The Middy Haircut - Tips on Communicating with your stylist
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2017
- The middy haircut is one of the most popular cuts for vintage styles but it can be super frustrating to communicate this to your modern hairstylist! I take you with me to get my middy cut from one of the best vintage stylists in the business plus we answer some of your top questions!
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If anyone is near Cincinnati, OH there's a salon called Black Cat salon that specializes in vintage hair
When I did my apprenticeship the first year of study was pretty much all how to do classic haircuts, reading cutting diagrams, finger waves and different types of pincurls (you'd be surprised by how many types there are). I loved them then and still do as the curl is so much better and longer lasting than rollers, although I do use rollers as well. I also learned different winding patterns for different effects, both for perms and sets. My mum and nanna loved it because I'd use them for practice. This was quite a while ago but I hope they still start with the classics as you get a good grounding on everything else from that.
I ended up leaving hairdressing to go on to other things but I still like to keep my hand in and I'm the go to person for local kids who go retro. Since finding your channel I always refer them, or anyone who wants a retro look to you for style ideas and tutorials as your tutorials are fun, clear and easy to follow and you present them in a style that isn't daunting so they know that the styles are achievable.
You really are a gifted presenter.
I went to the salon in my town, (pop. 8000) and showed the stylist the middy diagram on my phone and followed your tips and I LOVE MY HAIR CUT. She was super nice and not put off at all by my giving her the diagram! And now I have the cut I always wanted, but didn't know how to get.
You posted my this literally the day before my haircut appointment, and it really clinched the deal. I've been telling my stylist all these steps in an effort to get something close to a middy, instead of a middy. After seeing your video I just said WHY NOT?? What am I doing, skirting the issue?? I'm committed to this look! And now here I sit, happily cut. Thank you!
Zomg I love the end result so much! Your curls look glorious!
This is so timely! I've been casually researching the middy for a few years and am finally biting the bullet and getting it done this Saturday. Thanks for this video Jen!
2 years ago I took that exact diagram to an older stylist who said she could do it. I ended up getting an honest to God mullet, and I was so mad! It took over a year to grow out.
Rachel Murphy Rachel Johnson well i face that with a budget hairstylist and it look so ugly
😱that is terrible
happened to me as well last year, worst haircut I ever had 🤨. Guess it´s not so easy to find someone who could really do it
Thank you for this video! This will be super helpful when I get my hair cut next!
I'm from Milwaukee and never knew about these guys! Definitely going to check them out! Thanks!
Thanks for posting this. Very helpful. Love your shirt at the end!!
What a bloody brilliant video.. This is a game changer....now I can show my stylist an unstyled middy so they can see what I want! Thanks xxx
Thank you so much for this awesome and helpful video!! I've been debating taking the plunge on getting a long middy cut for ages but too afraid something bad would happen and was just sort of making do. But I watched this video (twice), took a bunch of notes, and brought in the diagram and some pictures to my lovely stylist last night. 5 inches later and I LOVE IT! Pin curled it last night because I couldn't wait and it turned out a billion times better (tho I need to adjust somewhat for the new length/style). Thank you for your rockin channel!
I'm English and I've JUST got what your name means (having watched your vids for several years)! We call them dressing tables, not vanities. I thought it meant that you were vain! 😀Great vid, by the way.
7arboreal lol so funny
I had no idea !
I've gotta bookmark this video! I'm getting married this Saturday and afterwards I plan to get a middy and go back to wild colors 😍 Now to binge watch your hairstyle videos again to practice my wedding hair!
THANK YOU FOR THIS!! I do not know how many times I have asked for a middy haircut just to have the stylist look at me like I have grown a second head. Hopefully, this will help both me and the stylist for my next appointment. ❤💇🏼
girrrrl the struggle is real! i have yet to find a stylist to give me the cut i ask for, diagram and all...and ive been doin my hair like this for years! ive had ladies argue with me, laugh at me, or just straight up ignore me! this video was quite helpful...hopefully, with these tips, ill have better luck next time! thank you ladies for taking the time to do this!!
