Perfecting The Face Frame With Blake Reed Evans

Do this do welcome everyone to transformation tuesday? In just a moment, blake reed evans is going to join us to talk about perfecting the face frame, which is a money making technique with subtle style shifts for your clients to have an effortless face frame that looks great down or up. So you do not want to miss this and, if you wouldn't mind dropping in the comments where you're watching from we would love to know and if you missed yesterday's youtube tutorial premiere, carolee pridemore has a sleek and textured bridal bun that you can now view for Free, it's a long form tutorial. Super in-depth go over to our youtube. If you need to brush up on some bridal styling today is the perfecting the face frame with blake, reed evans, and if you are a sam via tool enthusiast, you should join our affiliate program. You can earn money using the tools that you love our affiliates receive a 20 commission and your friends family salon, guests, students in classes you teach. 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You do not want to miss him as he dives into this money making cutting class. Let'S welcome blake, hi, katie and hi friends, hello. How are you i'm doing good? How are you i am fabulous? I cannot wait for you to share all of your tips and tricks, so i'm going to cut you loose, so you can just have creative freedom. Awesome. Thank you so how many of you have realized that um layers are in just go ahead and give us some hearts into the comments um or heart emoji um? If you really feel like layers are in and then my follow-up question to you is send us another heart. If you have ever been scared to cut too many layers into your guest's hair um and you leave them in the moment of being behind the chair and you are like how do you like it and they look in the mirror and they're like? Oh, it look, it looks good, but it's not like the oh, my gosh. I love it. It'S a it's good. You know because i've totally been there too, so i'm so excited that you're all here, because in today's session we're gon na jump into. How do you create layers that are actually going to show up for your guests and there's this big trend happening right now and it is called a ponytail with benefits so when a guest throws their hair up and they have those pieces fall down? That'S called a ponytail with benefits, so we're going to learn some techniques today on how to approach it. How do you handle this with fine hair? How do you handle this with dense hair? Can you have volume, but when you want to, but can you also wear it straight, which is why our mannequin looks the way that she does is because we put in a lot of volume using a texture spray and a flat iron. So i use this zambia. Sleeker i'll show you the technique at the end, and then here it is on straight hair. So you can see exactly what we're working with you can also wear it straight and you're also able to really get a lot of definition in to the into the layers. On top of it, when you tie the hair up you're going to be able to get these nice pieces that fall out, so you can have a ponytail with benefits. So that's what we have planned for you today, i'm going to send this model backstage and buy backstage. I mean to the side of my laptop and we are going to welcome our fresh mannequin, so we can get some fresh layers cut in to her hair. So what we're going to be working with first is understanding the hairline. So this hair is just air dried, so you can kind of see it as draw natural, not natural form and one of the most important things that actually samvia taught me. Um early in my career was taking a second to analyze, the hairline. So, if you're taking notes, write that down and actually what i want you to do - is write it into the chat now analyze the hairline and what that means. Friends. Is that we're just going to take two seconds and we're going to look at the shape of our guest's hairline, so we're going to come in and see where does it curve? You know is: is there a windows peak so they might have a deeper recession um as we get older, sometimes our hair thins. You know, after some of our guests give birth, their hair might thin. So it's really important with every haircut every single time you take. The 20 seconds to analyze the hairline um and for my friends that do color too it's actually a really good time to see like how am i going to do my money piece and things like that, but that that's a different class for another time. So we're going to come in and we are going to start drawing a diagonal back line and diagonal back line, meaning that it's higher at the top deeper in the back and it do a diagonal back. So when i drew that first line, i see that there's a really big gap here missing and when i would look at this, if i would hold this out and cut it, it would look good, but there would be an entire area there that the layers don't Show up and that's a huge issue that i face whenever it comes to creating face framing layers for my clients - is that sometimes i don't take enough hair. Sometimes i don't take enough hair. So it's important that, yes, we we drew a diagonal line and it was even, but we also need to visually, add more hair to it, just so that we know that it shows up so we're gon na come in. I'M gon na. Take my dry sectioning