How To Cut Bangs And Layers On Asian Hair - Thesalonguy

Hey guys, if you want to learn how to achieve this, gorgeous layered haircut then definitely watch today's video. What'S going on YouTube, Stephen is salon guy here and today I've got Hannah with me. Who'S gon na be my model and we're going to do the consultation now and talk about what we're doing with her hair. So this is going to be live. The consultation just like if I was treating her as a regular client. This is what we're going to be doing for the haircut today. So obviously she's got Asian hair and which is pretty much straight for the most part. Sometimes you'll see people will think agent. Hair has a little bit of a wave to it. You have like a slight wave right like a little bit a little bit of a wave yeah, which is nice, which is nice so looking at her hair right into here. One thing that she didn't mention to me is that she does need to keep some of the length, and I said, I'm not gon na listen to you, I'm shaving it off no, but she said she does need to keep. You know some of the lengths. It'S because of some of her studies and her work and stuff like that she needs to be able to pull it back. So I mean even with a ponytail, we have some room to take some length off. So right is that cool. If we can take some length off, okay, so um, the first thing I like to do is I want to make sure that you know when you, when you pull the hair back, you vision a ponytail and you say: okay. What am I left with down through here? What can I really do? How much can I take off? Then you start to work through the hair and you start to see what kind of movement is going on and right now, I'm not really seeing a lot a lot of movement. She has some texture throughout the ends here, which I find very very interesting, and I think you mentioned to me that in some of your past haircuts, the stylist really thinned it out a lot right with like thinning, shears and stuff like that yeah, which which helps Which is you know it's not necessarily that method I would take, because if you're, if it's not done properly thinning shears could really cause a lot of damage to the hair. You know I mean yours, doesn't look too bad, but what's really interesting is that the ends are a bit thinner down in through here, so which is helpful for her, because her hair is so thick. So what I want to do is I want to actually create you know some real movement in through here, not by utilizing thinning shears, because what that doing it, that's actually removing a bunch of you know uneven kind of sections and through here what I'd rather do Is actually create real layers have have a consistent flow to it and something that's going to create a little more shape and moving into here, because right now, it's basically just hanging straight down and fitting the hair is great for certain areas, but it doesn't do anything For any sort of volume and any sort of shape, so what we're gon na do is we're gon na kind of clean. This up we're gon na keep a nice sweeping fringe going in through here, and what I want to do is I don't know if I can connect this fully, because if I do, she won't be able to pull all this back. This was already kind of a pre-existing fringe that she has right in through here, as you guys can see so there's a few things we can do is either you know. If I were to connect this in through here, then I have to obviously cut all this off and kind of work it down something she probably don't want to do so. We'Re gon na we're gon na have to look at this section into here and maybe clean this up and just kind of tidy up this sweeping fringe and we're gon na create kind of my signature. Layered haircut, which is gon na, create a lot of volume. A lot of movement very, very pretty and she'll still be able to wear it back. So I think I've talked enough. Are you ready, so I'm ready to go? Let go sorry alright, so I'm going to start by spraying 25 spray into Hannah's hair and she doesn't have the hair type. That would really get a whole lot of knots, but 25 spray is a great pre-cutting spray. It helps keep the hair, nice and moisturized, and also literally just comb right through it and there's like no tangles whatsoever, really an incredible cutting lotion, an incredible styling spray, a pre styler. I mean it's unreal, this stuff. So what I'm going to do now is I'm simply gon na comb through her hair and we're gon na section off in four different quadrants and then we're gon na start with the base length. So I pretty much have my sections ready to go throughout the back again. It'S really just separating the front from the back, which is usually behind the ear moving forward, and then I don't really use any clips. I just kind of pushed the hair out of the way, but one thing I did discover, which was interesting was that in on the bottom of her hair, I could see that it is a bit more on the kind of wispy or side throughout the ends here And that is from the hair being thinned out, as you can see down through here. So my goal is to actually reverse that and make it a much more of a solid, healthier, looking type shape and then I'll remove the weight by layering it. So it's not just me removing all this, because I don't want this to look like this. I want this to grow out and even in two months from now, it's gon na have a beautiful shape. I don't want the end to look very stringy like this because of being over thinned, so what we're gon na do is. This is very traditional in my videos, where we create the length first, and we do again. We do have some room to bring up the length a little bit, so