How To: Very Short Pixie Haircut Tutorial For Women

Each of us specializes in their craft, so i head up the cutting department. Someone has a color, there's specific someone for doing some styling and we also have someone that's uh in control of the makeup, and so the best thing about us is that we're about all about collaboration and putting our ideas together and so anything that sort of happens In the uh, the hair world sort of passes through one of our hands and then sometimes it's a big collaboration. Okay, um. My background is soon trained. I started in canada, which is where i'm originally from. I was actually a creative director there as well and um. Even with my career executions, i was doing some stage work and some stuff, but i'm always really shy and completely get into media, no matter how many times i do this, so it always feels fresh and always feels like the first time, i'm doing it. So. Thank you so much for coming. This is my model joy. I am going to be doing one haircut for you guys, i'm not a big fan of pre-cutting, so i know i only have 30 minutes or something to move through this quite quickly, which should be nice. I guess for you guys, rather than seeing very slow three sections um and i kind of just want to approach this uh like the way i would approach sort of a pixie cut and really thinking about the balance. This is your buddy who's, just joining us here. Right now, and just just overall balance - and i think some of the the tips and tricks for me is uh specifically around where you start now. I know you know. Joy already has shorter hair, so it's much easier to put a shorter hair constantly when they already have shorter. That always makes me feel comfortable. I think the scary thing is when someone's got like longer, hair and you're, somehow trying to manage the right size and length. So just some, i guess some tips for approach is to think one about the section pattern that you're going to have there's a couple like key focus points on the face that, when you're looking at the face, you're trying to make sure there's an area for you To be able to cut that shorter haircut and making sure that it lands directly in the face, and this was actually something that vidal himself actually told told me - and it took me a while to understand. There'S this little pocket right here in the face, which is like the apple of the cheekbone, which makeup artists really work on this area. Right here is probably one of the most important areas when you're trying to size up someone's face for shorter hair, and so when you're thinking about shorter haircuts, you're, not thinking of one size, fits all. You have to think that maybe someone needs a large someone needs a small one. Someone needs a medium. My approach with uh, these type of haircuts is to sort of think about the sectioning pattern in less of a horseshoe, which is what you probably do for men and more about working with a point and almost like a slightly curved linear section that works alongside the Parietal ridge, this bone is super important when you're thinking about how top how the top is going to move on the head. Sometimes, when you've taken this section too high up, i try to describe it as like when you're creating sections for a haircut. A lot of it sometimes feels like the way you would dress the body. So this higher the section goes up. It feels like you're, almost dragging the pants up on the haircut. This can sometimes in a guide, make them feel very round almost like you've actually put more weight on when this section comes up above the parietal ridge. What you're going to start to see is a lot more movement and sway when that section sits below the parietal ridge. What you're noticing is, there's a lot more gravity and weight, so the top sits more static. So when you're thinking about the top, you can adjust the section pattern based off of specific movement, that you'd like to have to one side versus the other side or keeping it symmetric. What i've just done through here is, i want to take it just slightly above, because i actually want to remove some weight. My approach is two two things: one to start from the back and work forward in order to provide enough softness through the front in order to keep the shape, soft and venomous feminine and then in order to come back and actually remove weight here and leave a Lot of this softness through here, so for me, it's really about doing two things. Okay, i'm going to start now all right! That'S not good any questions! So far, so you can see the sectioning on both sides. Here we didn't try to get her performance even as possible and i'm just going to start right from the back and i'm going to be working with like a graduated shape through the back area. And then, as i start to approach the sides, i'll start to get into more of like a layering pattern. Okay, i don't think you guys can see this and just off the side right there. So we're going to start off with the palm of the palm and you'll kind of see me doing these like little stances, and this is kind of part of our cutting curriculum. We put a lot of emphasis on body position and just kind of like putting yourself in a place in order to get the best result of your technique. Okay, so as i take each section, i'm really just over directing to the previous i'm trying to leave some weight through the top area and that's just important, i think - for shorter hair. Just because you know with something like this, it's not that she has an extremely flat head, but you do want to have some contour and shape, and you know i think i think that, especially when you do shoulder hair anytime, you do hair. You know you're not just cutting it