clip, get it out of the way i love these clips because they do not dent the hair while you're doing dry cutting. So it's really awesome and then all you need to do is mirror it. On the other side - and the big thing too is when i say mirror it - making sure that it's visually balanced keyword on visually balanced, because the hairline might be more sparse on one side than the other. So that means that you might have to add more hair or take more hair away, depending on the situation with your guests. So your mirror is your best friend to make sure that you're getting balance. While we are working on this, so we're going to take another clip and put it out of the way so now that we have some balance happening here, this is where communication with your guests is really really really important, which is where do you want your shortest Piece to be - and i love because a lot of hairstylist asks this question, and then we also need to take in consideration. Where does our hair naturally live? Which is why a lot of the time when i'm establishing a new visit with a guest or if i have a guest that wants to come in with um and once a big change, i'll ask for them. Please arrive with your hair air, dried or dried. The way that you're going to wear your hair more than 50 of the time, i'm a personal fan of them arriving with their hair air, dried reason being, is that you know with people with wavy curly hair when it dries it's going to pop up, so that We know exactly what what we're working with so this guess here she has a little bit of wave to her hair, i'm going to come in with my seven inch dry, cutting shears um, the swivel version from samvia these shears, my friends. If we've ever hung out before you know how much i love these cheers, if you follow me on tiktok or instagram, you know how much i love these sheers. These are my um pride and joy. The seven inch swivel dry, cutting shears. The reason why i love them so much first of all is a length. I love that i can do less closes of the blade to have higher impact, so that's less impact on my wrist. The other thing that i love about. It is the swivel method. Now this in full transparency, it took me a second to um get used to, and but once i realized that every time that i move my wrist, this moves with me, meaning i'm not straining my wrists as much now. I'Ve been doing hair now a little over 11 years and um. I really you know, knock on wood. I don't have any wrist pain and that's thanks to shears like this, and then also thanks to um morning stretches and evening stretches to make sure that my wrists don't hurt um so back to the haircut, because this is this is the perfect shear, for that is We'Re going to determine where we're going to cut the shortest layer. Now we're going to do two different types of face framing. So, if you guys are okay, let's go ahead and do let's do chin length and then i'll. Let you all just decide a little bit later on um how short we're going to take it. So we're going to go chin length and we're going to drop the comb just get that comb out of the way because combs create tension and in this particular section right now we want zero tension, so we're gon na come in and just pick that hair up From where it is, and i'm barely pushing it, i'm gon na come in with the center point of the shear and i'm going to open and close it before i even get over to the hair and close so that motion. So you can see it a little bit closer. Is a motion like this, so this is a term called talking the shear but notice, i'm not closing it because closing it would make it harsh and you're just going to come in and talk the shear. So then, right there, you can see it's right at the chin length and we're establishing our guide while we're determining the the face framing pieces, if you're with us go ahead and give us a yes into the chat to make sure that that we're all together and The reason why i use my fingers is because i'm doing as little tension as possible, these combs are amazing, obviously, because we need them to get precise lines, but they create tension because of the way that they pull and push on the hair. So as we're establishing the guideline, it'll help us establish okay, this is going to be the shortest piece, so anything that i cut after this using a comb will be longer than that shortest piece, so we'll be good to go. So i hope that this is is helpful for for all of us, because it i i've messed up some face frames in my career and um. I paid the price for it and a lot of it had to come down to um tension. I was holding the hair too tight thinking, i was being um precise and in fact i was just making my guest very, very upset. So now now that we have that shortest piece. We'Re going to use that as a guide and we're going to start off by taking a one inch sub section and we are going to do a technique called over direction. So what that means is, if this had no over direction, i would be lifting it straight out, but because it's over direction, which is a side to side motion, i'm going to carry it to the opposite direction. The reason why we're going to carry this into the opposite direction is once i start cutting here, there's going to be weight in length in the opposite direction, meaning it's going to go from short to long. So, just as a visual it'll be shorter here