Short Womens Haircut Tutorial | Pixie Haircut | Matt Beck Vlog 105

So I decided to put some drone footage back in there get that going again hope you guys like it hope you, like the view of the new place all righty here we go what's up guys welcome to today's vlog today we're going to do a shorter haircut In the pixie family, it's not really a pixie cut, definitely more of just a short haircut, long bang, and what we're going to do is we're going to go in. I got the Mizutani typed v, dual texture scissor. This is a texture scissor that I love using. It'S got texturising blades on both sides, so it's a really cool scissor and I want to use that for all my texturizing at the very end of this cut. So I think you guys are always asking for shorter cuts, you're always asking to use the texturizing scissors. So I'm gon na show you guys some cool techniques to go along with that. So I hope you guys, like the video. Let me know in the comments below and if you haven't subscribed to this channel yet make sure you hit the subscribe button right now. So you don't forget - and you see all of our upcoming videos coming soon so hope you enjoy. Let'S get started okay, so we're going to start off with the most important part of cutting hair, which is sectioning off the head, and what I'm going to do is separate the top and the bottom. Whether this was a short cut, a long cut. It doesn't matter. You want to make sure you're, always sectioning off your work, keeping it organized so that you stay nice and consistent throughout the cut, with the goal that you had in mind. My goal here is to have a disconnected top, so I section off the top. I go right along the parietal Ridge, all the way back to mid crown. That gives me a nice rectangle on the top of the head. Then I separate the front in the back at the division line the division line. I really just feel the head shape. I feel where it starts to curve back. That'S where I make my parting. In this case it was right behind the ear and then I go directly down a vertical parting down center back and then section off horizontal sections from there. What I'm going to do now is I'm going to take a two-inch portion in my fingers horizontally now. Cutting a pixie cut, horizontal might seem kind of weird, but what I wanted to do was really create a strong shape in the back and stay consistent and also push myself to work horizontally. Because I think, if you push yourself to cut vertically and horizontally just as well you're going to be a more rounded hairdresser, because you're looking at the hair at all different angles, horizontal is thinking about it. One way vertical is thinking about it, the opposite way. So as I go through here, I over direct the top that first section pinch it together. What that does it gives me kind of a fringe II feel in the very back of the head shape, and then I start working up nice, small, horizontal sections. So, as I go around the round of the head, I need to make sure that I'm following the head shape and I'm not letting my hand drop, because what that's going to do is create too much weight. And then I end up with those lines throughout the haircut, so I want to create a seamless feel the only way you could create a seamless feel and a cut like this. Cutting it horizontal is to stay consistent with your elevation, so really focus on how high you're, elevating the hair make sure it's 90 degrees out from the head and then, as I start to work up, that crown portion of the head shape. Then I'll drop. My elevation below 90 just to start to build up a little bit of weight, as I work through. The other key thing that I want you guys to look at here is the fact that we're working around the head shape. So I'm not over directing everything back when you see the overhead view, you'll see that I'm following the head shape around, because I want to keep consistent length around the head shape as I'm working. If I brought everything straight back to me, the entire way see how I'm curving around the curve there. If I brought everything straight back to me, what I would do is I push a ton of length to the front and that would be more of a triangular feel or just pushing that extra weight towards the face, and I don't want to do that in this Cut I want to keep a consistent length around and continue that length into the side of the haircut so now notice my elevation drop throughout the back, so that I didn't go straight up from the crown I wanted to bring down that elevation. That'S going to keep the head shape and keep the proportions of the head shape nice. So I just work my way through that way. Now you can get a good look at how I pinched that hair together and that fringy look that it gives it because I'm over directing the bottom nape area up to my section. It pushes a little bit of that leg down which will give me some hair to play with once once it's uh it's dry and we start doing some of that detail. Work so same thing on this side working my way around the head shape horizontal partings clipping everything away, just keeping everything nice and clean. I think this is the key thing for you guys to really focus on is each section should be nice and clean consistently? The same size and then as you work through it, you can see I'm working around the curve of the head, they're, keeping