 What's up, get logged in. Let me know where you're watching from. See here, let me get the other camera up. So what's up? Today, we're going to be working on a shag haircut. So I just decided again today, so we're now three days, I think, in a row that we've gone live here. I'm cutting a haircut. Just want to get your feedback as we're going. Answer your questions. I'm filming this haircut for a smaller tutorial. So just understand that I'm here for your questions and to kind of walk through it, take my time doing this haircut so it looks good, obviously no rush here. And just ask your questions, have fun, join the chat, and get to know each other. That's what this is really all about. Besides me answering your questions is just building a community and you guys all talking to each other and having some fun. So again, today, I'm going to be cutting a shag haircut. Super excited. I'm going to use the tri razor to do it. We'll maybe do a little bit of scissor work as well. But I want to show you guys a technique that I've been putting together in my head where it's very condensed. So this haircut's going to happen really fast. This isn't going to be a long class today. But it's all about combing, getting the hair tension right, and kind of working through it. So I see all of you guys in the chat. I see you guys posting where you live. That's super cool. I love seeing where everybody is and kind of where you're watching it. What might be kind of fun too is you guys can post what time it is at your current location. Because some of you guys are watching. It's like 4 AM. Some of it's 2 AM. Some of it's 2 PM. So that's pretty fun. And then also, if you've been a part of the free salon education community for a long time, I want you to type OG in the chat. It means you're an original. And then also, if you've never watched one of these classes, this is your first time jumping on. Love seeing that as well. So just type new in the chat. It'd be super cool. So what's up, guys? Arthur, good to see you. Frumi, good to see you. Laura, T, May, Nicola, Steph. Very cool. Laura, OG Laura. Very cool. So yeah, super fun. So I'm excited to get involved in this and just start cutting hair and answer you guys' questions. One thing for you guys is if you have a question here, type Q and put in your question. So all this right here, type Q and put in your question. That way, the chat's coming in from not only my Facebook, my YouTube, or the free salon education YouTube, my Facebook, free salon education Facebook, I think Twitch and Twitter and all that stuff as well. So it goes by quick. So if you have a question, make sure you put a Q before it. That way I can scroll through and kind of find the questions out of the conversation. So that's about it. Pleased to be watching the video. Really cool. Sophia, welcome. Glad you're here. Rhonda, good to see you as well. Let's see. New Jersey and New, Alberta. Very cool. All right. So what we're going to cut today, let me hit Record on this, what we're going to be cutting today is a modern version of a shag. And the way that I see this happening, kind of working out is we're going to base it on a center parting. And I'm going to pull, I'm going to pull condensed sections from the sides all the way up to the top. And then also in the back, we're going to condense a little bit as well. And I want to keep this hair as long as possible. So here, let me take you guys over here. Kind of show you guys how we're going to map this out a little bit. So on the top section, let's go in here. So in the top section of the hair here, I'm going to split everything right behind the ear. And this is where we talk about this a lot, how the hairline comes down. So you want to look at your guest's hairline and really look at how does it kind of follow the head shape or how does it kind of flow. So most people have kind of a pretty straight up and down hairline right here behind the ear. So what I like to do is follow that hairline up and create my sectioning that way. So I'll show you guys on the head how I do that. So that separates the front and the back of the head. Now, what we're going to do is we're going to take this entire section, and we're going to pull it up. So let me see if we're going to pull it up about here. And we're going to scoop into it and cut it with a trirazor. So we're going to do a little bit of scooping action. And this entire section is going to come up to this point here. Now in the back, we're going to pull everything to the side. So it'll be more if I come down here, right about here. So in the back, so you've got your sectioning, which splits right behind the ear. So that's our parting that's going to go to the other side. You've got your parting down the center, right? And then you've got all this hair that's going to come up to the front right here and kind of be cut at that point, a little bit further up, but you guys get the point there. Now in the back, I'm going to bring everything over to this side on each side. So I'm going to take this, split it in the back here. And I'm going to take this section