How To Cut A Modern Shag Haircut - Modern Mullet Haircut For Women

Hey guys, we're so excited to spend this time with you on beauty, launchpad, i'm steve waldman, the director of technical training for ratner companies. We have the hair cutters bubble, salon, ciancia, cielo and salon plaza. I'M here with my artistic lead sharon, so hi everyone and our beautiful model, megan sharon - and i were really fortunate with our roles here in the company, where we really take the inspirations from fashion week at ratner companies, we send some of our salon professionals with the Leadership of sharon and rodney cutler our artistic director to really see what's happening on the runways, bring it back and as a team translated to what's happening for our guests in the salon to really have value. So we want to have that inspiration that passion, but really have it, connect to our salon guests with a purpose. So we've been seeing these really great, inspired and evolved shag haircuts that have gone almost to the mullet we've really. You know some of us that have been doing hair for a while. Mullet was the bad word we didn't want to use. It was something we had to whisper, but now it's really starting to become fashion forward and inspired by that retro chic feel it's short around. The front it opens up the face with some length and energy in the back to really let fashion forward tones explode, let the texture that's being cut with scissors and with razor really happen and feel modern, but still classically inspired. So sharon tell us a little bit about what you're going to do with megan's haircut today. Okay, so you know those of you who's been following me. You know i've been rocking mullet for years and it's one of my favorite haircut and i'm fortunate enough that megan has beautiful face, and you know we she's gon na rock the mullet today. Well, what i love about what sharon is doing is sharon. Does what every salon professional should do she's the billboard for what she wants to do on her guest? You know we're talking about right now in 2020, as salon professionals, we need to build our brand. We need to really communicate to our salon guests, who we are, what we're doing and how we're going to empower them. So i love the fact: sharon that you're fashion forward and inspired and you use that same inspiration on megan. So how do you start this haircut when you're sectioning it okay? So the first thing is the focal point of this haircut is bringing her features out so very strong fringe and also face framing. So i can bring her cheekbone and she her hair texture is very fine, so i need to create volume and a movement through interior of the haircut so um two days ago, with this beautiful color on her which lives right underneath. So i really want to expose the color that i have created with the haircut okay. So the first thing that i wanted to execute is definitely her fringe. Then gon na go into her face framing and the length and their interior layering while sharon's getting ready to do that. Feliciano. If you want to come back over megan for a little bit, you can see some of the looks sharon and i have been on the road. We'Ve been doing some hair for our wow leadership conference at ratner companies, where we celebrate our top performers in the salon and really introduce inspirations that are a little more fashion forward and our collection, the all-american mosaic. That'S ready to wear for our guest in the salon, but, like sharon said we're seeing strong fringes, so you can see this whole collection of strong fringes, some really nice square, geometric fringes where we've opened the face with some razoring, some really soft organic fringes without straight Lines and then some really nice curved arched fringes. So when we think about what we're doing it's having a consultation with our guest, calling it out as a consultation, letting them know we're getting to know them what they really want to do with their hair. What makes them feel empowered as themselves and then as the salon professional, we connect them to what's happening. What'S current, not putting it on like it would be a wig or a costume, but making it their own, so sharon. What i love is you're, really using the head shape to create your sectioning. So how do you know where to create that triangular section, so the triangle section were determined by the of, of course, her hairline and also her face shape. So i took a triangle from the highest point to her middle over her eyebrow. I think that section is very flattering for her face. Okay, so that's going to be the fringe and sharon, while you're cutting that. I think it's one of the things in the consultation. You know we look at pictures. We talk about the personality that our salon guest wants to convey, but also texture and density like if you notice here in the corners of megan's hair, there isn't as much density. So that's consideration that you would take and really call out in the consultation is my section going to be a little more narrow and then i'm going to have more of an arc silhouette to compensate to bring more hair in. Is it going to be a little square but making sure that the arch of the brow is really going to be that anchor point, so you can really bring that into the consultation to let the guests know you're, making a personalized look for them. Okay and another another hot tip is really understanding the growth pattern. When you want to create a fringe, make sure that you know um, she doesn't have very strong cowlicks or different growth pattern with the megan's hair hairline, it's pretty even throughout the whole front. Nothing is really kicking out, so definitely want to comb it to its natural fall. The elevation that i'm going to use is i'm going to use my finger as a measurement, so i'm putting one finger i'll determine where do i want this fringe to sit, definitely want to expose her beautiful eyebrows, so i want to go above the eyebrow, so that Is first section using my one finger elevation, i'm