Shannel Mariano

This month last year, I got baptized. ❤️

🚨 VISUAL LEARNERS 🚨
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CAN YOU RELATE?

✂️ Feeling anxious when cutting hair?

✂️ Worried about unfamiliar haircuts?

✂️ Tired of memorizing haircuts?

✂️ Relying on texturizing & “winging it”?

✂️ Want to design & create custom haircuts?
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❤️ If you nodded yes, you’re NOT alone!
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🙋‍♀️ I’VE BEEN THERE:

😓 I graduated not knowing how to cut hair.

😓 I memorized haircuts, angles, and catchy phrases (most weren’t even accurate)

💡 Everything changed when I finally understood the “why” behind haircutting.
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✨ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:

✂️ DESIGN ➝ Plan the perfect haircut based on face shape, head shape & lifestyle.

✂️ MECHANICS ➝ Learn different ways to execute your design with confidence.
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❤️ WHY JOIN:

✔ VISUAL LEARNING ➝ See theory come to life with ribbons, animations, photos & more.
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✔ HANDS-ON PRACTICE ➝ Hypothetical consultations, demos & guided mannequin cutting.
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🎯 SIGN UP TODAY!
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Let’s geek out on haircutting together! ❤️😊✂️

To create a fringe/bangs you’d have to cut off hair that would’ve covered part of the face. This exposes more of the face and could make the face appear wider. Some people want this, some don’t.

If a client doesn’t want their face to appear wider but insists on getting a fringe/bangs, here’s one way to customize it and make it work for them. ❤️

They always made it seem soooo easy to do convex layers!! They’d say things like, “Just take a section and cut it all the same length” and they’d do it so effortlessly! I totally struggled with it.

When I’d do it, I’d start out good …and then it would get shorter and shorter and shorter. Or sometimes, it would get longer and longer and longer. So I just avoided doing convex layers and gave everyone concave all the time …which was limiting me.

So I tried to figure out what worked for me …and here’s what I came out with! I’ve been doing it ever since. Now, I have fun doing convex layers instead of it stressing me out. If you struggle with it too, I hope you find this helpful! ❤️

Here’s how I layered the front of last week’s post. It also shows how I gave it a bit of face-framing, a fringe, and also how I styled it. ❤️❤️❤️

I used to think that a haircut had to connect every where. That limited me when it came to finding solutions for my client’s hair concerns.

I really love that I get to use the understanding of theory + creativity to help make my client’s hair dreams come true.

Even if the outcome is the most basic or salon-friendly looking haircut, knowing that I had to achieve it with so much intentionality and creativity, just makes my hairstylist heart so happy. ❤️

Oh, tension… I get good tension when I hold the hair before my second knuckle, and less tension past it.

Because there’s less tension past my second knuckle, the hair held there tends to sag slightly. That can make it longer and less crisp than the hair cut with good tension.

So while the cutting line might look clean when I’m holding it in my fingers, once I let go, it can actually be crooked.

And because I have smaller hands and a weaker grip compared to other stylists, the hair can also get condensed and squished between my fingers with inconsistent tension. That along makes it harder for me to get a clean line if I try to cut everything in one shot.

These things used to leave bumps in my haircuts no matter how straight I cut the hair in my fingers. Back then, my solution was just to point cut to hide the bumps.

Now, I cut bit by bit, only up to my second knuckle where I have good tension. I consider anything past my second knuckle a temporary holding area for the hair I’ll cut next.