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00:00 Are we live? All right! 7pm sharp, Zurich, Switzerland, 10am in New York, no, I'm saying
00:07 one o'clock in New York and 10am in Los Angeles, West Coast. Hello everybody, Switzerland,
00:24 East Coast, West Coast, I welcome you here all from the Korg showroom live in Zurich,
00:31 Switzerland. I am going to share with you here very quickly one of my favorite haircuts
00:38 which are layers. I'll be using a handful of different Korg shears, by now we have 24
00:45 different pairs, absolutely phenomenal, so I'll be hitting some of them as well of course
00:54 the shears obviously that I'm using, my go-to shears kind of and I hope I'll be answering
01:01 a handful of questions. I do get a handful of emails as well and I'll just maybe try
01:06 to make here some clarification too. Again, thanks for watching, it is Sunday and so kick
01:13 back, have a bloody merry and enjoy what we'll be doing, okay? I have here a fantastic, fantastic
01:22 model with long hair and this young lady here hasn't cut her hair for over a year, right?
01:29 For over a year and of course now since it's now beautifully long, she doesn't really want
01:38 to cut it off but she'd like to shape it up and I'm going to share with you as I said
01:45 one of my signature dry haircuts, long layers, perfect for spring/summer, getting some really
01:53 nice movement in it, perfect as well when somebody wants to style it, to curl it or
01:59 just simply my favorite, wash and wear, wash and go. Just a perfect haircut, you can just
02:06 let it go and then also now she's going to do some holidays on the ocean so and therefore
02:11 anyway with all the sand and the sunscreen and the salt water, it has the perfect texture
02:19 to it. Okay, so let's get boogieing, you can stand up and I'll pull the chair away quickly,
02:26 you can just turn around, awesome. For everybody that has seen me cut hair before, I always
02:34 turn the cape around and the reason being is very simply for to have a flat surface
02:45 here. Okay, and as well I can perfectly stare at my name. There you go. So, I'll be using
02:52 one of my brand new launched shears, it's the K7 Bench Royale, it's a 7 inch blade,
03:11 I believe it's pretty much the lightest 7 inch shear on the market, I mean it's an absolute
03:17 paradise and if you are in for to get a new pair of shears, I've always preached everybody
03:24 to add an inch, so usually from a 5.5 up to a 6.5 and if you can really handle the 6.5
03:33 inch super well, you shouldn't have any problems to handle a 7 inch as well. The great thing
03:40 about the 7 inch shear too is for anybody which I love, I love to shear over comb, on
03:47 damp or dry hair, absolute paradise, goes super fast. Okay, and again I'm a fan of efficiency,
03:54 going from point A to point B fast, quickly. Okay, so there you go, I simply comb down
04:05 the hair. Now, in the winter time, and it's still a little bit dry here, it's still kind
04:11 of winter here in Switzerland, the hair has a tendency to be a little bit statically loaded,
04:18 so what you can easily do is just get a very, very, very light mist of water over it, I
04:25 mean it's super light mist, as you can see, you don't see here any really water on it,
04:33 it's just kind of like coating the hair a bit. Okay, and so just to take that static
04:40 mist out of the damp, and here we're just bringing all the hair back, and here we're
04:46 designing on the length of the hair right now. So, in short there's no hair stuck in
04:53 the nape, just bring it all the way down, gorgeous. Excellent. Here, take my little
05:02 hair, take my 7 inch, and just cut straight through. And as you can see, the hair doesn't
05:09 move. We have a special finish on that blade, especially for dry hair cutting, so the hair
05:17 won't move at all, pretty much, I mean absolutely paradise here. So, and while you do this,
05:29 also shape that hair, move it around, tilt the head a bit, ensure here everything is
05:36 cut straight through. Boom, here it is. If you find there is too much weight throughout
05:44 the perimeter, you can always go in the end and to take some weight out. She hasn't cut
05:54 her hair for over a year, so we definitely need to do here some shaping. And as I always
06:01 tell, and by the way we had a phenomenal day here in Zurich, Switzerland today, we had
06:06 a great group of 20 people here with a great demonstration and hands-on seminar, and in
06:12 the afternoon we always do a hands-on workshop where people bring in their own models. I'm
06:16 a fan and I encourage people to actually bring actual models. So, I'm going to show you how
06:23 to do that. Not always on mannequins. Mannequins are fine to try out stuff, to practice something,
06:30 but let's be honest, doing it on a real head of hair, on an actual person, that's how it
06:37 is and that's really where you can learn all these things. So, I always encourage people,
06:42 all the people that come, all the hair stylists that come to visit our seminars to actually
06:46 bring an actual model. And as we had that here today as well, and as I always explain,
06:53 it's like building a house. When you build a house, you start off with the foundation.
