In this layered lob with wispy bangs haircut tutorial, Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, teaches some easy to understand and useful techniques for how to create a blunt bob shape but with internal texture on straight hair. This techniques used in this video are best for thick hair and not necessarily thin hair or fine hair. Long bob hairstyles can be complemented with curtain bangs, side swept bangs, choppy bangs or in this case wispy bangs. Or you can have no bangs at all. The versatility and options are endless. Long bob haircuts can be made into curly bobs, angled bobs or layered bobs. Lobs work with many face shapes and different hair colors. The blonde bob style is very popular on Instagram and other social media platforms. Whatever length bob you're going for, the techniques used in this video could apply. Watch this layered lob with wispy bangs tutorial and follow along with the transcript below.

Layered Lob with Wispy Bangs Tutorial:

  Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a lob with bangs. Now long bobs with bangs can tend to get boring and look kind of broom-ish if the hairs too thick. So I'm going to show you how to add some invisible internal texturizing to keep that from happening and also we're going to do a little whisper of a bang. So let's get started. We're going to start with a natural or center part that's going to go all the way to the crown, from the crown to the occipital bone, occipital bone straight to the bone right behind the ear which is the mastoid. I'm going to separate that. That's going to give us our baseline in the nape. From here we're going to separate this in half parallel to my previous parting here which is the occipital to the mastoid.  

Establishing the Perimeter of the Layered Lob with Wispy Bangs

So the first thing I want to do is establish my strong perimeter shape for my lob. This is going to give me a nice clean line that I can build the rest of the haircut off of and make sure I get the sides even. So trying to get this as blunt as possible. I'm going to go through and use my Jatai Kyoto Scissors. This is the sharpest scissor that I have and it works really really well for cutting blunt lines especially if you have really really thick hair. So we're going to start right in the middle, comb that down clean and smooth and I like a lob that hits right about at the collar bone. So I will visualize where that's going to hit in the front because it's going to be a little longer in the front because of my parting. And so I will visualize about right there. I keep my fingers curled down not curled up and cut this as blunt as possible. After I get that cut and I like that length I will move on to the left side and comb this T to my parting. So there's my parting. The hair is going to make like a little T. Comb everything down and smooth. There's my line. Cut that down and through and then the same thing on the other side and as long as my partings are the same and I follow my fingers parallel to the parting and T to the part I should be able to get this pretty even on the first pass. So after we cut both sides I'm going to comb it down and check it and I got a little longer on the left side. So much for keeping it even on both sides. So we're going to comb this down again make sure that I'm square. There it is right there. I had my fingers at the wrong angle and there we go. That should be perfect. Now depending upon the thickness of the hair I may want to start adding texture here or building a more solid baseline. The more thicker the hair is the faster that I can start to introduce texturizing to keep it from looking like a broom. So her hair is you know fairly medium, medium thick and so what I want to do is I'm going to go in between. So I'm going to add a little bit of texture and softness to it but not a lot. The way I'm going to do that is by point cutting. So I'm going to comb this section down, find my guide. Now I'm going to go through and point cut that line. Now when I point cut the line I'm not going shorter than my previously cut guide. I want to make sure that the deepest part of my point cut is where my previously cut line was and then the hair gets longer from that. I don't want to go through and recut my baseline by point cutting all the way into it because then it makes no difference if I've cut it blunt or not. Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather Point cut that on top of my previously cut guide. Be patient. Make sure it's nice and even. This is going to give me a little bit of softening and a little bit of texture and give me a transition between my blunt cut and my texture cut. You notice that I'm cutting from the center to the front of the hairline around the face on both sides. I'm not cutting from right to left on every section. I want to cut from center forward on every section. Being patient, fine-tuning making sure I get the line just like I want. So here's our next section. We took about an inch. We're going to continue that same size section throughout the rest of the head and that way I can keep everything as consistent as possible. Adding Invisible Internal Texturing Now we're going to go through and we're going to add our internal texturing that's going to be invisible to the overall shape but is going to give me a lot of internal softening and movement and it's going to bevel the shape quite a bit and that's what we're going for. So I'm going to use my Feather Styling Razor. So now we've got our section. I'm going to go through and comb this down. I'm going to remove my baseline that was blunt cut. I have a guide from my previous section that was point cut. I'm going to hold this straight down and then from here I'm going to fillet this section and put my texture internally. Now I'm doing about the last 2 to 2-1/2" of the section and by filleting, I mean I'm laying the blade directly across the entire section and just gently taking that off until I get the length cut. Next section. I'll take a small piece as my guide. There we go. There's my guide from underneath. I'm going to go about 2-1/2" internally, fillet that through. The reason I'm not going to go through and cut vertically going into it is I don't want the separation. I just want the softness that the texturizing adds. I don't want the increased movement or separation. So comb that down. Last two inches a very gentle application of the razor. Let the motion of the blade cut the hair not the pressure that you're applying. Now you'll notice that I've left my previously cut baseline out. That way I maintain my solid perimeter shape and I only put my texturizing internally. If it happens to cut a little bit of the guide from underneath it's not my entire baseline. It's just that previously cut section that I went through and point cut. Okay that's looking pretty good. So now we've got a layer of internal texturizing that's going to soften up and bevel my shape.  

