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Have you ever wondered how to create Scarlett Johansson's short undercut hairstyles she rocked around 2014 to 2017? In this article and video Russell Mayes, Director of Content for JATAI, guides you in a step-by-step Scarlett Johansson short hair tutorial on how to achieve this iconic style. This look is timeless and needs no update. You can get the full YouTube experience by watching this video below (which is also featured in our Education Connect portion of Jatai Academy. You can follow along with the transcript below. Scarlett Johansson Short Hair Tutorial: Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing an undercut, the undercut that Scarlet Johansson wore for a while and I think it's very cool. So let's get started. So if I'm looking at you know some short hair that Scarlett Johansson wore. When it was really short it was basically an undercut with the top grown out longer. Then at a certain point she decided to let the undercut grow out and we started getting a little bit longer in the sides. And I think that it was very very stylish and she did a great job of the grow out period because sometimes when it's cut really short underneath it's hard to grow that out. But you know hairstyles like this that show the in between where she was growing it out, I think are really really modern today. So let's take a look at how to do that. So we've gone through and sectioned out the top of the head from the bottom of the head.   Clipper Cutting Now we're going to go through with the clipper and we're going to cut everything underneath pretty short. So I'm not going to go through and be really perfectionistic about my clippering right now. I just just want to go through and remove most of the length so that I can go through and change the texture a little bit later on. Now this first section right up the middle I'm basically just guessing at the length that I want and I'll go through and just go through the motions of cutting it. Then I'm going to look at it and see is that type of length that I want. I think I want to leave this a little longer than it being cut really really short. And I think that that's looking pretty good. So now from here I have a guide. As I start to work around the head I can use the guide in the center for the guide that I'm cutting for the hair that I'm cutting as I move left to right. So this is a very very classic tapering technique where I'll start shorter at the bottom and get longer as I go up the head. So it's shorter here at the bottom hairline and it gradually gets longer. So in the back I've worked horizontally. Then, I come to the side and I work horizontally. And then I'll go through and work an angle which is going to be parallel to this hairline right behind the ear. I'll work the angle to blend the two together. Now that way I've got a rough shape into it and then I can start to fine-tune my shape from here.   Thinning Scissors And now I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors and I'm going to go through and trace what I've got cut underneath initially just to soften everything up. Now this is going to go through and do two things: it's going to remove weight and make it softer and it's also going to make it a little bit shorter so I can get a little bit cleaner. And it just takes a little bit of time and a little bit of practice and some patience to go through and do this but the end result is going to be worth it. So I'll start and I'm going to go through and scissor over comb and trace everything that I've already cut and just cut the last quarter inch of the hair to make sure everything is softer. Now when I first start going through I'm not going to see a whole lot of result and that's okay. I will be able to fine-tune it once everything's dry and I've got everything in its natural fall. Now right here I don't like the way that's fitting in so I'm going to go through and hit that a few more times and see how it reacts and that's reacting a little bit better. Now we've gone through and we've dried the underneath so that I can see exactly how the hair is going to react, how short it's getting and how much texture I'm putting in through it. Now I'm going to go through. I like this length that we got here. I'm going to taper that in a little bit tighter around the edges in the nape and I'm also going to take this a little bit shorter over the ears. I think that that would look better if that's a little bit softer and shorter. So now I'm going to go through and do the same sort of scissor over comb that I was doing with my Tokyo Thinning Scissors but on dry hair and I'm going to really start to fine-tune and fit this in. So what I'm going to do is basically scissor over comb everything and taper this in a little bit tighter just here in the at the bottom of the nape. Now these mannequin heads can get a little pokey around the edges where the hair gets short and that's okay. I'm just going to fine-tune that in just like I would a shrubbery or something of the sort or I'm just going to visually cut it in to make it fit and take some of the length off and still keep it soft. One of the pictures that we saw she was really blended here in the back and then it got longer and disconnected towards the front. So that's what we're going to do. So in order to do that I need to separate the front of the head from the back of the head. So I'll find where the crown is, take that section to the top of the ears. So now we've got from the crown going back. And the way I'm going to do that is I'm going to pivot right in the center.   Razor Cutting Hold this out at curvature of the head which is going to be like that. So I'll just lay the comb where it sticks out. I want the top of this section to be held at that angle as I'm pulling the rest of it out vertically. So it's going to look like this right here. Now I'm going to continue that angle of my graduation that I started from tapering the underneath on up to the top. And I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor in pink. So we're going to start right here in the middle, hold this out at the proper elevation which is going to be right there. Start where my short hair is, gradually build that out to my longer length. Don't miss anything. Comb. Look at that. See how that's going to blend. I think that's going to be fine. So we're going to continue on. Now I will pivot my next section which is going to pivot to the corner of the hairline. I'll pull this out, same elevation right here at the top center. There's my length falling out. Pull that up and out and through. Next section, pivot to the mastoid, that bump right there behind the ear. I'm going to pull this back. There's my line underneath. Go through. Razor that through. Anything that hangs out that I missed, cut that off. Got that. The last section, I'll pull off the peak curvature of the head. There's my guide underneath. Go through. Razor that off. Now this is going to completely blend with the back so that when this fluffs up it's going to blend beautifully through here and it also gives me a length that I can start building my length going towards the front. So now from here I'm going to take the right half. I'm going take a horizontal section and I'm going to use this length that I created in the back here and blend that through towards the front. So I'm going to hold this out off the peak curvature. There's my line and then I'm going to guess how long I want it in the front and I'm going to start building up more length as I get to the front holding this out at peak curvature of the head. The way that I can always check that is just hold the comb right there at the parting. Wherever that elevates to, that's where I want to hold that. Now I'm going to continue taking the same horizontal sections until I get to the center of the head. Again, going off the curvature of the head starting at the tip of my blade. And as I work through the section I will go towards the heel of the blade. So that way I can evenly dull the entire blade at the same time. And I think that that's looking pretty good. There we go. Now we're going to do the same thing on the other side.   