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hey guys new here today I'm going to
show you how you can easily and quickly
cut and layer your own hair at home now
if you're looking to cut your hair in a
particular style that is vistacal to a
hairstylist but this method is great if
you want to get rid of some split ends
remove some lengths and add fresh layers
to your hair so if you want to learn how
to do this and keep on watching first
you'll need a hair straightener because
your hair needs to be pin straight so
you can see where the layers are you'll
also need a hair brush for hair ties and
haircutting scissors so I have these
ones that are very sharp and if you want
you can also get some thinning scissors
that look like this they basically have
teeth on one end and a sharp blade on
the other and I'll link all these things
in the video description below before
you start cutting you want to gather
your hair into a high ponytail and tie
it at the top of your head now from my
experience I noticed that where you
position the ponytail is quite important
because if you position it right at the
top of your head near the front of your
face like what I'm doing here you're
going to get more layers in the front
and less at the back so you keep more of
your length but if you move your
ponytail closer to the back of your head
you're going to get more layers at the
back grab a second hair tie and tie it
right where your chin is this is just
going to keep the hair all in place so
that it remains the street and with the
third hair tie you want to tie it where
you're going to cut it off so since I'm
going to get rid of some length today
I'm going to tie it or inches from the
tip you want to save an extra inch
forward the feathering part so if you
want to get rid of five inches of hair
tie your hair at four inches like what
I'm doing here next grab a pair of
scissors and just cut the ponytail off
as you can see all the split ends are
basically gone at this point since I got
rid of them and now you just have a
blunt cut next remove the hair tie and
divide your hair into three equal
sections depending on how thick your
hair is you might need to divide it into
four sections because we're basically
going to work with one section at a time
after you divide your ponytail tie each
of them separately so that they don't
get mixed up
in the following step you want to
stopped in the bluntness of each section
by point cutting to do this all you have
to do is use your fingers as a guide and
slide them horizontally down your hair
then cut into the ends of your hair
using the points of the scissors and so
what this will do is it will soften the
bluntness and it also creates an even
shrimp when that's done I like to thin
the ends out a bit more by using my
thinning scissors and basically this
will just denote the ends and feather
them out even more move on to the next
section of hair and repeat so point cuts
and then thin out the ends now if you
don't have those thinning scissors no
worries you can just use the point
cutting technique all you have to do is
point the ends of your scissors bolster
up to your hair and that will get rid of
some of the thickness if you want all
your layers to look soft and feathered
at the end we want to point cut into
your hair even higher than what I'm
doing and I did this last time if you
look at my before picture the ends were
very feathered and it was drying out a
bit so this time I'm just going to point
cut it a bit so that it looks thicker
and fuller
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finally when all three sections are done
you want to remove the hair tie and
check out to see if it's even if you see
some strands that are longer just grab
your scissors and continue to point cut
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if you can recall the initial cut was
really blunt so now it's much softer and
even now I'm going to show you how far I
usually cut my hair so if you still want
long hair just cut it right in the
middle of your sternum but if you want
medium length hair just cut it right
below your clavicle which is about right
over here
I think this method of cutting hair is
pretty foolproof so if you want to this
experiment by cutting your hair a bit
more you can always release it to see if
it's long or short and then you can
always tie it up again and now the
moment you've all been waiting for word
to see if I actually messed up her knot
so this is what my hair looks like after
I let it down and one of the reasons why
I like this method is that you end up
with even layers at the front of your
face so if you can see here all my
layers are even but the only thing is I
find that they're still a little bit too
thick maybe because I didn't point cut
enough so I'm just going to grab my
thinning shears again and I'm just going
to thin out the ends to give it a more
feathered bridge when you thin out the
ends of your layers with your thinning
scissors you want to point the scissors
at an angle because that's the way the
layers are falling and as you can see my
layers start pretty low and I do that
for a reason because if your layers
start too high and you do braids and
things like that
the hair will stick out of the braid so
if you braid your hair often is best to
start your layers lower and yes I'm
aware that I need to tone my hair and
touch up my roots but I'm critical right
now so I don't want to smell the
chemicals
here's the completed look from the front
and the back I just added some soft
layers and got rid of some length so I
hope you guys enjoyed this video if you
did don't forget to give this video a
thumbs up and if you ever give this a
try don't forget to show me your
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thanks so much for watching and I'll
talk to you later ciao
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