How To Cut Your Own Hair At Home | Diy Layered Bob Haircut + Curtain Bangs!

Hey everyone. It'S ariel welcome back to another video today. I'M super excited because i am doing another diy haircut tutorial. I do already have a video like this on my channel, but i did that video like seven months ago or something so since then. My hair has changed a little bit. It'S a little bit shorter and just a little bit of a different style. So i wanted to just do another video with a slightly different style in mine, so i'm very excited to do this. Video i've been waiting patiently to film this, so yeah. Let'S just get right into the video first things. First, i have my cape here, i'm just gon na toss this on there we go. I will go ahead and show you what you are going to need. First thing is a comb i have this one, which is it kind of has like two two sides double-sided, but i always like to use teeth kind of like this width apart. So that's what i'm going to use some clips. I have two of them here. These are the best hair clips that i've used so yeah a couple of these, but you can also just use elastics. This is gross. You can use elastics if you don't have clips like this, just something to clip your hair away and so that you can section properly and then you're going to need a pair of scissors. These are professional shears and, like i said in my first hair, cutting video make sure you have a good pair of scissors because you do not want to be using kitchen scissors on your hair. I repeat, you do not want to use kitchen scissors on your hair. Don'T do it so get a good pair of scissors before you attempt this, probably the most important thing out of this whole tutorial having a good pair of scissors, i think that's it. That should be all that you need um. I do recommend having your hair, nice and straight, like mine, is right now that will just make sure that you get a nice clean line. You'Re not gon na have anything wonky, because obviously your hair was curly or wavy or anything. Besides straight um, you could end up with like just some lopsided pieces, which we don't want, of course, so yeah i recommend having straight hair, or you could also do this on wet hair. Let'S get to cutting the first thing we want to do is section our hair, so i'm just going to take one of my clips here and if you have watched any of my videos before you already know that i don't make perfect sections, i just use my Fingers to section so do not worry if your sections are not perfectly aligned as long as it's like somewhat of a straight line, you will be just fine, so i took a section right at kind of the bottom of my ear, i'll, try and show you guys. The back, so that's what i'm working with so i'm gon na wow. My hair is a lot darker than it was. When i did my last video, it might be kind of hard to see what i'm cutting, but if your hair is dark like mine and you are wearing a cape or something dark like i am, it would make it a lot easier if you wore a light. Colored shirt or a tank top or something that will just help. You see your hair a little bit better because yeah this might might make it a bit more difficult. So now that i have my section here, i'm going to actually split this in the back right. In the middle, just using my fingers again just kind of making a line down the middle like that and then we're going to work in sections, i'm just going to start on one side and i'm going to make sure i'm sitting straight. So what you want to do is i'm not looking straight. Am i okay, so comb all the hairs straight down? Don'T angle yourself at all like i am. I am not being a good example right now, so comb straight down sort of like that, and then i'm going to i'm going to take about half an inch, maybe a bit less so just going under my finger, i'm holding nice and tight not really moving my Hand at all, and then just going under my fingers and trimming that hair off just gon na go over that last piece again there. Now we have a nice clean line all right now we're just going to do that same exact thing on the other side combing. This straight down, looking straight ahead and just cutting about that same amount off careful not to cut yourself like that, and then we're just going to make sure it's even by pulling each strand down kind of eyeballing. And i think this side needs just a little bit more off and that looks good now to make sure it's, even at the back. I'M actually going to take my comb facing up and take this all pull it straight out until you get close to that end and without changing the position of your fingers at all, i should probably turn so. I can show you guys what i'm doing. I'M going to keep my fingers where they are and just twist so that i can see if that lines up at the back. I can see that there's just a little bit of a curve here, so it's not perfectly. Even so, i'm going to point into that. Actually, my goal is to meet this side up with this side, so you can see that little bit of a curve. I want to even that out there much better. So now that's one section done and now we can move to the next section and if you're nervous at all take smaller sections, because that will help you just get a good feel of what you're doing without taking like a huge chunk of hair off at first. So do small sections as small as you need to, especially if your hair is thicker than mine do smaller sections, because the smaller the sections, the easier it will be for you. So for my next section, i'm going to go to the top of my ear. I'M just taking both fingers top of the ear and just meeting them up at the back like that, and then clipping this away, and there we go so we have our second section. Second, section second section say that three times fast anyway, um so now we're gon na. Do that exact same thing so splitting it in the middle at the back, so we can have two separate sections to work on and then we got some loose guys here. Then we are doing the same thing, so i'm combing straight down and now this is where it gets a little bit more complicated. Hopefully you guys can see that, but that first section that we cut is going to be used as our guideline now. So i can see right here. That'S the piece i just cut, and this is the piece i haven't cut yet so i just want to connect to those two pieces. So i'm just going right there using that bottom section as a guide now to trim the section above it. So now we have the section