Texturizing We've got our basic shape in and now I'm going to go through and put a little bit of internal texture into it using my Jatai Feather Styling Razor that has the Texture Blade into it. Now the Texture Blade has little gaps in it that prevent hair from touching the blade so it's only cutting like every other hair and I'm going to go through and hold the section horizontally, lay the blade against the head and just gently fillet through and you can see how that's creating separation through there and taking some weight out of the ends. Now I don't want to go through and be very aggro and you know like He-Man it. I want to go through and gently just apply a little bit of texture to take some of that weight out and give me a little bit more separation. I'm going to go through and methodically work every section without picking up previous sections that I've already texturized. That way I don't over thin one particular area. An area that may have a little bit more weight, I may go back through and do, but my first pass through I want to be very very judicious in my application of texture. Nice, easy. Removed the weight. Gave me some separation. I think that's looking pretty good. Now this section right here in the front I'm going to go through and take a little bit of that point off because when I pulled it both over to the sides that's going to leave me longer in the middle. So I'm going to go through, comb this through and down and take a little bit of that point off and I'm going to do it with my Texturizing Blade so that I can keep everything really really soft and textured.   Final Look Here's our end result. We've got you know a little longer in the front. We've got it undercut underneath on the sides and the back. We kept it really soft and a little bit longer so it's not that hard edge and it blends through here in the crown which I think looks pretty good. And she wore her hair a lot of different ways. Sometimes it was down and kind of swept over a little fuller in the back like we did here. Sometimes it was very much up you know and gelled up and off of her face you know kind of to the side, so for the award show or the fashion show she was going to. The Scarlett Johansson curls were elegant and striking. She wore it a bunch of different ways and this haircut is very very versatile for that. Scarlett Johansson with short hair was an iconic hairstyle for her and is still remembered to this day. Scarlett Johansson hair 2015 is still a beautiful style that's modern for today's looks. So add it to your repertoire. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hair stylist and barber and we will see you next time. Thank you for watching. If you liked this Scarlett Johansson hair tutorial, you may like our other tutorials in our Education Connect section of Jatai Academy.   Tutorial

If you don't know what pageboy hair is, it was a popular hairstyle in the 60's and 70s which looked kind of like a mushroom. It was often worn by both men and women. The look back then consisted of blunt short hair that framed the front of the face with bangs. It didn't have much volume. In fact, the hair laid straight down but curved at the ends. It was often short in length and didn't go below the neckline. In this video, we share the art of achieving a softer razor cut version of the timeless page boy haircut. With a modern approach to the cut, the style gets a makeover that's appropriate for today's looks and haircuts. In this video Jatai's Director of Content, Russell Mayes, shows a step-by-step instruction, emphasizing precision and technique to create a modern and flattering interpretation of this classic style. You'll learn the fundamentals of razor cutting, exploring the nuances that give the page boy haircut its distinctive softness. He uses the Feather Styling Razor, Feather Plier Razor, Jatai Tokyo Scissors and some JATAI Blade Glide to achieve this iconic look. The tutorial offers a straightforward and informative approach to achieving the perfect soft razor cut pageboy hairstyle. To make it even more modern, change up the color or style it in a unique way. Watch the video tutorial or follow along with the transcript below.   Modern Soft Razored Pageboy Hair Tutorial: Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a modern softer pretty version of pageboy hair. So let's get started. Pageboy to me is one of these classic haircuts that was very popular in the the late 60s early 70s and it's very very blunt and very very solid. And to me I never thought that it looked good. I never thought it was very appealing but that's just my own aesthetic. No I should take that back. The only people that I think the pageboy looked good on were the Ramones. I thought the Ramones wore it very very well and so my challenge today is how do I take this haircut that I don't necessarily have an affinity for because I feel like it's just this blunt kind of mass mushroom of a shape and how do I make that pretty? So I think the way that I modernize it and make it pretty and is to make it softer because the the classic pageboy is very very blunt all the way around. Everything's cut at zero elevation. It's very very solid kind of halo bowl cut mushroom shape. So I'm going to try to soften it up using my Feather Styling Razor and also my Feather Plier Razor to create some internal texture. The Back So the way I'm going to start is I'm going to comb a center section straight down. I'm going to judge where I want my overall length to be and I want something a little longer than the hairline but not so much that it's starting to hit the shoulders and flip out. And then I'm going to hold everything down and I'll take a fairly short stroke and just go straight across and cut that all one length. Here I don't want to pull this back. I'm going to keep her head kind of straight forward. I'm going to comb this straight down and natural fall. Work that line all the way around trying to use the same razor stroke that I was using earlier. To make this a little bit more solid through here I'm going to use my Tokyo Scissors. These are the 5 and 1/2 inch ones. I'm going to come underneath, comb that down, zero elevation and just go through and blunt that line up just a little bit. Cut some of that graduation off underneath on the bottom. Okay now I'm going to go through and separate the front of the head from the back of the head. I'll find the high point of the head bring that straight down to the top of the ear. And now I'll go through and take my next section, keep that parallel to my previously cut section. Follow my previously cut guide and cut that all blunt one length. Everything's getting combed straight down to the floor. And just continue this until I run out of hair.   The Sides Alright, so we got the whole back finished. Now we're going to work into the sides. Take my first little flat section where the comb lays flat against the head and I'm going to angle that all the way back into the mastoid and the reason I'm going back to the mastoid is so that I pick up a little bit of this hair that I cut in the back. So now I have a guide to cut two. So I'll cut the front short and it'll be easy for me to know where I'm cutting two from. Does that make sense? Yeah two from. Going to hit this with a little bit of Blade Glide to make sure I keep everything an even saturation. I'm going to start right in the center, right between the eyes straight down. Now when I comb this you'll notice that the comb is away from me. As I get up to the root I flip the comb. That's the only tension that I'm going to use. I'll lay my hand right where I want to cut the section. I'm going to leave these a little longer. I don't create any tension at all and then I'll go through with my razor and cut that straight across. Now here when I comb down the sides, this is my short piece. This is my long piece. So I need to determine what that angle is going to look like and most of the time most people will take this section and pull it forward and then go through and cut their angle. By me pulling this forward what I'm doing is I'm introducing movement into the hair. It's going to start to shift back. So instead of it being straight down in pageboy I'm going to end up with kind of a Dorothy Hamill feather kind of look because I'm pulling it forward. So when I pull it forward it's going to be shorter in the front longer and the back. So it's going to shift back. So what I'm going to do to counter that is I'm going to comb everything straight down. It's going to be a little challenging. I'm going to go through comb everything straight down, I'm going to angle my fingers, the angle that I think I need to go to get here, comb that straight down. There is my short piece. My long piece is there. Now combing this straight down I'm going to cut my shape through it. Now we're starting to get that kind of curve that's very reminiscent of a pageboy. Continuing this as I go to the sides. There's my line. There's my angle I'm cutting to. Cut that down and through. Next piece. Fight the urge to pull forward. I want to comb straight down, angle my fingers and then cut that line. Take my next section. Same angle that I took before. Take a little bit more hair. Pin this out of the way and continue combing everything straight down in natural fall, angle my fingers the line that I want to cut. There's my line. The razor will match that line. I'm combing everything straight down. There's the line. The razor matches the line. Cut that off and through. If I have anything that doesn't quite match clean that up a little bit. Take your time. And now we're beginning to get a nice little shape through there. So continue on till I run out of hair.   