Live Pixie Haircut With The Life Of Hair

Welcome everybody how we doing so uh for uh coming over to my channel tonight to see what james is gon na do. Uh super excited super excited. I made the thumbnail and put a few pixie pixie-esque ideas of what i was thinking. He was going to head towards so yeah, i'm really looking forward to it. We'Ve got a couple in se, uh lisa is saying evening. Everybody and tony is saying good evening: we've got angela, saying hi so hello to everybody and uh yeah james. So your first time well, no second time on this channel. Second time, yeah. The first time was last year: mate. Wasn'T it yeah yeah, a year ago, yeah a yeah. It was probably probably bang on a year, nearly bang bang on a year ago, yeah. So we came onto paul's channel with uh uh, a friend of paul's, but i've got to know him very well ian and we talked about you know starting youtube channels, and you know what that entails. It was good. We had a good time and then yeah back again now here to do a bit of hair cutting through tonight um as i've probably banged on quite a lot uh recently about collaboration, and you know creating good collaborations, and i you know for me this is exactly What it should look like, uh sharing of information across you know, people's channels um. So tonight i'm gon na take uh the the haircut that paul did and the color that i did and i'm gon na cut it down. Super short pixie-esque for you all to see and talk about you know, technique and and all different things like that, whilst we're going through the journey, i've left it just um come through so that you can see my pre-sections, because my pre-sections are relatively simple. They usually follow the same pattern on just about every haircut. I don't like to make um too many sections. I also like to leave myself lots of freedom to change my mind, which is something that i'm actually really going to focus on tonight and i'm going to really crack on with the wet phase, because i want to talk about refining and and manipulating a shape in The dry phase, so i don't want to spend a whole lot of time, cutting it wet and when i'm in the salon, i'm working i'm doing haircuts. On my clients, i do about 50 50 of the split the time about 50, 50 between wet and dry. So, for me, the dry phase is probably the way the haircut comes to life. So it's very much going to be about you know, manipulating this haircut uh on the dry end, because everybody's seeing people cut pixie cuts. You know i'm not going to go through and you know do a really kind of boring basic pixie cut. I want you to see the kind of creative process that i would go through. If i was going to create something unique and different, perfect mate, i can't wait to see it been buzzing for it so good evening. Everybody who have joined us so we've got uh georgie gary carter, john, my mum, suzanne we've got tina, we've got karen, we've got stacey, so hello, everybody, i'm gon na, come to the side. James is to do his thing. Get all your questions in i'll throw them at james and if i can answer as well, we'll have a little uh debate but uh yeah mate. Let'S, let's get into it good stuff right then. So i'm just going to drop in a really simple pre-section uh i've prepped, the hair, with a with a you know, with a cutting lotion, i'm using um one united man, united uh. I just like to i like to just use a bit of a prep spray. When i'm cutting hair just for keep the comb gliding smoothly through the hair, now the comb i'm going to use primarily to pre-section most definitely the side of the comb. I will use the thick end of this comb with the hook section. This is just a comb from a company called behave, but i always use combs that have got this hook. I generally use kind of ys part combs, i'm not using i'm avoiding using this one, because it's the only other comb i had at home for ages until they sent me this one for free, which was nice. It'S got a tooth missing and that's my pet hate. Um, someone thought i did it deliberately, but i actually don't it's just i didn't have another comb at home. All right, then. So what we're going to do is we're going to split the hair through the prior to ridge. So the priority ridge is, where is the parietal ridge drop it in the comment section down below? Where is the parietal ridge and while you're doing that, i'll tell you for the essence of time. The proprietary is the bone above the ear, so we're going to drop the comb onto the head as if we're finding the high point, we're going to drop it at 45 degree angle and where it touches down. That is the center of the parietal ridge. The next thing we're going to do is place our comb, where we want it to run we're going to put our finger on the tip of the comb and then we're going to draw a line pressing on the tip of the comb. All the way down and through to the back of the occipital bone just here so comb the hair, then straight up from that point straight up towards the sky. Separating the two sections that you just created and they're going to come from this point at the back and do exactly the same thing, but i'm going to comb the hair forward. So this hair is going to be combed forward. Just like that. We'Re going to then come from that point and we're going to aim to travel towards the same area on the front hairline through the center of the parietal ridge that we came from previously. Now we can double check for balance i'm slightly off, so we do need to adjust slightly and you'll. Be able to see that uh. This side is this side is fractionally higher uh than this side is so just need to make a quick adjustment. Once we've got our section in, we can adjust really easily just go back in check for balance happy with the balance comb. It all forward towards me clip it up like that, just out of the way nice and neat. So i've got something that is really nice and simple to work with voila we've got a little question: that's uh! When you come to the the nape area, mate, just to explain it so john's asked hairlines when the hair grows low into the nape into the center. Do you leave it longer and heavier, or do you go short into the hairline good question and actually carter? If we could save that question until i actually get onto the hairline and then i'm really going to kind of unravel, hairlines and stuff like that and how we can manipulate them for um, creative or practical purposes, cool any other questions mate, so we've got lisa who Can'T wait to do a pixie cut when we're finally allowed back into