The Perfect Pixie Haircut Tutorial

What'S up guys welcome to today's class super excited to have you guys here with me and ben uh, we're gon na be cutting hair together today, uh we'll kind of we'll explain, but we're gon na be cutting hair. Two pixie cuts the same cut and then we're gon na go over how i did mine how he did his. Why we made different decisions? Maybe we didn't, i don't know we both recorded a video uh of cutting a round pixie haircut and uh. Now we're gon na compare them, so it's gon na be pretty fun uh. So if you guys don't know, ben brown uh he's a good friend of mine from the uk and uh. You know we. I'Ve learned a lot from him uh over the last year or so watching him cut hair. My sections have gotten a lot cleaner for sure, and i'm just excited to be here hanging with him and always sharing. You know different information and different thought processes on uh hair cutting in general, so ben. What'S up welcome to the show, hey matt thrilled to be here? Hey everybody thanks for tuning in today, what a great idea max had for this class, where you're going to get to see both of our pixie haircuts and then we're going to have a great look at. Why and how we both took the approach we did. So what a treat for everyone today yeah so uh, so here's the deal guys, so we um i'm going to share uh ben's cut first, but also i want to say before we uh, you know, go any further on this two things: let's do a little housekeeping Here, uh minervabeauty.com uh. If you guys didn't see my my tour video with them live yesterday, i went through their showroom. I was a lot of fun. They have a ton of sales going on for black friday this week, so definitely check that out. Uh go to minervabeauty.com if you're looking for salon furniture tools, they have a ton of new blow dryers all kinds of stuff available, so you guys can get those and also big news, big crazy news. 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This was a request from some of our subscribers to do an undercut pixie, but what we did was we took it into a classic round: graduation, on top with a very small disconnection on top that was isolating the apex and the front zone, but the whole rest Of the hair was cut into around graduation, i'm not going to say too much more, i'm going to let the video do the talking for itself. But if you have any questions - and you know what matt i can't wait to see yours, i've watched so many of your videos, i think you've signed up. Wait, can't wait to dissect it all right, all right cool, so it's gon na be super fun, so uh. If you guys have questions, make sure you hit q and put in your question in the uh chat and then we're gon na go back through and find those questions as soon as the video's over. So this is a very detailed video. This is part of ben brown's education, so we'll talk about that in a little bit, but this is actually paid education, guys that you're going to get for free thanks to ben today, so you can type. Thank you in the chat as well and like always all you have to do is share this video. That'S how much it costs today. Just a share. Please share on whatever platform you're on screenshot. It share it on instagram tag. All of us we'd love to see that as well. Let'S grow this room as big as we can get it and let's cut some hair, so uh here we go. If you have questions type them in the chat, we'll be back in a couple seconds here is ben's video, hello and welcome to this bb education cutting tutorial in today's tutorial. We'Re going to be taking you through a short graduation, but with a slight amount of disconnection to help you maintain some length on the fringe, but as well as maintaining a very, very short back and sides. So our mapping process is reasonably simple. We work very high on the crown almost into the apex zone, taking two four diagonal sections. The four diagonal sections will actually run to the recession of the hairline. This is to isolate the front zone and a quantity of the apex zone. This essentially will be the area that we're going to work to disconnect from the sections beneath it, enabling us to maintain some length on the fringe. The haircut is started at the side on a diagonal back section. In this instance, our diagonal is sitting close to the vertical to help us not build too much weight. Our vertical shape is pulled 90 degree from the head shape, so it's pulled directly out parallel to the walls and our vertical shape is triangle, which means it's going to be short at the bottom, getting longer towards the top. So that's our vertical shape. What you see me now is taking section two now, i'm lifting section one to meet section two. The idea here is: is that section one and section two meet in the middle of each other's bases, so we don't fully over direct section one to meet two and we don't over direct section, two fully to meet one, but in this instance they actually meet one Another in the middle to maintain consistency with this, we remove section one. We have section two and we have section three and once again our elevation is 90 degree. The shape of my fingers is vertically triangular, but the triangle is sitting closer to the vertical to ensure we don't build too much weight and give ourselves a weight line. As we take our section, we always remove a previous section, leaving us working with only two sections at once. So here you see we're working with sections four and sections five they're meeting in the middle, which is helping us maintain a round horizontal shape, so our shape going side to side is going to stay the same length, but our shape work from top to bottom is Going to be going from short, external, that's short on the outline we're getting longer towards the top of the head or the internal shape. So, as our sections run across to the back of the head, our sections increase our shape stays the same. This means, obviously it's going to become a lot shorter into the nape of the section. The only thing that changes is, as we start to work to the top of the head. You'Ll notice, i'm just slightly bringing the tip of the section down, so it isn't quite 90 degree as