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If you're looking to create choppy layers for long hair, you'll want to go through this tutorial. Layered haircuts can come in various forms as not all layers are made the same. Choppy haircuts are hairstyles with a lot of separation which creates more distinct layers. These styles are trendy and have a more rock and roll feel. They work on short, medium and long length hair so the techniques described below apply to all lengths. Whether it's straight or wavy hair, choppy layered hairstyles can work for most hair types. Watch this long hair with choppy layers tutorial and follow along with the transcript.    Choppy Layers for Long Hair: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a study on long hair choppy layers. But we don't want choppy layers like it was a mistake. We want choppy long layers that looks good, balanced, and creates a lot of texture. This haircut's all about getting separation and pieciness and getting that kind of lived-in layered feeling. So, we're going to show you how to section it. We're going to show you how to build the right texture by doing some deep channel cut with our razor. And we're going to show you how to do a nice little face framing around the front. So, we're going to start here working on our perimeter shape and the overall length of the whole haircut. Natural part to the occipital, occipital to the mastoid. And then we're going to section off a center section.   Channel Cutting the Perimeter I'm going to go through and use my Feather Styling Razor. And I'm using the limited edition wood look. I'm also using the R-Type Blade. And the R-Type Blade exposes more of the cutting blade so I can cut thicker sections of hair and it gives me a little bit more control. Now I'm taking horizontal sections and taking very very deep solid severe channels because I want this hair to separate. So I want to leave it a little longer than I think I need in order to give me the overall length that I want. Because I'm taking such severe channels out of it, it's going to make the ends look and appear a little bit thinner, which is going to make it appear a little bit shorter. So, cleaning up my shape there. Now, we're going to go through and take a parallel section as I work up the back of the head. So, every section is going to be parallel. And I'm going to start the exact same way. Start right in the center. Comb everything clean and then a very deep solid channel cut all the way through to force that separation, to force that texture to pop into these tendrils. If I take the channels much closer and much finer, I'm not going to see as much separation. It's going to diffuse the texture and I'm going to be more product dependent to get that separation. So here I'm just cleaning up a few pieces that got a little bit longer that I want to make sure that it's not sticking out too severely. So it looks like it's longer on one side than the other. And I'm just going to go through and follow the same methodology. The deeper the channel, the more hair I take. The stronger the gap becomes, the more separation that I force into each section. So, my layering that I'm doing here is really only going to be in the last six/eight inches of the hair and just following through exactly the same methodology to cut the entire perimeter shape to get the texture like I want. Sometimes the hair in the middle didn't reach so I'm not going to cut so much in the middle. Where it gets longer on the sides, I still want to get everything the same length all the way across. As I pull some of the neck sections down, there's not a whole lot of weight removal that needs to happen. So, I'm just taking off any kind of length that hangs over my perimeter shape to make sure we get the lengths the same. But then on the sides, it does need a little bit of weight removal and a little bit of channeling to make sure that the textures pop just like the center and the underneath sections.   Face Framing Now, we're going to move on to the front. And I'm going to take the first bump from the hairline and take that all the way to the top of the ear. That's going to section out where the hair falls in the face. Now I'm going to take a center section right where her hair parts. I'm going to pull that forward and that's going to be my length for her shortest layer around the front. I'm taking that little triangular section right where her hair separates and splits. Now I'll split that in half. I'll take the left and the right so I can have a guide for each side. Now here, working on the left side of her head, I will take a diagonal section, pull that over to the opposite side, and use my length from underneath to create a really steep angle for my shortest layer around the front where her bang section is to blend in with all the face framing that I'm going to start to introduce as I work into the sides. Now, the steeper that angle is, the faster the speed of movement that I create going from short to long. And just continuing that all the way down to the perimeter length that I have at the ear.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe, and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now, we're going to go through and do the exact same thing on the other side, but in the opposite way. So where on the left side I was pulling everything to the right, here on the right side I'm pulling everything to the left because I want that increase of length to force it out of her face right at the fringe bang section and then that blends into my face framing layers. Now I'm not going through and putting a lot of texture into this section because it's already a little bit finer and thinner. And if I need to create more channeling, then I'll do that where the sections get a little bit thicker. Check our lengths. They look pretty good. Now, we're just going to comb everything down. And anything that hangs over my face framing, I'm just going to cut that off. Now, I want to be mindful of my perimeter shape right at the ear section. So, when I worked on my perimeter in the back, I've cut everything all the way around, and now I'm working on my face framing. I want to make sure I don't cut that perimeter length right at the top of the ear. If I cut that, that shifts the weight behind the ear and it no longer hangs full around the front. So, still taking a long razor stroke to make sure that I have a nice soft texture to it. If the hair gets thicker, then we'll go through and channel it and make that a little bit lighter and thinner. Now, let's go through and work on some layering in the back of the head. And this is really what's going to make the haircut pop. Taking a triangular section right in the crown, hold the first section up. Find out where I want my layering to start. And then just like I did underneath, I'm going to go through and take some really deep, severe channels to force that hair to separate when it falls. And because I'm holding it straight up in the air, that's going to add layering to it as well and airiness and softness. So that deep channel will give me a little bit of weight. So when it falls, it pops. Now, here where the layering, I'm sorry, where the razoring stopped on the previous section is going to be the beginning of the razoring for the next section that I cut. And I'm still going to follow the same methodology I was doing before. We'll separate the right half of the back from the left half of the back. Hold that straight up using my guide from underneath to start the razoring. And still continuing that really severe deep razor channel. Just keep holding everything straight up, section by section by section, letting any kind of shorter hair underneath fall out. And there we see my guide from underneath. And I'll start the razoring as I go forward. Checking our razoring on the left side, seeing how it looks before we move on to the right. Now, we're going to follow through with the exact same thing we did on the left side. We're going to do on the right side. Where the razoring stopped from my previous section is where the razoring is going to start for the next section. So, I don't have to be real precise with this sort of layering because not only am I elevating it to the maximum elevation that I can get, which is going to remove the most weight, but because I'm using a razor and I'm going for a choppier look with this really deep kind of choppy channel cutting, it's going to blend smoothly throughout. You're not going to see any kind of real hardcore lumps. It's going to have a smooth gradation in my layering. But because I got that deep channel, it's going to pop out and be a choppy type of layering.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Check our layering. See how it looks. And I think it looks pretty good. I am going to remove a little bit more weight right through the center. I pulled everything up and I pulled everything down. So, I got a little bit of weight build up right in the middle part of the entire back of the head. So, I'm going to take a little bit more weight out through there. And I'm going to go through and continue on with the same sort of deep severe channeling that I was doing underneath just to make sure that we can get those layers to pop and separate like we want. And I want to be mindful of how I'm applying this channeling technique. Where the hair is thicker, I'm going to take a little bit more. Where it's thinner, I'm obviously going to take a little less because I want the weight distribution of her hair to be as consistent as possible.   Addressing the Top of the Head So, now we're going to move on to the top of the head and I'm going to take a parallel parting right to her natural part. I'm going to pull the hair up in the crown as my guide. And then I'm going to go through and channel it just like I was doing in the back on the side of the head to make sure that all the layering from the back blends into my face framing layering around the front. And then just continuing to channel that through and not trying to be real precise and real meticulous about this. This haircut demands a looseness, a fastness of the razor application, and I can't be real precise. This is more of a haircut about feeling. So, I want to make sure that I put that deep channel in it as consistent as possible throughout. Now, we're going to continue on the opposite side, pulling everything up. Anything that that hangs out, that doesn't look right, that doesn't feel right, I'm going to take a little bit of that out.   Blowdrying Now, let's go through and start to blow dry. And when I start blowing dry, I'm going to start right around the front. I'm going to pull everything forward, blow everything back so it kind of gets confused because I want this hair to have some volume, but I don't want it sticking straight out. So, I'm going to start at the bangs because that's the most important part of a blow dry is how it looks around the front. Now we're going to work in the back. I'm going to blow dry everything at the roots to get it off of the scalp so it has a natural fullness. And then I'm going to go through and polish it off from the mid-shaft and the ends with a little bit of a round brush. I want just enough bend to force the layers to kind of separate, but not so much that it starts to look real glamorous. Around the front, I'm pulling everything forward with a little bit of bend moving back away from the face. And then I'm gonna take a cold air shot and blow everything around to get some air in it so it has a more natural kind of look to it. After I got everything dry like I want, I'm going to put a little bit of styling cream on my hands and go through and just encourage those pieces to separate so we can really see our layering pop. And I think that that looks pretty good and everything's popping really, really well.   Final Look Here's our end result. And I think we're looking pretty good. I like the way that the texture really fits with her natural texture. And we got a lot of separation to it. So, this is a type of long choppy layers that still blends and doesn't look too chunky. You got the separation from all the layering in it. You got the pieciness from all that deep channel cutting. And the face framing lays perfect around the front. And this is not about being super smooth. It's about getting some pop from the layers. So, it looks a little lived in and a little more rock and roll than a glamour type of layering. So, I think it works really well and it fits on most types of hair. On all but the curliest types of hair this shape would work really, really well on. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you better hairstylist and barber. Also, let us know if you have any ideas for what you'd like to see in the future. Any suggestions would be great. Thank you so much. We'll see you next time.  

