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One of the most common asks by clients with long hair is layers. In this article and video you will learn how to cut hair in layers but also see how the tool used affects the end result. You will learn different methods on how to achieve long hair layers using a scissor versus a razor. Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, teaches you step by step for how to cut hair layers and tips for using these different tools. Layered haircuts are popular and learning how to cut layers in hair is fundamental to hairdressing. You can use these techniques to cut straight and curly hair. Layering hair gives volume, body and depth to a haircut and using different tools can give different results. So follow along with the video and the transcript to learn how using a razor is different from using a scissor. Note: This video and article is not meant to teach people how to cut their own hair at home. Layering your own hair will require different techniques. For a complex layered cut, leave this up to a hair professional.   How to Cut Layers in Hair - Razor vs. Scissor Tutorial: Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a versus video where we compare the textural differences of long layering with the razor versus long layering with a scissor. So let's get started. So the whole concept behind this type of layering and comparing these two tools is because you know what's really prevalent in hair right now is this 70s sort of layering. And the 70s was really a dichotomy between really really textured versus really really structured and blunt. So you want to see the textural differences between the two and then you can compare to see which technique would work better for your layering and for the desired effect that you're looking for and the type of hair that you're working on.   Establishing the Perimeter Alright so I'm gonna start here in the nape. I'm gonna comb everything straight down, find a good length where I start feeling like it's getting a little too wispy, and then I'm going to go through and cut that blunt using my Jatai Tokyo Scissors, combing everything straight down in a natural fall keeping my fingers from flipping. What that means is I'm not rolling my fingers up. I want to keep everything as blunt as possible, getting that cut one length. Then, on the other side I'm going to go through and do the same thing, but now I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor with an R-Type Blade. And just to keep everything consistent, I'm going to go and use the same sort of razor stroke that I'm going to use on the long layering so I can keep everything as symmetrical and as similar as possible because I don't want to have a really soft wispy kind of layering and then a really solid baseline. So I want to compare complete haircuts blunt versus razor. Now I'm just going to go through and continue to take parallel parts, cut everything the same length until we run out of hair. Okay we've got our base length cut so now let's go through and do our layering.   How to Cut Hair in Layers Using a Razor So, the layering I'm going to start right down the center to keep it as even as possible on both sides. Well, that's not quite down the middle. Let's try that again. We'll go right down the center or as close as we can get to it all the way down to the nape. Got to pick a side. We're going to start cutting the razor side first. So, I'm going to pin this out of the way. So, I've taken a section on the right side from the center. Take a small piece in my front. That's going to be the beginning of my layering, so I want to determine...come on get out of there. Get out of there. There we go. So I want to determine where this is going to fall in her face and then that's going to be the shortest part of my layering and then I'll use that to blend throughout. Going with my razor, take a pretty broad stroke probably about a two-inch stroke. Go across. That's going to be the shortest part of our layering right through there. So we're going to take small pieces, my guide hold that up and out. Continue the same broad razor stroke as we're going up to the crown. Now once I get to the crown which is right here, I'm going to change the angle. So here I'm going head shaped from the crown out. I'll continue that line going up and out. Small piece is my guide. Continue holding that 90-degrees from the head. There's my angle. We'll continue that up and out. Now I will follow the same pattern with the scissor on the other side. There's my first section. I'm going to start right here in the crown. At the crown I'm going to pivot over to the corner of the hairline. Pin that out of the way. Now I'm going to bring these two sections together. Follow my guide. There you see that guideline falling out. And continue that up and towards the perimeter.   Follow us on all of our socials @jataifeather   Perfect. Now I'm going to remove the centerpiece, the first guide that I created. And I'm going to continue to pivot from the high point of the head from the crown. Combine those two together. Hold that at 90. Come oh come on now. Why do you gotta do me dirty? Comb that up and out. There's my guide. Keep a broad razor stroke. There's my guide falling out. I can see some underneath as well and I'm working to my perimeter length. Now once I get to the ear I'm no longer going to pivot. I'm going to take parallel sections because the hair around the front is not as deep as the hair in the back so if I continue to pivot, I'll end up cutting a hole right around the cheek. So I'll take this. I got my previously cut guide. I got my new hair 90 degrees. There it's falling out. I can see my guide. Take my broad razor stroke. Remove my previous guide. I got my new guide 90 degrees from the head, working at an angle to my perimeter length. Add come here baby. Stop running. Add my next section. There's my guide underneath.   Give us a thumbs up, click the subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy videos.   Now we've got the entire right side of my haircut long layered with the razor, nice even amount of layering from the back all the way into the sides.   How to Cut Hair in Layers Using Scissors So now we're going to go through. I'm going to take a small piece as my guide in the front and I'm going to pin all of this hair out of the way. And now we're going to cut the other side using this as my guide length and cut it the exact same way that I did on the right side and we're going to see how to cut long layers with a scissor. Starting with the guide in the middle. Now we're going to go back to my Jatai Tokyo Scissors, take my piece up in the front that I see. So we're going to comb that up, there's my guide length cut that blunt, following the head shape until I get to the crown. I'm creating an entire new guide for the scissor cut part of the layering for the left side. Now once I reach the high point of the head, same as the other side, I'll start to angle that length away from the head. I'm still holding it at 90 degrees, just getting longer as I go towards the back of the head. As I reach down to the occipital bone, I should start to run out of hair. And we do. So now I'm going to continue the same pattern where I'm pivoting around the sides into the back. Alright, so we finished cutting on both sides. We got our layering done. It's nice and even. We've got texture on the right, blunt on the left. So let's blow it dry, take a look and compare the differences.   Comparing the Razor Side vs. the Scissor Side Okay we finished our blow dryer. So if we look at the razor side, even if I go through and brush everything straight back and just kind of let it fall, you'll see that the layering on this side has a little bit more volume to it and it's also a lot more seamless when it gets brushed back and through and it starts to fall. It's much more seamless. Whereas if we compare the scissor side to the other side and I brush this back you can certainly see that the hair cut layers have more structure to it and it pops out more and you can really see that layering kind of layer out so to speak. So I think that's a nice little comparison to kind of show you when you might want to choose one over the other. If you're going for that 70s kind of retro look where you want the layering to pop and feather and see it, then I would definitely go with a scissor. If I want something more modern and seamless and where I'm going to style it in beach waves or something where I don't want the layering to pop out, I just want the layering to kind of smooth and blend, I would definitely go with the razor. So check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great stuff on there to make you a better hair stylist and barber and also leave us a comment. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for checking it out and we'll see you next time.   Final End Result: Razor vs. Scissors for Long Layering As you can see, if you're looking at the mannequin head from the front, the left side is the razor cut side and the right side is the scissor cut side. Cutting layers with either tool gives beautiful results, it's just a matter of determining what look you're going for. We hope you enjoyed this layered hair cut and gained a deeper insight to how using different tools can give different results.   Tutorial

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

