Lob Haircut | How To Cut A Classic Lob | Tutorial

Hey everyone welcome to my channel i'm summer today, i'm going to be doing a lob haircut tutorial. So let's get started so a lot is considered a long bob, but without the standard stack of a traditional bob and most clients who prefer a lob like the option of it because they are still able to get their hair into a ponytail. I'M going to show you guys today how i go about creating my love on clients when, in the salon, i almost sort of think a lob is a mix between a bob and a long layered haircut. So let's get started okay. So with this mannequin, the hair is a nice length for what a lot of clients who transition into a lob often sometimes have what i'm mostly going to be doing, is bringing up the back. So there's a little bit of an angle going forward to the front to kind of meet, and then we want to keep in mind that most clients who want a lob want to still be able to pull their hair back into a ponytail. So i'm going to be keeping note of that to where i cut my guide. Usually a lob likes to fall right on the shoulders and going down most people i find if they have it off the shoulders. Like my hair, is it's harder to get it back and that's kind of moving into more of a bob look, so i'm going to go ahead and get her wet and then we'll get to cutting so with any good haircut. Proper sectioning is always a key and important part, so i section off all my haircuts pretty much the same way. For the most part, i like to separate right around the ear, bring that forward and then clip up out of the way, and i'm going to do the same on the other side again right around that ear parting, you don't want to be too far behind the Ear: okay and then, even though this isn't a traditional bob, i'm still actually going to section off how i do my bobs just because it's really clean and even sections. It keeps all your lines, nice and clean, especially for beginners. It'S just a good way to ensure that you're taking the proper amount of hair moving from each section. So i go ahead and just split the hair right down the middle. I'M gon na clip that out of the way for now and then on my other side, i'm just gon na bring just my first little piece over and match it on the other. Try to stay within like a half inch to no more than an inch for each subsection within your first section. Okay! So now that we have our sectioning off what i like to do before i cut my guide most clients with a lob. They want to be able to pull their hair back. I do explain to them that, typically, it's going to be a really low, ponytail you're not going to get a ton of like lift and height. So what i'll do to ensure that they can get it pulled up into a nice ponytail or at least a low one, i'll just kind of bring my section up, and i don't want to cut past this point here, so the client can still get their hair Pulled back a little bit, so you still want to leave some out here of the ponytail, if that makes sense, but kind of use that as your guideline - and i honestly always like to cut so, let's see i'm bringing it here and i pull it down i'll. Go ahead and lower my finger just a little bit more because you can always cut shorter if you need to at the end so for her, i'm basically going to be cutting right below this little neckline here, okay! So now that we have our section here, i'm just gon na pull down with the finer teeth of my comb and go right below her neckline here and cut okay. So now that we have our first section again, i like to just kind of pull this up. So it's a nice easy low ponytail that the client can get again they're a short ponytail. It'S a little baby, nub ponytail, but that gives the client enough room to work with and we're going to move on to our next section. So again, nice thin sections! You don't want them too, thick stay within half an inch, no more than that really for each internal subsection when creating your perimeter. So now that we have our next section, this is where it can all be personal preference between either you as a stylist or the client in your chair. A lot of stylists don't create a stack with a lob i like to create just a tiny one. Really it's just more so to round it out um! So that's personal preference! I'M going to show you guys how i do it with the pulling it out so, instead of pulling it straight out, like your traditional bob for that tight stack, i'm just gon na really lightly bring it out towards me. Nothing too crazy, but not straight down, but just very slightly out. If that makes sense, i'm going to come right here in the middle and just instead of going straight down, i'm just lightly, bringing it out to myself and then look for your guide and cut. So now we're gon na take our next section same as before, not too thick and then, if need be, just spray down each section. If you feel like your client's hair is getting a little too dry, you want to make sure that they're pretty saturated the same amount from section to section. If that makes sense, and then another thing i forgot to mention, have your client look down a little bit? If you forget to have them look down at first, it's not a big deal, you can always have them look down and to maybe fix