Graduated cascade is a fashionable and interesting hairstyle that visually increases the volume of hair. It is suitable for both short and medium or long hair. With a cascading haircut, made with a graduation, any of your image will be unique and inimitable.
Features
The hairstyle consists of smoothly moving steps, between which graduation is performed - the hair is cut off at a certain angle. This technique is similar to the steps (ladder) technique, but there are differences.
- The boundaries of the steps are clearly visible. In the ladder they are almost not visible.
- Complexity. For the cascade master needs skill, while the ladder is considered a light haircut.
- Square. Cascade captures all strands, and the ladder only the edges of the hair.
- Time. Cascade requires it more than a ladder. This comes from the previous differences.
The pros of a graded cascade:
- young;
- partially hides skin imperfections;
- emphasizes cheekbones;
- suitable for coloring;
- has many variations;
- versatility.
This hairstyle is also loved by many stars and celebrities, for example, Emma Watson, Alexis Bledel, Natalie Portman, Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Millet Jovovich, Jessica Alba, Olivia Wilde.
Who is going to?
Haircut suits almost everyone.
For those who have thick hair, hairdressers propose to thin out the strands at the roots, thereby creating a light and harmonious shape.
It looks good cascade on the owners of straight or slightly wavy hair. If you have curly hair, then the graduation is better to start from the level of the ears, so that the curls do not curl and do not rise.
On short hair
This length is perfect for business girls and bring lightness to the image. Thanks to milling is also a good way to improve the health of your hair
Open neck and defiant hairstyle emphasize the boldness and independence of the owner of a short haircut.
On short hair, it is excellent for women with the shape of the face "oval", a long bang, laid on its side, visually pulls the face.
Unusually romantic looks graded cascade with curled tips.
On medium hair
This is an indispensable option for those who are constantly at work, but nevertheless want to look feminine and fashionable. Hairstyle does not require careful care. When you create it, the hairdresser touches all the hair, so it is also a great excuse to eliminate split ends. The cascade at this length allows you to create a festive hairstyle.
Long hair
Long hair is undoubtedly the best female adornment, but well-laid hair is the most spectacular. They also add femininity and fragility.
The cascade can go from any level - from the level of the ears to the middle and lower levels. In the first case, the neck is visually thinned and the volume of hair increases, and their length remains the same. And in the second - the easy and gentle cascade turns out.
On thin hair
If you have sparse hair, then you need to treat this haircut carefully, because it turns out rare tips. In this case, the hairdresser starts from the very top.
Therefore, the owners of thin hair often do the graduation mainly on the upper strands, and the lower strands do not affect.
Bangs as an element of hair
Graduated cascade looks great with a variety of bangs and fits most women. Many hairdressers have recognized the bangs as a faithful companion of this haircut and noted its property to rejuvenate the hostess.
The following suitable types of bangs are distinguished:
- short;
- straight, symmetrical;
- elongated;
- torn;
- arcuate;
- multi-layered;
- with graduation.
Bangs have a number of strong advantages, such as giving the look depth and mysteriousness, to the face - thinness, hiding some skin imperfections.
However, to maintain the image you need to take care of bangs. For some, it becomes a significant problem, for someone - an integral part of the image. On short hair, bangs on the side or long are well suited, and straight, torn and arched are more suitable for a cascade for medium or long hair.
Direct bangs can be advised to the owners of a long face, as it will slightly conceal part of the face and make it a little wider.
Concave arc bangs are characterized by longer strands on the sides and short ones in the middle part. She looks good with pretty round and short haircuts, beautifully turning into long strands in the face.
Torn bangs are very textured, multi-layered, strands are taken in different lengths, looks good with short and medium haircuts. It is important to consider what you wear and how the clothes will be combined with the hairstyle.
Very short bangs make the face wider. Looks good with long or medium hair, brings in the image of courage and extremity.
Elongated bangs - a straight bangs to the eyebrows. She is very popular, but needs attention.
Asymmetrical bangs can be simply combed to the side, or be trimmed asymmetrically. She, in turn, has many variations. Smooth, ragged, thick, structural, smooth, wavy - these are all variations arising from this bang.
Very elongated bangs help you cope with the doubts of "doing bangs or not," it has many advantages. Any experiment will be painless - it can be easily hidden in the tail, stabbed or combed behind the ears. Long bangs grow smoothly and will not often annoy. She does not change her face much. In this case, volumetric bangs will require long stacking and the use of such mousses that would not make it heavy.
Any bang in the first place should be combined with the bulk of the hair, and not live your life.
Equally important is the fact that more complex bangs are given more time during laying.
Execution basics
There are a lot of ways to create a haircut. They all vary in degree of difficulty. Below is one of the basic and easiest ways.
- Start by combing and treating the hair with a spray for volume.
- The hair is divided into two parts and outlines the center parting. Start from the back of the head. Thick strands are separated and pulled down, smoothly sheared.
- Then gradually begins to connect with the side zones. Strands are cut square in shape, so the whole zone is worked through.
- Strands are seized from the top of the head, parting lines should be parallel. Hair combed and re-cut. The length of the strands on the left, center and right side should be the same at each stage.
- The evenness of the strands is checked, for this the smallest strands of the left and rightmost are pulled down and brought to the middle. If they come together exactly, then their length is the same.
- The upper left and right parts ("horseshoe") are separated, the lower side strands are worked out.
- Then the separated parts are combed down, working on them in the same way.
- Go to the front part, separate the parting from ear to ear, passing through the point of hair decay (on the top of the head), comb the side strands. The graduation line goes from the chin line to the extreme lower strand line from the back control line. On both sides of the line should be parallel.
- On the back of the head, the central parting is separated, the occipital locks are fastened so that they do not interfere. Separated central section, parallel to the line of parting. Her pull up, cut off the ends.Then the central section is removed in one of the sides.
- Work begins on the diagonals of the face. Strands pull up, pruned. This way layers are defined.
- The control, final strand should be either on the crown or on the back of the head.
- It creates styling, you can curl your hair a little. The hair is dried and treated with a fixing spray for the volume.
Fashionable cascading haircuts
The tendency to create this hairstyle was the desire to give carelessness and naturalness to the image of a woman with a graduated cascade. Complicated styling can be done for a wedding, New Year, graduation, birthday or other holiday.
Colors are suitable for coloring the cascade:
- purple;
- light pink;
- burgundy;
- blond
Below are the successful options for this hairstyle.