The Taylor Swift haircut. While she has always had a classy style and has sported various haircuts from long to short, at the 2016 Grammy's she had a cute bob with heavy bangs and then did it again during her Eras Tour. The singer seems to have an affinity for this style so in this video we recreate it. Taylor Swift hairstyles have usually included some sort of bang. Whether it's a heavy straight bang or side swept bang, she loves her bangs! But she has always had hair with style, sometimes short, long, curly or straight. In this video, we look at a Taylor Swift short haircut, specifically a bob with heavy bangs. Follow along with the tutorial and transcript below.   Taylor Swift Haircut: Welcome to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a study of the Taylor Swift bob that she wore when she went to the Grammys, that nice textured solid bob with a real heavy bang. So we're going to figure out how to add more bangs to an area when the hair is not necessarily the thickest and also how to get texture in it so it always stays modern and soft. And this is my inspiration picture which I'll put kind of right here. Looks good. Yes, I like that. So let's get started.   Perimeter with Internal Texture So instead of everything being completely blunt, I'm going to keep the blunt shape, but I want to put some internal texture in the last 1.5" to 2" of it so it makes those ends softer and easier to blend and easier to style in a lot of different ways. We have gone through and cut our one length already. I've gone through and re-sectioned out from ear to ear. So I have the nape of the head which is where the bulk of the hair is on most people. So I want to go through and thin this out and put a little texture on the bottom and I'm going to use my Tokyo Thinning Scissors from Jatai. So this is the perfect middle-of the road thinning scissor for me. It's seamless and doesn't leave any kind of marks and removes just the right amount of hair. So I'm going to start with a section right in the middle. I'll pin this hair out of the way. I want to be mindful to only texturize and thin each section one time the first pass through. So now I'm going to take my vertical section. I'm going to hold this out 90 ° from the head and then with my scissor I'm going to take the straight blade underneath and the tooth blade on top. Hit it right in the middle and then once towards the ends. Right in the middle, once towards the ends. Pull that hair out. So I hit, hit. Maybe on the longer lengths I hit it three times. I just want to go through, remove some weight and build some softness on the tips. I'm not trying to thin the snot out of this to where it becomes real wispy. I still want to maintain my blunt shape, but I want to go through and remove some of that weight so it's more pliable and easier to move around. Now I'll pin that hair out of the way. I'll take my next section, pull that out and I'm going to do the same thing.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   And as I start to do this I get a feel for where the hair is thicker and where the hair is thinner. So where it's thicker you can see where it's thicker right there and it's thicker here underneath. So where it's thicker underneath I may hit it a little bit more to even that out. Where it's thinner like right through there maybe I just do the tips. Thicker here all the way through. And that way I can even out the thickness and the thinness. Like right here you see nothing so I'll just do underneath and just a little bit on the tips. And that goes through and gives me a nice even amount of texturizing from about middle the way underneath only on the surface layer on the top. So we're going to go through same thing on the other side.   Top Section of the Taylor Swift Haircut Now as I'm working on the top section I want to maintain a really blunt heavy shape. I just don't want it blunt and heavy underneath. So I'm going to start pivoting out of the crown. I'm going to comb this hair at peak elevation which is going to be right there. And I'm only going to do the very tips. I'm not going to worry about thickness on the top because I want that, but I do want the ends to have movement and swing and pliability. So we're going to pull that out at peak curvature, ribbon that together and then only work on the last 2" of the hair. Continue to work that all the way around. Let's see. Let's take a little bit of that. I'm going to pull this out over the ear just to maintain some solidity over the ear. Get that out of the way. This is not going to matter because we're going to do a heavy bang on you. So we're going to do it anyway. Now we're going to go through and do the same thing on the other side.   Give us a thumbs up, click the subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Bangs Now let's move on to the bangs or the fringe if you want to be fancy. Now to make sure that we have a really heavy fringe we're going to have to add more bangs, more hair to the bang section than we would normally do. A normal bang section, unless their hair is very very thick, it's not going to give you enough solidity to make that real heavy. The normal bang will go to the center of the recession and the first curvature of the head on the hairline, right on the parting. So now this would be the normal amount of bangs per this person's head shape. It's not enough to make a real heavy bang so we're going to have to add a little bit more. How much more do you add? It all depends. So we're going to start here and get our basic shape in and then we're going to add a little bit more when it's wet. We're gonna get to the point where we think it's right, blow it dry and add more if we need to. It's going to be a trial and error sort of approach because we don't know exactly how much hair it's going to take to make that bang kind of heavy. So to keep the bangs solid but still have some softness on the ends, I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor. And I'm using the fancy silver one because it's fancy. I'm going to comb everything forward. I want this to be right at the bridge of her nose. So I'm going to pull this forward. The bridge of the nose is there and I'm going to go a little longer and then lay the razor right there and take a stroke of about an inch. That way I can keep everything nice and heavy but still have a little bit of movement to it. Now on the side pulling this forward but because I'm going to elevate it a little bit on this side I'm not going with the curvature of the head. I'm going to elevate it a little bit. It's going to get a little longer towards the edges. Lift up. Elevate. There's my line about an inch through. And I think that's looking pretty good. Same thing on the other side. Make sure I elevate my knuckles and keeping my finger tip right exactly where I cut the previously cut section. Same razor stroke. If I can help it, cut that down and through. Now knowing that this is going to shrink up a little bit when it's dry, I want that to hit right at the bottom of her eyeball. That way it shrinks up a little bit and it's still below her brow and we can kind of sweep it over to the left or sweep it over to the right.   Adding More Fringe to the Taylor Swift Haircut If I feel I need to fine-tune this, I can fine-tune it with my Tokyo Thinning Scissors. Now I think she needs a little bit more density to this. So we're going to add a little bit more. The way I'm going to do that is I'm going to keep my go-to point the same and add a little bit more hair from the parting. Pin that out of the way. Now that's going to add a little bit more density to this and make this a little bit stronger and heavier. Since I'm using a razor and the hair is getting a little damp, I could use water but if I use a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide it makes everything easier to comb and makes my blade slide through the hair easier for better more consistent results. Comb everything through and smooth. There is my line. A little shorter stroke, not as broad right through there. Next piece, same methodology I was using before. There's my line. Cut that down and through. Next section, the other side down and through. That might be enough. So since I think it might be enough we're going to go through and blow it dry and then take a look at it and see if we need to add more. Looking pretty good. Now after blowing dry it seems that the way that the head curvatures on my model here, this hair here in the back wants to flow forward. So I'm just going to go ahead and add a little bit more to her fringe to her bangs. So I'll separate that where that hair is wanting to fall forward. I will pin this hair back. Look and see where it's wanting to come from and that seems about it. I don't want to use a razor on dry hair because it tends to explode the cuticle. I'm going to go through and use my Tokyo Thinning Scissors again and get me a razor sort of texture without using a razor. So I'll just start and vary in and out as I go through and cut anything that hangs over my fringe off. So I'll take comb the same way I was with the razor. There's my line and I'm varying in and out and just cutting anything that hangs over off. That's going to give me a nice heavy solid bang. If I feel I need to clean something up I shall go through and clean that up with my thinning scissors. This side not as much.   Taylor Swift Haircut Final Look Let's put a little hairspray on you right there. Little hairspray right there. There we go. Nice. A little swept over. Just a little bit. Just to get it out of her eyes like she wears in a lot of her pictures where it's longer or you can wear it heavy straight down. I think the end result looks pretty good. We got a nice little beveling in the bottom to soften it up, but it still has a heavy solid bob shape and then we have a little bit of a solid bang. And I think about the bottom of the eyeball is about the perfect length for this kind of in-your-eye in-your-face bang without being completely irritating. That'll probably only last a week or two depending on how fast their hair grows. But anyway I think it looks pretty good. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there to make you a better hairstylist and barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time.   Final Notes Taylor Swift haircuts are always fun, beautiful and romantic. In this case, the bob with a heavy bang is a classic haircut that can be styled in many different ways. This hairstyle of Taylor Swift can be curled, left straight or made more edgy. There are many ways to style it. The best style of hair is one that your client feels the best in. This haircut is for all the Taylor Swift fans out there!   Tutorial