we start to work towards the crown or where the head shape in regards to the occipital bone, which is where the width of the hair is and the parietal Bone, which is where the head begins to round away, becomes really a large part of our section. If we didn't begin to change the elevation of the top of our section, we would risk removing the weight and creating a more uniform short hair cut, opposed to building weight and length around the crown area and as the head shape changes. This will enable us to give a more graduated shape, opposed to a layered shape, so here the very top of our section. I want you to notice that it's just a few millimeters brought off the 90 degree, which means it isn't quite pulled straight out. This is just to strengthen the previous point i made about maintaining the building of weight as the head shape changes. So now you'll see us working our section working long at the top and working short into the nape. This will cross over into the hairline working further into the other side at the bottom than the top of our section. So don't be alarmed if your section is crossing over past the middle of the back of the head. You see the shape it's giving us here. This beautiful short external shape, but giving us a long heavier shape at the top. This is now completed, so we're free to go ahead and start the other side. In the same way, it's diagonal back section working closer to the vertical pull down 90 degree from the head shape. Let me ask you a question at what point do we stop the ninth degree think about it. We made the point before about when the head shape changes. We also change the top elevation you'll see here that most of our section is working below the round of the head, and only maybe one fifth of our section is on the parietal ridge. The curve of the head, but you see when you get to the back, that totally changes. You'Ve almost got fifty percent of your section working above the round of the head, which is the parietal bone above the occipital bone, and the rest of the section is below so. This is why we have to take into account our elevation, so we simply maintain everything. We'Ve spoke about we're doing all our sections are pulled out 90 degree. The very top of our section is just slightly lower to ensure that we don't take the haircut too short as the head rounds away, but all our sections, especially the nape here, are working quite close to the head. So you'll notice our sections, the lower you go with this haircut, you'll notice that your fingers are closer to the actual head shape and the higher you go. The further away your hand is this is what gives us the shape you can see now, which has got a short outline, but a long internal shape, you'll notice, each section i take i'm removing the previous section just to ensure that i've only got two sections working At once, so my vertical shape is still triangular and my horizontal shape is still round what you'll notice here is. I now have a guideline from the other side. That'S the great thing about your first section crossing into the other side. It really helps us to anchor what we're doing and connect into both sides. That'S a great way of checking as well. Now we can restart the side we started with and showing me connecting to the other side. This is what i call cross over graduation is where i'm using a guideline from both sides, one at a higher point and one at a lower point. This enables me to ensure that my weight is in fact built around the curve of the head or the occipital bone and not built horizontally. This would give us a flatter effect around the curve of the head, opposed to the shape we have, which means the weight is following the curve of the head seamlessly and giving us a fluid shape. We will now wrap dry, the hair, ensuring we get all the bend out of the root areas, getting a flat resort, enabling us to assess our haircut and take the next steps. What we have got is an obvious weight line, but with our outline is too long. What you'll see me doing here is a scissor over cone technique, which essentially is where i take my comb. I take it vertical, not following the head shape just straight up vertical. I take the comb slow, but i move my scissors fast. This is a little bit like using a clipper, but the difference is this enables me to really vary the amount of hair, that's taken off and really build that around the head shape. In my opinion, this is a much more tailored way of giving a really short external shape, opposed to the clippers that are a little bit more definite and give a bit more of a aggressive technique. This gives a very soft tailored finish to our haircut. We'Re utilizing the weight line that we built in with our short graduation as an example of where we're going to lift our orange comb up and stop the cutting motion to see that as we lift away we're, ensuring there's no hair to cut so the higher up. The head: we go, the less hair we're going to take off in a sense we're still working with a vertically triangular shape. Sometimes it really helps we're checking our haircut to use the mirror. Here. You can see i've moved the mannequin head, so we can check if our shape is in fact going vertically triangular. Now we can go through working all the way diagonal back. In the same way, we took our cutting sections, ensuring we take our time and we're able to go through scissor, overcome up and soften our shape and give ourselves a beautiful short graduated effect. What if yours is overcoming and the hair is growing in different directions. Part of the section is growing anti-clockwise part of it's growing straight down and part of it's growing up. I would suggest that you always go if you follow the grain you'll only take off a certain amount of hair, so i would go against the grain. The hair is going so if the hair is growing anti-clockwise, i would take that section clockwise, ensuring i take off as much hair as i need once we've done the other side you can see here, i'm starting the opposite side in much the same way, but here You'Ll notice, i'm taking my section straight up and vertically, i'm