Fundamental Square One Length Bob Haircut Tutorial

What'S up guys welcome to today's video, so guess what, today, what we're gon na be cutting is a fundamental haircut. We'Re gon na cut a square one length haircut. One length haircuts are not only popular but they're. Also, a great exercise for bettering your haircutting skills, so hope you guys like the video. Let'S get started, oh and if you haven't signed up for FSC on-demand, yet you have to go sign up. It'S FSC, on-demand calm! All of these videos that I'm creating go on there first, so you're actually hearing about this video later than everybody else on there, it's over seven thousand hairdressers on there already so go to FSC, on-demand comm create an account. It'S free. All the videos are free. Everything on there is free. You can even purchase anything on FSC on demand, and once you have your account, you can download the FSC on demand app and you can see all these different videos from all these different artists on there. We'Ve got video collections on that, so much cool stuff, that's getting uploaded every single day, so go check it out. Fsc on demand, calm, alright, here's the video what's up guys welcome to today's video. So what we're gon na be focusing on in this video is basic. Haircutting, so this is a one length square haircut. The reason I wanted to do this video, it's not that it's the most exciting haircut, but I think the process of getting to the end result is exciting and it's also a great exercise for you to do to really work on your sectioning. The cleanliness of your sectioning, your precision, cutting working with little tension, there's multiple things in this haircut that can make you a better hair cutter. So, let's not focus on the end result as much, even though it's gon na be a nice one length, long bob, which is a pretty popular haircut nowadays, but I'm just really focusing on being clean when you work. So the sectioning is pretty simple: go straight down the center center parting straight down center back and then I'm gon na draw a vertical line right at the division point which separates the front in the back of the head right down to the ear. So that gives me four quadrants. The four quadrants are a basic beauty school haircut. I section that off and then I go from the occipital bone, which is right where my comb is right there over to behind the ear, and that's going to section off my first panel that I'm gon na be cutting at the very bottom. So one thing I want you to notice is my sectioning: I'm keeping everything nice and tight and clean and out of the way, that's just gon na give me the most consistent end result. So now, as I get into the cutting part, I'm working from the occipital bone down and I'm working with comb tension now the reason I'm working with comb tension is because a lot of times people will put thing, put the hair in their fingers and they'll hold It super tight and they'll cut their line and it bounces back like a lot of people, talk about calyx in the back or density in the back. How do they get the best line? Well, what you're gon na do is use comb tension cut your line. Don'T pull the hair from where it wants to live? Naturally, and once you have that line cut and you get your entire haircut done, then you go in and you cut it dry and you really define the line which I'll show you guys later, but from occipital bone down. I use comb tension then, as the head starts to peel away, I don't. I no longer have to worry about elevation and by saying that I mean from occipital bone down. If I put my fingers in the hair, not only do I have to worry about pulling the hair too tight, but I'm also elevating the hair a slight bit. So if you're trying to get that nice clean one length feel to the haircut or a nice sharp line, then you don't want to elevate the hair at all. Now, as I work from occipital bone up, then the head shape starts to peel away. So I can still keep that true. Zero degree feel by slightly elevating the hair. So I don't have to worry about having my fingers in there. It also becomes a lot easier to cut it and it doesn't make the hair feel like such kind of dead weight. Just hanging over because it's not passing over too many corners, which we've talked about in past videos, so as I'm going through, I'm still using the wide teeth of the comb. I section my hair through and now we're talking about a one length square haircut now. What makes this haircut square is? I cut a nice straight line by over directing the hair all back to this one line, and I cut it straight. What that's going to do is start to push a little bit of weight into the corner right the ear, then, what I'm gon na do is I'm gon na cut this another straight line as I work on the side of the head and that's gon na really Connect the two lines and make this square shape. So what I was told a long time ago when I, when I really started to learn precision haircutting, is when you're working with square or any kind of shape, you're, basically looking down onto the head. So if you were standing on top of it standing above the head looking down on it, what is the outline perimeter shape? Look like if it's square you're gon na have that line coming across the back. You'Re gon na have a line coming across the sides, and that makes the square shape if you're working, triangularly everything's being over directed back to the center and it's pushing that weight to the front. So you start to see that triangle kind of starting to appear in the outline has nothing to do with the layering the graduation any of that stuff throughout the haircut. So I'm continuing through I'm keeping that slight bit of elevation keeping everything in my fingers. As I work and then I'll go through and I'll cut my outline layer but notice my over direction now this is the biggest thing that people, I think, I'm not gon na say fail on, but the