Julie Baribeau

This was a fun look to create with my Feather Plier Razor - my favourite tool for fine, dense hair and also for revealing and enhancing the wave I could tell was hiding in there. I started with shaping her fringe by over directing a triangular section to the centre of her face, cutting vertically, aiming for the length to sit between her brows. This created the lovely swoop, lightness in the centre, while leaving length at the sides. I detailed the fringe horizontally with minimal elevation, over directing to the centre to give it some strength. Then I took small vertical sections around the edges of her face and carved some disconnected face framing bits to accentuate her cheekbones, and frame her face when she wears her hair up. Because they’re elevated and vertical, they stay soft, whispy and feminine. The rest of the shape was pulled to the front, and carved out in large vertical sections to keep strength and not feathery ends, and to leave length at the back. Once the body of the haircut was shaped, I lightened the crown area by directing the sections up towards the peak of her head, and carving deeply into them to create lots of lift and pieciness. I love how the Feather Plier allows you to create looks that can be disconnected while also looking connected because of how deeply you can remove weight without creating holes. The soft negative space allows the hair to move and waves to form. This deep weight removal is really what makes these cuts, and becomes intuitive once you look and feel the hair like a fabric, and cut it where it wants to live. They will essentially style themselves. Once I had finished detailing the interior, I polished the edge by carving out the perimeter at zero elevation, with V shapes for softness, and to create definition while keeping it from becoming too skinny at her ends.