We have come to know and love Farrah Fawcett's iconic 70s feathered look. But it's 2025 and some of us want a modern take on the haircut. In this tutorial you'll learn how to cut Farrah Fawcett haircut with a razor for the modern times. 

In this Jennifer Lopez haircut tutorial we look at one of her many hair transformations and try to re-create it. JLo has long been known to try many different types of haircuts and hairstyles, both in her personal life and in movies. She has even experimented with hair color from blonde to brunette to black. In her latest movie, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Jennifer debuted a black pixie haircut and a Marilyn Monroe type curly hairstyle which just shows her versatility. Whether it's fashion week, a music video or awards show, this celebrity beauty knows how to change it up! For this particular haircut, Russell demonstrates Jennifer Lopez's Super Bowl bombshell haircut that exudes fullness, movement and face framing. Follow along with this tutorial and transcript below.   Jennifer Lopez Haircut Tutorial:   Welcome to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a deep dive study on JLo and how she styles her hair and when she gets that bombshell kind of look. We're going to show you how to get the texture right, how to get the layering right and how to make sure that you have that strong heavy solid bang that really makes it pop. Now to go through and do this particular type of shape that JLo tends to wear a lot, it's not so much that the hair is layered to get volume and fullness to it. It's kind of a throwback to old school hairdressing where they would cut length and then style it into shape. So in order to create this shape where it's just a natural lived in type of layering, we're going to go through and do some very very deep razoring and I'm going to use the brand new Feather Plier Razor in white. I love the white look. I think it's really eye-catching and unique. And I think this is going to be my new favorite. Now when I'm going through with this kind of retro type of razor cut I'm not focused so much on building a real solid shape. I'm focused more on getting the right amount of texture.   Establishing the Perimeter So I'm going to start with a pretty good gap. Start here short, go through work that all the way down to the tip and then cut that across. So the channels are a little further apart but they're real deep. Go through. Take these channels pretty deep and far apart and I'm not worried about making sure everything is perfect. This is an exercise in loosening up your haircutting. And I'm cutting visually more so than I'm cutting technically by building the shape in a structured way. So I'll take my next section down. I want to use enough hair that I feel like I have a good amount in my hand that it doesn't get real transparent and wispy but I don't want to have so much that it causes the razor any sort of difficulty being cut through. Take my next section, combing everything straight down. Pretty major gaps between my razor stroke. Check that. That's looking pretty good. And I want to make sure that I have texture in the very bottom of it. My next piece, there we go. Cut that down and through. And look at it and I think that that's looking pretty good. We got a little bit more weight over here so I'm going to take a little bit out. You can see how that's kind of clumping together a little more. So I'm going to take a little more out right through there and that's looking more symmetrical and more even across the entire shape. And I'm just going to take horizontal parallel sections until I get everything cut horizontally.   Creating Graduation and Internal Texturing Once that I feel like I have a solid enough perimeter shape as I work up the head, I'm going to start elevating each section so I can get a little bit of graduation in my internal layering that will prevent me from having to go back and remove a lot of length and a lot more texture in the perimeter length because I don't want this to bulk up. I want this to kind of dissipate into tendrils and if I hold everything straight down that's going to start building up a more solid shape. So I'm going to hold the section at that elevation. Let that hair underneath kind of fall out. Continue this real deep channeling as I go through. There's my elevation. There's my length guide from underneath.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Now since I'm doing this very fast and loose, there is going to become an opportunity for me to texturize one side a little bit more than the other side with each section that I go up, especially working from left to right. So if I happen to go through and layer one section a little bit more, take a little bit too much hair out, I'm not going to freak out about it. The next section I'll go, I'll leave it a little heavier and that's okay. So it's not about being precise and precision and perfect. It's about just creating a texture to it with that internal separation so I can have that shape and that length there to style it because this is about how you style it as much as it is what the shape of the cut is. When I need to fine-tune something, like say I got a little something here that doesn't hang quite like I want, when I need to fine-tune it, then I can go through, slow down, be real precise, take off just little bits to get the texture just like I want to get the lengths just like I want before I move on to the next shape. I'm going to go through and use a little bit of Blade Glide just to make sure I can keep a consistent level of wetness and also to make my razor glide through the hair as easy as possible. So by going through and putting in so much texture and so deeply, it gives me the illusion of the hair being layered even though technically it's not really layered. The shape is very much one length with a little bit of face framing layering going on around the front but you got to get the texture right so it takes a little bit of time to dial it in. That's where you're spending your time is making sure you get the textures right, the weight even and you get enough internal separation to start to really make that shape pop. Now let's go through after we finished all of that. I'm going to look and see how our shape is looking underneath on the bottom and I'm thinking that that's looking pretty good. It looks like we got some layering because we have all of that movement going through, but it's not actually layered. It's almost all one length and our basic shape with just this internal texture.   Face Framing Layers - Heavy Bangs Alright, so now let's move on to the front. Next section is going to be from the first bump of the head to the high point over the ear. Now I'm going to break this down a little bit further. I'm going to take from her natural part right to the corner of her eye which should be about the center of the recession. Section this out. I'll pin this out of the way. Now I'm going to go through and start my layering around the front. This is really the only, technically, the only part of the haircut that's going to be layered is this face framing around the front. Now most of the pictures that she has she has this real heavy kind of bang that flips or sometimes just kind of cups under and then it blends through the length on the sides with this face framing. So I'm going to start with my bang section and I'm going to take a center piece. I'm gonna look at this and see how much weight I want that to be split on each side and I think about a little bit more. So I'm going to go a little more there. Visually look at it. See where it falls. See how that shape is going to hit and now I'm gonna cut this section. Instead of cutting it at an angle to force it to flow, I want it to have that heavy solid almost disconnect from the rest of the layering. So I'm going to cut this straight across. I am going to use a razor so I have texture, but the line is technically going to be straight across. Right through there. After I got my channeling through it, I'm going to go through and blunten this shape up a little bit so I have... You can see very very plainly where I have my channeling that's going to cause that to separate, but then I cut it blunt right through there. So when I style this, this is going to have that strong heavy shape around the front. Here is where I'm going to start angling this down. So I have my next section there. I'll start here in the front, pull that forward and here where I start angling it into my face framing into the sides. After I get that we're going to make that pop a little more like that. Same thing on the other side. Now we're going to take the rest of this hair here. This section here is all the hair that has the ability and the tendency to fall in the face. I am going to elevate so I have some of the airiness of this face framing. There's my short piece. A nice sharp blade makes this very very easy work to go from short down to my length without any hassles and I end up with this nice easy airy blend. Same thing on the other side. The shorter the stroke, the more solid my shape becomes. The longer the stroke, the softer and the airier it's going to be. So if I have a piece that's not hanging like I want and I want to put more control in it, like this little area here, I'll take a shorter stroke to help force that to curve into the shape that I'm going for. Looking good. Now on my next section here I am going to hold this down because I want a clear separation between the front being airy transitioning into my sides. And there shouldn't be a whole lot of hair here that needs to be cut. There we go.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Same thing on the other side. And I think that that's looking pretty good. We have this nice heavy solid front layer and then it goes into blending in with the sides. We got a nice texture through it and I think we're looking pretty good for the overall basic shape. Now let's go through and blow it dry see what we got.   Jennifer Lopez Haircut Final Look A little bit of hairspray on you girl. Get you ready for Hollywood! I like it. I think we got the right texture. I think that the shape really lends itself to being able to style it in a lot of different ways and when you have a shape that doesn't have a real solid structure, it enables it to absorb whatever type of styling that you want to put into it. It's very very versatile. And especially if you want to add any kind of extensions or wefts or anything like that into this it will blend in very very easily, much more so than if you had a very very structured shape done with scissors. Please let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for checking out Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hair stylist and barber and we will see you next time. Thanks for watching. Jennifer Lopez has sported many different hairstyles. From pixie cut styles to half-up half down looks and long voluminous hair, JLo is a fashion icon. Jennifer Lopez hairstyles are always gorgeous, well thought out and captivating. We hope you enjoyed this Jennifer Lopez haircut tutorial.  