The same thing happens to me. It’s so disrespectful. Like? If I’m paying you, do what I ask please! It’s my hair and if I hate it as much as you say I will, I’ll pay you more to fix it, or it’ll grow back!! I had the same experience when asking for this cut. I’ve also been flat out refused a dye job because my hair’s “just too pretty”
I hear you. I'm a hairstylist myself, and I hear horror stories. Most hairdressers do whatever THEY want. I cut my own hair, color too.
Yess it’s strange to me. It’s is... all that whys you said! They have no proper setting lotion, Iv had Velcro rollers and they are awful for me, I brought my metal rollers. I mention making appointment they can’t straiten my hair, and not shear cut it. Omg
I sent a video to last gal and she said I cut 6 inches and I said Ohh no, 3 because when it’s curled it shrinks up. She must have cut 5 inches and spoke with her 2 days after and she said oh I was going BY the picture you send and videos, umm 🤔 not what I asked multiple times.
I've been thinking of getting the middy lately , this was so useful , thank you!
Thank you so much for this! I've been putting off my middy cut while i look for a decent hairstylist. Also, I dig your shirt!!
Wow! Favorite 'do you've ever posted!
Love this - so clear, my hair is growing back in after alopecia and I really want a shortish midi. Thank you x
Yay! :D
Looking great as always, and I'm so glad to see some pink back on that pretty head!
Thanks doll!
Thank you! This video was super informative!
Thank you so much for this video, very helpful!
Oh! I love the cut on you. I have a hair appointment this Friday and am half tempted to go for it. I have naturally curly hair though and don't know how this would look with that for days when I let the hair do its own thing.
Your hair looks amazing!
I went to them when I was in Milwaukee! They are so good!!!
Finding a hair dresser is like finding a significant other. It takes so much trust, and I feel like you have to have personalities that CLICK. I feel like I have to really like the person. I only ever get trims, and truth be told, I usually feel like a burden to the women I've been to. haha which is funny, because quite a bit of this interview was about ill-informed stylists, and what to do if your hair gets ruined, and all the WAYS that it can get ruined.haha. which speaks to the difficulty of finding ""the one"" lol I wish Natalie would have talked more about what She means by "Longer layer" and "shorter Layers" it seem obvious, haha but....... its not obvious to me :) like the final footage of your cut looks just like a regular cut to me, it seemed quite well blended, and not blunt at all ... I don't get it... i dont see blunt cuts in your final hair cut footage....lol i dk... :) I guess i just don't get it..... :) I'm glad you like it :) and your final STYLE is GORGEOUS :) you're so sweet.
I have to say, the hairstylist, I love how her long hair lays. It looks stunning. I like her soft curls, for anyone can make them out, whereas some people that curl their hair, they are too soft to detect. Good job💁👍
Love this video! I'm going to mention it in my next video coming up, in case girls need to know what haircut works best with vintage styles. I will link it to my video shortly. Thank you!
Aw...thanks so much! :D
omg thank you! this video is so helpful!
Yay - thank you Natalie for explaining this! I'm forever saying "leave the ends blunt" and no one listens to me, haha!! You both look fabulous, btw! 💖
Well I do have my struggle on getting my modern middy on,luckily my mum ask the stylist to do a long bob with layers,hope to get the real one when I go to the UK or Australia
LOVE!!!! your dress!!!!
your cut turned out great!
So many great tips!!!
Thank you so much!!! Now i have the perfect middy plus haircut, but hairstylist was totally confused :D I had to told him couple times that this is what i want!
lol...right...they always need a bit of convincing if they're not used to vintage cuts. So glad you got a great cut and a stylist that listened! :D
Thank you so much for sharing this info. I haven't been able to find any place that does this in or around
where I live!!
If you can find a hair dresser you trust they should be able to still give you an amazing haircut! :D
Omg love your hair!!! Can you please do a tutorial on it.
Such a great place! Luv your dress.
Do you have a video about how to handle your roots growing in?
