The Perfect Seamless Layered Haircut Tutorial For Long Hair

Today, i want to cut some layers in here, give her a more kind of lifelike haircut and we're going to base this off of a side parting, so i've gone over kind of our basic sectioning every class every week. So what i want to do today is kind of show you a variation of that sectioning based on a side parting a little bit. So what we're going to do is i'm going to go through here? I'M going to create a left hand, side parting. So just like that work, so how do we find the fringe area? The way that we do? That is i work and i look for the hair that wants to fall to the front. So if you wanted to, you could really literally comb the hair like this and lift it up and then see that little hair that wants to fall to the front. That'S what i'm going to section off and then i'm going to do the same thing on the side here. So i'm going to find that section so right here and i'm looking for the hairline. So i'm trying to draw a straight line down so now we're still basing it off of this side part. So now what i'm going to do is i'm going to split the head in half. So i want to find all the hair that wants to fall to the side and then the hair that wants to fall to the back and the way that i'm going to find. That is just going from the high point here down to the hairline. In the back so same thing on the opposite side, so that's our section that goes down to the hairline right there. So you can see it follows from here all the way down and now we're gon na do the same thing. On the opposite side, you can see right there, i'm working with this entire curved section. So what i want to do is i'm going to break that up so i'll. Take it right at that parietal ridge area. So, just like that and i'll take it all the way across to the hairline. So let that be one part of the section, and this will be the second part. So we've got our top and we've got our bottom. So here's the thing you don't have to section out, but for me i find that knowing exactly where i'm at and what part of the head i'm working on and what hair is going to go where and what it's going to do. That just helps me create more success in my haircuts. So for me to create volume, i want to create a really nice kind of uh stacked, feel to the layering and then collapse it. So the line will go up the head, so it'll go kind of parallel to the head for a bit and then once we get to that crown area, it's gon na dip in and go up. I can see the screen in front of me. Thank you zelda for agreeing appreciate that so we're going straight down center back here, i'm going to go a little below occipital bone to start, because i want to create a nice solid line in the bottom here. So slight diagonal forward, not too much here. So i'm going to go straight across slight diagonal forward i'll step back a little bit, make sure the lines match up we're good. Now, i'm going to work through here and we're going to create a nice line in the back first. So it's going to be a nice balance line all right, so i'm going to bring the hair down and i'm going to cut a nice strong baseline. So what i do with my clients is: i look for where the density starts to get a little bit weak. So as i'm pulling through, i can see that's super weak right there. So i know i want to go a little bit further up uh on the line, and this is, if i'm trying to give them a nice healthy haircut all right, so we go through. I'M keeping my finger parallel to the parting up there and then i'm just going to cut my line across. So i want to keep this haircut nice and long, but i want it to look nice and healthy as well. So there we go and then when i take my next section, look at how my parting is here, so my finger is going to come straight down and follow that uh straight across so bring it here. And then i've got my line and now i'm going to follow that as a guide, i'm going to do the same thing on the opposite side. Here follow the line parallel to the parting and then i'll, take these two pieces and check them and make sure they make sense, and they are the same length. Okay, so understand here that when i take this section across and let me i'm going to straighten her head because i want you to see how horizontal this section really is. So when i take this section across here, like that, i want you to look at the head shape and what it's doing you look right here and you can see that this section that we're going to bring out ah body okay, so this section that we're going To bring out here, you can see that there's a tiny bit of a curve, but this entire thing we're working on a curve. So we have to be aware when we're layering hair, what's going on with the head shape, do we want it to be building up weight at this point? Because if i bring this straight out like this, if i bring it here and cut it, i'm i'm building weight. So it's going to be heavier graduated effect. If i'm here - and i bring it up to this point - i'm about at layering right there right. So i look at the head shape and how the hair is coming off of it. So if i lift it even higher, then i start really layering it and removing weight, but then my layers start to get shorter, so i have to be aware of that as well all right. So if you look here when i pull this out, my graduated line starts there and it works, that's the top of it, so i only want the top of it and then i'm going to start building my layers off of that. If i start at the bottom of this, i cut all that graduation off and i cut all the density, so i want to keep some of that density in my line and then layer from that point up. This will start to create a slight bit of over direction because now we're working around the round so because i'm bringing everything back it'll push a little weight behind the ear all right. So here we go so we cut that side and now i'm going to work. The opposite side as well you'll start to see that there's layers happening nothing's super extreme at this