and I'm going to pull the entire thing over here and cut it at this point. So everything will come to here. So just like that and over. We're going to do that. What that's going to do is that's going to pull all the hair, cut it shortest on the sides, which is kind of where I want it to live with the shag. And then it's going to grow, or not grow, but it's going to get longer into the back in the middle area. So the longest part of this haircut will live right in the center back. And then everything else will be kind of weight removed throughout it. So I'll show you guys how you get the guides and all of that as we work through. Hopefully that's a good enough visual for you guys. All right. And I just colored this mannequin. That tutorial will be coming out pretty soon. But we had some foam with some fantasy colors. So now we'll go through and cut it and you'll be able to see that end result. All right. Let's see. So air treatment. I want price. All right. So looking through the questions, let's try to keep them as specific to this as we can. Obviously, you guys can post questions whenever you want to. But we'll try to keep it as much on this subject for this video. And then I will do a Q&A where I answer a lot of other questions as well. So here we go. So we're going to go straight back, zoom in a little bit. So I'm going to comb the hair straight back, look for the nose, and I'm going to draw my line straight back to the crown like that. So you can see that kind of deep purple fashion color root that we put in there. It's going to look cool on the end result. And now that we've got this parted down the center, now I want to find my two sides and split this in half. So finding the back, we've talked about this a lot. Best way to do it is kind of peel apart the hair so you can start to see where that hairline starts. So I've got that there. And then I section it away. So then I'll bring all of this forward, and we'll clip it. Bring it to the front of the head, nice and tight, and I'll clip it. Now, the reason I want to show you guys this type of haircut is in the current salon environment, how we're working, a lot of us have to work a little bit faster because we're not allowed to bring in as many clients. So if you're going to make money, you've got to work just a little bit faster. Obviously, you've got to work safe and all of that too, and you need great results. So these haircuts are minimizing the amount of steps it takes and still creating a beautiful look in the hair. So here, down, I'll comb the rest forward. Normally I would stand in front of this, but you guys wouldn't be able to see. There we go, vertical line. Comb the rest of the hair to the front. So you want to get it nice and tight at the root, like I said. And then right here, we'll slide our clip up under. So now we've got the back of the hair here. I'm going to wet it down a little bit. Parting by the ear, is that right behind the ear? So it's not right behind the ears. So what I was taught, and this is Tracy's asking this question, so let me zoom in so you can see better. So what I was taught in school is to section right behind the ear up to here, which some people still teach that. For me, and with a day of hanging out with Sam Villa, I think, is where this really came from, was he was in my studio filming, and he broke down a little bit of sectioning. And he just had a little light bulb go off in my head because the density between these two spots. So let me back out now a little bit. So those of you guys that are new on here, I talk about this a lot, but the density between here and all the way to the back around to the other side is the same. And then the density from this point here, all the way to the front of the head, is the same. So when you're doing a haircut, think about like, are you going to cut thin hair the same as thick hair? Are you going to cut high density hair the same as low density hair? No, right? Most of us would have that answer. No, so why wouldn't I want to be aware of where it's low density and where it's higher density? So that's kind of how we work through it. All right, can you use synthetic hair on a mannequin to practice cutting hair? I wouldn't recommend synthetic hair, but I mean, you can, you can do anything and any practice is better than no practice. So, you know, I use human head or human hair mannequins from Pivot Point, you know, I invest a lot of money in mannequins and because I like to practice, I like creating different haircuts and just kind of spending time doing this. So I think if you're going to get the most of your money, you're going to spend, you know, maybe $20, $30 more to get a human hair mannequin, but it's worth it in my opinion. Then you can style it, color it, we'll do whatever you want. Plus synthetic hair, I wouldn't cut with my good scissors. Just an opinion, I don't really even know if there's a good reason behind that, but I wouldn't. