How To Cut A 12" Full Lace Wig Into Edgy Short Cut ( Very Beginner Friendly ) 2018

Okay, so this is the wig. This is gon na, be a little lengthy but yeah. So I did I like an unboxing of it, but I have no clue where that footage is so we're gon na start from here we're gon na start off by taking out this comb, because this is where your parts gon na go. So you just don't want a comb where, like it's just gon na look stupid, so you don't want to do that because it's super duper unnecessary and then, after this you take it out. You want to be careful with this because you don't want to pull in tear your lace. As you can see, I tore mine's just a little bit, but it's fine but the more accurate you are with this accurate. That is not a word accurate. You are with this, then the easier it will be so now that that's all you see this a little bit but nothing crazy. I went ahead and bleach the knots on this unit. They do not want a bleach but you'll, see in my installation, video. What I went ahead and did with this so from here what I'm gon na do is I went ahead and washed it and I'm gon na go ahead and give put the part where I want it to be, because of course we want a nice deep side. Part, that's hot Tiana's hair was, and I will be using my original version that I did as a reference and for that version I use the photos of her. So this makes it much easier, so we're gon na go ahead and part, and then once we finish part and we're gon na go ahead and put it into sections to start the cutting process. This is a fourteen inch, full lace unit with a searchable cap panel. In the back I'll put the link for this exact wig from a wig encounters below now I did notice something with this wig is that when I did the exact same thing, I did with the other one. My part is gon na change a few times. So keep that in mind, but I did the same thing, but you could see the cap on this one a little bit more than you could on the other one. So I'm assuming that the cap construction isn't exactly the same because they were not exactly the same. So this is the side piece where you're. This is the part. That'S going to go behind your ear, so you want to part this a little fur, the back, then you would just because you want to make sure that the whole section back there is part it. So that you can put a lot of layers on the side where it will lay flush to your head, so this is the back section, and this is where all of the well. This is would be this, like the second section. This is where all the layers would be within the back of the nape, all the way up to the crown of the head, and this is the bang piece that will go right here in the front, so you should end up with three sections just like this Parted off to make sure that you're not going to accidentally cut so we're gon na pretty much cut it all the same but yeah so dude we're gon na start here with the size. So that's the one that I wore and reviewed in the back, and this is the one that I'm gon na cut now. So what you're gon na do is you're gon na pull the hair away from the actual head like such and you're gon na cut. The thing that you want to remember with cutting is that when you cut away from your head and then it falls, it makes a tapered look towards the bottom. If you cut straight down and across it's gon na be blunt. So when you cut like such and then you go ahead and let this hair fall, it's gon na give that nice tapered look at the bottom of the hair, as you can see on the other on the other wig. Now in this video I could not find my really good shears, so these are some really bad dole shears that I had sitting around and then at one point, y'all gon na see me use like some really just a regular paper scissors, just because I just couldn't For the life of me remember what the hell my shears were, and I wasn't trying to leave until I was done so this is the only section you should be doing this with, and this is to create this back piece. You'Re gon na use this as a guideline you're gon na use this for a guideline for the back part so that it all kind of you'll see once we get there, so you're just pulling out and you're cutting. Now. This is the length of this. I'M going little by little because normally I would have cut way more off because I'm used to doing this, but you got ta. Remember that if you cut too much off, you can't put it back. But if you cut a little bit and you just you know you keep trying it on and make sure and it's gon na vary depending on whose head it is because some people's foreheads and faces are longer. So sometimes you might want to leave it a little bit longer, depending on the style, the desires so for the bottom section here. What you're gon na do is you're gon na go ahead and you're gon na pull. This out, like I said to do earlier, you're gon na pull it out and you're gon na cut it. We'Re gon na make the bottom portion of this so where that's part it shorter in the top of this longer, so that you have a like think of a seven just think of the letter set. I mean the letter. Seven, oh grow the number seven and how it looks it's longer it darts out at the top, and then it comes down at the bottom. So that's the shape that you pretty much want to do with this. Now, I'm doing it a smaller section. Just because I want to make sure that I don't end up with two slay they're, not you're, just too short and listen, you can always get scissor happy believing that you got it and you killing it, and then you look at it and it's too short. So what do you do? You know to have to add tracks to a full