07:00 After the foundation is done, you put up the walls. And after the walls and the floors
07:05 are in, you put up the roof. So, you're not starting off with the roof. So, get first
07:10 your basic done before you go back in and then to actually personalize. Alright? So,
07:16 here we have the, we have cut it straight through. Should you find that the foundation
07:23 is too thick, you cannot cut that hair all at once. You know, maybe you're doing it the
07:27 first time or you're not quite secure about it. Be my guest and take this in two or three
07:34 sections. But if you take the first section, do it by or right at the or above the occipital
07:41 bone. It always depends on someone's hairline, how far and how deep that hairline grows down.
07:51 So, do it right around the occipital bones. You actually have hair, so you actually see
07:56 a line. I find it exquisitely hard if you start a haircut off and you have like literally
08:03 a centimeter here, a quarter of an inch of few hair. You don't really see anything. And
08:08 some of that hair is even not long enough to actually being cut. So, take enough hair
08:13 and you see something. Okay? And trust me, any good quality shear should cut hair straight
08:21 through with ease. Okay? So, this is for to cut the actual length. Now, maybe you have
08:28 noticed I haven't cut her hair from the side. And I'm not going to because I will be layering
08:35 the hair. So, I'll be cutting that hair on the side anyway. So, this is it. This was
08:40 the actual length. It doesn't get any shorter than that. Let's move on. Let's have a seat.
08:45 Let's turn your cape around. So, let me push that a little bit to the side. Forward, yeah.
08:52 Cool. Fantastic. All right. We'll be just quickly here. I have to grab. I'm not prepared.
09:08 I have to get the clips. There you go. That wasn't far. Just have to grab my hair cutting
09:15 clips. Get them here. Excellent. So, she wears her hair left and right. And I'm going to
09:26 cut it. Excellent. So, she wears her hair left and right. And she also touches her hair
09:33 quite a bit. But her favorite side, the natural side is where it splits, is slightly off center.
09:48 So, that's where we're going from. Okay. And I'm just going to put it down a bit. So, I'm
09:55 just going to divide the head here into two. These are my only two clips that I'm using.
10:12 I'm personally not a fan of a lot of clips on a head. Flip them away. And I get asked
10:19 a lot if card shears can be used in wet hair. Absolutely, they can be used in wet hair.
10:40 We just have certain technologies on our shears that are really made in particular to manipulate
10:47 dry hair. But of course, they all work in wet hair. 100%. Matter of fact, usually any
10:59 shear cuts easier wet hair. It gets sometimes problems when it becomes dry, where you see
11:08 hair being bent or actually being pulled on. And that's not the case with some of our shears.
11:15 Because again, we have special finishes that no other company actually does. Let's move
11:21 on. And after the 7" here, I'm going to use one of my other favorite shears here. It's
11:28 the K-Curve Royale. The K-Curve Royale is the only shear that has opposing grip. And
11:36 opposing grip is when both shear eyes are on the same height. And let me just take that
11:43 screw off here. When the same shear eyes are on the same height, that means it's opposing
11:55 grip. So this means, it's not ergonomically, I can actually move that shear in my hand
12:01 so I can cut to the left, I can cut to the right, I can cut up or I can cut down. It
12:07 all depends how I hold the shear. So this really comes in handy if somebody is looking
12:14 for to change up a precision shear. Hey, check out a curved shear. It actually adds a certain
12:27 easiness to it for to do certain tricks. And I'm going to show you one of them now as well.
12:34 I'm going to start off the haircut here with the bands, with the fringe, with the pony.
12:41 And I'm taking a triangle section, my famous triangle sections. For the ones who have seen
12:48 me cut hair before, I love to work with triangle sections. Okay? They are very easy to work
12:56 with and in particular around the face. Okay? In the front. This is the most important part.