the salon. We'Ve got tina, who really struggles with short haircutting. So if you want to elaborate tina, then hopefully today we can help you and uh. John carter has just said brilliant good stuff right. Let'S make sure we are super in focus, good stuff right then bit of close-up action just so you can see exactly what's going on now. What i'm going to do is i'm going to start in the front? Does it matter if we start in the front of the back? Is the question lots of people? Ask me uh when i'm cutting hair and the truth of the matter is yes and no okay? What will happen? Is we start in the front? The tendency will be that we slightly over direct the hair towards the front because of the nature of taking a section in the front. But that is just a tendency, if we're very, very diligent, and we make sure we pull the hair straight out from the head square like this. Okay, it makes no odds whatsoever. It is just a tendency to pull the hair forward and therefore start to build up a heavier more graduated shape. If we start in the center back the eye, the the general idea is, then we pull the hair out squarer and we'll build up a flatter shape. As we travel forward so the over direction that we would generally create by starting in the front hairline will enhance our finger angle and therefore we're going to create graduation shut long to short. But it just depends on what you do with your finger angle and your sections in the instance of cutting this. I'M going to show you from the side here now. I'Ve tilted her head over slightly as well, because i, what i want to create is a little bit of graduation through this underneath section um, but and it's easier to just cut a square line with the head tilted over than it is to tilt my fingers back. Like that, with the head shape up like this, this is uncut. My wrist is already under tension, so save your wrists get your hand to put their head over and then just work in a much more relaxed square position. So i'm going to build up shape from this point to there, so we're gon na have a two inches of graduation in this build up of the shape, but as we work through the shape now, what i'm also going to do is i'm going to disconnect my Perimeter so i'm going to work with some disconnection, some visual disconnection that i will either keep or lose, and what i mean by that is, i will either keep this visual disconnection as i travel through the shape and once it's dry and refined, i will either then Make that shorter and cut it away or i'll leave it longer and softer, and that's where we can start to manipulate hairlines as carter was asking just a second ago okay, so my next section is one centimeter in width and one centimeter behind my first section, i'm Going to pick up my first section and my second section in one foul swoop now i will be over directing the front hairline back a bit, but providing the hair that i am using for a guide is in the is the piece of hair directly behind the Section that i'm cutting, then that is okay, just a question mate talking about guides, so tina's just uh thrown it back to us and said she loses her guide every time struggled with uniform layers in college. We had nightmares over that cut and i think it put me off so uh just talking about your guide. How would you, how would you keep your guide? That'S good, so so so the the the trick to keeping a guide is to make sure it's big enough. I think one of the things that people try and do, especially when we're in the learning phase of our careers, okay, um, there's my section there when we're in the learning phase of our careers, i'm actually going to come around the other side easier for you guys To see maybe um, we tend to like think that a guide is a tiny sliver of hair, and if this is going to be easier for you to definitely be a different angle for sure we tend to think a guide. Is this kind of tiny slither of hair that we need to pick up from the previous section? Don'T be afraid guys to make your guide really really visible? Okay really really pick up a lot of hair from the previous section and really make sure that we can see our guide. And i don't know if the quality on youtube is going to be good enough to be able to see that guide. But i've picked up loads of hair, but i'm only going to cut to the very last piece of hair from the previous section, okay and remember also i'm cutting downy down to just past. My second knuckle now, once i've cut a few sections i'll then go in and just cross track and cross cross track. Yeah crosstalk, my section uh cross check my section and make sure that there's only dust to remove, there's, barely anything to remove this hair. I'M going to leave on this disconnection through here, because i'm going to decide what i want to do with that lot later. Could you just put the mannequin head into the screen into the middle a little bit more? Please mate, yeah, perfect, yeah, yeah, perfect. The piece that you're working on right now is what tina says she really struggles with so um yeah, it's ideal. The picture quality as well. Mate is levels levels better good perfect. So we've got ourselves a nice clean section from the previous section here. That'S the section. We'Re working off of okay, we're going to pick that section up and some of the previous section we're going to make sure our body position is directly because i'm pulling the hair straight out from the head. My body position is directly in line and i'm going to then cut to the length of the section that i cut previously show you one more time you pick up this section hold it in my fingers. Pick up the previous section you can now see. My guide is there very clear, i'm going to come right to the edge of that guide, so i know that i'm not going to cut shorter and then i'm going to come through and cut down towards. My second knuckle and remember we're leaving on this disconnected area, but as we travel into the back, the disconnection will need to travel further down in towards the nape area, so again body position directly behind my section and cutting down and leaving this as a disconnection. So we can decide what we want to do with it later. We will lose hair here unless we do something about it, because this is where the hair density changes from this point. To that point, we will lose hair, but i don't want. I want a pixie cut, so i'm going to cut this away. Anyways, it's okay, but if we wanted to retain hair here and have like a bob esque outline, we would have to disconnect the hair