video and follow along with transcript below.   Short Layered Haircut with Side Bangs Tutorial: Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be working on layering short hair. Layering short hair is a different mindset than layering long hair because it's real easy to get the shape kind of blocky and not have an even amount of volume. So I'm going to show you how to have a nice beveled full layered shape on shorter hair today. So let's get started.   Building the Shape at the Nape So I got my first section in the nape. It's you know enough hair that I can start to see my shape and build a good guide, but it's not the entire section. Some hair requires more section. Some hair requires less. So take whatever is appropriate for you to be able to build a solid shape and cut a clean line. I'll take a center section and I'm going to go in with my Jatai Tokyo Scissors. This is the 5 1/2". I think that this scissor is the best all around scissor that you can get. For the price, it's got a nice sharp blade. It's pointy enough that I can get a real clean kind of cut if I'm detailing. But it's not pointy so much that I will jab my finger every time I try to cut in my hand. I'm going to start right in the nape with the comb away from me. Comb into my fingers and then I will go through and point cut a line straight across. From there I'll use my comb. I got a little graduation from holding it in my finger. I will go through and cut that graduation off following the guide that I just put in. So anything that hangs out underneath that, I'll cut off. So I've cut this straight across.   Beveling the Line Now I can make a creative decision. Do I want to go longer in the front? Do I want to go neutral in the front? Or do I want to go shorter in the front. On this particular shape, I want to round that out a little bit so I'm going to angle my fingers going up a little bit. So I use that corner and then angle that line going up towards the face. This is going to give me a little bit of a curve in the back as it starts to come around from the back into the front. Do the same thing on the other side and try to match it. This is the hardest part when you're starting to bevel is to match the angles on both sides. So I may go a little longer than I think on this side knowing that I can go back and cut a little bit more off to make it match the other side. So the next section that I take, I take half of what I had already sectioned out. Now from here the first section I held straight down here. Here I want to bevel this shape and curve it as I go up so it gives me a little bit more softness as I put my layering in. Now I'll put two fingers underneath where before I had one. Now I have two. So I'm lifting this a little bit higher following the previously cut guide as I go across cleaning it up going the opposite way. So now I'm starting to bevel that shape and I will follow the same line that I cut on the other side. Two finger elevation. There's my line from underneath. Oops! There we go. We've got that. Same thing on the opposite side. Two finger elevation. There's my guide. Follow that through. Take the center, elevate. Now to three fingers. There's my line in the middle. Follow my previously cut guide. Same thing on both sides.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   After I finished the nape you can start to see I have a nice little bevel going, but I still have a good solid shape. And I'm going to continue this same method until I run out of hair. So I will take a parallel section to my previous parting. Pin that out of the way and go through and do the same thing.   Beveling from Back to Front But instead of using my fingers, because I've already used three fingers in the bottom, I'm going to start using the head shape. So the head shape is going to show me the elevation that I need to hold each section as I start to go up the head. There's my elevation. There's my line from underneath. Point cut that through. There's my line from underneath. Cut that all the way through. You see my shape beveling up through there. So I'm very happy about that and there we go. As I continue to work up I need to add a little moisture to the hair. Instead of using water I prefer to use a cutting lotion, and my cutting lotion of choice is Jatai Blade Glide. It gives a nice fine mist to evenly moisturize the hair, add a little bit of dampness. Also, it constricts the cuticle and gives you a cleaner cut. Now we're working on our last section and I'm continuing the elevation at whatever was at the top of the parietal ridge or the drop crown which is right there. This allows me to maintain a good solid beveled shape here underneath. I can always modify that more with my layering when I get to that point. I'm going to take a natural part and find the high point of the head where the head peaks. From there I'll take that right behind the ear on each side going to the mastoid process. After I've got the back sectioned off I'm going to go through and take a center section right down the middle. From here I want to visualize where I want the shortest layer to fall. So I'm going to pick this up and kind of look and see where it's going to want to fall. So there's that right there. So I can always go back and take more off if I feel the need. So always error on the side of it being a little long than the error on the side of it being a little short. I'm thinking that's okay. And from there I will now continue to go through, hold everything out 90 from the head. Small piece is my guide and follow that all the way through until I run out of hair and I reached my bevel. Small piece as my guide and there we go right there. We're going to meet in the middle and blend everything through. I'll pivot from the center over towards the right, combine the first section that I cut which was my guide with the second section, hold that 90 ° from the head. There's my guide in the middle. Cut that through. Remove most of that. Have a small piece as my guide. Comb these two in the center. Cut that down