point, so it's just starting to stack up. You look here start to see some of those layers coming to life in there. It'Ll really start to pop. When we get to the top here all right, so now let down this section all right. So now i'm going to go right around the crown. So look at this right here, as i take this section around, go around the crown and again it's about awareness where you at on the head shape. If i bring this crown - and i bring everything straight out from that, it's going to build up too much weight. It'Ll look graduated and i really want to pop some layers. So here all right. So now i'm coming out all right comb this out. There'S my guide. I'M gon na work up all right, so i'm taking a vertical section and this is going to be our highest elevation yet so i want you guys to kind of see what i do here. I'M going to take the hair straight up like this and we're going to work this crown of the head, so i don't want to take too much length, which is why so. This is what i would tell you guys right now. So what i would say to you guys is if i were to have started shorter layers right away initially by the time i got up here would have been really short. This is going to be a pretty good length for me as i go into it, and i'm also going to over direct it just slightly higher. So here's 90 degrees right here, i'm just going to go slightly a bit higher and i'm going to point cut into that line. The reason i'm going to point cut it is because i want it to be nice and soft so right here, just a nice soft point cut into this line and then watch this. We talked about length, drops and now we're hitting right about in this area, where we want all that volume to build up in the haircut so tons of layers popping through there. That'S the whole back. So that's everything that wants to fall into the back. So you know that the layers won't get any shorter than that. So, let's start off with our strong our heavy side, which is going to be the right side, the heavy side we broke up into two sections right. So we have our top section and we have our bottom. So i'm going to start off on the bottom and then we're going to work our way to the top. Now this you can tie into the bottom or into that perimeter, if you want to, if you feel you need to for me, i want to connect them through layering, so i'm not really worried about cutting a blunt line. Yet what i want to do is i'm going to take a slight diagonal forward parting, just like this, and i'm going to elevate this parting should mimic where you're going to bring the hair to so. If i draw a line like that, that's what my fingers are going to do in the front. That'S always the goal, and i'm going to point cut through this will be the shortest point in this face frame area. So those you guys that are looking to cut this, you want to know that you're going to continue to take sections back and bring them forward. So it's only going to get longer and it'll get longer pretty quick, because you're bringing hair from further away and cutting it at the same spot. There you go is the part side, so her parts right here this is going to fall and it's only going to be what it is like this side, this part's going to fall over, so it gets even thicker and fuller all right so diagonal back parting. Remember! I'M taking a parting based on how i'm going to hold it in my fingers, so what i'm going to do is i'm going to be holding it, i'm going to go a little more vertical. So i look at like what angle do i really want to hold it at i want to be about here, so i'm going to shift my angle of my parting a little it's bit all right. So now you want to make sure that you kind of tie these two sides together, but they don't have to match fully grab a piece to make sure that these are just close enough. So what i'll do is i'll? Take this - and i don't blunt - cut it off, because it's a little bit thick but i'll just cut a little line into it. Then i can bring everything and this will be a good kind of overhead view of where i'm bringing the hair to just straight out. In front here's the nose, so the hair is coming straight forward, so here it is cutting now work. This top section here take that out we're going to work through i'm going to grab a little bit of the hair from underneath and when i bring it forward. I'Ll show you you can see the guideline, so here's the guide at that point right there in my finger, so i'm going to cut that line to really big explosion of layers throughout. So when i bring this section up, not the back, but when i bring up what we just cut, you could see it's a short to long line right there, but then there's shorter hair here from our back section. So when i comb that up you'll see, there's shorter hair from our back section, that's a disconnect, but when it falls, you can see that it starts to connect a little bit more. Alright, so you've got this side of the parting and you've got this side of the parting. So i bring this hair over. I can grab a little bit of the previously cut section, but what i'll do is i'm going to soften that line with just a little bit of slide cutting, because the slide cutting will soften the the weight? Alright, so lifting the hair up and i'm going to come in here and i'm just going to cut into it so just like slide cutting through i'm half closing the scissor as i come down just to soften that angle. So now, when i look at this, it's got a really nice kind of bouncy layered feel to it all right so um. Now what i'm going to do is i'm going to section off for my round brushing. So this is the ergo brush 43 on shop fse. You can get them on there. Professional you know, round. Brush has an extra long barrel, which is really helpful when you want to take a lot of hair at a time. So what i'll do is i'll work kind of vertically on both sides back off of the face, and then all this top section will round rush forward towards the face and then kind of so on so forth through the front. Look at those layers, you