further up. But it's a pixie cut, it's not a bob, so it doesn't matter. Okay, now we're looking for angles perfect, so we're going to keep moving through these back sections vertical sections, one centimeter in width gathering the hair up cutting a square line with our fingers tips just square straight up towards the ceiling which is going to build up a Tiny bit of graduation in our shape, okay, just a little bit of graduation in the shape, so that we're not cutting completely around the head shape again remembering to disconnect the hairline as we work through the back another vertical section pick up this section pick up the Previous section, keep your finger angle square. Make sure that when you before you cut the hair that you can visibly see your guide, if you, if you can't see it, just get more of your guide from your previous section, because that's the thing right when we, when we see a lot of people cutting Hair, it's as if it's like a magic trick and i'll show you what you'll see a lot of, especially on people who um what i call unpractical precision as practical precision. That is just really beneficial and useful, and then there's unpractical position position uh precision where they will then take this all this hair away and they'll be in like this and you'll, see them and they'll be like they'll, be like a sniper. You know trying to find their section yeah now, that's all right! That'S! Okay! That means that they're going to have no finger marks from over direction, because one of the things that you can obviously get when you pull the hair out. It looks like a mcdonald's sign because the over, because of the over direction from pulling this hair into that section, what we need to bear in mind is that when we pull the hair and i'll keep cutting, as i show as i talk as we pull the Hair straight out from the head shape: okay, we are diligent in remembering that we are pulling this hair straight out straight back to you like, so we're not over directing that hair unless we're doing it for practical reasons. Okay, so you can see on that section. It'S coming straight out from the head shape. We are doing that deliberately to ensure a flat shape and obviously my finger angles determining that i'm going to create a little bit of graduation at the top. I don't want tons of graduation at the top because i'm going to visually blend in the top, i'm not going to cut it in to the shape classically. But that's okay, because we don't have to do classic things. Now we're moving on from classics and we're doing things that are practical, so make sure our finger angles as always that our hair is coming straight out from the head and then we're not cutting much past. That second knuckle really important. Why is it really important not to cut past your second knuckle? Somebody tell me in the comments section: why is it important not to cut past? Your second knuckle couple of questions, so john carter's asked: could you not section off the areas first that you're going to disconnect you could john but um? It'S a more of a visual fluid thing than that and what you tend to get when you disc, when you create subdivisions and disconnections, is that you lose the organic nature of what i want to create. I want to create something that is organic through the edges, and so therefore it doesn't 100 matter whether every single section is cut to exactly the same point, but then again it more or less is anyway, because it's just sort of by nature. I know exactly that. I'M going to cut to that point and then i'm going to do it again. I'M going to cut to that point. So i'm cutting two kind of fingers length every single time. Does that make sense so yeah you could subdivide your sections, but i i want to create something sort of organic and undone and fluid. And when you put three sections in you know, you tend to then work to those pre-sections which is fine. But if you're looking for something that's a bit wasteless and a bit more natural feeling, those pre-sections can end up hindering your process a little bit. I'Ve been there. I'Ve done both and i find that if i want to create something very, very structured and hard and very geometric, then yes, i probably would subdivide these sections off. But if i want to create something a bit softer and a bit more lived in, then definitely don't dis, don't don't um, don't uh pre-section them off cool uh jade has asked. Is this going to be a layered pixie cut yep yep? It'S definitely going to have some layers in that top section, i'm just trying to work out yeah. It'S definitely gon na have some layers in this top section. Can you see it yeah? You can see that that's good in it. Yeah yeah yeah, okay, perfect so uh yeah, you're gon na have um layers through that top there and then we're going to keep everything kind of you know just really gentle and soft in terms of the overall. You know because when someone says to me pixie cut, i don't know about you. What do you paul i'll? Tell you what i think but paul i'd, love to hear what you think when someone says pixie cut yep so well, it's something short around the edges. Definitely the perimeter for me when you're talking pixie is um, something nice and just to jump in by the way everybody that says not enough tension. Bang on i'll. Tell you why, in a minute after paul's gone in okay, so yeah pixie cut is something that's um. Still feminine very soft, but it doesn't have to be cut around there around the ears, so something it's hard. Isn'T it it's hard to explain a pixie because there's so many variations? When i was looking for the thumbnail today, i was trying to allude to what you were. You were gon na, try and well get. I was guessing what you're going to do today to be honest, um, but something short back and sides, but still very soft, and then on top. It would traditionally be again a real short fringe and um texture like originally, but pixies have transitioned over the years to where we're keeping them a little bit longer on top, so you can throw them either side you can disconnect them. But to me a traditional pixie is short back and sides very soft with a nice short textured top. That is what my pixie would be um nice. So for me, oh yeah. Let'S talk about tension. Loss of tension just go before we move on. Look at my fingers right. My fingers are: let's put mine against that white wall. Everybody. I wonder if you can see that on the screen. Clearly, can you see the white wall through my fingers yeah, my comb can fit