How To Create A Haircut With Long Layers | Hair Cutting Tutorial | Kenra Professional

Hey everyone Cassi here with Kenra Professional --. We are going to show you a long layered haircut. So my first step in any haircut is diagnosing. My client's hair. She's got fine hair, but she has a ton of it.. I'M going to use the Pearl Detangler to detangle her hair and make it really easy and manageable. As I'm combing through it. My first section is going to be a profile section, which means from the front hairline middle all the way through to the nape middle.. What'S nice about the comb like this is that it has a little bit of almost like a pick at the end, which is really great when I'm trying to get a nice clean parting. So what I'm doing right now is I'm pulling her hair all the way back, I'm combing her hair all the way back away from her face. The reason I'm doing this is that you know a lot of times when we're parting, the hair. We have it already kind of somewhat split and it makes it difficult to get a nice clean section back with the hair, all combed backward, I'm going to get a nice smooth transition through the hair with my comb.. So now that we have her part to the crown now, I'm going to identify the middle part in the back of her neck., I'm going to start my comb here and then it's just a straight line to that point., I'm going to split her hair.. Basically, I'm going to split her hair into four quadrants.. It'S going to give me the most control of the hair, so I'm going to identify right behind her ear. There's a little bone back here that allows me a good identifying mark. So when I'm splitting hair from front to back where the hair will naturally live., So I'm going to start back here by subsectioning each of these sections and working my way up. So I'm going to take about a good one and a half-inch section in the back.. I want to have enough hair that I can get myself a nice good guideline.. So now I'm going to take this and I'm going to look at it as three different compartments, so important that we're not cutting really beyond what our first of all our cutting tool can go and also really past. Our second knuckle right, taking my first section. Taking about a nice inch, I want to be able to see that I've taken off some length, but not so much that she feels that she can see that I've taken off like So now. You can see I've created this nice solid baseline, which is going to give me my guide for the rest of the length of my cut. So again, I'm approaching each of my sections kind of in thirds working this back middle first, So pro tip. It makes it so much easier to part the hair when it's combed in the direction in which you're parting. So because I am parting in this direction. I'M combing the hair in this direction and taking my part in this direction, So pro tip when I'm cutting hair in a straight line, and I don't want it to kick up, I make sure that I don't push my fingers up, so it doesn't create a bevel. So, by keeping my fingers straight down, I'm making sure that my line stays straight all the way through, So now we're ready to introduce the sides. The most important thing that i'm looking for is just to make sure that i'm again connecting front to back, because really, when we think about it, her length in the front is mostly from this point and nothing's going to be shorter than that right. So i take a nice diagonal forward section and then i'm going to just drop it back just to make sure that it connects front to back. So as i bring it back, i'm just looking to see if there's any hairs that need to be connected, and it looks like we're pretty good now, you'll see with her i'm not over directing i'm just laying it back. So i'm just letting it drop back as opposed to moving it out of its actual natural fall. So, as you can see, we've created a nice strong baseline, so now that we've cut her length, we're going to move right into the layers. Okay, now we're going to start into the long layers first and foremost - and i get this asked this all the time. How do you know how long or how short to go with your layers right like? How do you determine? Is it just a up in the air? It'S this feels good feeling. No, i determine where those lengths should be by gauging from my shortest length as far as my perimeter is concerned, which is always going to be this section that connects the front to the back. So i take a little triangle from this section. I don't want to go below this point, but i want to get like a good amount of hair to give myself a nice visual representation of this length. So i'm taking a little triangle section right here, and this gives me a little bit of an idea like how long I can go with the layers and still preserve not cutting into the perimeter of the haircut. Now I'm going to take a section from my first section, which would be in the middle top of the head right here and I'm going to lift that up., I'm going to play a little comparison game between these two sections.. How much can I take off of this piece so that I can make sure that I preserve my foundation length but also take enough layers off to give me that lift I'm looking for in the long layers? Now because I use this as my guide, I shouldn't really have to be cutting anything below the occipital bone right, because that's what that matches up to and that again is what's going to give me the preservation of her length and the bulk and weight of her Haircut so my first section and guide for my long layers is