 what's up guys so really excited to be back making videos I want to start off by apologizing that it's been a couple weeks maybe even three weeks since I uploaded my last video but I'm back making videos I had a lot of projects going on with a lot of hair companies creating videos for them so it took me away from doing this which is what I really love doing in the first place so I'm really excited to share with you guys a haircut today today we're gonna focus on doing a shag haircut with a razor so I think you guys are gonna really like this haircut it's a very simple way of doing a shag you could make this as extreme or as subtle as you wanted to based on some things I'm gonna talk about in the video but really excited to share with you guys this video I'm also going to partner this up in an upcoming video with a hair color technique for this so depending on when you're watching this video check back the other videos you'll be able to see a hair color technique to go with this haircut so I hope you guys are as excited as I am I'm so happy to be back making videos for you guys let me know in the comments below if you're excited as well let's get started with this video here we go all right guys so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to put in the hair the tea tree lavender mint taming cream it's a hydrating and controlling cream we're gonna use it basically like a cutting lotion what a cutting lotion does is I can work it into the hair it helps keep my sections nice and clean holds the hair a little bit tighter together so I'm gonna put that in at first and then I'm gonna brush it through the hair and then I'm gonna start off my sectioning my sectioning is gonna be straight down the center and then what I want to do is I want to find the fringe area so I place the comb on the forehead to really see where that forehead starts to bend away and then what I'm going to do is draw a triangle from that point down to just the edge of the eyebrow and then comb it forward and that's how I'm going to create my first triangle section in the front fringe area the reason I want to find that first is because I want to base the rest of my sectioning off of that point so I comb that up in the air nice and tight twist it up and out of the way and then I'll move on to the rest of the sectioning all right guys so once I get that clipped away one thing that I've been really focused on is that hairline and how it interacts with the rest of the haircut and the density that I'm working with in each section so I try to get that triangle to kind of line up with the hairline so I know that I'm working with the same density there and then I'm going to take from mid crown around to the corner of that triangle and that's going to be my next section that I'm going to clip away so I want to separate the top and the bottom but knowing that that middle section or underneath of this top section is going to be the same density all the way through to behind the ear so I clip that away I do the same thing on the opposite side go all the way over to the corner of the triangle and then I clip that away you could make this top section all one if you wanted to I just feel like it stays a lot cleaner if you break it up into two sections so now I go straight down center back comb that over and then I go from the occipital bone over to behind the ear comb that down and then I clip the mid part of the section or the middle part away nice and tight and it's ready for me to continue on later in the cut so I comb it over really work the fine teeth of the comb in and then I slide that clip up underneath I really want you guys to notice how clean that sectioning is and how I really plan out these haircuts because when you're in the sun I know that you're rushed for time but the most important thing that you can do is focus on the sectioning and I'm going to get into that in a little bit but I want to get you guys started off here so in the back what I'm doing is I'm taking a half inch section and you can see in the overhead there and then I just glide that razor over top my tool choice here is the Donald Scott swivel twist razor which is available on freesoneducation.com if you're looking for a new razor tool it's like thirty nine dollars I believe you can go on there and pick it up if you have a razor already that you love you can do this same technique it's just use a fresh blade pull the section straight out from the head straight out from where it lives we're creating rounded layers and then you glide from that top point where you want the layers to start and then you glide down to the bottom what I like to do is just kind of give up on the razor a little bit once I get towards the bottom of the hair because you can always adjust the outer perimeter you want to get those interior layers correct and then you can always cut your length to your liking or to your guest liking at the very end so notice I was combing over top of the section on the left hand side now I'm combing towards the center so I'm always combing the hair in the same direction and then I glide that razor over top now a lot of people talk about you know are you going to create a hole are things like that going to happen especially when you're working with rounded layers we're creating a rounded haircut so it's going to flow with the hairline so I don't have to worry about cutting a hole if I was cutting a bob then I might do different things to help kind of counteract um that hairline so you can see right here I'm going to section from the hairline uh and separate the front