through that hole right so there's! No. I can get belly at my scissors through the top yeah after you know, but the bottom you can easily slide my comb in now. If i cut past my second knuckle, the tension change is apparent, and what will happen is this hair will be baggy and i will then automatically get finger, marks and kind of demarcation in my sections that i didn't want, so hold your fingers up to the light. If you can see the light through the bottom, then you need to never cut past that if you want accurate precision, if you don't want accurate precision fill your boots. Oh, do you want some questions yeah? I love some, so um tina's just saying she lost complete confidence in short hair, but i'm sure by just practicing and just um doing what you're doing tina and just doing that bit more education. You you you'll get there 100 uh kurt has asked. When i connect the top to the sides, i tend to cut off the graduation. I carefully put in only to leave client with flat flat sides yeah. So the the way we're going to connect the top in tonight kurt might be one of the things that really helped you out actually um, i'm not going to i'm not going to ruin it. I'M not going to be it's. No, no, no spoiler alerts here um, but i'm going to cut the top in to definitely enhance the graduation. But here's the here's one thing that i'm not going to do and it's something that you can do is cut your top in using horizontal sections relative to your pre-section at the top. So if you use horizontal sections, the tendency is that you will over direct them to the line that you've built up, and by doing that, you will then enhance the graduation that you've already created. The other thing is to obviously create more under more over direction. On the underneath of your section to absolutely ensure that you get the um over direction to create the uh graduation that you'd already diligently put in underneath but create using horizontal sections, and i have made a video on this - the difference between horizontal and vertical sections. In fact, someone asked me this evening about it and i sent them the video the difference between the two is that the tendency and again everything's about tendencies, because when you change your finger position, you tend to do one thing or the other. It'S just like a natural mechanical thing. So if we've got vertical sections like this, we tend to cut a flatter squarer shape, even though i am slightly graduating, i'm not creating tons of graduation. Whereas if i was using a diagonal, i would be building up something much heavier just because of the nature of how we'd hold your fingers so having different finger. Angles will produce different shapes and a horizontal finger angle will tend to create something a bit more stacked. So if you don't want to go through the way that i'm going to do it later, then you can use those horizontal sections. Perfect, um tony candy has asked. Well has just thrown it out there that we have not done the pixie. Yet we're still on one length and uniform layer which i'm good at i just have to get my angles right. Lisa has said: every area has to be at that level to keep the hair flowing. Also and jade has said what would you class as a pixie cut like what's the longest length it could be in your eyes, good questions, good questions, yeah um. Well, i mean the to answer to answer the latter, one which is probably the one. That'S got the most um questionesque. If you will uh the the latter one. I'D probably say for me and something that i was um a pixie cut for me is just something i always think: pixie yeah, the actual creature. You know the mythical creature, a pixie. They tend to have soft wistful um, loose textured pieces around the hairlines. You know when you look at a pixie, you know when we're there yeah, they can be tight and neat and all that, but it's kind of they're kind of softer we've got the kind of twiggy uh sassoon pixie cut engraved in our minds. Um. You know that was kind of geometric and neat, and you know that kind of thing, but when i actually think about pixie the word pixie or the or the mythical creature pixie, i automatically conjure up this idea of something that's a little bit more gentle. It'S got a very short, you know, uh very short, hair in it that, but you know the idea of it being kind of the more masculine shape that we kind of tend to create now, for me, doesn't necessarily make sense. So i don't know if anybody's okay, with the vidal sassoon haircut, the greek goddess, one of my all-time favorites and it's sort of loosely based on julius caesar's haircut. But it's obviously on a feminine i've actually done a video on it on the channel before, and one of my clients has a very similar thing on her hair um. But you know that julius caesar haircut, cut like in its purest form would be savagely brutal. But when it's cut in in a more kind of gentle formation, you know we're going to get something: that's more feminine, more easy to wear. So you know, i think uh pixie cut for me has been sort of uh uh encapsulated by you know what we saw. Twiggy wear but um. The reality is, i think it's probably for me should be a little bit softer, because twiggy was a very unusual looking woman and she could wear anything she wanted, whereas the rest of the world probably needs something. That'S a little bit more looser and a little bit easier to wear. Hence why i think, like you, said paul, that they've moved on a bit and they've gone a bit softer and a bit longer through the top yeah. So i'm just going to talk about scissor overcoat, i'm not really like i'm scissor, overcoming here, but i'm not kind of going to town on the scissor over comb, i'm just kind of using it to cross check with, because when you scissor overcome wet hair um the Tendency is that it will shrink back a little bit and then it will alter your shape because different bits of the hair will be different levels of porosity, but instead of going through section by section picking up the hair, i just tend to use scissor over comb To just cross check, as i go to see if i've built up any extra weight, especially in the areas like at the back here, where the two side sections have met. You know it's really really useful to kind of come in here and just you know lightly. Scissor over comb through these areas, just to ensure that you've created something that's a little bit more. Even i will go over it again once it's dry, we've got a great question from karen to do with just that