any spots that might stick out you're just going to pull down real, tight and you'll, see them popping out, especially too, when It'S dry so now that we've moved on to our next section. Let me just lightly even this out we're gon na just pull out just ever so slightly see your guide and then cut okay. So once you start moving up to the curve of your clan's hair, where their occipital bone is, i don't really. I just bring it straight down um, because this isn't a standard bob you're not trying to create that heavy stack you're just trying to create kind of a little bit of a roundness to it. So it just has that softness. So now i'm just going to be pulling still out a little bit. I don't ever really pull straight down to be honest, but i'm just not trying to go completely straight down. You can do that if you want to at this point, i still just tend to bring it out ever so slightly with my haircuts in general. That can be all your personal preference. Really. What i like to do, every so often is just check my sections along the sides, i'll bring it to the center to make sure they're lining up and if there's anything excessively sticking out, i will go ahead and cut to match that i'm not caught pretty good And we're just going to continue moving up the head, creating the rest of the perimeter before moving into any layers again remember to spray down any hair that you might need to always keep the water bottle handy and then also usually, once you get past the occipital Bone area - i just will tell my client: they can go ahead and look normal and they can raise their head back up. Okay, so and then we're just going to finish her back perimeter here with her last section just going to bring that down. I am not actually gon na really pull this out at all. I'M just gon na leave it down, and then i can see my guide, but if you ever have a hard time seeing your guide, you can always flip the hair up and see where it pokes out. Underneath. That'S why just nice, even not too thick of sections, are always key. That way. You always get a nice straight line throughout your haircut. You never lose your guide that way and then so before i cut into any of my layers, i'm just gon na really go ahead again and check. My sides make sure they're lining up tweak anywhere that might be tweaking everything's looking nice. So i'm going to show you guys how i get my layers, okay! So now that we have cut our back perimeter, i'm going to show you guys how i do my layers. I do my layers for the lob the same exact way that i do my long layered haircut layers, and so i just take right in the middle. I option will flip my comb just so i'm getting nice even tension and i just bring it straight up and just lightly point cut the top i find with most of my clients who want a lob. They don't like a lot of layers just enough to sort of add a little texture to it, so i even have some clients that i don't necessarily even do this part. I will just dry it and then go in with my texturizing, shears and kind of create the layers that way i'll show you guys what i do there too as well. I basically do the same exact cutting style just with my texturizing shears. You want to make sure you're just getting nice and even tension, bringing it all the way up and point cutting into that top go in just a little bit more. Instead of bringing it all the way up, i'll just lightly bring it out and up just to create a little bit of an extra kind of not so much layer, but just some texture into that area, if that makes sense, bring it out and just lightly point Cut out again and point cut okay, so now we're gon na go ahead and move on to our sides for how we're just gon na blend those in and create a little bit of an angle going forward. And then i'm just gon na re-spray and then of course, you're never gon na just bring all the hair down and just cut going down. You still want to create some sub sections throughout the sides, just so you're getting again nice even clean lines. I like to create a little bit of an angle while creating my subsection, instead of going straight across i'll, just do a little bit of a diagonal there. So what we're going to do is just comb down come from your back section here and you're just going to lightly angle, along with it, so we're going to pull down come to your guide, keep your hand at a little bit of an angle and cut down Into it, bring it down and create that little angle droops down a little too much, so i'm going to cut a little bit more perfect. Take our next section again doing it at a little bit of an angle there flipping it up, bringing the rest of that hair down and just follow your guide and always remember, to create a little bit of an angle with your finger, because otherwise, what you're going To do if you come out straight here, you're just you're not going to maintain that and you're going to lose the angle come in see your guide, create that angle cut and you're just going to continue to do that until you get to your very top layer. Do okay, so this is a part of prior to your haircut, really the consultation where you can ask your client if they want this severe of an angle or, if they'd like it to be brought up. So sometimes