and then it'll get longer as it comes over. The reason why this is so great is that you're going to get those really nice pc bits in the face frame, so we're going to come in we're going to take that hair and over direct it find where that guide is there we go and then we're Going to continue to talk the shears out, there is going to be minimal elevation because whenever you lift it really really high, you end up removing a lot of weight, but if you keep it lower, meaning you're, not lifting it up high, it's going to be lower. You'Re, maintaining a lot of weight so that you're not overly layering the hair so that it can stay a little heavy. So you can see that we're starting to get a nice soft face frame there versus the other side. So now we're just going to go ahead and repeat it on the opposite side: um, yeah, tom you're, right, it's so easy for me to mess up face, framing made a lot of dough mistakes based off. Yes, tom. Thank you because i know i'm not i'm not alone in this situation, because i totally have done it before so now for consistency, we're going to take another one in subsection and we are going to over direct it to the opposite side and i'm using the eye. As a reference point for the over direction and just talking the shear down so then to make sure that we have balance, i'm just going to hold the two front pieces together and make sure that it is good to go. Now. We'Re going to go ahead and we're going to take and we're going to match the sides together. So we're going to draw that section and we're going to do a little bit more over direction. I'M going to bring this a little bit closer, so you can see we're going to do more over direction, but we're not going to over direct it quite as far over and i'm going to cut behind my fingers. So we're going to come in and again talking that shear. The most important thing, friends is to talk the shear in this particular technique, because, if you close it that's when things are going to get too harsh and it's going to be hard for us to to blend it out, then we're going to do things in the Opposite direction, so we're going to marry those sides together and we're cutting behind our fingers to be able to help get that same effect and then take listen to me. Take the two seconds to make sure it's balanced, because i can't tell you how many times like because i've been like wow that looks so good. Is it a little shorter on the other side and you're like no? It'S not oh you're right. It is kind of so we're gon na make sure that we just create visual balance whenever we're working with it um. So susan has a really great question. What would you change for a side part or a flip-flopper? Susan we've got you in a second once we do the the checking for this, because i um have totally been there. That'Ll be the second technique i'll share with you is because you know those people that are like. Where do you part it and they're like? Well? I don't know like kind of everywhere, so we've got you, but all i'm doing here to check the balance is holding the hair out in front of it, bringing everything to center and just seeing is there anything that needs to be cleaned up and there's like two Of these, like random, stray hairs that need to be cleaned up and everything else is good to go and that's how you start really creating these layers that are going to show up for somebody. But these are layers that are like um, like someone with super long straight hair. That'S like wanting to try a look for the first time. This is a good way to start it off also. I know this isn't one of those classes um a full haircut class, but if you have someone that wants a v shaped haircut or a smiley face in the back, all you need to do is take all of this hair in sections and bring it all forward. So you can get a v-cut, so um that saved me so much time when i learned that, because i remember i used to like cut here and then run to the other side and cut the other side, so it'll help you all right. Susan. This technique is for you, because what do you do when you have a guest that likes to change their part, now give us a heart into the chat? If you have clients that say, i don't have a part, i just kind of flip it all over the place um, so i i've totally totally been there. So what we're going to do first is we're going to establish where our area is going to be for the fringe, and this is going to be customized for every person, so i'm actually going to bring the mannequin a little bit closer. I want you to see where the face is you're going to come through and you're going to take the spine of the comb you're going to take the spine of the comb you're going to place it on the front hairline and where that comb lifts off of The head is a high point so now that we have that high point established, i'm going to take a line from that high point and draw it to about the corner of the eye. It can get a little confusing because of the bone. So you can take the spine of the comb towards the eye and rock it back, and then you can see exactly where that fringe area should live. So we're going to come through with that part of it and we are going to comb it out of the way and then we're going to do the same thing on the other side again where that high point is to the corner of the eye you're going To take that rock it