|| Creating the Perfect Platinum Bob/Lob || Inspired by Kylie Jenner & Cara Delevingne

Hey guys, welcome back to another installment of Hair Tube, first of all we have to mention our amazing partner at Matrix. You guys are always asking us to produce content more regularly and Jimmy and I are working tirelessly to be able to do that, but unfortunately. It is very expensive and thanks to our friends at Matrix we can now bring you more regular content so show your love for them because when you do it means you are supporting us and if you support us and Matrix we can bring you more content regularly. content because without people like them who believe in me I can't bring you the videos that you ask so often, so let's introduce you to our model today Lorna um Lorna is our willing participant today during the week that Lorna entered. and it had a very big change with the color.

You can see that it looks amazing and fresh. We'll talk a little more about what we did with the color later as I cut it and also at the end of the video. The colorist who did the color during the week will have a full description of all the products they use, but to give you a quick introduction, we use Light Master and Bond Ultimate, which is Matrix New Plex and a lightning protection treatment, so if If you don't know yet, you should find out. Contact your local Matrix agent in whichever country you're viewing and get your hands on some Bond Ultimate right away.

So let's talk about Lorna's hair. So Lorna will happily come today and me. I am willing to do whatever she wants to her. Am I going to shave? No, as always, I like to bring you videos that you think are maybe something a little bit different, but the things that your clients ask for every day in the salon, because I think. that's the most important thing, it's good to have creative expression, but if we're learning haircuts that our clients aren't asking for, then it's very difficult for us to inspire the people that are in our salon, whether it's our staff or our teammates. , and also inspire your clients to change and adopt new haircuts, so discuss it briefly.

Lorna is giving me free rein, but I'm not going to cut her hair too short because I want to give her a relevant and current business look, today we go. To give it a little shape around the front of her, we're going to take a lot of length out of the ends of her and I want to give them something that can actually be washed and worn because I don't want to give her a haircut that requires a lot of styling. during the day because her lifestyle is such that she is in college, that's right, what are you studying? um wow master masters okay obviously she's going to be very busy so no ironing no curling it's a paddle brush some amazing matrix products and I'll talk about the products that are suitable for later and maybe five minutes in the morning and then once it's dry, the second, the third and the fourth day we'll go back to washing and resetting the hair and going back-drying it again so let's get started.

I hope you enjoy this video and, um, yeah, have something to say excitedly. If I can not wait. I mean, if I can't make Lorna look good, I have to quit because she's amazing. Alright let's get started so Lorna came in during the week and dyed her hair so our color director Michelle who is actually my wife dyed Lorna's hair and she's amazing you'll see the beginning of the video. There is a before photo. In fact, we could post it like now so you can see what Lorna's color looked like at the beginning. It was a pretty big process.

She had a kind of existing beach balayage, a grown-up blonde kind of thing. I mean, it's like you know a pretty casual look. Um, so no, boy, so Michelle decided that she was going to approach it like a virgin application, so she lightened the ends first with her light master and then went in there and lightened the roots throughout the process. She used Bond Ultimate, Um and you. I can see that the hair is in amazing condition, it's very strong, super strong and it was blonde, it was blonde to begin with and it was pretty dry, so it's a great product that works and we're actually very lucky to have it because it just come out and we're using it right away, so there's no point in having beautiful blonde hair if it dries right in the sink.

I will use the Bra Gentle Shampoo and Conditioner on most blondes, they will fade a little. Over time I was explaining to Lorna when she had a hair color and just then, off camera, that blonde became quite faded for a few reasons and the best way to do that is to have a great shampoo like Brass Off, essentially some people call them purple shampoo. or violet shampoo, but essentially its job is to counteract the brassy yellow tones that come with having blonde hair, it really suits you, huh? Have you had many comments? Yes, many already say: who made your color?

Where did you go? Well, it's good. It looks really good, I was like, I was a little worried at first because, like you like, without being rude, your hair was a little damaged, it wasn't terribly bad, but it was. damage and when you go and put it through a massive flash process, well, how long are we here for like three or four hours or something? Yes, you know when you have an amazing product like Bond Ultimate. Taking care of the condition is actually a luxury we never had, so thank you Matrix for introducing such a great product because I love it.