Remaining Sections of the Layered Lob with Wispy Bangs

The next section I'm going to go through again with my Kyoto Scissors and cut a nice blunt clean line. So I will alternate the types of tools that I use by each section that I go up the head. So I can maintain a blunt lob shape but also get that internal texturizing to make the shape bevel and flow and move more naturally. Let's go to the other side. T to my parting every section. Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content. Let's check and see how we're looking and that's looking pretty even and I like that. We've got a nice softening effect from our first two layers of texture by the point cutting and the razor. And now we're going to continue on as I move up the head. This section is usually where the thickest part of the hair is. It's either going to be the nape or the crown sometimes both. And so I want to make sure that this doesn't get real heavy but also I run into the problem of I have no hair on the side of the head. So I'm actually going to use two tools on this same section. Now I'm going to start right in the middle. I'm going to remove the previously cut hair and I'm only going to hold the previous guide in my hand. That way I comb everything straight down. There's the previously cut guide. I'm going to take my razor, a long filleting type of stroke to take that length and weight out and I'll continue that as I start to work towards the side. Make sure I'm still holding everything at zero elevation as I cut that down and through. Feel like I got a little shorter in there so take a little of that out. Now as I come to the ear I'm going to take where the quarter part would be and separate that out. Take a small piece as my guide. So now I have the back half of the head. There's my previously cut guide. Go through cut that length off. I'm pretty happy with that. Now I'm going to move into my Kyoto Scissors because here I want to maintain a really solid perimeter shape and if I razor it, it's not going to have that same solidity as it transitions from the back to the front. Comb everything down. Allow the hair to release for whatever the ears sticking out. There's my line from the back. Cut that down and through. And I can see where that would start to hit right at about where her collar bone would be. And I'm pretty happy with that. Now I'm going to do the same thing on the other side. But I'm going to follow the same methodology that I was using before which is take my section in the center, remove the previously cut hair, only keep one section as your guide, comb that all the way through evenly down at zero elevation. There's my line. Razor that off. Okay and then follow the same thing all the way around to the side. There we go. Last section here. Remove some the guide. I don't need all of it. I just need to know where the general length is. Comb that down and through. There's my line right there and then go through and fillet that length off. Now I'm just going to continue to alternate blunt section, razor section, blunt section, razor section until I get to the top. And on the top, I want to always make sure I end on a blunt section that way it hides any kind of texturizing and layering that I put internally by it being blunt underneath and blunt on the top. So the layers that get sandwiched in between they disappear. So I get the effect of the razoring and the beveling without the appearance of the razor and the texture.  

Whisper or Wispy Bangs

Now I want to go through and add a little whisper of a bang. I don't want a real solid blunt bang to make it look super 60s. I want kind of a modern whisper of a bang where it looks like hair is just kind of just broken off maybe around the front. That's a terrible way to describe it, but that's what it looks like. It's just like little whispers of something hanging out around the front. So let's go through and take our fringe section which is going to be the center of the recession to the first bump of the head and that's where all the hair has the ability and the tendency to fall in the person's face. So here's our fringe section. Now let's go through and I'm going to separate corner to corner right across the front. Now I'm going to start right here in the middle and what I want to do is do a really extreme angle you know because most bangs are blunt or at a little angle like that. But I want to do a really extreme angle so I'm going to take right where the hair wants to separate and take my Feather Styling Razor hold that down and start right here where I think I want my little bangs to start and then just real gently go through and take that all the way really extreme. So I end up with just a little something here in the front but not a real solid bang. Now I'll do the same thing on the other side. Hold that down and forward. There's my little guide piece then just real gently go through and try to keep the same razor stroke that I had on the other side to hopefully that they'll match a little bit. So I'm going to take the rest of the hair bring that down and then just gently anything that I think hangs out way too much I'm going to cut that off. Following the same pattern that I was doing before same kind of methodology just to give me a whisper in the center more than a full-blown kind of fringe or bang. I think that's pretty good. Now after it's dry, I may go through and fine-tune that a little bit more, but I will let the hair be the guide and show me what to do. We've got a nice solid bob lob shape that doesn't have that broom effect from the hair being too thick. So it's got a little bit of bevel, but it doesn't really show a whole lot of texture to it because that's hidden by the top layer being real solid. And we got a... yeah it looks pretty good. I like that. We got a nice little whisper of bang around the front, not anything too crazy. Just more like you know it just grew this way, just a natural elegance that I think looks pretty good. I like that a lot. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There are all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future, and we will see you next time. Thank you so much for watching.

There are many different mohawk hairstyles such as a wide mohawk haircut, mohawk fade haircuts, mohawk burst fade, short mohawks, long mohawks, curly mohawks and more. The mohawk style changes in look by how the hair is cut on the sides and the length of the hair down the middle that comprises the mohawk. You can have shaved sides, a low fade or taper fade on the sides. The mohawk hair length is often determined by how thick the hair is. If it's thin, it's best to have short hair. But with thick hair, you can have longer hair. Styling the mohawk also contributes to the style, which can make it more modern or edgy. Mohawks can be on straight or curly hair. And why not pair a mohawk haircut with a touch of hair color. The possibilities are vast. In this educational tutorial you will learn how to create a softer version of a wide mohawk using scissor over comb and a Feather Plier Razor. Watch this wide mohawk haircut tutorial below and follow along with the transcript below.

