Banging Bob Haircut Tutorial

Hey everyone welcome to my channel i'm summer today we are doing a bob with a full bang haircut tutorial. I love a bob and putting bangs with it just adds such a fun look. So let's get started reasons why bob's are so great? They are a classic look that looks good on just about everyone. You can customize them stacked blunt, slightly stacked angled. The list goes on today. I'M going to be doing a slight stack where we're not going to be creating any more of an angle than a bob. Can often create on its own and adding in those fun bangs. So now that we have addressed all the great things about a bob, it's time to get started with our sectioning. So i like to come in and just right at the tip of the ear. Take my section to separate the front from the back and i'm just gon na push that forward and clip it up out of the way and we're gon na do the same thing on the other side, okay and then, once you have, your sides done you're gon Na come into the back and then you're just going to go right down, essentially the middle of the head, and then these are going to become your two sections. It'S just easier to clip the hair up out of the way. So i'm going to take my first parting here, it's about an inch clip this up and then clip up the other side. So again i like to just do the two partings like this for the back, because it just allows for a little bit more control. It keeps everything clean and in its place, and it's just easier as you move up the head, especially if somebody has a ton of hair. The two sections is my preferred choice. Okay, so now that we have her all sectioned off what i have my clients do when i'm starting off in the back, especially moving up to the occipital bone here is, i will have them look down, so you want to make sure that their head is angled Down this just helps prevent any hair from underneath popping out, so always have them look down, especially up until the occipital bone. After that point, it's fine for them to look just straight ahead. Okay, so for her length we're going to be bringing it just above the edge of her neck here. So it's about a good two and a half inches, so i'm just gon na start here in the middle again, we've got our looking down, so i'm just gon na come down and just go straight across with my scissors. Okay. So now that we have cut our first piece here, we're just gon na simply drop down our next section, no more than i'd like to do about a half inch partings with bob's um. Just because you are creating a slight sack, you want to make sure that you're able to see through your sections to your guide. Okay. So now that we have our second section again, because this is not a super stacked like a heavy tight stacked bob. Where, normally for that, i would bring out my angle quite a bit out where you're really creating lift, because we want it just to be a slight stack, we're just gon na lightly, bring it out, but more so with it out and down. Hopefully, that makes sense i'll link below my stacked bob tutorial that i really get into detail on how to create like a tight stack. But this is just more of a slight bevel almost so now that we have our section we're just going to come out, bring it out and down. I can see my guide here poking through and then i like to just point cut across okay, so we're just gon na keep moving up the head, taking our guide with the client's head angled down until you get to that occipital bone region, nice, clean small sections, Is what you want, the bigger the section, the more likely you are to lose your guide and then that's going to create a problem with unevenness and just having to go back in and rework everything. So it takes a little time but small sections and spray down. If you need to, as your client's hair dries no harm in doing that, all right and again we're just creating a slight stack. So, instead of coming all the way out, we're going to keep it nice and low and just low and lightly pulling out we're just bringing everything back like i said the bob sort of creates its own angle on its own, while cutting i'm not creating any extra Angle itself, but it does just slightly give one the way that the hair goes because you are pulling it straight back, so it just slightly creates very little angle. So one thing i like to do, while i'm moving up the head just to check my sectioning and evenness is: i will take the pieces on the end here and just kind of bring them into the middle and make sure that they're lining up nice. So that way, you can correct as you're going if you have any unevenness. So i'm going to take one more section with her still looking down we're going to be creating still just a very slight stack and then at this point we're going to be done with the occipital and then i'll just have her look straight ahead. So again, we're going to come with it down still and lightly out, because we're just taking that slight stack. So this basically just creates a soft like bevel, almost and roundness to the shape, so you'll have a baby stack, but it's much softer than that really intense. Like tight stack with the angle, okay, so now we're gon na position their head in the upright position, looking straight ahead and then still continue with those half inch parts. So you're really keeping track of your guide. Now we're just going to bring the hair down. I'M not really lifting out as much more so kind of just straight down, so for this last little bit, usually once i get kind of close to the crown i'll, usually just let that last piece fall, because at that point you can see easy. We can see right through that and then i'm just going to cut that straight across add in a little bit of layering. Okay. So now that we have our back done, you can see. She'S got a little bit of lift right in here. I'M just going to create my layers. I like to just do my bob layers. Like i do my long layers. I don't personally like to add a ton i feel like. If you add a ton, it kind of loses that bobbish slight bevel um. Look. So to do my layers, i'm just going to take a section here. You want to keep it in that, like inch region of width, so i'm just going to bring this out and we're going to go up, keep an angle going with your hands. Let out this bottom and then i like to just go up and point cut and then we're gon na lift that a little higher and nip at the top and then take a little bit of our guide into the next