Take a look at this Florence Pugh short hair tutorial. After shaving her head for a movie role, Florence made a statement with her buzz cut at the 2023 Met Gala. As she was growing it out, you could see in various Getty images and other shots of her at Paris Fashion Week she decided to slick back her short hair. And in 2024 with her hair being a bit longer, she showcased her short blonde androgynous style at the Golden Globes. Needless to say, Florence has experimented with a variety of bold hairstyles where she purposefully chose a shaved head to more feminine bob styles. This is what we love about Florence! Her beauty shines through all her styles. Since growing out her buzz cut, she now has long enough hair to have a bob. In this video, we take stab at a Florence Pugh bob haircut she debuted at the Oscars which has a lot of texture and movement. Whether it's looking for cuts for growing out short hair, recreating this beautiful bob or simply learning more texturing techniques, this Florence Pugh haircut will teach you something. Follow along with the video tutorial and transcript.  

Florence Pugh Short Hair Tutorial:

Welcome back to the Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a study on celebrity Florence Pugh's bob that she wore to the Oscars. This was a grow out haircut for her that she had worn after she had buzzed her head for Oppenheimer. And I think it was elegant and graceful and modern beautiful, all the good stuff. So let's get started. If we look at the bob that she had worn, you know it was kind of a little bit past her chin. Uh a little bit of layering in it to keep the shape round, but she was growing this shape out so it's obvious that it's going to be a little shorter on the top as she's growing it out. And I think that this shape was really really pretty and it was more of a study of texture than it is just a bob. Because if we do just a bob and layer it a little bit it can tend to look really really frumpy. So we have to put a lot of texture in it to make it look modern.  

Point Cutting the Length

So the first thing I want to do is take a natural or center part down to the occipital bone, occipital bone to the mastoid. That gives me all the hair and the flat part of the back of the head that builds my foundation for length for the shape. I'm going to take a center section, comb that right down in my fingers through there and then determine where I want that length to be. And I'm thinking about right there should be good and I will go through and point cut this from left to right. And then to make it more neutral, I'll go right to left because we know when hair is longer on one side than the other, that's the way it shifts. So I want to make this as neutral as possible. Now we'll take our next section on this side. Uh oh. Don't comb the parting out. Follow that down. There's my line and we're going to go through and point cut that. And you can start to see where this line is going to fall as I get around the front of the face, and I will cut this back and forth to make those little point cuts as neutral as possible. Same thing on the other side. Now if you don't want to go through and point cut this in both directions. I get it. You don't have to but my neurosis I would stay up night thinking about that I didn't cut it as neutral as possible. As I'm point cutting I want a weighty or more solid scissor so I'm using my Jatai Osaka Scissor. This has a nice point, but it's also got a really solid heavy blade so that as I point cut it takes less effort on my part to get a nice clean point cut through it. Once I get both sides even and I got this line the length that I want and the texture that I want, I'm going to now go through and take parallel sections all the way up the head until I run out of hair and cut everything all one length. If you want to see that in more detail check out the Jatai Academy. We have a one length bob tutorial that would be perfect for showing you all the intricacies and the ins and outs of how to do a one length bob very very well.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Alright, that's our last piece. We got everything one length like we want. We got a nice clean line all the way around. Start right down the middle.  

Florence Pugh Short Hair Round Layering

Going to take a mohawk section. I'm going to pull this first section up. And this little bang part that we had previously cut, it's going to fall out and here I want to look at where it's going to fall in relation to her face and I think about the chin is probably a good length and we're looking at about right there. So I'm going to go through and point cut that layering right through there. Now I'm going to keep this layering pretty round on the top and especially around the face, but I'm not going to put a lot of layering in the back. So as I reach this next section which is the high point of the head, that's going to be the last part where I start to follow the head shape and mimic the head shape in my layering. From here I will start to get longer, but I'm still going to hold that section. Come on baby. I'm still going to... oh come on. I know you don't want to get cut, but it's okay. I want to hold that and then angle my fingers away from the head so that my length gets longer as I go towards the back. I'm not going to over direct because then that's going to give me inconsistent weight distribution. The last section here, pull up. You can see my previously cut guide there and then I'm just going to round that out just a little bit right through there. Now we've got our layering guide for both sides. From here I'm going to take a parallel section to my center mohawk little section, and I'm going to continue the same guide that I was working with before by pulling everything into the center of the head. So this is being pulled into the center and following my previously cut guide. Working that all the way back and through. Very little to cut through there. Now I'm just going to take the last section, pull everything up into the center where my previously cut guide was. So it's all going to be held right here in the center of the face and anything that hangs over, which is not a lot, I'm going to cut off. Oops! Oh so close. I almost had it. Pulling everything right into the center of the head following my previous guide, very little reaches if any. Come on. Perfect. So after I finish the layering (I'm on the left side), I'm going to take my center guide and do the same thing on the other side. Now she had already had a little bit of bang cut around the front. So I'm going to go through and section the side out which is the first bump of the head right to the high point of the hairline over the ear. I'll do that on both sides. So basically all I want to do with this is take that little corner off right here around the front. So I'm going to pull this straight down, angle my fingers and then change a little bit of that angle so we have a little bit better blend with our layering around the front. I'm not trying to take my corner off here. I still want a good solid shape there but taking this around the front will make it easier to push back especially as it blends in with the side. Take the rest of the hair on this side, comb that down. Anything that hangs over from that angle that we had previously cut, take that off. Same thing on the face framing on the other side.  