In this video you will learn how to thin hair with thinning shears using different techniques. Using hairdresser thinning scissors is an important tool for hair professionals to master as they are very useful for creating specific effects. This is not a haircut tutorial but rather education how to remove bulk, thin thick hair and create texture. Russell Mayes, Director of Content for JATAI, goes through each step of the techniques used. If you want to know how to use texturizing shears watch this tutorial and follow along with the transcript.   How to Thin Hair with Thinning Shears:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Another technical deep dive today where we're going to focus on the thinning or the texturizing scissor. We want to focus on how to properly use it and all the creative ways that you can use it to get different types of results. So let's get started. Now we're going to start with our Tokyo Thinning Scissor and you'll notice it has two tangs. That way I can have the cutting blade on the top or I can turn it over and have the cutting blade on the bottom underneath. If I have the cutting blade underneath, I can take more cuts and it won't force the hair into the teeth of the blending shears so I can thin it more repetitively without always having to remove the blade and go back in for a fresh cut. I can hit the same area at one time without the hair clogging up the blade.   Creating a Blunt Line with Thinning Scissors So say for instance that I want to go through and cut a more bluntish line. We've done a technical deep dive where we've done point cutting versus straight cutting. And the point cut, while it's not that much different, it gives it a softer line so it moves more. So I can do a similar effect with my thinning scissor if I just put the straight blade underneath, comb down and now the teeth has come out and it has not clogged up the teeth of my thinning scissor. So I can go through multiple cuts as I'm going across and cut that fairly blunt. Now it's going to be a softer almost blurry type of line versus if I was to go through and point cut it or cut it straight across with a straight scissor. So I get kind of a defocused line, but I still end up with a blunt line. So let's go through and do that here to create our shape on the bottom. There's my guide. It's very easy. I put the cutting blade underneath and just go straight across. And I'll move the scissor inward as I'm going through and cutting across. Now you'll say, oh my gosh, this is going to wear my thumb out. Well you do have to have a little bit of scissor dexterity but you pick that up pretty quick and I can go through and make a nice diffused soft line. I can hear you saying now 'Well when would I want to use this?' Well there's going to be instances where say that they have really really thick coarse straight hair whereas if I was to just go through and cut this completely blunt with a straight scissor I'm going to have a broom-like effect. It's going to stack that line. It's not going to have any movement. It's going to be very very stiff. Whereas if I go through and cut it with this thinning scissor, texturizing scissor like this, I can get a blunt-ish line but it's defocused. So it has a little bit more movement. It has a little bit more softness to it and even though the hair is very very thick it won't stack out like a broom. It'll give it a little bit of bevel. Whereas if I were to point cut it, it would bevel it a lot more so there's a balancing act that goes on between it. Now another thing that I can do when I'm going to go through and texturize and thin hair because not always am I going to thin.   Texturizing Hair for Movement with Thinning Scissors Sometimes I just want to texturize the hair to create movement. I don't necessarily want to go through and just shred it all out and thin it. Sometimes I want to thin it. So how do you thin hair with thinning shears? And how does hair thinning work? So say for instance I want to texturize this and thin this out so it's not quite so blunt. So I'll put the teeth underneath and just go through horizontally eight or ten cuts down. Now that goes through thins that section out and makes it much softer. As long as you have a nice seamless thinning scissor like the Tokyo Texturizers here, you won't see any kind of cut lines that go through here. It will just go through and thin it out. So I'll start a little thicker and then I'll go down to where I get it as light as I want and have as much movement and as thin as I want. Now you'll say 'Well how deep shall I go?' I don't like to go... now right here you start to see that getting a little thinner? So I will focus my texturizing on the right side of the section not on the left side of the section so I don't thin this into oblivion. So back to the other question is 'how deep will you go?' So if I have a section that's this deep, I can push the hair and see where it starts to arc and then and I won't go deeper than about halfway of that curve because if I go deeper than halfway of that first initial curve, that's where the hair starts to get alfalfa and stick up. Now here I'm going to move on to my next section and I'm going to incorporate a different type of texturizing. I'll put my cutting blade underneath with the tooth blade on top, find my guide is about right here. So now when I go to thin I will go back and forth an area of about an inch. I'm not cutting everything blunt like I was underneath. I'm just going through and varying the depth across that whole section. So now I've gone through and cut my section and you'll see it's much more wispy and more razor-like on the ends and that gives me a really nice seamless kind of blend without any kind of thickness and that's just by varying my cut up and down about an inch. So there's my length I want to go. I'll go down a little bit, up a little bit, up and down, up and down until I get it about the length that I want. If there's any long pieces that hang over we'll just go through and take those off as well. Now I've got a really really soft line without any kind of bluntness to it just by varying the interior cut.   Internal Texturizing with Hairdressing Thinning Scissors So now say that I want some internal texturizing. There's a couple of ways I can do this. I'll pull out a vertical section. I'll see where it's thicker, where it's thinner, where it's thicker and thinner, and I'll go through at an angle in about halfway. Just go through and take some hair out. Where it's thicker I may hit it a couple of times and this will go through and remove some weight and make that much more movable and pliable and livable so it won't have that stiffness to it that these mannequin heads can get a lot of times. And this will go through and evenly thin it because I'm taking a vertical section. I'm not going left or right. Everything is being held straight out. Before when I was cutting everything horizontally I was creating no movement left or right. This, I'm not creating movement either. If anything, I'm creating an undercut with this because of the angle that the scissor is going into the hair. You'll also notice that as I hit it with a scissor, I don't want to keep fitting the same hair so I'll pull that out of the way so I don't end up haphazardly thinning it more times than I want. If the hair is really thick, I'll open the scissor, leave the hair in my hand and then thin it again. But I want to be very very mindful about how I'm applying my thinning to each section of the hair. So say this is thick, I'll open it and then hit it again. Open it. Hit it again. Open it. Hit it again. Then pull it out here. I'll just pull out, just pull out that way I start to thin the hair. I give it a little bit more of an undercut a little bit more of a bevel because of where I'm thinning it from. So that's another technique that we can use.   Side Swept Bangs Now I want to go through and take some length off and build my shape around the face and then put some internal texture to create movement to where it flows back out of the face. So we're going to start in the middle. I'll find something around our nose. I will go through and texturize the ends to where I start to remove some length but by going up and down with my thinning, I'm going to create all kinds of softness right here at my guide length by moving in and out. I'll pull everything forward, angle that down. There's my guide length. I want to make sure I'm getting longer towards the edges but I still want this a little you know a little heavy. That's why I'm holding it down. If I wanted it lighter I could hold it up but I want this a little heavy and solid so we're holding it down. You got that. Now we'll pull this forward. There's my length. Start diffusing the cut line from where I want my line to start building and then diffuse that down. We've got a good little basic shape. It's still too solid and heavy but that's a good basic shape. Same thing on the other side. Now let's go through and put some internal movement with the hair thin scissors. So let's start here in the center. That's going to create some movement internally going away.   Subscribe to our YouTube channel, give us a thumbs up if you like the video and click the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai content.   Now when I brush that I start to create that movement where it's moving back out of the face and you can certainly start to see how that's rolling. If I have something here that's just hanging a little bit too much, let's go through and take that a little bit. We're going to take a little more out of here, just rolling my fingers out of the way. Creating that softness and movement going back and then the same thing on the other side. Now the good thing about the Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissor is it is only removing maybe 15 to 20 percent of the hair each time that I hit it. So I'm not going to go through and completely disappear the hair from one shot of the thinning scissors. So that gives me a lot more versatility and I can go through and soften this line slowly and incrementally until I get it to the texture that I want. If I use a thinning scissor that has too many teeth or the teeth are too fat then I can go through and really just shred the hair and completely remove all the weight and all the length in just a few shots. So learn with your thinning scissor how much you can take, and then use that to your advantage. I like the overall shape and everything that I've got going on.   Cutting the Bangs I just think her bangs are just too long so I'm going to go through and cut this a lot shorter and I want it to look like she's cut it herself, like it was a mistake. So I'm gonna go through and not try to make this real perfect. I'm going to have some of it a little longer, some a little shorter. and I'm going to be really really haphazard about this which is something from beauty school that we're trained 'oh don't cut the bangs too short.' So now we're going to try to break out of that mold of cutting the bangs too short and just see what we can create that's a little bit more haphazard, a little more choppy and a little less perfect.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   And there we're beginning to get something a little more cute, a little more Japanese. So now we'll go through, slide cut through to create an even amount of weight around the front. Using thinning shears this way will force some separation because if I just texturize it, it tends to diffuse everything so by going through and slide cutting, point cutting like this, I'll create a little bit more separation because of the way it's being cut now. It's not going to be a real strong separation like if I was using a straight scissor, but it gets the same sort of effect.   Recap on How to Thin Hair with Thinning Shears I think that covers a lot of the bases on how to cut hair with a thinning scissor or texturizing scissor like the Tokyo Scissor from Jatai but it also gives us a lot of room for creativity and a lot of different ideas. We can see how to create a blurry diffused blunt line. We can also go through and create a line that has a lot more texture to it and a lot more bevel. We see how to put internal texturizing to where it doesn't create any movement. We see how to put internal texturizing to where it does create movement, gets this hair kind of flowing back out of the face. We also see how we can go through and diffuse a blunt line that's been put in that we don't necessarily want that blunt. And we can also see how to go through and create separation by almost slide cutting but you have to go through and use your scissor action to get that scissor to go through. I hope this has helped. I hope it's a broadened your horizon on how to use hair thinning shears and if you have any questions or comments please leave it below and check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hair stylist and barber. So we'll see you next time and thank you so much for watching!   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