using my scissors to cut really clean straight line sharon that really gives you that, on purpose fringe, the conversation can really be. Do i want short or long bangs? Do i want a shorter long fringe and really it's about touching the eyebrows? If you bring it up above the eyebrows, it really gives you that fashion forward look, but you can still be connected to what's current as long as the fringe is touching, the eyebrows and another hot tip make sure your guest is nice and relaxed. I know in the salon behind the chair for almost 30 years, i cut lots of fringes and touched the eyebrow when my guess was leaning forward in the mirror looking at themselves and then, when they lean back, relax their eyebrows. I had a whole bunch of daylight. Above the fringe, so you want to make sure that their eyebrows and their facial muscles are nice and relaxed and touching the fringe. The fringe touching the eyebrow is going to feel a little softer and a little bit above. We know megan likes to be really fashion forward and make a statement. That'S going to really make that statement. Let everybody know that she is wearing something super fashionable and current, and i love the fact that that i have created this kind of ombre feel what the color and i really want to expose that color, because it is placed underneath so with my next section. I'M going to let it fall naturally, and with the next section, i'm still using my one finger elevation, because i want this line to be really strong, so i don't want to put too much of graduation. It'S nice and clean-cut. So, hey guys, i'm backstage here with these fine people, and i love all the comments you guys. If you have questions, please um shoot them out, because i'm calling them out for sharon and steve to answer on live. Okay, yeah. We know it takes a village. We'Re really blessed here at ratner companies, sharon and myself we're here. We have feliciano behind the captain, the camera, who is our social media guru. We have valerie, who is really the steward of all of our salon: professionals, she's she's, a road warrior on the road she's. Here at the resource center, she makes sure that all of the salon professionals have a voice in everything that we do so anything that you want to know any questions you have any comments or just a shout out. Just let us know in the comments below we've got lots of people on right. Now, tamara we've got janice, we've got anakin, denise tammy. Well, you know - and i know in the comments we saw at ratnerco.com careers - there's a great opportunity because i know sharon um you've been with the ratner company for what about 15 minutes couple days. How long have you been here with the rather company? So i've been with the rhino company for 20 years. I started at year 2000 in july, so this july will be my 20th year and i mean it seems like yesterday and you know i i never feel like that. I have to get up in the morning and you know, am i going to work. You know it doesn't feel like i'm going to work every day is different. It'S fun. I love the fact that you know i went through so many different career change with this company. I started out as behind the chair. Full time then got opportunity to become a salon leader and then i did multi-millionaire and then got into education, which i really really loved and it put all those roles together. So you know when you think about being a salon leader being behind the chair, making it happen and now in education you're, really what i love is you're, keeping it simple but you're pre-sectioning what's happening on the sides, tell us a little bit about what's happening there On the sides of the haircut, the side of the haircut, so i'm still taking from the top of the head. The first fringe was the triangle right and then taking another triangle to the highest point on her forehead and the next one is to her cheek. The temple and the next one is to right behind the ear. So, as you can see, the elevation is pretty relaxed. I don't want to give too much of elevation at this point, because her hair being very fine. I want this line to be really strong, so we understand that lower the elevation is stronger shape higher the elevation is gon na be softer. So i'm using my razor this point, so my finger grip is pretty sturdy and i'm going in i'm gon na feel my bite. Okay, i'm gon na make my razor just give me a very clean. So i have a question from lisa at maryland. Do you find her head placement or your own body position is the most important to keem the statement to keep the same lines, so both is very important. Your guest's head position and your body projection is very, very important. As you can see, i, my body position is not in correct position at this moment because i'm in front of the camera, but if i am actually cutting this, i should be in front of my guest and for those of you that didn't hear the question was The guest head position and as a salon professional our body position, is that important and we all have that guest in the salon. That says my hair looks great today. It'Ll, never look like that again. I wish you could be in my bathroom every morning, styling my hair, and what they're letting us know is we're not cutting enough style into the hair for us to cut the style into the hair. The guest has to be in the position where they're going to wear their hair, we're working on angles, diagonal lines and the guest is not in a natural position, all those lines change as they come up into their natural resting position and when we have a vision In our head or a vision from a photograph as an inspiration and we're trying to create that those lines and our body position doesn't mimic those lines, we're losing all the control as a salon professional. So we want to make sure the head position. Our body position are really mimicking those lines and then, with the razor, we're carving the style into the hair, so the styling aids, the home hair care that she chooses it's just going to really coax. What'S already there into place