I am gon na be cutting a decent amount, not a whole lot. It'S still gon na be long, but enough that her and I will notice how it's going to really strengthen up the bottom into here. So, let's skim through this we're all going to bring this down to one section right throughout the back here and we're going to cut a nice solid straight line again, if you're new, to watching my videos when we get to this point here, I always suggest that You keep the corner behind the ear. This way that I'm not going to be bringing this out to cut the big to cut this corner. I want to keep this so that we can extend it going forward. Trust me you'll be thanking me later, but comb it right behind the ear straight down this way. So, let's finish up the back and then we'll be ready to move on to the next part, so a protip with asian hair is that you really want to comb. The hair very thoroughly to make sure that the haircut is very consistent. Asian hair is very, very thick and sometimes has a tendency to kind of hide under itself. So you want to always make sure that you're combing the hair, because you don't want to miss any any spots, so be very, very thorough. With this, and once you feel that you have the right length which we're just finishing up now and then you can we're going to move into the side. Okay, so now that the back is complete in through here we have a nice solid line. Now we're going to continue this shape in through these sides and then work it into the front. I'M going to stand in front of the area that I'm going to cut and if we comb this all straight down, we can really see the story behind. What'S going on here, which really isn't a whole lot and that's what we're gon na be doing right now is kind of creating a whole new shape. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to freehand this by just cutting and following the length and through here alright. So what I'm doing now is I'm basically standing in front and I'm going to establish a little bit of a face frame to create some movement and some softness in through here, so that, as she wears her hair down, it's not going to be so heavy. Alright. So I like to comb the hair towards me and I'm going to cut with my fingers pointing up working downwards this way. So it's gon na be a lot of combing towards me and a bit towards the face so that we can create a nice perfect, symmetrical shape that works all the way from here upwards into this way. So right now, I'm combing everything a bit more forward. This way lots of over direction, so I'm combing it all towards me like this right from that division. Point which separates the front from the back and what this is gon na do. For me, it's gon na ensure that I'm gon na have a nice solid, even flow going in through this way. What we're doing is we're really strengthening up this area in through here, so we're gon na comb. This all straight down again, it's very, very important to continue to comb through the hair and to make sure everything is even and balanced and look as you can see, we're now getting rid of like kind of that more finer ends, and what we're doing is we're Really strengthening off the shape right into here, so I like to create this as opposed to this side, which is a lot more thinner and wispy. So, as you can see the difference, this is a lot of a lot more stronger and then it's going to even build on top this when we work in through the internal shape. So I'm going to do the same thing on the other side and then we'll start the layering process. Okay. So what I like to do with this hair texture is sometimes have to be a little more aggressive with it, and you have to take a little bit. Thicker sections, because you want to see how the hair is gon na react pretty much real time and instantly and if there's not enough hair in this section, you're not gon na be able to see. What'S going on. So I've noticed over the years of working with Asian hair is that you really have to be a little more aggressive with it and not be afraid, and you just have to really just cut it. You know you have to have the vision, see it and then do it, because it can be a little bit intimidating, especially if the hairs, because the hair is so thick and because the hair is so straight. So in my years of doing this and cutting hundreds and hundreds of haircuts on Asian hair, I've learned this that it's much easier for me. So now what we've done is I'll just spin her around real quick, as you can see even from this part right into here. We really created a beautiful angle and I haven't - I haven't - really touched this yet the fringe area. But again what I really want to do is set up a foundation which I can see is is happening right before my eyes, which is great. So what I want to do is just again comb down. I want to check, make sure I'm happy with the flow of this and I'm just gon na refine anything that I feel needs to be refined and a lot of it. As you can see, I'm doing it by freehand um. This is not necessarily even using a comb the whole time, I'm just doing everything freehand, because sometimes that reacts the best. So it's a lot of just working with the hair type and really trying to create the best movement and already, as you can see here now, we have gorgeous shape on both sides and now we're going to start the layering process. So now we're going to work in through this area right in through here, and the first thing I want to do is now this particular hair type. You do have a little more room to create some layers because that's what's going to show a bit more movement on this hair type, if I were to cut them