This inspired Prince haircut is a fun take on asymmetrical haircuts. This spicy style is far from boring. By making the left and right sides asymmetrical, you get a funky, fun and trendy haircut. Prince had many hairstyles, many of which were iconic but the asymmetrical look was always a standout. In this video, you will learn how to give this Prince cut using a Feather Styling Razor with a little scissor over comb. Watch this video tutorial and follow along with the transcript.   Asymmetrical Prince Haircut Tutorial:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing a study of asymmetry, what makes a haircut asymmetrical versus a symmetrical haircut that appears asymmetrical and how to fit that to the head shape. So we're going to study some head shape and we're going to study some hair cutting so let's get started.   Understanding Asymmetrical Haircuts Now when we look at asymmetrical haircuts on the internet a lot of times what we're going to see is basically things that have just been undercut and the top of the head is disconnected and it flops to one side or the other giving the appearance of being an asymmetrical haircut but it's actually symmetrical. Then you go back into like the 80s where Prince had his you know asymmetrical thing where one side was cut short and the other side was kind of a bobbish kind of graduated bob look and the whole left side was long and the whole right side was short. So when you're doing anything like that where you're going to have some asymmetry whether it's a symmetrical cut or an asymmetrical cut, the most important thing is fitting it to the head. If it doesn't fit the head then it always looks a little funky so in studying the head shape first thing I want to pay attention to is separating the front half of the head from the back half of the head.   Planning Out the Prince Haircut So I've got everything separated like I want. I've got the front separated from the back and I got the back split in half. So now I'm going to take a smaller section. I've already got this short graduation underneath so I want to change the angle of that because this is a pretty low kind of bob stack graduation and I want to bevel that out because I want to put a lot more texture in it. So I'm going to start in the center and I'm going to keep that even until I get to the corner of my hairline and then I'm going to pull everything back to that so I can start building my length on the left side at that point. On the right side I'm going to keep everything even all the way over and I'm probably going to end up cutting this side really short.   Razor Cutting the Back So now I'm going to go through and start cutting the back. I'm going to hold this out and I want to make sure I keep it at that elevation and then just choose whatever length that I think would be appropriate and cut that down and bevel that line. Right through here what's a little tough I'll just go through and cut on the inside of my fingers. Now I've started to bevel the shape. I will go through and take a parallel section on the left side, pull this to the center of the first section and the second section. Pull that out and through. Work that down until I run out of hair. Now I'm going to remove the first section. I have my second section that I've cut right there. I will add my third section, comb these two to the center of both of those sections. There's my guide. Cut that through. Check that out. That looks good. Remove the second section. Now I have the third. I'm moving into the fourth section. I'll comb to the center, keep my elevation proper. Work that down and through with my Feather Styling Razor. I'm using the R-Type Blade so it exposes more blade so it gives me a cleaner easier cut. I do have to be more mindful because I could cut myself. Now at this point it's right over the corner of my hairline. So now here I'm going to pull this hair back into my fourth section. So fifth is being pulled into the fourth. Work that down through. Make sure I got that cut like I want. Now I'm going to comb down, check everything. I start to see a little buildup of length right there behind the ear. Now I'm going to go through to the other side. I'm going to start with my center section. And I'm going to do the same thing I did to the left side on the right side except when I get to the corner I'm not going to pull that back. I'm going to continue to walk that around so this part here is going to get shorter than the other side. So now I'm going to move on to the rest of the back and I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to take a center section, start in the middle, hold this horizontally out and then cut anything that hangs off over that. Here's my guide dropping out.   Follow us on all your favorite social media @jataifeather.   Take that short and the idea behind this is I want this whole thing to bevel around the head. I don't want to build up a whole lot of corner in the back. I just want the weight. So by me pulling it out I get the weight. The razor softens it and by me following my elevation which is this elevation I bevel that whole shape in the back. Now I'm going to pivot from the center, do the same thing as I pivot around to the left side. There's my guide, work that through. Now this last section remember I pulled everything back to the corner of the hairline so I'm going to continue to do the same thing here. Pull this back to the corner of the hairline. There's my length cut that down and through to make sure I have my length build up as I'm going towards the front. You can certainly see that building up through there but yet I still have a nice bevel around the back.   Addressing the Top and Sides So now I'm going to do the same thing on the other side following my guide. Okay now want to see where the hair wants to separate naturally so I'll brush everything back see where it wants to kind of fall through here, what I can get away with. I want as much hair going over to my left side as possible and I want to keep this right side as short and as clean and as light as I can but that's going to depend upon the way that the hair grows and the head shape. So I want to keep combing that back. I think I can get away with about right there so we're going to comb all of this over based upon the way the hair grows and I don't want to go too low on this side of the head because then it's going to start to look like a comb over but if you're going for that emo comb over then I can go lower. I'm going to comb this straight out from the head see where I want that length to fall. I want to keep this very soft so I'm going to go pretty short. I can go as short as I want. I just want to make sure that this is at least exaggerated so it really pops. The shorter that I go here the longer and more exaggerated the other side is going to look. So, I'll look and see say okay is that short enough. If it is, I'll keep moving. If not, I'll take it shorter. So, I'm not sure so let's try a couple of sections and see how it does. So here I'll walk this section back, continue to use my previously cut section as my guide and continue to work that back until I run out of hair and everything blends. I can't get that in there as tight as I want so I'm going to move on to my Tokyo Thinning Scissors and I'm going to do a little scissor over comb to fit this underneath here shorter. It will maintain that same sort of razor texture. Just going to take me a few more scissor strokes and a little bit more time to make sure I get everything fit in there nice and smooth and clean and this is going to be purely visual whatever my creative inspiration is going to determine looks good. You may like this a little shorter. You may like this a little longer and that's all okay. Take a parallel section to what I was using before. Now you can see that length overhanging that. So from here I'm going to pull this straight out from the head use my guide length from the back and cut that guide length going forward. It's still going to be slightly disconnected but it's certainly going to blend a lot better than if I leave that. So what I'll do is I'll go through cut a little bit, make sure it blends in with the back here, comb it, see how it's blending, see how it's going to flow both ways. That's okay. Take my next piece.   Give us a thumbs up if you like the video, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai content.   