Modern Texture So now let's go through and I think putting some internal texture so we can get a little bit more softness and flicking going on instead of it just being a mushroom. I'm going go through and take an angle similar to what we were working with before. And now I'm going to go through and use my Feather Plier Razor. That way I can make internal texture and make that separation with much more dexterity and control than I can with my regular Feather Styling Razor. If you're looking to get into using a no guard razor, this is a good way to start because this is the easiest way to use it with the least amount of fear of cutting yourself. We got that. Same thing here in the back. I will probably do less in the back than I will on the sides and on the top because I still want to maintain that heavy moppy shape. Now I'm going to go through and do a little bit more weight removal as methodically as I can be for the rest of the hair. Now if you're working on somebody that maybe doesn't have as thick a hair as my doll head does maybe you don't do as much texturizing internally and you keep it just on the very edges and on the very ends and that will get you that separation to it without thinning it and make it feel any finer or thinner.   Bangs So we've saved the very best for last which is the bang section and the reason I saved that for last is so I'm already warmed up with my razor action. I have a good feel for how the hair is reacting to it so when I'm dealing with something as vital as around the front I can be more judicious about application of how much that I'm going to take out, how much hair I'm going to remove. So I'm going to start. I may start with half of this section, pin that out of the way, come in and just very gently go through and remove a little bit right in the front. I would rather remove too little than to remove too much. And I think that's looking good. And then the very last section is this hair that may hang over it. I'll take a little deeper but a little bit further apart with my internal razor stroke so I can get some separation and weight removal without taking too much out. And I think that that's a good place to stop with the wet cut. So let's blow it dry, take a look and fine tune it when it's dry.   Final Look Here's our end result and uh I think it's a nice soft version of classic page boy hair. I think it looks a little bit more modern. It's a not quite a Ramone but it certainly has some texture and some movement to it, some softness. And I think that this shape would work really well on some curly hair that had a little bit more puff to it. I think that would be really really pretty. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hairdresser or barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time. I appreciate it.   Tutorial

When it comes to texturizing hair there are multiple ways create it. To create texture using a tool, hair professionals can turn to either shears, thinning shears or razors. If you use one of these tools, it's important to learn various texturizing techniques. Each tool will give slightly different results. In the salon, hairdressing can be challenging. You are constantly dealing with different hair types such as thin or thick hair, straight or curly and short or long hair. You must take into consideration the client's desires as well as the hair you are working with. These factors will help determine the tool used in adding texture to hair. This article will discuss how to texturize hair with some of the best tools on the market. But first, what is textured hair? Hair with texture is one with volume and shape. This could come in the form of movement, body, airiness, curls or waves. Learning how to get more texture in hair is multi-faceted and there are many factors to consider when doing so. In this video, Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, gives us a run down on how to texturize hair in a one length bob using scissors versus a razor. By understanding the different techniques and the results they give, this can help you decide the best technique to use with your clients to create texture. You can follow along and view the video or read through the transcript below. Enjoy!   How to Texturize Hair Using Scissors vs. a Razor on a One Length Bob Tutorial: Today we're going to be doing a study in texture and how to create textured hair. What's the difference between texturizing with a scissor versus texturizing with a razor? Let's get started.  I've already gone through and cut everything one length. So that's going to give me the simplest shape that I can really see the texturizing pop and the variations between the two. So I'm going to go through and deep point cut with the scissors the entire right side of the head and use some thinning scissors to thin it out where I feel like it's too heavy. And then on the right side of the head I'm going to use my Feather Plier and go through and channel some texture into it and that will also remove weight where I feel that I need to and create separation.   Texturizing Hair with a Scissor So we're going to start right here on the right side of our section of the nape which is the occipital to the mastoid. I'm going to use my Jatai Kyoto Scissors. This is the sharpest scissor that I have and so it's going to be easy for me to apply a deep point cut without having to fight it.  I'm going to comb everything straight down and about halfway through I'm going to comb this right against my fingers to kind of flatten that section out and get it real straight and then I'm going to go through and just point cut real deep. I'm not keeping the scissor completely 100% parallel with the hair. I want to go through and cut it at an angle so I can create some separation and some pieciness to it. Now whenever I go through and do a deep point cut like this I'm basically only adding texture to the bottom 2 or 3 inches of the section. Now from here I'll continue on taking parallel sections as I go up the head. And one thing that I want to be mindful of is to not pick up my previously cut section. I don't want to go through and overly texturize hair that I've already gone through and cut and texturized. I don't want to take too thin a section. If I take too thin of a section I won't be able to see how much that I'm actually taking out so I want a thick enough section that I can actually see my channel point cutting going through. Each section I will cut, I will cut independently of any other section so I have no guide. Each section is cut strictly by feel. If if I need to I'll ribbon that section together go through, cut that up and in. And I'm going to continue my sections until I run out of hair. Now we're coming to the last section. Now for areas that I feel like are too thick I can change up my approach by either going through re-sectioning standing up and going through and cutting through but it's not very easy to control when I do that. On the bottom it you don't have to have that much control but when you're working internally you need more control. So in that case where I need more control over how much hair I'm thinning I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors. This way I can control exactly how much I take and exactly where I'm taking it from and I can choose if I want the texture blade on top of the section or on the bottom. If I go through and use the cutting blade on top it'll be a little bit more seamless so that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to go through take a vertical section, point cut about halfway through. Where it gets longer I may hit it twice. That way I can thin without leaving any kind of scissor marks at all and I can also be much more in control of where I take my hair from and how much I take. Like right here there's less hair. Here there's a little bit more so I'll take a little bit more. This section there's very little through here but just a little bit underneath so I'll take there. And I'm going to go through and do this to all the sections. I will take a larger section and since I'm taking it vertical it'll be easier for me to control than if I take a real fine small horizontal section. Pull that straight out. Little bit there. A little bit more. A little bit more. A little bit more. Where it's thicker I'll take more. I'll hit it more times. Where it's not as thick, I won't take as much. On the top I don't want to run the risk of any kind of alfalfa sprig sticking up so I will never texturize more than about halfway through the section. If I start texturizing up here close I run the risk of that sticking up. Now that's texturized for thinning to even out the thickness and point cutting on the bottom.   