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to cut the sides first, then we're going to cut the front. I just want to kind of determine, I never really look at the back and the front as the same haircut because they're different. So I want to do what I want to do to the back and I can do that because this all lives in the same. If I tied this into it and I just cut whatever I wanted to in the back, I might end up with a hole or, you know, just shorter hair than I wanted because it's different. So knowing that I have this section away, I can really focus on what I want to do in the back. All right. So here, here we go. So I'm going to separate this. I'm going to split it right down center back first. So just like this. And a wise man once said, it's not about the hair that you cut, it's about the hair that you leave on the head. Forget who that wise man was. But that's going to be a big thought today because we're not going to cut a ton of hair, but it's going to have a really beautiful result. All right, come over here. So this is kind of what I talked about first. So what I want to do is I want to pull this entire section over to right in front of the ear. So it's all going to get layered at this point here. So let me go like this. Show you guys the back, back out here. So just like this. And I don't need to bring everything up because this is just going to be length, but I do need to make sure I have everything most likely from the occipital bone up. You could grab a little bit lower too, if you want to. Just have as much hair as you can control in your hand because you can always grab more if you want. All right, so what we're going to do is I'm going to comb this over to above the ear. Now let me show you guys overhead for one sec. I'm not going to cut with it overhead, but I want you guys to get the visual. So here we go. So this is the parting right here. I'm bringing the hair directly over the parting. So that's where we get this pinched look, the over direction from this part of the hair. And this is where when we cut into this, using our tri razor, it's going to cut shorter layers. We're going to pretty much do like a scooping motion through, it's going to be one swipe. And this is where it's pretty cool in the way that this tool works. So we're going to pull the hair over just like this. And I'm going to swipe it. And I actually think I'm going to do it from this view because it just looks good this way. So let's do that. So I bring the hair over. Remember, bring as much as you can handle. Doesn't matter if it's pulled up a little bit in this bottom part. If you're pulling some of this hair up because that's just going to over direct it a little bit more and there's nothing wrong with that. So grab as much as I can handle. Now I've got my tri razor in my hand. I bring the hair over. Get it comb tight from the root. Just like that, nice and vertical. And then I'm going to take the tri razor. And now you got to determine the length that you want to cut this, right? So I'm going to go mid shaft to ends because I want kind of a medium length layer sitting on this haircut. The shortest points will be obviously right here. And then it will get longer and longer as it goes to the back. So because of the over direction. So I'm not really like worried about it being too short right at this moment. And because we sectioned it the way we did, we're okay. So I comb the hair again. It's like this. Hold it nice and tight. And now I'm going to slide the tri razor. Tilt so you guys get a better view of it. Now in the salon, you don't need to tilt. I'm just going to tilt so you guys can see. Actually, you don't get it very. It's not really making your view better. All right. So I'm just like this out. And then I'm going to slide mid shaft to ends all the way through. Now what's cool about that is it's going to create a ton of layers. So let me pop back to the angle here. Now this is going to be very thin down here. We're going to cut this later. So don't worry about that. Internet likes to freak out about that. Don't worry about it. So here you can see all the layers that pop through it already. Let me show you. So right here, tons and tons of layering that pops throughout shortest piece here gets a little bit longer towards the center back. All right. So now we're going to do the same thing on this side. We're going to bring it over. See if we should go overhead again. We've got it here. Going to bring as much hair as I can handle over to me. Now somebody's going to be asking, do how do you determine your guide? Well, I'm just going to go mid shaft to ends again, which will make it very similar. They don't have to be perfectly matched up. Very close and you can check it after. So mid shaft here to ends, swipe through just like that. And now comb it out. You're going to see these layers popping through. All right, cool. All right, so now we're going to work into the front and we're going to do a very similar technique here by bringing all this front section up and over to me. Here we go. Now I'm going to bring all this hair up, take out just a little bit of the length. We'll cut into that later as well. Let me just separate this. You don't have to, you could just pull all that forward but I just want to