Take some of that off so it's not such an extreme disconnection. My next piece there's very little. Got a little bit right there. We'll work that through. Now here I'm going to start on the long side. I'm going to pull everything straight back to where I was cutting it before. You see my guide length there underneath and I'm going to take a very very broad stroke and take anything that hangs over that guide length from the back off and everything is going to get pulled back to that corner of the hairline. So now we've got this longer piece here. You can see it's certainly starting to develop some length in the front. Now to make sure that this fits in, I think that's probably a little bit heavy in the front. So let's take a little bit more weight out of the front. Pull that through. Channel some of this out so I leave length but I'm taking out weight and creating separation. We'll take our next piece. A little bit less it doesn't need as much but I want to make sure I still have separation that's going to compare to that first piece I cut right around the front. Now we're going to take the rest of the hair on top in sections and parallel sections to what I've cut underneath and I'm going to go through and fine tune and fit that in just like I did underneath. A little bit right there. A little bit right there. There we go. There's a lot of bit right through there. That's looking all right. This is a little heavy. So after I cut my length to fit, I'm going to go through and channel some of that weight out, see if the weight is good around the front here which I think we need to take a little bit out here around the front. Comb that over see how that's looking. It's looking pretty good.   The Bangs I am going to go through and blend some of our bang here. I don't like the way that that's hanging out so I'm going to go through and blend some of that out and that will just be very gently razoring short to longer to get it out of the face. I think that's looking pretty good. Now let's go through and blow it dry and see what we got. Here's our end result. We got a nice little longer side on the left side of the head, fills in nice behind the ear, nice fitted in down at the nape. We got a little shorter bits in real clean behind the right ear to our shorter side. We've got a nice blend from our short little undercut bang over into the long side. And we've got a lot of separation, a lot of texture to really make that curl kind of stand out and I think it looks pretty good. I think it looks pretty cool. You look hip dear. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hairdresser and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Thank you so much for watching and we will see you next time.   The Final Look Tutorial

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

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

The JATAI hair teasing comb is a versatile tool that has many functions. If you do teasing, backcombing, detangling, create updos, do balayage and color melting, watch this video on how to use this ONE tool to do all of these. This is a professional teasing comb but really anyone can use it for teasing and detangling at home. Watch the hair teasing comb tutorial here or follow along with the transcript.   JATAI Balayage and Hair Teasing Comb Tutorial:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be covering how to properly tease hair with the Jatai Teasing Pin Comb PRO. Let's get started.   Using the Comb for Balayage So the first thing I want to cover is how to tease for a balayage. Now when I'm teasing for a balayage I'm not looking for control or a compaction of teasing to build volume. I'm just looking to tease some of the hair out of the way so that my section is not so thick and it diffuses my color line. So that's what makes it easy to have a seamless color going from dark to lighter on the ends is by teasing and getting some of that hair out of the way. So I'll plant one finger on the bottom, two fingers on top, roll that out of the way. I'll take the Teasing Pin Comb Pro put in all the way through and then just gently and easily push this up to the scalp. First section all the way to the scalp. Next section may be not quite so far up. Third section maybe not quite so far up. Fourth section not quite so far up. So I'm not packing it all the way into the root. I'm packing it only enough to get it out of the way so that when I start to paint my color on, it's close as it's closer to the scalp as I need and it's also going to give me less hair to deal with down here. So when I put my bleach on it, I put my foil in and let it process that it doesn't get in the way of my color but also since I didn't pack it in it makes it easy for me to go through comb the teasing out after I shampoo the color out. Then I have a nice easy seamless process.   Using it as a Hair Teasing Comb Now to go through and create some teasing for volume it's a different approach. You know I have to really compact some hair to make sure that it gives me some structure and some resilience to make the hair stack up so that it forces the hair at the root to stick up so that that gives me my volume. So now we're going to go through and I'm going to put one finger on one side of the section, two fingers on the other side and I want to make sure I got that really tight. I'm going to over direct a little bit so that I can tease on base. We'll put my comb in however far I think I need to push down and I'm going to start to see how much of that texture in the hair is starting to compact. I'm going to go a couple of inches out all the way down to the scalp. So as I'm pushing down I'm pulling up. I'm going to pull the comb out. Again, all the way down to the scalp. Pull it out, comb everything back together tight. Now I can tell how compacted that is and that's already giving me quite a bit of volume through there. So from there if I want to just comb it and brush it and have that sticking up I could have a nice little puff right there in the front. Turn the teeth away, smooth that out, push. There we've got a nice little puff.   Creating the Updo But we're going to go through and do an up style and make something kind of big so I can control the hair as I'm styling it up, not just creating volume. I'm going to take a little bit underneath that at a little triangle section. Where I started my teasing on the first section which was about right there, I'm going to start my teasing on this second section. Again, everything straight down to the scalp. If I did three teases on the first, I'm gonna do three teases on the next one. Pin that up out of the way. Comb everything together. Alright, after I've got everything kind of smoothed in I got one piece I'm going to do a little bit of teasing there just to help it stick together. Comb that up. Take a hairpin put that right across however far out from the scalp I think I need to do. The further from the scalp, the bigger the curl is going to be. Now I'm going to grab this hair pull it out of the way, turn my pin upside down and pin it right to the base where I had my teasing. I'm going to hold that. I'm going to take another pin with a little ski tip pointing down, hold where my other bobby pin was, slide that right across it. Come on baby come on. Tell me if this hurts okay. Slide that right through so I'm going to interlock my pin so that stays. Now this little piece here I'm just going to tuck to hide out of the way. Alright so I got my first you know kind of little curl there. I'm going to take another little piece here.   Please follow @jataifeather on your favorite social media platforms!   I have my little triangular section. So now I'm going to split that in half. I'm gonna start on the side and do the same sort of compacting teasing all the way to the scalp. Add a little more all the way to the scalp. Pull the comb out every time. Get that hair out of the way. Comb the section together where I started the teasing. Comb all the way to the scalp. Come on baby, every time. And now we're going to do a little bit of back combing as I walk the section out. So as I walk the section out that allows that hair to clump together a little bit better so it doesn't want to separate. Take my pin put it in, pull this hair underneath. Take the pin flip over, pin to the base. Hold that with your other finger. Take your other pin slide directly across that and make sure that you crisscross so that you have a nice secure base. This little piece here that's sticking out I'm just going to take a smaller bobby pin. Put it in twist. Hide that in, that little curl. Take my next little triangular section get that compacted in. After I got the compaction I'll do a little bit of teasing as I go out towards the middle. Comb that together. Make sure that's looking good, put my pin in, twist underneath and then hold it. Another little section. Whoa.   Click subscribe if you haven't already. Give us a thumbs up if you liked the video and click the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Now as I work into the side, you know, I need to cover up some of this little area here and I'm going to start dragging this and I need more control over the ends not just control for the root. So the initial compaction gives me a nice little bit of control at the root. It gives me something to pin into, right. But it doesn't give me control over the section. So what I'll do is after I do my compact teasing I'll pull that in the direction I want it to go and I'm going to start to very gently compact my teasing all the way to the tip and you can see there how that whole piece now wants to stick together a lot easier than me having everything kind of fall apart. So the teasing does a couple of different things. It creates the compaction at the root to give me something to pin into. But it also gives me a little bit of stiction when I start to comb the section out. So now when I take my pin and put it in, I can go through start to pin that in and now I have a nice whole little panel of hair that wants to stick together as opposed to everything just wanting to just fly apart. And it's just that little bit of teasing as I'm walking the section in the direction that I want it to go. So this is a larger section. So what I'll do is I'll do my compaction in sections. Once I get a good base there I'll take my next little piece where I started the combing where I started the teasing towards the scalp that's where I'll continue all of my teasing as I start to walk this section back. After I get my compaction, smooth that out a little bit get everything kind of going in the direction that I want and then gently walk that back combing out to kind of panel that whole section of hair together smooth on the surface. A little bit of spray. Smooth there. The rat tail helps smooth everything down. Find out where I want that to go which I'm thinking about right there. So let's go through, take here, twist, pin that underneath. And now this piece I don't even need to pin I can just tuck that under that little panel. And now we've come to our last piece. We're going to work this over and see what we can get