How To Cut Short Naturally Curly Hair [Tutorial]

Hey it's Marchetti Breslin and I'm here with yet another tutorial. So in this tutorial I'm going to be showing you how to shape a growing out haircut. Now this haircut was cut. It was a disconnected cut, so this top portion of the cut here I'm going to spin her around this top portion was sectioned off and everything else around was cut the same length. This top portion was cut a little bit longer and everything was pulled to this side, as you can see here, and it was basically cut even for it to fall asymmetrically short hair pushes long. So the short hair is pushing everything this way since she's growing her hair out. She has this little pieces this little piece over here that kind of like flops over and it makes for an unflattering type of hairstyle. So since she is growing it out, what I'm going to show you, how to do is how to make everything through here, look uniform yet still hold a nice shape while she grows it out. Okay, so my clients, hair, has been shampooed and conditioned. You can just go wash if you want, she hadn't had a good shampoo in a while, so I decided to go ahead and shampoo, the hair, and now what I'm doing is I'm just combing through the hair, starting from the ends working my way to the roots. Just to detangle anything that may be tangled now I'm going to spend her around so you can see I'm just combing through the hair, making sure everything is easy to comb through now with this cut or this trim or the shaping now you can see right here. This has already been tapered in a little bit on the sides. I'M not going to touch that because I don't want to make this any shorter. So now, what I'm going to do is I'm going to section her hair off the part. Only the part that is going to be cut now you always want to work with clean sections and some sections that makes a huge difference when you're cutting hair see how clean my sections are. You want to keep your sections clean, just like that. Now I'm just going to come around to this side over here and I'm going to section the rest of her hair off before I start cutting. Now she does have a little bit of residue in her hair, so we're just going to go back and shampoo. It again and that's completely normal. Sometimes it happens, it doesn't mean you're, bad hairstylist, and it doesn't mean you don't know what you're doing it happens to everyone. Don'T let anyone tell you it doesn't now, I'm just going to continue sectioning the hair and then we're going to start the trim. Now the trim is only going to be on this top portion. We don't want to touch the sides now when you're doing a trim. You always want to establish or take a look at a good, close look at the cut. If you didn't, do it and figure out try to figure out how it was cut so that you know how to trim it so dissect it look in there move the hair around feel for it section it pull it out, see if you can figure out how It'S been cut that way when you go in to do your trim, you know exactly what you're doing now, I'm going to use my clips to section the hair and I like to use alligator clips. They hold a lot of hair and they're very sturdy, so I'm just going to place a clip right here and then the camera is going to come up back up to me and I'm going to talk to you about how I'm going to cut her hair in Order to make her grow out still look good and that look crazy with the little part that was falling all over like I talked about earlier, okay, so I've taken the clip off of the hair. Now what my goal is. My goal is to make everything starting here, because it's so much longer because it was disconnected - you see the difference in the length. I want everything from this point on to match this. Now everything is not going to match this, but from here on, I want it to graduate to be lower, so I want to connect the cut on the side that was disconnected yet maintained the length while graduating throughout now there's a lot of different ways. You can take these parts, you can go diagonal forward. You can go over forward, it's all about how you want the hair to lay, and in fact I'm going to do just that, because I want everything to be pushed this way short hair pushes long. So I'm going to start back here now. My guide is this short hair through here? Okay, so I'm going to pick up some hair from this side over here and pull straight out, and you see where my guide is I'm going to cut to my guide. That is now my god. Now you want to be sure to pick up hair from underneath and because our hair is short, I'm going to have to play with my sections a little bit, never cut past that knuckle and be sure to pick hair up from underneath, and you just want to Connect everything and cut it to your god. Now this is my guide now to retain her length, I'm going to be pulling everything back to my first section. Remember keep your sections clean and you want to use the hair from the side as your guide keep your sections clean. That is very important. I want you to pull everything straight back, no you're not going to be up here and you're not going to be down low, just pull it straight back. Okay, keep your sections clean, pull everything straight back! You'Re going to cut! I can see my guide through the hair now once you're done. Another thing you can do is come back this way and trim the hair or you can just leave it the way I did if it's everything you want and then you can cross check your work by pulling the hair and the opposite direction, just to check and Check for the graduation, so if you cut the hair at an angle going this way, you just part the hair in the opposite direction and check to make sure it's looking the way you want it to look and what I'm looking for is. This is graduation and it looks good I've already crossed check before I came back on camera and so now she's all done so we would just apply product and style the hair as usual. Now, as you can see, it's a lot shorter through here, but when it grows out, it's going to be a lot more uniform and see it's not that short, but with curly hair you have to you have to think with curly hair. When you cut off a little bit, it shrinks her hair shrinks about 60 %, so I knew with the amount of hair I was cutting off, that it was going to shrink a lot when her hair grows really fast. So when it grows back, it's going to look nice and uniform and she's not gon na. Have that big piece falling off like she did before. So it looks a lot shorter, but it's really not that much shorter and it looks good okay. So for this trim or shaping that I just executed, you may look at it and say: oh, I would have done that different. I would have done this or I would have done that and that's great because you are supposed to be creative and what you're doing with this particular cut. Though I was the person who cut it previously, so I know exactly how I cut it, so I knew how I wanted to trim it to maintain the shape when you're cutting hair. You need to be able to work in different angles. If you're going to come up at a 180 or 45 a zero, you need to understand what it means to be pulling hair at different angles and, with this cut with me, pulling everything back to that shorter length and cutting underneath it. That allowed me to graduate the hair, while maintaining the lid that was on that side and still connecting the cut on that side as well. Now what I will be doing in the future, because she's growing it out and I will go to the other side - and I will connect that as well. But if I do that now, she's gon na have a crazy-looking haircut and it's going to be Mohawk ish. In the middle and we're not going for that, so as we're growing it out, I'm going to start to connect the cut all the way around. So again, what I did this time is: I just went to that side and connected it throughout this side, and then it still maintains some of the length on the side. Now you may say, dang you cut a lot of hair off. I really didn't short-hair shrinks a lot, so you need to allow for that when you're cutting hair, if you're cutting straight hair, it doesn't matter but with short hair, it does shrink anywhere from 40 percent. All the way up to 80 percent so allow for that. When you're cutting hair, a good rule of thumb, is to cut way less, then you really want to cut off and you'll see that once it's completed it'll just look like they have a little bit of a trim. It'Ll look shorter, but not as short as my clients hair, so these are just some tips. These are this just some things that I want to share and you can find even more information than just this little tutorial in my cutting mastery series. So there you have it, I'm not going to take up any more of your time. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and I'll talk with you soon.