In this long layers razor cut tutorial, you'll learn how to cut layers with a Feather Plier Razor, an unguarded razor. Razored haircuts for long hair are popular styles that give volume, dimension and a lived-in look. Razored long hairstyles can be created with a guarded razor as well, but here we take a look at using the premium Plier! A razor haircut for long hair is perfect for women who like movement in their hair, feel their hair is too heavy and need weight removal. Razored layers tend to grow out nicely and you can go for long periods of time before needing to get another haircut. Follow along with this tutorial and the transcript below.   Long Layers Razor Cut Tutorial:   Welcome to Jatai Academy. You have fear of using a razor. You have a fear of using it on long hair. Are you afraid you're going to just take out too much and it's just going to be a stringy mess? I'm going to solve all those problems today. We're going to show you how to control how much weight you're taking out. We're going to show you how deep that you want to go through and add your texture and also how to add detail and make it the perfect amount of texture internally without layering. So let's get started. Starting off razoring long hair, there's a couple of key points that you really need to pay attention to to make it to where you're not fighting yourself and causing more harm and damage than good. We want a soft wispy separated shape and there's a key technique that we're going to show you on how to get that, but first thing let's cover how to hold the razor.   The Feather Plier Razor We're going to use the Feather Plier Razor. This is a razor that does not have a guard. The reason it doesn't have a guard is so it allows me to fine-tune my shape a lot more and also I can be much more precise with where I take weight out. Alright, so I'm going to take my razor where the black handle is. I'm going to put between my forefinger and my middle finger like this. Now I'm going to push the blade away from my palm, clasp my thumb around, rotate my fingers around like this and then I can use just my finger to create motion. I can also use my wrist. And if I'm taking broad strokes I'll use my elbow. When I go and take a section, it can't be too thick. If the section's too thick, the razor can't handle that much hair and it's going to end up pushing it out of the blade and you're going to end up with a really inconsistent cut. I think that's one of the biggest mistakes people make is they take too much hair and a blade that's not sharp enough.   Establishing the Perimeter & Creating Separation So now I'm going to comb everything straight down. The third thing I want to pay attention to is the length of the hair. I don't want to razor it more than about halfway. That's going to be a lot on long hair. So I'm going to keep my razoring to the bottom third. Now if I want I can go through and start razoring my length off or I can start channeling it or I can do both at the same time. I can channel and cut length at the same time. Comb everything straight down, put the blade in about a third of the way down through and then cut my length off. Keeping in mind that I want to create a lot of softness and a lot of separation in the texture. I'm not worried about the line being perfectly blunt cut. I'm not worried about that precision. I want texture. So pay attention to the texture more so than the overall length sure. I want to make sure it's even on both sides, but I'm not going to be real fine-tuned and OCD about making sure the line's perfect. Move on to the other side. Cut my channel through. There's my length. Cut the length off at the same time. There we go. Now I'm going to go through on the other side, cut my channel, cut my channel, cut my channel and then cut my length. Now when I first start using the razor especially a guardless razor, if I'm using one with a guard it's no problem. But a guardless razor as I go through and take sections, I will close the blade so I don't risk cutting myself as I go through and start pulling down other sections of hair. Then, when I'm ready, reopen the blade back in and we're ready to go. Next section. I'm holding everything straight down, following through, getting my channel and then if there's anything on the length, cut that length off. This can move pretty rapidly once you get a good rhythm going and you get a good methodology and you get a good approach. There's a little bit right there. We're going to take just that off a little bit and we're looking good. This is what I'm looking for is this separation on the bottom. Moving Up the Head Now as I move up the head and I move into the next section I'm going to be mindful to not pick up the hair that I've already cut underneath. I don't want to go through and continue to razor the underneath hair. It's already perfect like it is. So I'm only going to go through and razor the hair above it so I don't end up cutting more off than I want to. So I'll separate that completely and visually guess where that overall length is. It's pretty easy to see we're about right there. Now we'll go through put our channels into it very very deep and pretty strong and then guesstimate at where that overall length is going to be. It does not have to be perfect, but I do want to make sure that I keep my next section out of the underneath section when I comb that down. There's my overall length. Let's go through channel some of that hair out. Now this works really well on hair that's overly thick and doesn't have a whole lot of movement to it. If she had very very fine hair I would not go through and channel as deep as I am on this particular head of hair. There's my length. Cut that down and through. And then cut my length off. That's looking pretty good. Now what I find is if I go through and don't separate the hair underneath, what ends up happening is the hair on top feels overly thick compared to the hair underneath. I feel like I start missing the weight of this perimeter weight line underneath. So this is just a safety net to prevent me from over thinning that. An easy way to make sure I don't pick up the hair underneath I can just take a clip and then another clip and then when this hair lays on top of it I don't have to worry about it. It's not so easy to pick up. My next section. And I'm going to continue on with this methodology until I've cut the entire perimeter shape.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather I'm coming into my last section here. And another variation of this technique that I'm going to show you is if the hair already has enough separation on the bottom and I just want to remove thickness, then what I'll do is I will thin it just like I was doing before. But instead of running all the way through to the tip, I'm only going to do a little bit about halfway. So that way I can remove the weight without removing so much weight on the ends as if I was to go all the way down the section. If I already feel that I have enough separation, then that's fine. Just doing a little bit right in the middle of the section is enough to remove the weight and balance out the weight throughout the rest of the haircut without making the ends way too wispy. Cutting the Front of the Long Layers Razor Cut When I come around the front it's quite a balancing act between putting enough texturizing in to soften it and keep the edges real wispy and piecey but not so much so that you have a bunch of little baby wisps of layers happening underneath when I start to blow this back I end up with these little sprouts that stick out. So what I'll do there is I'll take my center section. I will go through and do the same sort of thing. But on the right side since I want the movement to go to the right and I want to layer underneath a little bit less, I'm going to focus more on the surface of the section as opposed to going just straight in and channeling it. So instead of just going straight in and channeling I'm focusing more on the surface layer with steps in between. That way I can start to remove the weight without any little stubs sticking straight up in the air. And then to make sure I get the length going I'll start shorter in the center and build up some texture and length going to the right and then going to the left. If I feel like I need to take a little more weight out, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to fillet this off so I hit the surface of the section not the underneath of the section. That is most important just around the bang area. The rest of it you can go through and do whatever you' like. Either way works just fine. Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content. My next section here and this should be pretty much it just a formality to make sure nothing really hangs over the sides. Again roll down. There's a little weight right through there so we're going to filet that off. After I finish on both sides I'm going to go through and blow her dry so we can see the results. The End Result of the Long Layers Razor Cut Here's our end result of this razor cut for long hair and I think we're looking pretty good. And the whole point of this video of using a razor on long hair was to demonstrate that it's not just for short hair. I mean some people are scared of the razor you know. They're afraid to cut any kind of long hair with it and you can use it on long hair to great effect in the right way. So we don't go more than half the depth of the hair. We pay attention to how much of the ends that we're taking out to get our pieciness. And we don't cut the underneath hair as our guide in each section as we go up. And that all gives you a much better result like this. And I think she looks pretty good. I think we got a nice texture to it and this is without any kind of layering at all. You get all of this separation and this faux layering just by doing that deep channeling and by going through and putting that invisible kind of layer through it. I hope you learned something about how to razor cut long hair. So anyway check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time. Final Thoughts on Long Razored Hair Haircuts with razored layers are versatile and work best on thick hair. When you razor cut long hair, it's important to use techniques that are applicable to the client's hair density and thickness. This long razor cut hair is perfect for many women that's timeless and classic.   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

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

