How To Cut And Style Layer Bangs | Bottleneck Bangs Haircut Tutorial

And today we are talking about bottle neck bangs, so i will get to that in one minute. But if you're just tuning in type in where you're tuning in from i love to see where everyone is coming in from around the world and if you're watching the replay, thank you so much for taking the time to spend with us today. This is gon na. Be a quick one: it's on bangs or fringe and yeah. It'S gon na be fun. I if i have never met you, i am a hair stylist. Just like most of you are. I work behind the chair and then i do education for lonza, i'm located in southern california, so actually not too far from our home office of santa monica just north of la and yeah i love um yeah, i love being a hair stylist. It'S what i wanted to do since high school and i absolutely love being in education, love sharing and meeting other passionate stylists. So thank you for joining me today, hey everyone! I see everyone tuning in awesome: louisiana, uk, hey, stefan new zealand, awesome, okay, so let's jump right into this. We are going over bottleneck, bangs and, if you're anything like me, when i first heard this, i'm like what the heck here we go. Another funny like trend and, as we know, trends take a while to come to our chair, so we'll see something from 2021 and this was um. Bottleneck bangs were actually inspired by margot robbie in august of 2021 on the cover of vogue here, and i just clicked off the picture. So you can kind of see this here and so now it's going to start hitting our it takes anywhere from 6 months to 18 months, for it to get to our salon chairs depends on if our clients are early, adopters or late adopters and so yeah. This is something that you could be seeing your clients bringing in, because we we all know that our clients love to pinterest everything, and so it's something you could be seeing coming into your chair. So if your client comes to you and says i want bottleneck, bangs and you're like what the heck is, a bottleneck, bang, i'm going to share with you what that is. So here we go a bottleneck, bang why it's called. That is because it starts kind of narrow, like if you imagine like an old coca-cola glass, bottle right. It starts kind of narrow at the top, and then it widens out around the shoulders and kind of slims back in like where you would grab it. On a coke bottle right and then it hugs their face, so some of you also might be thinking because one of the things that i immediately thought last night when i saw these i'm like oh, this is kind of just like a curtain bang, and so they Are actually calling bottleneck, bangs the baby sister of the curtain bang, so i did pull some images of curtain bangs for you guys here, and so there are some subtle differences, so you can see like on the curtain bangs if we go back to zoe de chanel From or from new girl her, where it's a lot more heavy right, it could be more of a ledge here and then gets longer in the corners right or it there's not really any short pieces here above that sit above the brow bone. It'S more like a long draped curtain. So here's the main difference right like these are more like a long draped curtain and then there's not a ton of layering here on either picture that really hugs her cheekbones or hits here in between her cheekbone and her jawbone. Whereas if we go back to the curtain, i mean the bottleneck, bang, you can see, there are some shorter pieces right and then it also is going to start hitting and hugging around and in between the cheekbone and the jawbone, and it's also this is client dependent. But typically, what i'm, seeing with the bottleneck? Bang when i look this up, is that it's a little bit softer okay, so it's not as heavy as like a curtain, bang right. So these look a lot heavier they're more like substantial. It'S not a lot of wispiness! It'S kind of dense and they're also styled away from the face, so we're going to talk a little bit about that too, where this is kind of round brush back going back to the bottleneck. This is now going to hug in towards the face, so we're switching up the styling, changing it ever so slightly so again, it's just taking an old style and kind of modifying it, bringing it into 2022. So let's jump right into that all right. So first things like i just washed her: this is going to work on any texture. The one place you want to look out for, though, obviously is if they have cowlicks, so if they have some pretty gnarly cowlicks, i recommend doing this on dry hair only because there are going to be some shorter bits here right at the brow bone. So if you cut this on really wet hair with a lot of tension and you're over directing and then you go to dry this and they have like that cowlick right towards the center part. It'S gon na hop up on you and then all of a sudden, they're gon na have like a baby bang all the way like a micro bang up here and then you know jump down, but if they don't have so that's like step one right, we're always Like when our clients are asking for fringe, we want to be checking their hairline looking for cowlicks. Obviously, erica here has a perfect hairline. She has no funny jumps, so i'm actually going to do this on wet hair and show you how i would style this. I am going to go off like a little bit of a center part. The cool thing, though, about this um bottleneck. Bang, in my opinion, is you could go off like a slight side part and just have like the short bits, wherever their part is that's where you start the short bits, and then you could kind of feather and layer down around from there, so it doesn't have To go off a center part, in my opinion, and you know how we are a stylist, we're always like tweaking things to