not following the head shape. What would happen if we followed the head shape, we would remove too much length. It would essentially become a very short haircut, whereas we really want to build a graduated feel really into the core of this haircut. I will now finish and complete the scissor of a cone method. So now you can really see the end result of what we've achieved, giving a very short outline, but maintaining all the length on the round of the head and above the round of the head, giving a really really beautiful, short graduation. Now we release the hair on top it's time for us to bring that in and start to blend it in. But where do we blend it and how the idea is, it will blend seamlessly into the crown area, but it will disconnect through the apex into the front zone. Our sections will run from the 0.5 delta section working seamlessly into the front, so it's higher at the top of the section and lower at the front. So our sections are traveling. Four diagonal. We lift the section basing our guideline on the section beneath it. So we're still graduating here. Our guide section is lifted slightly, but our cutting section is lowered to meet the section, so it's getting longer towards the top all the time. Our cutting section is flat, which means we're cutting the hair flat to the head shape, which means it's going to be getting longer towards the front due to the head shape, curving away from our cut line, all our sections are pulled down to the same stationary guide, Meaning we're going to build the length quickly. We start on the same side, blending in to the crown area with a lower elevation. This means we're going to be taking off less hair, as our guide is coming from the crown and when we get to the front you'll notice, a very small amount of hair is removed. So that's section, one section two is taken the same, but it's brought down to the same guide, so we're rapidly increasing the length. You could of course change this. If you didn't want as much length or as much weight, you could of course change this due to the density of the hair or the client's preference once you've done this on both sides. It gives us a guideline here, we're just going to parallel point cut into the length to serrate and soften the effect, we're taking section two elevating section 2 back onto section 1, so the sections are traveling longer as they get to the front. Section 3 goes back to section 2 and we remove a good inch and a half of length that is excess, we're using the guideline from both sides, as we've set them with our graduation technique. Once this is complete, we just want to put the hair into the style. We want make some assessments and get some idea of what the haircut may need in texturizing. Once again, we utilize a wrap drying technique, but also a round brush technique to really get any bend out of the fringe. Now we're going to pull the hair cut out 90 degree and just parallel point coupler hair using some simple methods of texturizing to visually assess which areas have got the most weight. But what parallel point quantum really does you'll see here? It really gives a more fainter effect and helps to blend out any areas with disconnected it's. My feeling that this gives the client a very versatile feel to approaching and styling their own hair. As you can see here, our vertical shape is showing internal graduation and we'll just parallel point cutting to break up and deflate that shape, giving us much more softer blend. When i texturize, i often follow the same way. I'Ve cut the hair, so you'll notice. I started at the sides, which is where i started to base my guideline for the top. Then i went through and i started to do it on top once complete we're able to style the hair as desired, and that completes this tutorial. We really hope you've enjoyed it and we hope to see you again soon again for all of our subscribers. If you have any requests, if you have something that you don't think we have in our library and you'd like us to do for you, please send us an email and we'll be happy to make that for you. Thank you again. All right, ben brown nailed. It wait, wait, wait, so we got to talk and i got ta everything i have has like way too much energy to it. So i apologize. We just went from like your beautiful music to like whatever this is. I don't know, but uh hey. So, first off i want to say that that's you nailed that tutorial and i'm questioning myself uh. Let me unmute here: okay, okay, there you go so i'm questioning myself of doing this now, because that was good and i'm a little nervous to show mine. No, no! No, i'm i'm dead serious but uh. Here'S! Here'S what i like to think and the whole time i'm watching this, i'm thinking, okay, bad decision all right, whatever i'll own it and uh. That was a beautiful haircut. I can't wait to do that on my own and uh and the whole time i'm thinking well. At least we have a good trade-off me and you like i, i can help you with camera stuff and you can keep making me better at uh hair cutting. So we did have one question: somebody asked uh how long it takes you to to do that haircut, like let's talk salon reality a little bit yeah so uh. Firstly, thank you for your kind comments. Uh. I really appreciate that and i'm matt, i'm very humbled um for you to say that i'd like to say i only started filming my own tutorials um march this year. So that's really helped me. So. Firstly, that's huge. Thank you for, for all your kind words. Uh haircut wise, i take 45 minutes uh to work with a client. If i have a new client or if it's a change of style, i would have 60 minutes to 90 minutes depending on what it is. If i'm working with texture and or if it's a brand new client and it's a huge redesign, i may have an hour and 30 minutes. Okay. That would reflect the price um because sometimes sometimes i would need to really take a longer consultation or there's many factors. It could be length of hair. I also charge, i also sometimes take longer if i'm doing, hair up on a client. So if i had a client and then she says, hey guess what i'm going out tonight and i'm gon na expect that you also