Thanks!
I love this middy tutorial!! Thank you so much for making this!! Great video!! 😍😍😍😍 Also, are you going to Viva this year? I'd love a selfie with ya! 😉
I should've known you are a Milwaukee girl, 'cause I love your channel so much! Thanks for all the great vids!
Us Midwestern gals have a 6th sense for other Midwesterns! Sentence is weird but you get me! lol
Every time I ask for a middy I get layers, or as I got last time - an a-line bob!! This video is so helpful, and next time I go to a stylist I hope I can finally achieve my vintage hair dreams!
I hope it helps! You'll have to let me know how the next haircut goes! :D
A finger waved bob brought me here. I’m excited
Really helpful video with some hair history. I think blunt cuts look good unstyled on finer hair, but my hair is so thick and coarse that blunt ends just look like a broom. I didn't realize that having the ends point cut could be interfering so much when I try to style my hair vintage. I'm going to have to find a way to consolidate my vintage wardrobe with wild 80s amazon hair or something.
YAAAAS! Love you and this.
This is very helpful! Thank you.
So glad you found it helpful! :D
Dying over your squirrel dress! As a vintage lover and squirrel rehabber I MUST HAVE IT!
I had been drooling over that print for a looooong time...it's a dress from PinUp Girl clothing :D
what a WONDERFULLY INFORMATIVE video
Isn't she fabulous!!!! Love her to bits!
Thank you so much for this very informative video (:
You are awesome!
I have been a subby for approx. 2 years now and I just really love your videos. This is one of your best. I have had a really hard time finding a stylist who even knows what a middy is. This was extremely helpful. One question, Can this cut be worn in a much longer length? My hair is mid back in length and while I don't mind shortening it a bit, a short length just does not do me any favors.
Life changing!
Ohhhh , this is great
I am getting my hair cut this Thursday . I am hoping I can show this to my hair dresser , and show exactly what I want .
Thanks so much for sharing this , and your hair is beautiful :)
Was this a foam roller set or pin curls ? Looks so beautiful .I'd love to see a tutorial on this pretty do ;) hint hint , hehe
Thanks again , and I hope mine turns out as well :)
This popped up today for me. I CUT my hair 💇🏽♀️ yesterday for the first time in my life.
Will see how it is after I west roller set. Ha ha
Can I see YOUR stylist?! Thank you for the advice Natalie.
I want to see a wet set or curl set tutorial! I like the cut!
There will be one coming :D
great content jenn love these videos more Vlog style...you look beautiful
Thanks doll!
Can you do a video on the curl pattern of the middy. i have one but i have such hard time with keeping the bottom layer of the back curled up no matter what i use
Wanted to throw a tip your way, you comment that your hair is really processed and you take extra precautions.
I bleach for platnium blonde and my stylist recommended these new Olaplex treatments. It claims to repair bonds in your hair, not just patch it up. I was skeptical yet desperate. So, bought a bottle online. : More bounce and my hair is softer. It actually works wonders.
Use it like a hair mask once a week (olaplex No. 3). It's really stepped up my maintainence game. Think you'd love it. Love ya.
Thank you 😊 soul sisters! I’m determined to find a stylist to work with me.
I hope Milwaukee WI isn't too far from South Minnesota because that's were I'll be going for my next haircut
I had a middy done, but at the end she started using texturizing scissors before I realized it. Since I didn't have my glasses. Curse my eyes. Thank God it has worked out, for the most part.
Sending much love to y'all.
Oh noesssssss! Next time you'll just have be all "nooooOOOO girl NO!" when they try to do that again.
A Vintage Vanity Ya Dang Skippy I will. It will be finga' snapping time. 👌😉 I am going to show her this video next time. 😍
Wow you are a good interviewer.
Omg where did you get your dress? It is soooo cute
Next time you visit, can you ask if there are any perms that are available now (since pinterest is full of new perm methods pictures, not sure if they are true or not) that can be sort of a faux vintage look. So, that you could wear them for everyday and then just do wet sets for date night or something special.