I'm going to take off your cape and if you could do what all the hairdressers do. Tell me, could you please uncross your legs? Simply put your arms inside. This will make it a little easier so it doesn't get hairy. I'll take this out. Let's talk about the haircut. So I spoke to Lorna when she was in the salon last week um and it would be easy to just go and shorten it a little bit but I just don't want to I just don't think it's necessary but I want to I think we need to do it Look at my cutting from a holistic perspective, she has She had a huge change with her color, even though she was blonde, she is very blonde and now if we go and then make a big change in the haircut for me, it will probably be too early for a client and you a client, even though you are my friend , you're still a client so I'm not going to push you into that awkward space so what we're going to start with is I want it to be clear from the shoulders a little bit more towards the front but where the magic will be in the front um is a through the top when we're going to create a shape that can really bring emphasis to these amazing cheeks so for me it's all about the cheekbones, the eyes, the jaw and that It's probably there in the front, a little bit shorter in the back and a little texture to give a little lightness to the interior.

I'm not going to do many layers, sometimes I come across bob haircuts and you would have listened. I've said it many times before, if you layer them, I think you can make them look quite classic and you can make young women look quite mature, so we don't do that, you have a lot of time to age, but like um Whose was it? Where was she from New York? Yes, yes, she said: what do I do at 60? Cut your hair like you're 21. That's what I'd do anyway, so okay, for the sake of accuracy, I'd recommend that. They take some sections, but as you know, taking too many can make them less accurate, so there are always sections that are balanced with the amount of hair, the length of the hair and other things like whether it is thin, thick, long, short, with enough texture so you can get over it you're ready you think it was bad when you had the color you expected they saw it in your haircut that's life changing come on so um chin down a little thank you always making sure you're working within the shape of the head for This particular cut I don't want to cut it here.

I'll make sure to bring it back here, so when you're working on the right side, I suggest you glide this way or if you're standing, stand up. This way you're naturally too direct and the opposite when you get to this way, otherwise you find yourself cutting corners and you end up with that drop and then forward, which isn't bad, it's just a different way, the Which is why I'm not doing it. what I just told you so you can see what I'm doing because if when I make this sign, I'm actually going to slide back like this and then again because you've held it between your fingers, you're going to Graduate whatever graduation you created, no you press it too tightly against the head of the neck, but any graduation you have created underneath, just cut it, don't cut your guide line, you cut your masculine line.

You have to start again. You see that little bit of graduation there. Good. Feel light. Look now look. Look what it does to your face. So for this last section you just need to get your chin

perfect

, a little too far, yeah, so. A good tip that you would have heard me mention before is that if you bring your head forward slightly, if Lorna's head is in a natural fall and you hold her hair up, you will graduate it straight away if you ask her to just tilt her head forward slightly. you are mitigating the graduation that you are going to create when you hold it between your fingers, so many of you who are quite experienced would already do this and know this, but for those who do not have it, there is a little tip that I use often but for the last section I'm not actually going to cut it between my fingers and for those of you who have attended one of my matrix workshops this year we created a full haircut and just for reasons of being different and having to do something that is quite disciplined we did a full haircut without touching it between our fingers so that was great and I find the comb to be great, it's a great ruler if you haven't noticed already. at the wide end of the cone, if I make Lorna look up, can you see what's going on up here?

If we go and stretch it very hard, when she dries, she will bounce back. I'm actually just combing it back pretty gently and you can look at that jump up there you know it's going to put a hole in your baseline if you don't look at your tension again any little graduation that we created we want to make sure we cut it off because The Short hair directs long hair, so unless you want your hair to come out at the ends, you should cut that graduation to remove the brass shampoo. Hey, isn't it? I'm just looking at it like she looks brilliant and and um.