Wide Mohawk Haircut Tutorial:

Welcome to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes Director of Content for Jatai. Today we're going to be doing a wide Mohawk. We're going to show you how to make the mohawk softer, how to make it harder, how to make it in between, basically how to make it more you. So let's get started. We have our Mohawk sectioned out, and I tried to get it as even on both sides as I could. And I wanted to keep this wide. Now I have a lot of variation and there's a lot of different things that you can do on this depending upon what kind of look you're going for. I want something wide so I'm going from right at the corner of the eyes on the outer part all the way back down to the tendon and the neck. I want to try to keep that as straight through as I can and try to match that on both sides. Now from here I'm going to go through and I'm going to cut all of this off and again you have a lot of variations on how you can deal with this hair. We're going to start from something that's going to be very soft and then we can go to something that's going to be very hard. So the harder that the end result is the more edgier that the look is going to be. This is going to be a very edgy look regardless of how you cut it, but sometimes the hair demands a little softness in the cut. Sometimes it demands that it's a little harder because the hair is a little frizzy or fuzzy and the harder textures work best.  

Scissor Over Comb

So let's start with just some basic scissor over comb. So I'm going to start with my Jatai Tokyo Scissors. This is a nice long skinny blade that makes it perfect for doing scissor over comb type of work. Now when I have this much hair it's senseless for me to go through and start my scissor over comb trying to get everything smooth with this much hair so I need to remove it. I can do the very very methodical method where I'll take a vertical section and go through with my fingers and cut everything short. If I need to practice my traveling guide that's what I'll do. And that would look like this. So I'll take a vertical section at an angle, pull that out, finger length, support the blade, go through cut that straight up and down. And then my next section, the exact same size of parting as the first section. I comb these two together. Where that length is I'm going to follow that all the way through. Next section, same size as the original two sections, comb everything into the previously cut section, cut that down and through. And then I can practice my traveling walking guide from front to back. Or I could do the more crude method where I just hold it up and cut some of this length off. Since I'm going to be scissor over combing all of this length off anyway there's no sense in me trying to work through all of that if I don't need the practice. If I need the practice like on a mannequin head, definitely get the practice in. Now I'm going to start going through and scissor over combing, going shorter around my perimeter hairline gradually getting longer as I go up. Here I'll put my comb right in the crotch of my pinky and ring finger, thumb and forefinger on the spine and the teeth and then it's this twisting motion here. So I want to get into a rhythm going down and then up, down and up, down and up. And I'll start very close at the nape, at the bottom perimeter of the hairline and gradually get longer. I'm not getting real long as I go to the top. I just want a little bit longer as I go to the top of the section. And I'm not worried about how perfect this is right now. I'm just going through the motions of getting everything removed and starting to build in my fundamental shape. Now this is a very very crude shape but what it allows me to do is it allows me to start getting rid of the excess hair and start building in the type of tapering that I want. I don't want to look at this as just lay the comb against the head and cut everything the same length as the comb all the way up. I want to have a little bit of a design aesthetic. So I'm going to lightly taper it. So once I start to get the basic shape like I want, I have everything in the general vicinity of the length that I want. At that point, I will start to fine-tune my shape and fine-tuning my shape just means I'm going to go over and trace what's already there. So I'm going to try to make as repeatable as possible the exact same length. And sometimes I'll cut some hair and sometimes I won't. Sometimes it just glazes over and sometimes I get a little bit of hair to come off. And it's not a matter of me visually having to see hair come off. It's I'm looking at what's being left. That's the key thing. So I want to go through and make sure everything is as nice and as velvety smooth as I can possibly get.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Cleaning this up around the hairline a little bit more making sure that's nice and smooth and just go through. And anywhere that my eye visually sees something pop out, I want to go over and retrace that. Now I can hear you saying 'well why don't you just go through and use the clipper to buzz everything off' and I certainly could go through and do that and I have certainly done that many many times when the style and the aesthetic calls for it. If I use a clipper it's going to cut everything much more perfectly and the end result is going to be a much cleaner harder shape. So like I said, if the hair is fuzzy that cleaner harder edge works better. If the hair is not and I want something softer, then scissor over comb will give me a softness to it that I can't get from a clipper. And so I'm going to keep going over this until I have everything exactly like I want and as clean and as pristine as I care to do. Working the other side, we're going to work the clipper. It's the same thing I was doing with the scissor over comb, but this time the clipper. Just lay the comb in, angle the comb at whatever type of graduation that I want, run the clipper across the comb. Now when I run the clipper across the comb, I don't want to press the comb and make it move in. I just want to trace the comb with a gentle stroke across the teeth. I don't want to try to push it in. If I push it in, it gets shorter than I think it does and then everything ends up a little bit too short. So start here at the bottom working my way slightly longer as I get to the top of my parting. Make sure our sides are matching there. We've got a little bit right through there and the same kind of motion that I was doing with the scissor but this time using the clipper and it goes much faster which is good for time and good for speed. And it also gives me a stronger harder shape. How soft I want this shape will determine what type of method or technique that I'm using to get everything fit in nice and smooth.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather.  