and she's going to be able to wear it all day and have it look great with lots of versatility? Okay, so i have finished one side. You see the razor give me a very soft diffuse line, but still maintaining the shape and sharon. What i love is, even when we're doing these fashion forward shapes - and we talked about it earlier you're, using the bone structure of the face, we're using the arch of the eyebrow, we're using the cheekbone we're creating still beautiful flattering images that can still be as current And fashion forward and runway runway ready as we need them to be to really capture what our guest's intention is with with their style. So, as you can see, my stroke with my razor is very: what do you call this short stroke, short yeah, yeah short stroke? So it's it gives me better control which sharon what i love about, what you're doing is i and i think it's unique the way you hold your razor. Some of us see people cutting hair like they're, pulling the arm on a slot machine, and i think that is gambling. I think when we cut with a razor like this, we don't know what we're going to get every once in a while. We get lucky you're doing it really purposeful in those movements and you you're holding your razor like you would hold another tool that you would use. So, what's your inspiration for holding your razor, so you know i have art background and i like to draw and paint so when i discovered this amazing tool razor and i at the beginning, i really didn't know how to use it, and i was using my wrist To carve or give the shape - and it never was consistent - so i say: okay razor is a tool with the one blade okay. So why don't i use this as if i am drawing or carving and hold it like? I was holding a brush or a pen and use my finger to control the blade instead of my wrist. So that's how i discover use fingers to really control, so i can do the detail, work and before you start cutting again, if you can see that feliciano. If you pull back a little bit, we talked about body position and establishing the lines so sharon's arm all the way to her wrist stays strong to really allow her to control the lines that she's creating and then her finger allows to create texture because the biggest Complaint about cutting with a razor is you lose all the strength you cut with scissors when you want strength when you cut with a razor when you just want softness and something that's deconstructed and abstract cutting this would discipline the way sharon is allows you to get The movement of a razor without losing the discipline or the strength of the shape that you're creating, and that goes right into the question i just got from cheryl. Do you find using a razor to be easier with this fringe rather than using shears and slicing them? You kind of answered that right yeah once you really are able to connect the vision that you have in your head through your fingers, the great thing about using a razor is it's not complicated because with a razor you see the shape you want and, like sharon Said you just carve it away where it lives she's, using no over direction? No elevation she's, really just carving it where it lives. Sometimes, when we think of classic sheer cutting, there's lots of sectioning sub sectioning elevation and graduation we're creating lines away from where it's going to live. So with these modern shapes that i want to see texture in, i know sharon does as well. It can be less complicated. I hate to use the word easy because it takes experience. It takes discipline, it takes vision, but it can be less complicated to use a razor. I will say that okay, so i have created her fringe with the scissors and then the face framing. So now i'm going in and create the length which is our perimeter shape. Okay, i picked up my scissor again. Okay, i'm going in the elevation is low. I'M going to go in and just deep point cut to make the line a little bit softer. So i see sarah lyons vego vegas on there uh, i'm glad you're enjoying it. I hope these are techniques that you're going to take back to the salon. I know you will what i love now as sharon's working in here. We'Re thinking about these shapes that are inspired by bi levels, shags and mullets, that are short in the front and long in the back. And if we made the color very dense and heavy at the back, it would exaggerate the length in the back and the disconnection. So if you notice on megan's hair, that has that's fine in individual texture, we melt it into this lighter shape so inside the shape. There'S this nice shadow that stays strong on the roundness of the head shape and then the hair gets light with lots of movement, so sharon's creating movement in the texture here, there's movement in the color, so it doesn't look like she has. Sometimes it almost looks like a wig with hair extension stuck on the back right, or i think i've seen that that woman, like waited in front of me at the grocery store once or twice. I wish i had a razor in my pocket because it's just a little bit of texture that could take it to the next level, but think about color. Think about cutting techniques, whether it's shear point cutting with your shears, whether it's razoring. If you want to have these differences in disconnection of lengths, how can we still keep it soft and feminine and modern, because i almost think of a sharing when you're using a technique? Technique like this? It'S almost like two pieces of fabric and these techniques are stitching them together with a needle and thread right. We still want a connection. We still want to flow. We still want it to make sense, but we still wanted to make a statement at the same time. So it is still shattered, but maintaining that strong shape, because her hair is fine. So now we need to create this interior layering, which will give lift and also a movement through interior of her hair. Well, i guess i have to read all comments. So terry williams in florida just asked: do you think valerie thibodeau would look good with this cut with all her curls? Well, i, if