13:03 It's right around the face because this is what you see when you get up. So this is utmost
13:12 important for to have those bands lay perfectly on someone's face, out of the face and how
13:19 they're folded. Okay? So as you can see here, as you can see here, I'm taking a triangle
13:26 section from the part to the left and to the right. And now my right side is a little bit
13:35 larger than the left. But if I pull it up, it's exactly the same. And as you can also
13:43 see is that she just has here from the cowlick a little bit less hair than actually on the
13:49 other side. Okay? So let's turn her sideways. We're cutting her hair, which is the shortest
13:56 part of the haircut, right by around the jawline. So she can still tuck it behind the ear and
14:09 actually as well, tuck it up into a ponytail. Anyway, all good. So here we're combing the
14:16 hair straight out. Straight from the head out. Not up, not down. Straight out. And I
14:25 level my hand to where the part is. So slightly off center to the left. Here. And I'm going
14:35 to cut it. Here. And now I'm holding my finger here at a 45 degree, cutting from short to
14:42 long. Now, for somebody that's maybe not as used to or has a little bit of a problem to
14:51 do this, elevate the elbow or whatever it is, that's when the curved chair comes in.
14:57 Check this out. You can cut the hair, you can comb the hair again, still straight out.
15:04 And now I hold my finger just straight here at a 90, but you can use the curved chair
15:11 cutting from short to long. See that? Just like that. So that's for instance where a
15:18 curved chair comes in very handy. And then what you have here on the side is just beautiful
15:25 shorter part, shorter part and get gradually longer. Okay? I'm going to show it to you
15:31 one more time. And now this time I'm going to cut along my fingers. Again, grabbing that
15:38 same section. Comb the hair straight out. And I'm right handed and I stand, this particular
15:50 layering technique on the person's right side. And I don't stand next to her. I actually
15:56 stand here sideways, kind of in front of her. And the reason being is, so I can look down
16:02 into her face so I know exactly where my hand is at. That I level my hand to the part. A
16:09 lot of people, a lot of hairstylists use the mirror. Try to stand on the side. Try to look
16:14 down to someone's face. Okay? So here we are. Again, we're combing the hair straight out.
16:20 Upmost important. Here, have nice tension. By the way, when we cut dry hair, you have
16:26 a little bit, you need a little bit more tension on the hair. Worse is when you cut wet hair.
16:32 Okay? So comb the hair straight out. Here, 45 degree finger angle and cut along my fingers.
16:41 Boom. There it is. Excellent. So, that is my length right here. Shortest part of the
16:47 haircut and now it gets gradually longer. Second section. No matter what, if you cut
16:54 the hair from the center, the bangs, the fringe, the pony, or from a side part, your second
17:00 section is always in the center of that. So let's take that section.
17:06 [pause]
17:18 Take the center section.
17:21 Center of the head, like so. And you can take, the amount of hair you take in your hand is
17:34 however you feel comfortable. Okay? I personally like to work with larger sections. So it's
17:42 also something you have to get used to it a little bit. Okay? So, I'm going to turn
17:48 her sideways. And now I'm going to switch to my card sheer K-wide Royale. I think I
17:59 can say that I was pretty much, sorry about that sweetheart, the first sheer company to
18:09 actually polish off edges. So what we did here, we have an extra wide blade. What we
18:16 did is, as a convex edge, and then we polished off the edge. So it doesn't cut the straight
18:21 line anymore. It's not a precision sheer anymore. It actually starts to slide hair.
18:27 So perfect for anybody that likes to freehand. Perfect for curly hair, slide cutting, all
18:33 sorts of stuff. Excellent, brilliant tool. It's not an easy tool at the same token. But
18:43 it's a tool, a sheer, the K-wide Royale, that actually has made me a better hairdresser.
