Short Shag with Paul Davey

About the masterclass

Duration: 45 mins

Our founder Paul Davey demonstrates cutting a short shag haircut. This haircut is a common request in a salon among lots of clients who also find it hard to find stylist who are experienced with cutting short hair styles. Paul breaks down this technique to make it easy for stylists to replicate. This 45-minute hairdressing masterclass is designed to help guide you through every stage of mastering the techniques and skills needed to create Paul’s version of a Short Shag. Expand your short haircutting repertoire. This simple, easy-to-learn format coupled with Paul's outstanding teaching strategies will enable any level of the hairdresser to master this haircut.

What you will learn: 

  • Sectioning, and positioning yourself around haircuts.

  • Over directing, distribution and elevations.

  • Become a more confident short haircutting stylist.

  • Suitable for all level hairdressers.


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About Paul Davey

Passionate about education, Paul Davey founded Hairdressing Live in 2017, enabling hairdressers all over the world to hone their skills by learning from some of the industry’s most accomplished hairdressers. In 2019. Paul is also an author of his own educational book Elements which was published in 2020.

Multi-award winning hairdresser Paul Davey, co-owner with his brother Ian of the highly-acclaimed Davey Davey salons in Dublin. From working backstage at London Fashion Week to tending to a roll call of celebrities at Cannes Film Festival or working on editorials for a host of Irish and UK titles, Paul's hairdressing skills are multifaceted and in high demand. 

His editorial and session work has seen him travel to London, New York and throughout Europe working with international fashion publications such as Strut, Noise, Cosmopolitan and Elle, as well as collaborating with creative designers Maria Grochvogal, John Rocha, Paul Costello, Phillip Tracy, Joanne Hynes, Top Shop Unique and Basso & Brook. 

Paul has worked with some of the most famous names in showbiz including Martin Scorsese, Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Emma Thompson, Izabella Scorupco and Fionnula Flannagan. He has also worked with many artists backstage at music festivals and with well-known TV presenters and models including Mumford and Sons, Ellie Golding, Kate Nash, Miles Kane, Robbie Williams Band, La Roux, Kesha, Jamelia, Laura Whitmore and Sophie Anderton.