How To Cut A Short Layers Haircut For Women - Haircut Tutorial Step By Step

Hey welcome hairbrained nation julian purlins Jiro here i'm here with my good buddy mr. Randy Taylor, he's behind the scenes filming and he's gon na be fielding your questions so today we're gon na continue on with the class of cutting foundations and I'm gon na work. Those short layers today now a lot of different ways that we could go about short layers. You know, there's a couple things. You know that I want to talk about as we go through it first. You know looking at where we separate the party when we're the guiding the top into the sides. Now you know what our mannequin here we have a really nice hairline, but you know taking into consideration what the hairline looks like, how far it recedes back. I want to work with the natural shape of the widow's peak in through the front so take in that area right off of the side and then, following that curvature back through following the round of the head into the crown area. Now you can see. I just have a couple pieces that fell down now, if I want to incorporate them into the top, because I'm also gon na be working with a little bit of disconnection, which is something that I think you know you can use in a more creative way. But then also in a practical way, when you have a weaker front hairline, so there we go right so first sectioning off following the curvature of the head. Now I'm gon na start the layering through the temple area, I'm gon na be working with more of a head hugging layer, something that follows the head shape really nicely. So the initial sectioning is gon na be just slightly curved, but mostly vertical starting out in the front, and then I'm gon na set the length through the sides. Based on how close and how short I want that to sit now, you can see the length really clearly the section from that angle and now keeping my fingers flat to the head shape right. So I could AnnaLynne just a little bit and still consider it layers, but once I start to get you know a more dream angle to the curvature of the head, then we start to fall into a heavier graduation right. So with that, something that I could do that could look really nice, but we're gon na work with layers today. So I'm gon na keep the angle quite flat and then layer into the natural hairline, and you can see right there. It falls with just a little bit extra length and softness through the edge and then, when I comb it down, you don't see any start of a buildup of weight to it, so sitting really close, really flat to the head shape. Now, if I did have a head shape that tend to recess a little bit more in through this area, you know the graduation, I might adjust the angle, so I could work the same technique and the same approach. I should say you know with a lot of different head shapes, and then you just learn how to adjust the angle accordingly. Now, as I start to work from the front towards the back, I want to just comb from my new section into the previous into the guideline and then follow that angle down really cleanly. Now you can start to see you know just that weightless progression. Alright, our first question for you, Mario okay, this tension play yeah, Mario with this and with this length I think just trying to stay consistent and even you know more of a moderate form of tension. You know enough tension to control the hair, but not so much that I'm stretching it or pulling the skin away from the scalp. You know, which is two things that you really need to. You know be careful with, especially when you're working, you know with your shorter lengths, because that tension might be enough to alter the shape in a negative way. You know so I want to comb at working with the fine teeth of the comb and just get everything really even, but you cannotice the hands really relaxed, I'm not pulling. You know excessively tight, I'm not you know tensing, my fingers, you know excessively tight and trying to get tension once I start to feel tension in my forearm right. I know that my hands too tight, so I'm just just enough to hold the hair in place and just allowing the weight of the hand right to apply and moderate again a moderate form of tension, but good question. You know - and I know a lot of you know a lot of people. A lot of stylists you know will ask about what tension is the appropriate. You know what tension should I be working with. If and I was to generalize it like one length, you want to use your minimal okay layering, you can use a little bit more of your heavy. You know tension, but again you don't want the skin to pull away from the scalp. It'S going to alter the you know how clean the line is and then graduations you're gon na work with your most medium kind of tensions. Yes, I try, you know, try not to for those that watch me, you know, cut, hair and, and you know, have taken some of my classes. You know I try to keep things relatively logical and not over complicated just for the sake of complicating it all right again so over the rechtin just slightly forward, and just that combing from the back of the section towards the previous is gon na. Be enough because, again when the hair is this short, you