underneath and the section right above it all even i'll cut at the same length. That is looking good and it's feeling a lot better. All right now same thing on this side, making sure you're keeping your head straight. I'M definitely guilty of that. So i'm going to try to take my own advice here. This right here at the front is my guideline right there, i'm just going to cut across there, be very careful not to cut yourself please. Here we go it's all lined up now, i'm going to do that same thing. I did on the last section where i comb it backwards see if you guys can see it from this angle, so i'm combing it up basically straight away from my head until you're, almost at the end, just turning it a little bit just enough so that you Can see and now again kind of in that same spot we have the same same just a few hairs sticking out and i'm just pointing into those very gently. I don't want to take too much off. I just want to subtly blend those together so that we have the same length all over a little bit more, and that looks good, and now we have our second section done so there we go now. I'M just gon na keep moving up, probably have two more sections before we're done. I'M also going to trim my layers by the way. If you haven't seen my first video my first haircut video. I will leave a link to it somewhere here, so that you can go and watch it. I did also do layers in that video, so just in case there's anything different between this video and that one, even though my technique is probably gon na, be the same um i'll leave it here so that you guys can watch that one as well or if Your hair is longer, it might be more helpful for you, since my hair was longer in that video anyway. Moving on just doing this exact same thing so just pulling down making sure my head is straight and there you can see my guide right there cutting straight across and there we go perfectly straight other side. Okay. So now i'm just going to do the last section, but there probably won't be a whole lot coming off of that one, because i know i have some shorter layers in here. We do have that little bit there that we need to obviously trim off. I'M just gon na freehand. This just be very careful if you are doing this at home and then we're gon na do that on this side as well. Okay, so now, as you can see, my ends are nice and blunt they look clean. We have got all those ends trimmed now we want to trim the layers. So when you're doing layers, you want to always make sure that you are parting. Your hair - i should have mentioned this at the beginning, but you want to make sure you're always parting. Your hair, where you normally part it so i kind of switch my part, but it's usually it usually hovers kind of in this area. I'M also gon na do some curtain bangs, so my part is probably gon na, be changing a little bit more, but this is where i'm gon na keep the part for now, and what i'm going to do is part it a little bit farther until i get To the top of my head and then what i'm going to do is section that down so the top of my head to the top of my ear. This is going to get clipped away and then the same thing on the other side. Okay, so now we have both of those front sections clipped away because we're gon na start in the back, and i just realized - i didn't do this for the last couple sections i'm just gon na do that. First, you have a little bit extra here. Okay, so now we're gon na do the layers, so what we're gon na do is take a little section from the top just a thin little section like that, and i'm going to calm that up. I just realized you guys can't see okay. So now you should be able to see so pulling this straight up and i basically just want to get rid of all of this dead stuff like i don't necessarily want to shorten my layers. I just want to get rid of the dead stuff, so i'm just pulling this straight up. Hopefully you can see - and i'm just going to point this off - so be very, very careful when you're doing this. If you feel more comfortable, you can cut it across you're. Just going to get a little bit more of a blunt effect that way, but do whatever you are comfortable with so now i just cut those off and i'm going to just brush it down or comb it down. I guess, and now we have a base layer to base the rest of the pieces off of so now, i'm just going to take a vertical section and by the way i i did all of this in my last haircut video. So you may have already seen this, but again it does change a little bit with a shorter haircut. So now i'm just pulling it at a 45 degree angle. I guess - and now i just want to connect these bottom pieces to that top layer that we just cut so again, i'm just pointing those off i'm just going to do that again. That should give me a nice blend all the way down, and now what i'm going to do from here is just go all the way, taking vertical sections all the way from that middle back section. I just did to this side section i'm going to do the same thing to this side section, so i'm probably going to fast forward this, because i don't want to make this video too long. So i'm just going to do that. Really quick and then i'll move on to the sides. Okay, so i just did all of the back section. I just trimmed all those layers back there. So now i'm taking down these front sections for the front, i'm basically doing the same thing. I'M going to take a section of that back section that i just did to use as a guide for the front section. The only thing is because my hair is a little bit shorter and i kind of have like a bob hairstyle. Now it always looks best for the hair to be, if anything, slightly longer at the front and so to keep that effect. What i'm going to do is just angle everything a little bit back, so you can actually see my guide right under there, and this is good that these hairs are falling because we don't want to cut those at all, so just trimming those those little fuzzy hairs That are sticking out and begging to be trimmed off, and then i'm going to do the same thing again with another section pulling it back. This is the very last section pulling that up and there we go. Oh, it feels so much better like it's crazy. What just that little little trim can do really is now i'm going to do the same thing on this side, so there we go trimming those baby, fine hairs. Okay, so now i'm actually gon na do one more thing. I'M gon na pull the section from the back first just