One of the most iconic long hairstyles is the retro 70s feathered haircut. Reminiscent of Farrah Fawcett's style, this look has lots of volume with or without feathered bangs. Using a round brush or curling iron to create the iconic face framing curls and style feathered hair, this look is a type of cut that has lived on for decades. Watch this 70s feathered hair tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.   70s Feathered Haircut Tutorial: Welcome back to Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing a study of 70s feathered layering. We're going to modernize it using the Feather Plier Razor and I'm going to show you all the key points, how to make it move, how to make it flow, how to make it piecey. So let's get started. To go through and start I'm going to take a natural or center part to the crown, the crown to the occipital bone, occipital bone down to the center of the spine, occipital bone to the mastoid, which is that bump right behind each of the ears. I'm going split this section in half because it's a lot of hair and I can't deal with that much hair at one time. I want to go through and establish my baseline of length.   Establishing the Perimeter of this 70s Feather Haircut Now she has a lot of hair and it's very thick and I want to keep it that way, but I do want the ends to be soft and airy and light. The classical way of doing a feathered haircut is you cut everything blunt and then you hit the ends with a thinning scissor. I'm going to get a similar result by using my Feather Plier Razor. It is a guardless razor and it will give me the cleanest cut of any of my razor tools that I have. So I'm going to start right here in the middle, comb everything clean from the roots all the way down to where I want my overall length to be and then we're going to go through and with a pretty broad stroke cut my overall length. This is going to give me a little flicky separation on the ends without a lot of weight on the ends, but it's still going to be a solid shape because I'm not going through and doing a lot of internal texturizing. We're going to take our next section, bring this straight down. My fingers will run slightly past where I cut previously and then try to keep the same sort of razor stroke all the way through. We're going to do the last section on the left side. And here I'll start on the inside. Try to keep the same razor stroke. And you'll notice I keep this hand perfectly still. So once I plant my fingers this hand does not move, only the razor moves. I want a nice clean cut line. Now we're going to take the next section. Bring this down. Start right in the middle. Comb this clean all the way from the roots down through the ends. There is my guide that I'm cutting to. Open my razor. Cut on top of my guide as closely as you can. Now the shape of this is going to be very very soft. So I'm not worried about everything being exactly perfectly on top of. As long as it's in the general vicinity of where my previously cut guide was, I'll be fine. There we go. Here's my guide. Cut that across. Check that. We got a few little pieces there. And now we'll go through and check and make sure it's similar in length on each side and I don't have any long little pieces that I missed. And I'm liking that and that's looking pretty good except for that. There we go. That's looking pretty good. Now I'm going to continue on doing the same method of just taking parallel sections all the way up the head until I've cut everything the same length. Going to go through and finish our last section here and just make sure there's no long little pieces hanging over. Try to keep everything combed to the same area that I was combing it in before with my underneath sections. Meaning that if I combed everything at an angle and I was holding everything parallel to my parting, I want to make sure that each section is being held in exactly the same spot that the previously cut sections were so that I don't end up pulling one section too far forward or another section too far back. Not much to cut here, but just making sure everything blends perfectly.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Creating the 70s Feathered Layering So now to go through and work on my layering, I'm going to go through and take a section where it's one flat section, two flat section, the third flat section right here down to the corner of the eyebrow. That's going to give me a pretty steep little angle here. I want to make my partings match the bone structures of the head so that it's easier for me to match the left side to the right side. If I'm going off bone structure and not just randomly guessing it's easier for me to be more precise about my partings. Okay so now from here I'm going to comb everything T to my parting and pull this forward. And this part is going to be my shortest piece right through here. So I want to kind of visualize where that's going to fall and I'm thinking probably about to her chin is a good length. Pull this forward, visualize where that short piece is going to be, comb it off the peak curvature of the head and then cut from the center forward. So what this is going to do is this is instantly going to build this same steep angle into my section that I cut and it's going to start forcing the hair to feather back. And since I'm holding it up at elevation it's going to layer that and keep it light and airy. Now the next section I'm going to go through is going to be parallel. I'll take a flat section parallel to the previously cut section. Make sure that that parting looks the same. Now from here it's going to start to get tricky because I want to elevate off of the peak curvature of the head. So the first section is showing me to hold it there. The next section is showing me to hold it here. The one after that will be here. So each time as I go further and further back I get more and more elevation. So I'll section here. I'm going to pick up all my sections of hair making sure that I don't pick up any hair from the opposite side of the head. I want to make sure that this is pinned down, that I can't pick any of that up. Because if I pick that up it's going to end up getting short in a hole on the other side. There's my previously cut guide. There's my razor. Keep the same broad razor stroke so I can keep the same sort of texture throughout. Following the curvature of the head and cutting that down and through. Check that and you can start to see I'm getting a real steep angle and everything's already starting to move and feather back. Next section parallel to the previously cut section. Now as I start to go back it's easier for me to tilt her head down and continue my line going back than it is for me to try to over elevate. There's my guide from underneath. Remove some of that. I can't handle all that hair at the same time. Bring that out and through. There's my guide from underneath. Cut that down and through. It's important to keep my partings as parallel and as even as possible. Now we're starting to elevate more. Tilt the head down a little bit more. There's my elevation. Pick up my razor. There's my guide from underneath. Cut that down and through. Down and through. You can see I'm starting to run out of hair as I reach the perimeter over the ear. Cut that down and through. Remove some of that. My next section going off continuing off the peak curvature of the head and you can see I'm starting to really run out of hair as I reach the top of the ear.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Next piece. There we go. Got just a little bit right there and the crown and I bet as I work here to the sides there's going to be little to no hair to cut. And there we go. So now let's go through and do the exact same thing on the other side. Alright, here's our end result of our cut. We've got a lot of layering concentrated here around the bang area and the front top of the head. It blends through, but it still maintains a really solid shape here on the bottom and it allows that lightness of the layering to feather back while still maintaining that shape. So let's go through and blow it dry and then we'll see what we got.   70s Feathered Haircut End Result Here is our end result. And I think that we really captured you know the essence of what a feathered hairstyle was and that's light and airy layering around the front gradually getting more solid in the back with a real solid shape back here on the perimeter line and light airy feathered layers around the front view. And by elevating everything and pulling it forward and going off the head shape that really helps release the weight and then combining that with a more modern approach of using the Feather Plier Razor that keeps me very light and airy in my layering but still helps me build up a nice solid shape. And I think that she looks pretty good. I like it a lot. Note: Her hair color is light, but this will work on darker hair colors as well. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and until next time take care. Thank you so much for watching.   Tutorial

In this tutorial, Russell Mayes Director of Content for Jatai, demonstrates how to create Kourtney Kardashian long hair. She wore this style before she cut it into her more popular bob shape. Kourtney Kardashian has had many hair looks over the years. From short hair to long, blonde to dark, blunt cut to soft cut, styled ponytails and more, Kourtney has shown she is a fashionista. But you won't usually see Kourtney Kardashian bangs. Just take quick look at her Instagram profile @kourtneykardash and you'll see many posts with different hair styling. Kardashian hair, whether it be Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian or the Jenner sisters, is always thick and healthy. Hair care is an important part of being able to carry different looks. Watch this tutorial and learn how to create Kourtney Kardashian's long hair look and follow along with the transcript.   Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Tutorial: Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a study on Kourtney Kardashian's hair before she cut it off into a bob. So we're going to get the texture right. We're going to get the lengths right. We're going to get the styles right. So let's get started. Now the thing with Kourtney Kardashian's hair is she's got a lot of hair. It's very thick and the thing that's remained constant through all of her hairstyles or through the majority of them is that the root of it has always been very very solid and full and thick. And the ends of it have been very airy and wispy and light. So that's what we're going to focus on today is how to maintain a very solid shape from the center half up and then maintaining a very light airy shape on the bottom.   Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair - Razoring the Bottom So I'm going to go through and use my Feather Styling Razor to create that effect. I'm going to take a natural or center part. Now with this haircut it's going to focus mostly on the texture of it and less on the overall style and shape of the haircut. So we got our first section of the nape, occipital to the mastoid. This just gives us our baseline that we can build our length and shape off of. So I'm going to start right in the middle. So instead of going through and cutting a baseline and then trying to texturize it, I'm going to do everything at the same time. So I figure I want to go about right here and I want to start maybe not quite halfway but certainly fairly deep in and then start channel cutting that all the way down to the tip of my fingers. So we're going to start and just real gently go through and take a nice wispy angle and I'm not moving my left hand at all. I'm keeping that the same so that way I know that is going to be my length overall and then putting that texture in just the bottom is going to make each of these little pieces here separate. I'll take a small little piece as my guide, comb this straight down. There's my guide right there. So I'm going to plant my fingers and now go through and cut me a nice little soft wisp. I want to try to be consistent with the thickness of my wisps that I'm cutting and the angles that I'm doing but there's obviously going to be some variation to that and that's okay. We're going to continue on the other side. Comb this straight down, plant my fingers right where my guide is and then once I get to my fingertips there that's going to be my length. I'll cut that off. Right through there. Right through there. Parallel to the previously cut section.