back, and you need to make a little bit more there we go, and this is exactly where a natural falling fringe would be now. If you have guests that want thicker pieces, you can absolutely take this further back, but the big thing is that we have to educate them and when we educate them friends, the most important thing is to tell them is that you're going to have to style this And i'll tell them, you need to get a heat resistant comb like the sam via comb, so that you can blow dry your hair or you need a styling powder brush like the artist series brush here, to be able to blow dry your hair, so that your Hair will lay properly if you don't blow dry, your hair, your hair will not lay properly, but that's why i encourage my guests, let's start here with where your hair naturally lives, so that we can get started okay, susan, now that i've done all that talking, we're Going to do a technique that is going to be called a v bang, it's called a v, bang type that into the chat because it'll help you remember it because it's pretty straightforward once you once you learn, it is what you're going to do come in and Establish a guide again, we've added a little bit more hair than we had before, so we're going to come in just like we did before and and we're going to establish a guide. Now with that one, i did a little bit more intense cutting to establish this. So that we can see what we're working with and then all we're going to do is we're going to split this in half and the guide here is going to be our longest piece. So we're going to come in and we're going to cut short to long and it's going to come in as a v, i'm going to flip it to the other side and establish the guide and then we're going to come in and cut short to long. Double check for balance make sure things look good, then, to lighten things up, i'm going to come in with my invisiblend shears and i'm going to take the hair and use a little bit of over direction and just slide a little bit of weight out of each Side and you now have a fringe that has a little bit more weight and length in the center so that if you want to kick them back, they can be like curtain bangs or if you want to push them to the side, they can become side. Bangs. No matter which way you push it, and this is just on air dried hair too. So just imagine if someone actually like styled their hair it'll be good. So we cut this one. Pretty short, so it's important to know that you can do a really long version of this, like i have guests that have v-bangs that come down to like where their their neck stops and that's going to help them with that. But you're going to really be able to see these awesome awesome, v-bangs and happening a lot because people are starting to switch their parts around. Although center parts are still very, very popular, but not everybody looks good with the center part. So that's totally that's totally. Okay, too um so susan. I hope that hope that helps yeah awesome awesome. Thank you. So much sheena um so now that we're gon na go in we're gon na start, creating more face framing layers as our third technique and, let's start talking about people with fine hair. So our guest with fine hair and just give me a yes in the chat. If you've been there, i have fine hair and i can't have layers because my hair will look thinner, give us a yes in the chat if you've been there, because i've totally been there too and in reality we know that, in order for your hair to go Up and have volume you need layers, so the things that we need to do in the taken consideration is to leave hairline insurance hairline insurance. This is what this technique is all about: hairline insurance. So what we're going to do it's going to be similar if you joined us earlier to what we did, but it's taking the 20 seconds to analyze your gas hairline and seeing okay. So the hair is very sparse there. So we're gon na leave some hairline insurance, but instead of like we did earlier for thick hair, where we're gon na cut it on fine hair, we're going to determine okay, this is going to be the hairline insurance and instead of cutting these pieces, like we did Earlier we're going to come in and not only are we doing this, but we're also educating our guests in doing this in front of the mirror so that they see you know um. I love you so much and i know that you're really nervous right now. So don't worry! What i want you to see is i'm taking this clip right now and i am clipping this hair out of the way. This is what i'm calling my hairline insurance so that we don't ever cut off your side, so you can see what you're working with and that you know that whatever i'm layering is not going to be these pieces, so your hair will still look good. My friends, you can do this around someone's entire hairline. Should you want to um to really give them the insurance that it's still going to be long or it's still not going to be cut too short? And then this is the hair that we're able to work with to create some face framing, so we're going to just do it on the opposite side, to make sure that we have hairline insurance and again, if you're, just joining us. This is a technique for people that have finer hair or people who are just really nervous about having too many layers, or that their hair is all of a sudden going to look really weird. This is