 What's up YouTube and Facebook, very, very excited to be here with you guys as always. I'm going to go over to the studio and we are going to get started on today's haircut. So what we're going to do, I want to create just a really nice face frame on her. So what I want to do is break down this first on my thoughts of a face frame. Few different face shapes that work really well with the face frame, in my opinion, is a round face because it just allows some pieces to kind of come around and make the face look a little less short. So when you look at the length and you see she's got kind of a good proportioned face, I'm sure they make mannequins like that on purpose. So imagine her face was a little bit shorter and a little more round, right? If this hair is long and there's no face frame, it's going to actually make her jawline seem shorter. If we add some layering in there and little pieces in around the face, it actually brings the face a little bit longer. So that's one reason to have a nice face frame. Here we go. Comb this hair back. I'm going to work directly off the nose. Part the hair. And then to create a face frame, you obviously got to determine the length that you want these bits to be. Whether they're back or forward, you got to determine the length. I want it to be right around the jawline. So as I lift a section up, I need to figure out how I can match up the jaw. So if I look at a couple of different things, you could bring her hair down. And what I like to do is just take a little piece out at first, come in here, and I can literally just start to work right here, just a soft line right around the face. I can just slide the scissors by half closing right around, or just a little bit past the jawline. That gives me those little pieces. But now I want to be able to create elevation so that I have layers throughout the side of the head. I don't want just a face frame, otherwise I would just slide it all in. I want to now use this as a guide, and I want to elevate the hair to lighten it up. When you cut a face frame and you slide in, it makes it the heaviest that it's going to be, because there's no elevation in it. If you elevate the hair, you're going to get a lighter result. So now, how do I section through the top and go about this cut? So what we're going to do is we start in the center parting, and I'm going to find the high point of the head, which is right here, and I'm going to pivot from there. So I'll go from here, pie shaped section, so that's section one, section two, section three. All of those will swing around the head and come up to me. Same thing here, section one, section two, section three. All of those sections will swing, come to the center, and be cut up top. High point, right, down, pie shaped section. This is going to swing up. I've got my guide line that I cut from before, and now I'm just going to come in, and I'm going to point cut that line. I come up above the parting. There's my guide, though I point cut my line. I want this to be shattered. I don't want it to be a blunt line, because blunt lines fall heavy. So I soften the line, and I want my finger angle to be parallel with the round of the head right here. That's going to allow the hair to fall nice and soft back. If you elevate it higher than that and you go here, now you're going to have a more balanced layer that might not fall so much short to long, so it might rest with kind of a little bit of a shelf. Now I pivot. I grab another section all the way down to the hairline, and I bring that up and around to my guide, which is right here. Barely see that new hair, because we're not grabbing too much. And then I take my last section, which is right behind the ear, and I comb all that up and around to the center of the head up here. Tiniest bit to cut at that point. Now what's happening when I'm pulling hair from further and further back on the head? As I go section to section, I'm stretching hair further away from my cutting point. What is it doing? It's getting longer. If it's getting longer, we're building length towards the back. So when I go to comb this face frame out, see the little layers in there? They pop through, but you don't see steps in layers because of the elevation that we held it at. Look at the difference. When I go to pull this back off of her face, see how this kind of lays with a little bit higher feel to it? And the other side just has a bulkier, kind of heavier look. They're both fine. They're both nothing wrong with them. Some people like one length hair, but when you have a lot of hair or you're trying to get some of that heaviness away from your face, that is such a great technique to be able to keep it back off of your face and look at how those pieces lay. Now when I go to cut the opposite side, I'm going to stay standing on the same side I was because I want to stay consistent. So I will keep a little bit of this side for the guide. And then I'm going to take from the high point, my pie shape section on the opposite side, bring that hair up above the forehead, pull it towards the center, see the guide through, and point cut the line. It's really important to stay with your elevation above the nose, especially if they're parting it in the middle. They're parting on the side, then you're going to lift this above wherever they part. Pivot, we went here. Now we're going to go one more, bring this hair up and over above the nose with the round of the head and cut. Last bit behind the ear, up above the nose, tiny bit to cut, and brush it back. Now we got a nice lightweight face frame on both sides. And if you want to wear it forward, you can wear it forward as well, all these little pieces. I want to cut the back. You can add whatever kind of back you want to this cut, but let's just look at her silhouette here. And obviously anytime you're going to cut somebody's hair, you kind of want to clean up the whole thing. What I'll do is I'll separate thinking about the FSC digital haircutting system, right, because that's what we should be thinking about, and the sectioning, the basic sectioning from that system. I still do this haircut with that thought process in mind. So now what are we going to do with the back to tie it into the face frame? This to me, and where I differ from a lot of people, I think, is that I don't necessarily think that these two things have anything to do with each other. I did the face frame in the front of the hair the way that I wanted it to be, and now I'm going to take care of the back and I'm going to do the back the way that I want it to be. Here, I actually want, see where this weight hits right there? I want that to pop a little bit more towards the occipital bone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to cut layers to touch right here, but it means if I cut a layer that's about this short, it'll pop it up just a little bit and give me a little extra volume. And I think that'll be a little more flattering with the shape. So what we're going to do, we've now determined where we want our vertical line to start. I'm going to want to cut about, let's say, an inch and a half, two inches off of this length. Now I've got to determine, what do I want my horizontal line to be? Do I want to bring everything out and have a little extra weight go to the back? Probably not, because my face frame is flowing backwards. So I kind of want the weight that's in this haircut to do the same thing. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to over direct. I'm going to split this straight down the center. And I'm going to over direct this side up and over. And I'm going to over direct this side up and over. What that's going to do for me is bring all of the weight. If I take this side and I bring it up here and cut it up here, let's say I stand now in front of the head. I come up here. I know I want to take about two inches off of the length. I'm not worried about the hair underneath the occipital bone. It's not even going to reach up here to where I'm cutting. So I come up here. And now I'm going to go two inches and point cut into it. And what that's going to do by bringing everything up and over to me, over top of this parting where we split the head. This is where we split the head in half, right? This is the front of the head. This is the back of the head. When I bring everything over to me to that split and I cut it, it's going to push all that length. It's going to be the shortest point here. And it's going to push all that length to the back center. Just like this. Up. I'm going to go parallel with the floor, my fingers here. And I'm going to point cut across. I'm going to do the same thing. So I'll grab a little bit from what I just cut. And then I'll bring up the opposite side over to me and see where I cut it. So I love this because you can see how the layers V may get right in here, a little bit longer towards that center. The part that we didn't cut, I can just clean that. So what I'll do is I'll let down everything in the cut. That's good. Nice and healthy. All right. So now let's style her up. I'm going to show you guys kind of how these layers flow through. Do a little activation. And it just keeps looking better. This is hot off the press. I'll show you guys these layers. Look at that. Whoo. Show you guys. And look, this kind of she's wearing it now over the side because she's just feeling it that way. You could wear it to either side because it's cut to be nice and lightweight. And I could just move this. Isn't that cool? Like you could just move it around and it looks good in like all directions. 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