know any little motion you know: that's over exaggerated over exaggerated can alter the shape and when the hair is short really gon na have to remember your margin for error is much less. If I'm out here, you know in the one you know section, if it's a sixteenth of an inch longer you're, not gon na notice it as much, but when you're this close everything makes you know such a difference, it's much more magnified. So you see the sections haven't changed. They stay that vertical diagonal. Now that I'm behind the hairline, I'm gon na go all the way into the nape area, and with this you know, with the doll head, I'm working from more of a graduated Bob kind of shape. So I do already have some shortness in through the edge. Well, you know, but we try to you know we try to be environmentally conscious as much as possible and recycle the doll heads and get as many haircuts as we can. You know. I know you guys that go out and buy doll heads. You also realize you know they're not cheap, so this will be probably one of, if not the last haircut on this doll head. So if you were noticing, I went from flat flat to angling in right. So I'm still following the head shape so in the air it may look like. I have a graduated angle with my fingers, but again it's parallel to the head. If my angle exceeded the curvature of the head best graduation, but as long as I'm parallel to the shape of the head is still, I would consider it layering. You know you can see I'm going to spin around for you guys right where that section takes me right, stays parallel. All the way through. You know good way to check it. Look at the top of the section. You know you can see that it's weightless, but it's uniform right, I'm just combing it as well. Everything falls into place really nicely. You can come it forward, make sure everything falls really uniform and then again following that section now at this point I have to start to really pay more attention to the curvature from the front to the back and just depending on the curvature of the head. You know the more symmetric it is the more I can follow the curvature if the occipital bone is quite heavy or more dominant. I need to take that in consideration if the area of the curvature that we generally refer to as the mastoid or, if you just think about the curvature, you know where the head starts to curve. If this is more recessed, I need to over direct in this area a little bit more so where the head tends to recede in I'll use a little bit more over direction. But then, as the head starts to project out I'll come more straight out. So it's kind of like a counterbalance system. You know, and that's one of the things why every you know time we do short layers like this. You know it's slightly different, because the head shape is going to be different following the same curvature into the nape area and taking that as clean as possible right right down to the bottom hairline. Now I have a couple more sections before the head starts to project out into the occipital, so this is the area that I will over direct the most within the haircut in that transition. Thank You, Tristan. You know living out here in sunny Southern California, keeps us much healthier. As you know, my friends up in Toronto, just kidding Tristan hope all is good up there. Okay, so you see that curve that you're starting to follow through you know and when we're thinking about the over direction, you also need to realize every different area of the head. The over direction may increase slightly or it may decrease you know so on paper. We do things like in to the previous, and you know it's consistently done on a piece of paper, but on the head and when we're dealing with you know a head shape. That is probably not going to be perfectly symmetric. You know again, we need to identify the curvature and then work the over direction. Accordingly, it's a couple more sections, maybe one actually, maybe one more and then you can see I'm past the curve right right where the comb comes out. The head starts to project out a little bit more and again following the curvature of the head vertically into the nape line. I'D be no different if the hair was long. I'D be doing exactly the same thing now in through this area, where the head is the widest. My over direction will be just slightly less, I'm just going to get that out of the way, so you can see the area really cleanly. Now this coming from the front towards the back a little bit stronger and then a little bit softer on the coaming towards towards the front so again, because I'm minimizing the forward / direction because I'm at a wider point of the head shape everybody hypnotized nobody's asking Nice, hey, that's all right, you're, just saying that yeah, I'm explaining it! Well enough! That'S good! You know! I'M just talking to Randy before we started we're gon na be in Chicago next week, myself, Randy Gerard will be there I'll, be there working with my friends from sport. Clips Randy and Gerard will be there with obviously harebrained and you guys are doing drivers told me last night you're doing an elevate show which will be really exciting. I'M gon na hope to be able to do that with you guys, that'll