18:50 Really I can say that well because the sheer has challenged me once when years and years
18:54 and years ago when I got the first prototype. So here I have a really great technique for
18:58 you guys. And this is really great for anybody to cut the layers that shall have kind of
19:05 like a nice bohemian feel to it. Again, just beautiful, long, very just gorgeous, feminine
19:13 hot layers. So here, we're taking this intersection here, we're holding also the hair at a 45
19:26 degree hair angle. 90, half of it is 45. And as you can see, I'm pulling the hair from
19:35 all the way back here. Reason being is, you'll see it in a minute, here. Here is my guide
19:49 from the bench. I open my sheer really wide, I place it and all I do is open and close
20:00 the sheer and the hair is being tapered and cut one by one. It doesn't cut straight through,
20:11 so it pushes and it cuts. You couldn't do this with a regular blade sheer, but you can
20:17 do it with the K-wide because we have polished edges. Okay? So that's for the K-wide, an
20:24 absolute brilliant tool. I'm going to go back to my, let me just use my K-7 inch Royale
20:32 to finish off, continuing here with the haircut. And let's have a look quickly here on what
20:38 we just cut. It's absolutely perfectly cut, going radly longer. Excellent. My next section
20:48 is a parallel section right next to it. I comb here very neatly and I over direct her
21:00 hair over to her outer right corner of the eye, which is right here, and I follow my
21:07 guide. Last section already. And whatever hair doesn't fit, just let it drop. Okay?
21:17 Always ensure you comb neatly here at the base. You don't want to have any looped hair.
21:25 Okay, here, as you can see, it becomes less and less. Same thing on the other side. Now
21:31 instead of pulling the hair up, we're pushing it over to her left outer corner of her eye.
21:39 Again, taking a section, combing here very neatly, utmost importance. Here, left corner
21:50 of her eye, duck, there it is, there is my guide, and that's where I follow. Like so.
22:00 Perfect. Last section already. Same as well, right here, left corner of her eye, here is
22:15 my guide, and cut. Perfect. So, now I'm going to switch to my KT Slide Royal. This is it.
22:29 This is it. This is a texture shear you can slide with. So, I'm going to be using this
22:37 just to double check my haircut quickly. I just had vertical sections. I stand in front
22:42 of her, this section becomes horizontal, vertical and horizontal becomes cross-sectioning. This
22:47 is all about to dusty up the outline. I comb the hair straight towards me, and just double
22:55 check and dusty up the outline. This is just to simply double check here the outline. Perfect.
23:03 The same thing on the other side. Same thing here, just to dusty up the outline here. Excellent.
23:14 Just pull the hair straight towards me here, and just if necessary, you can hit the outline
23:23 here. Perfect. Excellent. So, and once you're done, this is exactly what you're ending up
23:32 with from the front. You double check the left and the right, it's the same length.
23:38 Absolutely perfect. Cool. Super. Now, we're moving on. We're taking off the clips. And
23:54 I'm going to go back to my K7 Royal. I always get asked how many different kinds of shear
24:01 I use per haircut. And I would say about three to four different pairs. It all depends. But
24:09 I definitely use a straight blade. I ever so often use a curved shear, of course, and
24:14 then definitely a sculptor and a texturizing shear, I would say. Fair enough. So, here,
24:22 we're taking a, let me actually show you that quickly. We're taking a center section. Okay.
24:29 Right on. Now, right above the occipital bone to the back of the ear, we're taking a horizontal
24:35 section. We're bringing that hair all the way up. There you go. Pull it straight up.
24:49 Here's my longest point from the side. That's my guide to cut straight through. Same thing
24:57 here as well. We're working all the way till the center. Do the same thing on the other
25:04 side. Horizontal section to the back of the ear. Comb the hair straight up. As well here,
25:17 the longest point from the side cut straight through and connect with, as you can see here
25:25 perfectly, with the other side. Excellent. So, and here, you already have just added
25:31 those beautifully long layers in the front. Excellent. So, now all we have left is connect
25:39 the side to the back. For this, you can stand up. Chair back a little bit again.
25:46 Chow, Cooper. See that already here? And we haven't even taken any weight out, but look
25:53 how beautiful that already folds. And she got lighter hair with highlights in it, so
25:57 you would see cutting lines. Not one thing. Absolutely great. Here, vertical section from
26:05 the top of the head to the nape of the neck. Always ensure that you have hair from the
26:14 nape. Reason being is, this is where your length is. So you want to ensure that you
26:21 connect. Okay? And right here, all we do is connect the side here to the back, which is
26:32 fairly minimal. Like so. And work here till the center back. Okay? Like so.
