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Hi Rachael, it's Amanda
here at Spoke & Wheel, Chicago
and our city's most popular haircut is the shag.
The shag is a haircut characterized by soft layers
that create natural movement.
It is an effortless style that lot's of women can wear.
I'm just refining her fringe.
A little bit shorter, but keep it on the longer side
so it's versatile for her lifestyle.
The face-framing layering is going to help create
that shape of the shag by opening up her face
and creating soft movement.
The final part of the haircut is the refinement,
this allows us customize the haircut for the individual.
The great thing about cutting dry
is that she will be able to wear her hair
smooth and straight or with wave and texture.
(scissors clicking)
Hey Rachael, it's Sally, I'm here in my LA salon
The most popular hairstyle right now in LA
is the the modern mullet.
The modern mullet really is
the disconnection between the front and the back.
What's so great about the modern mullet,
it works on all shape faces.
You can a man, a woman, short, tall,
curly hair, straight hair, it's so versatile.
Miley Cyrus, she's doing old school shows
with a cool mullet and who doesn't wanna look cool in LA?
(scissors snipping)
Hi Rachael, this is Janet St. Paul here in Austin, Texas.
I own Janet St. Paul Studio for Hair
and we're gonna share one of our favorite looks with you,
the textured lob.
This haircut,
the length line doesn't need to be exactly precision cut,
so I'm just gonna literally nick the ends
so that they feel fresh.
I keep this little corner in the front
'cause that's what helps it to be a lob.
So I come underneath and I start opening it up.
You can already see that by releasing the weight,
it helps the hair to pull up a little bit
and have the realization of its own natural texture.
I don't curl the root and I don't curl the ends,
I just hold it for a minute, I pull straight down,
this helps to stretch some of the wave out
and help it look a little more beachy
instead of too tight and curly.
What I love about this is the body.
Can you see all the texture,
all the bounce, all the movement?
I love it, I'm so excited.
Oh good.
Thank you so much, it's perfect.
Looks fabulous.
New York City is very interesting.
In New York we like bold, sort of crisp looks
and this look is very different, it's a blunt bob
and we actually have viewer named Ashley,
We have Ashley standing behind a television of,
Yeah, of herself with an image
of her former self, which is weird.
(laughs) Yeah.
Ashley, you're very good-natured.
Yeah.
So Ashley, beautiful girl, very long hair.
Yep.
So she took a really bold move here.
Yeah, we gave her a blunt bob,
this is a completely different look
from the two other previous looks
which were all about texture,
Ashley, come over Come on out.
It's creepy seeing standing there.
Come on out, yeah there, come on out Ashley.
(audience clapping)
Let's show a little forehead here.
Frank, do you wanna sit her down and tell us,
(audience drowns out speaking) Come sit here.
Sure. (chuckles)
Been standing there behind a television.
Oh, that's perfect Ashley.
This is beautiful, Isn't it great?
Do you like this haircut?
I love it, I think it's so bold and fun.
Well it also frames your face so beautifully.
Thank you. Well that's what's great
about a bob, a classic, It's very sophisticated.
Yeah.
You look like a young lady,
but you look like a teenager in that picture.
Now you look like a sophisticated city lady, yeah.
A New Yorker, yeah. Yeah.
A bob is all about the line.
It's about architecture just like New York City,
here you can see it better on this side.
It's about that strong line which creates shape
and what I love about a bob,
especially for people with fine hair,
it's a perfect haircut for women with fine hair.
I get questions all the time,
I have fine hair, what do I do?
The bob is your cut.
It's the cut.
Yeah, because it has this line
that creates so much structure
that it can hold the fine hair
and doesn't have all the flyaways.
Right and it's hard to get a successful bob
if you have kind of crazy, wild hair.
All over the place hair.
'Cause it's just,
And then just in terms of styling,
with the previous cuts we looked at
you want pastes and clay,
all that texturing yummy, yummy product.
For something like a bob,
I would go with a really soft mousse
or a very, very light liquid gel,
just a very, very light hold. To keep a little control.
in there. A little bit of control
for the flyaways 'cause the structure is in the cut,
that's really the point of the bob,
the structure is in the cut.
So Don, from Danka Panka,
gave Ashley this amazing blunt bob.
I just love saying, Danka Panka.
Danka Panka, it' a great salon here in the city.
Danka Panka.
Yeah.
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