BLEND
Cutting Extensions With Confidence
Welcome to BLEND
This course was created with the extension specialist in mind. Extensions should look natural no matter how your client wears their hair, even with little effort on their part.
What will you learn in BLEND?
Cutting One Row
Breaking down the fundamentals of looking at the shape as a whole to envision the desired result. You will learn the techniques for how to create basic blends, including creating movement, stability, and texture.
Looking at the shape as a whole
Visualizing the end result
Implementing movement versus structure for balanced fullness and a little length.
Cutting Two Rows
In this intermediate level, we utilize all the concepts of one row and how to apply the techniques when there is more drastic shapes to create and lengths to correct.
Connecting the face frame
Blending the textures
Adding movement for clients wanting more length and corrective cutting
Bobs & Lobs
Advanced level cutting that includes building shapes, removing weight and creating believable short to mid-length styles
Getting the angle down
Create graduation
Soft movement throughout the shape
K-Tips & I-Tips
Bonus section: how to create shapes that move, connect, and flow without the dreaded noodle effect individual extensions can take on before cutting.
The anti-noodle
Making the textures match
Bridging the gap of separation
Meet Sarah
Sarah Ariel has been a licensed cosmetologist since 2000. She began her career at Chicago’s most prestigious salons as a haircutting specialist. Globally trained with the industry’s elite Sarah perfected her dry cutting method and began educating with nationally known brands for her peers on staff.
Creating shapes that fall to complement the client’s features and grow out effortlessly are her specialty. But what if they don’t have enough density or length for the style they desire? Sarah herself experienced this when she struggled to grow out a short haircut. She set out to learn and master multiple methods of hair extensions to truly achieve the desired look.
One thing she saw missing in all of these programs was a solid foundation for cutting and blending them- her favorite part! Where the client could begin to see the magic happen! So many stylists new to learning extensions and those who have mastered the art of placement and color wanting more for this important piece of the transformation. She saw a need to share and wants to make the cutting segment of this luxury service seamless and simple.
She also offers 1:1 hands on education in private and group settings at her extension studio in Laguna Beach, CA.
She also offers 1:1 hands on education in private and group settings at her extension studio in Laguna Beach, CA.
Special thanks to my co-stylist Laura Rawson for creating custom blended color on models. Teamwork is dreamwork!
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