what i will do when creating the angle is if a client wants to see one, but maybe they don't like the severity of it being all the way angled down through this front point here, what you can also opt to do is once you've created That angle, you can come in and almost level off from this piece here and cut out the front and it just kind of takes a little bit of the severity out of it. So i'm gon na go ahead and do that so i kind of basically will just go to see where my longest point here is, which is usually that front corner and i'm going to come and then just cut straight across from there. So that brings up enough of it where you have an angle, but it's not quite as severe with it coming down as extreme in the front okay. So now that we've created our side here to do her layers, i'm going to do it similar to how i do the back, except i like to bring my sides up and out away from the face just because i don't like to take too much weight out. Depending on the client a lot of times, clients, their hair usually doesn't have quite as much thickness on the side. So i like to maintain my weight so we're gon na just go up and out away from the face letting that fall. Then you see your guide here and just continue cutting up at an angle and then take your next section and do the same thing go up and away from the face. Let that fall out and cut okay and then we're just gon na match everything up on the other side, okay and then we're gon na take our subsectioning again on this side same as the other side, i like to do it at a diagonal angle, coming down. Rather than straight across flip that up out of the way and again we're going to come down, see our guide here, keep our fingers at an angle going down not straight across bring it down and cut. Take your next section come down, follow your guide. Keeping that angle, you can see your guide here and cut. It'S also nice to hold your scissors at an angle too. Just continue all the way up to your top layer, okay and so again same as the other side. We'Re gon na take out this front little corner just so. It'S not quite as extreme of an i'm angle. Bring it over see your point basically there and just take out that front corner and then we're gon na. Do our layers the same on this side as we did the other, bringing everything up and back away from the face, letting that fall out and then cut up, bring it all back down and now we're going to go ahead and check our sides? Okay, so one way to check your client before you dry is i like to stand in front of them, but obviously to show you guys it's a little difficult, but you'll basically just bring the side pieces around to the front and match them up and then just Go back in and correct anywhere that might need correcting. This is where i feel like. Sometimes we can beat ourselves up a little bit because you're like oh, i didn't get it even on this one side. It'S okay. I'Ve been doing this for 14 years and i plenty of times still have to go back in and correct my work. That'S why we check that's the whole point of checking to make sure everything's lining up right. You want to do that before and after styling. Again, this haircut same as a traditional bob, you want to dry the client's hair, there's so much dry cutting you can do with these haircuts that you always want to dry the client, don't let them leave wet because there's always something you need to go back in And critique so i'm just going to go ahead and check her really thoroughly and then we're going to get her styled and i'll show you guys how i go about doing all my dry, cutting texturizing. So sometimes what i do for checking the very front pieces. I will just take the very front two sections basically and just bring them straight down, and you can see ever just so slightly a few pieces that are sticking out to kind of set my guide and then go back through again and stand in front of them. So she's just a little bit longer on this right side here, so i'm just gon na bring it up a smidge more i'm gon na go ahead and style her now and we'll get to the final cutting okay. So now that we have her dried and styled, i'm gon na get to really the fun part of all the texturizing. We do so a lot of times. What i will do for my labs is just to kind of get this a little bit more rounded and some of the weight out of it i'll show you how i go in and texturize, basically all the haircuts. So you can do this. What i'm doing here? You can go ahead and do that too on something. That'S all one length. You don't necessarily have to do the layers i created if they don't want layers per se, and you can do the steps i'm about to do that - just kind of create a little bit of texture without necessarily layers. So again, i like to just separate my sides like just pull them all forward, clip them out of the way the back. It'S not like. You have to worry so much about sectioning. For this part i'll just bring this back and clip it up. So what i like to start doing for the back is, i basically just bring with my comb the hair up, and i will just lightly point cut into it and what that does? Is it just lightly? Will round this little back part just ever so slightly to create a little bit more