really really really long. You know, and the layer go down through here - you'll see a little throughout the ends, but with Asian hair. I noticed that sometimes you have to go just a hair shorter to really create that beautiful volume and that beautiful shape, which is what we're gon na do we're gon na we're still gon na, keep it long on top, but I'm holding it straight up, and I Can already see you can't even see because it's it's so thin down here - you really can't even see through it because of it being so thinned out from the last haircut. So I'm going to hold my arms straight out like this and now we're gon na cut. All of this kind of thinned out, hair off and now look. You can already see it's a much, much more solid line. Okay and I'm trying to keep this in frame because one I'm sodium short, okay, I want to make sure that you guys uh, you know - can see this. This is a very common prayer cut for me. You'Ve seen this a bunch of times if you haven't this is my layering process right in through here to where my first section is right. On top, I'm gon na bring another section straight up right, underneath it like this, I'm combing it straight up. There'S my guide! Underneath which is right there, as you can see, and we're gon na cut straight across so now we're doing is we're strengthening up the layering right in through here and I'm gon na take one more section. I don't usually like to go super low with this. I usually bring it too right to where the occipital is, because I want to keep some weight in through the bottom of the hair. So, let's comb this straight up here and we're gon na match this up so you're, going to notice not a whole lot of hair is gon na be coming off, because now we're actually blending and connecting everything. So then, we'll drop this down comb this out of the way I'm gon na do the same thing on this side and then we'll come back and I'll. Show you how to connect this part. So when connecting the layers in the back, what I like to do is comb everything really straight out from the head like this and what's gon na happen is we're gon na pick up from where we left off right into this area and that's what we're seeing Right now and we're gon na extend this all the way to the bottom. You definitely don't want to miss out on this part or skip through this. I'M literally combing, as you can see the entire nape area right in through here. This is all being combed in one shot, because you want to make sure that everything is connected, and this is the length that drops out and then this is what falls on top of it. So watch as you can see, everything falls on top of it perfectly and it's perfectly connected. So what I'm gon na continue to do now is I'm working up the head shape - and I just like to do this just to double-check everything to make sure it is all balanced. So this whole section right here is completely done and we're going to use this kind of as our guide right here right in the middle. As you can see, this whole section is done and now we're going to take vertical sections and we're going to connect the entire back of the head and a quick tip when doing the corners. Is you want to make sure that everything is pulled behind the ear when you're layering? Okay, all this right here - we're gon na comb? It straight back, we're not going to layer it out here we're gon na layer it here, so we're keeping and maintaining the weight. Very very important, as we come around through this side of the head shape so follow along as we finish this up and then we'll connect the top in the back all right. So the back is now done with the layers and we have a beautiful shape. Now we've got some great movement in through here and now we're going to connect the back into the top. So I'm happy to see that in a lot of my recent videos of me, explaining all this to people that they are grasping, this and they're really understanding the concept of the connection, if you're new to this channel and the first time you're watching this. This was the hardest part. Is how do you? How do you go from here to here right? How do you make that connection and the best way to do it? Is you don't want to take a section horizontally like this straight up and cut because at least that I think, because what happens is you can you can create a whole new section and a whole new layer in the back, which is what you don't want? What I do is I follow the head shape around and I cut everything vertically. So what I mean by that? Well, let's spin the camera around this way and I'm gon na comb. This all straight up now remember the hair there you can see it. There'S the hair right there and I'm cutting that straight across, so keep in mind that you know this part doesn't go straight up. The hair grows. You know straight out from the head, not straight up, but straight out, which means it can go like this up until right at this point and the hair in the front could even go out like this. So a lot of people think like oh, the hair grow straight up from the head. Where it doesn't, it grows straight out from the head. So what we're doing now is we're actually just creating a connection between the top here and the back so that we work forward and then everything is connected this way. So what I want you to do, if you're, following along or if you're you know a stylist, the next client you work on here's the guide right here and just follow this pattern like this and you'll, be really good to go so, keep in mind, I'm not Going into the corners yet I like to break down haircuts in three different sections: it's the top, the corners