be fun though he's you know always nice to go to the ABS show seems like I've been spending a lot of time in the Midwest over the last couple weeks, which has been fun Except for the cold, so there we go all right, yep, so just to get a nice uniform, head, hugging layer when I know when to stop is just when the top of that section passes the center. Once I get to that point, I've gone far enough because now I'm gon na come back the other way, yep question from Suzanne yeah. This thing is this recommended for curly, hair or preferred on straight hair. Not curly hair would be awesome. Now I mean whenever we're working on curls, we have to you, know, anticipate you know the reaction of what's gon na happen, you know, is it gon na bounce back a little bit when you're cutting short hair or when you're cutting curly? Hair short? I should say you know you do need to be careful of where you cut it, and sometimes you know if you hit an awkward length, the hair doesn't lay nicely you know, especially if it's a tight curl. So you want to leave the length long enough so that it still kind of falls a little bit rather than cutting it just prior to the curl, where it tends to stand out. But aside from getting the length right, you know I mean something like this: can be really nice. You know really beautiful. On curly hair, you know you can do the same thing. You know with finer hair, it's just it's just choosing the right length for the hair texture. A couple of just comment: yep, Jose Rivera, says it's so satisfying to see the slice shape appear: fantastic, hey! Well, thank you guys for the compliments and what's up SID, I loved your post today about the Amish. That was awesome. I did not know that. So if you guys, who spent some time in Amish, we sure have, if some of you guys are unfamiliar with my buddy SID, I check them out on instagram at Sid sepang Academy, and he has, I don't know if all of us label it correctly, but his Friday, facts for barbering, which is great, alright, so now working back the other way. So I I want to start the same. I want to take the same type of section, so I'm taking a slightly vertical diagonal section I'll. Do that again so getting the hair combed in the direction then there's using the tip of the comb to draw that line nice and straight a good angle here now the only real difference is my hand. Position comes from above and I'm cutting upward. So, on the first side, my fingertips were up, the scissor comes from the top down, so now, on the second side, my fingertips are down, and this scissor comes from the top or from the bottom up. The key is getting the right angle, so I want to make sure that I get the right angle and then work that in at the same length that I did on the first side. Now what I use to help me guide. The length is looking at the head shape, looking at the cheekbone looking at the eye socket looking at the forehead, so these are real. Three key points you know of the facial features that I'm going to utilize when helping create the length that I need to cut it. I'M also on this side. I just noticed my elbow was a little high, so the lower the doll head. So I don't have to turn over as much so I just want to be able to keep my hand in a natural position and then work from the bottom up anything when I start doing this and twisting my body, you know I'm a little bit. You know offline vertically, so lower the head and then you know get the angle easily. So I mean Jenny right, yeah, okay, so Jenny. So I generally start on the side, not always where my scissors coming from the top down. So when I teach I don't say, left-handers do the right. Right-Handers do the left it way too confusing most people, including myself, you know once they start thinking. Well, what's my left what's my right, but I do recognize that on this side the scissor comes down. So my hand comes from underneath and lifts the hair. My scissor comes from on top and cuts downwards, so I'm cutting downhill right now to do the same angle. On the other side, now my holding hand comes from above, and my scissor hand comes from underneath upwards right. So when I'm cutting on the one side, I'm here on the second side, I'm here so essentially your scissors are just in the other hand and you're. Just oh, it's the same thing, so anything right, yeah you you and you would be here. You would be holding up and then cutting down right. So it's the same thing. So don't think left, don't think right. Think fingers up fingers down. Think scissor coming from underneath scissor coming from on top, you know, people overcomplicate teaching. You know left-handed people, it's exactly the same thing. There'S the angle we meet from India, a nice welcome. Thank you. Are you welcome Jenny, love to see our international hairbrained community? You know. Watch you from all over the globe was it last week that you guys had the hva Awards right, Randy mm-hmm, so I'm sure you had a lot of people coming in from all over. Didn'T you check the first section then check it again at the back of the ear you're good. You know - and I think that's kind of something also you know if you are, if there's any uncertainty check, because there's no