shape just take another section doesn't have to be super precise, do the same thing, kind of start in the middle, bring it up, let it fall and just point cut bring it All the way back point cut and then, while doing this part, what you can also do is have your client look down any little hairs that might poke out on this mannequin. It'S a little hard to see, but i can see right here a little bit of hairs and then i'm just going to kind of nip away at them with my scissors and then rather than bringing this straight out and doing it, i'm just gon na take it Actually, with my scissors and comb and just really deep point cut into this, so what this is basically doing is just taking out some of the weight to create that texture and movement for when it's straight or even curled. So you see a little bit more definition and shape. I am a big fan of dry cutting for all my texturizing and just dry, cutting really kind of in general. You just see the hair a little bit better for how it's laying and falling. Sometimes one side needs more texturizing, the other, because sometimes some people's hair is just thicker on one side and whatnot, so you just have a little bit more control. I feel oh yeah, so that just ever so slightly soften this up, creating a little bit more roundness and getting out some of the heavy bulk. That'S in there, i'm just gon na. Do it one more time right in the middle gon na blend in the sides and bring it out and just lightly point cut the sides? You don't typically need to point cut as heavy-handed just because usually the hair is not quite as thick in the back. The back is where most people have like so much bulk and thickness, so the size i just lightly. Do it and just do the same thing on the other side? Okay, so after you've point cut, you can go ahead and just keep on checking. If you feel you have any spots that need a little bit more cutting the side angle is all personal preference. If you feel like it's too severe, you can always just even it out a little bit more in the front, but i'm gon na leave it because i like it and then i'm gon na show you guys too how i go in with my thinning shears. If your client has the hair type that can handle that or likes a lot of extra texture on how i go about creating that so texturizing, i kind of do it. The same is when i point cut with my regular shears um i'll, just come in and focus on the ends, and i just kind of lightly, as i am closing, i pull out and just really soft, just kind of going all through the head where it needs It i'm not softening that up more, it's just real thick on her sides actually, and then i always like to just bring the thinning shears up at an angle rather than a hard side. I just feel like this way creates like too much of a line, and this just kind of gives the effect of like a point, cutting you're just taking out a little bit more hair, which is good for those clients that have gobs and gobs of hair. It'S out a little bit more than point cutting. Does we're just going to do the same on the other side and then again, if your client is thicker on one side, thinner on the other, just adjust to how much hair you're taking out and how little you're taking out to each side, then i'm just going To check everywhere and i'll skim through for you another way you can check your angle on the sides is sometimes i like to pull this hair up away from the face, just because it shows you a little bit more of that interior and then you can check And it just helps, you see it a little bit a better off on this side so now that i've done that, i'm just going to let that out and double check again my fronts, okay guys. So this is it styled and straight, as you can see, we've got a little bit of movement, nothing too crazy with the layering or texture just enough to shape it up. We'Ve got a little bit of a slight angle. You can adjust the angle, give or take what your client is wanting. Some clients want, no angle which you would just then cut straight across rather than angling, your hand down with your sectioning or you can make it even more extreme. That'S all going to be found out in your consultation with your client um. I hope you guys got some good tips from me. As far as how i like to point, cut and texturize, i'm really big on dry cutting. I love dry cutting and i feel any haircut, especially bob's or lops. You need to do a lot of dry, cutting just to kind of perfect everything and then key point. Two clients would labs like to typically be able to pull their hair up into a small ponytail. So here we can get that hair up. You know it's not meant to be a really high ponytail, because the hair is going to start falling out. But as long as your client can get a nice low ponytail, that's usually key with a lot of lobs. So hope you guys enjoyed it and then sectioning is always key. Do those nice clean sections do not take too large of sub sections you're going to lose? Your guide feel free to leave a comment below. If you have any further questions, i would be happy to answer, but i hope you guys got some tips on how i go ahead and create my lobs and hopefully they helped you out. Please like share and subscribe, and i will see you guys next week.