called hairline insurance and all you need to do is just take. It gather that hair clip it back. That'S why i love these. The sandia dry cutting or dry um clips, because they they just don't dent the hair, and then this is the hair that we're able to work with for finer hair. I'M not necessarily going to always reach for my dry cutting shears, because this is a lot of sheer and a lot of hair can come off with this, so i start a little simpler. So this is a streamline series, artist, series, um slide, cutting shear and we're going to come in and the great thing about the shear is, it is meant for slide cutting. So i often use this for shorter hair, but i really like it for finer hair because you're able to come in and i'm just over directing the center and it just leaves even softer cuts to the hair. So i'm going to take it. So you can see it as a side profile as well, and we're able to add some layers to somebody without them. Feeling like their hair, is going to be cut too short. But they're also going to start getting volume because you're starting to lift the amount of hair, that's on the head off, so we're just going to come in and again. That motion is just like that. Now we're going to repeat it on the other side and just talk that shear down and again it doesn't matter because we have our hair insurance here, so we're not going to end up over layering the hair. I also like to do this sometimes on people with thicker hair, that kind of want that um they want to blend their curtain bangs into layers into long layers that happen around their face. This technique is actually really good. For that too. I actually i just thought about that cause i was like this seems familiar and like i do this a lot and i realize oh yeah. I do this a lot for people who have curtain banks that they want to blend into long layers, and you don't make that any shorter and again most important thing. I'Ve learned about face framing is just take the two seconds and cross check to make sure that everything is starting to blend. But what you're able to see now is all the layers that we've created, but then the magic of it all is when you bring that hair forward. There are no holes cut into the haircut and it's just nothing but beautiful light textures, so that when you want to get volume into the hair, you are able to so you're able to get this nice beautiful, lift because the layers are there to actually lift off The head, so those those are some of the other, face framing techniques last technique that we're going to have for you is taking the curtain bang. So we essentially cut a little bit of a curtain bang earlier, but how many of you and give us a heart into the chat if you've been there before you cut the curtain, bang and you're like i did the technique. I saw on tick tock and then you're, like oh, my gosh, there's a huge detachment from where the bangs are and to where the sides are give us a heart. If you, if you've been there before, because i know that i have completely so this technique is called connect, the dots so go ahead and type connect the dots into the chat, and we have um ways that we're going to be able to do this and um. What we're going to do first is just establish: where are the curtain bangs and where is the drop off, and then i communicate with my guests. Okay, so you want to see pieces that come all the way down, so that this all blends together and they're going to say yes and that's really important for us to make sure that we have that talk with our guests, because when you start cutting these sides, My friends there's going to be a lot of hair flying and one of the most important things that i've learned over the years is to be aware of the visuals that happen. While we're cutting someone's hair, the visuals that happen while we're cutting someone's hair, meaning their hair, is not going to be short by any means, but when we're going to start blending, this short piece to this long piece, there's gon na be pieces of hair. That are three or four inches long: make sure that we talk to our guests about that before we get started, not after, so that we don't scare them so again we're gon na come in now. Now this technique is to blend curtain bangs into longer hair, and it's called connect the dots. So what we're going to do is find that shorter piece we're going to take about an inch and a half section and we're going to see. Where is the disconnection and you're gon na be able to see it right through there? That'S where that shorter piece is and we're going to create just a little bit more over direction. What this is going to help provide is a little bit more weight length in the opposite direction and i'm going to come through and point my shears through the tips of the hair, so that you can get some really nice defined layers with a little bit of Texture, so i'm going to come in a little bit closer, so you can see - and you can see where that short piece is to where that long piece is make sure we maintain our over direction and you're going to slide cut up. So the motion is going to be like this you're going to slice up as you're doing it, and what that leaves is a soft blunt line. That'Ll help you with blending these pieces out. I also find it's like less scary than whenever we're like slicing and dicing hair out of the way, so