do my hair up. I would i would sometimes take longer than two, but that's obvious, but a general combine. Nine percent of my clientele is done within a 45-minute window. Yeah, i would say that's the same with me: um one thing that i would say to you guys out there listening like that's a good point and you know if you go to get a tattoo like you obviously have a consultation with them and they say well, This is a more um intricate uh design that you're working with it's larger. You know it's gon na take a lot more time, so it's gon na cost this much money. I think hair cutting uh coloring. All of it should really be based more on time and not just a standard pricing so like when you say my haircuts are 30 bucks. What does that even mean? Because you could have somebody come in, like you said, they're going from, you know, super long hair and then they want. You know some really intricate design. That'S gon na that you want to spend more time on, but then all of a sudden, you can't because you've got a 45 minute time window and that's all you're allowed like. We need to just make those adjustments because that's going to make hair cutting a better art. If, if you know people take their time, learn how to do this stuff. One of my favorite things about this video watching it with you was how you did the top, because i think you're going to see in my video. I don't really remember what i did um, i'm that's what i'm most nervous about, but uh on my video. I think on the top i blend it differently and i loved the way that you did, that kind of brought it down. It almost reminded me of a classic uh um. What'S that haircut called like a wedge and a wi-fi yeah, the firefly yeah yeah yeah yeah. So i liked that i, like the diagonal forward sections and we talked about uh in our virtual class today - um we're going over the fundamentals and uh the way that i kind of look at hair cutting is it's a cross hair, so you've got your vertical and You'Ve got your horizontal lines that you're creating and what you did was you created vertical lines all through the bottom uh in a way, let's just say they were kind of diagonal back, but you were creating a vertical. You were looking at the shape vertically slightly and then, when you went to the top, you shifted to that horizontal thought process. So you kind of work that line that way right. Yes, so i really liked that um that was cool. So anybody, if you guys, have questions, i want you to post them in the chat, we're going to go into my video and then at the end, we're going to do a long q, a any of your haircutting questions. We want to answer them. You got two of us here and we can probably work out an answer for you somehow. So yeah definitely super excited, i'm kind of excited and uh. So here we go. Let'S get started. Here'S my uh round, pixie cut for you guys. Maybe here it comes, i'm gon na break the internet right now. What'S up guys welcome to today's video today we're going to be working through how to cut a round pixie haircut very excited to bring you guys this full technique, so to start off the sectioning. I take a parting straight down the center. I go all the way down center back to the nape, and then i create two curved line: sections right on the top following that parietal ridge. Really following the round of the head - and i clip those two sections forward separately and we're going to cut into those later now. The next section comes off a pivot point right in that back crown area down to behind the ear. That'S another curved line. I clip that section away, do the same thing on the right side and clip that one away as well, and that's the basic sectioning of this entire cut so just making sure i keep everything, nice and clean and organized and we're going to work our way through Each of those sections as we go alright so now we're going to start straight down center back draw a vertical line, separate those two into two different halves and then i'm gon na start working diagonal forward and just keep working with the head shape. So you'll see nice, small sections make sure you keep those sections small, because the larger the section, the more you'll, tend to get lost and the more over direction you create within the cut so small sections straight out from the head. Then i take another slight diagonal forward parting. That'S also going to come straight out from the head. This is going to be a traveling guide, we're cutting around shape, so my fingers must travel with the head shape. As i go, that's what creates those round lines in a horizontal plane, so just working through now also look at my finger angle. It'S basically straight out from the head we're not building up a ton of weight in the back. I want it to be a nice seamless feel so we're coming about 90 degrees straight out from the head, as we work that 90 degrees will turn into a lower elevation as we work up the head shape so we'll start to build a weight line. You can see kind of that tip of my fingers there, where my uh my finger is further away from the head, so we're creating extra length towards the top, but then still keeping it that 90 degrees as we work our way down. So now i'm going to continue working through this side. All the way, through this panel, bringing everything out straight out to me, traveling, guide working all the way through. Let'S go all right so now we're gon na move into panel number two. One thing i want you guys to really focus on is how low the elevation is towards the tip of my finger. Look at that elevation uh. That hair is actually coming out of the high point of the head or the midpoint of the crown, so it's much lower than the rest of these sections, so you can see that natural shape, starting to build that natural weight line working through it. I think this is one of the key things about this haircut, so bring everything out to your body. Everything stays in a traveling guide and you just cut it all the way through to the temple area. That'S how we're going to work so we'll do that real, quick and then we're going to move to the opposite side, all right. So now, as i work into