Razor Cutting the Wide Mohawk Hair

We've gone through and taken a center section of our top all the way down through into the nape. I'm going to take this section. I'm going to pull it forward and up and out 90° from the head and I'm going to determine how short, where I want this to fall around the front. Determine where I want that section. Now I'm going to go through point cut that all the way through. Take a small piece as my guide. Take my next flat section hold that 90° from the head, point cut that all the way through, take a small piece as my guide 90° from the head. Now once I hit the crown I'm going to start to increase my length. So the crown is right here. I'm going to start to gently increase the length and as I get further into the back, that length is going to increase quite a bit. Still holding everything at 90° from the head. So I'm not dragging anything up, but I am increasing my length as I get down to the nape. 90 degrees there we go. Small piece is my guide. My next piece there's my length all the way down and through. So now we've increased the length, but we still have it nice and short up here on top. Now from here I'm going to comb the entire left side of the head into a combination of my first and second sections. Comb this up, follow my guide, original guide from the center of the head. Small piece is my guide. My next section held up at 90 again. There's my guide from the center. Comb that through and over, small piece as my guide. Once I reach the crown, remember my length increases so I look for that in my previously cut guide. And there it is right there still making sure that I'm holding everything as 90 as I can in the center of both of those two sections. Comb this up at 90, pull that through, follow that through. A small piece is my guide, center of both of those sections. There we go, cutting that through. That's looking pretty good. I like our length on top. We can still get that to stick up, but I like this length in the back as well. Now I'm going to go through and do exactly the same thing on the other side. Now at this point I want to go through and use a razor. And since I'm using a razor, I'm going to use my Jatai Blade Glide just to give me a little bit of extra conditioning and to make sure that the blade glides through the hair and cuts really really evenly. So I'm going to start here at the bottom in the nape, take a horizontal section. Now I'm going to go through and use my Feather Plier Razor. It gives me the cleanest cut. It's a guardless razor so there's no guard. So I have to be careful to not cut myself, but this will allow me maximum control of where I put my texture in each section. So I'm going to comb this clean from the root all the way out and I want to go through and take out some of that weight and force these pieces to separate more tenderly. Take another horizontal section. Do not pick up the previously cut section from underneath. Comb this section out and down. Take my blade, go through create internal texture and separation with my Feather Plier. Next section. Work up. Do not pick up the underneath. And I'm just going to continue to do this until I reach the front run out of hair.  

Final Look of the Wide Mohawk

Aright, here's our end result. I think we're looking pretty good. We got a little bit of curl in it to give it a little bit of bump and some separation. I got some clay into it to kind of give it some oomph to make it full and I think our shape looks pretty good. We got it nice and wide from the corner of the eyes all the way straight down to the nape which gives us this wide full shape that can handle the curl really well. You can certainly go straight and make it really really edgy and hardcore, but I think our shape looks pretty good. We got a nice little bit of curl to it and I'm very happy with that. Check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairdresser and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you again next time.  

Wide Mohawk Hair Cut Final Thoughts 

Whether you want to create a high or low fade mohawk or more modern mohawk hair styles, the mohawk cut has been around for a long time. Always, known for being an edgier cut, most mohawk styles for men are done with shorter hair these days. Women can sport a mohawk as well, but it is much less common. With this tutorial, you can adjust your mohawk style for shorter hair down the middle and widen the mohawk even more for a more subtle mohawk style. There are many different styles for mohawks so get creative and enjoy the process.  

In this video, you'll learn how to create a Selena Gomez bob. With her naturally thick hair, it's important to get the technique down to keep the hair sleek and manageble with little movement. To do this Russell uses Jatai Osaka Scissors and Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors to complete the look. Selena Gomez is one of the biggest pop stars of the 2010s and beyond. Her impressive Instagram following @selenagomez, her successful Rare Beauty line, her singing and acting have catapulted her to stardom. She has become one of the faces of fashion not only in her clothing but with her hair. Looking at past Getty Images, her time on the red carpet and film festivals, Selena has debuted many different hairstyles. From bobs to long hair, blonde to dark hair and bangs to no bangs, she marches on to her own beat. Follow along with the video and the transcript.

How to do the Selena Gomez bob:

  Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a one length bob that's inspired by Selena Gomez. Now Selena Gomez has a lot of hair. So in order to create this nice sleek one length bob we're going to have to introduce some texturizing. So I'm going to show you how to do that today that thins the hair keeps it sleek and smooth without introducing any kind of movement. So let's get started. I always like to start with a little bit of Jatai Blade Glide. It makes the hair easier to comb. It puts a slight conditioning effect to it, constricts the cuticle and gives me a cleaner cut. Now we're going to start here with a natural or center part right down the middle and I'll brush everything back and push forward and see where it wants to split. I'll take that all the way down to the center of the nape and then from there I'll take the occipital bone over to the mastoid. That gives me a flat section in the back using my Osaka Scissors from Jatai. That's the blade that has the nicest point. So it makes it easiest for me to go through and point cut. The more pointy your scissor is, the easier you'll get a point cut and it'll be cleaner an you can go deeper onto it. So we're going to take a center section. We're going to comb this straight down the middle. Now I'm going to put clips on the hair on either side just to get the hair out of the way. It wants to keep falling in my hands.