Texturizing Hair with a Razor So now let's learn how to make hair textured with a razor. On the razor side I'm going to go through and use a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide to help my razor slide through the hair more effortlessly. So now I'm going to use my Feather Plier Razor which is a guardless razor and I'm going to go through comb this section straight down just like I did on the other side but instead of point cutting up I'm going to razor cut and channel some of this out and take out as much hair as I feel that I need to.  Now with this method I will actually thin and separate at the same time where the other side with the scissor I had to go through and do both independently. I will not channel more than about halfway through the length of the section. I could probably get away with it more underneath than I can on top which sometimes I will actually go through and thin it deeper if I feel that the hair is so overly thick and really really stiff. Now I'm going to continue taking parallel sections as I run up the side of the head. Start in the center of the back and then work towards the front. Close the blade each time so I don't end up cutting any hair or cutting myself. Get that out of the way. Now as I'm going through and channel cutting this I want you to notice that I'm starting with the tip and then I will go in and that way I use the entire length of the blade not just the tip of the blade. I don't thin this very very front piece here. I'll thin the hair just behind it. Now I'm just going to continue on and do the same thing until I run out of hair being mindful to not pick up hair underneath as I texturize each subsequent section. Now let's see if we can tell a difference while it's wet. Oh yes the scissor side is going to be a little bit well actually it's a lot more solid than the razor side. And it's heavier. It doesn't have the same amount of movement to it that the razor side has but let's blow it dry, take a look at it, see how we're doing.   Final Look We've got our lovely model blown dry and now let's compare the differences between the side done with the a scissor and a thinning scissor versus the side done with the razor where you channel cut it and controlled the weight at the same time. You can really see the differences with dry hair. Now on the right side you can certainly tell when I run my fingers through it it still has this nice solid shape and the texturizing is a very soft diffused kind of separation. I still have a good solid strong shape. It creates a lot of movement to it but it still has that solid one length shape and it just bevels my one length shape. So sometimes a one length bob can look very very blunt and broom like. So by going through and doing it this way I certainly bevel that but at the same time I keep it really straight. And most of the movement and texturizing is in the bottom two inches of the hair. Even though I went through and texturized internally it was more of an even diffused thinning where I get the separation underneath. Now if I look at my razor side you can certainly tell when I run my fingers through this I've got a lot more separation of texture from the center all the way down through the ends and it forces it to separate into pieces much more prevalently than the other side. So when would I use one over the other to texture hair? Say for instance that I have somebody with very very thick but fine textured hair, I'm definitely using the razor. If I have someone with thinner hair that I want to maintain a solid shape and I just want to soften the edges, then I'll use a scissor for it.  If I have hair that has a fuzziness in the texture, I'll definitely use a scissor and a thinning scissor for it because I can get my thinning and control without any fear of it exploding the cuticle. Now there are other texturizing techniques such as twist cutting but it's not covered here. Click this link to see a video on twist cutting. While you can also create texturized hair by using chemical sprays or dry shampoos, cutting the hair with either a shear or razor can make texture last for a longer period of time. Sprays can leave build-up over time if they are not washed off thoroughly. Take care when using texturizing sprays and don't over use them. We hope you learned something about how to add texture to hair and it's useful for you in the salon. Even though this was done on a one length bob, these techniques can be done on longer or shorter hair as well. A bob is just the simplest shape for this demonstration. If you enjoyed this video, you can see our other videos in Jatai Academy's Education Connect where we have hundreds of videos to learn from. There are also a number of other videos that show you how to texturize hair in other ways. 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As women get older they look to more mature hairstyles. But they still want something stylish and up to date. Short haircuts are often associated with being more mature. And as women age, generally their hair gets thinner so giving it more hair texture and layers to appear more voluminous is desired. You can find many haircut ideas for short hair but you might want to look at bixie hairstyles for older women. It's time to watch this bixie haircut over 50 tutorial. Unlike the mullet or sometimes the shag, bixie haircuts are more favorable for older women. It can work well with the young modern woman and it can work great for women over 50. It's classic style that can be worn by women of all ages. The bixie is basically a pixie bob haircut. It's a combination of a bob in the back and pixie cut in the front. It's a short hairstyle that's trendy yet classic. Follow along with the bixie cut video below or read through the transcript. This bixie haircut over 50 tutorial video guides you on how to create this beautiful haircut for your older clients.   Bixie Haircut Over 50 Tutorial: Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai and today we're going to be studying how to do a bixie haircut. A bixie is basically a bob in the back and a pixie in the front. So we're going to start here with a natural center part. We're going to section off a little above the occipital bone to the center of the ear. Then we're going to take a triangular section right in the center and I'm going to use my Feather Plier Razor. It is the sharpest razor I have. It also has the most control and gives me the most detail of any of my razors in my collection.   Creating Graduation in the Back I'm going to pull this out at 90 ° from the head and I'm going to imagine what angle of graduation that I want to create here in the nape. So pulling it 90 ° and cutting it a little longer at the top of the section getting a little shorter at the bottom. And I'll just go through with a nice even razor stroke all the way through and then I'll start to pivot from the center out towards the edges. I'll pull that back into my previously cut section, find my guide and then follow my guide as I work forward.  So this is a classic you know triangular graduation type of graduated bob that we're doing in the back where it's nice and tight down at the nape and slowly starts to stack and build some volume in the back of the head. Now I'm going to continue my sections here and continue my razoring and trying to keep the razor stroke the exact same throughout all my sections so I can keep an even amount of weight distribution through each section that I'm doing. I've gone through and prepped the hair with a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide to give it a nice smooth cutting experience. Now we're here. We're working on the last section. You'll see me pull that out, find my guide from underneath and work towards the edges here around the jawline.  