the right hand, side nothing's really going to change as i cut through this. The only difference is my fingers are now going to be pointing down. The reason for that is it's a comfort thing for me: consistency we're working with a diagonal forward parting. So i want to make sure that my body position i can be in the most comfortable state, as i cut that'll, keep me consistent. So for me, comfort equals consistency. So as i work through the haircut, that's what i want to do so we're going to work through this right side, all the way through traveling guide, same thing, uh and then we'll start on the top. So all right! So now that we've finished up the right hand side now, i'm just going to go through and cross check, so just really bringing everything diagonal back as opposed to diagonal forward, which is how i cut it first place so anytime. You want to cross-check something just do it the opposite cut it horizontal check it vertical. If you cut it diagonal back check it diagonal forward, you know so on and so forth, so go through cross check. Everything looks good. Now we're gon na work into the top of the haircut, so i comb everything forward, uh towards me and then i'm gon na give it a little saturation and then we're gon na start working. The top i'm gon na take a center parting all the way through and then we're gon na be cutting a nice, rounded uh, 90 degree layer throughout the top, with over direction straight back towards me. So you'll see that. So as i work through, i take a vertical section on both sides comb that forward, and then i start by bringing one side up connecting it to the previously cut section, and i start to round off those layers bringing everything straight up uh towards me. This is going to be now a uh stationary guide that i'm creating. So i followed the round of the head all the way around to the opposite side, connect it to what i caught previously there. So now we've got a perfectly 90 degree layer all the way through. That'S our stationary guide and i'm going to bring everything back to that point all the way through the top of this cut. What that's going to do is push maximum weight to the front, but give me a nice, rounded layered effect throughout the top and then we're going to go in and we're actually going to do some dry cutting to detail and take away that length that we pushed To the front in the end result so pretty fun technique. I hope you guys enjoy watching this part and then we'll get back to it as we get it dry. All right guys so check out all that length that we pushed forward, but all the layers that you see on the top. So that's what i really wanted to create. Now i'm going to go through and do a slide cutting technique to take away the extra length that we pushed to the front to also skinny up the edges so that when i go in and do my detailed line, it's much easier to cut. So you don't want to cut super thick hair and try to cut your blunt lines soften those edges. First, so just slide cutting through half closing of the scissor sliding it down working it through taking away that length just little by little and really etching. In my total shape, look at those layers pop already so now little point cutting lifting uh. This is not what the end result will look like. I'M just softening those edges first and then i'll show you guys how we do that end result all right guys. So what i'm doing now is i'm just going in that top section where we did that stationary guide. I just want to soften it a little bit with some vertical point cutting. So i lift the hair straight up. Go in with the with a point cutting technique not to disturb the line, but just to soften it, and i do that all the way through the top and then when i get to the front fringe area. I do the same thing that just softens that a little bit more so that when we move into this next part uh when we're cutting this blunt line, like you see here, it makes it easy, because that that hair, the density of the hair on the ends Is nice and light, so that is a benefit that comes from that slide, cutting the point, cutting all the techniques that we did in that that's very, very helpful in that situation. Now we're going to go through and create the hairline, so the whole outer perimeter of this cut. This is an artistic side of you guys that you can do whatever you want with this cut. So for me, i wanted to create this round shape. That kind of hugs the cheekbone a little bit goes down into that temple area and kind of showcases. What the hairline really looks like uh. I just think it's flattering for this round shape that we've created now do the same thing on the opposite side. Working through you can see nice hard line in the fringe, but a nice textured cut can't wait to show you guys how this looks when we start adding some product in there notice how i'm doing it little by little, i'm not going in i'm trying to take Out a ton of hair at once, i'm not rushing this um. This is a cut that you want to spend time on. You want to detail each edge. You want to just use the tip of the scissor. You don't want to push a lot of weight. Just really take your time and enjoy this process a little tease, cutting you guys know if you've been following me for a long time. You know i love, tease, cutting half open, half clothes, look it up, search it on our channel. You'Ll learn how to do it and then a little bit of a texture, scissor sliding through to finish off our end result. You can see pop of texture, love it a nice crisp edge to the haircut. You know this haircut might not be for everybody, but for me this is one of my favorite cuts. I'Ve probably done in a long time, so hope you guys enjoyed this cut. If you're new to this channel make sure you hit the subscribe button uh and like this video, if you can, let me know how you feel about it in the comments below thanks so much for watching i'll, see you on the next one by the way, guys Free salon, education is powered by my friends at minerva beauty, if you're looking to upgrade your salon, furniture or equipment they're the best in the business uh they've been supporting free salon, education