-When I pick a bang for someone,
I do like to believe that almost everyone can have a bang.
I would say about 95 percent of my clients
just let their bangs air dry
and put them where they want to see them and leave them be.
Hi. I'm Bre, and I specialize in bangs
here at Local Honey in Nashville.
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I think that, really, the number-one thing
that will determine what kind of bang
someone can have is cowlicks.
And a lot of people with cowlicks think
that they can't have bangs,
when, in fact, you can actually do a bang
that is going to flow with that cowlick
and complement that more.
A lot of bangs I've been seeing more recently
have been kind of like the moon shaped or crescent bangs.
That way, they still have a little bit
of that curtain effect
that does grow out a little bit softer,
but then you have the longevity of a baby bang.
I've done a lot of asymmetrical bangs, as well,
for people with more funky cowlicks and things,
where you still can have a bang,
but something that's a little bit more asymmetric
than just like a blunt bang or more of like a curtain bang.
Today, Aubrey has come in with a grown-out shag.
And she loves to go six to eight months in between haircuts.
So we're just going to bring everything back up,
give her some natural texture, a little bit more life,
bring those bangs back to life,
and give her a really good trim on the ends.
When I do Aubrey's bangs,
she does have a pretty small forehead,
so we usually do a little bit of that curtain out with hers
just to kind of hide what would seem like a very short bang.
All right. What are we thinking to do with your hair?
-Definitely want to pull some layers up,
kind of get some of my dead ends off.
-Yeah. I noticed you've been, like, tucking a lot.
You have so much hair.
I feel like we add a little bit of shortness around your face,
it'll just bring, like, the eyes back up to your face.
-Yes.
-Well, we'll go ahead and get started.
To first start off Audrey's service,
we washed her first and used
the Kevin Murphy hydrating shampoo and conditioner,
just to give those, like, natural waves
a little bit more bounce.
When we cut her perimeter,
we cut about four or five inches off
just to give her a really good, clean base.
And then we went to the fringe, which is where I wanted
the focal point of the haircut to be,
and set that bang length in how we wanted
and then just kind of over-directed
all of those layers into that bang length.
When I cut bangs, I love to point cut,
especially in the middle.
That way, that is a little softer,
especially for Aubrey's bangs today,
because I wanted them to be kind of faux existing
in her forehead.
I also do a lot of slide cutting when I do bangs
because I want to direct that hair.
When I slide cut, I just kind of
glide the shears through the hair,
and it just helps kind of make that hair
move more into that way and that direction.
So, sometimes, I can slide cut
and actually counteract a cowlick
and get the hair to lay how I want it to by slide cutting.
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I've noticed Aubrey has been wearing her hair
just kind of tucked back a lot,
so I did like the idea of giving her some, like,
sweet little pieces around her jawline and cheekbone,
just to bring, like, the attention of the eyes away
from how much hair she has and more towards her face.
I just wanted to kind of open up her face a little bit there
and give her a little something to play with
when she wears her hair up, as well.
I kept her layers in the back a little softer
because I didn't want to take away the bulk of her perimeter,
because she does have so much hair.
And I love that she has so much hair,
so I didn't want to take away too much of that.
But I did just kind of follow those layers through the back
just to create that very uniformed,
soft, shaggier look for her.
So, I did prep Aubrey's hair off
with the Twister Curl Primer from R+Co
and just kind of scrunched that into the hair
and used that as a cutting lotion throughout her service.
And then, before I diffused it,
I kind of used like a pinching method
by putting those, like, bangs
and those, like, front pieces where I want them to live,
and then sprayed it with some salt spray
before we put the diffuser to it.
When I diffuse, I like to start at the scalp
and then work my way down.
That way, these hairs that are more towards the scalp
aren't getting too frizzy.
I think that's a common user error with a diffuser.
And then, towards the end of diffusing,
when she was like 95 percent dry,
then I got her to flip over
to add a little bit more volume to the hair,
then had her just play with it from there.
After I finished diffusing,
I kind of just placed those bangs back
where I want them to be,
and just kind of zhuzh the hair and mess it up.
But, yeah, I really just kind of let the client play
and get a feel for how their hair looks and feels.
-Oh, I love.
It feels so much healthier at the ends.
-Mm-hmm. So, I brought up your bangs.
They can kind of go forward if you want them to.
Like, added some of those, like, little romantic,
like, little pieces.
-Yes. -But, as those grow out,
you can continue to just curtain them.
And after a few months, they'll grow out
exactly how you came in.
I was really excited to see how she would play
with those little pieces around her cheekbone
and just really feel those bangs off of her forehead
a little bit more.
Aubrey's hair texture
can be pretty straight
as it gets longer
and those layers become more grown out.
But when she does have shorter layers,
her hair is pretty wavy
and does have quite a bit of texture to it.
So, yeah, I definitely do, like, more of a layered cut for her,
just to enhance some of that wave that she naturally has.
Yeah. I was pretty happy with the results.