How To | Long Layered Haircut | Tutorial | Classic Haircuts

Hey everyone welcome to my channel i'm summer for those who are new today, i'm going to be doing a long, layered haircut tutorial a long layered haircut is probably the most common haircut in salon and i'm going to show you guys how i go about creating that Look on my own clients in the salon to get enough movement and shape in the hair without being too much. So let's get started. Okay, so the first thing we're gon na do is do some nice sections. Sectioning is key for any good haircut, even with something like as simple or basic is the long layered haircut, but section is key. So what i like to do first, is just take my first section right around the ear i kind of like to do it kind of right along the tip, as close as you can give, or take, and just pull that forward and then clip up into place And then we're going to repeat on the other side, do the same thing right around the tip of their ear: pull it forward twist and clip all right. So what i like to do is have my client kind of position, their head forward, a little bit really just when you're doing from the occipital bone down. It kind of just helps with the way the hair lays and then what i like to do with my layered haircuts. Really, actually any haircut is to do my back. Sectioning i'll just first go right down the middle and bring the hair kind of over to the side and take my sections off of that. It just makes it cleaner and easier to move section to section so clip up my first one here. It just keeps the hair kind of neat and in its place versus like, if it's all just down and you're, just taking random pieces and throwing them up, it gets a little messy um and then you kind of constantly are having to go in and replace make Sure the line is there and whatnot, so i just think it keeps it cleaner this way and then i'm actually going to take off a little bit of length um just because the mannequin head always needs like a good haircut. So again have them angle their head down a little bit and then we're gon na take off another good like inch and a half two inches actually all right and then again, because we already have this nice, like two sectioned off parts, we're just gon na. Take our next sub section. I don't like to go more than like a half inch um. You don't want to take it too thick to where you can't see your guide. So i just like to go in like half inch sections up through until i get to the top of the head and then we're going to comb down, see how easily you can see the line there and cut, even if you get to where, like you're having A harder time seeing your line, what you can always do is just flip the hair up. So that way, it gives you a better idea if you're having a difficult time, but again, that's why you just want to take small sections, and you avoid ever having to do that and then one thing i like to do as i move up section to section. Just to make sure my perimeter is even i'll, take the corner pieces and have them meet in the middle just to make sure that they're lining up all right. Now we can just adjust her head to move up ever so slightly and we'll keep moving up the head and then again just every so often check to make sure that your two corner pieces are lining up and nice and even and then just continue up to The very top until you get all the hair cut so once i've gotten through all of the back. What i'll do again is i'll check here, bring those two pieces forward, make sure they're even and then sometimes i'll, still just bring everything like back completely. So you can tell whether or not if that middle section is even, but it looks good, so we're gon na move into layering. Now, okay, so now that i've cut the back length um the perimeter before you move into layering, you can either do one of two things. You can either layer the back or you can go in and cut your perimeter on the sides i like to personally just layer, the back. So that's how i'm going to be showing you guys today, but you can have to cut the sides if you want. First, i just like to keep the sides clipped up because it just keeps the hair out of the way. So there's no like intermingling so to speak of your sections. It just keeps it nice and clean. So to take my first section in the back. What i like to do essentially, is just kind of go down the middle of the head for my first little layer section. So what i'll do is i'll go right outside the center of the middle push that hair forward over the client's shoulder do the same on the other side out of the way, and then i like the finer side of my comb to start out on the bottom. First, really just so, it pulls that hair, nice and taut. So i comb through a few times. Sometimes i come through a lot of times. It just depends, but we're gon na go just straight out. Try to let all that weight on the bottom fall out of your section. First, just so, you keep a nice not like heavy but enough weight here that there's no holes so i'll show you guys one more time. Okay, so we're gon na pull out nice and tight. Let that hair fall out and then you can see my little guide here, sort of where it's shorter and then we're just going to cut along that line, so bring it out and cut and then you're just going to go same thing. I like to kind of flip my comb just so we're getting all the hair pulled nice and evenly finer side to really get it pulled, taut, bring it up, let that last section fall and cut and then you're going to move into your top, bring it up. Let all that hair fall and cut, and then you're just going to move on to whichever side you prefer. First, it doesn't really matter. I'M just going to go to my next section so again take about an inch for your next little section. Keep that hair going forward and then just bring in from your one piece or from the middle. I should say comb through finer end of your comb, pull out, let all that bottom drop and then cut bring it up, cut. Okay! So now that i'm to this last corner piece right here by the ear, a lot of clients don't have as much hair in the front of their head than they do in the back. So usually with this last little bit of the back section. Instead of bringing it straight out, i like to angle it back more, so just so you're keeping a little bit more weight and length at the bottom. You can pull it straight out if you want and cut. I just personally always feel like. It looks a little too choppy for a long, layered haircut. That'S why i like to just bring it angled back and the beauty of that is. You can always go back in and cut more if you want to, but i feel like this is just your safest best way to go about doing it, where you're not jeopardizing the thickness or weight that your client does or doesn't have so you're going to bring It up and away more so keep it at an angle, and then i like to kind of just cut up with my angle and then bring it up and closer towards that middle back