Urban Beat by J.7
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With their colorful and eclectic collection, the J.7 team captures the essence of big-city style. The line includes hairstyles that are not only trendy and exciting but also versatile, with the flexibility to adapt to all the needs and facets of city life. The short and long looks share several features.
They look perfect in daytime environments and transition smoothly through every business meeting with poise and style. At night, they reveal their other side. From provocative to practical, it’s all there. Each style is layered for a very soft look, and this cutting technique makes volume come easily and infuses significant movement into the styles.
Disheveled Long Hair
Let it all loose! If you have the length and a healthy mane, tease it to thrill. Long blonde layers take center stage, embracing extreme texture and so much volume that even the glamorous sequins on her dress need to take a step back. This look is all about the hair and showcases it with a casual center part, drawn not too precisely.
The roots, especially on the crown, are lifted to provide volume on top as well. Large waves are a given, but new elements like kinks and pleats ironed in at several places give the hair a very modern twist. Of course, it all needs to look disheveled to appear perfect and spellbindingly undone.
Medium Layers with Extravagant Styling
Face-framing layers are a great look for most face shapes. This haircut offers a lot and is perhaps one of the most flexible and adaptable around. In this image, the tapered sides are styled to form a textured frame around her face, while the shorter layers on top engage in a wild dance, enhanced by the sparkling highlights.
Good styling skills, a blow dryer, and a round brush are essential. For a tamer version, all the hair can point downward, but the more fun option is a lifted fringe for a wild and crazy night out on the town.
Up or Down
A cute short haircut that comes with a lot of spice! It can be sassy, punky, naughty, sweet, or all of those together. The layers are longer on top and shorter on the sides, creating a trapeze shape when the hair is lifted, as seen in the photo. For this styling, the bangs are a sleek contrast to the wild sides. The hair has been lifted up and styled to the front.
The straight parts especially showcase the multi-tone hair coloring. Warm tones illuminate the look with brown and blonde hues. See the second photo for a variation of the styling in which all of the hair is lifted by anti-gravity spray (which, by the way, comes in spray bottles and tubes...).
Heavy Metallic
The standout features of this hairstyle are the long, angled fringe and the cool metallic hair color. The hue of steel in the warm light softens everything just before the sun sets. The cut is layered and textured throughout, with tapering on the sides and a rounded shape.
The striking design is in the bangs, with their diagonal angle and eye-covering length. Avant-garde with options, style it into the face as much as you can handle for a mysterious yet postmodern look.
Metro Bob
Blunt lines and sharp edges create an edgy look perfect for your metropolitan adventure. It is parted on the side to achieve great swing in the bangs. The texture is kept minimal to emphasize the bold lines.
The Changeling
Small but mighty! This short haircut has real guts and conveys boldness, despite its softening layers and gentle texture. Much of the expression is in the hair color, which is a dark, warm brown, accented with a lighter section directly in front, resembling a cool morning mist or light ash-blonde.
The changeling nature is in the cut, with layers that can be used to create a series of looks, each with a different expression. Check the images for styling ideas, but you will come up with many of your own too!
Feisty Short Hairstyle
Minimal bangs open up the face and have a very polished and fashionable feel, even with all of the texture and the done/undone styling. Movement and texture are central to this look, and all of the action in the hair actually has a softening effect on the face.
Her golden brown tresses are thick and cut just right to form volume and stand on their own without needing too much product. Spike them up for a show-stealing variation!
Power Layers
This look says "don't mess with me!" But that does not apply to the hair; without some messing, it wouldn’t look this great. A real bad-girl look comes with a mix of textures, jagged lines, disheveled lengths, curls, and kinks.
A structuring product was used to accentuate and separate the strands. The layers are long, and the color was fine-tuned with dark and medium brown shades, both deep and intense. Besides a great cut, there are no rules when it comes to styling. How fun!
Cool Streaks for Him
A long fringe reminiscent of '80s fashion, but with innovative coloring, takes a very 21st-century urban turn. He follows the zeitgeist and vibes with the beat of the city. Metallic silver and steel define his hairstyle, while the natural beard color is a reddish tone. Contrasts create sparks and break out of the box.
The hair is layered throughout, with shorter layers on top and longer ones underneath. Nothing exceeds the ears. Styled as a thin veil over his eyes, he embraces the veiled face trend, which plays with elements of anonymity and mystery.
Full Metal Fringe
A round bowl cut flirts with a shag, resulting in layers, texture galore, and much movement set atop a smooth and sleek lower layer with more length and clear definition. Enhanced by dark and light metal tones, the play of motion and form is very artistic and modern.
The bangs sit low, cover his eyebrows, and have a light texture at the ends. The lighter tones are mostly applied in the shorter top layers to create a visual separation.
Hairstyles & Makeup: J.7 artistic team
Styling: Nicole Czapalla
Outfits: SIOK / Carlos Guevara
Photography: Vlado Golub
See also: Short hairstyles | Medium hairstyles | Long hairstyles | Men's hairstyles