 Hey guys Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com and I want to talk to you guys about cutting a straight line to begin your haircut Now this might seem like an easy thing But for me when I first started cutting hair and even to this day Sometimes getting that first straight line is a hard thing So I want to show you guys few key things that I focus on to get a straight line in the back of the head So the first thing is getting straight with the work So as I come in here and I'm looking at my my guest my client or a mannequin head I want to come in here and be straight on eye level with my work as I go in to cut now The second thing is I'm going to start off pretty much every single haircut not Elevating the hair so a lot of us would grab this first part of the hair and we would hold it in our hand What that's going to do is right away put weird tension on the hair a lot of people have weird hair growth in the hairline So what I like to do is no matter what even if I'm going to start elevating it throughout the haircut I like to start the very beginning of the haircut with no elevation whatsoever Then I can go in and elevate after so I'm going to break the back into two sections I'm going to pull down on the ends a little bit as I comb through That's really just allowing me to let this rest naturally the way that it wants to then I'm going to come in with my scissor Parallel to my eyes and I'm going to go in and make my first cut. So we're going to come in here no elevation and Cut straight across The mannequin head now there might be a few pieces of hair they come in there again I'll grab those with my fingers as I comb that'll allow them to lay in place where they want And we'll go through and cut now. That's the easy part. I never have a challenge with that part That's always easy, but the hardest part is getting this other side A lot of us would come in and try to cut and match it up But what you're doing there is as I was as I go in to cut no matter what or how sharp this blade is We've talked about this before no matter how sharp this blade is it's going to push hair a little bit So because I cut and pushed hair this way now I need to cut and push hair this way So we're going to come in same eye level. So I'm going to comb the hair the same exact way a little bit of tension in my hands and Then do the final drop down of the hair and I'm going to come back in eye level Keeping my eye nice and flat We're going to go through here and Cut and That's going to give us a nice straight line now. We can always go in Work diagonally or vertically to change the elevation of this But we've started with a solid straight line and that's really the key goal of this video So I hope you guys like this tip We have more tips coming Monday through Friday every day of the week on free salon education comm and right here on YouTube So make sure you hit that subscribe button and we'll see you guys on the next video. Thanks