and cut okay and then we're gon na do the same thing. On the other side, so again i'll take sort of another like middle parting here and then bring all this hair forward just to try to keep it out of the way you can clip it. If you want um, if they have a lot of hair, sometimes that's easier, so i'm just going to lightly do that to show you guys and then again finer teeth at the bottom just so you get a lot of good tension on that hair. Pull it out. Let that bottom fall out, see your guide and cut and then the thing to remember with your long layered haircut, it's a simple classic haircut. You don't have to overthink it. It'S a great haircut to really kind of get you in practice of taking good sectioning and then again you want to flip your comb from time to time, just so you're getting the finer end pulling that hair, nice and taunt and just go along and follow your Guide, the long layered haircut, it's a simple haircut, you don't have to overthink it it's easy to flow through the hair, bring it out. Let that guide fall and cut, and again now that we're at this little corner piece here, we're gon na instead of bringing it out, bring it up and away okay and then final thing. Now that we've cut our layers in the back. What i like to do is just kind of go along the top section here. You can just split it with your comb or fingers, and i like to just bring everything up to make sure your top section is, for the most part. Even and then you just want to cut any pieces that might be a little longer. We just have this little piece right here and just blend that in all right and now we're going to move on to our sides. Okay, so now that we have our back cut we're moving on to cut the perimeter of the sides, i don't ever like to go in just pull it down and try to follow this guide. What ends up happening? You either don't cut a straight line or you take too much out or too little out so comb. It down, grab your clip and create a little subsection. I do it similar to how i do when i'm cutting the perimeter in the back like half inch size, sub sections just so you're moving clean and you're not like messing anything up, it's just easier to do it this way and then we're gon na just pull It down and then we're just gon na, follow that line and cut all right and take another sub section about half inch. Now, if your client has like super fine hair, you can sometimes get away with just doing in one big clump. But if that's not like baby fine hair, always do the sub sections for our last piece see even that is kind of a little thick. But you can still easily see through your line and, like i said you can always flip up your comb a little bit to find your guide. If, let's say you lose it, but i can see it there all right and now we're going to put on our layers. Okay, so now that we're going to cut our layers and on the sides i'm gon na, do it the same way. I did this last little corner piece. I don't like to bring it straight out, so i just again finer tooth side kind of at the bottom at first just to get a little bit of tension there and we're gon na go up and away at an angle, and then i like to just like Cut up with my angle and then move it slightly higher up and away and cut that top line, and we're just going to do. The next section make sure you've got good tension and then go up and away cutting at an angle. And then we're going to take our last piece going all the way back nice and tight and cut, and then i usually like to just kind of do it one more time, maybe not so far back, but just all the way straight up and cut. Maybe any little hairs that are sticking out and then we'll leave it for now and after we do the layers on this other side, then we'll talk about face framing in the front all right and then we're gon na again take our sub section. We don't wan na just pull all the hair down and cut comb down, see your guide and cut next section all right. So now that we have cut her perimeter, we're going to layer the same way as the other side, we're going to be pulling up and away nice tight tension and then cut up at that angle. Take the next section pulling nice and taut up and away, and then for that last piece i like to really over direct it back and again, i just go back through a little bit, bringing it more so straight up cutting off any of those top guys. Okay, so now that i have pretty much all the layers cut before moving on to face framing what i like to do is just kind of go across like the very top layer, i'm just gon na pull everything up and then anything. That'S in this middle area. Just cut then we're gon na do the same with the front, bring it all the way up and then just cut whatever is just at the very tip of that middle section cut it and then, if we need to just repart it if the hair gets out Of place with that, okay, and so now, what i like to do is just go in and check you can either. If you're, like, looking in the mirror with your client, pull pieces forward to the middle and see where they line up or you can come stand directly in front of your client and check that way, so that's just what i'm going to do really quick to make Sure her perimeter is even on both sides before moving into the face framing so usually the face framing pieces and a long layered haircut. The clients typically want them to be long enough that they can pull them back into a ponytail. So you're not wanting like this super defined like layered layer, layered. Look you just want it to kind of soften up this weight here around their face, so i usually will take a parting where it's right in front of the ear and kind of pull the rest back and just clip it out of the way i'm going to Do the same thing on the other side, so what i usually do is i'll we'll take the hair, take the very front piece and kind of pull it back to where it meets like if she was going to do a ponytail up top on her head and Where that is kind of make note with it, and then i will just kind of take my section and just sliver down with it to create my first guide and then what i'm going to do is just match up this other front piece with it. So what i try to do basically is just match up these pieces here and kind of do a similar angle and meet in the middle best, as you can alright, so i've taken my next section, i'm gon na come over, see the guide and just sliver down. You do want the hair to be quite damp when doing the front pieces so respray. If you need to and then we're going to take one more section: pull down. You'Re gon na pull the hair down, see your guide and then sliver and usually the very last piece is easy, just to kind of point cut into it and then we're going to match up on the other side. So again we have our guide here. You can either sliver down. I just kind of come up at an angle like this, with it, starting from the longest point and just work my way up to it. Now we have our next section we're gon na. Do the same