you, if do you mind coming on camera, for a second valerie? I think if valerie could come on camera for a second valerie being very fashion forward, we have a guest with these beautiful natural curls. If you notice, there's still a fringe they're still face framing, we wanted to make sure that you can see your cheekbone, like it's all purposeful and makes sense so valerie's still connected to, if you think about the outside silhouette fringe and shape face framing. But at the same time, it's your own okay, i'll, consider it thanks terry! So sharon tell us a little bit about your elevation, what you're doing there? Yes! So with this haircut, i want her shortest piece, the hair right here, so the shortest piece being here. They will this will give the maximum lift and it will give maximum movement through here, so i'm taking my center guide on top of her head. So my guide is about one inch, my angle, because back the crown of our hair is the shortest point. So my angle is about 45, so i can see this is my guy from my side, so i don't want to lose that i want to go in and big point cut. That'S my guy and also i want top of her head to be the shortest part. So i'm bringing my connection my next section to my guide, which will create short to long as you pull that up sharon. What i love is we're using a razor we're using shear point, cutting we're creating all this softness and lots of softness was created in the color as well. It'S all about the tools that you choose, and i know this was a really uncomplicated coloring technique, where we did some freehand painting to pre-lighten sections before we got creative with our toning, but one of the things you know we're so excited to have you join us Today, for three lucky winners: we have this redken balayage freehand, painting kit, with various painting tools to allow you to use uh the tools for different techniques when you're, applying your color formulas, whether it's your lightener in a soft transition, whether it's saturation that you're going to Have obviously your clips, so you can maintain control of your sections and subsections and then your two balayage boards, you have one that you can really saturate large panels of hair and then you have a smaller one where you really, especially when we detail around the face. You can create detail so redken our partner in our hair, cuttery salons with our color and our styling they've done a great job to donate these for us, so for three lucky winners share like and stay with us till the end and we'll pick three lucky winners To each take one of these balayage kids home with them, so i'm gon na continue the same technique on the other side. Only thing has not changed. Is my body position, so i'm right-handed, so i'm standing on megan's left so her right side, i'm pulling everything to my guide on her left and pushing everything to my guide, and this way my shape will be consistent. Okay, i'm going to let you cut this section. Then we're just going to turn you and megan just a little bit, because we want to see this in profile to really be able to see the angles that we're creating i'm glad so many guys are loving this cut. Thank you for commenting. Thank you for watching and sticking with us and sharon. I think one of the things that we really want to talk about is most of the time when our guests get bored and they feel like they need to leave a salon, professional or leave a salon. It'S because they're getting tired, they're getting bored and they don't think their salon professional wants to take that journey with them as the salon guess when they want to try something new. So when you're talking to your guests - and you want to recommend a cut like this for them, what are some of the things you talk about in a consultation? I think what i seen in the salon is, we have this guest comes in and they love their length, but you know they want to change it up, but you know we have done so many different types of layering and you know what is next yeah. So um, you know the shack's shape is really really trendy and you know the the fashion color fashion. Four color is very trendy, but um make to make it sloan friendly. You know, i chose the tone. That is a little bit more muted, okay. So it's a little bit more guest friendly, so we know with fashion colors. One of the biggest challenges is hair, color, fading and even if our guest wants to wear something, that's really bold, they're, afraid that it's not going to last or the upkeep is going to be too much. So one of the things that we're doing is our approach to fashion colors, instead of using clear to create softer tones, because it already sometimes with clear, can have a tendency to look like it's faded. The day of the salon visit we're using pulp riot color and we're using our tones like we're using jam and candy, but instead of mixing it with clear to soften the vibrancy, we're using mercury and smoke, and it gives it more of an antique, the burnished style. Just maybe an inch into our formula we'll take the edge off, i call it taking the teeth out and it makes it look a little more modern. A little more evolved like you want to use words like patina antiqued, but it just sometimes we don't always want to go right to clear. We can really get creative in the way we just soften those tones for our guest and we always think we have to pre-lighten hair to level 10 before we put fashion colors on no matter what they are, and we know if we want to see some soft Warmth, even with these, even like a rosy gold tone in here, leaving a little bit of pale, this copper, natural underlying pigment and then putting a tone like jam over top. It really allows us to get these modern tones, even when they're softened a little bit with some smoke or mercury. It'S one of the things i love about using the yellows about using lemon. You can make lemon a really interesting color by using a little bit of smoke or mercury mixed into your formula. So i just got another question from terry: how often does