26:44 Holding it here. Add a 45 here. Perfect. Very good. It's very minimal. Same thing on the
26:56 other side. This is the first time that all the left-handed people go to the right and
27:01 myself, I go to her left. Again, from on top of the head to the nape of the neck, a vertical
27:11 section. Again, always ensure you got hair from the nape as a guide. Here, so you know
27:20 where to connect. And then here, very simple to connect the side to the back. Simple as
27:33 that. And I cut that hair freehand, meaning I don't hold it in my fingers. Zero elevation.
27:40 And as well, work till the center back.
27:45 Very minimal. You can also point cut here along too. By the way, the K7 inch Royale
27:58 is perfect to point cut too because it has a nice long blade. Okay? Super. You can have
28:04 a seat again. Watch out. Excellent. So, now, since we hold the hair here at the 45 left
28:15 and right, that means we end up in the center is the longest part. So what I'm going to
28:19 be doing here quickly is, very simple is, I'm just taking here a nice large section.
28:27 A third of her head in the back. And I'm just going to bring that all the way up here, just
28:38 to ensure, let the outline drop obviously, and cut up here. Just to add that very delicate,
28:49 simple flow and connection. So here we find it the most because we held the hair at the
28:56 45, so here we most likely see the most. Yes, we do here. See that corner right here? Perfect.
29:03 Excellent. And then the last one, right over here as well. So three sections. Really simple.
29:11 You can, by the way, as well, use a texturizing shear for to do this part too. Okay? Again,
29:21 take that section here, as you can see, I work with a fairly large section, which is
29:26 absolutely brilliant here. And then, correct. Excellent. So, now, just to quickly double
29:35 check, I should actually take a big triangle section here on the back of the head. Bring
29:44 it forward. There we go. Excellent. There it is. So, here you have the base of the haircut,
29:53 the long layers, absolutely beautiful. So look at it now, as we just, when we're building
29:59 the house, we just, you know, added the foundation. Now we're going to start detailing it. Okay?
30:08 So put up the walls. And this is not about length. This is now about weight. The length
30:17 is done. This is her hair length. Okay? Happy. We told her we're going to keep her hair long,
30:22 fringes long, absolutely brilliant. Now, we're going to just add a little bit more flow to
30:27 it, so the haircut also lasts. I'm a big fan of eliminating weight at the hair end, because
30:34 the hair grows at the roots, the slighter the ends are, the more perfectly it grows
30:38 out. For this, I'm actually going to be using my number one sold shear, out of all the 24
30:47 different Kark shears we have by now. Holy smoke, and it all started with one pair. Unbelievable.
30:55 Modest, healthy, organic growth. With my number one sold shear is the KM Slide Royale. The
31:06 KM Slide Royale, the M stands for Mike. No, just a joke. The M stands for medium slide,
31:12 because it's not a texture slide, and it's not a thinner blender. It's that perfect medium.
31:18 Okay? And again, here, there's really no rule and regulation for how to do this. I'm going
31:26 to take again, the triangle section as we had before, where we started off the haircut,
31:31 pulling it straight out, and check this out. Just eliminate some weight to make it more
31:39 flowy. Okay? That's it. I'm also going to be doing this here on the sides, like so.
31:54 And I'm bringing that hair back here. Super. Just going to work around the head, with again,
32:03 larger sections, as you can see here. See that? Always a nice pull on that dry hair.
32:11 Check this out. Look at that. See that? How that perfectly falls in? See that? Already.
32:16 Look at that. It's just heavenly. Excellent. And by the way, when you take vertical sections,
32:31 like so, and you take a texturizing sculpting shear, and you slide hair out, you're not
32:43 going to get any demarcation, because you took vertical sections, so the hair falls
32:48 on top. It's not horizontal. I'm a fan of taking vertical to diagonal sections. As more
32:56 flat you go with your section, that means horizontally, it's more of a weight line you
33:01 create. Last section here already. Pulling it straight out. There we go. Excellent.
