What do clients want today? LAYERS GALORE. Guests are embracing their natural texture and want a cut that looks good either air-dried for a more low-key vibe or blown out and voluminous. Learn how to cut a trendy midlength shag from Sam Villa (@samvillahair), Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Sam Villa and Global Artistic Ambassador for Redken.

Here’s what you can expect: It’s a modern take on the shag, layers are cut to release texture organically, creating forward-moving volume and looseness within a strong structured square shape. 

“I’m always striving to share new and different ways of doing things to develop progressive practices on how to better approach precision cutting that delivers a lived-in vibe,” explains Sam. Keep scrollin’ for the full step-by-step how-to!