mate. So i'm gon na bring up onto the green. Could you use clippers for this part of the cut yeah? You could use clipper over comb for sure um for this. For this point in the in the haircut um, i would always be kind of because we've got this disconnected outline it'd always be dubious to kind of go in with the clippers too hard, because i want to leave that, for you know, uh creating softness, and you Know being able to manipulate the haircut a bit later, but yeah, you could definitely use clipper over comb to sort of dust over. But again i would do that dry. Generally speaking, um, as i say, i'll, just kind of checking the haircut rather than changing the haircut does that make sense um so with this particular haircut. What i'm going to do now is, through this front area, i'm going to take vertical sections and pull it all out square and i'm going to cut in a fringe and then once i dry it i'll then connect in. So i'm literally going to cut that in and then i'm going to dry the head because, as i said, i wanted to get the wet phase in fairly quickly, plus i'm quite a quick hair cutter. You know i used to work in an environment that you know. We used to only have 45 minutes and we had to work to a you know a very specific standard. We had art directors that, were you know, busting our whatsits and um. We still only had 45 minutes to get everything done. Shampoo, you know, consultations everything. So i i became very efficient at that point. So um you know. I think it's just something that you know some. Even some of my new clients that i get they're like. Oh, have you finished cutting uh. You know i've actually finished. Your haircut, never mind finished. Cutting see you in six weeks yeah i get that all the time i get that so often. In fact, in fact, in the last last lockdown i got a new client um, one of our stylists left, one of the senior stylists left and um she's. Quite a slow, methodical, hairdresser, absolutely nothing wrong with that, but i got a load of her clients and actually had an email complaint saying that um. You know that he felt like it was over in a flash and i charged him uh more than he'd prayed previously, and you know blah blah blah, but mate you're paying for the haircut you're, not paying. For my time. You know what i mean yeah. Definitely great. Just asked um: how long would a pixie take you both in salon so, like james just said, he very quick cut up um my appointments would be 45 minutes, but we've we've adjusted now due to lockdown so an hour hour 15, but i mean a pixie cut. Would probably have it in within what 30 minutes would you say? Yeah yeah yeah, give or take depends on the depends on the the detailing aspect, but if just a basic pixie cut yeah 30 minutes yeah, because there's no blow drying involved is there, you know you're, just you're, just blasting it on you so and then i am Just going to cut this uh square straight out from the head shape like that, okay, it's going to look savagely wrong for a second uh, especially if i comb it all over. It'S totally like beavers and butt head, but it's okay, because we we're gon na we're. Gon na over direct each of the subsequent sections into the middle okay um, i'm kind of building up a square shape um throughout this throughout this side. So what i'll then do is once i've taken this subsection hit this new section here i'll create a subsection out of my middle section about 50 of it comb, half of it into the opposite side, and then i'll have half of it to work from on this Side, so it just is that first section was about an inch wide, but it was just to help me create a guide that i can split into two cool and uh james asked. Would you charge different, depending on style and length, for a pixie cut as opposed to a longer haircut? I uh yeah. I'Ve got i charge on time anyway. Um. Generally speaking, my appointments are on a 15 minute basis. So every 15 minutes it's. You know x amount of pounds um, so for a haircut now i charge 75 per hour um, and then you know if it takes 45 minutes, you know, would take 15 minutes off that price um, so yeah. It would all depend on how long it took. I don't ever have anybody in for less than 45 minutes, just in case they want to talk a lot yeah, you know and a pre pre. You know before i actually start cutting the hair. You know because obviously i've been doing my clients a long time um. You know they know me well that you know some of them want to have a good long, chitchat 10-15 minutes uh before i actually start doing their hair, so i obviously have to build that into the time and therefore build that into the price. How about you mate, um yeah? I wouldn't charge um any different, really to be honest. Uh again, i i yeah you get you get you get talked to for a while um consultation. Oh yeah. Consultation takes up a good 10 15 minutes anyway, and then you've got your shampoo conditioner, bring it back to the chair. Detangle section cut so again anything from 45 minutes to right now being the whole ppe to an hour and 15 minutes is appointments, and that is that is what i charge so i charge 60 for a haircut yeah, so janet bieler, she's, saying i'll bring up on The screen i'm actually making the big chop on friday, i'm 56 chubby and i'm tired of blow drying and using flat irons every day. I don't care much what others think i'm actually excited. Well, you should be it's so liberating to yeah. Why would you be worried about other people? Yeah? Definitely i thought it's just amazing, like you'll, be sitting in the chair. Just make sure the the advice that we would give you is just have a good consultation, find a good length, whether it be jaw whether it be cheekbones um softening around the eyes. Anything that that you can really consult with your stylist and make sure it's going to be perfect for your face, shape and everything like that. Then then yeah go for it. Um john has asked a question as well again widow's peak, hairline or odd growth patterns in the front hairline. Would you leave longer absolutely so? I would never do this if i had a never cut it in this short. You know this level of commitment. If you will, if i thought, unless i was going to bring it right up uh, unless i knew that it wasn't going to jump, you know i'm going to create a jump in there, but like um, you know with those peaks and stuff like that areas. On the head, where you know you know, you're going to get definite, jumping uh areas always leave them longer. You know this is quite a good one. If they've got a