Point Cutting the Perimeter

So now I'll comb everything down straight from the part, straight down, make sure my fingers are not flipping and then I'll go through and do a deep point cut. Because the whole idea behind this bob shape is to prevent the hair from bulking up and building a bell type of shape. I don't want this to stack and have all this fullness. I want a sleek kind of shape. So going through and doing a deep deliberate point cut like this will enable the hair to collapse a little bit but still retain the bob type of shape. So I'll go through point cut center towards the front. So in the middle I'll point cut that, doesn't matter. But on each side I'm always point cutting from the center towards the front so that way the movement is going to be the same with each of my point cuts on both sides of the head. If I always point cut from left to right, then the left side of the head is always going to move to the right.

Point Cutting the Next Section

Taking my next section which is going to be parallel to my previous section and then taking my center section where I started and using my guide from underneath to cut the one length exactly like I was doing before. Now when I comb everything down since I've been point cutting, the line of my guide is not going to be real prevalent. I'm going to see kind of a ghosting of the image of the previously cut guide and I want to use that to mimic what I'm point cutting on top of it. Now here again point cutting from the center of the head towards the front and I'm not being real persnickety and diligent about making sure I'm directly on top of the guide. The more variance that I have in my line that I'm cutting, the more sleek the shape can be, the less stacking effect that I'm going to get. Be sure to click the thumbs up. Click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content. Now I'm just going to continue on with my section from the center working towards the front making sure that looks good. We're going to do the same thing on the other side. Now I always am cutting parallel to my parting and I will continue to comb that clean from the parting all the way down until I get everything nice and smooth. And something else that I want to expand on here is that my partings are just as much of a part of my guide as the actual previously cut guide is. So every parting that I take my fingers are going to be parallel to the parting. So the line that I'm cutting is actually the line that the parting is. So if the parting is at an angle, my fingers are in an angle, the line I cut is at an angle. So that way as long as I know that my parting is the same on both sides and I have everything nice and balanced it makes it a lot easier for me to make sure that the sides are even.

Point Cutting the Top of the Head

Now here when I start to move up to the top of the head I'm not taking my quarter part. I'm going to take that part all the way around from the back into the front and to the side. I want to make sure that's parallel to my previously cut section and the same on both sides. Now I'm going to comb everything clean and I'll keep combing until I get everything perfectly smooth and clean and then go through and clean up my line just like I was doing in my previously cut sections. I want to make sure that I'm keeping the same depth of my point cut as I go through. Now if I need to clean a little bit up I'm cleaning a little bit up, but I'm not worried about everything being perfectly pristine. I want some variation and some softness in the line. So now we're working from the back into the front and continuing to work from the center towards the front with my point cutting. Here, the last section, combing everything down as evenly as I can around the parting and around the natural center part and the crown, and just anything that hangs over we're going to cut off. Be sure to follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather.

Flat Ironing for the Selena Gomez Bob Sleek Look

Now after we've gone through and we've done our base cut, we're going to go through and blow everything dry, get everything up off the scalp as we dry it and then I'm going to go through and flat iron it. Now when I flat iron I'm going to flat iron in exactly the same way that I cut it so horizontal sections. I'll lift the iron up on the bottom as the iron touches the hair and then close the top down and pull with my left hand to make sure everything is fed into the iron nice and smooth. Now we're going to take a vertical section in the center of the back and I'm going to hold this out vertically.

Removing Internal Weight

So section that hair out of the way. Get it out of the way. I'm going to hold this out vertically and going through and using my Jatai Tokyo Thinning Scissors. I'm going to go through and about 2 to 3 inches in just go through and point cut some of that internal weight out. I don't usually go deeper than about halfway and here I'm keeping it about a third of the length out. So just going through removing some of the weight from the ends. I'm not trying to remove so much internal weight as much as I'm trying to remove the weight from the ends. Now here in the back of the head you can remove a lot more weight without any kind of fear of any alfalfa sprouts sticking up or anything kind of getting out of control because that hair will always hang straight down. As I move up the head I take the next section. This is more or less the parietal ridge. I'm going to hold that out at the exact same you know elevation and then go through and point cut that through. Now as I start to point cut this through I'm taking it a little deeper at the bottom of the parting and then as I get to the top of the section I take it more towards the tip. So I'm thinning more underneath and less on top. And here you'll see I'll start deeper and then just go towards the tip on the very top because I don't want a lot of texturizing on the top surface layer of the hair. I want this texturizing underneath to remove weight so I can still keep a nice smooth slick shape without all that bulkiness of someone that has a lot of hair and it getting very broomy. Here on the last section, I finish everything up on the last section. I'm going to comb everything down. I tend to not do a whole lot of texturizing on the top layer. Just make sure everything blends there. I want to keep that top surface layer very very smooth and very very glassy.