a consistent length and just working that's going to create more rounded layers throughout it. So if you look at shape and you look at elevation - I was taught that shape has everything to do with your hands horizontally. So because I'm counting the head, that's giving me a round feel to the haircut, but then the elevation has everything to do with how much weight you're, keeping or removing. So I'm keeping everything at a 90 degree point until I get up to the crown, because I want seamless layering in the haircut, but I'm following the round of the head horizontally, because I want a rounded haircut. So if I want a round layered haircut, that's how I'm going to work through it so same thing here watch my elevation now because it will start to drop. The reason for that is at the bottom of the crown is where I want my weight line to sit. If you have somebody with even thicker hair than this, if they have more of a really heavy density, then you might elevate the hair a little bit longer. Then drop it right at the last minute, so it's really haircutting to me is kind of a dance in a way that you're working your way to a point and you're really passing that weight on as you work up the head. So now I'm going to blow-dry the back. This is something technique that I like to do. A lot with short hair is really finish. This section that I was just working on, because if I polish it out, I can really see it make sure the length is exactly where I want it. I can work out any of those calyx then I'll go through. This is my blacksmith fit six and a half inch scissor, it's a longer scissor than I was just using. I was just using a five and a half inch pipe kay, so this is a six and a half inch blacksmith's it. It'S got a longer blade. So it's a nice blade to go through and create a little scissor over comb cross-check work. So I was just cross-checking going through there dusting the ends. It'S not even really a cross-check, so I went through horizontally, but just dusting the ends making sure everything is flowing. Nice through there so now we're going to work diagonal forward and diagonal forward. I can actually see my guide coming through sorry guys. I only got the overhead view on this, but I think it's actually a good view. Point of view for what we're doing so just diagonal forward partings working my way across the head, shape again think about it this way. So if I'm working, if I was working horizontally across this, you would have a nice even line that follows all the way around to the face. So, even though I'm working vertically, I'm still taking small sections directing them straight out from the head to create seamless layers as well and also a round shape because we're following the round of the head, it's just we're working vertically, so we're working more with elevation. Same thing, on the opposite side biggest difference here is that my fingers are pointing down. We have a golden rule that your thumb should always be pointing in the direction you're moving. So because I'm moving to the right, my thumb is pointed to the right, so that just allows me to have consistent combing. If you think about how I was combing the hair on the opposite side, I was combing it away from the face towards the guide line. So in this same thing, I'm combing it away from the face towards the guide line. Hopefully I got that right, I'm not really sure, but I'm combing everything very consistent throughout the head. I'M working back with my type K. This is a five and a half inch scissor any time. I'M working precision I like to work with a shorter scissor, because the blade is stronger. Now I'm also going through and elevating just that top edge on the round of the head, because I tend to lose a little tension. When I go through and cut, you can see that the very top of that section is in between my fingers. That'S where I lose tension a little bit, so I like to go in and just soften it with a little point, cutting right around that to the head. So now we're going to connect the top. This is really what makes this haircut so. Everything for the most part that we've cut so far is very consistent cut with the round of the head cut with 90-degree elevation for the most part. Now we're going to go through create more of a rooftop kind of triangular feel on the very top of the head, so I'm going to over direct everything connecting that point to the side of the hair. So we take a guideline from the side and then I just draw a line straight up to create that point. So now I'm going to work my way across the top of the head until I get to about three inches away from the front and then I'm going to start to over direct everything straight back and the reason I'm going to do. That is I'm again kind of like a dance, so I worked three sections up. I kind of walk my way up to the front, keeping consistent layering throughout that. Then I decide at that point as I'm going to go around that round of the head. I want to push extra weight to the front, so I start over directing everything back, so you can see that happening there same thing here now. I'Ve got something to connect it to so I grab a piece from the side and I grab a piece from the top and just connect those the reason. I'M doing a point. Cutting technique is point cutting gives you more