and the sides right. That'S very, very important! If you keep it that simple, then things will be a lot easier during your haircutting experience. So now that we have this all done we're now at the point where the hair is growing straight up from the head this way and remember, we do have a fringe that we have to cut so we don't have a whole lot of hair and the very Very top that cut, but here is where I'm gon na comb everything straight up, because we've already cut the angle already right so now straight across and this part right here and then what I like to do is to just go back in and comb everything to Make sure it's all even and all blended in and yes, we're in good shape. So let's bring this right in through here on the very very front to make sure that we have all this hair cut and balanced combing. It'S right up and literally, hardly anything to cut, which is great, because it means we're in good shape now the corners right. So the top is right down the middle, the corners and the sides. If you can break that down when you're cutting it's gon na make life a lot easier for you, so the corners are best described as where the head starts to round off right into this area. This is kind of like the corners right here. This is where the hair does grow straight out from the head. There is the actual corner that I'm gon na cut and then I'm going to extend this all the way down to the very very bottom again: we're not gon na be cutting the length all that hair that dropped out that's the length. But what you want to do is you want to cut on top of that, because that is what gives the hair of the movement a lot of times. I see hair cuts when people come in to me and they complain that the hair isn't moving. While I comb this out - and I go oh - and I wonder because there's all this longer hair or laying over this - which is what's making it heavy, so it's really really really important that you do this all right, so we're going to continue the corners and then The sides and then we'll come back when we're ready to do the other side. What I'm doing now is I'm actually preparing her hair for the fringe area and when I, whenever I cut bangs or the fringe, it's like a whole other process. It'S like a whole other haircut for me. I take it very very seriously, so I always joke around and say give the best bangs ever yeah, and I really really treat this as it's like its own, unique haircut. So what I'm gon na do is I'm just gon na section this off, and you want to be careful that - and I see this a lot you know in the hairline area right in through here. You want to be careful that you're not pulling hair from this part right in through here, see how this was long. This is good a lot of times. You may take a section and you may be like. Oh you know it lays over this. This is part of it. You just don't ever want to cut this hair on the hairline, because it's not gon na work out to all. So that's why you want to lift up the hair like this and separate this from the rest, so comb this all out of the way and what we're doing is we're creating kind of like a triangular section right throughout the top here, and what I've done is. As you can see, this is the section that I created right in through here, alright, which is following where the bangs live, so we're just really creating a nice area to work in to create this. So now we'll do this live on camera so Hannah. Let'S ask a couple of questions here: do you ever sweep the hair all over to one side like the bangs like? Do you bring it like way over or do you let this part kind of like sweep over this way and this park over that way? Yeah yep, so basically, what we'll do is we'll create this going short to longer. This way, right, that'll be the one side and then the other side for the most part. You always sweep it over like that all right. So, let's comb this all straight down and her hair naturally wants to split basically right here - it's very obvious, sometimes with clients. You know it's a very, very severe part which is like no that's splits. You can't fight it. So I'm gon na pick up right from here call this out-of-the-way and what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this going shorter to longer and it's not a whole lot of hair to work with. To be honest with you, so we're gon na comb down, so I'm gon na vision, where I want this to start, and I'm gon na cut shorter to longer right in through this area, leaving this a bit longer so that it sweeps over this way. Okay and to me, it's still a bit long, so I'm gon na continue to work in through here to make sure that it's the length that I'm looking for and now what I'll do is I'll go in and I'll just cut the ends right in through here. So that we have a nice little sweeping fringe right just in this corner right into here, and then I'm going to go in here and we're going to layer it like that just to remove a little bit of that weight. So it softens it up and it allows it to kind of sweep over a little bit more alright. So now we're gon na be done with this side. We'Re gon na move into the other side and remember this was completely separated. So it's not connected down through here, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut working upwards on an angle, a slight angle going shorter all the way to longer this way, so we're maintaining this nice little sweep. Look at that. It'S very, very sharp. A nice little angle, but the thing is it's not over here, because I don't like to have it just one clump of hair: that's a sweeping bank, so I like to go one step further. Where I'll take this corner