our clients needs anyways. So i am just going to take a off the center part here, go to the outside corner on a slight diagonal and i'll show you that i'll just clip this away out to the outside corner of her eyebrow and i'll clip that away. And then let me come over here and i'm going to do that again out to the outside brow and on your. Our real clients, like you're gon na see like where they start to recede, is probably gon na. Be the corner of your fringe or you can use um the middle of their brow for a guide if you want or the outside of their brow, it's going to really depend on their density. So if they don't have a ton of density like a lot of hair strands and their hair is kind of fine, then you want to make this section skinnier finer. You don't want to take a lot of fringe like hair in this section, if that makes sense, because then what you're doing like, if they really don't, have a lot of density and they're looking for a strong line here on their length, they don't want to lose A ton of length, then you really have to be careful how much fringe you're pulling out here, because once you pull this out, if you go too far of an angle, they're really you're really going to be taking away from their line here. So, just something to keep in mind when you are when your clients are asking for this. Obviously, consultation is key, so make sure you know your client's hair type and if they're asking for something that doesn't really go with their hair type and there's like, then we have to be honest with our clients. That is our job to say. This is why this won't work for your hair, or this can work for your hair, but this is what it's going to do to your length, so just something to keep in mind. I am going to give this like a little spritz here and you might not see me, but that's, okay. I just want you guys. I'M gon na lower her a little bit, so you can really see this all right. So i got a nice clean section on an angle. There oops push too far there and then a nice clean section coming this way, i'm actually gon na clean this up just a tidy more all right. Okay, so if they did have a lot of density, though you can and their hair pattern is really growing forward here, then you can take this section back a little bit further. Okay. So how far you take your fringe, sectioning back or close to the hairline, depends on density, the more hair they have the further back towards the high point of the head. You can take it the less hair they have the the closer you want to stay to that front, hairline. Okay, so, let's just say she does have a center part. Let'S work off a center part, okay, and if you want this is gon na be all about. Over direction angles, let's just take a little guide right down the center okay, and i think this is going to be the easiest way and keeping it simple. How we can do this, i'm just going to take my straight blade. You can take um, i'm just going to use my shears. You can use a razor, make it even more feathery at the beginning and we're going to put in a guide here and most of these bottleneck. Bangs are hitting right like at the brow bone or in the brow bone when you're cutting on wet hair. We all know that when this dries, this is going to bounce up a little bit, and so i am going to leave myself a little bit of length. I'M gon na stop right at the brow bone. Okay and i have my guide and then i'm just going to softly point cut right into my guide. Okay, so now i have my guide there: okay, it's a little bit longer than where i want, because i'm cutting on wet hair. Now i'm going to use that guide and i'll push this over to this side, all right now. Here'S where i'm gon na have to turn, because i'm gon na get some angles all right. So if this isn't a lot of hair, you can take this all in one chunk like one piece. If this is too much hair for you to control, i recommend sub sectioning on the diagonal here, and you can take that back like that. I'M going to put everything on an angle and over direct this way to leave me once i over direct opposite. It'S going to leave me extra length in this corner here, so i'm going to use this as a guide. This is going to be a very extreme angle and i am going to cut this kind like really blunt because i'm going to soften it after so here's my guide, i'm going to start and i'm envisioning this line here. So i i'm going right and i'm just cutting this straight, really really blunt, i'm going to soften it later, okay, so there it comes on an angle down i'll release. My next section and i'll pick up the section from before here's my guide. I can see my guide under here: let's see if you can see that there and i'm over directing slightly towards the opposite way to leave me extra length in the corner. Again, i'm envisioning this line, cutting it nice blunt and straight okay, and you can see there how it's hitting now right between the cheekbone and the jawbone, and you can use these as points of reference of where you can take this with your guides. Okay, so let's do the opposite! On the other side, this side might be a little bit easier for you to see. I just take an angled section right there. Now i'm going to turn her a little bit this way and i'm going to over direct now towards me. I am right-handed so this side - and here is my guide right here and i'm going to put my fingers kind of on a downward angle. I i'm keeping in mind where i had my hands on her face last time and i'm going to cut this nice and blunt right up to my guide, so you can see that there now drop. My other section i am using i'm going to use the fine teeth of the comb because she doesn't have any cowlicks, i'm putting nice tension on this and keeping it nice and clean and blunt and i'm gon na soften it