of a jagged edge, so not as much weight line build up. So that's I'm really just trying to create texture and soft softer feel on the top of the head. That'S going to come through in the end result when we start really polishing it out. I'M going to use my texturizing scissors as well there's a lot of things that are going to go into creating texture on this. We didn't need those nice hard, solid lines on there, so this is that front part that I'm just going to over direct to the center of the head. We could call it the high point apex part of the head. I don't want to over direct it all. The way back over mid crown, if I did that it would be way too long in the front you're already going to see that there's a lot of length up there. But we've got nice short layers working through on the top. So we're going to use our Brocato mousse on this is a really light. Mousse I like it. It'S got a medium hold and it's very conditioning so I like using that in the hair it doesn't make the hair crunchy or hard so we're going to work that through the head and then I'm going to do a blow dry flat, wrap so you're really going To know is me using that nozzle to blow the air overtop of the cuticle of the hair, adding a lot of shine. I think a lot of people - and this is just an assumption, but I think a lot of people with short hair would just do a quick blow-dry just to get it done, and then they would add product in there. What you're doing is you're taking out all the shine? If you do it that way, if you do like a power dry, so what I'm doing is I'm polishing the hair from the scalp to mid-shaft really working that air over top of the cuticle laying the cuticle down and adding that shine, then what I'm going to Do is use my Brocato vibra straight iron. That'S going to go over the ends, but before I do that, I want to use hot shapes. This is a cloud9 product from bark Otto and let's talk about heat protectant for a second. What I do is I spray that in it's a wet based heat protectant. The reason I like that is, if you think about it, when you spray something dry on dry hair, if it's a dry, protectant spray, there's nothing wrong with it. It'S great, but it doesn't really penetrate into the hair, so wet products are going to actually go in there. So what I do is I spray the wet heat protectant on there. I hit it with a blow-dryer a little bit. Then I polish, through and iron the ends, then you don't get damage on your hair, now we're using our type Z, duel, texture, scissor. The breakdown of this tool that I love so much is that because both blades are texturizers, there's no pull in the hair whatsoever. So I go through create that texture you'll see that I'm over directing everything to my side and then it's actually going to be worn on the opposite side. So what you want to do is over direct everything over cut through mid shafts, to ends to just lighten up the front of the fringe. And then we do the same thing. Point cutting dragging that texture scissor through the hair, but not getting any pull. Because of the type Z duel texture aspects of it, so now you can see all that texture I go through. I do one more quick, little flat wrap. What this does is gets all the loose hairs out of the head, and now I'm going to go in with joy, Cove, matte grip. This product has a lot more hold than I thought it would. So it was cool. It smells great, it's probably the best snow product I have here, I put it through the hair and then once I got it into the hair, I noticed I left it in my hands a little too long. So what I did was I brushed through the product into the hair. I put a little bit more product on my hands just to have it go in the hair, a little more of a wet application, so the longer it stays in your hands the drier it gets in the stickier it gets, which is great for people that want That hold you just to make sure that you go right into the hair with it and then you can start molding, don't wait, so you can see I'm working with that fringe area in the nape, adding a little bit of product. To that I love the way. The fringe kind of comes over, but has a lot of texture to it, so I think you guys will be able to utilize that technique for sure. Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below I'd love to answer those, but we're just going to finish it off. I got Burke, Otto's firm, hold hairspray just to give me that finishing touch and then we'll give it a spin for you. You can see all the texture in it, but also that expansion where we dropped our elevations, that pretty cool so hope you guys liked it. Let me know again in the comments below, so I hope you guys enjoyed the video. Definitely let me know in the comments below, if you have any questions, also hit that, like button share this video with your friends and if you're, not a hairdresser, but you were inspired by this cut. You want to try something new go to hair salon. Locator comm check out all of the salon on there. That'S our website, where we put the salons that follow SSC education. With that being said, if you're a hairdresser and you're watching this video and you're not part of our SSD partner program. Yet, and you should go to FSC partner com, get signed up, take the monthly classes that are live and they're free. 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