and the back that's something I've been doing a lot lately so we did it in the front in that triangle section we did it in the back here so now I'm aware of where that hole would happen in the haircut so just sectioning makes you smarter right so if you go in and you section the right way then you don't have to worry during the haircut that you're um you're going to affect the density in the hairline at all because you've sectioned it the right way so notice I go through still cutting those round sections using that bottom uh that I cut before as my guideline and I just glide that razor over it's a brand new blade it slides right through the hair so in my classes um one thing that I notice when I do these hands-on things is that people rush the sectioning and they and then they really focus on the cutting right so the problem with that is when you're not focused on the sectioning then you're not cutting the right stuff you're not cutting it the way that you should so I think you should put 90% of your energy into the sectioning and the cutting is just simple after that you already know you already have your plan so think about that when you go to cut hair the next time put all of your energy basically into that plan and then go in and execute it with the cut so still pulling the hair straight out from the head creating those rounded layers all the way to the hairline you could see how fun those layers are it's obviously very long in the back but like I said I left that length and I'm going to go in and cut that length off um at the end so uh don't worry about that so now I'm going to work because I'm working with less density now so all of that section right there back to the hairline behind the ear is less density so I'm not going to pull it straight out from the head and cut it the same but I do want to create that kind of short to long in the back so what I do with this is I over direct everything forward which pushes more weight into the area where there's less density so think about that um also here's a little trick here um I measure the hair I hold it out in front of me and I cut that little piece now I've got my um my measured section and then I go through and I execute the rest of the cut so think about those things um you know if we're building something we measure and we cut a line for a guide so we do the same thing when we're building a haircut we measure that line and then we go through and execute a lot of people struggle with balancing both sides um so just use that kind of tool as a measure so now I'm going to go through I'm going to connect the top now I'm working uh with a continuous density across the top so I'm just going to connect those sections and I'm going to roll through uh with a traveling guide all the way through to the back so creating nice short layers um a lot of texture in this cut and a lot of movement really cool shag effect so notice that my section isn't too wide so a lot of people will grab a ton of hair pull it together but the more hair you clump together the more over direction that's happening and then you start to lose your guideline and you start to over direct hair where you didn't want it to go and you create length where you didn't want it so make sure probably about a half an inch section maybe uh three quarters of an inch at the most um if you're condensing it a little bit uh but just don't take too much hair so now same thing create a little guideline and then I go through I use that piece as a guide and then I connect uh the other side so we're gonna do the same thing on this side working through traveling guide all the way to the back of the head all right so you've seen that texture come into life now we're gonna cut the fringe and the thing I love about the Donald Scott twist razor is that it's so simple to cut a nice shattered fringe with it so I 100 100 cut side I hold the hair out uh low elevation and I just do a nice about an inch back and forth movement and it cuts a nice shattered fringe right in the front so now you can see all that texture coming out and I go through and now I'm gonna cut those pieces that I left out at the bottom uh so that I knew I had the density that I wanted I go through and I just grab those pieces and I cut them exactly the length that I want them and then that helps finalize the haircut so now I'm gonna go in with the t-tree lavender mint curl refresh this is such a light foam which I really love and I put that throughout the hair really activate some of that curl in there and then we're gonna finish it off with the uh Paul Mitchell express eye on turbo light plus blow dryer and we're gonna diffuse the hair working all the way around till the hair is 100 dry before we start putting our hands in it uh so we don't want to create any frizz and then I just styled up with my fingers a little bit you can see this end result you can see all the texture the shape of the haircut is awesome um you could definitely leave these layers longer if you wanted to if your guests didn't want this short of layers but I hope you guys like the cut hope you can use it in the salon let me know if you have any questions in the comments thanks for watching all right guys and like always if you like the video then make sure you hit the like button share this video with all of your hairdresser friends and also subscribe to this channel um because even though sometimes we take a break always making more and more videos for you guys thank you guys so much for hanging in with me the support uh over the years of making these videos thanks for watching