I Cut My Hair! || Pixie Haircut In Less Than 30 Minutes! || Home Haircut || Pandemic Haircut

I just do all the things hi, everyone, it's roberto with happy on the home front, thanks for joining me today, if you're new, welcome, if you're not new and you're, already a subscriber welcome back thanks. So much for joining me on this youtube journey of sharing my home, my heart, my faith as i tackle everyday life as a stay-at-home mom and homeschool teacher to my children, wife and keeper of the home and keeper of the pets and keeper of all the stuff. Um, i just do all the things so anyway, join me come along thanks for watching i'd love to chat with you in the comments below, and i hope that you also choose to be happy on the home front. Hi. Everyone thanks for joining me again here at happy on the home front in this video you'll, see me cutting my own hair. Yes, i said that cutting my own hair i'll be using clippers and scissors and giving you a real-time look at how i cut my hair and how i have for the past year because of the pandemic. In the past year, i've only had one professional haircut, and that was by my lovely daughter-in-law nina out of necessity. I had to figure out how i could get my hair cut when all the salons in our estate were closed for so long and then, when they opened, i wasn't able to take my children with me to get a haircut so out of necessity, i watched youtube Videos and tried to remember things my stylist did so that i could cut my own hair in my bathroom at home. Come along with me as i get this done. Okay, let's go ahead and get started, i'm in the bathroom it's before lunch time, i'm very, very tired! You can tell from my eyes my bags under my eyes are really big and dark, but i'm gon na comb out my dry hair. This is my bed head. This is how i woke up okay, so i'm combing my hair, so that the clippers will go through it very easily. I'M not sure if you can tell, but my hair is very thick and it is extremely coarse. It feels like i'd want to say upholstery thread. It is not soft and silky or fine. It is very, very coarse, okay, so i'm deciding that i probably want to pin or somehow gather up this longest part in the front, because i don't want to accidentally trim all of that off. Okay - and i do have my hair cutting cape on to try to keep hair off of my clothing in case something happens, and i'm not able to shower right after my haircut, okay, i'm combing again to check for length. I'Ve got my clippers all charged up and i will link those for you in the description box, they're from amazon and they're actually clippers designed to use with pets. They were just a really good price and had great ratings. We have an identical pair that we use on our golden doodle and our shih tzu and i like them so much. I just bought another set. Okay here we go. Okay, i've got my guard on okay, and that is the 15 millimeter guard. That'S the longest one that comes with this set and i knew i could always go shorter, but you can't put hair back on right. Okay, here we go, i'm going to go up and then kind of flick at the top so that i don't cut into the longest part of my hair. Okay, here we go. I do want to get the sides, and i do this not only because i think a pixie can be really cute on women, but because it's also extremely easy for me to take care of - and i just don't have time right now in this stage of my Life to spend a lot of time on my hair when my hair is longer it's wavy, but it's not wavy enough to be curly, and so i always have to fix it or do something with it or put stuff in it. So the pixie was the best choice for me right now and i'm just going all over the sides and back of my hair, and i will try to go soon here in more than one direction because down at the base of my skull, my hair does grow Sideways towards my nape, so i'm gon na make sure i get all of those here. We go. I'M trying to use my other hand to help me feel for the longest parts of my hair. In case i missed any. I definitely don't want to cut off all of that long hair on the top and the front. Okay, i'm just going over the back of my hair again, making sure i haven't missed anything okay. Now i'm going to go side to side and just double check that neck area. If you have someone who can help you or watch you, while you do this and double check things for you in the back, that's even better or if you have a setup where you have mirrors that face each other, then you can look at yourself and look At the back, but i was in here by myself - my children were entertaining themselves and i came to find out that while i was cutting my hair, my daughter was making a big mess. So, oh well, that's what i get, but i definitely did not want her in the bathroom getting in all of this itchy, coarse, hair. Okay, here we go. I'M gon na check this side now and make sure i do have a lot of gray hair. It'S coming in i'm almost 47 and since the pandemic i think i've only colored, my hair at home, maybe once um, okay, i'm almost done with the clippers. You could definitely go shorter if you wanted to whatever you like so so. Okay, now i'm ready for the next part of the haircut, i'm done vacuuming and i've taken the little barrettes out of the long hair at the front of my head, combing that out and just kind of looking at that feeling it, and i typically wear my hair To one side or the other, because i have a large cowlick on the side of my head that you can see right there, so i'm just checking the length there with a comb, and it is pretty long it's about. Oh goodness, twice as long as i would like it or longer. Okay, i've got my scissors, which my daughter-in-law instructed me to purchase in october. When she cut my hair, i'm trimming a little bit of the hair over my ears. I don't like it when it um grows down over my ears, if i'm not trying to grow my hair out, so i'm doing that on both sides. That'S pretty simple um. That is some kind of look right there, y'all, okay! Now i also wish i could get get back there at the very bottom of my neck, but i'm not able to yet okay now we're gon na get get going on this stuff. I do encourage you if you are planning to do some home haircuts on yourself or your family members to purchase some good scissors. I found this pair at sally beauty, supply, okay and right here would be a good time to part your hair on each side to get sort of a large center section down. You know the middle top of your head. I did not do that this time and i regret it later. Um everything's grown out now, but um, my haircut. What would have looked better if i had done a section or a part on each side of my head roughly vertical from the end of my eyebrows? Okay, okay, i have wet my hair with my hands um. The sink is right in front of me and the water is running. I have wet my hands and run that through my hair. I do not have a spray bottle. I probably should get one, but i don't have one so i just used my hands and i'm just running my fingers through my hair, to kind of get a feel for the length and where it's extra, thick and kind of bulky, i'm combing again and just kind Of looking and right there on the side right where that part is, would be a great place to do that part or that section, and i should have done that - a better job with that and