And I want to hit this right around the jawline right just a little bit under the ear so when it falls forward it falls and curves with the jawline and with their natural bone structure. Now I'll go through and do the exact same thing on the other side. Starting back at the center. Taking my center section and continuing to razor just like I did on the other side. The important thing here is that I'm cutting from the inside towards the outside. As opposed to always cutting from right to left, I'm cutting internal out. Doing this method makes cutting the right side of the head a little bit more difficult because I actually have to cut over the hand that's holding the section. So I'm cutting from the inside of my fingers towards the tip of my finger. Where on the other side I was cutting from the tip of my finger in towards the knuckle of my fingers. And just following the same guides that I was doing and trying to create the same angles and the same shape on both sides. Again, pulling out my last section, following my guide, working that in and trying to make sure I fit this right under the ear right around the jawline.   Sculpture Cutting Now here after I've finished all of that I'm going to go through with my Feather Styling Razor. Now the Feather Styling Razor has a guard on it so I don't have to be as careful. So what I'm going to do here is called a sculpture cut where I'm just basically running the blade across the top of the hair and going through and tapering it and thinning it. At the top of the section up where my parting is, I use a lot less pressure. And as I get down to the nape where the edges are I'm using a lot more pressure. So I'm going to take out more hair down at the bottom of this section and less hair at the top. So what this is going to do is it allows me to keep the same shape that I have but I'm thinning it out a little bit around the edges and making those bottom hairs flow and separate and become really really soft. Now this method does take a little bit of practice. So the first time you're going to do it you're going to go through and use way too much pressure and just whack a big hole in it. So I urge you to practice this on a mannequin head or practice it on somebody that loves you that can't get too mad at you because the first time you're going to remove some hair.   Continuing the Graduated Bob So now we're going to go back and continue our graduated bob. We're going to take our next section. This is going to go to the high point of the ear. We're going to pin all the other hair out of the way. I'm going to pull this out off of peak curvature of the head which means that if I lay the comb right at my parting at whatever angle of elevation that that comb is showing me that's the elevation that I'm going to pull the hair up to. And then I'm going to use my guide from underneath and continue my graduated bob. So this will help me build up some shape, build up my bob in the back. But also because I'm using the razor it's going to keep all kinds of texture into it and I can control how much weight builds up. So I can have a really solid shape, but it will be very very soft in its appearance because I'm using a razor to apply the shape. Do the same thing on the other side just, trying to make sure I get the sides matching being careful not to cut myself too.   If you haven't already, please give us a thumbs up, click the subscribe button and the notification bell to be notified of any future Jatai Academy content.   Now we're going to continue on and taking parallel sections to the previous sections that I had underneath and just continuing that on both sides. I'm going to pull everything pined out of the way start in the center, find my elevation. Right there is my elevation. That's how I'm going to elevate that and hold that up and then follow the guide underneath, keep a broad razor stroke and continue my graduated bob. Now whenever you're going to start to use a Plier Razor you know a razor without a guard, I have to be very sensitive to the razor stroke and the moving of it back and forth. If I can take the razor and just go straight up and down, I won't cut myself even if I touch my finger. The reason that I'll cut my finger is if the blade is moving back and forth, not just up and down. So sometimes I start with a circular motion and that's when I can cut myself. Whereas if I just continue to go straight up and down, I run far less of a risk. Here you can see where my graduated bob is giving me a nice little corner right around the front and continuing that nice solid shape. Going back to cutting with the razor, start small. Take your sections small. Don't start with large sections. Small sections are a lot easier to control. When I apply the razor to the hair, I want the razor moving. Moving razor cuts so much easier than me trying to force it. And also, I want to make sure that I have a very very sharp blade. The sharper blade makes it effortless to cut. If I feel that the hair starts to push or I have to push the razor against the hair to get it to really cut, it's time to change the blade. Now here's our last section and I'm just combing everything in its natural fall and even distribution around the natural parting. And anything that hangs over from the hair underneath, I'm going to cut off. Now this elevation here as you see I'm getting around the front.   The Fringe Around the front I will elevate it less to build up a little bit more of a solid shape there around the front. So elevate more in the back, a little less around the sides. That will give me a nice bob shape. And just taking my time and making sure everything fits in nice and tight like I want. Continuing the same thing on the other side, trying to match my razor stroke as much as I can. The more that I can match my razor stroke on both sides obviously the more even and the smoother and the more balanced that the haircuts going to be. I could always go back in and you know thin hair out more by channel cutting it, but the more optimize that I can get while I'm cutting it the better it's going to be and the more that the shape is really going to set in. Here we're going to start around the front. I'm taking a section from my bang section all the way to the high point of the ear and now I'm going to go through and start working on my little pixie bangs and blending that into the corner of my little bob shape right there around the bottom. I think this is too much hair so I'm going to pin some of that hair out of the way. And I'm pulling this straight forward. There's my little bang shape and I'm cutting that down in a nice broad stroke all the way to the corner of my bob shape in the front. Right there. That's the length I'm going to and I want to make sure everything blends through. As I need to I'll go through and channel cut some of that out to make sure that my texture is really soft and really separated around the front. I want to see a lot of separation around the front to give me a little bit more movement and a more lived in type of shape. I think that you know hair fashion right now is all about soft movable shapes. It's not about this real precise glass smooth types of precision that was so prevalent in the 70s. There's so much more freedom of movement in in today's modern hair shape than it was in the past. So we're going to continue on with that. Now we're going to take our next section, pull that forward, follow our guide from underneath. We're going to channel cut first and then cut the length off so that we can kill two birds with one stone, channeling, removing of weight and removing of length.   If you don't already, please follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather. We've got Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), Pinterest and even TikTok.   Beveling the Shape Now I'm just shaking it to see how it fits in to see if I need to remove any more weight around the front. Going to continue on. As I continue back from the front, I am elevating the hair. So by elevating it it's going to remove more weight than if I just continue to pull everything forward. So this is going to actually bevel my shape going from the front to the back. So I'm cutting a round shape not only from the top going down but a round shape from the front to the back. So it's going to have more fullness around the back especially around the ears because that's going to give me my bob shape, but it's also going to be really really layered really textured so I get that pixie shape around the front and around the top. So I get that shortness and that airiness around the front, but I also have some hair to give me some fullness around the ears and make it much more interesting than if it's just a pixie haircut all over. Continuing to channel through. I'm going to do the same thing on both sides. I'm going to work this all the way to the center of the back and then continuing to elevate bringing that into my previously cut section. Being mindful of my razor stroke. Being mindful of how much texture that I'm applying, how thick each section is. Because when you hold it up you can see where the sections are thicker. I'll take out more like right through there. That's pretty thick. We'll take some of that out. As I get to the bottom maybe it's not so thick so I don't take as much out. So I want to pay attention to that and each section gets its own attention to detail to make sure it fits within its own boundaries. That's why I'm always shaking it so much like this to see if there's any weight that sticks out like I don't want and to make sure everything's flowing and give it a nice kind of lived in.   