separate it for a visual standpoint. Just like that, bring it up. And when you're cutting condensed, which is what this is, you want to make sure that you have the right amount of tension and you want to make sure that you're really scooping up that entire section. So I go right above the parting in the middle of the head, just like that. Let me go to the overhead so you guys can see that. Over top of that center parting and then I'm just going to slide through. What that's going to create is layers and a face frame, which you'll see more obviously when we blow a drive but you can see here, we got layers, a face frame through it. We're going to do the same thing on the opposite side. So somebody was asking where you get the tri-raiser. This is actually our tool that we came out with. So you can pick it up on our online store. So shop FSE, it's free salon education. You just jump on there and get it. So here we go. Last section of the cut. Now it's hard to believe this happened really fast but that's what it's all about, is doing things in a quicker manner using condensed cutting when you can. Every haircut you can't but some you can. And this is one of them. So we'll let out some of this bottom section here. Comb that, that's our length. And then I'm going to bring this hair up to the top of the section. So nice and tight, scoop it. Once we have it there, now I'm going to go mid-shaft, two ends, just swipe through. So pretty simple and that kind of works you through the cut and then we'll blow it dry and then I'm going to cut the base, the length because I want to see how skinny it looks because it will look skinny. We removed all the weight from this area here and then it's obviously a little bit kind of skinny up here. So Mary, see that you said you ordered the razor? We will look into it. Just send me an email mat at freesaloneducation.com. Seven weeks ago was prior to our pre-order so it should have shipped out. Not sure where you live, that could be what's holding it up a little bit. All right, so we're going to blow dry. So let me grab my blow dryer and we're going to do a nice little round brush blow dry into this, check some here. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn down my microphone a little bit because I don't want to blow your ears out with the blow dryer and then I'll come back as soon as we're done blow drying. So here we go. Hang on guys, I'm trying to figure out how to block Sean because he's driving me nuts. This, I'm filming this video to put out on YouTube and I'm taking my time blow drying because I want it to look nice. So it's just hard to talk and blow dry at the same time. That's okay. I didn't want to do a rough dry because I don't want the hair to look rough. So you can do a rough dry and you can still smooth out hair. This is just the way that I like to do it. Sometimes I do a rough dry but the internet gets upset about rough looking hair as well. So just working through this to make it nice and smooth. Thanks Janice, thanks Cal. I get it Sean, patience my friend, patience. I want to see it too, trust me. And round brushing is not my favorite so I'm with you. So you'll see it. I'll show you guys some of the disconnection here that we'll go into and cut a little bit with scissors. Thanks Kristen. Couple more sections and then we'll do a little dry cutting and then we'll finalize it. So I'm gonna blow dry all of this forward. Hey Robert. All right guys, so I'll break this down as soon as I get this section done. All right, so like I said to you guys at the beginning we didn't cut the bottom yet. So the bottom is gonna look super skinny but we're gonna go in and use our scissors to remove some of that length and then I'll finalize the style using some sort of wand or something like that. But you'll see kind of how it's starting to unfold here. So you can see the pieces around the front. I mean, imagine this didn't have any layers before we cut it. This was all one length and now you look at how just pulling those two sections to the center and cutting them with the tri-raiser just completely creates this massive amount of layers throughout. Now, it's not finished. So this is not a finished result. Those of you guys that aren't hairdressers that are in the room, it'll be, it's gonna be a lot better one more time. But Robert Reed is also in the room and these brushes that I'm using these Ergo brushes that are available on our shop. You can see there, see if I can focus in there. So these Ergo brushes are available for purchase and they're my favorite brushes ever. So I use the round brush today. I like using the paddle brush, the diamond head brush. These are my two, my go-tos. You guys that follow me know that but it's cool to have him in this chat. So if you have questions about Ergo, maybe he's still here and you can ask them. So all I wanna really do here now is to go through and take off that length. So close that out. Grab my cutting stool, front of the face there. So the technique will be pretty simple on this. Just spin the head, sit down, tilt the head down a little bit. And now the length will