Today's video is going to be about
how to do a haircut on yourself. So it'll be pretty basic. Nothing too crazy. I'm gonna keep it to where,
like mostly anyone can do it. So the other thing is,
I'm going to be cutting my hair dry. I would always recommend cutting hair wet. I feel like you get cleaner lines
and just a better haircut all around. But to keep things softer and if maybe, this is your first time,
I'd recommend dry because when you do it dry you can see
every mistake that you have done and when it's wet it, of course,
you can see mistakes too but when you blow-dry your hair it will sit differently than when it's wet. So, if you're doing it dry you can already, automatically see what it's going to look like. So you cut a little
or if you see like there's a line and you're like, "Oh, that's not supposed to be there", so it's a lot easier to fix. Okay, so first step is you always start
clean quadrants. So first you divide the hair
going down the middle in the front and then down the back. So we have whole left side
and the whole right side and then the other,
you find back of the ear coming up, so I mean, I'm kind of just feeling, you know. You know your head so just come down and separate that and that's your other section. So this, you just clip that away and then, so we'll be starting
in the two back sections. So the first step we have to determine, do you want to go across? If you want the more rounded designed line, you grab that section of hair
and you angle up, up going this way towards the face and then when hair goes back
and meets up with the other hair then you've kind of got that base and that's going to be your
lowest point of view. So kind of found it out
as much as possible like that and I like to point cut,
you just get softer lines, so you have to kind of visualize. So say, you want to get rid of that much length, so kind of come up that high. Then when you can kind of see
where it's looking kind of jagged. You can kind of go across just slightly straight up. Don't just go in and cut it completely straight across and always kind of keeping an angle with the scissors. We kind of slightly point cutting
into it a little bit again. So it just remains really soft and then drop it down
and you can kind of see if it is smooth or if there's a spot that means more, so go like back here, if there's something it needs a little softer transition. Now, I've done that, so we've established our length. Now I am banging this front section and angling at kind of the angle that's already there. Just kind of cleaning up some of the edges and now, just kind of drop it. So you see they're pretty much my outgrown bangs. It's now kind of matching up
with the rest of the hair. So if that's what you want, that's fine. I think I want a little bit more separation but we'll get to that later for the bangs. So now, you grab kind of that hair where the two sections, where they meet. So just kind of come down and grab. So you, you make sure that they kind of meet up. So mine meet up pretty well but it's always nicer to make sure. Okay, so we've got that first section done. So now, we do the same thing
to the right side, obviously. Okay, so once you've done,
established a length on both sides, kind of angle that and make sure
that it's pretty smooth. Now, we're going to start on layers. Okay, so let me-- I'm clipping out the front section. So now, I'm going to... I'm going to establish the length
of my shorter layers in the back. I want my front to kind of be this length longer and then I will just cut things in. So what you do with this is
to bring it up to a pretty high point, as you can see. So do you see my shortest layer and then it kind of gets jagged and kind of broken. So if you want more of a transition, where you want shorter layers and then kind of graduating into like a longer base or if you just kind of want long layers and just kind of like a smooth transition, then you would bring it out here, if you want a more smooth transition
and long layers. If you want shorter layers,
then you bring it up higher. So I want a pretty smooth transition,
so I'm going to bring it off to the side and I'm just going to kind of clean up and get rid of like some split ends, so not much of really losing length. I'm just going to go across. Just clean up all that split ends. It can be a little tricky,
cutting hair and to looking into a mirror because everything is backwards, obviously, but it's only hard the first time or so
and then you get used to it. So then I'm just point cutting again,
so you don't have any blunt lines. Okay, you can drop that and you can see there's no weird jagged
or straight across blunt lines. Just kind of a soft transition. Okay, yeah we're going to do
the same to the front. So, the front's a little different on mine because my bangs like I said, match. So depending,
if you want shorter up at the front, you could go up higher and just kind of a bit shorter. Again, I'm just going to,
kind of get rid of those split ends and then point cut. Then off to the side and you can just kind of see, like, if they're all kind of lining up. Actually, bring that down
and you can just see that, that it's just starting to look healthier because you're getting rid of all that damage. Okay and then again,
like we did in that first base cut. I'm grabbing a piece from both sections from the front section and the back and again, holding it out together and you're just trying to make sure
that they kind of mirror each other so that the front's not longer
or so it's about similar. So, it looks about fine
but just clean it up a little bit. Because you don't want to have like a weird point here, like weight here because the back is nicely cut and the front and then that weird transition is kind of heavy. So just to balance everything out. Okay, and then again,
same thing to the other side. To kind of save time
I'll just show you one side because obviously, it's the same thing. Then what you can do too and you can start off doing this first before you do, for the layers, this could be your first step
in establishing the length and then just following it. Off to the side, I'd like to do that way first and then just kind of bring these two up and making sure that these two line up because we kind of cut this from here
and then in the back from here. So just to make sure they line up. It's looking pretty good. So again, just point cut a little bit more and just let it drop out and we are done with layers. Now, what I'm going to show you is the bangs and maybe, some of you,
all you want is a bang trim and leaving the rest for a hairdresser
that's great too. Bangs are something
that are quite hard to keep up with. Especially, if you are too short or minor locks, they just blend in with the rest of my hair but so first thing in bangs is determining how thick you want, how much hair you want in the bangs. So if you want pretty thin that's about as much hair as you need. I like mine pretty thick, so I'm gonna go back about an inch. So, and then... just kind of come straight out at an angle. Kind of towards,
imagine like the tip of your eyebrow, kind of coming down angling at that. I would start bringing them up and cutting off say, an inch
or whatever it is that you're trying to do, I'm not, I'm gonna do about a quarter inch just straight across because the fact that you're bringing it up when you bring it down
you'll never have a straight across line because you're over directing hair
in a different direction that it naturally must sit. So see, there's not, like a crazy start line. Okay. Hope you try this out
and hope it's not too crazy difficult. Hope you enjoyed it and you know,
guess I'll see you next time. Bye!
