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Creating layers within a cut can create volume, texture and lift, however, sometimes they can also create corners within your cut. Sometimes weight in a haircut can be beneficial, but other times you’ll have to texturize a great deal to get rid of it. In this tutorial, Sam Villa Education Director, Andrew Carruthers, demonstrates how to round the top edge of layers to maintain strength while avoiding a hard weight line.

While some stylists may specialize in styling or color, learning how to efficiently cut and shape short hair is a key skill that any stylist should add to their book, especially with androgyny being so in fashion. “Being proficient in short haircutting is really important if you want to build a wide variety of clients.  And, knowing different techniques that create unique textures in short hair is extremely helpful,” says Andrew Carruthers, Education Director for Sam Villa.  Read on and follow the video below to learn a few key techniques to creating texture in short hair with a razor.

In previous hair tutorials, Sam Villa showed us how to enhance shorter hair styles with texture in movement. This time Sam Villa shows us that diamonds are a girl’s best friend – especially when it comes to creating movement in layers! In his latest hair cutting tutorial he demonstrates how to use diamond sections in the crown area with over direction and diagonal finger angles to create the perfect amount of volume and movement.