lace, wig defeats the entire person purpose. This could have just been a frontal. So to avoid that, and as you can see, I'm struggling with these really dull scissors shears excuse me, I don't got enough Beauty to go girl so yeah, I'm just going through just making it a general shape. I'M only cutting off probably about two and a half inches of hair at the most. You know not very much. I like personally to do this while the hair is wet for the initial cut, because it's easier to put the hair in the direction that I would like it in and then you'll see we're gon na round brush it and do that whole thing. So just take your time, because that way, everything which is it's gon na make a lot more sense. If you take your time with it, sometimes if it's gon na take you a couple of days to do it, take your time because again buying a wig, then wasting the money by jacking. It up is not very smart. If you're looking to try this for the first time, I would suggest doing this on a synthetic wig gives you the same situation. You know it's the same thing, all those synthetic wigs, don't really lay like this one at weight or if you just have a wig laying down all just laying around and do it as you can see. This is when I transition to the paper scissors, because those dull ones was just not worked and it did the job when I go ahead in text rate and all that I won't be using this, but for the initial cut I just couldn't, take it. No more. So, of course, it's not really. What you have is how you use it. I'Ve done full cuts with these type of scissors. I don't suggest it on real hair because they're terrible for your ends and it will give you the worst split ends ever. But you know the proper tools always work, but sometimes when in China mmm When in Rome, girls so going through and we're just cutting it. A little bit more and more and as you can see as I'm going down it's starting to get longer at the top and the back is more of a tapered look, because once we go ahead and start to bump it and curl, it you'll see why this Was done now, I don't know what it is about this cap, but it seems like the cap was put on crooked and then, as you can see like that line, it seemed like it was put on crooked. So that's why you can start to see. In my part, later on you'll notice, you can see it a little bit, which is fine. You just take some concealer and call it a day. So in this section this will be the banging part which is coming down over the eyes. So when you go ahead and cut straight up and straight across you're, gon na end up with a the same thing, which is this - you see it's blunt there, but when you let it go, it's gon na have this nice tapered swoop, bang feel within at the Top now for me, I'm cutting this based on what I see, because this it fits my head for someone else. It may be a little bit shorter. Sometimes it may be a little bit longer and always make sure you put, I like to call it fake body in it. So when you do round brush it or you bump it, you know where it's gon na lay, because sometimes, if you cut it to the exact length and you try to bump it, it's gon na be so she's gon na. Let me be moon, Beyonce levy. Cutter brings with those paper scissors like that, so here I'm just pulling it straight out and I'm cutting so that it could just go ahead and lay, and I'm just giving myself a guideline to understand that where is it gon na be short? Where is it gon na be longer? So then, when I do go in and round brush it, and it is longer, I can see what needs to be shorter and what needs to be longer again. This is one of those things that takes time and after a while you're start to understand, very easy to do, and I'm trying to keep this as in layman's terms. It'S easy because over directed under directed off based on base that confuses people and it kind of discourages people, so we gon na just say: pull this straight out to your chest and cut it. Okay, that's what we're doing so. That would be the side section in some of the bangs, but not really that's really just most of the side section this section at the top is the Bank section, so I'm just going through and I'm cutting all of the Bank section that I sectioned off in The beginning, I'm just cutting it all to one length so that it feels you know like okay, we're getting somewhere. The hair is getting shorter, but it doesn't look butchered. That'S that's pretty much what you want if, at this point, things are starting to look a little bit on the auto nose side, resection off everything and then not necessarily start over, but just reevaluate the whole look that you're doing. Does all your three sections have a section it's some pieces longer than others. So if the back is longer, then the sides - you know that's good. If it's shorter than the sides, you got a problem so, as you can see now, as I'm gon na blend these into each other - and this is the easiest way starting out to do this is to understand to work in sections some people, if you are, you Know watch professional hairstylist. They don't work in sections because they're used to it. They know what they're doing, and this is something that they do every day. But if you're a person who doesn't know what you're doing every day, sections will save your life and it will save your wig and it would save the hairstyle and always go longer and then go shorter once you actually put it on your head. This is still a wig block, so again there is no eyeline or whatever I'm using another wig. As my pretty much my guide. So at this point we just have a short wig with a little