be obvious but I also don't want it to be, I want it to have a shag effect and I want it to kind of have a nice texturized appearance to it. So I'm not gonna cut a blunt line. What I'm gonna do is I'm literally gonna take this hair as I see it in here and I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna cut to remove just some of this length in here. So I'll hold the hair, can pinch it and cut into it and just really work to get a nice length. So let me go over here first. So just working in, slide cutting. So you can see it cuts it nice and blunt and makes it look a little fuller but doesn't give me that blunt line that I don't want. Do the same thing over here, right around the face. Take some of this, wait out here. And if she had a back and shoulders I would just do it right along that. Into this. These are the disconnections that we had in this temple area. So I just remove quite a bit of the length from those because I really want this short to long effect. So I want the layers in here and then into the back as well. Cool. And then you could see how long those layers get in the center back of the head. So this is where the heaviness sits which is kind of cool because it gives it that V shape effect in the back so you could cut your perimeter that way as well. All right. So now I'm just gonna hit it real quick with a wand just to define a little bit of the wave. I'm not gonna do the whole head like that but I got the volume with the round brush and now I'm gonna go in with my wand iron and give it a little bit of shape here. And this will be kind of bigger section so I'll take out, I'll take some hair. You don't even have to like comb it necessarily and I'll just put it around the wand just to add that shape into it. Zoom in a little bit. About wavy hair. This is a great haircut for wavy hair. Curly gotta be a little careful I go longer but for wavy hair it's great. So here I don't even put the ends in it. Just kind of work. So you can see that little beveled wave that happens. So here same thing. So just forming slight wave in there. What temp is your wand? So for this hair, I'm keeping it at about three, it's at 390. But 375 I think is good for human hair that is gonna be on your head for a long time to make sure it stays there. So this isn't like, I don't wanna wave every bit of this but I just wanted to define some of it and I'm not stretching it super tight on the wand either. Just kind of letting it curl, not curl, wave nice and soft. Thank you guys, I see the comments. Appreciate it. How do I turn off the subtitles? Is there a covering in the bottom? Yvonne, there's just a button on the live where you just take away the subtitles. Might say caption, something, I don't know. It's amazing that there can be subtitles on a live video. That's very interesting. Then put it in the iron. Do you sell the wand? I don't sell the wand. This is a Paul Mitchell wand though so you could probably buy it on their website. I'm gonna off so I don't burn the place down. All right, back to the front. Now these are obviously extreme waves that are in it so what I wanna do is run my hands through it a little bit, start to bring it all together to life. A lot of stuff gets pre-done, guys. And there's a reason for that. It takes a little bit longer. I like sharing it all with you. Nothing to hide here. Though I'm just gonna work through this because again, this is a tutorial that I'm recording for YouTube so this is what I would be doing. Working through, I'm not trying to rush. Some of these pieces, I'm gonna go in and define those like this here. It's up a dell. Thank you, Kel. Appreciate it, sharing. Good thing you didn't pay for it. And if I had a husband that judged my hairstyle that much, I would be, it's a whole nother world of problems. All right, twist it up here. Hair is subjective, guys. A lot of people have different opinions about what is current, what is trendy, what is good, what is bad, and that's okay. So one of the best, this would be a great haircut for thick hair, for sure. Thick hair, slightly wavy hair. It's great as well. Skinnier hair, you're gonna see the ends are a little bit skinnier. That's okay. I like that, but some people don't and that's totally fine. So my thought process would be that I would change things a little bit if it was finer hair. So in the back, I would maybe do standard layers if it was fine hair so that when you look at it, what we did was we brought everything to the side and took that weight out and pushed it to the back. So it got the most dense here but we left a lot of length. So what I would have done is cut it longer or did standard layers in the back for finer hair. That would be totally cool as well. So you could do that. That would make the back fuller and the bottom fuller and then on the sides, you could do a similar thing to what we did, keep the disconnection, but maybe not take, maybe just take some of the top layers a little bit shorter and leave more length towards the bottom. So maybe just take this front triangle section here and cut that forward and then the rest of it cut a