A young woman, alone in her bathroom, swept her long, wavy hair into a high ponytail.
you’ve got the option to imagine what happened next:Snip.
Snip.She cut a horizontal straight line all the way across, right through the middle.
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And then I saw a third one.
And another… and another.
Apparently, I had stumbled onto the world’s next beauty phenomenon:the ponytail shag.
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So, whatcango wrong with the ponytail shag?
Seems pretty simple, right?
It is, but as Arrunategui explains further, this method leaves a lot of room for irreversible fuck-ups.
Luis Miller,a hairstylist and colorist in New York City, concurs.
The method makes it astoundingly easy to cut hair way shorter than you’d intended.
“Cut it too short and your layers will be completely unable to blend,” he explains.
The key to nailing a DIY shag cut is sectioning, sectioning, sectioning.
“Don’t cut the hair bluntly.
Point cutting, by the way, is the method of holding scissors vertically rather than horizontally while cutting.
If you need an in-depth run-down of that, sneak a peek at any professional’sYouTube tutorials.
“Don’t cut the hair bluntly.