I've been going to a cosmetology school for my haircuts lately and the instructor didn't know how to read the diagram. I mean, I've never been to beauty school and I understood it, but even with the diagram and pictures of an unstyled middy I still had trouble getting across what I wanted and ended up leaving with long layers. I'm going to give it another few weeks and go back with written instructions for how to cut it and tell them "THIS is what I want." (Either that or I'm going to pester my sister's sister-in-law, who will cut it how I want it, but she lives a day's drive away so she's not terribly convenient.)
Can you put unstyled still pictures of the cut on Facebook or instgram so I can take them to my stylist. He's very good cutter but the diagram of the middy cut just that I had didn't work for him thanks
Is this a haircut I need to have to achieve vintage hairstyles?
Say diagram one more time!! lol jk I'm a licensed professional and my school did not teach how to read diagrams but its pretty common sense if you do hair. Loved your video
great great great!!!
Yay! :D
you know for about 3 years now every time I heard of this haircut I've been thinking you're saying the Minnie haircut lmao
I love you girl..........I feel like you could be a part of my family, a sister. The attitude you have towards life, and your larger than life smile, I wish you were related to me! Just love you to death, if you are ever in southern VA we need to meet up. An afternoon out with you would be amazing.
I wish I had a specialty vintage salon near me ): I've never been to a salon nor have I ever gotten it professionally cut. I am pretty proud of the way I cut my Bettie bangs though.(it's taken years of me cutting my bangs to do it well enough) I've been having trouble with the rest of my hair though ): I'm not sure how I should cut it. I have it straight across /: Do you have any salons you know of and trust in the Los Angeles area that you could recommend me? I'd greatly appreciate it but nonetheless this video helped
Arie well I was thinking of that same way with my hometown
Arie, Do you follow Cherry Dollface? She's in LA. Check out her channel. I know she has done videos on trips to her salon.
Cheryl Ann I do actually! She has a salon? I'm gonna have to flip back through some videos
I don't mean that she has her own salon, just that there is some salon or other that she uses.
Cheryl Ann ohh okay I get you. Yea I don't know which salon she goes to /: I'll try to find out though
My hair salon in the UK Is a granny salon. They do shampoo and sets daily. I showed them the picture of what I wanted. Showed them the cutting diagram. And they've cut it too short. I know it's only hair and it'll grow. But I'm still so sad. It's too short to pin curl I can barely set it. :(
Love yr SHOES, where??
My major issue is the style. I’d like a wet set and last stylist spoke with, text and send video and as she did kind of set my hair in rollers... they were Velcro omg-no! And used gel-dandruff. And not lasting for 3-4 days,
So how do I get someone to set my hair? Without thinking and charging me a wedding up/do?’
Hello Darling quick question was the middy haircut similar to Grace Kelly’s hairstyle? If not which kind of haircut did she had ?
No, this would be too layered for Grace. I'm not a hairstylist but I would say hers was more face framing layers on a shorter cut.
A Vintage Vanity follow up on that. Elizabeth Taylor’s short hair in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. It looks like an even shorter than Marilyn Monroe’s baby midi. Would you say it’s a midi?
I want your dress... did you make that?
Girl. I have been contemplating chopping off all of this hair into a midi long and you are not helping!!!
I wish I'd seen this video a couple weeks ago, now that I have a short layered, feathery haircut mess. 😅😧 Now I need the how to salvage a horrible modern haircut for vintage styling video. LOL
Aw no. :( You can still work with it, it'll just take a bit more manipulation to get it work.
The legs behind you when yo're sitting in the vintage hair dryer for your intro, those belong to Bettie Page yeah? The pic where she's kneeling in the sand with a beach ball??