The Final Selena Gomez Bob Haircut Look

Here's our end result. I think we got a really nice sleek, smooth head curving kind of style for someone that has a lot of hair. That's the way I would go through and texturize it and remove weight without introducing any kind of movement to it. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist or barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much for watching.

In this video Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, demonstrates how to do a 1970 shag haircut. It's a popular hairstyle that has stood the test of time. It's effortlessly cool with volume, layers, and natural style. In this tutorial, the 70s shag hair is cut with a heavy fringe and created with a modern twist. The beauty of this style has kept up with trends and has shown that years later, it's a flattering haircut in any generation. The curly shag of the 70s was also popular. The shag style complimented the natural curls and gave it nice volume. In this video, the 70s shag is demonstrated with straight hair, but it works nicely on curly hair too.

1970 Shag Haircut with Bangs Tutorial

  Welcome to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a shag with bangs, something that's going to be solid and really full. Kind of uh 60s 70s inspired, that Stevie Nicks, Bridget Bardot kind of look. So let's get started.  

Taking a Center Section

So we're going to start in the center. We're going to take a flat section right at the front of the hairline and then we're going to take that all the way back to the nape. Same thing on both sides so I have a nice mohawk section going from the front hairline all the way to the back. As you see here, I'll take my first section around the front hairline hold that up and determine how short I want my shortest layering to be and then using my Feather Styling Razor I'll go through and cut my length off. I'm cutting it shorter around the front and longer as I go towards the back. Now one thing I want to tell you about the Feather Styling Razor is I'm using the R-Type Blade the R-Type Blade covers less of the razor and exposes more of the blade so it's actually easier to cut. The Standard Blade actually covers more of the blade so it gives you more protection, but it's not going to allow you to cut as thick a section of hair as the R-Type Blade. So continuing working my layering from short at the front, longer in the back, I'm going to go through and hold each section of my mohawk section at 90° until I reach the crown. After the drop crown, I'll pull everything up to that section. So that's going to give me an increase of length as I go down towards the nape, checking out my layering making sure everything looks even and smooth. Now we're going to continue a parallel section to my first mohawk section and then I'm going to comb it into the center. So I'm not going to walk my guide from the middle of the head towards the perimeter. I'm pulling all the hair into the center. So what this is going to do is it not only is it going to be shorter in the front it's also going to be shorter in the center of the head and longer as it works towards the ears and longer as it works towards the nape in the back. So I'll continue to hold everything up at 90° from the head into the center of the head following my previously cut guide. And an important thing when you're cutting with the razor is I want to make sure I maintain an even broad razor stroke. If I use a broad razor stroke it's going to keep all my ends very nice and light and airy. If I take a real tight stroke where I don't take it and move the razor a lot, I'm going to end up with a more solid shape. So I'm using a soft broad stroke here. Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather Now I'm continuing to work my layering going towards the back following the exact same guide that I was using before. Now we'll continue on. I'm going to take a parallel section and sometimes this section can be a little difficult to take because you're working a curved section on a flat part of the head which is the side. Pulling everything again directly into the center of my head. So that first mohawk section that I held everything in this haircut as far as the layering goes is being held up in that mohawk section. Holding everything up, the same broad razor stroke that I was taking and just follow through. If you approach something very very methodical it becomes easier to follow through on the pattern and you can move very very quickly. Once you get the hang of using a razor you can move through this very very quickly and get the length and the texture you want at the same time. Now we're going to take our last section here on this side of the head. Comb everything up. Anything that hangs over I'll cut off as you can see right there. And as I work towards the back I'm going to pivot around the ear. There we go right through there and continue to work from front to back. There's our line. Now as we get to the back we're not going to have a whole lot of hair to cut off. So this last section here that we're going to work on there's not going to be a whole lot of hair. So I've been cutting on the inside of my fingers the whole tim, but there's not a lot there. So I'm just going to glide the razor across the outside of my finger and cut any of those long little pieces off that hang over. Now we're going to go back and take my original mohawk section and the first section on the left side of the head. Finish the same thing on the other side and now we have our layering done. And I think it looks pretty nice and even all over.  