Yeah, it looks cleaner, so yeah, I don't know if you noticed. I just held it with my fingers so it wouldn't come away from the side. Hi Lorna, I like to make sure it has to be absolutely

perfect

. before continuing because if you have one millimeter of inaccuracy in 10 sections, it ends up being 10 centimeters. Oh, sorry, an inch of inaccuracy, so you need to make sure each section is perfect before you continue, and if it's not, don't try it. and cut large amounts of hair resection be disciplined start over don't cheat if you fool yourself you fool your client and you guys are better than that the fact that you take the time to tune in and watch this means that you Worry about the quality of work that you do and that you are doing more outside of the classroom and that you want to be the best that you can be, so don't cheat.

I can already see that this side of your hair is going to Be a kicker, which is great and I already know why, because you have the hairline, but we'll shave it off in a minute. You won't see it. You literally like to remove just a small corner of those little bits that grow on your neck. Here now we're not going to do a trim today, maybe next time it will look really good, so we'll continue working from left to right, so I'll take a section here, comb everything back, making sure we stay tight here. Tuck your chin a little, thanks, although they cut those corners off those corners, they make your haircut look expensive, don't cut them, did I miss a bit?

The amateur went well, the next section will be the last one on the baseline, bring it all back. Where is my magic water? The one thing I can't live without is Hydrosource Daily Leave-In Toner. This is the best cutting solution on the planet. Matrix has amazing cutting oil and I think it's even better than cutting oil so you need some of that. So the last section guys is very important, so you can see, I intentionally didn't cut the sides. Could you just look to the right, lana, please? So I'm going to do it like this and just lower my chin again, what's going on?

Allowing me to do is actually exaggerating this even further back, why didn't I do it for the rest of the sections? Because this is the only section, this is the only one that's going to get here where I need it and go straight again. and leave these in and the opposite perfect and chin down, big turn in this direction and straight and just to the right again, I think I directed it too much, yes I did, now you've heard me say before, but it's not like that. I know why hair cutters and I'm not saying all but a lot of the hair cutters I've worked with always rush the bottom line and the simple analogy I use that I got from an amazing friend of mine, Dario, is that the tips of the haircut is like the expensive line on the designer handbag or on a designer jean, as if you were paying for the hem to be shiny, you werePaying for the stitching of the coat to be shiny and the haircut to be the same, you shouldn't rush the baseline.

Comb it, comb it again, triple check it and make sure it's just bang bang like it's really sharp. Okay, you can see that beautiful length that we've left there towards the front, it's so important, so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn the line to face them and then I'm going to ask them to look in the mirror and that allows me not having to worry about getting in the way of a shoulder, so if they're doing a long haircut. you could do this down here and we're going to do it up here where it's a little bit shorter.

Make sure you don't cut your guide. I recommend you take at least one section here just for accuracy. Always check to be sure. you haven't missed anything behind your ear and again, don't stretch it too much over your ear, that's early, they'll teach us how to do this and then you can see that we really need to make a cut, it's like almost nothing, look at that, hey . That's what I was talking about before, if you go and stretch it too much, these are the properties of that, you know all the characteristics of each scalp that are different and you know that you almost have a side crown that is nice.

Great, it's unique, we all knew you were special, Lorna, but it's a good natural form, natural tension, don't stretch it too much and then we'll do it over here, so I'll bring it back here, so yeah, I could do it halfway on the way to Lorna. haircut and I want you to take note of that shape I was talking about so you can see that it's clearly shorter in the back and longer in the front. You can see that it splits into two points here, but it doesn't. concave, I think it's square here, can you see?

So the first thing you want to do is comb the hair gently back away from the face and we want to see where the hair wants to part naturally so it really likes the middle, right? or just off center, so if we do this, loosen it up a little bit, which is very important. What I'm interested in is that things are not forced, like not combing things too hard and I actually like to do the Baseline, I don't mind doing it wet, but the rest I actually like quite dry, so we want to see, yeah, something of the shape that I'm going to create will literally just sit here and then we'll go.