bit of layering in it and that's about it. So we feel like we really did nothing with eczema off and you think why you just didn't cut it all even around. That'S because you just doesn't that's not the look. So, as you can see here, it's like goes straight from this, like regular lace and then the actual cap starts to come in, but I didn't have that issue on this other one and they're the exact same wig because they sit me the same exactly I don't Know if the cap construction, like I said, was either crooked or what it was, but that was interesting so on this thought I was looking to see if I got the same feel like does it do this on this side too, and it did so as you Can see there is a lot of body in it now some I can see that it's gon na sit up like I wanted to. The part is still horrendous to me. I don't like it at all, but we'll fix it as time goes by. So at this point, you're gon na take your blow dryer. I had just round brushed some gray hair that I'm doing so excuse my brush, but just gon na go ahead and you're gon na round brush this, wherever you see where there should be a curve should be which would be at the end of this entire look. All of this look has a bump in it. That'S what you want to do so you take this and you go ahead and bump it. At this point I was just really trying to give it a shape. I wasn't trying really going for the whole. Like neat. Look because I know I have more cutting to do so. It really just didn't serve much of a purpose, because this part right here in the front. There are three sections that you're going to want to like bump this in so, as you can see this front section, I'm gon na go. This is gon na go towards my face, so the brush should be rolled like a roller towards your forehead. The side part, as you can see this middle part right here - this is gon na go down and then this back part is gon na go out. So there are three sections in this: this Bank area there's the very beginning, the middle and the bag. So don't forget that, because if you try to do this, I I'm telling you you do this part wrong. It'S gon na easily turn into somebody's aunties. It'S gon na really be the auntie style. I'M just saying you know you don't something you want the reason why this is so edgy cuz, it's split up and it looks more effortless and more chic. Don'T worry about the ends of this being curly, because we're gon na handle that in a second, but all you want to do is give yourself. You see that body in that root area. That'S what you want to keep! That'S what you want. So after a while. You should probably end up with the nice little school pictures get down popping off like I could put a barrette missing and send somebody on their way. So I'm just go ahead and I'm just round brushing this whole section to make sure that it has a nice hard bump in it, because I am gon na go through after and change. So you can see all those layers that we cut are now starting to pop up. All of it is stout now starting to look like a style starting more resemble what we're going for and when here's, what this it tends to do that you just don't know what the hell it's looking like just saying, but I want to thank fabrics for actually Sending me another one of these wigs to to actually try this on. Because again, I wanted to show you guys this, and it was my first time in a long time doing a cut like this, so I didn't want to record it because I know how frustrating it is to record you don't know when you're trying to do something. This all of this stuff that I'm doing right now takes a lot of work to put the lights and the camera make sure everything is angle. Writing it's in focus for a simple haircut now, as you can see we starting to get some good old Schmoke guard. I mean that I only submitting that good old bump up in there and again it doesn't have to be perfect, but it needs to just have some type of body in it. So I can kind of see how everything is laying and what we're gon na go with it. So at this point you should have pretty much short on the side. The back should be longer and your bangs should have a hell of a bump in it. That'S where we should be it again, don't worry about the part, because we're gon na go ahead, do a little makeup trick with that. That'S the only thing I didn't like about this unit and I kind of struggle with on my other one is that the knots didn't they were very frustrating to bleach, so you're gon na take your pressing calm. You guys know I've been doing this on my channel for years and we're gon na just go in too late this side. This is the side. It'S gon na go flesh up on your the side of your face. So you want this to look as flat as possible and again this is you're gon na cut this lace off, so you want it to look like as if it's coming from your scalp, you do a little bit of edge, control and or hairspray on it, and You just went ahead and you know slicked it behind your ear, so you want to make this side as flat as you can and then for the roots of this part. We still want that bump in it, but I wanted to kind of go up and then drop because we're gon na we're gon na straighten those roots. So we don't want it to just be like a full curl. You know so we're gon na loosen this up. Just a little bit, but not a lot, and it's gon na start to give you this look, which is more of a bump in the feel to it. So once you do that, you want to take your flat iron and you're. Only gon na go to the roots. I mean no to the ends and you're just gon na bust one of those and as time goes on as the one in the background. It'Ll start to