How To Cut Your Own Hair Into A Pixie Cut Or Short Cut

Hey y'all, I am back with a highly requested video. This is going to be how I cut my own pixie out how I relax my own pixie at home. Just what you guys have asked me to film for you, so I try to be really precise. I try to go step by step. The video is going to be long, but it's very detailed. I show you every single step of what I do at home to get my hair or turn off the way that it turns out. So I hope you guys enjoy it, I'm glad I finally got a chance to do it and I hope you guys rate subscribe to share this video, all that that's okay, y'all. Yes, I look crazy and normally when I do a video I put on some type of makeup, but I cannot play play around with this because as soon as I put this relax on my hair, I jump in the shower to rinse it out. So when I come back I'll look all nice, then you know done but right now. This is how crazy you look. So the first thing I'm going to do is cut my hair and I cut it before our relaxing, because the back is getting especially out of control, and this happens over a few relaxers and a few cuts for me. So I want to cut it down as low as I want it and then relax it. So I can get that really really really nice sleek look. I can relax it super hard and try to lay it down, but still usually when I cut it, there's going to be some texture left at the root, and I don't want that this time. So I'm going to start off by showing you what tools I use and then I will show you how I part my hair off and cut the first thing that I use is this tool, and this is just by Jill Bayer. You can get it at Sally's and has a comb on one in two blades inside combs. On the other end, and I switch back and forth this side was going to give you. I think this side is a closer cut than this side. I use them both the next tool that I use is a pair of shears and I also got these from Sally's. This is just regular standard, little set of shears, but these are really good, they're, pretty sharp. I think these were not like the like 9:19 islands. These might have been like 20 or 30 dollars, but it was worth it they're small. I can handle them really well and they are very sharp. The next tool is going to be, as usual, a rat tail collar. I'M going to use this to part. My hair is section off my hair to hold it as I cut it and a lot of times. I keep two or three of these because I'm picking up grabbing and cutting so you may want to have a few combs at your side before you start this process. The next thing you're going to need is a mirror of some sort. I don't apply out, but some sort of you know mirror so that you can see the back and sides of your head while you're cutting. I really really wish. I had that three way. Barber mirror and I've seen people with it, but I don't have anywhere to mount it in my bathroom. The way that layout is so it won't, it wouldn't work. For me. I'Ve tried to use the whole. You know. Medicine cabinet mirror that doesn't work for me. My eye ends up hurting because I'm trying to look to the side, so this thing to do is just get a mirror. I hate filming like that, because I think it looks so ghetto, but there's no other way for me to show you how I cut my hair other than for me to do it. The way I actually do, which is with a mirror and just film that so I'll, be using my mirror and get a bigger one. If you, you know, think that'll be better for you. If you're kind of new to this, you might want to get a bigger one and a lot of what I do is I feel at this point because I've done it so many times. So let's go so. The very first thing that I do is I take. You can take the rat tail comb or watch you come depending on how you know how much you got going on. I believe it it there and I just comb it comb and comb it all out. I mean I've even taken a blow dryer before and blown it straight, so that I can kind of you know make sure everything is like. I want it to be get on a kitchen back down, come on it out and yes, it's dirty because I'm getting ready to relax it too. So you might see a couple flakes but and then take my comb, and I just comb this section straight up because for me, as long as my hair is some a certain length, I'm okay with it meaning give or take a little. It could be a little shorter, it could be a little longer and I'm okay with that, when this section of my hair starts to get so long that my drying time increases, I cut my hair other than that. You know I can work from it being this short to the length that it is now, which is you know it's not that it's not that long, it's probably three inches! So I'm! Okay with that. So I'm not going to do like a major chop in the top, and the other thing is when you turn to the side. I do not like my hair to go like this up in a swoop. Some people like that on their pixie. It'S really cute. I'Ve sworn my hair like that I've seen people with their hair, like that. I personally don't like that. So my hair from here this box imagine this is a box. It'S all the same length, and I do that intentionally. I want it like that. So if I were going to trim it up, I would find my middle part just like this part off a nice little. You know section determine what length you want. Your hair thumb it up, and I would I'm just going to show you here. I would take the scissors and just cut straight across on my finger, and you can see little pieces still sticking up, go back and grab those, so that would be my guide and what I would do from there keep that section like. That is that's why I was good to do this when your hair is dirty too little stand up right. There grab the next section comb it up grab that guide and you turn to the side just a little. It may be hard for you to see, but when you're doing this at home, you can see and feel where that guide stops and you just put the same amount. You want to be careful not to overextend and when I say overextend when you take that second piece, you want to keep it relatively straight up at this kind of an angle straight up, because if you start to do this and you're grabbing your guide, what's going To happen is when you get to the front, you grab this piece and pull it