hair cuttery have trendy classes? Well, terry you're, in luck, because we always create. We don't think of our collections as trends that are seasonal, we don't put dates on them and we don't want to make them dated and we always ground them in real technical content. So the collection that we did last year, we called rhyme and reason, and we had a look called prime and refine, and we know that double toning looks doing tones, especially in corals that are very popular needed to have a first pre-tone step and then another tone. So we always have those collection classes offered, and now our new collection is launching the first week of march is called all-american mosaic. It'S really a celebration of what's current, but the individual look and empowerment of every single guest. Our look splash of color is our first class offering, which gives you a haircut very similar to this utilizes shears. It utilizes a razor. It gives you a very current fashion forward silhouette and then our splash of color technique gives us bold, bright color in just five sections, that's uncomplicated and strategically placed to give you versatility for the guest. Those are offered all the way through. You know we're on a rotating um calendar with all of our classes, so we have our foundational core classes that are still connected to what's current, but we're also the long answer to a short question: we're always offering trendy classes okay. So what i am doing right now is: i have created that um short to long shape on the top and so that created kind of um square shape through here and i'm blending that layering to my length. So i'm taking radial sections from highest point of the head, bringing everything 90. Okay from my layers to my length, i am connecting this with my razor with just very soft stroke. So, as you can see that really opened up, the color placement that i have created is creating the short pieces and it's really enhancing her natural wave pattern and that's my goal and sharon. You know what i love. We were talking about trendy classes and and all the opportunities that we have like your journey, starting as a salon professional into salon, leadership being an artistic lead going with teams taking teams of salon professionals to fashion week. So we're not just looking at magazines to get our inspiration, we're partnering with the designers on the runways and bringing that to create our collections. So we can be a primary resource for our salon guests and then in the education that we develop. We want to make sure that there's a it's, always technically sound, it's driven by foundation, but it always includes how are we going to communicate with our guests? You know at the ratner companies whether it's at our bubble, salons our ceylon salon, cielo hair cuttery. We want to make sure that we're connecting you know we want. We want to do incredibly fashion forward current haircuts. You know we're going to be famous for hair color, but we're going to connect with our guests and that's what it's really about. So our education is about connecting there's got to be a. Why and a purpose to everything that we do so you know there's so many talented hairdressers out there. Sometimes we can feel a little disconnected from our culture as a whole from a culture of talented salon. Professionals that inspire us every day, so, if you're interested, we would love to have you as part of our team. If you go to ratnerco.com careers, you can see all the opportunities that are available to be part of our team to kill it behind the chair. Just to connect with guests every day, opportunities in education, opportunities and leadership. You know what i love is sometimes, especially when you're in cosmetology school. You can't see the forest for the trees and you don't know what is this license going to mean when it comes in the mail or when we get that license? It'S really an unlimited passport to wherever you want to go and um that, especially with the ratner companies, is here to support you and wherever that journey wants. You want that journey to take you so guys. I have another question from shelly: in new jersey is sharon just using the razor on the back layers? What about the front layers? So the i mean the side panel, okay, so side panel? I have already created the layering technique. Remember i took some center guide and brought everything to my guide, so i have already created the layering on the side, so i don't need to go in to my side panel, so shelly. That was a great question just to reinforce what sharon just said. We think about megan's hair is individually fine in its texture and it's not as dense on the sides. There'S not as much of it so sharon over directed everything to the top and cut it here. So there isn't as much like straight at a 90 degree elevation to the side the way we normally would think about doing this, because we lose too much of this balance of the shape. Then, in the back, because we have more hair, it's more dense, even though it's still fine sharon was taken out at 90 degrees. So all the layering happened up here in front of the ears and all the layering happened back here behind the ears great question: shelly thanks for paying attention - and i have another one from tara. It says i saw you use frizz layer to prep dry hair for the razor at wow. Did you use any products to prep the hair today today? All i did was i shampooed her hair with cbd, who loves the cvd, moisture, shampoo and conditioner. So, to give that the foundational the moisture into her hair and all i did was just spray nasonadi, which is our lip and moisturizing a prep cutting prep tool or detangler. That'S all i use on her hair well and sharon. You know we have so many people, not just um in our ratner culture. Sibu is the hair product line that we have as proprietary to the ratner company. So we really, it is the salon professionals brand. You know we test it, we develop it and we have it for our salon professionals. It really gives us the tools to create