I am most fearful about just cutting my hair.
I don't really get haircuts, so I am used to just having
it the same all the time, and this is going to be something
really different.
Hi, I'm Chiara, and today I'm getting curtain bangs.
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So throughout my life, I've pretty much had the same hair.
My hair is really straight and I've been scared of making
any changes. I've gone between blonde
and brown, so the colors pretty much stay the same.
I've been trying to grow my hair out for a really long time
and it's finally out of a length that I really like.
I really want curtain bangs because I think this is like
the cutest hair trend ever.
I really want to add some volume and bounce and
just make my hair more fun, more sass and attitude.
It's pretty just boring right now and it's like at one length.
I'm excited for this huge change.
Hi, I'm Aaron Watkins.
I'm a Cut Specialist in Beverly Hills at Salon Kazumi.
I've been cutting hair as long as I can remember.
I grew up at a salon.
I attract a lot of clients who want a drastic change.
Somebody's going from long hair to short hair.
They grow it out and they want a bob, or they want like a
lob, or they want to add bangs.
So just a lot of drastic changes.
Hi, how are you? Nice to meet you.
Hi! I am Chiara, nice to meet you.
Nice, nice.
So I hear we're going to be thinking about doing curtain
bangs today.
I want to do curtain bangs, yeah.
After we do the consultation, then we're going to
have my assistant wash her and then we'll blow dry it smooth.
And then we'll kind of help determine exactly where we want
the bangs to sit on her face.
With the curtain bangs you kind of want to cut it shorter
in the middle, in the middle of the part, and longer out
towards the perimeter.
Where it kind of pushes away from your face, to kind of
get all of that curtain sweeping kind of look.
When I first get a brand new client in my chair, I always
cut the curtain bangs quite a bit longer.
I start at the chin just for the shock value.
Then we'll progressively go shorter because you can't
put it back on after you cut short.
After you cut the curtain bangs, then you want to kind
of like slightly face frame it to blend down
to the bangs.
You don't want to just have like a short bang
and then nothing to connect to the bottom.
It's kind of like a face frame.
I thought about getting curtain bangs when I saw the trend
kind of blossom in midsummer, but I was kind of fearful
of doing it.
And then I just thought about it a lot and I
was like, "Okay, need this change to happen.
Quarantine's been so dull, I need to just vamp everything up
with my hair."
After we finished the cut, we went through and curled her
hair pretty tightly because her hair is so straight, just
for it could fall to a nice little beachy wave.
Curtain bangs are going to give hair like Chiara here's more
volume around the face and more movement around the face.
Curtains bangs, can be really, really quick. It can be in
and out in 15, 20 minutes if you have a skilled stylist.
But the look can be very, very drastic for something that
just really so quick.
All right, you can open.
Oh, my God, I love it.
Oh, my gosh, I'm so glad I did this.
This is so pretty. I love the curtain bangs!
They're perfect.
Thank you so much Aaron I love it!
It always feels good to make a client get exactly what they
want and make them feel good.
And I was happy for her that
she got to get the change that she wanted.
Curtain bangs, they can be longer, they also can be
shorter, but for her, with the long hair, it was
going to work out better with longer curtain bangs.
I am so excited by new hair.
I love it.
I never thought that I would be happy with cutting bangs and having my hair this short, but I'm
obsessed with it.
I literally couldn't be happier.
So Aaron actually showed me a couple of ways to maintain
this look after he styled my hair.
And so I'm going to get a natural round brush and blow it
out so that it flows out like it does right now.
Every single day. Low maintenance, easy.
I can handle that.
This looks makes me feel so confident.
My hair feels so bouncy and fun and I feel like it
has sass and attitude that it didn't have before.
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