Razor Cutting for Texture

So now let's go through and add some texture. The most important part to keep this from looking kind of dated and old. Alright, so we've started back at the beginning and this is the same section I started out with initially to cut my one length. This is how I'm going to apply my texture throughout the entirety of the haircut and keep it as consistently as possible. I'm going to use my Feather Plier Razor. This is a razor with no guard so I have to be mindful and careful with that and respect the blade, but it will give me the cleanest cut and the most control. So we're going to section off right in the center like I was doing before. I'm going to comb that into the middle. Now I'm going to come through and about halfway through and down. Go through and channel cut each section so I can force separation into it and only thin about halfway down to the ends. I'm not going to go all the way deep into the root and risk losing control of the root movement. And I'm also not going to go through and texturize every section within this, every piece of hair within this section, because I still want to maintain a blunt shape. I just want that internal texture to lighten it up and give it a lot more movement. Starting in the center again about halfway through and down, trying to not pick up my previously cut hair. Pull that out and through. Channel that through. There we go. We're looking good. Okay moving up the head, following the same pattern, creating texture in the last half of each section, trying not to pick up previously cut hair.   Give us a thumbs up, click the subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   Okay here we come to the very last section and I'm trying to still be as methodical as possible and be patient and take my time and get it as consistent as I can.    

Final Look of this Florence Pugh Short Hair Look

So let's blow it dry and see how we look. You look fabulous girl. Here's our end result. I think we're looking pretty good. I think we got the texture right. I think we got the shape right. The length is pretty good. You know she doesn't have an ear so we had to put a little pin there to keep it behind her ear, but I think the shape's pretty good and I think the texture is right. The razor gives a texture that no other tool can mimic and it's something that you really should add to your repertoire skills so that when you need something like that it's there for you. Just a little bit of practice is all it takes. 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 thank you. Thank so much for watching. We'll see you next time.  

Final Thoughts on this Florence Pugh Short Hair Tutorial

Florence likes to challenge norms and trends and wear rebel hairstyles. Growing out buzz cut can leave hair in some funny lengths. You can look at Florence Pugh's various styles for ideas on haircuts for growing out short hair. While you can't really make your hair grow out faster, you can gracefully mold your hair into fun and attractive styles. This is one of those haircuts to grow out short hair that still looks amazing.

In this tutorial, Russell Mayes, Director of Content for Jatai, demonstrates how to create Kourtney Kardashian long hair. She wore this style before she cut it into her more popular bob shape. Kourtney Kardashian has had many hair looks over the years. From short hair to long, blonde to dark, blunt cut to soft cut, styled ponytails and more, Kourtney has shown she is a fashionista. But you won't usually see Kourtney Kardashian bangs. Just take quick look at her Instagram profile @kourtneykardash and you'll see many posts with different hair styling. Kardashian hair, whether it be Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian or the Jenner sisters, is always thick and healthy. Hair care is an important part of being able to carry different looks. Watch this tutorial and learn how to create Kourtney Kardashian's long hair look and follow along with the transcript.

Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Tutorial:

Welcome to Jatai Academy. Today we're going to be doing a study on Kourtney Kardashian's hair before she cut it off into a bob. So we're going to get the texture right. We're going to get the lengths right. We're going to get the styles right. So let's get started. Now the thing with Kourtney Kardashian's hair is she's got a lot of hair. It's very thick and the thing that's remained constant through all of her hairstyles or through the majority of them is that the root of it has always been very very solid and full and thick. And the ends of it have been very airy and wispy and light. So that's what we're going to focus on today is how to maintain a very solid shape from the center half up and then maintaining a very light airy shape on the bottom.  

Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair - Razoring the Bottom

So I'm going to go through and use my Feather Styling Razor to create that effect. I'm going to take a natural or center part. Now with this haircut it's going to focus mostly on the texture of it and less on the overall style and shape of the haircut. So we got our first section of the nape, occipital to the mastoid. This just gives us our baseline that we can build our length and shape off of. So I'm going to start right in the middle. So instead of going through and cutting a baseline and then trying to texturize it, I'm going to do everything at the same time. So I figure I want to go about right here and I want to start maybe not quite halfway but certainly fairly deep in and then start channel cutting that all the way down to the tip of my fingers. So we're going to start and just real gently go through and take a nice wispy angle and I'm not moving my left hand at all. I'm keeping that the same so that way I know that is going to be my length overall and then putting that texture in just the bottom is going to make each of these little pieces here separate. I'll take a small little piece as my guide, comb this straight down. There's my guide right there. So I'm going to plant my fingers and now go through and cut me a nice little soft wisp. I want to try to be consistent with the thickness of my wisps that I'm cutting and the angles that I'm doing but there's obviously going to be some variation to that and that's okay. We're going to continue on the other side. Comb this straight down, plant my fingers right where my guide is and then once I get to my fingertips there that's going to be my length. I'll cut that off. Right through there. Right through there. Parallel to the previously cut section.   Follow us on your favorite social media @jataifeather   Alright, so I've got my next section here and I want to be conscious of the hair that I've cut before my previously cut section. I don't want to go through and re-thin that every time because I'm doing a channel cut and there's a possibility that I can cut that again. So what I'll do is I'll remove that out of my hand. I'll take the next section comb it down. There's my previously cut section. So now I have where the guide was but it's not in my hand and I can get close enough to the overall length and then go through and do the exact same methodology that I was doing before with this really really deep channel. So now when I combine those together I still have a nice soft texture and I don't re-thin the previously cut section. I have my next section. Let's go through and remove the previously cut section. There is my guide from underneath. Comb this straight down without picking up the hair from underneath just using that as a visual guide and then going through and doing my deep channel to cut my length and to cut my texture at the same time. Same thing on the other side. I want to remove the previously cut hair, comb my neck section down. There's my guide length. Then go through with my deep channel. Vary it up a little bit according to the thickness of the hair. If the hair is really thick I may take the channel a little bit deeper. If it's thinner maybe a little bit less. Take my next section, hold that straight down. Then with my Feather Styling Razor, deep channel cut all the way to the perimeter length. Now as I come into the side since I don't have any previously cut hair underneath I'll take a small piece from the back as my length guide, comb that straight down. There's my length from the back. Then we'll go through channel that through and down, down and through. Perfect. Same thing on the other side. Okay so here is my last section on the left side. We'll pin that out of the way there. Comb everything down and through. Try not to pick up any of my previously cut hair. There's my guide length. Not a whole lot of hair here to cut but I still want to maintain the same sort of texture. So even though I'm not cutting a lot of hair off right through here, here I am but through there I'm not cutting a lot of hair off. I still want to maintain the same sort of textures so that everything flows together evenly. There's my length. This is probably the most solid section of the whole haircut that she has. So let's go through. Oops! I cut a little bit too much off there but that's okay. That's okay. There we go. Perfect. Now that we've got our perimeter shape done, I want to go through and lighten a little bit of layering just around the front to help it get out of her face a little bit.  