33:18 I work in six salons across the United States. I'm also privileged to work with Michael
33:26 Connolly, phenomenal hair colorist, in his Beverly Hills Palisades salon, and then also
33:33 I support him in Washington, D.C. I also work in Memphis, Tennessee, Newburyport, Massachusetts,
33:42 that's just outside Boston. Beautiful. And of course, home turf, New York, at the Top
33:50 Salon, with Joe Blackwell. And I have haircuts, my go-to haircuts, haircuts that you're kind
33:58 of known for. And this is definitely one of them. That is maybe not the most spectacular
34:06 haircut, but cutting hair and service the client is not about being spectacular, and
34:13 old, weird, and off. It's about enhancing someone's look. The haircut, I'm a big fan
34:22 of it. A haircut shall support someone's lifestyle, what they are. And I love when hair can be
34:30 touched, when you can dive into it. Flowy hair, wash and go, beautifully hair that just
34:37 suits someone. And this is just, as you can see out there, you just see a lot of long
34:44 hair, and there's various ways on how to approach this, and this is definitely a very good how-to-go
34:50 haircut. Okay? I'm going to take one more last section here, in the back of the head.
34:59 A little triangle here, just like so, as you can see. There we go. And now I point cut
35:09 into it. Hey, texturizing and sculpting shears you can point cut with, without pulling on
35:16 the hair. Paradise, only with the sliding technology. For everybody that's watching
35:22 now and is curious, we have a YouTube channel, just punch in Mike Kark in the YouTube, and
35:30 you can subscribe for free. We upload like every two, three months a new video, or about
35:36 to launch one. It's been a while now. You can also follow me if you're curious on where
35:42 I travel to, and kind of what's going on, and also promoted this haircut here on Instagram.
35:48 I'm on Instagram with Mike_Kark, so you can follow me on that. And then for everybody
35:55 watching here from the East Coast, in two weeks from now, 100 year anniversary celebration
36:02 of IBS New York, we'll be there for three days. We've got classrooms every day. You
36:07 can try out all the tools in our booth, which is 1901. And the end of March, I'll be at
36:13 IBS Chicago, and there also we'll have actually demonstration too, which you can sign up for
36:19 it now too.
36:21 - Jocelyn Allen just said hi, Mike.
36:24 - Oh, Jocelyn Allen.
36:26 - And said it's so true what you are saying.
36:28 - Oh, that's so beautiful. Jocelyn Allen from Miami, Florida. I remember well. No, no, Jocelyn
36:33 Allen. Absolutely. Hey Jocelyn, nice to hear from you again. These are Kark shears. You
36:38 are absolutely brilliant. Awesome. Good to see you. Thanks for writing in as well. And
36:43 for everybody else that I wrote in and I couldn't answer the question, these broadcasts here
36:50 is really for to bring information across, but you can always email me or again, see
36:55 me at any trade shows. We do all the trade shows across the United States. And hey, by
36:59 the way, thanks for all the support as well. Because you know, we're a young company. We
37:05 are a self-financed company. We had a modest growth. So thanks for all the support because
37:11 without you guys, it wouldn't be happening. But check this out. Holy smoke. Super cool.
37:17 Why don't you stand up quickly? Let's have a look at this again before we're going to
37:23 sign off here. But here it is. Okay. It's a longer piece here in the front, but look
37:28 how beautiful that folds. Okay. Absolutely brilliant. And if you now find that you should
37:34 take out more hair throughout the perimeter, hey, be my guest. Twist it, cut in, slide
37:40 it out, do whatever you'd like to do. That's to personalize a haircut. But actually cutting
37:46 hair even is much more difficult than cutting hair uneven and all asymmetric. I'm just a
37:53 big believer in that. Okay. Always double check the left and the right side is the same
37:58 length. And then you've got this beautiful bohemian, easygoing, fun hair. So let's finish
38:05 that hair off as well. And I'm going to be using some Kuhn Soul Spray. Kuhn launched
38:21 a brand new line, length. And I'm going to be using some Soul Spray. It's a super cool
38:27 Soul Spray. And I'm just going to spray it here all over. Nice. There you go. Just keep
38:38 the nose tall. It has a great smell by the way to it. Excellent. But here you can get
38:44 the texture out and look how the color becomes alive too. So, excellent. So, everybody in
38:54 the United States, happy Oscars. They're going to start here at like 2, 3 a.m. in Zurich,
39:03 Switzerland. So that's way too late for me. That's way past my bedtime. But I'll find
39:07 out tomorrow what's going on. But guys, enjoy, especially for all the ones on the West Coast
39:14 in California, Los Angeles. We're going to sign off here. All the best. Thanks for watching
39:20 and see you soon. Bye-bye.
39:22 Bye-bye.
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