Final Look So here's our end result. Here's our shape. We're going to go through and blow it dry and I'm just going to put the diffuser on, put a little bit of texture spray into it and just go through and diffuse it and use my hands to style it as opposed to using a brush because I want this to have a natural lived in shape. And the diffuser and my hands will help me develop that. Put a little bit of styling cream on it at the end just to smooth some of my texture out make sure that I got my pieciness in there like I want. Here's our end result. And you know I think it looks pretty good. We got a nice little bob shape there on the sides in the back that you can tuck behind the ear or I can have that come forward. Got a lot of variety. I like it. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there to make you a better hair stylist and a better barber. Also, let me know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We really do appreciate it.   Short Bixie Haircut Over 50 Final Thoughts As you can see If you followed along in the video, you can see how this bob pixie haircut can work with a range of ages. It's classic yet modern look can be adjusted and styled based on client preferences. You can make it a pixie bob haircut with bangs or small curtain bangs and you can style it for more volume or more flat. It's a versatile cut that women can appreciate. Tutorial

In this article we're going to be doing a long length butterfly haircut with curtain bangs using the Feather Styling Razor. Follow along with the video. The video has been transcribed below. How to Do the Butterfly Haircut Tutorial Video:   Channel Cutting So this is how to do the butterfly haircut. We're going to start in the middle with a section straight down the middle all the way back center back of the head. We're going to go from occipital to mastoid. That's going to separate all the flat area. And then since that area is a little bit thick I'm going to take a subsection of that and just give me enough hair I can control using my Feather Styling Razor and the special pink edition. We're going to comb everything down and I'm going to go through and channel cut each one of these little sections so that I can get a piecey separation but still maintain all my length. So my razor stroke is probably about a 2 inch stroke but by going through and putting the tip of the blade in and channel cutting it, I'm not only texturizing the ends but I'm also cutting the length at the same time. Now here I'm going to go through and continue the same methodology, take my next flat section, comb that down find my guide, go through with my razor, channel cut that into the desired length that I want so I can maintain separation on the bottom but still keep a very solid shape.  I can certainly go through and channel deeper if I want more separation, more thinning. But I just want this texture to be on the ends so I'm going to go through and keep it just on the ends concentrated to where I want it to be and just follow the same guide that I had before and try to keep the same razor stroke of about 2 - 2.5 inches. Here I'll comb everything down make sure I don't have any long little stragglers and now I'll just continue this same methodology all the way up the head until I run out of hair. Same thing just combing everything down using my guide and continuing until I run out of hair, until I cut everything one length in the back.   Butterfly Wing Bangs Now the whole idea behind the butterfly cut is that I keep my layering around the face and the back of it doesn't have a whole lot of layering. It's mostly concentrated around the face with beautiful face framing layers. So from here I'm taking from the first bump of the head where the bangs are to the high point of the ear. I'm going to pull a little section out in the center. I'm going to pull that forward and right about the tip of her nose I'm going to go through and channel cut this to make sure I get the right length that I want and also to get the separation that I want. So I want separation and pieciness and light and airiness on the ends but I still want a solid shape internal. So I'm going to use my little piece as my guide that I did right in the middle. Now I'm going to take a broad razor stroke and go through and cut this entire length off. Now the difference between me channel cutting and just razoring the whole length of it off is by razoring the whole length of it off I'm actually going to get a lighter airier separation on the ends but I'm going to maintain a more solid piece. Whereas if I channel cut it, I'll force that to separate into pieces that are much more defined so I'm pulling everything forward following parallel to my main parting that I took and cutting my length that I want. I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. Take a nice broad razor stroke cut all that length off but I still want to maintain all of my length. So by razoring this front off, I'll show you how I create shortness in the front and then build that up into a lot of length in the back. So once I get everything fit in around the face look I want by pulling it forward I'm actually going to feather everything back. And this cut is very reminiscent of a 70's you know Farrah Fawcett kind of feather cut.   Addressing the Back Sections After I get everything fit in like I want around the front, I'll continue my sectioning towards the back of the head. Here I'm taking from the high point of the head right to the mastoid. I'll find my guide underneath and then I'll continue that same broad razor stroke all the way down. Now here where I started in the center I blended that with my guide underneath. As I continue to work down I will increase the length so it only blends at the top of the head, but as I get closer to the bottom of the head it gets longer and longer and longer. So I'm actually step layering it going from the front to the back but keeping it blended right there at the top in the bang section. Checking my overall length and shape and seeing how that's fitting in around the front and making sure that looks good before I continue on to the opposite side. And I'll do the same thing. It's going to blend right at the top center where her bangs are and it's going to gradually increase in length as I go down the head and get into my perimeter length. So by keeping it short and layered around the front and then disconnecting it as I go towards the back I can still get a blend because it is blending from the top to the bottom. Checking the lengths there making sure they're looking pretty good. Got a little bit right there on the left side making sure that that blends in. And taking my time because this is important that I get the textures right and the shape even around the front because when I feather it back I want it to be as symmetrical as possible on each side. Now since it's not a real precise haircut on the shape that I'm cutting, it needs to be precise and how it fits the head. So as I continue to work back, the sections blend at the top and then gradually step disconnect as it it goes towards the bottom but I want to make sure that I'm keeping all of my sections very very symmetrical and the same on both sides. I don't want one side to get layered more than the other. I already have an off center part so I have to deal with the weight distribution but by keeping my partings the same on both sides I can maintain a symmetry in the haircut. After I finish that I'm going to go right back to the center of the back of the head pull everything forward and down. Now you notice the further in the back I go, the more I angle that section down. The more that I angle it down the more weight that I'm going to create. The more I pull it forward the more feathering back that I'm going to create. So after I go through and cut the entire side I'm going to shake it out and check it. It's going to be layered a lot more around the face. It's going to be lighter and a lot heavier in the back. But I want to check and make sure that my flow is proper. It's flowing out of the face and giving me that kind of feathery butterfly wing kind of look.  