for joy, you're cutting it for the other people that look at her and compliment her. Oh that she looks good from the back, not just from the front and so profile for me is kind of like always such an important part, to think about how you're pushing the hair in order to create. You know something that's more complementary to the face. So really, just as i'm working here, you know, i want to kind of like just pay attention a little weight line, and i want to make sure that it's rounding up as i do it. Otherwise, as my section starts to curve up, it can provide a lot more length and weight and actually make the haircut start to get heavy at this point, which is one of the disadvantages that you have when you're working from the back is that by the time You start to get into this area. You have to almost force yourself to start to move it to the size. You start to make sure you're turning your time. Otherwise, what generally starts to happen? Is you build up a lot of length? This area gets extremely heavy and then you spend a lot of time: texturizing, okay, so we're just going to go off to the side here and then, as the section comes up, we're still using our guide. But we just want to make sure that we're lifting that section almost so that we're seeing like almost like a 90 degree off. You know that section where the parietal ridge is and then working back down into our graduation and i'm not necessarily worried about joy's hairline. At this point, i'm not feeling like i want to go back in and start to design any of that stuff right now, although you know if this was my first time cutting her hair, i would have paid absolutely super all the attention i possibly could to those You know those demon areas because those can be the make or break points in the way something might hug. The back part of your head would love you guys. Would you guys like to do with shorter hair? Are you doing a lot of shorter hair yeah? I did quite a bit we're more open, i think for it and there's a lot of crossover between men's work. You know. Angel here is like the men's, barber supreme guy here that has his own company and it's it's so interesting to see how you know the the onslaught of like barbering and the education that's out there and then also the crossover you know for women's haircuts as well. Quite nice, and so now we just start to move into these areas through here, so guys. I want this to be as like informal as possible. So if you guys want to talk to me, that would be great or laugh at me. Otherwise, i'll start to get into some really awkward story. Also, very i entertaining you know short hair for a lot of people has a big fear factor to it. I want to ask the young people that oh she's already a little bit about, what's scary about it, when you do a short haircut, especially the girl who's, just naughty, i'm going to call her sally, not sally sandra mag. Very close. Tell me what's scary about it. I think i think it's just the starting point, honestly kind of customizing it to everyone's. Do you feel, like you, use many different approaches? No just one yes, and does it work all the time or just sometimes probably sometimes sometimes yeah, and is it more based off of one side of the head versus the other side, not a balanced thing. I think something important about short haircuts is like, and you already point to this. Obviously she has already assured her. So it's easy to go there as the problem is. We have somebody with long hair like yours, and they want to do this. Something that i learned in a hard way when i was a kid in spain is that somebody came over with long and asked me to assure her. Can actually i went and did it because i was stupid at the time and then she came over next day crying and basically she did it because she got upset with the boyfriend no and i wan na, because he liked it so something that i always tell People like yes, you can do that and i'm more than happy to do that. But i want you to take some time looking at pictures and and and determine what, how far you want to go, because i think that gives them the chance to like get prepared for it like mentally. You know they get more uh, you know ready for it. That'S that's me, my space, because i just jump on this kind and show her and somebody that doesn't have it. It'S a one opportunity like if you say no, this time she might go somewhere else. Well, i think you can tell that they. They really want it. Uh, i think it's really important to make sure that the first people complementing the look that's in the chair is the people that are in the center. So when i used to work, i actually worked in spain for four years with the beta and uh. It was a really difficult place in order to do anything besides and they had a very strong uh belief in their aesthetic. This was kind of during the facebook years social media presence that we have today and um. I remember like my very first cut, was a bob and it was considered quite extreme and i flat ironed it and the girl had said to me. Is this what you considered it's really hard now i kept that you know doing what i was doing anyway. That'S just the way i like to work, but i do think that you know when we were working in the swamp as a team. I would let the staff know you know during our team meetings in the morning who was coming in and what changes were going to be occurring was important, because i knew that you know if she was getting her hair cut off, probably the first person she might See would be the first person that would make her insecure, a mother or her boyfriend, two people that are going to have this connection to this person. That'S going to be, oh, my god, what you don't look like my daughter