out of this. I think I want to do something kinda big and bold maybe. I don't know we'll see. But the first thing I need to do is pack me a little bit of base in there so I can control it. I'll do three little teases. I'll add to that where I started the teasing, compact to the root. My last piece compact to the root. Now comb everything together where I started the teasing that way I don't comb out the teasing that I put in it. I've just uniformed the section to make it all one piece and then I'll start doing light little under combs from the back just to help compress this piece together so that it all starts to form one piece together as opposed to wanting to fall and separate. A little pin, twist under, slide that into the root teasing from the previous section. I'll take this piece here kind of worm it back a little bit, think where I want that to go. Here is another little pin, twist, slide that through, bury that in just to try to help that piece mold and flow into the rest. Now here I'll start to separate and start molding. So the teasing that I put in this at the root gives me the structure and then the root teasing as I start to compress that out starts to give me a little bit more moldability and ability to control it. A little bit of hairspray. Oh! right in my face! So after I've gone through and done that I got my little hair pins in to help mold the shape so I don't have to keep it real compressed and then I'll put layers of hairspray on it just to help it set in and hold. I think she looks pretty good. She's ready for a night out on the town to go to Olive Garden maybe even maybe even Red Lobster. Oh my goodness! Let's give us a review on our teasing techniques.   Recap First for color, for a balayage specifically, we want to do a long stroke tease but not compacted in real tight. All we're looking to do is remove density. So the Teasing Pin Comb really helps get me a nice even tease all the way from the tips into the root without compacting it in real tight so it's easier to remove after we rinse the color out. It also diffuses that line by packing in my teasing and makes it much more seamless. Now if I want to do some styling, you know that 60s kind of bouffant, you know fembot sort of thing where I want the hair flowy, I want to compact my teasing in really tight at the root at the crown so that I get that hairstyle sticking up off the scalp. So I will start by using the hair tease comb, teasing from two or three inches away from the scalp all the way compacted down to the scalp every time three or four or five times depending upon the thickness and the texture of the hair. After I've got everything teased in I can comb and brush all the hair together as long as I don't comb it from where I started my teasing. That way all the hair can flow and I still have my teasing compacted in at the scalp. If I want to do for up styling, I want to compact it into the scalp just like I did for my styling but then I can also feather that teasing out through the ends and give me much more control. So the teasing at the scalp gives me a structure of the shape that I can start pinning into. Teasing hair through the tips makes that whole panel much more structured and easier to mold and control so it will stay in. So what makes the hair stay is not the hairspray it's the teasing and the pinning that makes it stay so with the Teasing Pin Comb PRO  I can really compact to them nice and tight. So check out the Jatai Academy! There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hair stylist or barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching.   Final Look using the Jatai Hair Teasing Comb   Here's the final look after all the teasing and upstyling. There are many different tease combs but the JATAI Teasing Pin Comb PRO has a unique pin structure that allows you to easily tease quickly and efficiently. It's also designed to detangle that tease as well. If you've ever had teased hair, knowing how to comb out teased hair can be a second battle that is frustrating and difficult to deal with. This is the best teasing comb for thick hair and a good teasing comb for fine hair as well. But it's the best teasing comb for volume, detangling, backcombing, balayage and color melting.   Tutorial

In this tutorial you will learn different techniques for texturizing hair with scissors and a razor. Knowing how to texturize hair with scissors and razors for hair cutting can give you many different options for how to texture cut hair for removing weight, creating separation and pieciness and creating movement. If you want to know how to texturize short hair and long hair, it doesn't matter the length. At least one or more of these techniques can work on your desired length, hair texture and hair thickness. Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, will demonstrate various texturizing techniques and shows you how to use texturizing scissors, traditional scissors and razors to achieve your desired results. Watch this tutorial and follow along with the transcript. Different Techniques for Texturizing Hair with Scissors and Razors: Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a technical deep dive in how to cut texture into hair and we're going to approach it from two different ways. We're going to approach it one way of texturizing to remove weight if the hair is overly thick and then we're going to also texturize it in a way to create separation and pieciness and add texture to the shapes you've already done. So we got a lot of different methods to show you. So let's begin.   Removing Weight from Thick Hair Using a Razor So the very first way we want to create texture is let's think about we've got a one length haircut and the hair is just too thick. You know you get that broom effect and the hair doesn't have a whole lot of movement and swing to it. So to know how to texturize thick hair, we want to remove some weight real gently just to diffuse the thickness of the hair so it's not so thick and bulbous. We don't want to introduce any kind of separation or any kind of movement to it. We're just trying to remove weight. So I'm going to start with my Feather Styling Razor and I'm going to take a small thin section here in the back or you can start wherever you want to remove the weight. You just want to make sure that the sections are not too thick. So I'll take a section, comb that straight through and now here I'll do the claw method on my razor where I'll take three fingers on one side, two fingers on the other, keep my wrist straight and I just very gently fillet the top of that section. And that's going to remove some of the thickness of the hair without introducing shifting back or forth or pieciness. I'm going to go through and comb this section down to show you again. Do the claw method very gently. I don't want to make this section too wide because if it's on a curved part of the head...right? I want to keep that section flat through there. Because if it's on a curve it's going to thin one area of the section more than another area. So I want to work in little flat sections of head so the razor will touch the hair at the same time. Comb that down and then very gently just push the razor against the hair, tilt the blade up and then just gently go through all the way towards the ends. I'll remove some weight, but I will still have a nice solid shape. Add a little bit more hair. Little bit more. Now this section is a little bit wider across the head. So I've got three flat sections. I got the middle. I got to the right and I got to the left. So we're going to start in the middle again. Very gently just like I'm filleting fish, just right on top as I go through and down. And I want to be very mindful. The more pressure that I put against the hair, the more hair that's going to come off. Alright, so I want to be... that's bad. I got too excited on that one. But that was an example. So nice, easy gently laying the razor against the head and then just very gently filleting all the way down and through. And remove as much hair as you need to. So that's the first way of removing hair when the shape is too thick.   How to Texturize Hair for Pieciness Okay so now say that I want to texturize the hair. I want to remove some weight but I also want to create a pieciness and a flickiness to it. So instead of laying the razor flat against the head, I'm going to go in vertically and by vertically I will go through and start to put channels into the sections so that will not only thin it but it will create separation. It will force the ends to separate into little pieces. The first method is not going to force separation. It's only going to diffuse the weight. This way I'll create separation. So I'll go through, same method and just gently put the blade through the section and whatever kind of gap that I think I need, I go and cut me a nice little angle right into that and now I remove hair but I also force it to separate into pieces. And that will separate much better. So now we go through and we'll do the same thing on the other side. With this method, I don't want to pick up much hair from underneath because then that's going to get recut. The first method, since I'm only doing surface level texturizing and razoring, I don't have to worry so much about that. But as I start to do internal textures like this I only want to texturize the hair that's in my hand. So there's my section. Try to maintain the same kind of gap and I'll curl my fingers away as I get closer to the root of my fingers. That's going to give me much more separation with each section that I go through and texturize like that. So internal texture with separation using my Feather Razor.   