point in going on any further, because what's gon na happen is, if you go the further you go along just the more you're gon na Have to change you know, so I've worked with people at all different levels of experience and comfort, and sometimes we do one section. One section. One section one section you know just really depends on the person and I don't think there's any right or wrong or you have to be able to do three sections, the more comfortable you are, and you know the more you can focus on the one side. Yeah. You know the more efficient and quicker you're going to get through it, but I mean I wouldn't say: there's any right or wrong to how often you check check us often as you need again once I reach behind the ear. My sections go all the way through keeping my finger angle flat for the area above the ear and then below the ear, my knuckles angle, in following the curvature of the head. So, as I was saying on the first side, it's not really graduation because my knuckles aren't exceeding the angle of the head shape they're parallel to the vertical curvature of the head. So it's still layering. Now, once I get behind the ear in through this region, the head does tend to flatten out. So this is the area where I will, if need be over direct slightly more. You know a lot of times. I see this area sunken in too much, which makes the sides look too wide makes the occipital bone look too wide. So we need to take into consideration the head shape and then counterbalance it. You know so where the heads, the widest you, tend to take in a little bit closer and then, where the head is the narrowest you tend to build. You know, understanding that everything does blend so cut that flat area first through the top. Follow that up come back to the curvature and take the guideline from the previous and follow that inward and then just making sure that I don't leave too much of a transition between the top and the bottom. Well, while you're doing this next time. If somebody didn't want to bring you into their salon or even to train with you, take a workshop with dip, how would they get in touch with it? Well, um, what you, what you would do is you'd go to either my Instagram, which is at Julian pearl or go to my website, which is gold, pygmy and you know, grab my email off of that and then shoot me an email all the workshops that I Do, for you know, in salon education or for distributors or for one-on-ones is personalized right. So I don't have you know a Broadway play. That'S rehearsed that I go into a salon and perform. I like to talk to the people in the salon and do a consultation. You know and talk to the staff talk to the owner, talk to the education director and really customize a format. That'S gon na benefit the salon or the individual. You know so again I look at it like you know. One size does not fit all so you know it comes down to first contacting me and then you know discussing what your needs are and then building a format. That'S gon na really, you know help you or your staff. You know, and it's definitely I specialize in cutting hair. You can see. I work with a very you know: geometric precision based cutting system, which, for me, I find you know, gives me the accuracy to build shape all right so again, looking at the uniform, layering just combing it through making sure it blends looking at the shape of it. Alright, so now what I'm left with is this top area right? So I'm gon na start out. I'M gon na just comb this back now there's a lot of different things. I'M gon na cut it short guys right, but there's a lot of different things that you could do with this. This is kind of you know your building blocks, for you know your longer disconnected tops. You know this is the building blocks of like your pompadours, and things like that. You know, which is great shapes. It all comes down to that initial sectioning that I first talked about. You know working with the curvature you know of the head shape so that the hair on the top wants to go and will stay. I'M not not this length, obviously, but it'll stay up. Oh yeah! Yes, great now, if I didn't have lots of curls here, it's really beautiful to leave the top a little bit longer. You know or crop it down. You know curly hairs funny! It'S like that in between length going back to the question before. Can you do this? On curly hair, you know yes but the hardest, and I think the most awkward is that in-between either there has to be long enough to expand, or it has to be short enough to sit on the head. You know it's like when you kind of get into the middle ground that it's a bit awkward, oh we're gon na pixie. Oh yes, so we're gon na go pretty short, you know, but you can see. That would be the idea you know of kind of like that longer pompadour, or because I cut this last. It already has a nice shape like give myself a little compliment there right. So you could keep like this kind of disconnect disc. This connected kind of Bob shape right. You know and have like this asymmetric look, there's lots of different things you can do and it comes down to just getting that structure. You know on the underneath now, like I said with this, I'm gon na cut. It short. I'M in the