How Laurent Voisinet Cuts His Texturised Bob, Step by Step

Laurent Voisinet's Neo-Kawaii collection offers a texturised bob that stylists can read as a clean technical exercise: a graphic, blunt base softened by point cutting and slide cutting at the ends. The cut photographed by Pascal Latil balances a sharp perimeter line with airy, broken texture through the mid-lengths, giving the bob enough structure to hold shape and enough movement to avoid looking stiff.

The cutting sequence starts with a center parting and a horizontal section at mid-ear height, which sets the baseline length for the whole bob. Voisinet defines this length using the full blade of the scissors rather than the tips, a detail that matters because full-blade cutting produces a straighter, more graphic line than the softer edge point cutting gives later in the process.

A second horizontal section connects the back to the sides, and the side panels are cut the same way, full blade, before the stylist works the line back toward the nape. At the nape itself, Voisinet switches tools and technique, combining scissor-over-comb with point cutting to blend the perimeter without leaving a visible shelf where the back meets the sides.

The fringe is shaped last in the cutting phase, worked vertically from the crown down into the fringe area so the front frames the face without being cut as an isolated piece. On the sides, hair is divided into pie-shaped sections radiating from the crown, a sectioning pattern that lets the stylist soften the corner where the bob's blunt edge would otherwise look too angular.

Depending on the client's natural texture, Voisinet notes that the entire head can be texturised further with point cutting or slide cutting, an optional final pass rather than a fixed step in the technique. That choice is what turns a straightforward bob into the softer, more graphic finish seen in the Neo-Kawaii images, and it is also the step a barber or stylist would adjust most for fine versus coarse hair.

The result, styled two different ways in the final images, shows how one cut can carry both a sleek, graphic read and a looser, more romantic one depending on finishing. For salons working with bobs, the technical takeaway is less about the shape itself and more about the sequence: full-blade cutting to set the architecture, then scissor-over-comb and point cutting to dissolve the hard edges only where the style calls for it.