Those points, so maybe some of you have seen this before. I know those who attended my um Matrix class haven't done it before, so I expect they get a little drunk, but the graveyard shaft is their natural farewell, so that's where. It's finished and we're actually going to cut it on top, so I just want to check the width, make sure it's not too wide, turn it around, look in the mirror, uh, it's really good to know how much of this we're going to cut off. leave it out because I'll leave 99 out I don't want to cut it may be too much maybe not I think it's good I actually used a little bit of tension on this it's very important that you make sure that underneath um We call this like a little curtain bangs, so if you want to split it here and open it up, you want to make sure that here it's shorter than the top and then we're going to make a very smooth cut, not completely diagonal, but just to like soften that up a little bit oh wow boom it's like hello cheekbones that works for me it works for you yeah it looks good I like it like that we have mirrors everywhere so that's done now we get to this part what I like to show you, although I ramble a little, I talk a little bad what I call it, um , I like to make sure, although it has taken me longer than it would in the classroom, because I want you to be able to see.

Do I want to make sure the haircuts you guys are learning are ready in a salon? I call it like they have to be functional in 45 minutes and if they're not, we have to charge a lot more for our time and do it. fewer people or have the luxury of doing it with one or two people a day. I don't have either and I know a lot of you work like I do, so all of these haircuts you do should be able to be done in about 45 minutes, that's why I like it. Create simple little elements like that on the front, I think. which sometimes we get to make things a little more complex, so the second basic element was your little curtain bangs and then we'll do a really pretty Titonian box layering type technique.

I love Tony Guy. Big shout out to Anthony Muscolo, thanks man, I remember you showed me this a few moons ago, so just give me a little guide. Nice square guide, we're going to bring everything to that point in the back, make sure you don't bring that in too much. On that front, what's really important is that we don't cut those corners again, so if the hair falls to the side, it falls out, don't chase it, don't project it this way, it's not bad, it's a different shape , that's not what we're doing today, nothing to cut there and similar to what we did in the back, now we're going to work from left to right again in our section or our box, so that our box is the rectangle we are. working down the middle here from left to right until we get out of here it's a stationary guide everything comes back to that point there it is there I know my section got a little messy let's sort it out so you can see I said Work commercially but no compromise the haircut by rushing at the same time.

Now I'm bringing the side in, make sure you pick it back up and if there's no hair to cut, don't chase it because the reason it's falling out. This is because we're

creating

a square, if we're

creating

a round shape, we do it on the side layer here and then you'll have it falling into the head shape, that's a haircut for another day, I think actually I'll probably do something similar soon, I think in another video, you know, in a couple of weeks, so I'll show you the last section up to the top and then we'll be ready to dry it again up to that point.

They ask me all the time. Why don't you ever cut me with splinters or points? Because I do it dry, so I like to create very strong, precise lines with my shape and then if I want to soften them, I go back and do that. I don't like cutting soft lines of Well, I don't like cutting bases with soft lines, that's it, so we're done with the haircut and now it's time to dry it, so today we'll use light hairspray and the general Hydrosource spray first. because I think the gentle setting works a little better. Gentle setting works best.

I'm a poet and I didn't know when there's a little bit of moisture in your hair and I've been so hard on this. I've never saturated someone's hair to the point where I have to rinse it and then just a little bit of light hairspray again. I don't like to use too much and this is more just to protect it from the heat because we're If we're going for a soft, beachy look, we just rub it in all the way to the ends. I never put product on the roots because we like nice, soft, natural roots.

Look, how easy it will be to comb your hair every day. Hey, like in summer, when it was hotter. just go, it's done like you let it dry, just let it dry, it dries pretty well because as I always say, blow drying should be based on a good haircut, it's not a prerequisite for your haircut looks good, could you stick your head forward? For me, we call this wrap drying and the reason I like to wrap dry hair is because for me the most flattering shape or the most flattering mold to dry my hair is the head itself, so I use round brushes and go to create. something that is artificial, well, creating an artificial shape for a haircut like this doesn't work, so we do a flat brush or a wrap blow dry, there are some different rules.

The first rule is that the air always has to go down and the brush always goes up and we. We're just allowing the air to dry the hair very gently, so okay, blow drying is done in theory, the hair is dry, obviously, we're going to style the hair a little more. The first thing I like to do is just comb it. some texture on the ends, I said about, I said right before I start drawing it and then I often get asked why I never do pointed cuts, I cut everything dull because that's why I go back when I'm done and add texture so you can see. , sometimes I get pretty aggressive and other times I'm just creating short hair here to create some movement at the ends, so working in horizontal sections I just try to make sure I don't cut the hair.