mood to cut not blow dry, so I'm gon na work more horizontally through the top area and I'm gon na get through this crown. You got that view alright, and now I'm gon na use my guideline from both sides and the back making sure that I comb up. I'M gon na spin her for you Randy, so I'm coming up away from the crown to make sure I don't cut this too short right and if you overextend it and it doesn't connect initially, that's alright, okay, so I'll blend it through. So now I'm using the guide line from the side and I'm going to start following the curvature of the head again, so cutting a curved angle following the head shape and it should blend on to the first side onto the second side. Actually alright, so you see that blends right into my layering. Now, let's say I over directed it up quite a bit. You know if there's, if there's any hesitation into cutting it too short push forward right. It'S just gon na leave the crown too long. So now, once I get that I'm gon na go back through vertically, you see I built that corner there right. So you learn to do that from learning how to cut a classic square layer right. So now, with the corner, I'm going to just bevel that off to the right amount, I mean certain textures, maybe a little more certain head shapes. I might need to leave a little bit more of a corner there right. So there's no cut this much cut the right amount for the head, shape the texture, the length and the look, but you can see. I mean everything's within a sixteenth of an inch guys. You know precision haircutting on a good day, we're better than 1/16 of an inch of perfection. You know long or short, all right so now, once I'm happy with how that city says that nice little curvature to it just expand that up a little bit right. So now I'm at the high point of the head again right, see you see right where the head comes right, where the comb comes off is where I took my section so now the head starts to round through. So now I'm going to come straight out a little bit more because again, the widest point of the head I'll use the least amount of over direction. Lots of compliments coming! Oh thank you guys glad you're enjoying what was the last. What was the last one? We did Randy because you were you, you guys were getting ready for the HPA. Is it at long beach? That'S been a couple weeks, yeah, maybe two weeks or so yeah. First week of March, there you go, but generally you know we try to get a couple of. You know the classic haircuts in per month. So those of you that may be new. You know to what we're doing today. You know this all started with what we labeled the classic cutting foundation or the classic cutting series, and we really wanted to go through. You know: Randy myself. Gerard you know, go through. You know the the fundamentals of precision geometric haircutting. That is just you know so important in being able to create beautiful shapes, you know and showing how to use them in modern variations, but really staying focused on the fundamentals. You know in the classics - and you know I've been teaching for quite a while, and what I find is you know, hairdressers that are newer to the game, really need this hairdressers who have been doing it for a while appreciate it right, and you know it's always Good to step back and focus on the fundamentals: yeah Melanie is asking what your favorite style of scissors is. Okay, I generally work with a brand of scissors called B knack, and you know you can find them on the Internet. Bmac comm, there's also on hair brained. Pro Shop there's a couple pairs of BMAC. I have a pair on my website limited. This is a limited edition B Mac which beautiful five and a half inch. You know, but California yeah venez, California's right, but you know beautifully handcrafted, Japanese scissors. I was at the factory not too long ago and saw how the scissors themselves were manufactured. You know I was like a kid in a candy store. Alright, I said I felt like Charlie from Willy Wonka. Do you remember Baha Baha, MA Ramon ski from ceci in downtown? He just said hello, yes, yeah hello. There took took me a second but yeah. Okay, so should i dampen down the hair a little bit that she'll start to put some hairs from the hair mist in there? This is de de from feminists mmm. You know so be great blow dry lotion, you for longer short hair, but really gives a nice finish. I also when I'm starting to get towards the finishing of the haircuts. You know I like to use this to dampen it down because it starts to layer the product on a little bit and you know gives a little bit of time for the product to absorb into the hair all right now, so you can see where the layering Is stopped in through just as I get to the top of the curve. Now I'm gon na change up a little bit guys. So that's a good shot. So you can see that right where the section is so there's where I stopped all right and that's where the length is now what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na start? I'M gon na take a vertical section through the top area. Now this is good to control the shape in a fundamental way, but also this is good, because if I do have a situation where I have a weak or receding hairline, I