I have the middy (I cut it myself, i had a mohawk and I wanted to grow it out so i cut my hair into the middy as it would look better with my hair and i wanted length!) but i don't need to style it at all. I have naturally curly hair and to be honest, that haircut compliments my natural hair so much better than a blunt or layered cut (which is too thick at the bottom) :} Blessed are the curly vintage girls! :D
I'm in school for cosmetology right now and we actually don't get taught how to read diagrams☹
I went to a hair saloon, the gal read the diagram and I showed her examples but she ended up doing the opposite. The front was longer than the back.... So I just told her to do an even cut and some layers to get it over with.....
Can this haircut be a wash and wear cut I have thick wavy hair ?
Never mind she just answered my question
I don't think it looks that bad not styled. it frames your face
South Milwaukee! Did you go have a Kupp's custard? ;)
I didn't! I'll have to the next time I head up there! :D
I need a stylist in Minneapolis
What if you have long hair (mid back) and want to do vintage styles, yet not ready to commit to a shorter 'do ?? Mostly because a lot of the time I wear my hair in a ponytail or something like that cause I take care of granddaughter and well she likes to yank on hair at times (trying to break her of that habit by the way). I want something that I can wear my hair vintage for special occasions.
You probably wont see this, since you commented a year ago 😂. Ask for a Femme Fatale! Think Veronica Webb, Lauren Bacall 💗.
Many thanks to Rachel Morscher for the advice. This was my my question. So even if the original commenter, Shelly didn't see it. I am grateful.
7:00 yep I thought that all stylist knew that your hair shrinks up after you put it in rollers and it gets curly so it Hass to be longer so if you tell someone that you want it you know certain length they should cut it longer so then it shrinks up nope I even mentioned that to my stylist two years ago and my hair was super Uber short so I end up doing a lot of finger waves that year. Lol
ugh why do I have to live almost 3 hours away from Milwaukie?!
😱 thanks i’m in an i haven’t seen a diagram.
The diagrams are so great!
Does this cut work for thinner hair? I know yours is pretty thick.
I would say yes, I have thinner hair in the front...only the back is somewhat thick. If you're concerned I'd discuss it with your stylist. Plus if you stop by to see Natalie she'll know how to handle your hair. ;)
I didn't realize how long your hair has gotten.
I didn’t see her cut the front
is there any way you can do this haircut but your hair be way longer?
elizabeth hernandez check out a middy long I think it's called.
do you have it styled in any of your vids? i didn't see any vintage styles... Not trying to be rude or anything... i have something very specific in mind since my hair has gotten so long
I don't but I've heard of it on UA-cam. if you search long middy or something along those lines you should be able to find something. don't worry hun I understand the long hair salon nervousness mine used to be down to my bum cause I didn't trust em
sorry that was so long winded lol
Anyone in the Pittsburgh area know where to go for a vintage cut?
I wish I did :(
Is this salon still around?
She is now working as BH Beauty and Barbering Services in Hales Corners Wisconsin. I'll make sure to update the link.
@@JenniferElise thank you so much!!!
I'd like subtitles
I’ve been cursed with having to go to my ‘family’ stylist. I took in the diagram and she told me she never learned with them and said she refused to do what it said because it was choppy. She has also refused to dye my hair 3 times. It’s so ridiculous. Thank god im going away for school soon and can go to someone less awful.
Oh no. :( Yes...you need to find someone who gets you! It's hard being around people that sometimes think they know whats best for you!
Well for myself when I decide to do a modern middy since my hometown don't have a vintage styled salon my mom explains to her local stylist that it's a Long bob with layers to make my hairstylist life easier,when I decide to do it he thought I gonna dye my hair after doing this style 😂😂😂😂
I genuinely cannot find any hairdressers in the UK who can do this cut, they always go scissor happy. They use razors and thinning scissors. They then use straightening irons. It’s a problem so I try to do this myself. I did hairdressing once at 18 and know basic skills but obviously it will never be as good as going to a salon trying to do this style. If only I could find a hairdresser here.
Great cut. I just wish the sound was better on this video rather than the background music and hair dryer etc.
I couldn't hear half of the advice
Unfortunately it's a working salon so I had to work with what I had. Headphones does make it a little easier to hear some of the pointers. Hopefully I'll be able to remake the video one day.