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Alright, so I've got my next section here and I want to be conscious of the hair that I've cut before my previously cut section. I don't want to go through and re-thin that every time because I'm doing a channel cut and there's a possibility that I can cut that again. So what I'll do is I'll remove that out of my hand. I'll take the next section comb it down. There's my previously cut section. So now I have where the guide was but it's not in my hand and I can get close enough to the overall length and then go through and do the exact same methodology that I was doing before with this really really deep channel. So now when I combine those together I still have a nice soft texture and I don't re-thin the previously cut section. I have my next section. Let's go through and remove the previously cut section. There is my guide from underneath. Comb this straight down without picking up the hair from underneath just using that as a visual guide and then going through and doing my deep channel to cut my length and to cut my texture at the same time. Same thing on the other side. I want to remove the previously cut hair, comb my neck section down. There's my guide length. Then go through with my deep channel. Vary it up a little bit according to the thickness of the hair. If the hair is really thick I may take the channel a little bit deeper. If it's thinner maybe a little bit less. Take my next section, hold that straight down. Then with my Feather Styling Razor, deep channel cut all the way to the perimeter length. Now as I come into the side since I don't have any previously cut hair underneath I'll take a small piece from the back as my length guide, comb that straight down. There's my length from the back. Then we'll go through channel that through and down, down and through. Perfect. Same thing on the other side. Okay so here is my last section on the left side. We'll pin that out of the way there. Comb everything down and through. Try not to pick up any of my previously cut hair. There's my guide length. Not a whole lot of hair here to cut but I still want to maintain the same sort of texture. So even though I'm not cutting a lot of hair off right through here, here I am but through there I'm not cutting a lot of hair off. I still want to maintain the same sort of textures so that everything flows together evenly. There's my length. This is probably the most solid section of the whole haircut that she has. So let's go through. Oops! I cut a little bit too much off there but that's okay. That's okay. There we go. Perfect. Now that we've got our perimeter shape done, I want to go through and lighten a little bit of layering just around the front to help it get out of her face a little bit.   Face Framing Layers So we're going to go through and take a section from the first bump of the head to the high point of the ear. Same thing on the other side here. Alright. So I have everything that has the tendency to fall in her face and I'm going to start right in the middle. So I'm not trying to cut this too short. I want to go through and keep this fairly long, but I just want to start to put an etching in to help get this back out of the face. So I'll start right in the middle, work to the right, right in the middle and work to the left. So this is going to be my shortest layer for both sides. So now I'll take this right side, comb everything straight down. There's my guide length. So now we're going to go through and real gently, evenly with care and love and sweetness and tenderness cut that all the way down. So I'm cutting a real steep angle going down. I'll take the hair behind it, comb all of that straight down. There might be a little bit that hangs over right here on the bottom.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   And that's basically the only part of layering that I'm going to put in this section. Now we'll take our section on the other side and do the same thing. Now you notice I cut the top down. So I'm going to cut top down on this side. There's my line. There's my guide and then I'll go through and gently tenderly with intent cut that down to my guide length down here at the very perimeter. And so I know since I'm starting at the same point and I'm going to the same point I can get my angles pretty close to being the same. Comb everything else down. See if anything hangs over. We got a little bit right there. That's looking pretty good. I don't like that one but that looks pretty good and I think we got the basic shape built in.   Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Final Look   So now let's go through and blow dry and see what we got. Here's our end result. I think we're looking very reminiscent of when Kourtney had her long hair and the whole point of it is to keep these ends really nice and airy and soft so that when you curl it, it has a little bit of separation to it. It doesn't have that 70s you know beauty pageant kind of look to it. And also with that real steep angle around the front it gives us just a little bit of movement to be able to keep it out of her face and I think that this works really really well. So just remember that this haircut is more about getting the texture right and focusing where that texturizing is going to be in the lower half of the hair. Please check out Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you then. You can also check out the Feather Styling Razor in our shop.   Tutorial

In this video Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, demonstrates how to do a 1970 shag haircut. It's a popular hairstyle that has stood the test of time. It's effortlessly cool with volume, layers, and natural style. In this tutorial, the 70s shag hair is cut with a heavy fringe and created with a modern twist. The beauty of this style has kept up with trends and has shown that years later, it's a flattering haircut in any generation. The curly shag of the 70s was also popular. The shag style complimented the natural curls and gave it nice volume. In this video, the 70s shag is demonstrated with straight hair, but it works nicely on curly hair too.   1970 Shag Haircut with Bangs Tutorial: Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a shag with bangs, something that's going to be solid and really full. Kind of uh 60s 70s inspired, that Stevie Nicks, Bridget Bardot kind of look. So let's get started.   Taking a Center Section So we're going to start in the center. We're going to take a flat section right at the front of the hairline and then we're going to take that all the way back to the nape. Same thing on both sides so I have a nice mohawk section going from the front hairline all the way to the back. As you see here, I'll take my first section around the front hairline hold that up and determine how short I want my shortest layering to be and then using my Feather Styling Razor I'll go through and cut my length off. I'm cutting it shorter around the front and longer as I go towards the back. Now one thing I want to tell you about the Feather Styling Razor is I'm using the R-Type Blade. The R-Type Blade covers less of the razor and exposes more of the blade so it's actually easier to cut. The Standard Blade actually covers more of the blade so it gives you more protection, but it's not going to allow you to cut as thick a section of hair as the R-Type Blade. So continuing working my layering from short at the front, longer in the back, I'm going to go through and hold each section of my mohawk section at 90 ° until I reach the crown. After the drop crown, I'll pull everything up to that section. So that's going to give me an increase of length as I go down towards the nape, checking out my layering making sure everything looks even and smooth. Now we're going to continue a parallel section to my first mohawk section and then I'm going to comb it into the center. So I'm not going to walk my guide from the middle of the head towards the perimeter. I'm pulling all the hair into the center. So what this is going to do is it not only is it going to be shorter in the front it's also going to be shorter in the center of the head and longer as it works towards the ears and longer as it works towards the nape in the back. So I'll continue to hold everything up at 90 ° from the head into the center of the head following my previously cut guide. And an important thing when you're cutting with the razor is I want to make sure I maintain an even broad razor stroke. If I use a broad razor stroke it's going to keep all my ends very nice and light and airy. If I take a real tight stroke where I don't take it and move the razor a lot, I'm going to end up with a more solid shape. So I'm using a soft broad stroke here.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Now I'm continuing to work my layering going towards the back following the exact same guide that I was using before. Now we'll continue on. I'm going to take a parallel section and sometimes this section can be a little difficult to take because you're working a curved section on a flat part of the head which is the side. Pulling everything again directly into the center of my head. So that first mohawk section that I held everything in this haircut as far as the layering goes is being held up in that mohawk section. Holding everything up, the same broad razor stroke that I was taking and just follow through. If you approach something very very methodical it becomes easier to follow through on the pattern and you can move very very quickly. Once you get the hang of using a razor you can move through this very very quickly and get the length and the texture you want at the same time. Now we're going to take our last section here on this side of the head. Comb everything up. Anything that hangs over I'll cut off as you can see right there. And as I work towards the back I'm going to pivot around the ear. There we go right through there and continue to work from front to back. There's our line. Now as we get to the back we're not going to have a whole lot of hair to cut off. So this last section here that we're going to work on there's not going to be a whole lot of hair. So I've been cutting on the inside of my fingers the whole time, but there's not a lot there. So I'm just going to glide the razor across the outside of my finger and cut any of those long little pieces off that hang over. Now we're going to go back and take my original mohawk section and the first section on the left side of the head. Finish the same thing on the other side and now we have our layering done. And I think it looks pretty nice and even all over.   