thing. Follow that guide. You can even see where the shorter hair is right there a little bit and then just angle up into it, and then we have our last piece and just see all that just point cut it in and then usually what you can do after that is i'll. Take a little bit like right at the ear point again i'll do a small section, and then i just like to lightly bring it forward and i feel like it helps you meet any marks that are out and just lightly point cut that and then take your Next little section bring it all forward. You'Re, going to angle your finger and just cut this little bit this out, not trying to like create a whole new layer, you're, basically just checking and blending in you're gon na do the same thing. On the other side, part kind of right at her ear, take your section, bring it forward. You'Re going to twist to angle and just cut that hair that's out, and then we can also do for the sides. You can just kind of lightly bring the hair forward. If you want to to to kind of blend it in so another way, you can also check for your front layers. If you want to get really detailed. What i like to do is i'll again just do a small parting and you're going to bring everything up and over as far as you can and just cut out the little hair that's left out. I just find it kind of really like evens. If there's any little pieces sticking out, especially for face framing it just blends it in nice - and sometimes you don't need to - but it's just a nice way to double check. Okay, so now that we have her cut everywhere, what i'm gon na do is go ahead and get her styled, and then i'm gon na check through to see if we need to do any more point, cutting anywhere any texturizing just to blend everything in and then I'M also gon na curl, her too just so you can see it both straight and with some curls in there for the texture and movement. Okay. So now that we have her dry, what i like to do is go back in and i'll like point cut and blend and check my sections, and then i usually like to texturize just through the ends to soften it up and then i'll show you guys over Here, all right, so what i like to do is i'll just take some pieces out and i just like to point cut into them to just soften it up a little bit more and add some texture to it, see even that one. You can see the hair there that needs to get cut. You always want to make sure you're checking every single haircut you do and blending in maybe any spots that don't flow, and i personally like going through and point cutting at the end, almost every client just because it softens the ends a little bit and for some Hair types, it works better than like the actual thinning texturizing shears um. If you're gon na go to town with the texturizing shears, just always check with your client that they like that look and around the face. I still kind of will lightly bring it forward and down. You can see right. There needs to be cut just getting a little bit more shape to it. We'Re just going to continue checking all along. You can see all of that okay and then what i usually do for my very top layer. I will take my texturizing shears, i'm trying to show you guys. Sometimes you get a little bit of a weight line depending on how high up you bring the hair or how thick or not your client's hair is in hair is a little thick. Then i'm just gon na go in and soften that line. I just i don't like to ever go in straight across at the horizontal i like to angle my hands it just softens, so you don't leave any like possible teeth marks um you never want to just go in and straight up cut a hard line. I always still like to like kind of essentially point cut with my texturizing shears now. Obviously, if your client has like super fine thin hair, you don't need to always do this, but i feel like most clients, if they're not like real thin or fine. I always end up doing a little bit of the actual texturizing, with my thinning shears, i'm just in general, big on dry cutting. I feel, like you, have a little bit more control and can see a little bit better how the hair is laying or where you need to either take out weight or not take out weight versus when it's wet. That'S why i like, i don't like doing really wet cuts and they leave wet just because there's always something you've got to go back in and critique and fix um. So at my salon we don't even offer a like wet cut option. You get a blow dry and style so that way we can perfect any imperfections that are in there or mistakes, because once the hair is dry, it lays completely different than wet so yeah that softened it up a little bit more. Where you see much more of a blend, okay, so now that i've gone through and texturized everywhere, i'm just gon na go through and just check the length again kind of bend down. If you need to with your clients, obviously in the chair, they you can pump them up or down, but um yeah. She looks good okay, so we just have a nice long, layered haircut we've got a little bit of texture and movement in there. Her shortest piece comes to about right there. So the long layered haircut you just want some nice movement to it. Nothing too crazy, um just to really blend in everywhere. Let me show you the sides, i'm also going to curl it. So you can see what it looks like curled as well. Okay, so this is the long layered haircut curled. The curling always gives a little bit more texture and movement to it. Curling always does that with any hairstyle, but i wanted you guys to be able to see it straight and curled just so. You can see what it looks like in both ways. The long layered haircut is a simple classic haircut. It'S low maintenance, you don't want a ton of layers just enough to kind of soften the hair and break it up and take out some weight without it being too much for people. Key tips of this haircut sectioning is key. You want to really do nice clean sections. It'S going to help. You keep your guide where you can always see it, moving from section to section and layering to layering, no more than half inch sub sections when you're cutting your perimeter and always just take your time. If you feel like you're over doing something, just slow down, take a little bit smaller of a section and keep going, i like to flip my comb back and forth from the fine teeth to the wider teeth, so that way, you're really getting even tension all throughout The hair and just remember to keep cutting along the guideline if you're new to doing hair practice, makes perfect i'll link the mannequin below to where you can get them. I just bought them on amazon, so, if you feel like you need help, get a mannequin out copy. My steps in this video of how i do my long layered haircuts and i hope that i was able to help anybody out who was looking for some extra tips, leave a comment below. If you guys have any questions, i would be happy to answer them and i hope you guys enjoyed the video and i'll see you next week.