section. Again, i always flip my comb. I say that like in every video when i'm creating layers, but i like to use the finer side to really pull some nice even tension, bring it up. Let that bottom fall. I can see my guide here and then we're just going to keep moving through on the head. Take my next section, then we're going to do the same on the other side. Come back to the middle grab. My guide push this hair over. Take my next section. Flip, my comb, so you got the finer side pulling with nice tension. Bring it up, see your guide and cut. You can see all the hair there through that guide. That'S the importance of small enough sections. That way, you really see well, and you never lose your guide. That way, you don't end up over cutting and then that's where you get a problem going and have to really kind of save the day with it. If you overcut last piece on this side come across her very top, i'm going to bring this all the way up and just even out this little hair. That'S sticking up at the top! I'M just going to lightly point cut into that a little bit more to soften it up all right. So now we're going to move into the sides. So now that we have her layers done, i want to show you guys too. You can see. This is what i mean with how the bob kind of creates an angle in and of itself ever so slightly, it's not a lot, but it does naturally create an angle going down. You certainly can nip that off if your client doesn't want to see an angle, but i personally love it. So i just wanted to show you that, before moving into how i finished off the back, so i've done her layers and then what i'll do? To kind of like just lightly cross check, almost i come out and i angle my comb down and i just will point cut into this little hair - that's popping out just to soften it up, because i know i'm most likely going to have to soften that. Once it's dry and it just kind of helps, take any little bit of weight that might hang there if you're more comfortable to do that dry, you certainly can um but nine times out of ten. I know that this is a step i'm gon na have to do after it's dry, so i'll just do it while it's wet okay and now we're gon na move to our sides, so you're gon na first of all, let the sides down if you need to Respray it go ahead and do so you want the hair pretty damp while you're cutting and then again always section off your sides. You don't want to come in and just cut it. It seems easy and you can sometimes depending on your comfortability level, but it's still better to just section by section you're, going to guarantee an even cut every time. That way, i'm just going to come right above the ear clip that up out of the way. Okay. So, like i said, the bob does create a little bit of an angle. So i'm not going to continue that angle, though i'm just going to even it off to where this point is right here and we're going to go straight across. If your client wanted to see more shape going forward, you would simply just angle your hands, but for this video we are just evening it off we're going to come down, bring it all the way down. I can see my guide right there and i'm just going to point cut across. Take my next section all right, so we've created our side shape here, it's a very slight angle, but we haven't added to it and then i'm just going to do my layers and then to do my layers again. I do a long layer for the sides as well i'm going to come in. Take my section move this out of the way grab from the back, bring it up and back angle, your fingers and point cut out and up or back and up you want it going away from the client's face. I'Ll take our last piece here because again we are doing a bang. I'M going to leave just a little bit here to blend in for face framing granted we're not really creating a ton of layering on the sides, but i don't want to take out more than i might need it later and then we're going to repeat the same. On the other side, all right now to do the other side, we're just going to do the sectioning the same way. You don't want too big of a piece just come in clip this up out of the way and then again we are not extending the angle. We'Re evening it out, okay, so we're gon na come in meet here at this guide and okay, so we're just gon na continue taking our sections going up the rest of this side. We'Ve got our last piece here before creating our layers and then we're going to do the layers the same way. So we're going to take our section and remember we're going to go back and away from the face with twisting and then just snipping. That top next piece, fine side of your comb to get nice tension and take this last little bit back and away twist and cut i'm going to kind of do a little cross-checking, just come out angle, those hands and snip out the little hairs that are sticking Out all right now, the fun part of the bangs which actually really before the bangs, i'm going to cross check the front, make sure that both sides are laying, even so i'm going to re-spray just so that way. The hair is laying nice on both sides. One side's not more dry than the other, so once you've re-sprayed. What i like to do is kind of. I will stand typically behind the client, but so you guys can see it. I'M going to stand in front and i'll feel right along the ears here and i'm going to grab it and just bring it back and meet them in the middle to make sure that they're lining up. And it's a good way to see. If you need to even it out or you can stand in front of them again, i'm behind so you guys can see but grab again in the same areas and bring forward and even out any spot that you need don't get discouraged. If you do have one side, that's a little longer in some spots, um bob's can be very hard and if the client's not sitting perfectly still it's easy to get a little lopsided and stuff. This is where checking is very important, but don't beat yourself up. Bobs are a very difficult haircut, even if it's like a slight stacked one they're tedious work. So that's why sectioning is key and then making sure your client is staying as still as possible in all reality. So now that you have done that to check where you need to check and cut anywhere that needs to cut we're gon na move into the bang. Okay, so first things first with creating the bang re-spray down your client's hair if they need it. I, like my bangs to be fairly damp, just so they're laying nice, especially if they have a cowlick of any