anymore. So now i'm just going to hate on you or my boyfriend or husband's, be like you, don't look like my wife anymore, so, depending on who those people are and how secure they're able to make you feel you have to be. You know kind of setting them up in a way to kind of build that confidence around them, so we used to lift like the whole staff kind of be super aware of what was coming in what was going to be done. That day, i said, look i've got. You know esmerelda coming in she's, going to be getting a really short haircut or a bang. Today, one of you guys needs to come over and compliment her while i'm doing it and it was uh. It wasn't that you know like it doesn't matter. If it looks bad just come over and tell her good luck, everyone was doing really beautiful work there, but so much of it is just first impressions of how people feel it's like trying something on. For the first time and uh not feeling confident, and then you wear it a couple times in people's eyes adjust and all of a sudden, everybody loves, you know what you're wearing and i've noticed that a lot of times, especially with like you know, bad haircuts, sometimes Really bad cuts or things that went too short six months later turned to, like you know the look. They really really loved any questions, guys just pull those guys just a bit back just almost last ones, and now we're just going to remove some of that. By approaching it the opposite way, and so now we'll keep the length and just start to remove the weight at the temple area and keep the softness through. Here it's almost like a round graduation approach except you're, really just trying to lose the corner and the layer and the graduation where they connect. Okay, just a little sometimes when like hair is like super healthy. It just falls really flat and a lot of the time. My approach with hair, like that, is to take a razor to it. An eraser just helps to kind of break up the texture in a way it just creates a really nice little grit, so we're approaching it the opposite way. You'Ll see it as i'm working. I like to like, like comb, the hair back into place, because i want to see if i need to come at it a little, shorter or tighter and make those adjustments, obviously using your guideline, but also understanding that when hair starts to get this short, you are Working off a landscape, and so you have to customize as you approach so some other things i don't allow, especially when someone's getting a big change. You know it's like i don't, like my clients, closing their eyes when i'm working, it's a big thing for me. I'M like i don't want any surprises. I i do remember. You asked me to do this, so i don't want anyone like this in a roller coaster, and - and i think that that partnership uh, is something that i would like to tell all the young people to focus on focus on building up like a like that partnership. With your guests and your clients you're working together rather than like providing something for them, you know they come and see. You there's an explanation, a consultation. This is what i can do for you at this point. This is what a six-month plan would look like if you wanted to get there. This is my advice and i think when you make it personal, you know with guests when something doesn't work out, it's offensive to you and to them, and so it's that detachment, which is so hard to do so hard to do. But it's important, i think, to make sure that clients feel that there's this openness hey if it doesn't work, go home, come back, we'll sort it out. Even if that means growing out that's important and it's hard something that you did and i kind of see you doing that nature. You just come into it, and i like is that you're like combing the hair back into the place and see how kind of kind of behaving, and i noticed in the past for myself. You know i used to like cut the head and drop now and, and i think you lose a lot of learning when you just cut and drop it's like when you color hair. You know, like you, see the color, you learn by doing it and seeing the results. Sometimes, if you just don't do that, then you lose the learning that happens as you can such a good point. I i uh. I think i learn every single time. I take a snip because the hair, it's it's cooking, it's brickling, it's craft work and so anytime you lay something down like you've been beating or so, like my wife is um she's, a textile artist. So even the she talks about the mark that the stitch makes every single time, even though the imperfection of it is actually what makes it really beautiful. You get something machine stitched it doesn't it actually costs less something that was handcrafted really. For that reason, and i think for you to fall in love with your stitch, you have to put the stitch in and watch it and when you you know you do it, you just you just start doing it really quickly, but i do believe, like you know, Water, sometimes i'll put a little bit of like a little product in the hair. Just to you know allow it to move water is an amazing styling product before it becomes permanent. So it's really really fun. Did you just even then just come back or might just see people? I was standing there. You couldn't okay, so approaching the top um i'm gon na. Do this bias technique, which is like one of the things that you could just do like to anybody when you're working with a short haircut, because it's gon na give you a really nice base, i'm going to approach it with two things and approach it with this Little layer from the top, just because i want to flatten out some of the weight, sometimes your pixies can get a little k plus eight. If you guys know what that is, you know what i mean, and so, when