done some um some layers on the side there. So it blends a little better, but okay, now we're going to start doing some some. I think it's called point cutting. I probably have that wrong, but it's basically my understanding is where you hold the scissors vertically above what you're cutting and you make angled cuts so that you get sort of a textured. Look on the end of your hair and sort of a chunky, textured look rather than one straight horizontal cut straight across okay, so i'm going to be doing that to various lengths of my hair on the top. So okay now turn toward the camera, and i'm going to be doing that again doing some point: cutting and sort of with some uneven lengths and not doing a straight horizontal cut across that hair that i have pulled up. Okay, so and that is going to help. Give me some volume up there, because i don't like for my hair to look straight flat to my head. I just don't think it looks good on me. I think it looks a little too masculine so um and i love that look of the hair kind of sticking up. It'S just kind of wispy. I don't know if that's trendy or in style or fashionable in 2020 or 2021. But it's what i like. So hey. You do what you like and i'll do what i like to my hair and we'll all be: okay, okay and more point cutting with an uneven look there to add texture and to add some volume um. One of my hairdressers that did a great pixie on me, said that the shorter hairs will help support and sort of hold up or sort of stick up the longer hairs. So that's why the different lengths are are good to have, especially with my hair being so coarse. That works really well with my hair texture. She said so i tried to remember that and now i'm combing to the other side, the side toward the camera, because if you trim your bangs a certain way, then you can part your hair on either side, and i watched my daughter-in-law do that for me. In october and tried to remember how she did that, and i'm also doing some point cutting there on the ends so that i just don't have a blunt line but you'll see in most of my videos and just like today and part of my intro. My hair is up off of my face most of the time, so there you go and i'm just finger combing that over to see how it's laying and, if it's getting too dry or getting bulky. Okay. Now i'm going through the top of my hair and all in these sections with some thinning shears, i do need to buy a new pair from sally or from a professional beauty supply, because my daughter-in-law sort of checked these over. For me, when she was here in october and they are very crunchy sounding when they cut um, because the blades are not aligned properly and they're, really old and so anyway, they're just not in good shape anymore. So i do need to replace those. But i did go ahead and use them this time and i'm just trying to thin out my very, very thick, coarse hair, which will also give it some volume and height, but will also take out some of that weight so that my haircut does not look like One of those current trendy looks that a lot of young men and boys are wearing, because i don't want to look like a young man or a boy, so i'm trying to get that to work. So here's what i'm doing there i'm going to be taking those very crunchy thinning shears, i'm all over this long hair and trying to get a lot of the weight out of that, and that will also help it look more wispy on the ends. Okay, now i'm going through my hair with my fingers and just sort of grabbing sections and running my fingers through to see if i feel any big thick chunky parts that need to be thinned and i'm also combing over to the side. And i'm going with my cowlick to see how long those bangs over over there on the left side of my head and how that looks, because i i don't want to look like an 80s band member um. I love the 80s. I grew up in the 80s, but i don't want to look like an 80s band member. I want to be able to pin this part of my hair out of my face, but so i'm just going through that and making sure that i don't have any really thick parts. And then i notice this little long piece sticking out behind both of my ears and i'm also trying to see if i can very subtly trim some of the long hair at the base of my neck. That grows sideways so that it doesn't look so noticeably long. You know in the past, you know in in the last 20 years, when i get my hair cut, various stylists have either like sort of shaved that off for me or used clippers, or they will stack the back of my bob and and deal with it. That way, but that that just runs in my family there's not really anything i can do about it unless i decide to wax it and um. I ain't got time for that y'all. I ain't got time for that today. So right there, all those little shiny, speckles, are really coarse, straight white hairs, sticking out because i haven't colored my hair so right there, i'm just trying to use my scissors to trim down the length of some of that long, hair and there's a bunch of hair. All over me, too, it's kind of hard to see and i'm just kind of giving a final look to see if anything looks really wacky. But this is all my natural color um everything had all grown out from the last time. I colored it in. Let'S see the end of may um, i did some home hair, color um. So now i've got my little handhead mirror i'm combing to see um. If there's any really long pieces back there. That bother me um, i'm looking through, and i think i see something long up there at the very very back back section of my crown so um we'll we'll see what that is. Okay and i'm not sure if you can tell, but i'm actually laying the scissors on the skin of my neck and scissoring some of that hair that grows kind of sideways, so um. So i can cut it kind of close. But it's not going to look irritated like a shaved neck. Would my hair get well? My skin gets very irritated from that. So i hold the scissors very, very close when i do that. Okay, now it's time for a quick vacuum up of all of that hair and as i bend down right here, you can see that long little piece, um sort of where my the back of my head and the top of my head meet it's a little little Blob of hair that seems to be growing to the left or pointed to the left. So right now i'm vacuuming and i guess i'm contemplating whether or not i want to get the clippers out again and correct that and then you'll see in just a minute that i do decide to get the clippers out. It'S long enough that it's noticeable either. I was checking it out again, so i okay, i'm going over that area, one more time going in both directions to get every little hair. That might be growing sideways, and i encourage you if you do decide to do some home, hair cutting and you use clippers. Um, if, if the person whose hair your your cutting is curly, make sure you uh use the flippers in all directions on that person's hair, because curly hair, because it is curly, has to be cut in all in all directions by the clippers. If you want an even cut okay, so here we go, i'm doing a final sort of going over everything with the body never clippers. I know my body i keep is okay and there was the final look and not bad at all for an amateur. Please subscribe and hit the like button and, most importantly, comment below i'd love to chat with you in the comments.