and through. My next section, there's my guide from underneath. Looking pretty good. So now I've got my first two sections done. I'm going to remove the center section that I just took, the first section I cut. Now I have my second section. I'll add my third section to that and continue to pivot until I get over to the quarter part. There's my guide from underneath. Small piece as my guide. Pull that up and out. There we go. And follow that all the way around to the side. My last section here on the right side. There is my guide from underneath, the previously cut guide. Pull that little bit out of the way. Take my next section, the center of both of those sections. Blend that through and there we go. And I think that that's looking pretty good. So now let's go through and do the same thing on the other side. This is the last section on the opposite side. Pull that straight up. There's my guide in the center. Follow that on through.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   And we're finishing up there. That's looking pretty good. I want to keep this front fairly solid, fairly heavy. I don't want to layer this all the way around the front because I think it's going to make it look like a little bubble. So what I'm going to do is I'll take a parallel section to my quarter part which I sectioned off for the back. I'll take a parallel section to that and continue to pull this hair back to the previously cut hair. So I'll pull this back straight up. There is my guide. Cut that straight across. Small piece is my guide. Work this over to the right continuing to pull everything back past the quarter part into my previously cut hair. My previously cut section, combing this hair back into that section. There's my length. There's my guide. Cut that down and through following my guide from the back. Now since none of this hair up front will reach I'm going to continue to pull everything back into my previously cut section and cut that through and across. Small piece is my guide. Pull everything else back to my quarter part. Anything that sticks over cut off. That's preserving my length around the front of the face. Same thing on the other side. Come here baby. A lot of times on these mannequin heads they can be overly thick and a little stiff and it needs some texturizing to lighten it up. But a lot of clients have thick hair too. So, on finer hair you may be done. You may need just a little lightening and softening on the ends, but on thicker hair you really need to remove some weight internally to give the hair a little bit more lightness and movement to it.   Softening the Shape So I'm going to go through with my Tokyo Thinning Scissor which has enough teeth to remove some hair but not so much that you start to see gaps and lines in it. It's seamless so I can go through and really remove a lot of hair in a soft way. So I'll go through and take a vertical section right here on the side. I'll pin this out of the way so it doesn't get in my way. I may take half of that and then from here about halfway and then feather that out through the ends. Depending upon the thickness of the hair will determine how many times I hit it with the thinning scissor. I want enough to soften it but I don't want so much that I destroy my shape. If you're worried, start somewhere in the back so if you over thin it, it's not right in the front. When I go through and texturize I don't want to do more than about halfway. Maybe underneath I can go a little bit deeper but here on the sides and the top about halfway is about as deep as I want to go. Now by going through and doing this with my blade parallel to the head, all that's going to do is remove weight and add softness. I'm not introducing any movement to it by angling of the scissor. About halfway. And go through and thin. There we go. So now I'm just going to go through and continue this throughout the entirety of the head. Refine my outline and clean it up and give it a little bit more interest. Make the shape a little bit edgier and stronger around the perimeter. Because the last thing I want is like a little bubble-do which short hair with layering is really easy to get just like little bubble shapes. So one part of it has to have some kind of visual interest whether it's more length somewhere, either the front or the back. The bangs got to be short. You got to have a little corner around the front. You got to have a little something so it just doesn't look like a bubble. So that's why I pulled all the hair in the front back to give me a little bit more length around the front, especially around this little corner here which I'm going to carve that shape out a little bit more. And I think that once we do that we'll have a nice pleasing modern kind of shape. We got nice volume. We got some nice layering throughout the back. That's a nice beveled pleasing shape and uh we got a nice little interest around the front. I'm going to take a little of that off right through there. I don't like that but there we go. Anyway, that's a good way to layer shorter hair and still keep a nice even shape to it. Please check us out at 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. Leave a comment below and we'll get right on that. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.   Final Look of the Short Layered Haircut with Side Bangs After styling the hair and creating an offset part, this creates some side bangs. FYI: The very short bangs in the picture were already there before this haircut. But they look cute with this style! Final Thoughts on this Short Layered Haircut with Side Bangs This type of haircut is not a type of pixie bob, wavy bob, short bob, layered bob or a pixie cut. It's more of a wedge-inspired short cut. Using the hair's natural texture and styling with a round brush or brush of choice, you can get this cute short layered hair with side bangs. You can always modify this style with choppy bangs, straight bangs or any other kind of bang.   Tutorial

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