once i dry it. So i can angle my fingers down like this or if i want, if it's more comfortable, let me see how i would do this with the camera. Sorry there's my back: you can come around this side if it's easier and use your guide and come down this way. If you want it like a little bit softer and surface plane here, i'm going to stick with cutting the blunt line, pulling opposite direction, leaving myself some length in the corner. Taking that extreme angle, here's my guide up here, i'm not cutting past. My second knuckle cutting straight up all right and there's my length in the corner awesome. Now, let's get this stride. Actually i'm going to pull a little bit more down right here in the corner. I'M going to add this down here: perfect. Okay, a couple different ways to dry this: if they have natural, um, wave or texture, you can um just use a diffuser, because i want this fringe to have. I want to be able to really control it. I'M going to use a little bit of our design. Foam, i love this phone because it's not um too too heavy or sticky, but it gives the hair like a nice amount of guts so that i can control it, especially when we're dealing with face framing stuff - and you really want this to be controlled and tucked In and behave the way you want it, okay, so the first thing i'm going to do i'm going to explain before i blow dry, because once i blow dry it's hard to hear me, i'm going to get my base set in. So i'm going to really focus on drying the root section first and i'm going to blow dry straight down mostly focusing on the root again. This is with someone that doesn't have a cowlick, even if they do have a cowlick and it's not too major. I'M gon na blow dry with a flat brush one direction focusing on the root area. I'M constantly my brush and my blow dryer like a truck and a trailer. So wherever my paddle brush is going, is my truck my blow dryer following like my trailer? Okay, then i'm going to switch directions this way and i'm also making sure that i'm swapping my hands so you'll see me swap my tools in my hands so that i can be really nice and ergonomic and i'm not like disconfiguring my body in any way and Then, once i get that dry the root area, then i'm going to focus on the mid lengths and ends again everything with the kern bang was kind of we'd put it on a round brush and style it back, and it was kind of like emulating that 70s Right like that, farrah fawcett, lately like it, was really like winging it out. This is hugging more inside, like towards the face, almost like a hollywood glam, how it hugs on that one side. So now we're going to be rolling everything under and towards the face and then manipulating this the finished style with product. After so here we go. If you want to turn your volume down just a little bit uh the blow dryer is going on in three two one, all right focusing on the root area, getting that root being able to move it in any direction. Okay, now we're going to switch to our round brush and i'm really going to curve this under i'm making sure that i don't touch the blow dryer nozzle to the hair or to the brush the end of our blow. Dryers are very, very hot. So when we get to the side, i'm gon na really focus everything coming towards just how i cut it. My blow dryer is going to mimic that and same with the other side. Okay, all right here we go back to our shears. Here'S where i'm going to start adding in we have our foundation now and we can kind of see where their natural hair fall is too. So we can start adding in some more hair, but this is giving us a nice start right here to the shape. So now i'm going to go back a little bit further and i'm going to add a little bit more right there and here's where i'm going to start to surface plane. So i want to make sure you guys can see. So i have my foundation here and now i'm going to come over top. This is going to look really funny, because you can't see me my arm is going to be, but i'm going to come towards myself and my shear is moving just like a sewing machine and i'm just keeping it at a nice constant pace and adding a little Bit more of that face frame right there yeah! I really like that. I'M going to do the same thing on the other side and then we're going to go in and point cut this, so it's just a little bit softer and not as heavy. So, let's turn her here all right, i'm gon na add in a little bit more of our side, hair lost all my clips. Okay, so on this side i actually have to come around the camera and i'm going to surface plane. The same way, i'm coming towards my body, i'm using my guide that i already established here and just sliding down nice and gentle not going too fast and we're just chipping away at this length. Okay, let's look at that! There we go okay! So now i have my length to where i want i'll - probably re-blow dry, this section a little bit, but let's soften this up now a little bit so to soften this. Let'S get some of these hairs, i'm going to come back around the other side. This is one of my favorite ways to soften and it's nice and easy - and i usually just take my sheer and instead of trying to pick this hair up and make it all clumpy. I comb it straight down. First, i'm gon na cut some of that length out and i use my shear and i just place it on their forehead, and i use my shear to pick up the fringe and then place my fine teeth, comb underneath and then i'm going to that way. It gives me nice, even sectioning, with this hair. Okay, i want to soften this even more so i'm going to go in again and now on this baby part like where it's hitting their brow bone. We have to be careful that we don't deep point cut too much, because if we de-point cut this, what's going to happen, is we're going to take some of