Removing Weight and Creating Separation at the Same Time Now there is a way that I can go through and do kind of a stop gap between both of those where either I'm filleting it and just diffusing the weight or creating internal texture and separation. There's a way I can get in between both of those and that's by using the Texturizing Blade on my Feather Styling Razor. So I can use these blades instead. And so what happens here is I have a little area of guard that covers part of the blade and areas where the blades open and it has gaps. And where it has gaps that allows hair through to the blade and that's what cuts. So I'll actually cut little channels as I fillet it. So it gives me a little less weight removal than just laying my Feather Razor against it solidly and removing the whole thing. It doesn't give me as much weight removal as if I go through and channel it. So it's in between. So I'll take my Feather Styling Razor with my Texturizing Blade. Take a section about as wide as the blade. Start where I want my texturizing to start which is usually about halfway. I tend to never really go deeper than halfway. After I get there, I'll just go through and gently glide all the way through to the end and now you can see I'll get separation and diffusion of weight at the same time. Pick up what I want to cut, comb through. This is getting a little dry so I'm going to apply a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide just to keep all the hair nice and moist and evenly saturated. The more evenly saturated that the sections are the more even that my razor cuts going to be. There we go. Take my next section through there. Start about halfway. Once I lay it on the head, on the hair, I don't remove it. There's a little bit right through there I need to take out. Boom. Got that perfect. Let's go to the other side. Pull this down and through.   Give us a thumbs up, click the subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Little bit right there. Down and through. And then you can see I get a little bit of internal texture, a little bit of weight removal and it's not nearly as severe as either the first two methods that I showed you. So Texturizing Blade with the Feather Styling Razor, filleting the section to create a little bit of separation and weight removal. Should fine hair be texturized? It can if you want to create pieciness and some volume. This method would be the best way to texture fine hair as you don't remove as much hair but still create texture.   How to Use Texturizing Shears for Weight Removal So now we're going to move on to texturizing dry hair. The razor works better on wet hair but thinning scissors and point cutting and things like that they work better on dry hair so that you can see how much weight removal that you're actually getting. So the first way that we're going to approach this is very much an old school method way where you're just going to use a thinning scissor and cut it the same shape as the line that you cut. So if I've cut straight across that's the way I'm going to go in with my thinning scissor. If I've cut it at an angle then that's the way I'm going to go in with my thinning scissor. That way the internal shape that I create is going to mimic the external shape so it has a better chance of everything flowing together. Turned to where the straight blade is on the bottom. Put my fingers in the last inch or so. One. Pull out. Two. Pull out. And that's usually enough to give you enough texturizing and thinning on the ends to bevel it and to make the shape a lot more pliable and give it more movement. I don't have to go crazy. If the hair is very thick, I may go through and do it an extra time or two or depending upon the hair I may do it a lot. So we're going to continue to pull the section down, pull out any hair that was previously thinned. Get that together straight across. Now the good thing about these scissors, my Tokyo Thinning Scissors, is that they're seamless. So when I go through and I put a line internally I don't instantly see a cut line internally. It diffuses and it blends away so I don't have a bunch of steps in the middle of this. Next section I can go through and do the same thing. The longer the hair is the more internal that I can go. A nice seamless thinning scissor like the Tokyo is excellent for this type of work. Try to not lift up any hair from previously cut sections because then I don't want to thin the same section two, three or four times. I only want to thin it once when it's in my hands and then that's it. If I need to go back after I've done everything and thin it, then I'll go back after the fact. So that's texturizing with hair thinning scissors, blunt shapes and just softening the edge. If I wanted to remove more hair and not work myself to death and I wanted to create some movement internally then I'll go through and take a vertical section, remove the hair that's already been cut, pull this hair forward and then go through parallel to my section and thin from about halfway through to the ends. And I will remove a lot more hair that way and introduce more movement. You can already see how that shape is collapsing much more than the piece next to it so that will remove a lot more hair and it will be completely seamless. And I can remove more hair where I feel like I need to and less hair where it needs. Because not all sections of the head are the same thickness. Like right here is a good example of that. If I look at that it's thinner right through here. It's thinner right through there and then it's a little thicker there. So a little thicker, a little thicker, a little thinner. So maybe I hit it once and pull that section out and then where it's thicker up here, hit it a couple of times and diffuse. So I can even out the amount of weight on each individual section as I'm working through by going through and doing this kind of method. So we're going to pull that out at an angle. Thin this through. And I don't know what that's called, what that method's called. So we're just going to call it 'Russelling.' So I went through and Russelled this side by holding out my section vertically and removing weight internally as if I was point cutting with my hair thinning shears. I have a lot more control than just putting a straight line in.   Texturizing Hair with Scissors Let's move on to the next one. So the next way that I can thin a section of hair is going through and using my straight hairdressing scissors. I'm going to use my Kyoto Scissors from Jatai and this method is similar to what I've just done with the thinning scissors where I go through and point cut internally. But this method is going to be as controlled if not more controlled and it's not going to be as diffused. So the way I'll do this is I'll go through and take a vertical section, put my fingers in pretty deep, roll my fingers over so I have a really good grip on that (I have a death grip on there) and now I'm going to take the stylist or barber scissors, put the blade in and as I bring the tip to the hair I will close the blade. And you'll see me take little points out. And as I start to go a little faster it will start to look like this. Where it's thicker I can thin it a little bit more. Where it's thinner I can thin it a little bit less. And this way it's more controlled than if I'm doing the thinning scissor because I can hit exactly where I want the removal of weight to be removed from. But it's also not going to be as diffused. So maybe I want to keep my shape really solid but I need to remove some internal weight and this would be a good method for doing that. And this works really really well on curly hair as long as you don't get it too close to the scalp. So this is a great way for how to texturize curly hair. Now one thing I want you to pay attention to is the angle of my hair shears when I do this. If I take my scissor and it's very parallel to the hair, I will take out very little when I hit it each time. The more of an angle that I go with the hair scissors, the larger the piece that I'm going to texturize out of it. Point cutting internally with my Kyoto, it's not a thinning scissor but it is a thinning scissor because it thinned the hair with my Kyoto Scissors.   Real World Example for Texturizing Hair with Scissors Let's give a real world example of how to texturize hair for effect. Now we have our model here. She's got her little blunt bangs. She's got her nice little haircut cut. So say that I want to soften this hair up. So the first thing I want to do is go through and use my Tokyo Thinning Scissors. I'm going to separate right here in the middle and I'm going to be very very aggressive with how much hair I remove. So I'm going to lay my fingers right up to her hairline, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and go through and thin it really really deep about half way. Well I'm going to thin this really deep. I'm going to go through and do it again because these mannequin heads have a lot of hair. So now we've got that thinned and you can start to see it's wanting to separate already just by removing the weight. I'm going to do the same thing here. I did it two runs. Two, three, four, five, six. One through. Let's do one more run through there. Maybe not as many hits. That's looking pretty good. You can see already just by going through and using my thinning scissors I have gone through and changed the entire feel of these bangs. There we go. So now from here I'm just going to place my blade in and then gently close the blade all the way through and this is going to create a very very strong blunt separation to this diffused texture that I've already created with my thinning scissor. So it's gone through and blunted everything up that I had just cut in through there. Try to keep all my gaps even but maybe for artistic reasons you don't want to. Just go through. Don't poke her in the eye. And now we've got some nice short little piecey bangs.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Hair Texturizing Cut Final End Result You're looking pretty good girl! Here's our end result. I think it looks pretty neat. You know if I could have bangs girl I would have my bangs just like yours. No not really. I'd have it like Elvis. Anyway, a lot of different texturizing techniques that we covered today. Which one's your favorite? Which one do you use the most? And I would encourage you to practice some of the others and add them to your repertoire to make you a much more varied solid hairdresser that will give you a lot more options in how you want to texturize and thin hair. Not all texturizing methods work on all different types of hair. So let us know what you'd like to see in the future. And also please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of fantastic information on there to make you a better hairstylist and barber. And thank you for watching. We'll see you next time.   Final Thoughts Knowing how to texturize your hair or client's hair is a fundamental skill that all stylists and barbers should know. And as you mature as a hair professional, knowing what tool to use and how to use it to create the desired effect is important to developing your skills. It's also important to prevent over texturized hair or under texturized hair. Haircut texturizing is an art and science! We hope this tutorial taught you something new that you can take with you into the salon or shop.