I pre-cut and then I don't go all the way to the top, we'll leave that, yeah, that's fine, now we'll work up to the middle stop just before the occipital bone. I guess it's a good way to know where I would normally be. stop and then we'll do Lorna's left third, the back, we'll stop the occipital bone again. I think that's good, we've got some texture there, so now we're going to work diagonally, I'm going to bring it back, so I'm going to show you what I mean by diagonal, so we're going to bring in diagonal sections and we're going to work directly in the middle of the back and I do this because I don't like creating holes in the front, which is easily done because no one has hair that grows below the ear, so I like to even when I texture it, I like to direct it dramatically all the way to the back, the last section, the front and then this way back again, returning to our original section.

When we made the layers of our box, we're going to take the entire middle section and what I want you to do is make sure that we've left enough at the bottom, we don't want it to be too light, yeah. maybe just pull back a little bit more here, let's see where these little curtains are in the front, we're not going to blend them as such, we're going to give it a real, overly targeted shark fin. To remove that, don't let it fall, very important, don't let it fall, comb it again, just close your eyes for me, Lonnie, maybe you'll get some, let's make sure we have that beautiful, exaggerated shark fin and then we'll just go Let's make a smooth cut there and then we'll see how it falls one at a time.

See that you mixed it not externally but from the internal form. Now we've combined the external shape on the front face and we just want very gently, that doesn't belong there because I left it, go away, yeah, really make sure you're not there, go get it again and don't cut this corner that we spent all the time. day creating that, don't cut it, so I'm very gently, making sure we don't have little burrs hanging around, but don't cut those corners, it's so important that you'll ruin your entire haircut, you'll see it here, we just want to see Actually, there is the corner. a little graduation underneath, remove it if you see dots.

They are there? You haven't cut those points, you have to leave them, so one last texturing technique that I would like to show you is something that I advise you to use. with caution and is essentially channeling with your straight blade vertically where you feel the hair is quite thick. I'm actually quite happy with the density right on the back. Here you can see that Lorna has quite a bit of hair, so just tell her to lower her chin a little bit and we're going to go up, not up, the short hair leads the long hair, you go and put short hair on top of this and we change the whole shape and that's not good, it's right below, right?

I'm not a big fan of texturing scissors, although that's obviously a company I work with very closely. I really like the excellent edges. I make a lot of new technology texturing scissors that are not as aggressive in terms of destroying the exterior. hand in hand when I say you don't want to end up having the only analogy I can give is like trying to cut a straight line in a wall with a jackhammer or a sledgehammer like just hitting it you really need to do things smartly so I like it using them just to bring out whatever kind of volume is underneath, that's great and I think we've ended up a little heavy here, we're just going to do some of our risers through the side.

What I think is worth mentioning is that people say, "Oh, that haircut is really simple." Yeah, I don't know if it's simple. I think it's very technical. I think there are a lot of elements that may seem simple, but I think it's also very important. I say that, in my belief, for me simplicity is really beautiful because sometimes there are hairdressers that we go to and we do things very busy with a lot of layers, a lot of texture, you know, graduated concave, you know, swept fringe, a lot of layers and you're like it's just a It's like visual overload.

I think hair should be complementary and I think sometimes as hairdressers we get a little carried away saying it's all about our haircut, but I think when I realized, simplicity was important in hair. when I started noticing how elaborate fashion started to become, so you know, girls have, I mean, just look at Lorna, I mean, I don't know who does your eyebrows, but they're amazing, so you like to look someone's face They're like wow, the detail on his forehead, his lip, his eye, he doesn't need anything else up there, if I put a lot of effort into the haircuts, it's like I'm busy and then with the fashion these days and the clothes I wear , I think um, I think simplicity is beautiful and I think we should try to keep it a little lighter onterms of the number of elements we put here, so we become rockstar, we become rockstar, we are like this, we are rockstar.

