How to Style a Faux-Hawk Hairstyle

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Lauren and I'm going to explain how to style a Faux Hawk style. Your Faux Hawk is basically your modified Mohawk. What that means is usually the sides are left a little bit longer and it's not as drastically stopped. You blend it up a little bit more. The Faux Hawk also usually comes from a little bit longer in the front, to a little bit to shorter in the back. So, it's not your very even, symmetrical kind of standing out. It's a little modified in order so that way you can get that kind of Mohawk style where your hair all meets in the center, but it is not as drastic as a Mohawk actually is. In order to create the style, you would use your clippers, which they do come with different blades. Considering we are doing the Faux Hawk, where it's not actually as dramatic, I would stick with a little bit of a larger blade so that way it doesn't go to the skin. You would cut up by putting the blade flush against their head, after the clippers are flush against their head, place the comb, and you would right by about the curvature of the head and then you would go up and come out a little bit. The out is going to kind of blend it for you and start to kind of elongate that top area. So you are going to put it flush against the head. You are going to go up and then you are going to come out with it in order, once you hit that come. It's a bit of wrist action. Now, after you finish that, you are going to blend up the top. You are going to leave this front section a little bit longer than you would the back, if you can see the difference. Hers is a little long, however if you see the difference between both of them, you have this piece, which is a lot longer than say this piece in the back. After you get the style in and the actual cut in, you are going to push your hair all forward because your sides will be a little bit shorter. You're going to push your hair forward, and bring your hands with a bit of a gel, or I use maybe a, sometimes Threads by Sebastian. It has a, it's a little bit of a texture based, so it's a little bit more sticky. You could use something like this, and you would simply brush the hair forward and form it into your Mohawk by lifting that front section and lifting that back section and it'll automatically be more on a slant. So it would be sort of going this way, getting a little bit shorter as you come to the back, and that would be how you create a modernized Mohawk, or the Faux Hawk."