strong double crown because i've over directed everything forward, i've got a lot of length here to manipulate afterwards. So this whole top section, you know if there was growth patterns and stuff. That would be great. I wouldn't cut the fringe. This short, if i knew there was a growth pattern in it um, but i would definitely if i was going to go shorter than this, then this would be fine um. I haven't decided yet how i'm going to cut that front 100, but um i'd probably say for the rest of this haircut. I'M not 100 decided anyway, and i think when you get a bit more confidence and a little bit more freedom with the way you work. Like i said to you in the intro you know, the reality is is that you know you've probably seen millions of pixie cuts uh on the internet, but not very many people show you the kind of creative freedom that you can have. So that's what i wanted to do. I love it huh. I love it now. Looking at it, i love it. Yeah yeah, very creative, yeah, yeah, jellyfish-esque yeah. All right get rid of that nozzle, not deliberately, but just so i'm just going to dry. It off wrap, dry, nice and simple aim: the airflow at the roots, okay, and then we're just going to keep the hair under tension going to get my nozzle back and i'm just going to keep it under tension and aim the the the airflow along the hair. Shaft to create nice smooth finish to the hair and then just brush it backwards in the same fashion straight down. Just keep the hair moving. Keep the airflow aimed at the roots, really simple and effective way to dry the hair, basically uh one of my preferred methods, because it it you don't get any unnatural root. Movement from the hair. Nice looks great mate. I love the color coming through. I don't think you can hear us just wrap drying, for me is probably more than 70 of what i do on a day-to-day basis. Um. You know i do do a bit of blow-drying, but most haircuts that i do. I wrap dry because i don't want uh unless i know they're going to blow dry the bajubas out of their hair at home. I want to see it in natural fall, so i can manipulate it in natural fall. So we'll get to mozambique. Your question: it's a great question we'll get to that as well and jade um. So i'll. Just uh ask you a question. Mate. Um mazama has asked so curly hair, always i'll bring it on the screen. So you can see. Curly hair has always been a challenge. Can you please tell me what is the best way to blow dry and style the hair? Just emma, do you mean um natural like blow drying? It naturally diffusing it just so i can clarify um because obviously he said and also what product would you use for? Curly hair, so you mean sort of diffusing it, or do you mean smoothing it out just so we can be curly, hair, so diffusing. So obviously i've got curly hair. So i've got a bit of experience on this. One paul has two, so i'm sure he can help out as well always use a cream product. For me, cream hair product is is, is a must-have um, keeping the hair as still as humanly possible when we're drying it? That'S something. That'S really really valuable, so making sure the hair isn't turbulent and getting blown around all over the show, the the stiller you can keep the hair, the more or natural it can dry the better effectively the the better the results will be when you come to um. The finished result because i think one of the things that we obviously are used to maybe from perming days and drying, scrunching scrunching scrunching, to bring out the curl in the hair, but with natural curly hair. For me, it's literally leave it alone as much as humanly possible. I use a ys park, diffuser bag, which i've got in a couple of my videos and um linked in the description on all my videos. It'S a bag that you put on the end of your dryer and it slows down the airflow and heats up the air um. It'S absolutely fantastic in my opinion, and because it just keeps the hair nice and still we don't get any of that frizz turbulence. Uh on the hair, but but getting the right product and it's for me: it's always a cream based product distributing that through damp hair and letting the hair dry as naturally as possible. What are you thinking? Mate meet me for a minute. While i keep drying and you'll talk, okay, cool right, so james is muted, while he just finished off blow drying. So i'll go through the questions but yeah it's mazama talking about curly hair. So it is about keeping it as still as possible. Um a good moisturizing product, but but starting with shampoos and conditioners, that's the best place to start with curly hair, because, if you're not going to put the moisture into the hair, when you are effectively washing it and removing moisture and minerals and oils and you're not Going to replace it, hair's going to be dry anyway and then creams oils mousses mousses are great. Moistures are great for curly hair and i've. Just seen you said diffusing and yeah. I mean you've. Seen in my video, when i did the haircut uh was it two weeks ago i defused the mannequin head and i love diffusing, but i i've used the the diffuser sock that james is talking about, but on my ghd now and the the dyson i did have The diffuser attachment with the prongs, i think that's great - to really manipulate without getting your fingers in there and just teasing the curl um jade has said: do you like the mullets or the shag? Haircuts? Love them absolutely love them. I mean you'll see some of my videos. I'Ve done an interpretation of the mullet with a bob and called it a bullet. That'S one of my videos. I'Ve done the shag. I'Ve done one of those haircuts as a video as well love it. I see. Georgia wants a longer version, we're going to cut it, we're going to color your hair as well georgia when, when the salons reopened uh my mum, this haircut reminds you of the feather cut from the front yeah. Definitely with all that texture and the whimsical pieces that are there definitely uh tina. The color looks amazing, it does doesn't it. I mean i don't know what i'm going to do next week with the color. To be honest, it looks great um mazam was just agreeing. Yes, defusing and thanking tami is saying hello to james. Just arrived, didn't get notification hopefully can rewatch yeah tammy. I mean this is on my channel. So if you aren't subscribed to my channel if anyone's not subscribed, click the subscribe, the subscribe button and the bell you'll be notified of when me and james go live on my channel as well. Um because we'll be live again on my channel next week and then