How To: Triangular Bob Haircut Tutorial

What'S up guys welcome to today's video, so today, what we're gon na be working on is cutting a triangular graduation or bob. If you want to call it that now, what makes this triangular bob unique to the other ones that I've done in the past is that today, we're gon na start on our weak side and then we're gon na work our way over to the strong side. So we're really setting ourselves up for success. It'S a new technique that I've been trying out and it's been working really really well. So I think that you guys are really gon na, like it you're definitely gon na be able to use it in the salon and before we get started with the video, if you're seeing this version of this video, then you don't have the f se now app. So go to free salon, education com, create a free profile and download our app on the itunes or Android store and you'll get instant access to all of these videos before anybody else. But the end of this step-by-step, I'm gon na share with you guys, a video all about the app. So you can see what it's all about. It'S super cool for now, I'm not gon na waste any more of your time. Let'S get started here. We go alright guys, so the focus of today's video is gon na, be cutting a triangular bob. Now, a couple new things about this particular technique is I'm gon na be working from my weak side to my strong side now. That is something that I picked up recently and I loved the tip. So I want to go through the sectioning sectioning a straight down center back and then that first parting that I'm taking is gon na mimic. The jawline so really stay focused on that, but we're gon na keep the sectioning nice and simple so mimic the jawline and then clip it up and away now notice. I push that hair with the comb. I get the grain of the hair the base of the hair going in the same direction and then I just slide a clip up underneath that makes it easier for sectioning later now. You'Ll also notice that I'm wearing gloves I'm wearing gloves because of our current situation. In the industry, I'm personally practicing cutting hair with gloves, because I want to see how it feels I want to get used to it. I definitely know that. Maybe it's not a forever thing, but it's a right now thing that we probably will be cutting hair wearing gloves. So the angle at which I'm cutting this is my weak side. My fingers are pointing down. My elbow is up and when you ever, your elbow is up, it wants to fall. It wants to fall with gravity, so that makes this my difficult side, because I tend to have it end up a little heavier. So what I'm doing with this is I really get to concentrate on what angle I have and not trying to match it to the other side. So that is why I think this technique is so beneficial, so notice that I'm following the head shape working my way through my finger is going to be basically pointing towards that jawline area and it's parallel to my parting. So I take the parting along the jawline. So it mimics that and then my finger angle can match up with the parting and then I know I'm staying consistent throughout this entire cut. So I go through I section through I comb everything over comb. It up clip it away and then I go through and I take my angle. So that's a couple things. I'Ve always been difficult for me when doing this haircut is just staying consistent, so now notice that my elevation is not really changing a whole lot. As I work up, the head shape, I'm keeping a nice low elevation on the head shape is turning, so that's why that graduations gon na start to build up. So we basically start the bottom of this haircut at a 90 degree angle and then, as I work up the head shape, it drops it gets lower and lower and that graduation starts to get heavier and heavier. So just be aware of that. If you've got a client with thick hair, you might want to elevate slightly more than somebody that has fine hair. I might keep it at a nice neutral, 45 degrees for that, so just working my way through staying consistent with it, I'm going to just let you guys watch this part of the video we're gon na go through it and then I'm gon na talk to you When we get to the opposite side, so one thing I do want to remind you guys of as I'm working towards the side of the head, the elevation is going to change because the head shape is changing so right here, I'm elevating to keep that above 0 Degrees, so straight down straight out would be 0, I'm pulling it up just a little bit, but then, as I work my way over to the side of the head, it drastically changes. So now my elevation is just slightly up. I want to build a little bit more weight on the side. The density is different. So, as I work to the side, I drop my elevation down, so I start with a higher elevation and then I work my way to the side. The other key thing that I want you to notice is, as I worked up to the top part, the top part of the head with each section. Then I moved into a little lighter more of a point cut than a blunt cut. Now you can blunt cut. No problem, but if you have a client that has thicker hair medium hair, this is a technique I like to do to just soften the edge, because, no matter what we're gon na go in dry and we're gon na soften it anyways. So I do a little bit softer point cut instead of blunt so that later on, I don't have to do as much work when I go in on the driver, this you'll get a good angle of how much i elevate. It'S not a lot, but i elevated just slightly so it softens the edge now we're gon na move on to our strong side. So this is where my fingers are pointing up. My elbow is pointing down. I can stay way more consistent. This way - and I just worked through one other thing that you can see - is I'm using the wider teeth of the comb. I don't want to pull a ton of tight tension. That'S just the way I like to. Do I like to have a little more freedom in my shape, so I use the the wide teeth of the comb they're, not that wide. It'S a whi Apsara 3:6 comb. Actually, this might be a 3 3. 4. 3. 3. 4. Comb. Sorry about that! Why is Park 3 3, 4 comb and I go through and I cut it using those wide teeth so working diagonal forward through the section combing everything clipping it away, just like the opposite side, so we're gon na work our way all the way through try to Stay as consistent as possible with our elevation and then I'll catch you on the dry cut portion all right, so now we're gon na move into the style portion of the video. This is the joy codified damage protective shield. Basically, it guards against any thermal or UV damage. So I'm gon na work that, through gon na be doing not only a flat, wrap blow-dry so working the hair around the head, but then also going through with an iron and working that with a flat iron as well to smooth the hair out and get it Ready for the dry cut so work that flat wrap all the way around. Let that product kind of keep the hair, nice and shiny and healthy, and then we're gon na go in and start our dry cutting. So one thing I want to quickly go over as we get into the dry cut is that I was taught in school that you really focus kind of on that outer perimeter during that wet cut portion and what I've learned later in and learning haircutting and watching Other hair cutters that it's so important to focus on the outer perimeter lasts and really stamp that in so what I did was I go through and I just kind of customize and and develop that outer perimeter as I go through. So I use the tip of the scissor go through cut, cut and define that line, and now I'm gon na work into the back doing a little extra elevation and a little extra point cutting just to soften that graduation on it's kind of hard to tell sometimes In the wet cut, exactly how that's gon na fall dry, so as you go through, you just use a couple techniques that help soften that edge and then you have it laying nice and soft. So I work my way through all the way through the back. A little bit deeper point cut towards the crown area, so that lays even a softer veil over and then I finish it off with the joy coat. Joy mist, medium hold hairspray. This is their number 6 a hold level and you can see here's the end result. Nice, consistent triangular, graduation hope you guys like this. Let me know in the comments. If you have any questions, you go