these little hairs and they're going to we're going to make them about an inch long and then they're Going to stick straight out from their forehead so really just make sure on this center section that you're just focusing on softening these little bits of the ends there. We go, i'm liking that there okay, so you can cut into it. That way, you can even pinch and cut on the tips. If you want here's another technique, where you just surface plane and you're picking up right, where it feels heavy and you can just soften soften the tips like that, just surface plane right away and make it a little bit choppier that way: okay, so i'm really liking. This this side - and the thing too we have to keep in mind, is even though i cut that blunt line at the beginning on this really our hairlines tend to be, i would say, on ninety percent of our clients. It'S a lot finer hair anyway, so even when we're cutting a blunt line on this hairline here, it's still creating softness because we don't have a ton of density here, so we're creating a little bit of a stronger line. Yes, but it still comes out soft, because this hair tends to be finer around the hairline anyways, so yeah i'm really liking that let me blow dry this side just so. I can check the shape so again we're blow drying this in curving in and we want to. We want to make sure that we are teaching our clients how to style this fringe too, so really make sure that you teach them how to do the root area, because if they start with the round brush - and they start with blow drying their roots up that All of a sudden, if you cut it to their brow bone here and they go home and style it with the round brush only all of a sudden, they're good again they're gon na have these baby bangs and they're gon na be like oh, my gosh. What did i do? They'Re gon na? Have the bang cut regret, so we don't want that. So this side's feeling a little bit heavy to me, but i'm liking the way it's looking on both sides, and i actually i want to tuck this hair up. So you guys can see this more and why i like this fringe too, compared to the curtain. Bang actually is because this is really nice like for second or third day hair, compared to the like current fringe, where it looks, you know when it's just a current fringe or it's that, like heavy uh, zoe de chanel fringe, and they wanted to wear their hair Up it just looks, like i don't know like a shaggy dog almost or like it's just like too too heavy, where these these bottleneck things are a little bit softer. So it's that look where they can have just like these flowy pieces down and like throw the rest of their hair up in a clip or a bun, and it's just a lot yeah a lot simpler. Okay! So it's feeling a little heavy like right here. So all i'm gon na do is just simply pinch where i feel like it's heavy and lighten this up just by again surface planing down on the dry hair, i'm liking that - and i want to connect it here, a little bit more so i'll. Just take a little bit more out there yeah perfect yay all right, so i think we're there and last but not least, of course, most important is product, so different product options. Here it depends on what your clients end result is if they want it. Um super just like kind of wispy soft. I really do like our dry shampoo for this, and we can go in and just kind of give it a little bit of guts and grit, and we can get this to curve in with the dry shampoo if they and then finish it with a hairspray. If they like it more piecey and a little bit like those pieces, more chunky and more pronounced, one of my favorites is earpiece. Make sure that you shake it up really well, and then i will give it a light spray and then i will go in and actually piece these together. Just by like rubbing the tips of my fingers like grab a piece kind of separate it, and the air pace is like perfect for that, and i will just chunk these together. Like that see, oh so cute so take the air paste and you can literally just put the pieces a little bit more piecey and really like get them to curve and move. And you want it to hug in here on their cheekbones yeah and that's the bottleneck. Bangs, you guys not too hard just to recap: it's just an innovation or a movement away from the curtain. Bang softening it up shortening it up a little bit more in the middle and then blending it a little bit more with the sides. I didn't go into it, but really quickly. We could extend this down right. This is going into some face framing layers where the the curtain bangs is like a true just like bang, and then that's it like they have bangs, but this can really blend down into. We can continue to blend this down, see here's the bangs and we can continue this look all the way down and keep blending this for them, and it's just really really soft and nice and pretty, and they can wear it down or they can style it up And it looks really nice so yeah just start with dry hair if they have really bad cowlicks, if they don't, you can start by putting in uh your sectioning and your foundation on wet hair again we're over directing opposite way, create your guide in the center. Here start a little bit longer than the brow bone that way when you blow dry and it shrinks up a little bit, you save yourself over direct opposite leave yourself length in the corner, switch sides over direct opposite to this side. Leave yourself length in the corner. Get them nice and dry. You can either do a diffuser if they have natural texture or a round brush. If they have straighter hair. You want a round brush under curve towards the face and then we're going to point cut, make sure you're focusing on those ends. Not too deep point cutting on this short area, so we don't get any little bitty bitty bits.