and I'll actually cut the corner, because, what's going to happen, is the hair will become so heavy that it's actually not going to sweep over believe it or not? So when you get rid of this corner, it allows it to kind of sweep over much easier. I think it's a big misconception that people think like the where you have it going longer into here. What that does is it actually prevents it from flowing over? So I like to kind of just get rid of this corner, just a little bit coming upwards. This way. So now we're going to layer this a little bit right into here, so comb, the hair straight up, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this top layer, which is right over this section right into here and then it's take this whole thing And we're kind of over directing over this way, combing it straight up. There'S that wait. We need to remove I'm not cutting the length, I'm just cutting on top and what that's doing is its allowing it just to have a gorgeous flowing shape like this, which will give you much more movement now. It has a much nicer flow going across this way. So now, let's just do this into here, make sure this was all balanced and even over here - and I also like to just take this whole section right in through here like this, and I like to always comb it straight up just to check any sort of Balance because what this does, is it actually softens up on this side, and then we have this beautiful, now, look how much volume she has, even in this little fringe area right through here, she's got gorgeous volume, a beautiful flow to it. Look at that not just one heavy clump of so now. What I want to do is I want to blow-dry the hair and then we are going to see the finished result. So, let's start with the finish and then we'll do the breakdown. Alright, I'm gon na start with using support cream as the first product and then I'm going to mix a little bit of my new product sleek, which is a very lightweight smoothing serum I'm gon na apply that to her hair and then we'll blow-dry it and we'll See how it looks so support cream is designed to give the hair a little bit of hold, and it's going to support the style. That'S why it's called support cream. So it's going to support the style, give it a little bit of hold and texture, which is gon na, be great for your hair, then I'll. Take one pump of sleek work it through, and the great thing about sleek is that compared to you know most smoothing serums. This is very, very lightweight. It'S not heavy at all. It smells incredible, has a lot of benefits to it. Only a couple handful of ingredients - and it's really really amazing - so now we're going to blow-dry, alright guys so now it is time for the money shot and I did use the Dyson air wrap to blow-dry her hair, which literally took me minutes to blow-dry her hair. I use it up a couple different attachments, so bring her hair forward. This way right there - and here we go, look at that huh look at that shape. Is that gorgeous, or what look at all this volume and look at how this beautiful kind of sweeping fringe comes? In now we created a totally different type of shape for this, and she has so much movement and so much volume in through here. It'S incredible! So now what we've done is we've created a lot of texture throughout the ends here, but it's a lot more of a solid type texture instead of having it so wispy and thin from using the thinning shears. So we have a lot of movement into here. A lot of gorgeous layers, as you can see, and just by me lifting this up, look at all that volume she has so we've we've kind of recreated the shape a little bit without a sort of thinning that any sort of texturizing that's gon, na reshape or Damage the hair at all, so I think mission accomplished here: let's just take the Cape off and we'll see the final look gorgeous right and it's amazing. We did all this without having it being super short. You know very, very sexy right, exactly exactly all right. So, let's do the breakdown, she can't stop, touching it and looking at herself in the monitor, which isn't pretty normal again. What I want to do is create a nice solid foundation right in through here, so she now has a beautiful layered shape into here, rather than having to have had me, go in and just thin out with thinning shears. Now it's actually thinned out properly without changing the integrity of the structure we created a nice solid foundation, worked in a face frame on both sides into here. So we do have a nice pretty angle in through here, going away from the face, and then we created some internal layering, which is beautiful. The fringe, as you can see, looks absolutely stunning, and then we blow-dried it, and here is the finished result. Well, Hannah is a new woman. Now, right, you feel, how do you feel you feel great right awesome and it's amazing it's what you guys would take note that, like you know, Asian hair is definitely not easy to get a lot of volume and texture and movement into here, because it is naturally So heavy, but look what I've done with the shape you just we scrunch it like that and look at that. It'S got all sorts of movement. It'S it's beautiful! It'S still long. She still has the length you know, even though she didn't need a huge night-and-day makeover. We just created a whole new, much more fluid shape with what she currently had or what she had before. So I'm really really happy with it. Don'T forget to Like comment and subscribe and click the bell so you're notified when my videos go live. Thank you guys. So much for watching and I'll see you next time for more videos with a salon.