Removing Weight from the Top

So now we're going to section out around the front because I feel like the layering on top is too heavy. So we're going to take some Jatai Blade Glide, spray that vigorously across the entire section of the hair that we're about to cut because the Blade Glide makes the razor slide across the hair much more smoothly and evenly and gives me a much cleaner cut without the razor trying to snag any hair. Now we're going to go through and channel some weight out of each section of hair that we started with in the beginning. So we're going to channel it out. Where it's thinner we're not going to take a whole lot. Where it's thicker you're going to see me take more hair out because I felt like this mannequin head it was thicker on the top and thinner underneath which most of these are. And sometimes you have clients that are like that as well or thicker in one area of the head maybe in the nape, less in the front. So I'm going to apply my channel texturizing exactly where it needs to be applied. So I'm really paying attention to how much hair I take out with each section. It's not just some haphazardly just willy-nilly throw the razor through the hair. I want to apply it with forethought and with technique so I can make sure that the shape flows exactly like I want. After I got the first section done I'm going to go through and continue working all the way towards the back. So each section I'll take out as much hair as need be so that I get a nice even amount of weight distributed all the way across the top. Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content. Now we're continuing on. Now you'll see right there that piece of hair did not have a whole lot of weight in it so I just completely removed it. Thin out the hair on top of it. Texturize it so I have a nice even amount of weight distribution. Cut anything that hangs over around the front off that I don't like. Now here's my last section right in the nape and I'm going to use the exact same methodology I was using around the front, removing as much hair as I feel is needed. After we do that we've got everything smooth.  

Addressing the 1970 Shag Haircut Bangs

Now let's section out our bang section. Let's section out our bang. We're going to take that triangle right in the front and I'm going to cut it in half. Now after I've cut it in half I'm going to take my center section right there in front of her eyes and I want to cut this longer than I think it needs to be. And I'm going to take a broad razor stroke and cut that off and then look at it and see where it's hitting, seeing how it's flowing. And now I'm going to cut everything evenly across the front. So I'm not building up any length towards the edges. I want everything evenly across the front so that way I have a little bit of bang that hangs underneath. I'll cut it a little shorter in the middle but I don't want to cut an angle into it. I want the texturizing to be what allows me to push the hair out of the eyes. So on this section I'm not cutting an angle into it. I may cut it a little shorter right on the nose, but I want to keep that fairly even across and the texture was what's going to give me movement to it. Now as I finish this I get this even on both sides I like that straight across no problem. Now this section I am going to cut shorter in the middle, longer towards the edges. So I have that hair underneath that's going to be disconnected from this section right here. You see how it's getting longer towards the edges so that underneath hair allows the longer hair to be pushed up out of the way and gives me an illusion of the hair being longer than it really is because I have that top layer that's a little longer and the underneath layer keeps it out of the eyes so it has that that movement to it without me having to curtain the entire front. So it's a schizophrenic bag. Underneath is hanging straight and the top is hanging over to the side. And then I'll just fine-tune it to where I get everything exactly like I want. I like it. I think the bangs look really good. I think we really hit the bangs perfectly today and we got a lot of layering throughout the whole shape which I think is important for this type of shag but still not overly stringy or overly wispy. It still has a solid shape and I think that that works well especially when you want to get some fullness and some height on the top and have a heavy bang. I think if it's not full all around in a solid shape with a heavy bang it doesn't really fit but that's just my personal opinion and she's ready to go to a Hollywood bungalow. She looks good. She's ready to go. Check out Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much!  

Final Look of the 1970 Shag Haircut

 

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.  

In this asymmetrical haircut male tutorial, we'll guide you through creating a popular men's hairstyle that's perfect for any occasion. Combining scissor-over-comb techniques with razor cutting using the Feather Plier Razor, you'll learn how to blend different lengths seamlessly and add texture for a modern, edgy style. Asymmetrical haircuts and styles work well on all hair types from curly to straight as well as different thicknesses and textures. Mens asymmetrical hairstyles usually have one side that's a different length or uneven from the other. But this is intentional and makes the style more modern and edgy. Whether you're looking to refine your skills or try creating new hairstyles, this step-by-step guide offers clear instructions and practical hair care tips to help you achieve a precise, stylish cut. Follow along with the video and transcript below to learn how to create this asymmetrical men’s haircut.

Watch this Asymmetrical Haircut Male Tutorial:

  Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be working on a short masculine shape that's asymmetrical. Gives you a lot of styling options, a lot of versatility and it works on a lot of different types of hair.  

Addressing the Bottom Half of the Head with Scissor Over Comb

So to get started what we're going to do is go through and separate the top of the head from the bottom of the head. We're going to start at the center of the recession straight back to where a quarter part would be. To the top of the ear we're going to angle that down and section out the bottom where it gets flat. This is going to be the parietal ridge which separates the top from the bottom. Now I'm going to go through and start cutting this underneath short. So I'm going to take an angle that's going to be parallel to my front hairline which is also going to be parallel to the hairline behind the ear. Plant my fingers. Put my fingers in. I'm going to leave it a little longer at the top of the section and a little shorter underneath. And I'm using my Osaka Scissor from Jatai. This is a nice long solid blade that gives me a nice point but not too pointy that I poke myself. And the blade is nice and sharp. The sharper the blade is, the less it's going to push the hair in your hand. There's my line from underneath. Shorter at the hairline, a little longer at the top. Now again I'm not worried about this being absolutely perfect right now. I'm just following the pattern and getting this length cut off. Second section and my third section. There's my guide from underneath. Cut that down and through. And you can start to see my graduation developing. After I get to this section right here behind the ear where the mastoid is, then I can determine if I need to go shorter or if I've gone too short. So I'm looking at that and I think that that can definitely go a little bit shorter. So what I'm going to go through and do is I'm going to scissor over comb. I'm going to start low, cut that across. Go up about the width of the scissor, cut that short. Cut that short. Cut that short. And I'm working on creating the same type of shape I was cutting earlier which is shorter at the bottom longer at the top. Now I'm just doing it in my comb horizontally as opposed to in my hand which was vertically. The more scissor strokes that I take as I do my scissor over comb and the more I fine-tune it, the smoother that that will be. So now I want to change my approach because I'm going shorter than what my fingers will allow me. So I'm going to start here in the back. Take my first cut, my second cut, my third cut. Now I've removed a lot of that hair very very quickly and I can start to fine-tune my shape from there. As long as I don't cut too short it's easy to start to fine-tune. Come in at an angle. Scissor over comb that up and out. Now that I've got all that long hair cut off I'm going to go through and start to really fit in and fine-tune my scissor over comb shape. And a couple of key pointers: I'm going to start lower than I think. I'm going to make sure one blade is moving as I start low and then continue to fine-tune that up and out. Now I'm just going to continue to do this until I have the entire underneath tapered in. Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather  