They're like rocking, you know, very cute, pull it this way, get a little height, pull one side behind your ear, all of a sudden, we have these kinds of elements. However, if Lorna becomes a doctor because she's doing a master's degree, he gets a PhD and whatever it is, a little bit and it needs to be fluid, we can absolutely know that because we have executed that he is technically correct, we can create lorna in the day and then lorna in the night or the end of the week or at the party or whatever because one of the things we need to recognize about modern societies and the extremely beautiful intelligent women who will hopefully one day rule our world and some of those men who think they know everything.

Go away, it has to be adaptable with an amani suit, with an amazing pair of jeans, with a mini skirt, with a top, on the beach, in the club, wherever, so we can go from being soft to rock star simply by adjusting the texture in a matter of seconds. Hey, I love it, you look great, so whatever I'm going to put on is a little bit of a mess because I love it. The messy is a great stylish product. Link, so I'm actually going to do it. I'll use it on my hands, not too much, I just want to know what happens if the messer helps give you texture if you put it on wet hair and blow dry it, it's like the best salt spray I've ever used. which that gives you that fresh off the beach beachy feeling, but I use it just to create that little bit of noodles and separation and then we'll just gently pull out the dryer and we'll be here with the dryer so it doesn't look wet, what do you think?

Yeah, I like it, it's not so scary, I like that we can make this pretty thin, so what you can do is just with your fingers, you can twist it. I think the most important thing is that you understand it and everyone else, obviously. I'm going to listen: you use your hands a lot, but we never use them on our hands, suddenly we go from those quite voluptuous cheekbones and we open you and immediately just with the use of my hands we simply order to pull this, keep it thinner, turn it a little bit so that it's like that when you know you're home and everything's going well, well, I want this soft today, so I want it to be really soft on my face a little bit. of volume, make this come back from my cheekbone, you can also tilt it back, just use our fingers, tilt it out, some volume, I would style Linus here, keep it tight here because we went to the trouble of making it square, I want it so it looks square and I want to look around so the way you make it square is you pull it in, let's see when we pull it really deep on one side and we did it briefly before to create that really nice movement and an upward shift on the back part. and then let's put it away right away, you can go pretty deep and again this keeps it pretty thin so we end up with that nice little silhouette there and again once you put that messy machine in it's like it's this molding that I can just bend.

Do it with your hands and shape it, make it go where you want, don't forget to keep the back a little volume too, okay, let's say you want to make something really very bold, go straight down the middle, not there. There are a lot of people who can take out small pieces, but I think you can, so we're going to intentionally go down the middle and with our hands just reshape it, we don't want it to look like it's been forced and planed round. The first thing you see with this look is the eyes and the cheekbones and that's why it's going to draw people in and again we just want to make sure it's angled here so you can use it in the middle, which is really like that. huge right now the fringes on the curtains are huge, they're going to be huge in Europe this summer, so you'll understand, yeah, what if we do it this way?

The reason this is important is because flexibility with your haircuts with your clients, I mean. You don't want to cut their hair and then they are forced to wear it one way every day, Lorna every time Lorna wants to go out on a Saturday night with a friend so she can go out three nights and they can go out another way. Have you done your hair again? It's like no, no, I just did it a little bit differently, so this is like a mirror image of the other side and you're going to be like molding this with your hands.

Style fixer. instead make sure it comes back and now a really strong one is when you go and put both sides back super thin where's my little brush for this one? We could go back to the other side and then we'll tie up. There, right there, I think that's where you'll end up one day and every model on Hair Tube has to do this in the end. I'm going to stop by and watch you do your own hair, uh, let's see. What are we going to see how you push it? You like it aside huh so if you want to see more regular videos like we said at the beginning thank you so much to my family my new family in the Matrix this wouldn't be possible without you guys and there are literally millions of people all over The world thanks Jimmy and I too, thank you Lorna for coming today if you want to see more videos like us regardless of the country and you need to call your parent company. agent and you need to use the best product on this earth, the best color, the best styling products and they have great people in every country that can come to your salon and give you a great education, just like I'm doing now, so if you want to see more videos please subscribe to the channel it's very important and I hope Lorna comes back and maybe we can get you that short haircut maybe not so thanks guys um again we will have a lot of regular content, lots of videos, make sure you do it.

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