Face Framing Layers

So we're going to go through and take a section from the first bump of the head to the high point of the ear. Same thing on the other side here. Alright. So I have everything that has the tendency to fall in her face and I'm going to start right in the middle. So I'm not trying to cut this too short. I want to go through and keep this fairly long, but I just want to start to put an etching in to help get this back out of the face. So I'll start right in the middle, work to the right, right in the middle and work to the left. So this is going to be my shortest layer for both sides. So now I'll take this right side, comb everything straight down. There's my guide length. So now we're going to go through and real gently, evenly with care and love and sweetness and tenderness cut that all the way down. So I'm cutting a real steep angle going down. I'll take the hair behind it, comb all of that straight down. There might be a little bit that hangs over right here on the bottom.   Give us a thumbs up, click subscribe and the notification bell to be notified of future Jatai Academy content.   And that's basically the only part of layering that I'm going to put in this section. Now we'll take our section on the other side and do the same thing. Now you notice I cut the top down. So I'm going to cut top down on this side. There's my line. There's my guide and then I'll go through and gently tenderly with intent cut that down to my guide length down here at the very perimeter. And so I know since I'm starting at the same point and I'm going to the same point I can get my angles pretty close to being the same. Comb everything else down. See if anything hangs over. We got a little bit right there. That's looking pretty good. I don't like that one but that looks pretty good and I think we got the basic shape built in.     Kourtney Kardashian Long Hair Final Look   So now let's go through and blow dry and see what we got. Here's our end result. I think we're looking very reminiscent of when Kourtney had her long hair and the whole point of it is to keep these ends really nice and airy and soft so that when you curl it, it has a little bit of separation to it. It doesn't have that 70s you know beauty pageant kind of look to it. And also with that real steep angle around the front it gives us just a little bit of movement to be able to keep it out of her face and I think that this works really really well. So just remember that this haircut is more about getting the texture right and focusing where that texturizing is going to be in the lower half of the hair. Please check out Jatai Academy. There's all kinds of great information on there that will make you a better hairstylist and barber. Also let us know what you'd like to see in the future and thank you so much for watching. We'll see you then. You can also check out the Feather Styling Razor in our shop.

In this Mia Farrow haircut, we look at her iconic pixie cut from Rosemary's Baby. Also featured in Vogue, this Mia Farrow short hair style created instant buzz due to its very short nature. Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby sported this pixie cut 1960s look and since then many others have followed. Learn how to create the Mia Farrow pixie haircut by watching this tutorial and following along with the transcript.

Rosemary's Baby Mia Farrow Haircut Tutorial

Welcome to the Jatai Academy. I'm Russell Mayes, Director of Content. Today we're going to go retro with a classic done by Vidal Sassoon himself, the Mia Farrow pixie that she wore in Rosemary's Baby. So let's get started.  

Addressing the Sides and Back

We're going to start right at the side of the head halfway in the center of the recession to the quarter part. And we're going to go to the drop crown, not all the way down to the occipital bone, but there we're going to take this section on both sides. So since I'm working in smaller tighter sections, a smaller scissor will give me much more control. So I'm going to use my Jatai Tokyo scissors in the 5-1/2 inch variety and then we're going to start with a section that's going to be parallel to the front hairline. Now what I want to keep in mind here is I want to keep a little bit of length over the ear, but I'm still going to crop this in pretty tight. Pull this forward to the front of the section at 90° straight up from the head. I want to make sure I leave some length at the bottom and then we're going to go through, cut that straight down and through. Make sure my line is clean. If I need to take that in two sections we take it in two sections. So that gives me my length here around the front and it also gives me a little bit of softness over the ear. I'll take that next section parallel to the first section and I'll comb these two into the center of both of those sections. Hold it straight out. Cut that off. Comb each section to look at it. This section will go right back to the mastoid. I'm going to remove the first section. Now I have the second and third. I will combine those two and cut that down and through. Now we're going to continue that section all the way down into the nape and then this is where it's going to change. So right at the mastoid I'm going to bring my fingers in and taper that in a little bit so I have a nice clean nape. I have a little hair left over the ears but a nice clean taper into the nape. Comb that into the previous. I can remove the previously cut section. Now I have section three and four. Hold that straight out 90 from the head, comb that out, follow through. Once I hit the mastoid, then I'll change my finger angle and taper this in much tighter. So it's going to be a little longer there and then it's going to taper in nice and clean right here in the nape. Follow the same guide as I work all the way back into the nape. So I'm going to work this guide all the way through to the center back of the head until I run out of hair. And I'll keep going until I reach over the center half of the back of the head and I have everything tapered in exactly like I want that fits the head. And I think that that's looking pretty good. After I've gone through and cut both sides, I want to cross check it. And the way I'm going to cross check it is hold it out in the exact opposite way that I held it the first time to cut it. So I'll start here in the nape. I'll comb right there parallel to my hairline. Comb that out. If anything sticks out, I will cut off. I'm not looking for big differences in length and big gaps in it. I want this to be as smooth and as even as possible and the more precise I am with my technique in the beginning, the less cleaning up I'll have to do. And that's what I'm ultimately trying for. That's my goal is to try to get this as even and as smooth as possible in the first pass that I have very very little hair to clean up here on my cross check. If I have big pieces of hair sticking out, I need to go back in and recut that section vertically to make sure everything flows like I want. Follow us on your favorite social media platform @jataifeather  