Removing Weight from the Top So now we're going to section out around the front because I feel like the layering on top is too heavy. So we're going to take some Jatai Blade Glide, spray that vigorously across the entire section of the hair that we're about to cut because the Blade Glide makes the razor slide across the hair much more smoothly and evenly and gives me a much cleaner cut without the razor trying to snag any hair. Now we're going to go through and channel some weight out of each section of hair that we started with in the beginning. So we're going to channel it out. Where it's thinner we're not going to take a whole lot. Where it's thicker you're going to see me take more hair out because I felt like this mannequin head it was thicker on the top and thinner underneath which most of these are. And sometimes you have clients that are like that as well or thicker in one area of the head maybe in the nape, less in the front. So I'm going to apply my channel texturizing exactly where it needs to be applied. So I'm really paying attention to how much hair I take out with each section. It's not just some haphazardly just willy-nilly throw the razor through the hair. I want to apply it with forethought and with technique so I can make sure that the shape flows exactly like I want. After I got the first section done I'm going to go through and continue working all the way towards the back. So each section I'll take out as much hair as need be so that I get a nice even amount of weight distributed all the way across the top.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now we're continuing on. Now you'll see right there that piece of hair did not have a whole lot of weight in it so I just completely removed it. Thin out the hair on top of it. Texturize it so I have a nice even amount of weight distribution. Cut anything that hangs over around the front off that I don't like. Now here's my last section right in the nape and I'm going to use the exact same methodology I was using around the front, removing as much hair as I feel is needed. After we do that we've got everything smooth.   Addressing the 1970 Shag Haircut Bangs Now let's section out our bang section. Let's section out our bang. We're going to take that triangle right in the front and I'm going to cut it in half. Now after I've cut it in half I'm going to take my center section right there in front of her eyes and I want to cut this longer than I think it needs to be. And I'm going to take a broad razor stroke and cut that off and then look at it and see where it's hitting, seeing how it's flowing. And now I'm going to cut everything evenly across the front. So I'm not building up any length towards the edges. I want everything evenly across the front so that way I have a little bit of bang that hangs underneath. I'll cut it a little shorter in the middle but I don't want to cut an angle into it. I want the texturizing to be what allows me to push the hair out of the eyes. So on this section I'm not cutting an angle into it. I may cut it a little shorter right on the nose, but I want to keep that fairly even across and the texture was what's going to give me movement to it. Now as I finish this I get this even on both sides I like that straight across no problem. Now this section I am going to cut shorter in the middle, longer towards the edges. So I have that hair underneath that's going to be disconnected from this section right here. You see how it's getting longer towards the edges so that underneath hair allows the longer hair to be pushed up out of the way and gives me an illusion of the hair being longer than it really is because I have that top layer that's a little longer and the underneath layer keeps it out of the eyes so it has that that movement to it without me having to curtain the entire front. So it's a schizophrenic bag. Underneath is hanging straight and the top is hanging over to the side. And then I'll just fine-tune it to where I get everything exactly like I want. I like it. I think the bangs look really good. I think we really hit the bangs perfectly today and we got a lot of layering throughout the whole shape which I think is important for this type of shag but still not overly stringy or overly wispy. It still has a solid shape and I think that that works well especially when you want to get some fullness and some height on the top and have a heavy bang. I think if it's not full all around in a solid shape with a heavy bang it doesn't really fit but that's just my personal opinion and she's ready to go to a Hollywood bungalow. She looks good. She's ready to go. Check out 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 we will see you next time. Thank you so much!   Final Look of the 1970 Shag Haircut   Tutorial

The wolf haircut is a popular, trendy style that women love. Wolf cuts are beautiful and feminine. Wolf cut hairstyles are characterized by longer layers and differs from a shag haircut in that the front section completely disconnected from the overall length. Wolf haircuts can be done on various hairstyles, hair texture and lengths. They can be done on short hair, long hair, straight hair, wavy hair, curly hair, fine hair and thick hair. It works will hair colors and hair types. You just might have to make a few adjustments to achieve the desired results. You can add different types of bangs like curtain bangs or side swept bangs. It also looks good with many face shapes. The wolf cut haircut can also be combined with other styles like the mullet or shaggy looks for a blend of two different styles. It's a versatile haircut! Watch this soft wolf haircut tutorial and follow along with the transcript.   Soft Wolf Haircut Tutorial:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a version of the wolf cut I like to call the soft wolf cut. And we're going to start here checking out her hair seeing what we got. We're going to go through and section off an area in the nape. We're going to start with our Feather Plier Razor because I want as much control over my cut line as possible. So we're going to start in the nape here from the occipital to the mastoid. This is going to be my perimeter length and the length of the overall cut.   Establishing the Perimeter Length So we're going to start pulling everything straight down taking a broad stroke with my razor going back and forth. Since I'm in the middle, this is going to be my neutral my most neutral section. So combing that straight down getting my line cut and then continuing on to the right side and then to the left side. So keeping a broad stroke because I want these pieces to separate. So the broader the stroke the softer the end result is going to be and the more separation that I can create. So in the center I'll cut from left to right in the middle. And then on the right I'll cut from the inside the center towards the right side. On the left side I'll cut from the inside towards the left side. That way I can keep my movement the same on both sides of the head just being patient and diligent to make sure I get my lengths similar on both sides. There we got a little bit longer there on the right side. So just whittling that down until I get this to where I feel like it's the length that I want and it's flowing like I want.   The Front and Face Framing Now we're going to move up the head. We're going to section from the drop crown to the top of the ears and we're going to comb everything down. We're going to follow our previously cut guide starting in the center and then working out towards the edges around the front. Again, just following our guide using a broad stroke with the razor then pinching off any little bits that hang out a little longer than I don't like. And then continuing the same methodology to cut my length throughout the entirety of the haircut. Here we'll take the rest of the hair, comb everything down and anything that hangs over our original guide length will cut off and you'll see I'm cutting from the interior towards the front. Same on both sides. Now we're going to start our face framing around the front. We're going to take a section from the first bump of the head down to the high point of the ear. Gonna separate that in the middle and I'm going to take my initial length that I want the shortest layer to be. That's going to be somewhere around her nose and then we're going to start cutting down vertically straight up and down right in the center of her face. So I'm combing all the hair over into the middle of her face holding the section vertically and then cutting from my shortest guide length straight down. And I want to keep the same broad razor stroke so that I have a consistent amount of softness for the entirety of the haircut. So what really separates a wolf cut from a shag is that this section here on the wolf cut is completely disconnected from my overall length. So it does not have to blend to the length of the hair that I have in the back. And the less that it blends the more edgy that the cut is. So you can go really really short around the front and make it really stand out or you can leave it softer and longer like I am but it's still going to disconnect from the back. So I'm visualizing where I want the hair to fall and I'm thinking around the collarbone is where I want this front length to fall. So as I go through and get my initial cut in I want to check and see how it's falling see how it's flowing around the front and then modify my approach as I need to. So I feel like that's a little solid around the fringe around the bang area so I'm going to go through and channel some sections just to relieve the weight and to help that hair to separate into pieces and to cut it a little shorter right into the center. So I'm just going to take sub sections, hold it forward, channel through, release the weight and force it to separate. Perfect. Once I feel like I've got that where I want it to fit now where I want it to flow I'll do the same thing on the other side. And this haircut, what really makes it interesting is the separation on the tips. That's what makes any of these shag cuts interesting. And you have to use a razor to get that type of texture.   So if you don't already follow us on YouTube, please click the subscribe button, give us a thumbs up and also you know the notification bell to be notified of any future content that we come out with.   Now we're going to continue that same section which is her left side. We're going to pull everything forward. Now from here I'm going to use my center piece right and the shortest part of her bang as my guide length that I'm starting from. And where I'm going to is the overall length that I created when I cut my first sections in the back. So, this is going to be connected at the very center of my fringe, the center of the bangs and then disconnected all the way down to my overall length. So the first section I undercut and that's going to pop out and force that to separate. The next section here is blending through to the guide length in the back. And here you can really see how I took that section. I took the high point of the head right down to the corner of the hairline and the nape using my short piece as my guide and then just completely visualizing cutting that short down into blend to my overall length. Work this all the way through until I get everything blended.   