Now this one's going to be a little shorter because I've cut a real short little bang right in the center that I'm using as my guide. You could certainly do this a lot longer like Farrah had it and have that flip more around the face but on this one with some bangs it gives it a little bit more neutrality and interest around the eyes. So I'm going to continue the same thing on the opposite side here continuing to pull everything forward and down and making sure that that blends in through with the front. Making sure I'm taking my time and that my partings are symmetrical on each side. Continue to pull if nothing cuts. If nothing reaches, nothing gets cut. I'm going to pull and check following through with my razor. Now as I go through and razor, I'll start at the base of the blade back closest towards my hand and then as I razor motion, I'll go more toward the tip. I don't want to just razor with just the tip. I want a razor using the entire length of the blade so that I can use the whole blade and it doesn't dull out just the tip. Check this side make sure everything's looking pretty good, shaking everything out and seeing how it looks. And I I think that this is looking pretty good. Real solid on the bottom but very light and airy around the face. So let's go through and put a little texture spray into it and go through and blow it dry.   Blowdrying I'm going to blow dry everything back off the face and then we're going to put a little bit of curl in it just to enhance it a little bit. You can certainly see that we got a lot of layering around the front. It's feathering back off the face. We can put more curl in there if we want, less curl if we want. From beginning to end, this is how to do the butterfly haircut. We hope you enjoyed this demonstration. A few notes about butterfly haircuts in general. Butterfly haircuts work best on medium to thick hair. They don't work as well on thin hair. It can work on any hair color from blonde highlights to brunette to colored hair. The butterfly cut creates wispy layers in the front for extra volume. It's the short layers in the front that gives the butterfly haircut it's name. It's a lovely style that can work on medium to long hair. You can do a short butterfly haircut with curtain bangs but the hair should be at least to the collar bone. And while this was a tutorial on a butterfly haircut with curtain bangs straight hair, it can also be done with wavy or curlier hair types.   The Final Butterfly Haircut Look Follow along on how to do the butterfly haircut in the video above or watch it at Jatai Academy's Education Connect portal. There's a lot of great information on there that'll make you a better hairdresser.   Tutorial

Today we're going to be working on some fundamental blow dry styling using the Du-Boa Hi-Tech Brush. So we're going to flat wrap hair. So wrap dry is basically where I'm taking all the hair and I'm wrapping hair around the head one way and wrapping it around the head the other way. So I'm basically using the head as a big roller to blow everything dry against. They used to do this back in the old days in the salon on longer hair when they would wet set. They'd brush everything around put a roller in the crown, let them sit under a hood dryer and that's a way of getting everything straight and smooth with just a little bit of bend to it. You need a little bit of bend to create movement. So you wrap hair around the head and use it as a big roller. You can watch the full flat wrap hair video tutorial here taught by Russell Mayes, the Director of Content for Jatai or it's also featured on Jatai Academy. You can follow along with the script below to skim through the content or watch the YouTube video below.   How to Flat Wrap Hair Tutorial:   What is the Best Brush for Flat Wrap? So the first step is we're going to start with the Du-Boa Hi-Tech Brush. Now when you're going to choose a brush you want a seamless tooth coming out. I don't want a tooth coming halfway up and one coming all the way out. I don't want any kind of seams on the tooth itself that could rip and snag the hair as I'm pulling it through the hair. Also, I want a flexible base so that as I run across a tangle and I start to stretch this hair it has a little bit of give and it puts less stress on the hair. It doesn't rip it out. And also since it's flexible it makes it a little bit easier on the head as I'm brushing it through. So let's get started blowing dry.   How do I Flat Wrap Bangs? So the first thing I want to do when I'm going through and I'm going to start wrap drying is I want to get the bangs dry first. If they don't have bangs you can skip this part but we're going to dry the bangs first. So I'm going to start going back and forth across as I'm blowing dry taking care that the air is being directed at the scalp. So I'll go back and forth across the head. Brush everything one way. Have everything come back the other way, just going back and forth with the air flowing down. That way by going back and forth it helps me control any kind of cowlick that I may have around the bang area.   The Flat Wrap Hair Process After I got the problem bangs controlled, then I'm going to go through and start sectioning for my wrap drying. I'll start right in the middle. Everything goes over. I will pivot from the crown, take my next section, follow the brush with the blow dryer. I can pick it up to create somebody as I start to stretch everything over. I don't have to be super anally clean with it. I just want to make sure I get this kind of motion where hair is being wrapped around the head. And just follow make sure I keep the blow dryer moving so I don't burn the scalp. And I'm not trying to dry each section completely 100% dry before I go to the next section. I'll dry it you know 50% and then I'll go to the next section dry it 50% and then on to the next section and I'll keep going. As I pivot, I'll keep going until I get to the center of the back of the head. Now as I get down here to the lower parts, I'm actually wrapping it all the way around the head. Now after I got that dry a little bit, I'm not going to try to dry the whole thing in one spot, I'll go to the opposite side. Start in the center and now I'm going to do exactly the opposite of what I did on the other side. Start in the middle brush everything over from the left side to the right side. I can pick that up if I want a little bit more body. If the hair has more wave, then I will certainly stretch it more as I'm going over. Pivot again. Wrap everything over to the other side following from the root of my parting as I wrap the hair to the other side. And I'll just continue this until as on the other side I got to the center of the back. Now after I've got each side about halfway dry, I've taken one side to the center, one side to the center. Now I'm going to continue. After I've got the second side, I'm going to continue to pivot this all the way around to this first original side. So, the first half was just to get the majority of it dry. The second half is to continue that drying and I want to make sure that's as neutral as possible and I'm just taking my time. And I'm being mindful of how I lay the brush on the head. I want the brush to just kind of skim across the head. I don't want to hit them in the head and then go. I want everything to be as seamless as possible and it just skim across the head. Now once I've got everything wrapped around, I'm going to go back and do the exact opposite. I'm going to flat wrap hair the opposite way. So, we'll start back in the middle and now I'm going to go exactly the opposite. Last time I was going left side to right side. Now I'm going right side to left side. And I'll just keep doing this back and forth and back and forth until I get everything completely dry. Already see we got a nice smooth shape to it, but it's not flat. Now to go through and do like they would do in the old school roller set days is I want to make sure I got some volume here on the crown. So, I will go through take me a flat section across the crown. I'll lay the brush right on the section. I'll pull up on the brush and rotate the brush over to create tension and pull. It's this tension and pull that as I heat the hair up pulls the natural shape out of it and as it cools it will re-harden in whatever new shape that I'm pulling it into. So I grab, I stretch, I pull forward and through and up. So down up 90 ° from the head as I roll the ends and that will give me a lot more volume right at the scalp. I