the hair and the salons and for our guests to recreate it at home and sharon. I know one of the things that i'd like to do is welcome everybody who's joined us not from the beginning. You know there's a little bit of fomo. I know if i was scrolling through, and i saw this amazing look and i didn't know how we got from point a to here. I feel like i missed out, so you want to do just one more, just a little brief review of how we got started and how we wound up here. Okay, so first thing that we did was took a triangle section from high point of her head to about middle of her eyebrow to create that fringe, and i use my one finger. Elevation divide that into half and create a one finger elevation and give this awesome fringe on megan from there to another triangle, to her temple and then another triangle to her cheekbone another triangle to behind the ear and kept that elevation very low. And i use my razor keep it very low and soft short strokes and create that the side then we went in and with the scissors created, our perimeter shape with the deep point cutting and then i took center guide from top of her head, brought everything and Create the shape short to long, because i want the maximum volume maximum movement through her crown area and then from there i took guide each section to my center guy brought everything up, so it created another short to long shape. Lisiana. Can you see that so her shape is this this, and this took everything to the center so create a short to long and then in the back pivoting from the high point to everything straight out 90 and use my razor and blend from that layer? To my length with a short strokes with my razor and sharon, what i love is, we talked once again you're holding your razor like a pen or a pencil you're using your finger and not your wrist. So your body position can maintain all that and i love you can even see as megan's hair is drying. People worry about razor cutting. Looking frizzy, we know we prepped the hair with our sibu, our ratner company sibu shampoo, that has cbd oil for softness. Without weighing the hair down, i saw salon leader, tracy tottaglio, using it and loving it. We love that you guys love sibu. We love that you guys love the cbd, but what i love is you need moisture in the hair to have texture. I'M sure megan would tell us megan when your hair is dry, i'm sure it just hangs and it's limp and then people say: oh, my hair is dry. Then you use too heavy of a conditioner and it's flat because it looks like somebody combed your hair, with a pork chop, it's all oily and greasy and flat. So we got to find the right way to do it. What i love is cbd does that it really gives you the right amount of moisture to activate the bonds in your hair. That um gives it its undulation the movement of the texture and curl great job. You know it really shows off that color that you did sharing so now, i'm going in and looking at her shape, and i want to create some openings, because i really want to expose that that color underneath okay, i love the continuity and tone too because of This beautiful um softened pink. We use some mercury and some smoke to soften this tone. It really matches the coolness interval right. It'S a total look. I don't know if that might have been a happy accident, but i think it works. I love it. It'S a great opportunity to have another conversation with your guests. You know when your guests want something new and you don't know where to start look at the cosmetics, they're wearing and obviously even if it was subconscious that's what they're choosing is it gives you a place to start a conversation. So with my razor okay first thing: i want to go in about 45, so i can really feel the hair biting my razor and then my razor go perpendicular to the floor, so i can really carve that c shape. So somebody joined us late. Mona asked: why use two different tools instead of just using your shears all over? Can you just get the same? Look by just using your shears just joined us sharon. I'Ll answer that question because you know i love to use both tools if and mona. Thank you for that. I think it's really important to have ownership of our tools and know in the why so mona when you think about a sheer the way, a sheer cuts, the hair, the sheer cuts hair to a strong, solid, blunt point. That is a great opportunity where we really need to see strength on a guest in the salon like megan, that has individually fine hair strands, but sometimes in a cut like this, if we cut everything really strong, you can see where every cut mark was made. So if you look with a magnifying glass and hair, that's been cut with a razor sharon goes in at a 45 degree angle. She feels the bite and then she cuts it. The end of the hair is cut to a wispy point that is still nice and strong. It'S not fuzzy, it doesn't look dry and fly away, but it gives you movement and it softens all the lines that would have been created with the shear. So i choose my shear when i want to see the strength. I choose my razor when i want to see maximum movement, and that is you know. Sometimes we talked about it like a needle and thread um, putting panels of hair together great question mona. Thank you. Yeah and i feel like when you're using razor um think about it. If you are sculpting um, i can go in and really sculpt the areas that i want to expose well and what i loved about what you did is you really showed how you're carving away the shape to really expose the color you freehand painted and pre-lightened? Some of these sections, they got really creative. We talked about using our smoke and our mercury to soften our tones. But if you guys have just joined us, um we're gon na pick three lucky winners for the guys that are liking and sharing and staying till the end are going to get this great redken balayage kit. It has longer bristle brushes that are a little softer to allow you to paint surface areas. It has really stronger short, bristle brushes to get in there and really saturate the hair some arc