can start to pull up right to maintain a little bit of extra length in that Area, whether it's a guy's haircut, whether it's a lady's haircut, just if you have a weak hairline, this is a really nice way to approach it. So I'm using the guideline from where I left my layers and now I'm starting to lift and I'm gon na pull just a little bit away from the top to leave a softer front area. So you can see you know just right there. I can control the length of the fringe really easily just by how much I pull my fingers up away from that area right. So it gives me a more direct vision of how long to keep this, but again also it allows me to pull away from the recession the natural recession. If I need to leave some in there now, the more I pull up the more length I'm going to leave through that corner, so you can see, as the head starts to curve, I'm lifting up, you know pretty strongly towards the center and you can start to See how that length now in through here starts to drop down slightly, so it just you know, has a very light disconnection in a very fundamental. You know practical way and again the reason would be you know to create length in that area for whether it's part of the design or if it's needed for a receding, hairline right, see now from there I can kind of you have some hair. I can detail. It'S not finished yet, but I left the length that's needed there. Ya know lots of thank yous right now from people who are learning from you. You know that's why we do it man, it's kind of funny, because you know, I think, with the hair brain the the people who are involved in hair brained, the people who follow hair brains. You know we all do this to to share. You know to share knowledge, you know with whether it be younger hairdressers, newer hairdressers, you know, or you know, just sharing our perspective on something that we love to do so you know I appreciate, I appreciate all the thank-yous and without sounding corny and cheesy. You know I mean we're doing it, for you know for the for the audience out there. You know for the people who are really interested in precision craft, hairdressing, okay, so there's the basic shape and again I haven't really refined a couple. Little strays there. I haven't refined the front area at all. I'M gon na dry it just a little bit. You have a 69 year old hairdresser right here. Ah, that's great! That'S a lot! You know, hey me too me too, so again guys using davon s. This is the oil right beautiful product, you know light in the hair, but gives a beautiful finish. You know I want to apply it. I could apply this dry, but I wanted to apply it with a little bit of dampness in the hair because I think it you know, distributes a little bit easier, but at the same time the products very light also smells great, always right, really simple right. So this is a nine row right, so this is a vest brush ceramic right. This is what, with the wood finish very you know similar to the brushes that I can set soon made really popular Daniel with that was a medicine hello. There rose so now. I want to just work in a circular motion. I'M not trying to you know, force the hair to do anything that doesn't want to do, give us a very wash and we're working back and forth. You know, so we refer to this as rapping. It'S what I was called when I learned how to blow-dry - that's that's in, but ultimately what I'm doing is I'm just smoothing the hair out not trying to alter the natural growth pattern all right. What'S up Herman very cool, you got a lot of people watching a lot, a lot of familiar familiar names and people yeah this brush. I mean, as the story has it you know, this is very similar to a brush that Denman came out with years and years and years ago, and you know the story that I was told was. It was developed by Sassoon with Denman and he wanted to create a brush that resembled combs all working together. So you would have nine combs onto a curvature right because, ultimately, you comb wet hair. You brush dry hair right, so this brush was created to resemble a series of combs to not damage the hair and allow for a nice natural finish now. There are ways that you can use this brush to smooth out force or textures. I don't have the hair really to demonstrate that, but I definitely have done in some other of the videos that I've done. If you go on hairbrained under video archives and if you either just search my name or search classic cutting foundation. You'Ll find some of the haircuts we've done, everything from long layers to bobs to graduate of bobs get a little bit more. You know working with disconnections and things like that. So just a lot of different. You know variations on beautiful, hair, [ Applause ]. Now you should definitely do something like this. Also, it's like a paddle brush, you're, like a Mason Pearson or or best makes a really. You know a nice combination of natural and nylon bristles that blow dries the hair. If the hair is a little bit coarser all right so now the finishing of it, so I'm gon na start out with the front area, and you know just seeing that the hair goes nicely off to the side. Now. What I want to do is I wanted to just start to you know lightly visually blend this