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

One of the most fundamental techniques you should know as a hair professional is how to cut a blunt bob. The scissor techniques needed to get a perfectly straight blunt line takes skill and practice. But once you master how to do a blunt cut you can use these skills to do different kinds of haircuts like a medium blunt bob or a short angled bobs. Watch this video tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.   How to Cut a Blunt Bob:   Welcome back to the Jatai Academy! Today we're going to be doing an in-depth study of how to get a perfect solid one length line, all the things that you need to know, all the little tricks and all the habits that you need to practice to make sure that you can get a perfect one length blunt line and how to do a blunt haircut. So let's get started.   Sectioning The first thing I want to do is I want to go through and use a little bit of cutting lotion just to make sure that the hair has an even wetness, that it's easy to comb and glide everything through the hair so when I'm taking my sections and combing, I'm not fighting the sections. I like to use Jatai Blade Glide. It's nice. It's light and will not weigh down even the finest hair, but it constricts the cuticle and makes cutting so much smoother and so much easier. I took a natural center part down to the occipital bone, occipital bone to the mastoid. If the hair is really thick I will separate this in half. Very rarely do I ever take this into thirds because most hair is not really that thick so that brings me to the first concept is you can't have a section that's too thick or too thin. If the sections too thick then it's going to create a whole lot of scissor push which I'll get to in a second. But if it's too thin as well it's not going to give you a clean enough solid line that you can build off of and it makes subsequent sections harder to match. So I want enough thickness to where I can't really see through it but I don't want so much thickness that it makes my scissors push. The next thing we want to focus on is having a very very sharp scissor. The sharper your scissor the cleaner the cut that you're going to be able to make and also the thicker the sections that you're going to be able to work with.   Choosing the Right Scissor when Learning How to Cut Blunt Bob I'm using the Kyoto Scissor from Jatai. It has a nice fat blade. It has enough scissor weight behind it that I can really get behind and make sure I have a clean cut. What you're going to see a lot of times when people cut hair is it's going to look like I cut, I go in cut, and I go in. So when I do it fast it looks like that, but in reality what I'm doing is I put the scissor in and as I close the blade I cut on the backstroke. This will compensate for the amount of scissor push that I'm going to get. A sharper scissor is going to require less backstroke which will give you a cleaner cut line. Also, the sharper the scissor is the cleaner that it's going to cut the ends of the hair. If it cuts it kind of jagged, it's going to look kind of fuzzy so I want a nice sharp clean scissor.   Combing the Section Now from here I want to focus on how I'm combing the section. You'll notice when I hold the comb it's two fingers on one side, a thumb and a pinky on the other side. So that allows me to flip the comb and control it like this which is important for building tension. So I'll go through, I'll take a section right in the center. Each section that I take is going to be a flat section of head. So when I hold the comb against the head it's going to be flat. So I'm not cutting across any curved sections. So now from here I comb away from me so that I make sure I get all the hair at the scalp combed clean. If I don't get the hair combed clean from the scalp it's going to leave me an inconsistently cut line. So comb with the teeth facing away from my fingers and then I rock and rotate and I put my finger in. I just hold, put the finger on top. I do not drag that finger through creating any kind of tension. The only tension that this section has is the tension that was created in the comb. Now from here I want the comb to be perpendicular to the hair. I'm not going to turn this up and make it easier for me to see. I want to make sure that this is perpendicular to the hair where I want the line to be cut.   Making the Cut Scissor push is compensated for. Cutting on the backstroke. Now we have a perfectly clean cut line. On a human I will comb that down, get that little piece out of the way, and then cut this on the skin to compensate for any graduation that I get from my fingers. The next section, I will then with the head comb straight down. I'll compensate. So this is the angle. It matches on both sides so I comb that section, T to my parting. I do not put my fingers in, create tension and drag that section because then I'm going to have inconsistent tension throughout the section because my fingers are not going to be perfectly even. I'm going to have gaps. And where I have gaps it's not going to create the same tension. So I'm going to comb this down. The only tension that's being created is from the comb. Plant my finger. There's my guide. Put my scissor in. Cut on the back stroke to compensate. Boom! Perfectly clean blunt solid line. And we're going to do the same thing on the other side and match that as best we can. Comb down, create my tension, there's my scissor guide from the previous section in the center. Compensate. Check that out. Here I'm going to look and see if my sides are even and it looks like the left is a little longer. So instead of freaking out and crying I'm just going to go back and cut that side a little bit shorter. And I will take that in baby steps. And there is my line. Cut that down and through. Boom. A little nibble right there. Now let's check and see and that's looking pretty good. Now we've got our first section. So now we're going to go through and take a parallel section to that previous section which was what we took in the very beginning. Now we're going to take the rest of this section that we sectioned off in the nape and I'm going to go through and do exactly the same thing that I did before.   Cutting on Top of the Previously Cut Section in this Blunt Shoulder Length Bob Take the center section again. I want to make sure that it's flat. Comb that down. The only tension I get is from the comb itself. I'll lay my fingers right there where the previously cut section was, find my guide underneath, go through, compensate for scissor push and we are going to do what is technically the hardest thing to do in cutting hair and that's cutting this section directly on top of the previously cut section. That's the hardest thing you'll ever do when you're trying to cut hair. Everything else pales in difficulty compared to this section right here because I cannot be longer which this, if I'm like really neurotic about it is a little bit longer. So I'm going to go back in and try to cut just a whisper of hair off. That brings me to the next point that we really need to pay attention to and that is consistency of technique. So when we comb it's consistent every time that we comb down and through. When I hold it it's consistently the same and when I cut it's consistently the same. If it's not I'm going to have a lot of difficulty. Let me cut this. I can't talk and cut at the same time. I'm going to have a lot of difficulty repeating my cut line so I have to practice and comb and rehearse my skills over and over and over again just like a piano player would play, you know the scales and the chopsticks or whatever finger exercises that they have to get so that they can repeat the method every time and be exactly the same. That's only going to come with practice. Next section. Comb clean from the root all the way down through. There is my previously cut guide. Cut on top of that and that actually looks pretty good. I'm impressed by that section there. Wow. Don't expect that level of quality every time I cut but sometimes you're going to hit it right on top. You're going to hit the nail in the head. Remember it's not about being perfect on every little section. It's about you're perfect the majority of the haircut because there are going to be sections that I cut on this haircut that are not going to be right. They're going to be a little too short. They're going to be a little too long. A little too long is easier to fix than a little too short because if I go a little too short then I have to go back and cut the whole thing again just a little bit shorter. If it's a little bit longer it's easy to go back in and clean that up. So now we're going to look at this, see how that's looking and I got a little graduation right here. So I'm going to comb that down in my comb, cut that little bit off. Easy right? Easy. It's a simple concept but it's not easy to execute. You have to practice and be diligent with your technique to get this really clean. So now let's just continue on.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Starting in the center again where it's flat, get all this hair out of the way. Make sure the head is even and she's not sitting all cockeyed. Comb clean from the root all the way down, flip the comb creates the tension, plant my fingers. There's my guide. Cut directly on top of my previously cut section. Not shorter. Not longer. Directly on top. We've got everything done up into the ear section. So now we're going to bring this section down and I'm going to go through and do the same thing I was doing before just continuing to go up the head taking each individual subsection, combing everything down including the previously cut sections as my guide.   Compensating for the Ear And as I go up it gets easier and easier to see my guide. Now as I start to come around to the ear I have to approach that in a different way because I have this protrusion sticking out from the head that if I just comb the hair over it and pull it down it's going to compress the ear and then when I let go the ears going to flip up and then it's going to make this section get shorter. So what I'll do is I'll cut all the way up to the ear, get the ear hair and the ear out of the way so I don't have to deal with it until it's absolutely necessary. There's my guide. Cut directly on top of that as best you can. Clean that up as best as you can. Now as I come to the ear the way I'm going to deal with that is...there's a lot of different ways to deal with this section. There's no one way that is the end all be all way because the hair is different. Some hair is more voluminous and it gives you a lot more slop factor so it gives you more of a safety net that you don't have to worry about it. Thinner hair you have to worry about it more because it's more visible and it shows all the flaws of your technique. And if that hair gets shorter because I pulled it down, it's going to spring up. My line is going to go nice and straight and then have a nice little hole and continue straight again forward. So what I tend to do is I'll take the ear section, I'll comb everything down over the ear. Make sure that I go underneath the ear as I continue down and once I get here I'll gently hold the hair take the scissor and push under the ear so it starts to see the ear protrude from that section and it allows this hair right here to get pulled up. And then I will hold that down and cut that straight across. So now when I comb this down you're going to see how that gets a little bit longer right through there. I'm going to then ignore that because I have to cut it again once it's dry to clean it up. So that gives me a compensation over the ear so that when I dry it there I can fine tune it. Dry hair is not going to be as susceptible to graduation elevation from tension or through the protrusion of the ear as wet hair will be. The next section comb that straight down, no tension. There's my guide. Cut that straight and through. We're going to check and make sure our sides are even and that's looking pretty good. Now we're going to continue on until we run out of hair. Alright, so I think we got everything looking pretty good. So now let's go through and blow it dry. I'm going to blow dry as straight and as smooth as I can so that we can reveal the cut line as cleanly as we can reveal it.   Follow us on your favorite social media platform @jataifeather   Blow Drying & Styling the Short Blunt Cut Bob Hairstyle So we've gone through and blown everything dry. Got everything nice and smooth. Now I'm just going to go through and comb everything down and its natural fall and especially over the ears here to see if my little ear push compensated enough or it was too much. So we're going to comb everything down and I'm going to look and it looks like I've got a little bit right through there so I'm just going to go through and just freehand and take anything off right through there that I feel like doesn't really fit. Get that out of your face. There you go. You look like a million dollars. Thanks for watching. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that'll make you better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and until next time thank you for watching.   Final Blunt Short Hair Bob Look   Here is the final look of the mid length blunt bob. When you look at pictures of blunt haircuts, you might see a blunt bob with fringe, a blunt bob with side part, chin bob hairstyles or short angled bob haircuts. Blunt haircuts have many looks. Creating that perfectly straight line can be a defining feature of the look you're trying to create so it's best to know proper technique so you too can have the perfect blunt line. When it comes to hairstyles, doing a blunt cut bob for fine hair is pretty much the same as cutting a mid length bob for thick hair. The difference is that with fine hair you have to be more careful as you will see any flaws in your technique. Master this technique and you can do a blunt line on any type of hair with ease.   Tutorial