Addressing the Drop Crown Using the Feather Plier Razor

I've sectioned the top of the head into three. I've taken the quarter part which is going to separate the front from the back of the head. And I've also gone through since I felt like that was too much hair and too much head to worry about blending back here, I've taken the drop crown. This is going to section out all the hair that's going to blend in the back. So I'm going to take an angle that's parallel to my previous parting. Now I'm going to go through and use my Feather Plier Razor. This is a guard-less razor, just a straight blade. It gives me the most control, the cleanest cut and it allows me to get delicate little sections that's hard to control with any other type of razor. Pulling this over to the side where I can see the underneath line and then I'll go through and cut that down and through. So now from here I'll just continue that on until I get about halfway to the center and run out of hair and do the same thing on the other side. Continue to pull that over. There's my line underneath. Take a nice broad stroke. The stroke that I take with the razor should be the same and as consistent as possible through every section of the back. Last section on this side. Pull that out and forward towards the previously cut hair. Take the same broad razor stroke I was doing to keep everything nice and soft. If I get a little longer here underneath, clean that up and that's not looking too bad. Now I'm going to go through and do the same thing on the other side.  

Addressing the Top Half of the Head Using a Feather Plier Razor

Now whenever I'm cutting with the razor I always prefer to use Jatai Blade Glide over water. It makes the hair much easier to control and allows the blade to glide across the section to give me a cleaner cut. I'm going to go through and do the same thing I was doing in the back. As far as my section goes I'm going to take a parallel section to what was cut underneath. Comb that hair out of the way. Now from here I want to leave this front long. So I can already see I'm going from this is the short. So this is the long. If I need a guide around the front, I can go through and pull one of these sections out and say okay let's cut it about the chin. And say okay that's my section I'm cutting to. This is my section I'm cutting from. So when I angle my fingers I have a general idea of the angle that I need to cut. So I'll take the section, hold this straight out from the head. There's my hair underneath. I have a general idea of the angle that I need to cut and I will go through from short to long. Here in the front there is my piece I was cutting to. And that's not looking too bad. That's looking pretty good. Pull this out. There's my line underneath. A nice broad razor stroke to keep my line very very soft. I'll take my next section parallel and I'll just continue this until I run out of hair. Give us a thumbs, up click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content. So I'm going to cut this side here a little shorter especially around the front. So I want that instead of coming into here. I'm thinking I want that to come a little shorter and then come through to my long piece about in the middle of the head. There's my short piece. Cut that through. Now about the ear, I'm going to get a little longer in the front but not a whole lot on this first section. Continue on. Take a parallel section to my previously cut section and follow the guide from underneath.  

Fine-Tuning & Styling the Asymmetrical Haircut Male Style

Looking pretty good. Now with this type of shape I have a lot of variations of the way I comb it because I have one side that's long and if I want something very kind of emo I can comb everything from the short side over to the longer side. Or we could also comb the long side over the short side and because it's shorter underneath on this side, it's going to allow that hair to kick out and pop differently than if that side was really long too. So it works on both ways. Let's go through and blow it dry and then we'll talk about it. I'll comb it back and forth a couple of times to loosen that hair up so nothing gets kind of stuck down and then go through and just fine-tune that as much as I can or until my patience runs out or my next client shows up until I get it just perfect. Alright, that's looking pretty good through there. I think you need a little bit of product to kind of jelly in, but as long as it's clean over the ears and in the back you can really have a nice conservative looking shape that doesn't have to be just a short back and sides with the top cropped short. You can have a little bit of length. So for some guys that have a little bit of curl or a little bit of wave you can kind of fluff this up a little bit or you can comb it over to the other side and kind of have that pumped up a little bit. And with this short side it'll all look really really short. So this is a very very versatile shape that gives you a lot of options. I think you're looking pretty good bro. Thanks for checking us out. Please check out the Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and we will see you next time. Thank you so much.  

Final Look of the Asymmetrical Haircut Male Style

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.

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 differnt 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!

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! If you want to buy thinning scissors check out the JATAI Tokyo Thinning Scissors by BMAC.

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. See our store for the Feather Plier Razor.