that is actually that really helped create a ton of blend there. We'Re going to take one more subsection, that's still in front of the ear, and to really help make sure that this blends we're not going to lift this second section up quite as high and with no comb we're just going to gently again. This will be common. Is talk, the shears down you're just going to gently talk the shears downward and that's just going to help remove a little bit more weight so that this all blends together. So you can see what we're dealing with here and we want to know like do you have any questions as we're doing this? I know that we're throwing a lot at you, but this is what this class is all about is like face training techniques and to be aware of all the different ways that we're doing it because, as as hairstylists we're facing a lot of different layers are hot Right now you know like, for the longest time i mean for my entire career. It was pretty much like one length. Hair was everything, so there was a huge learning curve when all these layers started becoming really popular. So we're going to come in and repeat this on the opposite side come in over direct it find where those shortest pieces are and then we're just going to slide the shears up, talk them down and then one more subsection to help them blend. You'Re gon na over direct get rid of that comb and just talk the sheer down to help blend it all together and again. This is not on here that, oh, i really like that. Do you see how that like opened up the face? I mean this is like not blow dried at all. This is air dried to see what we're working with, but you can see the awesome texture that you get whenever you use the the shears. Oh, we can do it a little bit more because this this side is giving the other side's not, and that's the other thing too. I'Ve learned is just like: if it's not doing what one side is doing figure it out. Is it your styling or is it your cutting and a lot of the times it can be your cutting, but one thing that was shared with me and i wish i could give credit to someone that shared this with me. Um cutting does not fix, styling and styling does not fix cutting, but most importantly, is when you look at the hair and after it's been styled, you need to see. Is it the way i styled it or is it the hair cut, because maybe we need to go back and fix the haircut, and the other thing too is that um grayson allen said the other side was giving yeah. That side was giving. The other side is like not um, i'm gon na go through and add some adjustments, so cutting does not fix. Styling and styling does not fix cutting and it. What it's huge for me to realize is, like you know, when we do a lot of these dry cuts. We have to realize. Is that the way that it was styled or is it the way that it was? It was a cut so yeah, okay, that site's doing better. I think that we can slide just a little bit more through here and that's what this process is all about too. So we're gon na over direct it the face, and the nose is right here. If you're wondering and we're just going to talk the sheer down just a little bit more and again take the two seconds to check the visual balance for what we're working with and perfect - and you can see here - oh thank you so much fourthborn child, i'm a Second born child, i'm a middle child and you can see how now it opens up the face. Actually, when you do this technique, a lot too um, and then we also, if both um tom at both sides, don't look the same. I just wanted to sleep on the side. I love that too tom, so you have lots of options there. Now, let's get into a really quick um styling demo, i'm gon na actually grab this other mannequin because it really shows styling well mainly because of the color and we're gon na, come through and really awaken the layers using a simple technique. So i'm going to drop her down just a little bit and we're going to be working with three thing: um, four things: i lied. My comb, my dry sectioning clip my samvia sleeker and redken's dry texture spray. These are the four things that we'll need to be able to achieve this look, and what this is going to do is give you a faux blowout, so we're going to come through and create a diagonal back line. This diagonal back line is going to help you open up the hair so that the hair will start flowing flowing backwards, we're going to come in and we're going to apply our texture product first. So we're going to come in lift that hair up and give it one two three: four, so that it can dry upwards and again spray a little bit of the product dry. One two: three: four: this elevation is gon na help you get the volume that you are looking for, then. What we're gon na do is we're gon na take our sanvia sleeker iron. I freaking love this iron so much for creating waves in the hair, and i say that because look it's rounded on all the edges, so it doesn't leave hard lines like some other flat irons do also as a colorist. It has a color treated setting. This means that this iron on low or color treated will not make hair molecules, leave the hair. So when you think about freshly blonded hair that has a fresh shades of q-toner on it, um your flat iron won't make that color go away. Okay back to this technique, what we're going to do is we're going to lift the hair up and over direct it and we're