Tutorial: How-To Cut Extensions Properly

It'S real life, hey everyone, danielle Kiesling here with great links to USA, and I'm here with my friend Leslie a can Anthony. Can King Anthony mister um so we're actually here doing a GL shared a great link state shoot on monarch lawn side and I'm doing a little extension cutting? So you know we get a lot of questions about haircutting extension, so i'm going to show you have a little tips and tricks that i like to use. So, as you can see, we're multitasking because we're on set so he's curling this setting and while I'm actually cutting, but what to just show you what I did so with the perimeter. I make sure that I can calm everything in natural fall and what I'm cutting it. I don't put any elevation, I don't put any tension, I literally just I'm holding it between my fingers and I'm going in vertical sections and point cutting. So the vertical sections are gon na, give it a nice softness and airiness. If I was going in with diagonal, I would end up taking a big chunk out and that's not what we want to do. I also advise never to cut a blunt line on the extensions unless you're really going for that real heavy look, because if you think about the way that hex tensions lay in its groupings of hair, so any bluntness is actually going to be more blunt than a Regular haircut, so I'm going in with my vertical sectioning or vertical point cutting to just keep that like line nice and soft, and once I establish the perimeter that I can move on into the interior, so that was kind of done. I just wanted to show you so when I'm cutting in the interior. One of the things that I do is I'll just kind of go in and you know, cutting extensions is a little bit more visual as well. You know, rather than section by section so I'll, go in and grab a horizontal section and then I'll make sure I calm the perimeter down. So I still have my perimeter in there. I don't want these to feel very heavy, but I definitely don't want to cut a big chunk or gap into the hair. So I make sure that I have enough perimeter there that when I go in and work in this interior that if I cut into this or cut all the way through that I'm still gon na have you know the density and the bulk on the bottom. So I'm gon na go in and I'll show you a little technique. I don't sometimes I'll slide cut it. So I'll grab random sections like this and I'll just pick it up and slide, and I'm moving my thumb and I'm just letting in that hair go right at that pivoting part of the blade, and I will come in and just peel that top off another technique That I do, if I don't want to actually create too much of a layer on the outside of the hair, is I'll grab areas that are a little bit more weight. Weighty and again, you know this is going by visual and feel I'll grab a weight or some area that feels a little dense and I'll. Take my shears - and I almost just like I'm flicking up so I'm pushing that hair as I'm taking the shears very, very small motion to just kind of diffuse again that line with taking out some of the weight. But you can see how shattered that is, and what that does is it creates more Airy feeling and it gets rid of the weight without actually putting in a layer or another line in there. So you can see how nice that just kind of blends out that area and creates a little bit more airiness. So, while we're working with color, you know if I were to slide this off, I might slide that color all the way off, and I don't want to do that. So by doing that technique I can go in and lighten that area without war. I'M gon na cut out all that color, so these are just some of the cool tips and tricks that I love to teach when I'm cutting hair extensions and you'll see more of these techniques on modern salon. And if you follow me on instagram, it's Danielle Keyes lean on Instagram and then great links, USA. So we will see you guys later.