all the way back when you let it go, this piece is much longer because it had to reach all the neck to your guy. So what I do a lot of times is: excuse me after I get a few pieces cut. I get to like this section I'll start to use the last piece that I cut. For instance, it would be this piece. I will start to use this as my guide so that when I grab my next section, I don't have to overextend that section to get to my guide I'll, have a new guide, essentially that's closer to the top, and I can keep that straight angle like this And cut it that way, that is how you couldn't. I think, that's pretty. You know a pretty good explanation, even though I'm not gon na cut the top part of my hair today, because it doesn't need to be cut now the size, and I do my hair section. So this would be a section like this is top square again, and I go across the back like that. So this is a section this right here and keep in mind. It'S not going to be perfect, you're doing it yourself, you're at home. You don't have both hands available like you would. If you were bending over doing this to someone else's head, so go easy on yourself. You want to get it 90 to 95 percent. Correct! It'S not going to be a hundred percent perfect. So that section I will come off now. Let me say something about this section, depending on the shape of your head, depending on your facial features, depending on the aesthetic you want to go for all of those things will determine how you cut your hair, meaning how far down you go when you create this Top section: how far up you go when you create this top section, where you start your blend, how far back your middle part is all of those things. I cannot help you with because they're personal preferences. This is how I like my haircut. This is how I, like my hair, shaped, I cut my hair for so long on myself, obviously, that I have just developed things that I, like you know a certain fade that I, like you know a certain length that I, like a certain shape, that I, like A certain shape that will give me the versatility. I need to do the style I like, so those are things you just gon na have to figure out for yourself, but they can be played with I mean you can do only this time and if you don't like it switch it up the next time you Do it gradually? So with that being said, if I were going to cut the sides, which my sides don't really need to be cut too much, either a little I'm going to cut the back mainly and I'm just going to UM shape up the sides and I'll show you how Perfect the shape of the sides after I'm done, but if you were going to cut your sides, you want to take pieces back so, and I have you know I like to waive my edges and all that. So actually I do this because I have this section of hair that is longer than the sides and that I don't want cut as short as the sides, because y'all know my ages be trying it they not that strong little weak. So I have to you, know fake it. So that's how I cut that, but for the sake of this video, I'm showing you how to cut your hair like a basic way to do it at home, I'm going to include it. So you would grab this piece and you know if you're, right or left-handed, if you're more comfortable, going underneath on top again, that's something that's going to be up to you. This is how I would do mine. You want to keep your hand parallel to your face. You want your hand straight when you're using it as a guide and what you would do is take these shears and you would just come straight down straight down straight down straight down: snip snip, snip, snip snip. You would cut all the way down if you miss a couple pieces here. You just slide your hand down a little closer to the you know to your ear like this. So before your fingers were up here, you just bring them down you're going to have that same guy slide your fingertips out to where you last cut snip, snip snip, so you're not going to cut that section, but I'm going to do a section behind and actually Show you, while I'm cutting and I'm very wild with how I cut as I know, my hair and I know how to fix it so something when I'm cutting my own hair and not for the sake of this video. I don't even part it. I just grab it but, like I said, I've done this a lot about a lot of time, so I'm putting the comb behind here so that I'm coming from the root out. You want to make sure you comb from the root out and you pull your hand out to where you want to begin your cut so like here and I reach over keeping the hand straight, and I just snip snip nope and I know it looks like you: Will want to cut an angle it's going to angle because of the shape of your head go down here grab another lower piece like I said you see how you can see that, where I cut just now and where I stopped just grab your clippers or shears Clicking shares go back down and that's what you're going to end up with, and you want to do that all from, I would say from here kind of, like you know this back part of your ear again, depending on how big your head is. How round your head is all those things matter. This is just a baseline guide. You have to adjust accordingly, but I do mine from approximately here up forward so from here. I will park these chunks off and their forward is where I would do that technique where I grab and do that. I'M just going to even up this side to match that side, and I will be back and show you that okay, like I said, I don't really need to cut it, but since I've trim just a little bit off the other side, I'm going to show you So this is my left hand, I'm right-handed, so my shears are going to be in this hand, so you have to also adjust that accordingly - and I literally I just leave this sticking out because I kind of eye and see what's even and what's not so I Pull this out - and here I go from the bottom up - oh just because I'm right-handed same thing see, then you want to get down, but it here clone that out and you can see that same thing that guy right there now hair is a little tricky. I only snip this part because I'm right-handed and this is coming over and I have this top part still in my hand, whereas on this side I only had what I wanted to