make sure that my side layers match up with my back layers and then i'm gon na take these sections here and make sure these line up as well. Okay, so now last time i did kind of a face: framing type situation, but just a little bit kind of towards the end. Um, nothing crazy. But what i want to do this time is: do curtain bangs, so i'm really excited for this and i'm excited to show you guys too, so i'm gon na start by figuring out where i'm gon na part these bangs, and i think basically i want the part To stay somewhat over here, because it looks better that way when my hair is curly um, so i'm gon na make that kind of my guideline, so i'm gon na take about this amount. So this is probably an inch and a half or so pull this forward, and i'm gon na take a couple pieces around that guide and i'm going to trim these to where i want them now. I have to keep in mind that my hair is going to shrink up quite a bit when it's curly compared to when it's straight. So i think what i want is for them to be about there. Maybe just a touch more i'm getting nervous now so about there. Hopefully, you guys can see that that's a good couple inches two inches, maybe at the longest point i'm going to do this all point cutting because i want it to be very natural. Looking very subtle! I don't want any harsh lines, because this is right at the front of my face, i'm going to point that off all the way across okay. So now, as you can see, we have our guide. I'M going to start on this side because it'll be easier to show you guys, i'm taking a good amount, i'm actually going to slide cut, get your comb in there and then get your fingers clamped down slide your fingers down, keeping them tight until that first piece. Pops out and that's your guide, so that's where you want to start or continue cutting, and so basically i'm going to move closer. I'M going to be opening and closing my scissors ever so slightly. I can see what i'm doing as i'm moving down and there all that came off just gon na do that again, and so it's easier if you keep them in a downward motion and just opening and closing the tiniest little bit as you're moving down. And then i'm going to take a little bit more and i'm going to just keep that going all the way down into this corner. But i don't want to cut too much up here. I'M going to probably use use that as my stopping point, it's going all the way down to there. So now it's not done it's not perfect yet, but you can see, we've got our kind of like c shape happening here, and that is what we want. That'S good, i'm just going to leave this for now and i'm going to do that same thing. On the other side there it is now that it's popped out. I'M actually going to switch my angle here. So now i'm going this way going down there. We go keeping it going and i'm going to use somewhere in here. As my guide on this side there, you can see our little angled cut on this side as well. Now what we want to do is blend everything in so, even though i point cut it, it's still a little bit harsh. So now we have to blend. First, i'm going to go back to that initial inch and a half or so of parts. I'M going to take a section from each side and pull them together and point straight into these, so be very careful with this, because you can quickly end up taking off way too much so just going straight in making little cuts and that's just gon na blend Them together, so we want that kind of like jaggedy look, because that means we have a nice blend happening. Looking good and now, i'm gon na do that same thing, just going down the sides now so now i'm taking a little chunk on this side, pulling it up, then again, i'm pointing into those hairs straight down into them really carefully. You can even fan your fingers out a little bit like that to see where you need to do a little bit more. There we go and i'm just going to keep doing that, keep taking sections going down that out and pointing in okay. So, as you can see, it is really coming together, so that side is done and now i'm just going to do that same point. Cutting technique on this side - probably fast forward this okay. So now i have both sides done, they're, all blended, all the way down. I just want to make sure that if i pull some of this hair down, it still blends the way to do that is to pull this again. Taking a section from each side of your part, pointing in there to blend any pieces that might be sticking up. A little bit too much and just kind of working your way down. Okay, you guys. I think we are pretty much done, i'm pretty happy with how this is looking. I just want to go around the perimeter and just make sure nothing is sticking out funny at all everything's. Even so, i'm just going to comb down just trim into anything that looks like it's not sitting quite right and now i'm gon na just quickly like restyle. My bangs to just get the full the full idea of how it looks so just one second, okay, you guys. So this is pretty much the finished. Look. I'M definitely gon na have to play around with styling these and figure out what what looks best. What works best, but this at least gives you some idea of how the whole thing looks. So, basically, this haircut is like a bob with medium length layers and then um curtain face framing bangs, um yeah. I'M i'm definitely excited to play around with these bangs and really get them to sit. How i want, but so far i think they look really good. What do you guys think and i'm going to show you guys the back, because a lot of people were upset with me that i didn't show the back in my last haircut video. So here we go okay guys. So this is the finished look. I really hope you guys, like this haircut tutorial and i hope it can help you cut your own hair at home um. I know a lot of salons are still closed or they opened up and now they're closing again. So i'm hoping these little videos can help you feel confident to cut your own hair at home. If you don't know, i am a hair stylist, so i do have experience in cutting hair, and this is exactly how i would do it in the salon on somebody else, just kind of the version of doing it on your own head. So yeah. Hopefully it's helpful for you. Hopefully you, like the video. If you did like this video, please make sure to give it a thumbs up and make sure you subscribe. So you don't miss any future videos. Thank you so much for watching, and i will see you guys in my next video bye