in right or but not completely, but just kind of soften the disconnection. So, with the hair going in to its natural position, I'm gon na take my scissor and right, where the hair is the shortest just above that I'm gon na start to lightly slice. Through now, when I slice through you notice, I'm opening and closing this is or a little bit, I'm not dragging it through. So if you hear that nasty sound of hair being ripped, you want to open and close the scissors a little bit more or get your scissors sharpened, but you can see it just starts to you know: make that line. Look a little bit less definite. So you know again, I was talking about earlier. You know if you have a weaker hairline, you know, so it's I'm, leaving this a little bit longer and heavier to then refine and if you look at it see how this blends through really lightly, but look at underneath the underneath is still shorter. You know so you have that little shape underneath there I'm just gon na lift this up off the eye. Even though it's a doll head, I don't want to poke her in the eye. I try to do things as much as possible. You know as if it was a living breathing person, because you know if you can do it on a doll head, but it's not realistic to doing it on a human being. What'S the point, I don't necessarily want to be better at cutting doll, heads that I am at cutting humans all right, so now I'm gon na come over to the other side, so you start to bring this shape through so again, just opening and closing this scissor Just very slightly and then working into the length in through the corner, Jennifer's asking yeah yeah: that's you have that one at the pro shop every. I think you have a nice another color, that's like a powder blue, which is really pretty yeah so either or you know, if you're, if you're, that natural kind of woodsy person - this is great. You want something a little bit more synthetic and tightline yeah again lifting off the skin when I'm pointing into it stay away from the face, especially around the eyes. All right now around the ear should be pretty good, because I wanted to leave I elevated slightly. I wanted to yeah. I wanted to leave a little bit of softness there, but I'm gon na go through and just check it make sure everything's good make it a little bit more delicate. So the angle of the scissor is very parallel to the hair so that I'm not taking much out I'm just making the line looking a little bit more translucent now in through the back, I have you know, cut this. The hair line from the last haircut Sano has changed in this from a you know, kind of like a graduation. The graduated Bob look into a short layer, ID love to come to Virginia Tony. Oh, my Italian brother. I was just out by in DC area, which was fun. You know guys. So as far as education, I mean what I do is I travel and I I come to you to do education. You know if you have a salon or if you have a space. That'S pretty easy to book you, it's simple, mannequin, see you next week, yeah! If you plan, I had this really easy, a reasonable. That'S you train yeah. You know and I find it's more conducive to today's mentality. You know people, you know, I think would rather have you come to them and it's also more cost-efficient. If I come to you like you said, I could train your team up to 16 people. You know and a hands-on session. I mean how much would it cost to bring 16 people here to LA? We can all hang out in my garage and go swimming after, but you know I mean it might not. It might not be the most cost-efficient thing you know. So it's really easy to book me to get me to come out to you right. So there's the disconnection guys now. I did leave this side a little bit longer, just like this right, so you can see the disconnection just between that top area and sometimes that's all you need to make the difference like I said if that temple area is receding or if it doesn't have a Lot of density to it, just that little bit is all you need, but now what I am gon na do is I'm gon na come through, and I'm gon na lift that up just gon na point through that a little bit Joe sighs, you really fancies, you Don'T make me blush she's a fancy kind of guy, and I don't make me blush I'll - cut my finger. Okay and just tip it through the edge just to soften the line a little bit, and this would be like the most mild form of texturizing into the hair. These are. These are six eight? Yes, yes, these I'm giving props thing. I'M veggie! Remember you mentioned this. These were made by a friend of mine, his name is Brent and he has a company out here called infinity, shears infinity, shears coms. I only get my scissors sharpened by Brent and Brent is the official b-max rpenter and the only one in North America that is licensed to sharpen be Max's errs, so he made these scissors. You know a few years back, I don't think they're available anymore, but I mean he's a true scissor guy. You know so definitely check out the website and if you do need your scissors sharpened, that would be where I would recommend to send them. It'S in Torrance. California, but you know anymore, you have to send your scissors somewhere to get them sharpened. When I used to work in New York, Mel used to come