we'll probably again on the friday, like we did to unveil the color that i'm going to do next wednesday. So yeah i mean it's going. Well, you are you enjoying the the collaboration that we're doing uh, because we're gon na be doing a lot more, but i think he's done now. So, let's just switch me back on cool. Just gon na do a little bit of uh flat ironing bit of smoothing out just a tiny bit. I don't want to lose the texture in the haircut, though you know that's one thing that you can do when you flat iron, a haircut like this, is that you kind of end up with it being too smooth. So i'm going to show you how i avoid making it too smooth as well cool um. So when we are flat ironing the hair, what am i attached to attached to the rug right uh when we're flat ironing a haircut like this? I always pick up my sections and i make sure that they're, elevated horizontally minimum 90 degrees and then i just flat iron them straight out from the head like so just to avoid that kind of you know what you can end up doing is like pulling down Like this, you know you end up with this kind of very, very flat, uh finish to the hair, which you know. If that's what you want to achieve, then great, but if you don't want to achieve that, if you want to still retain some of the texture and movement, then just make sure that you're pulling the hair out 90 degrees straight out from the head shape and uh. Smoothing the hair out, and just you know the other thing as well, just be gentle. You know, i always think like you know, sometimes you see people straightening, hair and they're like i've seen it so many times. You know like watch stylists in there. They'Ve got this like frantic yeah, you know kind of straightening yeah, that's it. I just like to do like one pass, but just do it slowly, yeah. You know - and i know the manufacturers they all recommend that anyway um, it just gives it a much more natural finish for me personally, yeah who's touching on that james is um, although a lot of heat defenses have just upped their their level of protection to like 350 degrees now because they used to be uh, 230 degrees or 232 degrees is what they were and that's because ions were hitting like that level. But if you pass it and pass it and pass it all, you're doing is building up heat on top of heat. On top of yeah you're, creating friction on the hair, so you're surpassing the 230 degrees. That is very interesting information pool that i didn't know about. So thanks for that mate, yeah yeah, so the the new heat protectors are now 350 degrees perfect. So if you spray your chicken down and put it in the oven, it'll come out raw, that's it! That'S like the uh, the toasts thing. Did you see that that people were doing yeah? I saw that yeah so yeah. I'Ve seen that before, though i mean that that was that you toasted you, you could do that with the old with the old heat protectors, yeah um. You know that they reckon that's how they did that jesus spoof. Did you see that? No, where this guy put a piece of toast in toaster and uh, really yeah, they reckon that was done with like a heat, defense spray and a stencil right makes sense yeah, it makes sense in it, but um. This is totally off topic right. I love watching random, like science youtube videos yeah, you know ones that i just like do the most random. You know, like science, experiments that no one could ever afford to do apart from a youtube channel with like half a million subscribers um, and this is one where this lad has spent the last three months, trying to cook a chicken by slapping it cooking. It with friction so he built all these machines and basically, he cooked a chicken by slapping it uh 70 000 times. But it's taken him three months, hundreds of dollars, thousands of dollars to do and um he cooked a steak. That'S the first thing that he managed to cook: oh, my god, it is the most entertaining. I know it sounds absolutely ridiculous, but it has been the most entertaining thing to watch this journey of this lad slapping this chick until it was cooked. That'S crazy! Yeah! Sorry guys totally off topic, but but i asked i asked the guys if, when you were a blow-dry mate uh, if they were liking, the the collaboration that we're doing because uh i was just saying that i'm gon na be doing it again next week and then We'Ll probably do an unveiling uh and then i don't know, we've got some other ideas that if they want to see, then uh yeah bring it to them, yeah, absolutely yeah. We we we, we enjoy i've like really anticipated doing this today. You know like it's like a like, i would do like a full-blown show, yeah, um and, and it's been it's be it's actually. You know because obviously um you've been in lockdown and locked down, and god knows what and shows are all cancelled and everything's off, and i mean not that i do fashion week anymore. But you know the feeling the same feeling that i had today like anticipating this. This live tonight was the exact same feeling that i'd get. If i was going to do a full-blown you know show so it's actually for me is, is it means a lot to me actually in a really strange way, uh not in straight. I know it's not strange, really, if you think about it, it makes perfect sense, but um. You know the the the sort of slight bit of pressure, the little bit of nerves. You know it's wonderful guys, so i'm so pleased you guys uh. I didn't see what anybody said, but i'm i'm pleased that uh paul asked that question because it has crossed my mind you've. Obviously you know come back time and time again, so there's a certain degree of uh validation that you've been enjoying it um. But yeah i mean it's it's one of those things for me. It'S like a yeah, really really just a highlight of my week now. Yeah. Definitely i mean what have we got to do. I mean we do obviously film youtube videos, uh twi, twice a week, um or sometimes more. We do our lives and - and that's it i mean when we're normally on our feet all day, every day and uh and now our anticipation is these lives to make sure we're going to give you the information that that's correct and that you want basically yeah. I said mate: i've asked: how did you get the color on the block so jade? If you go over to i'll link it in the description in yeah below after this it's over on james's channel so last week, james did a color on the mannequin, which is this and then the week before i did the haircut, which was like a a lob Textured lob haircut and then on next wednesday, i'll be doing the color on this