sorts. So once you have done that to take the bang parting, a good way to determine is i'll just lightly comb, the hair forward. You don't want to comb it like from way far back forward, just literally kind of in almost there like receded areas. So to speak, not saying everybody has a receded hairline, but in that region. Okay, so we've got the hair combed down in front of the face, and then i like to mark the edge of the eyebrows as sort of my guide, i feel like anything past that it tends to just be a little like too wide for my personal preference. So i'll lay the hair down, see how it's falling and come to sort of the edge of her eyebrows and i'm gon na clip this hair out of the way. Okay. So now that we have our bang section, you can see that it makes sort of like a nice little triangle there, and then i like to section off the bangs to cut it, keeps it very clean that way and again you can see your guide, especially if Somebody wants a very very blunt bang section it off, so i'm just going to use my clip and just come right across the top and section that out of the way you can even take it thinner if you want clip that up on the top. So now that we have our first section, what i will do then, sometimes now, because you can see a little better with less hair i'll look at the corners here and if i feel like that, this hair is falling too far out in the width. So if you pull that down it's past the point of the eyebrow, i'm going to take that and clip it up out of the way, because you can always add more hair after the fact. But at least when you're cutting your guide at first, it's better. To start off with less and add more after the fact, of course, then i'm going to check this other side do the same thing again, when this hair is pulled down, it's on the outer edge of that eyebrow line, so we're going to take it and clip It out of the way, okay, so now that we have that it's time to cut i'm going to leave her basically right below her eyebrow kind of into that eyelash area. I always suggest, leaving the bangs a little longer at first and waiting to see them dry. Just because, once they're short they're done it's over start off with them longer let the clients see how they're falling in their face, and then you can always cut into them a little bit more after the fact. So we're going to come down and again i'm trying to stay in that eyelash area below her brow line, just a tiny bit more. That'S probably gon na lay just about perfect. So as i go across the rest of the width, i do tend to slightly angle. My fingers, just ever so slightly so that way as it flows into the rest of the hair. When this hair is down, you get a soft transition rather than just being straight all the way across here it kind of creates a hard line and a disconnect. So we're just going to lightly angle those hands and we're going to do the same. On the other side, i'm going to come over check. This is a little long and then we're going to take our next piece and then again re-spray. If you need to take it right in the middle, see our guide cut angle, those fingers down, so basically, as you go further up with your section, this corner piece is going to keep getting a little bit longer again, so it flows nicely down into the rest Of the hair take our section angle, cut angle, cut come in, and then i'm going to break this still into two more parts: comb that hair nice bring it down grab in the middle first cut you're just going to keep doing the same motions. Remember to angle your fingers as you're, going towards the outer side of the bangs to keep that nice angle flowing so it'll blend into the rest of the hair. I typically in salon, spend about i'm going to say a good like 15 minutes between wet cutting and dry cutting with my bangs and we're going to take our last and final piece to create the bang so to check the bangs i'll. Just stand in front of the client again, i'm standing behind, so you guys can see - and i just bring everything down and check to see, there's a little bit extra length coming out of here. So i'm just going to correct that and then i'll show you how i blend in the sides. Okay, so i'm going to let down the sides and essentially what i do is just kind of face frame the rest of the hair into the shape. I have one client that she doesn't like that. It'S literally just a blunt bang, so just talk that over in the consultation with your client, but traditionally i do like to do a little bit of softening around the hairline just so it flows a little bit better. So we've got our piece right here. Let'S see, we've got our longest piece here, so you don't have to exactly meet it up to right that exact spot. You can drop it down a little bit and then just point cut into this after it's dry. So i'm just going to take a piece move that hair back come in angle, my hands down and then just sliver down with it. I try to focus more so just on this outer layer. I don't want to cut too far back into the rest of the hair you're just really kind of trying to soften it around the face. We'Re going to do the same on this side, so we're going to grab the hair here. Push this out of the way, bring it forward and angle towards you, and you can either come up this way on it or sliver down whatever you're comfortable with and just angle straight up. Okay, so i'm gon na go ahead and get her styled and dried now and then go in and do any cross checking and point cutting just to blend in anywhere that needs to blend in, and i can't wait to see the final result. I want to make a note for drawing with bangs. I will dry the bangs first when styling i like the bangs to be pretty damp and wet just because if they have a cowlick, that weight is going to help hold it down and less splitting is going to happen. So i always just do the bangs back and forth with my round brush to really get them to lay down nice and smooth, and then i will style the rest of the hair. Okay, i have her dried and styled now and what i'm going to do is just go through and point cut cross check. Her bangs are still a little long to me, so i'm going to shorten them up a little bit and then show you guys how to clean up in the back of a bob oftentimes. What can happen is underneath you get these little hairs, that sort of poke out it's very common with, like almost any hair type. I'Ve been doing hair for 15 years now and very often i have to go in and just clean up along the hairline. So