to the salon. That was awesome, you know Mel is from sure world international for you. You know for you, folks that are out there on the East Coast based out of New York after many years, there are professionals who still pay attention to detail and continuing to master their craft. Thank you. Well, you know about about you over the years that you, you seem to be taking your time, but you get things done so much faster yeah and first of all I mean thank you. That is that's like the most awesome compliment ever, but I mean I love. What I do, first of all, so it's fun to me, you know, cutting hair is fun. I know that you know when we're working in the salon. You know things can get a bit hectic. You know when you have clients piled up one on top of the other, but you know what I've learned you know it took a while wasn't always like this man, you know, but what I learned was you know I mean being calm and working smart and working Slowly and I get done quicker, you know I was before like stressed - oh my god. Oh my god, you know and I was like well. How is that helping my situation? It'S not it's actually making it worse. You know. So it's just like you know, just relax, chill it'll get there it'll be fine, you know, but you know you have to love it yeah. You have to love what you do. I love cooking. Well, you have a good teacher Charlie. What might my son teaches me? He teaches me patience every single day guys, but you know it's like I mean I love cooking, you know so it's like winning. When I cook it's the Italian in me. You know it's an event. You know it's fun. It'S like we sat around, I mean Gerard. Was just here, you know and we sat around and we cooked and we ate and you know through throw a little wine in there and you call it a night. You know not when you're cutting hair, though guys, but definitely when you're, cooking, yeah so yeah. It'S just a fun, you know just fun shape. You know nothing, I'm crazy! You know I like hair to be pretty whether it's a bit extreme or it's. You know a little bit more classically done. You know it needs to be pretty. I don't like necessarily to do things for shock value, because once you get past the shock, I mean you know, what's it what's it look like yeah sign wax something a little bit heavier to put in the hair. You know just taking a tiny bit at a time and then get it all throughout the hair. You know I could work with my fingertips work. You know a little bit heavier to flatten the hair. You know work with the palms, get it through the front. You know do that little hairdresser, pinch mm-hmm. I remember people be like what you call that on my own, but I find that it always looks the best when it just falls itself. You know so very cool guys. So again I wanted to focus on. You know shorter layered haircut, you know called a pixie. You know you caught a crop, certain different terminology. I started out through the sides, and I wanted to do little like head hugging right so close to the head, taking my sections vertically diagonal right and then making sure that the angle I cut was flat to the head. So I didn't want to angle in and create that kind of fullness, so keeping my knuckles out a little bit shorter through the top of the section, leaving a little bit of a longer edge work that around from one side round to the other use. Those guidelines. Remember crucial areas in the crown combed up to make sure I didn't cut the crown too short, and then I connected these two up until the head started to curve forward. Once I reached that point where it starts to curve forward, I then shift into an opposite section, so the section was kind of like a tea right. The top was like this and then the front was like this right, so perpendicular to one another. What that allowed me to do was to keep a little bit of length in through the recession areas by lifting up which your guys, when you do your short, guy's haircuts key you follow the head shape. Man, you're gon na create a nice little Peninsula there. What'S up ready? Just before you closed, I know you're about to say peace out yeah. I just wanted to pass this note on yeah, I'm a kid named Pete Alan Cooper yep. He just said he's about to graduate from Empire beauty school cooling days and he's been following you all along and he's hoping someday. He could shadow you if you did want to like come to a show where your honors, that Mike actually just like fine, you, yes introduce yourself yeah it email me introduce yourself. I mean I don't know where you live, where you're at things like that, but if it, if it can work out and I'm doing something you're more than welcome - and you know I'd love to always help. You know the inspire the you know, guys that are still learning how to do it in beauty, schools, good luck on your test, man, so cool, but I'm not thinking thanks for bringing that up before I did close out because again you know, I was gon na, Say: peace out, you know, I hope you guys like to shape, write a little short layered cuts. You know go back to the archives. You'Ll, you know find lots of different variations on different fundamentals that hopefully will help you out. Man thanks hairbrained. Thank you all for watching.