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HOW-TO: Carve Out Creative Graphics into a Mohawk From Oster

Oster Professional Global Artistic Director David Guerin, AKA "The Style Renegade," shares quick tips on how to carve out creative graphics into an otherwise standard Mohawk; hair tattoos!

January 23, 2014
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Oster Professional Global Artistic Director David Guerin, AKA "The Style Renegade," shares quick tips on how to carve out creative graphics into an otherwise standard Mohawk; hair tattoos!

TRY IT: Use a #2 or #1.5 blade and carve out the sides at least to the round of the head. Then continue into the exterior panels in the back. With Oster's T-Finisher and with the edge of the T-Blade, start to draw in some lines into your canvas (the carved out areas). "You can enhance your design with Grease Pencils, my favorite is Graff Etch," Guerin says. "When I want the color to last for several days I use Sharpies."

Another Hair Graphic Example.

Oster Professional Global Artistic Director David Guerin sketches in a hair tattoo.

Side of the Mohawk look with graphic.


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