going to bend and at the root now, if your client just wants volume but wants their hair straight, this is a great technique. Do you see how that hair is just lifting off of the face, but now we're going to really show off some layers here, so we're going to actually come in and create some waves and where all we're doing is bending this in at like a three quarters, Turn and we're guiding the hair into the heat plates and let it bend leave it alone. It takes about um. It takes a few minutes for this to be able to cool down so just leave it alone. It'Ll, look crazy for a second but it'll, be okay! Um, but that's why i like putting the product on first is because you're able to work with it now for this front piece. I really want it to come inward. So what i'm going to do is lift the hair up and i'm going to use the iron to just help, create bend and lift at the root. But i'm not going to clamp down until i'm about halfway down and just make that kick backwards. And again, a lot of this is visual like so many people are obsessed with like one specific technique, and then it doesn't come out the way that they had hoped and give up on the technique, and it's not that the technique was bad. It was just we needed to take one more second to look at it and say: okay, well, that particular hair needed something different. So that's what this is all about. So now we're going to come in and we're going to take another bag back sub section, because again, this is all about the face frame, really making sure our guests can see like yeah you've gotten a lot of volume. You'Ve got a lot of texture in your hair. Now. Here'S how you style it most important thing too friends is to really make sure that you are retailing the tools that you're using like at our salon. Companies here are we a lot of us use the sanvia sleeker iron and we also retail it at the front. So when your guests are like that iron's cool, where can i get it? You can say here i happen to have it so now we're going to come in and what's also really great too. Is that there's a samvia affiliate program where, if you can't necessarily afford to keep a back bar of samvia tools in your salon or your suite, that's totally okay, you can use the affiliate program to be able to help your guests save money so, like i use Um, like my code, is blake10, so if you want to save 10 off of tool additional 10 off the sales of tools, you can use my code like 10., but you could control. What like your code, is. The affiliate program is amazing. It'S a great way to earn a um income off of stuff that you're already talking about, or if you have you know, friends that love stamvia and you can help hook them up with the code at the affiliate program. It'S been amazing again. The key thing here is when we're doing this we're lifting the hair up, because if the hair is lifted up you're creating volume, then we're coming in with the sleeker right at the base to really make sure that we're warming that up so it gets the volume That we're looking for in the heat so that it will lift off the head, then we're going to come in, do a three-quarters turn and we're just guiding the hair into the flat iron into the hot plates. So that you'll get the wave that you are looking for we'll do it one more time and we have those pieces there. Big thing i've learned too is hair takes a long time to cool down and um. I see one of my friends kristen longstreet is on on here: um use a dry texture spray to set the curls, because the air that comes out of here is cold. Cold means it's going to help set the curl, so you're just going to come in and it'll help set it, and the reason why i brought up my friend is a lot of fashion week. So you don't have time to let the hair set. Then what you're going to do this is my favorite thing in this line is: have your gasoline? Their head back can lean their head back and then you can spray more spray if you feel like the hair needs it. Particularly this hair down here and by leaning, the hair back, every strand of hair is able to enjoy the benefits of the product. I'Ll get this out of the way too, and i like that this product is super buildable and then the secret trick is using the artist series paddle brush to be able to create the flowy look, so it doesn't look like the hair is curled. So all you need to do is start at the base and carry it all the way through, so that when your guest lifts, their head up, they've got the layers that they were looking for, but also a lot of the volume. My favorite thing too, with this technique, is that it makes the hair like float off of the head between the product and the technique. The hair floats off the head, but no teasing was required. So then you end up getting let's tilt her up this way. Perfect, then, you end up with the 90s supermodel faux blowout, so i just love how this oh. This looks like it's like giving modern farah faucet too, but that's that's. What this is all about is to be able to help us get that lift off of the hair and all we simply used was a dry texture spray and a zambia, sleeker iron. I'M going to have this tutorial up on my tic toc later today on how you can also achieve this, so make sure that we connect on there. My instagram and tick tock is at lake, rita, evans and let's go ahead and do a quick recap. What i want you all to