How to Cut your Hair to have a Tousled Cut

How to Do a Tousled Haircut Step-by-Step

• 1

  Dampen your hair with the spray bottle. Comb your hair down so it is lying straight.

• 2

  Select an attachment guard for your Wahl clipper that will leave the hair long, such as a #10 (1-1 1/4") or #12 (1-1 1/2").

• 3

  Start cutting in front of the ear using an upward rocking motion and work your way around the head blending the back of the neck to under the rim of the head up to the rim of the head as you go. (Sections 1, 2 and 3. See infographic below.)

• 4

  Use the clipper-over-finger technique to cut the hair on the top of the head (section 4) to the desired length. Cut the bangs last. Use your clipper with an attachment guard to blend under the rim and the rim of the head (sections 3 and 4).

• 5

  Using the inverted clipper technique or a Wahl trimmer, touch up around the ears and the neckline.

• 6

  This haircut is a longer cut, so the hair on the sides should brush the top of the ears. The hair on the back of the head should be left long. Bangs are long and combed over to the side of the forehead.

  

  Are you using the right grooming tool for the job? Find out in our grooming tool guide.