 This is kind of our over the top roof section. For me, I want to cut it forward and elevated so it's nice and light so it can go back and not fall with any weight lines. Then I'm going to layer around the face. I was inspired today to do a little bit of concave work. I'm going to keep it as long as I can with concave layering. I'm going to start in the back and I'm going to work vertical sections and I'm going to bring them straight up here. So we've got our parting on the side. So we split the front and the back basically go here. So I'm going to come straight out with the hair. But then I'm going to scoop and create this scooped effect on the rest of the hair. So it'll come out here like that. Everything that I'm doing in the back here is going to come straight back. So it's going to create a squared back on the cut. So we're cutting a balanced horizontal line in the back and then concave layering throughout the back as well. And we're going to work with a traveling guide. So it's vertical. You can see this section right down the middle there. And I'm going to scoop the hair up. Now this is where you're going to determine how much length do you want to have. I don't want to remove a ton, but I do want a lot of movement. And I think that that's what concave for me will give me besides just removing weight. So I'm going to come straight out from the head just like this. And then I'm going to pivot my hand up keeping the tension. And now I'm going to cut short to long. So it starts to create shorter pieces in that interior. Now I take another section right next to it and I'm going to be pulling that hair to the middle. Pull the hair towards me. And then my last move, because I want this to start traveling across horizontally like this, my last move is going to be to push the hair away. So I want to take the hair, get it nice and tight at the base. Then my last comb is now going to be like this away from my body, slide my fingers up in, come out from the head and then pretend like the top of your fingers gets trapped and then it kicks up from there. So it's a pivot point. So uniform back all the way across. All the layers are coming out to this point is where I start my cut and I cut up. And then we're cutting concave to this scooping motion throughout. So layers. So we went all the way across to the top here, bringing everything out, scooping it, cutting a horizontal line. I'm going to do the same thing on this side. My body position won't change. The reason my body position isn't changing because it leaves my elbow free. You'll know when your body position is correct, when your elbow has the freedom to move up and down. As you come out like this, try to keep that tension instead of dropping it. If you drop it, you might be able to hold on to the tension but you'll never really know if you're right where you want it to be. There's just a little more room for error when you do that. So now we've created concave layers in the back. I call them balanced because it's a balanced line all the way across. The layers balance across horizontally. They can also say it's square. I just think sometimes when you think square, you're not thinking of just a line. The majority of the layering is here and then it gets weaker as we get to the bottom. If you want to get yelled at on the internet, you leave this nice and weak at the bottom. So I'm just going to cut a blunt line across the bottom, bring the hair back here. So you can see how nice that line looks now. Even though we have a lot of layering, a lot of texture in there, that line still looks solid and that's really the goal. So now we're going to work into the sides of the cut. This is going to be cut in a condensed way and then we're going to cut this top section in two separate pieces. The tri-razor, so it's a triangular razor that cuts three different amounts of hair. So you've got 100% of the hair. You've got a texture 50 side that'll take 50% of the hair out and then you have a texture 25 side that'll take 25% of the hair out. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to use that to cut this side of the head. I like the freedom, the flow of a razor cut. In the back, I don't really necessarily always need to have more of a razor feel. I can have a more structured feel. So now comb the hair towards the front, towards me, just like that. And then what I'm going to do is I really want to kind of open the face up. So opening the face means basically pushing the weight off of it, right? So if I hold the hair here and I cut it, it's going to push the weight. If I pull the hair back here and cut it, it's going to push the weight forward. So I bring the hair forward and then all I'm going to do is just take the tri-razor and this is the 100% cutting side and I'm going to slide through the hair. That just creates a face frame just with one swipe. So now when I comb this hair out, you're going to start to see that pop a layering that happens right around the face. I'll bring the rest of this hair towards the front here. I'll swipe one more time to connect to the back. So we'll take down the left side, we go here and we just swipe through. So here we go, we've got two sides, lots of texture and now we're just going to cut the tops. You know, I want to lift this up, cut it at a precise point and then I'll go in and decide what I want to do after that. I'm going to take a guide from this point here, just from the edge. I'm going to elevate the hair up in the air and I want to cut it with the round of the head. So up over top of the parting and I'm going to cut it a little bit longer than that guide because I just want a little extra length and because I'm holding this 90 degrees this way and over 90 degrees this way, it's going to be nice and light. So I don't have to worry about the disconnection stacking up. I'll go through here and I'm going to point cut. It's important that this is 90 degrees, you know, both ways because you want it when she pulls it back to be nice and light. And then I'm going to take this section down and I'm going to do the same thing the opposite direction. Now, when you pull it back, you can flip it this way, get a little bit of extra volume in there or you can come back the other way, kick it that way. It'll be nice and light because when you cut it both ways, it was over 90 degrees in all directions. So it doesn't leave any weight line. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through and blow it dry and then we'll finish up this style. At the top, I'm going to round brush everything forward. This is Ergo round brush. We sell them on our shop as well. The reason I'm picking this because I don't want my sections to be much bigger than that. So I'm going to take those sections, pull them forward. Now, the larger the round brush, the less volume you get. A lot of people think it's the opposite. So the larger the brush, the more smooth the bigger section you can take, the more hair you have, but it just smooths the hair out. The smaller the brush, the more bend you get to the hair and the more bend you get to the face.