Give us a follow on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Now we're going to start on some layering I'm going to pull a center section, pull that straight up towards the ceiling. Using my shortest piece as a guide in the front where I cut my bangs, I'm going to cut that straight back. So anything that hangs over that length we're going to pull straight up and cut off. We're going to razor that with a similar stroke that we were using for our overall length and for our layering around the front. Now if I feel like the hair is really really long I can certainly change the angle of my layering on the top. But here I'm just going straight horizontally across as I pull everything straight up towards the ceiling. Now we're going to pivot our section from the high point of the head. Now we're going to pivot from the high point of the head around to the right side of the head and we're going to make a pie section. And as we start to pivot I'm going to hold everything into the center of the original cut guide and the new cut guide and then use that as a guide length and raise that throughout so that I get a layering blend from short to long. And here I just continue to pull everything straight up. By over directing everything straight up you're at a much higher elevation that's going to relieve a lot more weight than if I was to pull it out at 90 degrees head shape all the way down the back of the head. So here we're going to pivot to my next section. There's my short pieces as my guide we're going to pull that up razor that out and through. Now if you're not comfortable using a Feather Plier Razor or a guardless razor, then you can certainly go through and start doing this layering technique with the Feather Styling Razor because it has a guard built into it so it's a lot less likely that you're going to cut yourself. Here we're going to pull everything back. You see there's not anything that's really going to blend because we've cut all this around the front. So everything's good. Now we're going to do the same thing on the other side after I check that my layering is nice and even throughout.   Blow Drying and Final Look I'm liking the way that that's looking so now let's blow it dry. So I'll start by just pulling everything forward to get the bangs kind of back. I'm going to power dry it make it real neutral and then just go through and do a little round brushing to make sure everything is smooth and nice and got a little bit of bend to it. And here's our end result and I think we've got a nice good amount of layering into the back. It's nice and full. We've got separation throughout and also check out the Jatai Academy. There's a lot of really great information on there that'll make you a better hair stylist or a better barber. You can really see the disconnection from the front to the back here. I think it looks pretty good. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we'll see you next time. Thank you so much! The wolf haircut is a trendy yet classic style with choppy layers for volume and texture. Whether it's a short wolf or a long wolf, this haircut looks good on many women. This tutorial demonstrates a soft long length wolf haircut using a razor.    Tutorial

When it comes to razored layers, there are different ways to create them. In this video you will learn a classic long layered haircut that uses a Feather Styling Razor to create beautiful razored layers on straight hair. The techniques mentioned and described in this tutorial are foundational and fundamental to any razor haircutter's knowledge. You can watch the video tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.   Razored Layers on Long Straight Hair:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a razor layered haircut with some thinning scissors for texture.   Cutting the Perimeter We're going to start with a natural or center part straight down to the occipital bone to split the head in half. From the occipital bone to the mastoid bone right behind the ear, that's going to give us our baseline. I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor because it's super sharp plus it has a built-in guard for safety. So I'm going to comb everything clean from the roots all the way down to the ends and then I'm going to go through and channel cut as I'm cutting the length. So I'll do a vertical channel and then when I get to the length I want, which is where my fingers are, I'll start cutting to the right and that's going to create separation and I'm going to cut length at the same time. I want to make sure her head is tilted slightly forward so I can get a little bevel on my length as I'm cutting it. Now I'm going to use the center length as my guide and do the same thing on both sides until I get all of the length cut to the length that I want. I want to keep this pretty long and the channeling allows me to really lighten the hair up without removing all of the length. So whenever you're trying to create something that has an airiness to it I have to walk a tight row between enough texture to create the lightness and the airiness and then enough solidity so that it still looks like she has as thick beautiful hair. Now I take my next section which is a parallel part to my first section which was the occipital to the mastoid. This is going to go from the drop crown to the top of the ears. I'll use my guide underneath and then hold my fingers, cut the length and then channel. So I'm showing you a couple of different methods of doing this. I can channel and cut the length all at one time. I can cut the length and then channel. Or I can channel and then cut the length. So I'm mixing it up throughout the whole thing.   Be sure to follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Just going to continue on cutting my perimeter length following the same methodology that I've been doing throughout the entirety of the haircut at this point, channeling, cutting my length. And I'm not really paying attention too much to how much weight I'm removing as long as I get the texture right. Now we're going to start our layering around the front.   Bangs and Face Framing Razored Layers I'm going to take where the bang section would be right at the top of the head in the front down to the top of the ears. That's going to separate all the hair that has the ability to fall in her face. I'm going to take a center section and I'm going to comb this out off the peak curvature of the head and then I'm going to take a very very long soft razor stroke and cut my guide length. I want to keep it fairly long because the more that I texturize and the more that I thin the hair, the shorter that it's going to appear. So I want to make sure that I leave a little bit of a safety net so that I don't end up with some bangs that look like she's really surprised or she's got a third grade picture where Mom and Dad cut her bangs a little bit too short because they couldn't get it even. So I take my guide length in the middle and I work that down towards the edges over the ear and I'm gradually getting longer as I go to the sides. I'm not worried about the guide length that I have in the back. I just want to get a general long length on the front and then as I work to the back I can increase my length to make sure I don't cut off all the length in the back. Right there on the front I wanted to take a little more hair out there. I thought it was a little thick. Now I'm going to go through and do the same thing on the left side using my guide in the center pulling the hair forward and down and then cutting my line short to long and using the same razor stroke that I've used throughout the entirety of this front section. I want something that's very long, a broad stroke that's very soft. Now I'm going to take a parallel section further back from the second flat part of the head right at the parting in the middle of the head going right to the mastoid right behind the ear pulling that forward at the same angle and then using my guide underneath. As I get to the bottom, I'm working my length to get longer so that I don't start cutting into my perimeter length in the back. Do the same thing on the right side. Just comb everything forward and down, follow my guide underneath and then work from short to long. Now you'll notice I'm cutting from the center of the head to the perimeter on both sides so it's always going centered down. On the right side I have to cross over my hand so that when I razor down I can continue with the same sort of razor stroke that I had on the other side. Just continue to follow my guide down until I start to run out of hair and until it blends into my length in the back. After I've run out of hair and I've got everything blended through, I'm going to go through it now and start using that length in the front as the guide for my layering.   Cutting Razored Layers I'm taking a center section. I'm going to hold that straight up towards the ceiling. There's my guide length in the front that was falling out from me combing it forward. I'm going to use that and cut my layering throughout. It's going to be shorter right here at the top of the head and then as I start to work back I'm going to angle my fingers so that that line gets longer as I'm going further in the back of the head. And as I start to round out I will still increase my angle so I save my length on the back. I'm creating a lot of layering but most of the layering here is going to be at the very very top of the head right at the high point of the head. And as I work back towards the center it's going to get longer and less layered. From here I'm using my center guide from the high point of the head. I'm pivoting down to the corner of the hairline combing those two sections together pulling it straight up at 90 degrees from the head and then using my center section as my guide and cutting anything that hangs over that off, keeping a very very broad stroke so I can keep everything nice and soft. Now at this next section I'm pivoting. I remove my original center section and now I have the second section and I'm creating the third section so that I have second and third sections together. You can see the corner of the hairline to the mastoid right behind the ear. This is allowing me to work my layering shorter in the middle and keeping that same length as I work towards the ears. If I converge everything by pulling it to the center it's going to get longer and heavier behind the ears and I want to keep this layering in the back very very broad and evenly layered around the back. So by walking my guide like this, I can keep all the layering consistent on both sides and consistent throughout.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe if you haven't already and click the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now from here I'll take my third section and I'm pivoting from the high point of the head right to the high point of the hairline over the ear. Right at the ear is going to separate the front of the head from the back of the head so this is going to be where my layering in the front starts to take over from the layering on top. So I'm going to have very very little hair that I need to layer through here and it's more of a formality just to make sure that I don't have anything that really hangs over the back. This section there should be very little if anything that hangs over what I cut around my quarter part. Making sure everything blends nice and through. My layering here it's nice and even across the whole back. It doesn't get longer towards the ears.   