we're thinking of how uh like you still have uh, you know a pixie, some sort of shag and some sort of bump as being the staples for hair cutting fashion. So those are the garments and pieces that people go to stores and buy it's recognizable pieces of items. Designers work with that, because if they expected people to wear shoes on their ears and call them some new trend, it's not going to work because nobody's doing it. It'S not an item that you can just take, so you have to work up to that point. So pixie cuts your bobs and your shanks are all those like staple pieces like a black skirt, a t-shirt, a pair of jeans, i'm just making that up. You guys understand what i mean, and so, when you're looking at fashion and trend, what you're looking at is, how has the pan changed? It'S still covering someone's legs, they still put it on, but what is it that's different about it? Oh, it has accessories. Oh, it's been buttoned up, for it's got beads through the sides. What you'll notice as well is the overall like shape? Is it big? Is it flat, and so that's kind of what you're trying to do with hair you're, trying to pay attention to how fashion has changed the lines and you're trying to change the lines as well? So at one point it was really cool to have a lot of volume up through the top right now it's really cool to have beach waves and flatter, looks and more weight through the bottom and that's just how it changes and it changes very slowly. So you have to pay attention, so what i'm going to do through here is i'm just sectioning off the back area. I want to connect this back. Okay. What we're going to do is fold that same graduated angle, and i want to do it from here, because this is going to be the high point of the head. So i want to pull my guide in from here once i've connected, i'm just going to lift that guy now, if you wanted to do like a mia, ferro and work into a shorter fringe, you could take that angle. Make this the longest point and make that the shortest point, and that would be the affair. Okay and you would over direct your sections in you're, going to get some really nice disconnection through here to which you can point cut, and you won't have it all connected. Will look really really nice? Okay with something like joy? I don't want to go super short in frame, so what i would do is work more short to long and give it kind of like an effect that you can wear from side to side. Okay, so we're just going to work from short to long. You can see as well. I like to do things quite blunt, but you could also approach this with a texturizing technique. It'S just a simple, straightforward approach to a shorter haircut and i like having that as a base, because i think you know with something like that. You can pretty much do almost anything. You want okay, so now what i'm just going to do is i'm just going to start to pivot my sections just to give it a much more rounded feel so, i'm just going to come in through here, and this will mainly just be to remove some of The length and weight and the really hot candy bits from the top really and i'm going to connect and disconnect the sides at the same time. So it's going to be one area through the back or we'll pull them in and use this bias technique. This is just about getting it's tough to do that stage. Work dark loud, music people watching, but it's also an addictive experience as well. You can see when i'm doing this, i kind of stick to one side and i get joy to do all the moving, and i do that mainly just for like efficiency and hand position. So you'll find that you know on one side of the head. It makes it much easier to control is short too long. Sometimes, you'll find that you'll jump on the other side. You'Ll pick your section up, you'll try to do something like that and cut back, and your palm starts to push into the hair. It'S actually changing the angle of what you're doing, if you have the ability to very aggressively crack your clients head over and if the golden limp killed them. Officially gently could really work for you, so just by tilting your head over. That was a good laugh. It was a death joke, so what other workshops are you guys going to join today? What'S your plans just see now, just to give it a very loose connection? What you could also do is you can do these in channels, i'm not going to. You could do this type of technique where you go short to long clip that section away go short too long, short to long short, small, and then you could have all these different corners here to which you can texturize or blend okay. So i'm going to be taking these sections on a diagonal working forward. Okay, we're just going to pick up our shorter length just from the underneath, the parietal ridge and then what you're trying to do is sort of connect and then just leave that little point of length through the very top area. Okay, so again you could go short to long short to launch long. I'Ve also done it on a guy which is kind of quite cool. If you do this on, like a bob and stuff just make sure you over direct your sections back, otherwise, her client would look like dracula, not in a good way. It'S really short friends that will go right to a point like i'm that going to pull these back out. Please take the call now and comb it all to the opposite way. Take your section, so you get thicker towards you and then here we comb away from our and then you cells slide using just the tips and your scissors as you go up so you're really just sort of nibbling at the hair, no official eating, because it will Just sort of connect it quite harshly, this is just to give it a slightly overgrown. The shapes had a little bit of time to set and rest. So now you guys