i'm going to show you guys how to do that, but otherwise we've got a nice angle here, it's just very, very slight, very very minimal and the layers and everything are looking nice i'll show you guys how you can add a little texturizing to it. If you want, but what we're first going to do is clean up this back part and then i'm going to shorten her bangs a little bit more okay. So what you'll want to do is have your client look down again and you can either clip it up, which i will do that, because you see it a lot better and it just gets other hair out of the way. So i'm going to clip up this hair and then you just see all these little guys right here. So i'm just going to go in and point cut them or you can just go right along the hair, but usually just those nape hairs like to poke out they just like to poke out. They are just little tiny demon hairs that want to just keep sometimes poking out on clients. It'Ll drive me crazy, but they're not hard to go in and nip up. You can even sometimes when you're blow drying, see them and kind of nip at them there. But i wanted you guys to see what it looks like before you: do it we're going to drop down our next section. So usually what i like to do with the bobs is i'll. Just come in. Do scissor over comb and point cut because it softens any hard lines, takes a little bit of bulk out if they've got a ton of hair, but you can go in with your thinning shears. If you want just it all depends on the client how they like their hair. Not everybody loves the texturizing shears, but the scissor over comb point cutting is just a nice way to slightly thin it out and soften it without cutting too much into the actual hair and every now. And then you get a client that their hair lays like so perfect for a bob and it's hardly any work at all and then other people's hair is much more dense and thick to get through. So it really just all depends on each head of hair yeah. That'S laying really nice back here. You'Ve just got literally just a little bit of roundness, there's no heavy stack to it and it just flows really pretty into their front. So now i'm going to double check the sides make sure that they're laying right that no hairs are poking out on them. I think i'm going to flat iron her a little bit she's a little bubbly, let's come in here, so in salon. I actually squat down on the floor like this quite a lot. I just feel like it gets a better angle. Sometimes you can't pump the chair. All the way up enough and then again the sides you can bring out and just do a little point cutting if you need to. If somebody has like super super thick hair, you certainly can use those texturizing shears just confirm with them, whether or not that they are okay with that, because some people love them and some people really really hate them. Okay and i'm just going to flat iron. Her a little bit and then we'll come back to the bangs okay. So now that i have her flat ironed a little bit, we're just going to go in and lightly trim up the bangs, especially in this front kind of area where her eyes are. This is why i like to do them a little longer at first and then go in and make them shorter just so that way, they're not too short at first and if the clients bangs are too short, they're, usually unhappy. So i will section them off. Actually, pretty much how i do to cut them dry - maybe not quite as precise, but just to break it up. So i can really see so it's more so just kind of in this area right here in the eye, usually right at the arch of the eyebrow. Almost that outer corner of the lashes is where people always are like. Take it a little bit shorter, so i'm just gon na come in leave out this piece over here angle and nip that so for the top part, you almost can create a little bit of a layer if your client is open for it. So we've got our shorter piece here and you can see how it slightly angles up so you're just going to sort of essentially follow that and point cut into that top. And then i'm going to point to a little bit more in here, because it's a little heavy for my liking. We'Ve got this little guy right here that just wants to kind of poke out we're just going to come and cut it. Obviously, with a real client. You want to be very careful with point cutting right at their face. You would just simply bring the hair and take a section and point cut that way. You don't want to just stab them in the eye with your shears, okay and then you just stand in front of your client. You could visually see if it's matching or not this one side really wants to be stubborn here on me, much better, okay! So now that we have the bangs done, i'm just going to finish off the haircut. So there's a little bit more texture, i'm just going to take a couple random pieces and really deep point cut into them. So it kind of creates a little bit of a shorter layer in some areas so that way, when they go to style it whether it be they want to curl it or wear it. More messy they'll see a little bit more movement yeah. I am loving it. So good, i'm just going to do a little bit of a dry texture spray. I like moroccan oils just to kind of fluff her up some more okay guys. So this is our finished. Look. We have a nice lightly stacked bob with a fun bang. Remember we get that nice roundness of a stack by not over directing and lifting up those layers as we're creating the stack you want to keep your hands low. So that way, you just get a slight bend, and it's not overwhelming for a client that doesn't want to see that tight stack sectioning in the bangs is very important. It'S better to leave them on the longer side at first, you can always shorten them up after you've. Dried, the hair. Remember use those eyebrows as a guide. You don't want to cut too far past, at least with creating those shorter pieces point cutting is key all throughout a bob. You can also use your texturizing shears if the client is okay with that. Just confirm that in your consultation, but i hope you guys enjoyed the video. This is one of my favorite cuts to do the bob is. I will link my other bob video i have below and then, like i said, the banks is just a fun way to kind of kick it up for a client who wants a little bit of a change with their bob. So i hope you guys enjoyed. Please leave a comment below. I will be happy to answer any questions. Let me know your thoughts, please like share and subscribe, and i will see you guys next week.