brushes with a diagonal line to create detailing. I love these big mascara wands. Oh, my god, those are my yes, those are my favorite and then, when you think about it, there are times when we want to use a small board to get into those angles around the face. It'S the difference between using a short bladed shear and a long blade this year. The width of our balayage panels are the same way. Sometimes we want these really bold panels of color. We want to saturate it. We want to work effectively and efficiently and not take a lot of time and then sometimes we want to detail this great gift, donated by redken 75 value for three winners and stick with us to the end and take this journey. We so thank you for your enthusiasm, your comments, taking some time out of your day to join us to see this haircut come to life on megan, i'm really liking how her natural texture is coming through. I'M really exposing that color that we have created, and i mean you know she doesn't have any styling product in her hair at this moment. Just like steve said earlier, you know those of you who are afraid to use a razor that creating the frizziness her hair feels really good, and there is i mean the the lines are really. If you can see there is not hair in her hair, because i use a fresh blade and also you know, the hot tip is anytime. You use a razor, you have to go in 45 and really feel that fight, and so you can make a really clean line. That'S such a great point: sharon, if you don't feel the bite of the razor you're, scraping it along the cuticle you're, just making the hair fuzzy, and we know that a lot of salon professionals haven't had the right education. You know one of the great things about the ratner companies. Here is our education that we have for everybody from the foundational classes that we start our journey with and our smart start. We won't jump you behind the chair. If you don't have a lot of experience, we know it can be very anxiety producing and that can make our guests anxious. So we can start with foundational education all the way up. But when you're just scraping that razor along we'll have some guests, who've had a bad experience, we're gon na have to reintroduce them to the razor. We have to really build their confidence, and you talk about holding it at a 45 degree angle. Talk about why we want to use it, so we can really not see where all the scissor marks were made right. It cuts the style, the razor cuts, the style into the hair. It takes less time to style for the guest at home. You give them the value you give them the. Why and it keeps us inspired as salon. Professionals makes all the difference. Okay, so i'm gon na put some a little bit of a styling product um. This is one of my favorite. It'S high density, volumizing cream. What i love about cream based product for curly, hair or wavy hair? Is it really puts that moisture back into the hair guys? I see you're loving this look i see. Mickey price is loving the way the fringe turned out. I think that combination of the color and the cut that sharon just did is amazing. Um, not choosing what i love about these colors are. They aren't, as in your face, they're a little soft and they're a little burnished they're, not going to look like they're faded in a couple days, they're going to wear well with the hair, because there's so much organic shape to this. We really used megan's natural wave as an inspiration. You can even see in the placement of the color, the color in the fringe when she turns back around works really well, but i know brett tyler, i'm glad you're enjoying it as well. I'M glad you guys were able to take this journey april grow. I know that color, especially with that brunette. Sometimes we think that we can't have fashion colors, live against a brunette base and you can see with megan's hair, especially it makes it even more fashion forward. It looks really just just elegant and evolved fashion: colors can be young and fun and they can also be very elegant and runway ready and you can see sharon cut the style into the hair, so the high density, the volumizing cream, it just polishes her hair texture. So holly karns loves the color combination holly. We love it too, when you think about it. Sometimes we i just i'm partially yellow, i think, yellow, makes everything great. I know you're wearing some pale yellow tones in your hair sharon, but thinking about that pink in that yellow they're, both cool without being severe, you know, when you think about yellow, can skew sometimes golden and warm, and then it can be pale and have this you Know cool tone that can live in a palette with pinks with brunettes, and i think it gives us this soft burnished look and what i love is it's not going to feel faded because we softened softened it all. We talked about taking the teeth of it out with mercury and smoke, using something that's a little silvery, a little gray to make it not so in your face, but still be really fashion forward and elegant. And i just think that when your guests are used to seeing tones and combinations together using a pink and a yellow in the same palette with a brunette, it's so flattering and at the same time it's so fresh. And i love the fact that you know that square shape, which is so modern, it's effortless, i'm not making. I think all you need now is a guitar you're ready to go on tour with this haircut you're. Making me want to join a band where you have many fans. Are writing in that you look fabulous. You look like you could relate to caitlyn ford. You were meant for this cut and color combo rock star, also hello, to linda from michigan thanks for watching yeah. Linda, thank you for keeping the razor alive in the salons. I love that you're loving your razor cuts and sharon, one of the things i'd love to do. You know megan looks incredible here, but if we just look at these heads behind her, the foundation of every one of these looks was created with this technique. Yes, so when you think about um - and really i love this - to show