to move to move that out, I'm actually doing a full profile section. I am lifting it straight from the top of her head square layers means I'm going to create a square on the top. So the whole thing is super preservation of length and maximizing the strength of the cut while adding layers. So this is my first section right here. You can see my guide. Now next section, I'm just going to connect a little bit more hair to that. So now I'm going all the way to the bottom, probably not going to have much to cut off of this area here, but I just want to make sure that my connection goes all the way through and again, I'm lifting the hair all the way up - and I just have this little tiny bit right there, so my next section I'm going to take a radial parting. It'S the next section over I'm going to take a little bit from my previous once again, just 90 degrees straight up, So you can see now that we have one side completed., Even as we brush it out, you can start to see the looseness that we're getting When you get some volume out of these long layers, which is what we're going for so now, as I move into this section again, I'm working radial parting and now I'm using my original part, my original section, my guide again and I'm going to work taking a Little bit off of it and a little bit from my next section to work my way through again, always in a 90 degree, as I work my way around, it's important that you're not taking too much hair from the next section that when you lift it up, You can see your guide through it right, so I want to make sure that I'm taking enough hair so that I'm working through the cut, but I also want to take make sure that I'm taking not so much that I can't see my guide. Now that I've Completed that my next step is going to be cross-checking, so I've cut in a radial. So now I'm going to cross-check in a horizontal sectioning, so I'll just cross-section through just make sure that everything matches up from that point and I'm going to do one side to the other side. And this again is just you know, making sure that my work is clean and that I don't have any pieces that may have gotten missed along the way, and I see just a little couple pieces that I just want to do a little point. Cutting on now. My first section for the top is I'm actually going to use my original guide from before, and I'm actually going to work all the way from that to the front. Just to give myself a guideline for the front always making sure that your client's head is straight because that is also your guideline right so straight across building my guide now to the front, taking my radial section radial parting right here, working off of that angle. Again, I'm going to be lifting it all to a 90-degree angle, straight up off the head and then just a little bit from my prior for my guide.. I love to do a little bit of face-framing. So the first thing I'm going to do is get a determination of how short of a face frame where I want it to begin and on discussion. She was willing to go with a little bit of shortness, just kind of get a little bit more action. A little bit more um texture around the face, so we're going, you know below the chin about an inch or two, and I'm just going to pull it out and take a little boop little spot right there. Just to give myself a guideline now because I'm going to work that into the length to do that, I'm going to work opposite of the head, so I'm going to pull it across opposite of where it grows. It'S going to give it the most length, I'm pulling the furthest away and then also two, what I'm creating is short to long. So it's going to flow off of her face. It'S going to kick back when I blow it dry. Bring it again all the way over across the other side. When I'm point cutting like this, I want to make sure that I'm closing the scissors as I pull away from my fingers, so that I'm not cutting my fingers off. Look at that nice angle. It'S just really going to open her face up and it's just going to kick back and look beautiful. All right. So now same thing: on the other side, taking a little bit from each side, that's my guide and I'm going to cross over onto the other side to do the same thing. So now that the haircut is complete, I'm going to use a little bit of the Luxe Shine Oil.. What'S nice about this, is this is going to give me a nice slip and make it really easy to blow dry super shiny., I'm going to run that through her ends, then I'm going to add a little bit of our Blow-dry Spray. Blow-dry Spray is nice because It will help to speed up the blow-dry process.. So now I have her completely blow-dried and now I'm going to go in with just a you know, one and a quarter-inch iron, just to give it a little bit of volume and again just to accentuate where the layers are, laying I'm going to use our Design Spray, which is a 9 level hold so just a slight amount of the Design Spray -- so taking vertical sections, I'm just gon na do kind of a light beach wave, but I want to give it a little bit more curl than a traditional beach wedge. So I'm not going to wind it out and make the ends fly I'm going to curl the ends.. So this is our final look for Konwalia --. What do you think [? I love it. ] Awesome. I hope you loved it too.. I hope you loved learning the long layered haircut and thank you so much again for suggesting it to us Again. If you guys have suggestions, please leave them in the comments below and don't forget to subscribe to, Kenra Professional for more education, videos,