for a long time, so go give them some support, uh check out minervabeauty.com and At minerva, beauty on instagram alrighty, so let me get back on the screen here. What'S up ben okay, wait, let me you're muted, hang on. Let me unmute you! There we go you're back. I think my wife wishes there was a mute button for me. That was a great tutorial dude, so i haven't seen that one before that was fantastic, okay, cool! So we thank you so much so we um, so that was fun right like so then i just watched like because i hadn't seen that video in a long time, even though i i think i created a couple months ago but um i haven't seen it in A long time and to watch like so i just did it the opposite of you, but it's the same right. There'S one thing i wanted to. I wrote a note about it because i wanted to bring it up. The one thing we did at the same was remote. You know when we got to the high part of the head yeah, we both dropped, the section yep see we pulled it out 90 degree, but when we got to the top, we both did exactly the same thing. We brought the elevation lower yeah to ensure we didn't flatten our shape across the parietal bone because, as the head shape moves away, if we don't incorporate that into our elevation, the hair is going to travel with the head, shape and you're going to get a more Uniform pixie opposed to a graduated shape, and how do we define these? How do we define what's graduate? How do we define what is layered? A layered shape is generally going to look more looser, more textured, and the lengths are going to be more similar in in their distribution. A graduated shape is where we're going to see a short and too long, so both haircuts had shorter external shape to a longer internal shape, so that just means it was longer on top than it was at the bottom yeah and that's how we really determined the Shapes graduation or layered yeah, and i love the difference like where you took the hairline. Like you cut everything uniform just like i did, but i left the length of the hairline and just kind of detailed it where you scissor, overcombed it and took it a little. Tighter and like those are you notice the difference, we did two different things. Two things different. We did that hairline different. You took it a little shorter than i did, and then the top we both did different mine was more of a uniform layered effect with quite a bit of over direction unnecessary over direction. Now that i watched that, like i didn't need so what i love is that i saw yours and now i'm like okay, if i would have taken those uh, horizontal, slight diagonal forward sections and brought them out and just kind of followed the head shape. I would have still been able to put that line in, but i wouldn't had so much excess hair to work with you know what i mean. The only thing you get when, when i work horizontal essentially is to ensure that i get loads of control with the shape going from the crown into the recession of the hairline yeah. Can you hear me okay? I know that i just want to be a bit frozen. My screen did, am i you're a bit? Your sound is good, though that's fine, i'll keep going so essentially, when i work with a section that runs directly from the top of the crown into the recession of the hairline, i get total control in how rapid or how slow the weight increases towards the front. So whereas you were using over direction for that, i used my cut line, but i i would still say i think, if you're working with a client that has a very difficult hairline at the front, um a car flick, we call it in the united kingdom. I think matt's way is better because you're going to keep more length at the front to control the hair growth plan. If you are going to go slightly tighter, you might want to work from the crown to the recession. They both have their merits. They both have their benefits. I really like when see one of the tips i was, i was taught a long time ago was when you do a short haircut and you start it from the the back. I think you are always able to get more of a layered shape. Okay, so your shape always will look more softer and layered. So this is great if you have a difficult hairline. So if you're working with a pixie, shame and your guest, your client has a really difficult hairline or a low hair line, and the scissor over comb just wouldn't work. I i would also work start from the back, like matt did um. If i'm working with someone where they don't want too much weight on the front of their face or if they do want a short to long like what i did was, i went very very short on the ear and the nape going to longer. Starting at the side will always promote more graduated short haircut, whereas starting at the back will always promote a more layered short haircut. The guy who told me that was called stacy broughton he's a he was an old sassoon legend stacy. Let'S talk about that because i don't know: i've never heard that um. So why why you know what i mean. So i do. I think that, generally, when you start the back you're working more and your crosshairs are vertical and horizontal, whereas when you start at the sides, you're working much more around the width of the head, so your sections and your sectioning is much more around the parietal ridge Into the parietal bone, basically you're trying to keep everything below the curve of the head. That'S essentially what you're doing your section, if it's closer to the vertical or close to the horizontal, an effect on whether or not you want to build weight or remove weights. So your section was very, very slight four diagonal, which means the weight is going to slightly travel forward, which is great. So even if you're working round horizontal, which means it's going to stay the same or you're, trying to build length and weight. When you start at the back, in my opinion, you are always working off the vertical, not necessarily off the curve of the head. So when you start at the side, your sections are much more promoted where you start and where you finish, is much more designated by the head shape. In my opinion, yeah. I totally agree with it um and it makes sense to