Blending the Top with the Bottom

So now after I've gone through and cut my entire underneath, I want to go through and make sure that the top will blend with the bottom before I even start to cut the top. So I'm going to take a parallel section to the previous section that I had where I separated the bottom from the top, comb this down. And exactly like I cross checked it, that's how I'm going to cut this. So I'll take a small section from underneath hold that up and out. There's my guide from underneath. So cross cutting the entire top just to make sure it blends and doesn't hang over the underneath hair. Now how much I cut off is all dependent upon how much hair was there previously on top, how longer that is, how much shorter it is etc. So I'm still continuing to work that through until everything is cut that could hang over. I just find that it's easier for me to cross cut this horizontally than it is to go through and vertically take each section. Because all I'm looking for here is a blend. Check this out. Now we know that everything on the top and the bottom is going to blend. So let's go through and do the same thing on the other side. Make sure that blends and then we'll cut the top. We got everything looking like we want on the bottom half and the top blends now. So now let's go through and take a center section.  

Addressing the Top of the Head

Now a lot of times when I'm doing short hair I need to make a preference between a round shape or a square shape. Since this is, you know, Mia Farrow and it's a pixie, I want to keep this shape rounder and more feminine. If it's more of a masculine shape, then I may keep it square. So we're going to start with a center section right above the nose. Now I'm going to take this section, pull everything straight up 90° off the head and cut everything the same length from front to back following the head shape. So I want to keep everything nice and round and soft. Taking a small piece of my guide from my previously cut section and work that down and through into the crown and the nape. Now we're going to check it on my way back to the front to make sure I got everything nice and smooth. And that's looking pretty good. So now I'm going to go through and take a parallel section to the first section that I cut. Comb these two together and cut right into the center of each of those sections and still following the length guide that I established with my first section. So there's the next two sections, the center and the first new additional section. And now I will follow that all the way through. Now the hardest part about cutting hair is cutting directly on top of your guide and making the next section that you're cutting the same length as the previously cut section without cutting into the previously cut section. Now here I'm going to have very little hair that reaches that top section. Going to use my second section as my guide. Anything else that hangs over will get cut. And since we went through and already established a blend with the side, there should be very little hair to cut. Now after we've cut the right side I'm going to go back, take my center section that I established as my initial guide and do the exact same thing on the other side. So I'll add section one which was the center. I will add a parallel section. I will make sure both of these are cut into the center of these two sections. So I'm basically walking my guide from the center over to each side. Small piece is my guide. Everything held straight up 90° from the head and follow that on through into the nape. Give us a thumbs up, click the notification bell and subscribe for future Jatai Academy content.  

Mia Farrow Haircut Bangs

The Rosemary baby pixie that Sassoon did to her for her movie was really really iconic and it was a blunter more solid shape. So I want to keep this kind of blunt and solid and I'm not going to add a whole lot of texture to it, but I do want to keep the bangs soft. So instead of cutting them blunt across I am going to go through and point cut them just to make sure we can keep her fringe nice and soft. And I'll go through comb everything down into my hand, roll the comb over so that the hair kind of gets combed down and then go through and just deep channel point cut some of this around the front to make sure everything is nice and smooth and gives us a little bit of something to play with around the face but still has that short kind of pixie shape. There we get that. Cut that. Cut this. You have less hair over here girl. Do you sleep on the right side? I bet you sleep on the right side. There we're going to go through a little point cutting just around there to make that blend through and I think that that's looking pretty good. Now let's go through and dry it, take a look and see what we got. See if we need to add some more texture.  

Final Mia Farrow Haircut Look

Here's our end result. I think we got a really nice solid shape without it being chunky and lumpy. I think making it fit the head is really really important. And you know I think Sassoon really hit this haircut out of the park when he did it for her for her movie Rosemary's Baby. And I love this. This is one of my favorite iconic shapes and just follow through. Practice and you'll be able to do the same. Check out the 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 thank you so much for watching. We'll see you next time.  

Final Thoughts on this Mia Farrow Haircut

The Mia Farrow Vidal Sassoon haircut was an iconic haircut that has stood the test of time. Since then, there have been many other celebrities with pixie cuts. The style is popular among those who can pull it off. We hope you learned one version of how to pixie cut hair. Note: This is not a tutorail on how to trim your own pixie cut. To do this is much more difficult since you cannot see the back of your head easily. Making sure the hair is even all around is difficult to do by yourself.

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.