Don't. If you have fine hair,
I bet you have heard this before. Get layers.
It will give you volume. I'm here to tell you no, do not get
layers, it will not give you volume. What it's going to do is going to collapse
your baseline and make your hair look wispy at the bottom
and hence finer and thinner. It has taken me 36 years and a lot of bad
haircuts to finally find a look that is super versatile,
easy to style, and that I love. This haircut makes my fine hair look so
full that everyone seems to think that I have thick hair now, which is
hilarious because I absolutely do not. Which you can see in this example
right here with a very bad haircut. Since this haircut was so life changing
for my style, and since I get so many questions about it in the comments
section, I decided to take you guys with me when I got a trim last week
so that I could explain it to you. Let's go. Let's give a little shout out
to my hairstylist, Rebecca. Her instagram handle is
at painted by Rebecca. If you live in the Waterloo region
in southwestern Ontario, I definitely recommend seeing
her and following her online. She is meticulous
and totally detail obsessed. We get each other before I got questions about this in the comment section I'm
wearing a mask because I had Covid previously and although I was testing
negative that morning, I put on a mask to protect Rebecca
and everyone else in the salon. Anyway, since I had Covid about ten days prior to that appointment,
I know that I probably was not contagious or I wasn't contagious,
but I did it anyways because it doesn't bother me and I don't want
to be a gigantic asshole. So Rebecca starts by cutting the front of my hairline to establish
the desired length that we are after. What can happen when you
start cutting the back first? Is that because the back hairline
is lower than the front hairline? Right. So at the back of your head,
the hair grows here at the nape. At the front of your head,
the hair grows here above the ear. So the hairline at the back is lower,
it scoops down than at the front. So sometimes it seems like the back is longer than the front because
of the hairline difference. What can also happen is that when we are styling our hair, we're often styling
the front so we can get heat damage there. That's also usually where we place our highlights so we can get
chemical damage there. Sometimes that hair breaks and damages so the back is healthier
and longer than the front. In general, if you establish a guide in the back, when you get to the front,
the front may be shorter by default, and you may not even have anything left to
cut, so you're not refreshing those ends. What can also happen is that this can lead to a little step where the front
is slightly shorter than the back. That's happened to me before. You can see it in this haircut that I had,
and honestly, it looks terrible. So if your hairstylist starts at the front, they are establishing
the length that you want. And the front really is the most important
since that's what you see and that's what you style and that's what
you're looking at anyways. Then when you've established that length at the front, you can match
the back of it accordingly. This is a much easier and also a much more precise way of cutting
a bob or a long bob. Now, the key to this haircut that makes
it look so good is the fact that there is. Are you ready for it? Zero layering. Zero layering. Because there are no layers, every single section of hair meets at the
exact same point when you have fine hair. If you do this, your baseline will look much fuller, which will trick the eye into
thinking that the hair itself is thick. It is an amazing illusion for fine hair. The shorter that baseline is,
the thicker your hair will look. I have had this haircut in multiple
lengths, and I prefer it on my face shape when it's slightly longer,
like a lob, a long bob. But if you like a shorter bob and you
have fine hair, you will be shocked. You will be shocked to see how thick your hair actually looks when it is blunt
and when it is at like a chin length. Now, something else that Rebecca does that I find so interesting is that after
she cuts the baseline, she cuts up into the hair to ensure
that there is no graduation, there's no layering, and to make
everything look super, super square. This also helps that bottom
layer to not flip out. We all have that annoying
flippy out bob experience. Check out her finger angling
here when she does that. This really is the solution to that issue. After she blow dries it, she actually goes in and perfects
the details of that line one more time. Now, I love having some short pieces
through the front because I wear my hair in a lot of different styles,
and I like to leave out some framing. I really like to leave out
some soft face framing layers. If you like this as well. What you want to ask for is
a long curtain fringe. It's not a big section that I have cut, but it's enough to give me versatility
and framing in my styling while still maintaining a baseline
at the front of my hair. So this is what it looked like
immediately after in the car. After I got it cut, I asked her not to style it because I was
going to jump in the pool with my kids anyways and it would have been
a huge waste of time for her. But when I do style it, sometimes I blow it out big
to get that 90s supermodel vibe. Sometimes I wave it with a curling wand,
sometimes I curl it with my timo airflow. And sometimes I'll leave my natural texture and I will just
literally scrunch and diffuse it. I wear this haircut half up. I wear it all up. I wear it with cute top seatails. I use hot rollers. Sometimes I'll even do pull
through braids or french braids. This really is the perfect haircut if you have fine hair because it is not limiting,
it gives you the illusion of fullness while still giving you a ton
of flexibility in your actual styling. Thank you guys so much
for watching watching. If you want more advice on different
haircuts that trick people into thinking that your thin hair is thick,
then check out this video next. I'll also leave it
in the pinned comment below. If you have any video requests,
as always, leave them in the comments. I monitor and read those every single day. I'll see you guys next week.
Bye.