think of it that way. Um, because and what's funny is, i must have just sometimes i'll like try to push myself a little bit and start a haircut where i wouldn't normally, because when i cut around short shape, i always start in the temple so like, even when i hit play on That video and i saw myself start - i was like okay, like that's cool, and then i saw it playing out and and then, when i went to cross check it, you guys should notice that we're watching uh, my cross checking was pretty much identical to ben's cut Yeah so like that, that's looking at a haircut in two different ways, but like i cut it, the just the opposite direction, starting in the back, but i don't i mean i i i always say matt. You are one of the most underrated cutters. In my opinion, you're cutting, i think, because you're so light years ahead of every other hairdresser when it comes to digitalization and things like that, and i get a huge amount of help off mats. Everybody um he's very, very giving. Even though, like i'm an educator, he doesn't see me as a rival. He sees me as a friend and he's helped me absolutely massively, and i do feel that matt's cutting it it's just as good as anybody's. In my opinion, you know when i was watching you work today. The way you explained it um, you explained a lot of things different the way i do, and i learned a lot from that and i thought yeah i i should talk more about that and, like i say, each haircut was for a different person, but everyone is That you should be learning like what mattel teaches matt will teach you the processes he's using and how that develops. A haircut he's not just going to show you a haircut you kind of want to fit. Like matt said you want to be challenging yourself. Thinking for yourself, but having everything start from a basis of you, understanding the fundamentals, yeah very cool, so uh, let's see if there's any questions and then, if there's not uh, and thank you to everyone's saying very nice things and it's super cool uh. We really appreciate all of you guys being on here and yeah. I don't really see any questions if you guys have any post them real, quick, get them in there, so we can answer them. But with that being said, i want to talk about ben's online education. That tutorial that you saw is from that collection uh that he has online. It'S it's basically a subscription service uh. How much is it a month, ben uh? It'S about fifteen dollars! That'S about 13 pounds, okay, so uh, so 15 bucks a month, uh! You know and you can watch his library and you post a new tutorial. How often are you doing that once once a week? Okay, so every week he put something out so um. You know. I think i'm i'm personally going to tell you guys right now that subscribing to ben and being a part of of my virtual cutting club, those two things together are the like in this. At this, current climate of digital education are two of the best things that you can do that tutorial that you just made. I'Ve watched your old tutorials that one that one is like so much more um, better quality, so much better quality yeah. You have definitely your editing is good, like the flow of it was great uh the voice over sounded good. Like i loved it, i i i learned so much just watching it so um. I think you know if you guys get a chance, you know. I you guys know i have the virtual cutting club uh, which is a little bit more expensive, but it's hands-on. Every week, uh every monday and tuesday morning, uh we get together on zoom and we cut hair together, um and then ben's. You know thing 15. Bucks a month is, is such a steal for the information that he's putting out so definitely where do they? Where do they go? What website do they go to for that? So all you need to do is, if you go on to, if you, if you're on instagram and you've got ben brown hair, there's a link on my bio and that's a very simple way to get hold of it. I just want to say to melanie who's. Just said she's watching between clients. Now i love that melanie i'll. Tell you why? Because i was always always watching videos in between clients to motivate myself. Even if i had a question, i thought you know what i need i'm doing. A few short hair she's got a really difficult, hairline i've just seen that tutorial by max he started at the back. You know i'm going to start the back, i'm going to test, i'm going to do it and what we are guys. We are a resource. Okay, that's what we are we're a very efficient resource, and you know, i think that i think for me, because i just give you a two-minute little thing about me. Is i re-trained at 34 years old i'd worked in a salon floor from 16 years old, with no real great training, just very, very good at the sales part of what we are as hairdressers very good at getting re-books getting my clients to the door um. But i retrained at 34 and i retrained using online education and i retrained using books, which is why i wrote my own book, the bb bible and which is why i produce my own online education. Because i produced it for me as a resource for people who were like me and what matt does is it blows me away? What matt does, because i try to film edit call matt literally, is phenomenal of what he does he's too modest to say himself. So i will say it for him. Thank you, but um. I tell you now in the headless community, when it really comes down to what matt's doing and the future of hairdressing matt is ahead of everybody. So, if you're watching these channels, i congratulate you on knowing what you're on about and watching the right person thanks ben. I really appreciate that um. So liz has one question: uh. Let'S, let's show her up here. I almost i almost said shut her up. I don't know why i said that, but let's shout her up, i don't know what that means. Um pixie cuts are my weak point. Do you have any advice sure? Can i get first map yeah? Of course i'm giving it to you. So i would say the biggest thing you can do. Uh liz is practice. Okay is, if you practice your weaknesses, they get better and stronger and stronger. So it's like working out at a gym, not that i would know anything about that, but i say the same thing