cut in my hand. I have my whole section here and I can't switch around. I'M not that ambidextrous, I'm not good at that, like that, so I'm just cautious of where I last cut and I stopped there so if it's uneven, sometimes it gets a little uneven. This is a lot of back-and-forth for me. Usually I go back out, I'm just keeping that back up and I've even jacked. It up cut this too short head and go back cut this side. I'Ve done that tooth. So for me, I'm at you go I'm at an angle. So it's even I can look in here and pull these two pieces. I can see. Okay, that's how I like it. I would do that all the way up now, the back very cut this part. Remember just do the two sides see it's not that hard! The back from wherever you stop, your part is what we're going to grab next. Now I like this portion. I call it the ball of my head this right here. A lot of stylists that cut pixie cuts and have cut pixie cuts on my head will start to go with that shorter section here that slants down like this. I guess it would slant like that, and they start it here. Was it being shorter than this top part? I personally just don't like that shape on me, so I don't cut my hair, like that. I take this piece and I actually make it just just just just just a tad longer than this. So if this were my guy before, I just grab this and make it just a little longer or the same length, and I would do the exact same thing get it where I wanted and just you know, snip. However much you want to snip off the ends. I'M looking in the mirror straights to grab the next piece again, you have to do this to your liking. My bone is right there that the hump that we all have that hook in the back of our head. You can feel it. Mine is right here and when I look at myself from the side, I know how I like my profile to look. My nose is kind of long. I don't have a flat nose. So for me I want a little more thickness and fullness here to balance that out. I don't want it super short right here and then I trying to decide - and all you see is my nose protruding, that's just my personal preference, so I keep a little more heaviness here than most people probably would - and I use that guy - that we just created Here and I go down to about about a good inch above that bone - that's my bone. I stuff about an inch above it now, that instance above it. This is what I do. I want it to blend what I wanted to start to be shorter than the rest of my hair. That'S when I go back in with this and I I'm wild with this comb. So I'm just going to tell you if you're just learning, how to do this, be careful. Initially, I even cut my hair with clippers a lot of times, but I'm going to use the comb today, because I've been clipped versus like a bit much to film and for people to use it unless they're accustomed to using it. But I take this and start where the bone is, and I just do this and I mean I'm like you - can hear it - I'm raking I'm taking hair off. That'S how I like it. I want it short short short, not ball, but I want it very short. So I'm going to be aggressive with this and I move my ear. That'S another thing: you want to be careful of that's why I start from the back of my ear when I choose my sections that I'm going to cut on the sides, because I personally like for mines to start mine to start to taper right here. So I make sure all of this is cut short and I'll clean up around my ear later, but I move my ear and for me all of this hair comes off, so this right here, I'm gon na turn around all of that comes off for me. If you like it longer lower down, then obviously start lower down, but this is what I do and then I'll come back and show you how I blend that little one-inch piece of hair just above that bone. So all this is set. You see, I create it kind of, like a part, all that's low, low low low low like I wanted, so you take this little piece here. I turn to the side. You can see how I have a little bit of liquor, hump right here, going from this wing to super short now, if you're comfortable with these, you can grab your hair like this, look in the mirror and get your side mirror, and you can blend it like That that's normally what I do, but you can also do this hum your hair down with a you know your right tail column or your small to the common point yeah, and when you look it's going to look real crazy, but all this will bring in trust Me so it's like that, so what I do is you take this comb again lightly lightly. Like this, you want to go right. Where you want those pieces to land very light, go and you'll see it start to look much more blended and that's just what I do and it works and when you relax this hair is gon na. Look really nice, okay and once you do sides top back. You blended this in what you want to do, what I do I'll comb it like this, so they have pieces from the top and from the side, and I comb it out and I make sure they blend. So there's no like big chunky gap of like a long hair here and then suddenly short and my hair still pretty well blended for the last time. I cut it, but you can see that, like it's, it's fine, it's all blended! So it's gon na be fine. When I curl it, when I comment, do that on both sides make sure everything is. You know yeah like that, you don't want any chunks of hair where it looks like that. Don'T want that and just kind of comb it you know, check it out, make sure the shape is good. I like to comb. I like this too I'm gon na get my mirror and look in the mirror from the side make sure. Like I said, I, like my fullness here, so make sure that it's like calm. I like this is what I like, though it's heavy right there, but that's how I, like my hair, done, look at it from the other side same way and bound ready tall. I hope it helped. I hope you followed me. I hope you could see everything I was doing. That is literally all I do to cut my hair um. That'S it and, like I said my edges I leave out so I just simply do a diagonal and leave that hair and I cut it later with the actual sheers after it's relaxed and I'm laying it down in the strata. So that was it, how I relaxed my hair. I'Ve cut my hair at home. Oh guys, liked it see you next time, bye,