do, that's here, hanging out with us, go ahead and leave in the comments. What was your biggest takeaway from today, and i'm going to recap everything that we were talking about. First thing that we talked about was being able to create face framing on thick hair, and the most important thing that we've learned is for both thick hair and thin. Hair is to take the 20 seconds to analyze the hairline. So once we analyze the hairline, we're able to see how much hair can i take away or how much hair do i need to preserve, then we did a technique where we established our guideline by simply communicating with our guests in the mirror. Where do you want your shortest piece to live, and all we need to do is drop the comb for a second and use our fingers to establish where we want it to be, and we took our shears. We barely lifted it up and talked out where we wanted that length to be so that was tip number one tip number two was focus on: creating a v-bang so that v-bang was put into place for people who want to flip their part. So all you need to do is take a fringe section, high point of the head to the corner of the eyes and cut the hair in to where it's longer in the center shorter on the side. So it comes in at a v. This will help create bangs that will split in the center, but then also move side to side, and you can do this as short as long as possible. The third technique that we went over was for fine hair and the tip there was to go in and create insurance for your gas. So you're going to take that hair that you don't want to cut clip it out of the way to visually, show them that we're not going to cut their hair. And then the last thing that we went over was or the second last thing that we went over, was connecting the dots being able to take short pieces of long pieces. The tip there is just to go through and make sure we talk, our shears create over direction to blend that in and then we went over a technique on how to build a lot of volume in the hair using a flat iron and a texture spray, so That you can show your guests that you don't have to be really good with a blow dryer to make it look like you have like a 90s blowout. Look so um. I love. I love. Love, love, good information. Thank you so much jasmine. Thank you susan. Thank you, roller girl, yeah awesome. Thank you kelly. This is awesome, so my challenge to you is to go back into the salon this week and give one of these techniques a try. I want you to tag myself and also sam via hair on instagram. Whenever you do these techniques, um and just know, you always have a friend at samvia. You can always send me a dm on instagram and i'll get back to you um. I hope that we're able to also connect on um tick tock, it's my one of my favorite places to to hang out, and i hope that you all also get some education from the zambia art team um in your salon. I know that when i found out about that, i was like how do we book them in our salon um. My other challenge to you, too, is to never be afraid to try something new. This industry is the best industry ever and that's why you're so such amazing people by hanging out with us here at zambia, so from the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much for your time, um and i can't wait to see the creations that you all make. Thank you blake, so much and if i, if you didn't see this comment, i just want to leave it up because i agree with you tandy. We need tutorials from you blake, so you're coming back on man awesome. I can't wait to see you all again, um, it's so fun too katie because, like cutting is i like cutting hair in the salon, but i predominantly teach social media and then some hair color. As well um, so it's so exciting when i get to hang out the same via team to teach hair cutting yeah. Absolutely i loved watching you as well, i'm a fine haired human and that hairline insurance bit that you talked about is just so valuable. So i hope everyone watching uses that in the salon and it's all about making our guests comfortable. So thank you for just being inclusive and finding ways to make guests. You know love their experience even more awesome. Thank you. So much katie. Thank you friends for tuning. In awesome, bye, blake bye, all right, you guys, if you did not go over to our youtube. We had a tutorial premiere yesterday with carolee pridemore, a sleek and textured bridal bun, and that is free. You can view that on our youtube page, if you missed any bit of today, this live will be archived on our facebook and youtube as well. So you can go back and re-watch and like blake was saying at the end there we have our art team, educational catalog, ready for folks to check out. If you want to have any of our art team members live and in person teach you an amazing curriculum of classes, they have curated. So we will drop that link in the comments. If you want to check that out - and you can also email us at education, samvia.com to learn more and our new tool launched august 1st, the deep waver, you can check that out as well on zamvia.com to learn how to easily create beautiful, glam mermaid waves. Without the uncomfortable wrist, flexion of you know previously how a lot of folks would use a flat iron so head over to zambia.com for this new innovative tool, and we will see you all again next week for mannequin monday - take care.