mannequin and on the friday, we'll do an unveiling. So if you subscribe to uh to james's channel as well you'll be able to go and see how we did the color, because it's a great color, i love mate. I love it. Looking at this pixie cut as well yeah, it's worked with the pixie cut. Isn'T it yeah the the color yeah yeah? I had the color in mind, you know what i knew i was going to wear it all forward yeah, because, obviously you know your haircut was sort of determined that in a lot of ways you know. So i like what i like about this journey, is every haircut was really dictated or every style was dictated uh by that very first haircut, because you know what i did after that had to be a certain way. What i've subsequently done has to be a certain way, so let before i move on just before. Oh don't kick my mannequin in across the room. Can you see i've just created through that disconnection? This kind of you know pixie point i like to call it. You know but lovely you know just soft and and loose, and i've just worked in very, very visually. So now we're going to go into this back section, there's a lot of weight a lot of length, but we're going to do exactly the same thing. So i'm just going to see if i can raise her up a little bit, i don't think i can work on a. I was looking at this earlier. I can't understand why i can't make it higher. Oh there we go just got a question from christos. Does the pixie fit any face, shape and uh, just just touching on that kristoff it will be down to what what you decide to to give your client. Basically, i know the mannequin heads are set out to be sort of like a perfect face shape and we can really go to town on it. But when you're looking at somebody's, if you've got a wide face, long face square face, shape heart oblong, anything it just it you're dictating just being a professional. What you're going to even maintain lengthwise or what you're going to cut off, but uh i'll. Let james yeah! Exactly that mate i mean. Look, i think when you've got certain face, shapes you have to manipulate the pixie cut for it to work. You know yeah. So if you've got a very thin head, you know and you put a comb on the side of the red and it's like flat. You know that dictates that you don't want to cut something. That'S high, you know, so it doesn't mean really tight on the sides and big on top, because they're just going to make their head go straight up. Yeah, you might want to build up a bit of shape bit more graduation horizontally, build out something that's a bit more stacked. So you might obviously then push it away from pixie cut a little bit, but you know - or you could do something similar to what i'm about to do, which is you know, there'll, be a disconnection here and this hair is going to be soft over the top Of it, so it's kind of it's kind of obviously just manipulating it to to suit your clients, face, shape and and needs um, and it's really really kind of super important that we yeah you can have. I think you can have a pixie cut on just about anybody uh, providing we sort of change some of the parameters of how you're going to go about it. So i'm just what i'm doing here guys is just literally creating this bespoke hairline and i'm going to kind of shorten it a little bit, because i want it to be soft, but i want it to be jagged. You know i want it to be really. You know you see a lot of haircuts. You know that that lots of textures - you can't just make through your fingers, you know, and if you want your haircuts to really stand out, you know from the salon down the road, maybe from your colleagues. Next to you, you know: if you're want to be there cooking bottle washer in your salon. You know, then you need to create something that is not just. You know straight through your fingers, because everybody can do that and there's nothing personal about it. So, for me like, when i'm working, you know, the personalization phase of every haircut is so massively important to me. You know it is what sets me, apart from everybody else, that i work with. You know making sure that i've created something that is slightly different. It doesn't have to be crazy, you know, but just slightly different, a tweak a little. You know um bit of this bit of that whatever there is, you know if you were a chef, you'd use a little bit of this and a little bit of that and there's few spices and a bit more salt, and you know to create something that was Completely unique to your style, and so therefore, by leaving hair on the haircut and doing the wet phase of a haircut a bit quicker, knowing that you're going to spend time refining my clients know now that when i start drying their hair, the clients that you know Write regulars: they know that they're about halfway through their haircut because i'm going to you know, sit at the back of their head. You know chipping away for the next. You know 15. 20 minutes creating a you know the the bespoke custom style and carter right back to your question at the beginning. If this client had you know a strong growth pattern or something crazy going on. Obviously, at this point i could make some pretty huge allowances, because i've got enough hair here now to really manipulate and change. This hair growth pattern to accommodate all sorts of crazy bits of movement that i might end up getting from. You know growth patterns and, and whatever you know so definitely worth leaving on the length, even just for that sake, you know and working it down by bit. You know, and you just get faster and faster at these things as well. It'S not something that you know has to take an age. You know i've got friends who take you know, hours and hours. You know they'd spend ages refining, but it doesn't have to be like that. You can work quite quickly, it's a sort of visual representation. So the technical aspect of the haircut kind of goes out the window a little bit um, it's just on these kind of perimeters and areas where you want to create unique shapes and softer internal movement. You know on the head basically and for me this is this: this is what brings hair cutting to life, and you know i started cutting hair in a very, very, very militant um. You know structured way, but with a small amount of kind of refinement. I then learnt from this fantastic french hairdresser, who basically only refined hair. His entire haircut was built of refining and it's a very parisian way of cutting hair and it's not really very translatable. It'S not something he could actually teach me.