little bit lower, cut it down here. I think that would be a good way to do it as well. So, let me see, let me see. So you guys can see, there is our style cut. I dig it, I know a lot of you guys do as well. So I appreciate all of you guys that have watched, asked questions, been a part of this, kept positive, you guys are the best. Those of you guys that are negative and not into it, there was very few of you but you stood out real strong here and I would like to say that you can never come back and please don't. Cause we're about positive vibes here whether you like the haircut or not, this world needs a little bit more of that and to be negative, watching the haircut is like, wow. So thank you guys so much. Craig, it's awesome, I appreciate you. Janice, Rosa, Mary, let's see. So I wanna make sure I didn't miss any of your questions here. What about a client with thin hair? So I think I answered that Susan, but yeah, the thin hair, I would change it up a little bit obviously to make it feel a little bit fuller but just more standard layers and then around the face in this area, maybe even take it a little bit shorter because the longer fine hair is, the thinner it looks and the more layered it is, the thinner it's gonna look if it's long. So just going in maybe do a shorter version of it would be cool. See what else we got. Thanks. So Robert Reed just said, thanks for the shout out and great haircut. So he likes it, I'm excited, very cool. Glad he was in here. Antonio, thank you very much, appreciate it. Thank you Adele, thank you Caroline. Why don't you use real people just out of interest? So Sharon, that's a great question. I haven't been using real people. I haven't used real people really at all in this seven years that I've been doing this. First off, because you can see in the chat everybody has different opinions. So whether I use a real person or not doesn't really change anything. I'm an educator for hairdressers. We learn on mannequins and I like to take my time put out these videos whenever I can as often as I can do whatever I wanna do on them so that I can teach. So there is benefits to doing real people, real models and stuff like that. But in COVID it's hard because everybody's gotta be masked and it's a more difficult situation. But even prior to that I didn't really do it because I do it occasionally and I like doing that but it's not gonna be all the time because I just did three classes in a row. I wouldn't be able to do that with live models. It would be very difficult. So I just try to put out as much as I can and make the subjects focused on whatever I want instead of you guys would see lobs and layers. Lobs and layers all day long if I did real models. It's just the way it would be. And occasionally we'd find somebody that wanted to do something a little more drastic or fun but it's about teaching hairdressers. So a great question though. Let's see, it's okay. I'm gonna go through the chat and these people won't be on the page anymore. It's fine. Cool. I love the Shag. I used to wear it years ago. Very cool, Deborah, Deanna, that's very cool. Good. And Sharon, you're very welcome. Janice, thank you so much. Appreciate that. Beautiful but what about longer, thick, thick hair? This is ideal for thick, thick hair. You can see when you look at the haircut, obviously if it was thicker hair, you'd see more hair towards the bottom here. Again, my personal opinion, I like this being a little bit skinnier. You gotta imagine she has shoulders. So you're gonna see the hair kind of just laying on the shoulder. So for me, I like this style but people with thicker hair, it's gonna be even fuller here and the layers will be really nice and it condenses and it cuts out a lot of weight sliding that tri-raiser through. So I do know that a lot of you guys during this live purchase the tri-raiser, I really appreciate it. It's a super cool tool. Let me show it to you guys close up. It's 44 bucks. We just came out with it and it cuts 100% of the hair here, which is what we did. And then if you had thicker hair, you can use the 25% texture side, which removes, let's make sure. Which removes 25% of the hair when you cut and then you have the 50% texture side which removes 50% of the hair when you cut. So you have a three-in-one tool and it fits in the palm of your hand. It's super fun to cut hair with, very creative. Now obviously I like to mix up scissors and razor so this matched with a nice pair of scissors is kind of all you would really need to create so many different looks. So I did see a lot of you guys went onto our shop, FSE and purchased one. We shipped them worldwide and they went on sale just a few weeks ago and lots of people have them and I'm very, very excited for all of you guys to have them and I appreciate everyone's supporting. So it's very cool. All right, thank you guys so much. I will see you guys on the next class. See you next week. I'll be live either Monday or Tuesday. I'll definitely be live Tuesday, maybe Monday, but look for more tutorials coming out very soon and thanks for being a part of it. I'll see you.