A Pro Stylist Breaks Down The Octopus Hair Trend | Beauty Home School | Hair.Com By L'Oreal

If you're someone who likes the idea of a shag or a wolf cut, but keeping your length is a must, the octopus haircut could definitely be for you how you doing everybody. My name is phillip wolf and i'm a hair, stylist and educator based out of los angeles, california, and i currently work out of a private studio at salon republic located in beverly hills, the octopus haircut. What exactly is the octopus haircut? What are the features of this style? How should i style it at home? Can this cut work with wavy or curly hair in this video, we'll be going over these questions and more to help? You understand the key features of this haircut and what products will help you style and maintain this look at home. So, as always, let's get into it. Our model for today is miss elise and, as you can see, she has a grown out one length haircut. She definitely wants to keep her length, but she is open for some fun. She wants some volume and that's exactly what we're gon na do today i'll be adding a ton of layers all over disconnected from the bottom or the length and then adding extra separation and wispiness to those lengths, so that overall, you get the outline shape. Much like an octopus, you can see here with elise i'm going to be adding way more layers on the top maintaining length, but we obviously got to get rid of those dry looking ends. That is a must and, as you can see here, i will add a swoop that really brings out the framing of the face. Now, let's get into the haircut portion of this video, but first, let's wet her hair down boom. Now we can begin after you get out of the shower or wash your hair and towel dry. It you're going to want to detangle it. So i'm grabbing one of my favorite products by matrix called miracle creator. It is a leave-in treatment. It'S got over 20 benefits. You just simply spray it in your hair after you get out of the shower and then work it through with a fine tooth comb or a brush and it'll help maintain shine, moisture and integrity of the hair, as well as offer great protection against thermal styling. I will be setting this hair cut up with a center part, and now i'm moving over to the side where i can observe the upper recession area. This will help me determine a section for the swoop which will eventually blend into the rest of the face. Framing. I'M going to start this haircut by creating a new length in the industry. We call this a baseline, so what i'm trying to do here is create more of a u-shape. So, as you can see here, i'm going more of an soft angled approach and i'm going to use what's called point, cutting i'm just basically cutting with the points of my shears. This one creates a much softer line so once the hair is dry i'll, be getting into the next cutting technique, and this cutting technique will give all the extra separation and the length that we're looking for this technique is particularly amazing. For those of you who have super dense hair, it might be long, but the weight of it alone is enough to give you a headache, especially when you put the hair up here. We go we're going to start chopping away here. I know it looks aggressive, but it is effective, drop that section and boom. Now you can see here how soft and wispy the ends are, how much movement is created there and texture, and you can see here. Naturally, all those ends are visibly separated on their own. Much like the tentacles of an octopus, hence the name of the haircut. Now we move into the top it's divided front and back, but we will start with the very front piece first, because we are going to be setting up the face frame for release. I'Ve decided to go slightly off center, go with a lower cheekbone length. This way, it's not a full fringe and it'll still be movable from side to side, and she can get that curtain, bang feel without committing to a full bang and, as you can see, i've swung it slightly over to one side, we're gon na be again using That point cut method just softening up that line, and this will be the beginning and the guideline essentially for the rest of the face frame. Now that the length is cut it's time to give it some more purpose and direction, we're going to be adding some layering here, you can see here as it falls it just naturally swoops over on its own. Next, i'm going in to layer the top of the crown and, as you can see, there's a disconnection there i'll be leaving that about two one to two inches disconnected which is okay, because, as the hair falls, it will all visually blend beautifully. As i finish up all the layering on the top portion here now, you can see the dramatic effect of all the layering on the top, and then you can see that length. I'M going to be combing through here to smooth it out. So now i'm taking the corner of that front portion and just simply sliding my shears down blending and further framing the face neck that blends all the way down into the length and there we have it. All of this is now visually blended. In now, i'm gon na add the high amplify foam volumizer to the top portion. Now you can do this on dry or wet hair, but i did decide to slightly dampen the hair first and here you go a generous golf ball size in the palm mix. It around in the hands and apply thoroughly root to ends. This especially, is going to work well with all those brand new layers that we put in on the top and in the crown, because after all, we want to bring out the volume here we go. It'S blow dry time, so what i'm doing here is i'm using a fairly large round brush. But first i want to make sure i apply heat through the nozzle and really concentrate on pulling out the roots and then once you feel most of the moisture is out of the hair. I am rolling the brush backwards away from the face, but i am pulling towards the face. This will give you a great smooth effect but helps enhance and show off all the layering that was put in the haircut now for the crown area: roll the brush away. But pull it towards. It creates a really nice, rounded effect in that crown. Giving tons of volume right behind that will be the support system for those layers, and you can see that they are slightly disconnected. But you get that really. Nice rounded effect right down into the tentacle-like length. It'S almost as if high amplify and these layers were made for each other, it's easily expandable as far as the volume goes just with your hands, and if you just want to have it a little bit more subtle, you can tone it down, but it still holds Its shape very well, you can clearly see all the features of the haircut here. It maintained the length super soft and wispy and separated throughout the ends heavy swoop and round voluminous shape on top no lack of volume in the crown for this one. This was used with a one and a quarter inch barrel on medium heat, just to give a little extra life, the hourglass shape stays, and you can see some life has been brought to those tentacle-like ends the face frame here. The swoop really shows off the features here shows off the jawline those lips and opens the neck up as well. One of the most amazing things about this haircut. It is truly one of the most versatile longer hairstyles today and, as promised i haven't forgotten here - is the same shape done on super curly hair. Look at all that volume, alright that wraps it up for the octopus haircut, video thanks so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to check out high amplify miracle creator and my personal favorite miss mess dry, finishing spray on hair.com and, if you'd like to follow me, i'm at philip wolf, hair on social media and don't forget to subscribe to the channel For more videos like these until next time,