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