biggest discovery that they make as they're cutting hair is they Take the corner away, so they start to create almost like a round shape because they follow the head shape around now: squares, not for everybody. But if you're trying to really create a strong foundation that square look, then you've got to make sure that you don't round that corner so notice. I bring the hair down and then everything comes back to me in that line, see my over direction as I kind of pull it back, I'm pulling it back because I'm keeping that line straight in the back. So that is the key thing. Definitely, focus on that and cutting these basic shapes guys is the foundation of every haircut you're ever gon na do in the salon. So for me, learning these basic shapes is the best exercise that you can do. You don't have to get all fancy on your mannequin head, just go through and really cut these basic shapes. Learn your partings, your sectioning, your elevation, your tension, all that stuff can happen on a mannequin head and then, as you, you know, get into the salon and you have guests and you're working with for hair types. Then you know the fundamentals, the mechanics, everything that you need to have success in the salon. You don't have to be afraid. You don't have to worry about what texture or what density comes in, so that you can see that bold straight line in the back now as I go through here, I can really decide for a square haircut. I'M gon na go through and cut a straight line. If I want to now go triangular, I could just keep over directing everything back to that line and extend that line into the front kind of push it a little bit longer in the front round. I would just follow the round of the head, but because we're cutting square I'm keeping these square lines, I'm bringing everything down and I'm gon na cut from that corner where we push that weight. I'M gon na cut a straight line across now, again, not using tension until I get a little bit further up and sometimes because of the density on the side of the head, and in this case, in this haircut for the majority of the time I'm using just Comb tension combing it down and sometimes like that, not using any tension at all, just letting it live free, but now, as the head starts to curve away and we get above the eye, the eyebrow that head shape pushes away. So I need to control the hair. A little bit so I do light tension in my fingers still not totally elevating the hair, but lifting it slightly, because the head shape is peeling away. It gives me a little bit more freedom to elevate a little bit and then I go through and I cut my line, so you can see combing the hair making sure I'm really consistent. A lot of people are like well. Why would you comb that many times the reason you comb that many times is because the hair you have to make sure that every single piece of hair is coming down, especially in a one length haircut. You want to make sure all that hair is consistently combed down, because if it's not and you cut it, and then you go to Rico Matt you're gon na have those long hairs coming through. If you've ever had a haircut or cut a haircut and at the end you see long straggly, hair sticking out it's because you or your hairdresser didn't comb consistently enough and get the hair down. So they it's not that they miss the hair. They cut their line. But then, as they comb, the hair down more hair got detangled it's longer than the the line that they cut. So we're finishing up just going through same exact thing on this side. It'S the other thing about the square cut and cutting a foundational cut. Is it's very balanced, um throughout, so both sides, the back everything is the same, but it really puts off a nice sheet and, like I said at the beginning, this is a pretty popular haircut, so a lot of people are wearing a bob. This long, the reason I cut a little bit longer is I'm gon na. Do a series of these videos, I'm gon na cut a graduation in the next one, also using Paul Mitchell, super skinny serum to blow dry and flat wrap. This just helps blow-dry the hair faster. It'S a serum makes it hair really shiny silky, and I wanted that for my end result. So this is gon na, be a series guys, so I'm gon na go through and I want to cut a graduated bob on her as well. So I wanted to show you guys. Multiple different things triangular looks really just get back into the fundamentals, because that's what haircutting is all about. It'S putting the pieces together. It'S you know the one thing that you look at when you watch a haircutting video or whatever you're, watching, like all of the haircuts, that everybody does comes from these fundamental cuts. So it's really important to know it's important to practice. It get a mannequin and practice through. I flat wrap the hair around the head and made sure I didn't have any part lines in there and then I went through with the Paul Mitchell, neuro iron and just smooth it out and got it ready for this part of the cut. So now this is the detail work I go through with that. Just the tip of my scissor and I cut my my outline and a lot of people try to get that outline right away in the wet cut and the most important thing is to just do your cut. Do your foundational cut and then in the dry, cut, go through and do your outline so use a Paul Mitchell invisible where it's a new undone texture spray, just spray that on just give me a little bit of hold. But you can see the corners that build up in that square haircut, that's what's cool, you see the shape kind of unfold and then now I use the texture spray to really build in some texture and expand the shape. But you can see kind of how it builds up at the bottom. That'S the one length feel gives it so hope. You guys like this video, definitely check out all the videos that we have to offer on FSC on demand. Hope you guys are enjoying it and I'll see you guys in the next