Thinning Scissors Now I'm going to take my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors that gives you the perfect balanced amount of thinning. And I'm going to go through and resection like I layered around the front just so that I can keep everything consistent. I'm going to pull the section forward and then I'm going to go through and start thinning vertically. I'll go through and take a little hair pull that out, take a little more hair pull that out, take a little hair pull it out. So I'm starting no deeper than halfway through the section. If I go deeper than halfway I run into the possibility of there being little alfalfas that will stick up especially if they have kind of curly or wavy hair. So I'll start halfway in the middle of the section. I'll hit it a couple of times as I work towards the tip. When I get to the very last part of that section at the very tip, I'll use my thinning scissor and pull that out of my hand so I can work into my hand and not thin the same hair over and over and over again. Here, I'm going to take out my section on the front. I'm not using a guide for this. I'm using the thickness of the hair to be my guide, how many hits of the thinning scissor that it needs to have. I'll continue to section, pivot that section around the back. If the hair is thicker I thin it a couple of more times. If it's thinner maybe I don't thin it quite as much and quite as deep but I definitely want to go through and remove a lot of the weight from the ends. By removing weight from the ends that's going to allow me to get a much more piecey look and it's going to remove all that stiffness that I get when I built my shape in the beginning if the hair is too thick. Thick hair doesn't move. Thinned textured hair moves.   Blow Dry and Styling Now we're going to go through and blow it dry. I'm just going to drag a round brush through it just to smooth everything out. The shape's already in it. The texture is already in it. I just want to polish everything off. Going through and smoothing out the front to make sure that the bangs don't stick straight up. If I see anything that needs a little bit more work here at this point when it's dry I can really see how much weight I need to remove and then I can adjust accordingly. Everything looks pretty good. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that'll make you a better hair 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!   The Final Look - Long Razored Layers on Straight Hair Here's the final look. As you can see the long razored layers add texture and movement. But the layers are not overpowering. This is a classic long layers razor haircut.   Tutorial

Creating a disconnected layers haircut can be a little scary sometimes. When hairdressing you want to make sure you take care of your client in the salon and give them what they want. Sometimes clients don't really understand the implications of their requests and what that can do to the outcome of the haircut. A disconnected haircut is sometimes one of those haircuts where you have to be careful of how you approach it. Hair cutting to create disconnection is ok as long as it's not over the top (for most clients). Long disconnected layers can look really nice, but it should be done in a way that doesn't give a mushroom look to the hair or give too much disconnection. Disconnected layers hairstyles can bring more life to the hair and all volume. But when doing a disconnected long layers haircut, perhaps the technique below will give the results you're looking for. Here's how to cut disconnected layers with seamless ease! Follow along with this video tutorial or the transcript below.   Disconnected Layers Haircut:   Welcome to Jatai Academy! I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to be doing some layering but the layering is going to be disconnected. In the end it's all going to blend seamlessly. It's a really good way to go from really short layering to really long in length very easily. You curious? Let's get started.   Sectioning the Disconnected Layers Haircut Okay so let's get started here. We're taking a natural or center part right down the center of the head to the crown, from the crown (the drop crown actually) I'm going to go to the top of the ear using my Feather Styling Razor that gives me a good sharp edge to cut with, but it has a little bit of guard to keep me protected from cutting my fingers.   Setting the Perimeter Length So with my Feather Styling Razor I'm combing everything straight down at zero elevation and going through and taking a pretty deep channel and purposefully trying to cut a point into the hair. So I want the perimeter length to have a lot of separation. So by going through and holding this down at zero elevation and taking a channel cut all the way until I cut the section off I can end up with pieces that really separate and flick apart on the bottom. We've cut the bottom part. Now we're going to move up to the top of the head and it's the same pattern that I was using before, combing everything down, finding my guide underneath going through channel cutting and cutting my length off so that I can get that nice soft pieciness on the bottom. Now if I go through and do this with the scissor it's not going to have the same kind of flow and here you can see we got a nice separation on the bottom and it's still got a nice blunt shape.   Addressing the Front From there we're going to move around to the front and I'm going to take the first bump of the head from the parting over to the high point of the hairline over the ear. Then we're going to go back right in the center, take a triangular section, comb that down to where I want my length, cut that, comb everything else forward using that front as my guide. I'm now going to cut my short piece in the center of the front and angle that line down into my perimeter length. I still want to keep a nice smooth razor stroke on both sides so that I can get it to match. Now going back into the center you'll notice I'm cutting from the center of the face down as opposed to cutting from my fingertip into to the palm of my hand. This way the hair is going to flow the same way on both sides. I want to match both sides with my razor action so that I can get that same kind of movement and flow. Here I'm just going to comb everything else from the back of the head down and forward and anything that would hang off my perimeter line that I cut around my face framing. Anything that hangs over I'll cut that off. So here I'm keeping a solid perimeter shape by keeping my elevation low, but I'm keeping the perimeter texture soft by using a razor.   Check out @jataifeather on your favorite social media platform. We've got all of them. We'd love to hear from you.   Step Layering for a Disconnected Layers Haircut So now we're going to continue on. I'm sectioning off the head and the four quadrants. Center and then from the high point of the head to the high point of the ear. Here I'll take one quarter and I'll hold that down and where I want my shortest layering to hit I'm going to pull that section straight up in the air hair and cut that really short. Now with someone as long as her hair is this is going to give you a little pause for concern because you're going to think 'Oh my gosh! That's going to be too short.' But what we're going to go through and do is we're going to disconnect each step of our layering. So there's my first section right there. You can see it underneath and I'm going to go about an inch longer than that. I'm not going to blend it through. It's about an inch longer but the razor stroke will give me on, comb that straight up into my previously cut sections and you'll get a nice soft line that will easily allow everything to blend through. I'm going to take my next section, see my guides drop out.   There's the first one. There's the second one. Now I'm going to go about an inch longer going through with my razor keeping the same methodology that I was doing before and going through and using a broad razor stroke cutting that length off. So by going through and doing this kind of step layering it's going to allow you to build up a lot of length really really quickly. So I can keep the crown very very short and easily blend through my layering down through the bottom without having to over direct in some really steep angle that I'm trying to blend it through. This will go through and create a tremendous amount of length very quickly and since I'm using a razor. It's going to keep everything nice and soft and it's going to blend through. Here's our last section. Just a last little piece there. Everything blends. Now look at that. That's layered very very short but I still have a solid perimeter shape. Now we're going to take our guide from the first section on the left side. Now I'm going to take my section on the right side. Now this part here on the right side (you can see my triangular section right there) this part here I'm going to cut the same length as my parting on the opposite side because this is the new guide for the right side. So I want to start with the same length on the top and then I will completely ignore all the guides on the left side of the head and comb up and cut this about an inch longer than my previously cut section.   Please give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now here we've gone through and done both sides. You can see we got a nice smooth layering with lots of separation and lots of pieciness in the back.   Back to the Front Now we're going to go through and do the front. We're going to take the same kind of triangular sections that we were working on. There's my guide from the back. It just dropped out and then I'm going to go through and razor that off with the same methodology that I was doing in the back. But around the front I want to be very very conscientious that I'm going to build this up pretty quickly and you can see my guides drop out from the back so it will blend front to back and top to bottom. But I want to pay attention to make sure I don't get my layering not stepped enough to where I end up giving mullet layers, where I cut my layering so short around the front that I lose all that length right around the front. Combing this up, the very last piece. There's very little right there. Oh and we just dropped the comb and she's laughing at me. It's that kind of day and here we go through and check out everything.   Blow Drying and Styling a Disconnected Layers Haircut We see our layering blends front to back side to side and now we're going to blow it dry and see how we look. On this I start blowing the roots dry first and then I'll go through with a round brush just to get a little bit of a set so I can have a nice amount of volume and a nice little bit of curl pattern to it. Around the front just curling it to one side to kind of get some flow, get it out of her face. Now we're going to hit it with some cold air to kind of set that movement into it. When the hair gets hot it becomes pliable. I can pull the natural shape out of it. When it cools down it will re-harden in whatever shape that I want and that's how I go through and style the hair to have body and some fullness to it. And I think this looks pretty good. We got the layering really short, but we still have a good solid perimeter shape. We got a lot of movement to it. The texture is there and I think that this works really well with her hair. I like it. Thanks for watching. Check out the Jatai Academy for more information and more content to make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we'll see you next time.   Final Disconnected Layers Haircut Look   Now you know what is a disconnected haircut and how to create it. Disconnected haircuts are a beautiful way to add some life to long hair. We hope you gained some knowledge here and incorporate it in the salon!   Tutorial