them all strong fringes, this one - we took the length off, so it's not as severe and we created more texture here. This is the look in its purest form from our all-american mosaic collection. As you can see the exact way we cut megan's hair it just this is nice and smooth to give you all that versatility. Then you have the guests that want a stronger sexier fringe. It'S a little more mysterious. I know sharon. This is one of your favorites. How did you style this so this mannequin has natural wave, so all i did was just enhance her wave just like how i did with the megan, but i you know what i went was um. If you can give me my curling iron, okay, i love like enhancing. You know our guest natural texture, so all i did was just grab a section of the hair and just wrap my curling iron leaving the inside well and that's what i love about that look sharon it brings. You can have the short fringe in this length and we don't think sometimes i'm putting curl in the fringe, because we're afraid it's going to not lay down it's not going to look great. But now you have this continuity with the whole shape and that's really gives you that modern rocker look. It allows a fringe to work on those shapes, so the difference between this - and this is you see, the fringe is very, very strong and it almost went to her side panel. That'S why i love this haircut and what i love about this one is: you took the fringe a little more narrow and started in arc shape, yes, and it once again that arc lives lower across the. I call that the eyelash it's a little more fashion forward. It definitely is a statement, but you still, we still use the bone structure, so you come across the the eyelashes and then just the apple that the cheek carves that out and has that come straight down, so we're seeing roundness and then strong geometry that comes through At the end - and then we talked about this great one here, where we just really took it fashion forward and then used our technique called splash of color, where we work around the roundness of the head shape. We put some tones underneath so the color pops out. So, even on individually fine hair strands, it creates the illusion of individually thicker hair and it shows off the texture that that razor is creating to really give you that interest and take some classic inspirations and make them modern. So guys. I have one more question: brett tyler asked: would she be able to wear this look smooth as well as being cut to her texture? Yes, so, as you can see, megan's haircut is actually exactly the same technique. The exact same haircut so sharon we brought created our face framing, we left it a little longer. All the layers in front of the ear were brought up to the top. Yes and then all the layers in the back were brought straight out at 90 degrees, because what we're really doing is leaving the roundness of the head shape, but then creating the illusion of strong geometry in a silhouette. As you can see in the back see her layers are pretty short compared to length right. That'S what a razor can do for you right, so imagine what kind of movement this can create and then what i love about, megan's hair that we did is for those suppose, the guys that came in late. I know this took forever to style. How long do you think it took you to put this style into her hair for like what 10 seconds 10 seconds i mean you know, that's why i love you know um catering, to our modern clients, um. You know who really has so much time in the morning to really get ready. You know i really want to enhance their lifestyle, so work with what you have. They have wavy. They have curly hair. You know work with what you got and just enhance it. So guys, thank you so much for taking this journey with us sharon. I know that um, we love to have young, enthusiastic, passionate salon professionals that have purpose, because we want to work with you to prosper. We have so many opportunities for careers to go to ratnerco.com careers, to see all of the opportunities from salon professional to leadership to education. We talked about the 20-year journey. You took this you've had every role, but in our company we're not just looking at the magazines. We'Re not looking at pinterest we're not looking online, of course, they're a resource we're sending teams of salon professionals with our leadership to fashion week. Our ratner co company sends those teams there to get first-hand inspiration to come back. Put together collections. We have our all-american mosaic collection, it's really celebrating the individuality of each one of our salon, guests. Just more than anything, i think it's remembering to connect with the guests, build those relationships, we're really in an industry and a culture of connections and relationships and we're fortunate enough to get to do hair and create art right. Okay and education is to keep your success really. You know me and steve we're constantly. You know looking for a resource to really learn more and um. You know share everything that we know. Okay - and i learned from you, know everyone out in the field and your feedback is greatly appreciated and you know be be open to new things and with the haircuts like this, which is modern uh, you could say shag mullet, you know you're thinking, you know, none Of my guesswork, you know go for things like this, but you can modify by length and also texture, so have fun guys. Okay, it's all about having right, it's all about having fun! Thank you so much on behalf of valerie on behalf of feliciano sharon. I'M always inspired by you megan. Thank you for taking this journey with us. Thank you to all of you. We can't wait to see you in the digital world on facebook. We can't wait to see you in one of our salons at one of our educational events. Please keep having fun keep posting your beautiful work and stay tuned right here, you're going to see the list of the three winners of our redken balayage kits. Thank you for taking this journey have an amazing day and an amazing career.