How To Cut & Layer Extensions + Placement For Short-Medium Hair

Hey guys today, I'm going to be showing you how I go from this to this with just cutting and layering, and then I'll do my like application and placement technique as well. The extensions that I'm going to be using today are the Donna love extensions. These are really really affordable. Real hair extensions, like actually a third of the price of most other hair extensions that you can find online they're, actually pretty good quality. I don't find them to shed hardly at all, and I find the texture to be really nice. For my hair now they're not like a perfect match for my hair right now, they usually match my hair perfectly when my toner it's faded. So once my freshly toned blonde hair has faded after a few washes they'll match perfectly again, but for this video they'll do just fine. So let's get started. So this is how the extensions come just one basic length and they are really good quality but like most extensions, especially of more affordable ones, they get thick at the top, but thinner at the very very end. So what I'm going to do is actually just cut those off just so syn with the ends. Just that's going to make it look a lot thicker and then I'm going to cut in diagonal lines on either side and that's going to give a more layered effect. So here I'm just cutting off those thin ends, like I said, just makes the extensions look, a lot thicker and not so like thin and wispy on the ends. That'S just useless. So now I'm going to be cutting in diagonal lines like I said I would not recommend using kitchen scissors, I'm comfortable using these, but if you have like actual haircutting scissors or just like smaller scissors like, I would totally recommend those and I'm not like using like A huge like scissoring motions, I'm just like barely opening and closing the scissors, and I'm just softening the edges right there and doing the same thing to the other side. Basically, what this does is make the extensions shorter in the front and longer in the back, and I'm doing this for all of the three and four weft. So now I'm doing a smaller section. This is a two weft and I'm doing the same thing where I'm cutting off the thin wispy ends, but instead of doing the diagonal lines on both sides, I'm just doing on one side, and this is going to be the side. That'S going to be closest to my face, so it's going to be shorter in the front and gradually longer in the back. So then, when you do the other two side to left, it's going to be on the other side of your face. Just make sure that you do the opposite sides so that they're mirror images of each other so that each side will be shorter in the front. So now I'm going to be doing the application they're not styled yet because I prefer to style my extensions when they're in so I've just clipped my hair all up and I'm starting with two three-piece wefts and I'm clipping a three-piece weft to a another three-piece weft And I'm just using the clips of one two three piece left to clip near the top of the other three piece left: this just doubles. It up makes it way, thicker and I'm applying this upside down, and this just makes it so that there's no little hairs kind of like underneath poking out in the front. So now I'm taking down another section, I'm not precise, with this whatsoever. I don't like section of like neatly at all so now, I'm taking a four piece West, the widest one and I'm applying this right side up this time and I'm just going to kind of feel where those clips were that I just applied and I'm going to. Basically put this the two Center clips of this four piece left right on top of that and the outside clips, the of the four piece West that I'm applying I'm actually going to these ones right here, I'm going to clip up a little bit higher so that I kind of have like this: u shape where it's lower in the back. So now I can take my hair down and I'm ready for the two-piece weft. So what I'm going to do is just kind of take a section off the side of my head and put it pretty close to the front of my face and on a diagonal, apply this piece. So the back is further down than the front, and I'm going to do the exact same thing on the other side, and you can always tease the hair too, but I'm just not teasing the hair like a lot of normal people. Do when they're putting in extensions, because I'm not actually wearing my extensions today so now, I'm left with my real hair, that's kind of like in the front that kind of like is just hanging out making it look unrealistic. So what I'm going to do is take this one piece: weft, I'm going to take this little chunk of hair, that's hanging out in the front and I'm going to tuck it behind my ear and I'm going to take the one piece left and I'm going to Literally clip that piece to the back of my head and what that's going to do is just kind of conceal those little short pieces with a long extension on top of it, and then I'm just going to pull my front top layers over top. Do the same thing on the other side, so here is where you can kind of go in with some scissors if you want, and just like give your hair a little bit nicer of a shape. So what I like to do is hold my hair out sideways and cut kind of like on a diagonal. This way, I'm not very good at explaining, but hopefully this will show you, so I'm just going to do that to a couple of my side. Chunks just make sure not to cut your actual hair, so, as you can see it kind of gives you, like a nice, rounded shape on the side. So it's not just like a square piece, and I'm just going to do that to the other side chunk as well, and I feel like you can kind of see how that kind of gave. My hair, like a nice, rounded shape on the sides as well as you can obviously see that I've got shorter hair in the front and then, when I pull all the back pieces to the front, you can tell that I've got longer pieces in the back and That'S because of the U shape or v-shaped technique that we did at the very first of the video before we put the extensions in so now, I'm just going to style my hair and I'm going to make sure that I am putting my real hair and the Extensions in the curling iron, with on a really low heat setting and not holding it for very long, I'm just brushing it out. This brush actually comes with the extensions that I have and that just helps to blend everything together, and that is pretty much it guys. Yeah, so I think this looks pretty blended and layered and natural, and I hope this helped you guys out. Let me know if you thought it was helpful and other than this light color difference. I think that this hair looks pretty real on my head right now. I'M really impressed with these extensions. Like I said you can check the description box for more info, and I will see you guys in my next video. Thank you guys so much. Please subscribe. If you haven't already bye.