The Best Hair Hack ♥ How to Cut & Layer Your Hair at Home

hey guys new here today I'm going to show you how you can easily and quickly cut and layer your own hair at home now if you're looking to cut your hair in a particular style that is vistacal to a hairstylist but this method is great if you want to get rid of some split ends remove some lengths and add fresh layers to your hair so if you want to learn how to do this and keep on watching first you'll need a hair straightener because your hair needs to be pin straight so you can see where the layers are you'll also need a hair brush for hair ties and haircutting scissors so I have these ones that are very sharp and if you want you can also get some thinning scissors that look like this they basically have teeth on one end and a sharp blade on the other and I'll link all these things in the video description below before you start cutting you want to gather your hair into a high ponytail and tie it at the top of your head now from my experience I noticed that where you position the ponytail is quite important because if you position it right at the top of your head near the front of your face like what I'm doing here you're going to get more layers in the front and less at the back so you keep more of your length but if you move your ponytail closer to the back of your head you're going to get more layers at the back grab a second hair tie and tie it right where your chin is this is just going to keep the hair all in place so that it remains the street and with the third hair tie you want to tie it where you're going to cut it off so since I'm going to get rid of some length today I'm going to tie it or inches from the tip you want to save an extra inch forward the feathering part so if you want to get rid of five inches of hair tie your hair at four inches like what I'm doing here next grab a pair of scissors and just cut the ponytail off as you can see all the split ends are basically gone at this point since I got rid of them and now you just have a blunt cut next remove the hair tie and divide your hair into three equal sections depending on how thick your hair is you might need to divide it into four sections because we're basically going to work with one section at a time after you divide your ponytail tie each of them separately so that they don't get mixed up in the following step you want to stopped in the bluntness of each section by point cutting to do this all you have to do is use your fingers as a guide and slide them horizontally down your hair then cut into the ends of your hair using the points of the scissors and so what this will do is it will soften the bluntness and it also creates an even shrimp when that's done I like to thin the ends out a bit more by using my thinning scissors and basically this will just denote the ends and feather them out even more move on to the next section of hair and repeat so point cuts and then thin out the ends now if you don't have those thinning scissors no worries you can just use the point cutting technique all you have to do is point the ends of your scissors bolster up to your hair and that will get rid of some of the thickness if you want all your layers to look soft and feathered at the end we want to point cut into your hair even higher than what I'm doing and I did this last time if you look at my before picture the ends were very feathered and it was drying out a bit so this time I'm just going to point cut it a bit so that it looks thicker and fuller [Music] finally when all three sections are done you want to remove the hair tie and check out to see if it's even if you see some strands that are longer just grab your scissors and continue to point cut [Music] if you can recall the initial cut was really blunt so now it's much softer and even now I'm going to show you how far I usually cut my hair so if you still want long hair just cut it right in the middle of your sternum but if you want medium length hair just cut it right below your clavicle which is about right over here I think this method of cutting hair is pretty foolproof so if you want to this experiment by cutting your hair a bit more you can always release it to see if it's long or short and then you can always tie it up again and now the moment you've all been waiting for word to see if I actually messed up her knot so this is what my hair looks like after I let it down and one of the reasons why I like this method is that you end up with even layers at the front of your face so if you can see here all my layers are even but the only thing is I find that they're still a little bit too thick maybe because I didn't point cut enough so I'm just going to grab my thinning shears again and I'm just going to thin out the ends to give it a more feathered bridge when you thin out the ends of your layers with your thinning scissors you want to point the scissors at an angle because that's the way the layers are falling and as you can see my layers start pretty low and I do that for a reason because if your layers start too high and you do braids and things like that the hair will stick out of the braid so if you braid your hair often is best to start your layers lower and yes I'm aware that I need to tone my hair and touch up my roots but I'm critical right now so I don't want to smell the chemicals here's the completed look from the front and the back I just added some soft layers and got rid of some length so I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to give this video a thumbs up and if you ever give this a try don't forget to show me your pictures on Instagram and Facebook thanks so much for watching and I'll talk to you later ciao [Music]

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Keywords: beauty, style, makeup, fashion, how to, DIY, hair, tutorial, hairstyles, hair tutorial, hairstyle tutorial, bebexo, how to cut and layer hair, long hair tutorial, hair hack, how to cut layers in your hair, hair cutting tutorial, how to layer hair, how to cut your own hair, how to cut layers in long hair

Id: ykkLUsJPdtk

Length: 5min 33sec (333 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 08 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/notworthyofbeinghere]

I just tried this and I want to leave my findings here just in case its helpful to someone else.

I have super long hair down to the top of my hip. I cut about 4 to 5 inches off and it created a layer pattern that looks good with my natural wave but not as nice when it's all straighted. my bottom layer was significantly longer than the others so I had to trim that part another two inches.

If you have shorter hair this method could lead you into super awkward side bang territory. It eats up a surprisingly amount of length (the length of the top layer was a bit of a surprise) and it's hard to tell when you're cutting straightened hair pulled tight in a poneytail.

I am not 100% sure if I would do it again but I'm fine with the result I have now after shortening the lowest layer.

[u/1503O]

She can’t brush her hair into a ponytail. You’re going to trust this method for cutting your hair?

[u/Khayeth]

I've been doing this method for a couple years now with decent success. My hair is razor straight, and both fine and thin, so i do not do the thinning/pointing after the initial cut.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve tried cutting my hair a few times to save money. This is the method I used and it worked really well