mean you can already see this side has so much more volume than that side. You could certainly do this all over if you had somebody that you wanted to have a lot more volume throughout the entirety of their hair. Next section, stretch that up and through. The last section right here, brush that back, grab, stretch straight up. So, it's creating tension. I put the brush in, flip, stretch. If it's too much I unroll the brush a little bit to where I have just enough to pull, then on the very end I do a little bend. Bow I can use this same sort of methodology around the front if I have issues with the hair not wanting to flow properly like it's not cupping under like I want. I can just pull some of this hair back brush in, stretch over, pull through. And then when I get to the very end after I've got the hair hot and stretched and I pulled the natural shape out of it, I'll let that cool in whatever shape I want that to form into. Now you notice here I'm not pulling it straight up from the head. I'm pulling it down flat against the head. Because I'm not trying to get body on the sides, I only want body on the top. I'm just trying to get some control of that curl. Looks pretty good. Hit it with a little bit of cold air just to help everything set in and give it a little bit more of a natural finish.   Flat Wrap Final Look Here's our end result. I think it looks pretty good. We got everything nice and smooth and this is just with the brush just wrapping it and just a little bit of hooking. There's no ironing with this. There's no bore bristles or product, just the High-Tech Du-Boa. This gives you enough tension to make everything as smooth as you need it. When you flat wrap hair, this will help make everything neutral that make my shape neutral because I'm taking the growth patterns out of it. I'm pulling out any kind of natural cowlicks that they have or any kind of wave and I'm making everything a nice uniform speed of curl that's based upon her head shape. If I need to control something to get more volume, I just put the brush in just hook stretch let it cool in whatever shape I'm letting it harden in. If I need a little bit more refinement around the front, I can just stretch that as well. So add this to your repertoire and I think it'll make you a much better hair stylist especially when you flat wrap short hair shapes pixies, bobs, graduated bobs especially. Some additional notes: flat wrapping curly hair doesn't really work. It has to be straight or wavy. And flat wrapping works best with heat. But do not flat wrap hair with curling iron, use a blow dryer. If you want to know how to flat wrap hair no heat, it will take you a very long time and you might as well just let it air dry. So hope this helps to add a lot to your arsenal. If you like this content or have tried to flat wrap hair, leave us a review in the comments!   Tutorial

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

Let's cover different ways to cut bangs. The first thing to pay attention to is sectioning out the hair because the bangs will be sectioned according to each person's head shape. So the first step is to lay the comb on top of the head where it starts to curve forward and down. That's going to be the high point of the section. From there, take that to the center of the recession. The center of the recession is usually going to hit right at the corner of the eyebrow, right at the front of the temple. This has all the hair that has the ability and the tendency to fall on the eyes. So it's important to get this hair under control. You can always add more hair to the section if you want to. You can go further back or go wider if you want to open the face up more. You can also take less by taking half of the hair if you don't want a solid bang. So there are different possibilities for bang sectioning but this is the general tendency of all the hair that can fall in the face. So now let's cover three different types of bangs: Blunt and heavy bangs Layered bangs with or without movement Highly textured bangs   How to Cut 3 Different Popular Bang Styles with Scissors:     Blunt and Heavy Bangs The blunt and heavy bang is very solid and heavy. It's cut straight across. To do this use a good quality scissor such as the Jatai Tokyo Scissors 5.5" by BMAC. These are great because they are a smaller scissor which is better when dealing with bangs because you have more control. It's a natural tendency to take a section in the center, comb that into the hand, and then cut. If you do this, there are a couple things you have to focus on. The first thing is to notice how thick the section is. The second is how you use your fingers to hold the hair. If you just comb everything smooth with zero tension, lock your finger and then cut blunt, you already have a finger worth of elevation. If you do that, this is going to be a little softer than the maximum bluntness you can get. So if you want it blunt it's better to use a comb to hold the hair and push the hair into the spine of the comb with the back end of the scissor. Then go through and cut it straight across with a lower elevation because it's harder to clean this up on the skin. Why? Because you have eyebrows and eyelashes to deal with. You want to be mindful of that. Another thing you want to be mindful of is how much spring the hair has and if there are any kind of cowlicks at the front. That's why no tension should be used at all. For the sides of the bangs, if you want an arc or a curve, start at the inside of the eye and angle the comb so that it's curved down. Repeat this on the other side and try to match the first side. The blunt bang is pretty straightforward and easy.   Layered Bangs With or Without Movement The layered bang with or without movement is also a popular bang style. Usually someone with side swept bangs has an off center part. Find where the head starts to curve forward, go straight down to the center of the recession and pin that hair back. For bangs where you want a lot of movement but still have a solid shape, start off by taking a small section from the middle and pin it to the side. Then take another small section. This is going to be the shortest piece. The rest of the bangs will flow off of this piece. Take the piece and hold it off the peak curvature and find the length that you want to cut it at. Use very little tension. Otherwise, it will make the bang shorter than desired. Point cut the ends to the desired length. Now you have to decide what angle you want to create from the shortest piece to the longest piece. Mirror that angle in your parting. Hold it at the same angle as the parting, holding it in the opposite direction in which you want the bangs to flow. Using your guide, point cut the next section. Continue to take more sections using the previous guide. Once you've cut all the sections of the hair that will make up the bangs, let it go and see how it falls to the side. If it looks good, take the center piece that was the guide for the right side and do the same thing on the left side.   Highly Textured Bangs The third bang style is a highly textured shape. It's less solid and more of a softened look. This allows it to be styled in many different ways. This type of bang could be made to go straight across or left or right. Whichever way the bangs flow it will flow in a more piecey softer way. To create this bang, take a center section right in the middle. Pull the section forward and use a thinning scissor such as the JATAI Tokyo Thinning Scissors by BMAC. With the straight blade on the bottom, go through it with thinning scissor. With the curvature of the head, go through and point cut across the section with the thinning scissor. By having the tooth side of the blade on top, it leaves the bangs nice and soft on the top. Take another section of the bangs to the right. Using a small piece of the guide, pull the guide and the new section to the left and point cut with the thinning scissors. Continue to do so until you have cut all the bangs on the right side of the head. To do the left side, take a small section from the middle and a small section of bangs that has not been cut yet. Hold the two sections to the right side and repeat as you did on the left. To finish it off, make sure the sides are matching. This look is not nearly as solid as the blunt bangs but it's a beautiful fun look.  These are the three major ways of doing bangs. You can mix and match them as you want. You can also do this with a razor which will give a more jagged line. Whichever bang you decide to create, the tool will determine the texture. You are the master of the tool, so choose wisely!   Tips & Techniques, Tutorial