yeah, but i've heard from friends that these these places are there and okay and it's about a pixie cut. In my opinion, when am i back? Yeah you're back yeah, i'm back yep, oh cool, so my opinion short hair right, it's more scary, because the margin of error is lessened. If you take off like three millimeters too much on a fringe or a bang, people notice it. If you take it off in a really long, layered haircut, they don't so. I would suggest that the biggest thing to do is: firstly, look at the short haircut that matt did and the short haircut like what i did and just practice those two, because you've got one that will help you to achieve short around the ear long fringe. You'Ve got another one that'll help you to achieve maximum texture, really sharp geometrical shape, that's more fluid to the head shape than mine, and also is, i think, matt's haircut was better with hair lines. I think matt's haircut would have worked better if there was a difficult crown or car flip, and i also think the hairline like give an example of a hairline. If the client had a low hair line - and you just over combed it, you then find it very difficult to shape with the trimmer where the hairline starts when finished, and that can look ugly as it grows out. So you might want to keep length on the hairline which matt started from the back and a four diagonal shape right. You know what it is. I i would say the more. I don't color her and i don't really know anything about coloring hair. But if i had to, i would have to learn all the basics as much as possible and the more you know the more you can do. I think in my opinion, yep so um awesome yeah. I think that's that nailed it and when we were talking about doing uh stuff in between clients, like i built this entire freeze, lawn education company in between clients, like it all started, and then after work, you know filming videos as soon as our wednesdays ended uh. You know and got right in there and just filmed, and then i would edit in between clients like there's so much. You can do in your spare time in the salon like, and i see it wasted too much like. I see it all the time so um it depends on what you want in life really. So it's not wasted time if that, if you're not trying to grow, you know from a career standpoint, but if you're trying to grow as a hairdresser - and you want to become the best that you can become, you have to study, uh and enjoy studying, because if You don't enjoy it. I think you're in the wrong profession, to be honest, like you should want to, like, i see like kristen uh lynn, um adele, like all of them. I'M seeing on here are part of my virtual cutting club, like they kristen's in between clients. Lin'S in between clients, like they're they're sitting there like just getting in a little bit before they have to run off, and maybe they can only make 15 minutes, but they make that 15 minutes like that kind of stuff is what makes people grow and get better. So um, you know ben you're, an inspiration dude. I i i'm so excited for the future of things that we can do together. Um. Oh definitely, you know for sure. So uh we got to do this again because yeah, it's fun, yeah. The uh, like the experience of like not knowing what your haircut was gon na look like, and i couldn't even remember what mine was gon na be like and just watching them together was really fun. So we have to do that and also ben's a lefty for you guys out there so on our fse now app. He has been kind enough to to give us a couple of tutorials off of youtube um that he has that have lefty stuff. So we have a lefty section: that's all ben on there, so um. So if you guys want to check out a few of his videos just to watch a little bit more of what he does and then i would definitely recommend subscribing to his uh education for 15 bucks. He can't beat it it's a tax write-off. Just do it and uh that's pretty much it so uh ben you got anything left to say no. I just want to say a huge thank you thirsty to matt for having me and words and everybody the whole community um it's. It is very inspiring, like you said, like lynn, lin. First here you know, everybody's in between clients rushing here trying to see their all over the world, the people from canada. I love to go to canada from ireland and ireland. I love ireland, i'm not far from ireland where i live in the uk. Absolutely so it's amazing to see everybody tuning in and taking time out that day to learn. That'S how we all got where we are now. Every great hairdresser started as an apprentice. I'M pretty sure i just started thinking about this, but because of where you're at and where i'm at, we can take over the world easily easily all right cool. Thank you guys so much for uh being a part of today uh. Let us know what you thought in the in the chat make sure you subscribe on whatever channel you're watching on and go follow ben at ben brown hair. You guys seen it the whole show uh right down. There go follow him on instagram he's always putting out. That'S kind of where i feel like i started upping my my sectioning game, a little bit and just being cleaner, because your short little videos that you put up uh, showing you parting, hair uh, makes me depressed every time i see it, so i it makes me Want to every time i see it, i'm like oh, i just got to get better and better at that, so uh so go check him out. Yeah yeah, so go check him out on instagram all right. Let'S see a couple more people saying nice things, education. After my kids loved hearing from matt the last year or two just followed ben to awesome, thanks julie, thanks julie, all right, very cool ben, i will talk to you soon. I'M gon na be safe guys, i'm going to call you on instagram right after this, because i want to show you my uh, my secret. That'S coming out on friday. All right all right see you guys i'll see you later all right guys. I hope you enjoyed that. That was one of my i think favorite streams so far because uh i geek out over this stuff - probably just like you guys do being able to see somebody uh what their thought process is and then just kind of geek it out together a little bit.