just lay like that, naturally, but that bump at the top, with the help of a little bit of hairspray, will keep that you know those roots very much voluminous like that. It'S just the easiest way to do it without trying all of the over directing and pin curling and the whole thing, because sometimes people get scared when you Pinker or something and you take it out and you brush it out and you'd, be like why's it so Tight, they don't know how to so. This is an easier method to do so here, you're, just gon na go and, as you start to see it's starting to have that shape of the other one. It'S starting to look more like this one now, so I'm gon na re part this part like eight more times because it was killing my whole soul people. So what we're gon na do now is because the bank is obviously still too long. We'Re do that same method, we're gon na go back, and I tried it on at this point to see like where everything was, but I still knew that it was too damn long. So when I go up we're gon na cut right across. So, that's why I'm trying to get everything up, we're gon na go and cut straight across and, as you do this, it already has that bump in it, because that we already did it. It starts to lay like that very naturally. So it's not a very hard thing to do anything that you pull straight up and you cut straight across will automatically have a taper look to it when you let it drop, especially when you put somebody in so now. It looks like that still too long, but I want to show you if you at this point now: we'd be rocking and rolling you and the you and a good place right now. Okay, so what you want to do now is go ahead, and that's all I'm doing here is just cutting a little bit more, a little bit more and a little bit more and a little bit more just so that it starts to look more and more like It'S supposed to you know now. The back section here is the little piece that goes in the back, where it looks like I kind of got a bump. So it's just weird we're back at the seven part: okay, we're back at seven part, so we're doing the top part of the seven and then we're doing the lower part. So you said these are just blunt: we're gon na go ahead and pull this straight out. So I can have more of a taper look like the back of this head does because all it is, as you can see, it's all kind of just one length and I'm going back just to check everything to make sure everything is cool and what I like To do when I cut is to move it in the opposite direction. It lays because it'll, let me know how those layers are gon na look once I bump it in the back and that's all I did you kick round brush this in the back. If you want to, you could take the same part and do it while it's wet, but I chose to not do it like that, because it's harder to see for you guys so for all of you guys who are starting out. You just want to keep going through and cutting checking and cut and checking and cutting and checking - and that's all you're doing at this point is checking and cutting to make sure that the shape is still right but you're getting short enough where it's the desired. Look. You don't necessarily have to do it as short as I did it, you could keep it where it was in the beginning and Flatiron it and then keep it pushing. You know I like to use these pins because they kind of give me the section of an ear. You know it shows you like. Okay, this is where the ear will go. I have longer ones - I don't know the hell yet though, so here is the piece that goes behind my ear, so you see it's a little too long. There we're just gon na go up and cut it some more and then, as you can see here. I just keep looking at this other one I'll put some photos at the bottom that you guys can look at as a reference. If you like, too I'll link some Tiana's pictures as well at the bottom, so you can use those as a reference and it's at this point. You should already now kind of get to what's going on so go back and that's what I'm doing, I'm just going back and cutting off more and more and more so that I can get the shape that I want and at this point you're just going for The shape, that's it and then you're gon na start to bump it. Some people will bump it first and then go and start cutting more, so they can see it cuz. Sometimes it makes it easier for them. It just depends on the person you just don't again. I cannot stress this enough: do not cut a whole bunch off or you're gon na be so mad at yourself. So what i'm doing here is i'm taking some thinning shears and i'm thinning out the hair again, these wigs are very full. That'S why I like. I opted to use this particular wig and this company, because their density is really good and you just want to thin out, especially not so much the roots, but more so just the ends, because you wanted to have this. Nice tapered feathery look at the ends and you really it's hard to achieve that when the hair is exact, it's just too full and because this is a very short cut, you don't want to end up in a situation where you out here literally, like you know, You looking crazy so here I just went through and I just bumped it and kind of call Indians ran my fingers through it and kind of let it fall. Naturally, so you see it's shorter. This is one where we cut. We cut the other side short. We did the front bank piece and then we did the back and there you go. You should have something like this, so my next video is gon na, be me applying it with the both hold tape and the little extra stuff. So there you go hope you guys enjoyed it I'll catch you guys in my next one