 What's up guys welcome to today's vlog so on today's vlog we're gonna be doing a long-layered haircut I got a live model so I think you guys will enjoy that I'm also gonna show you guys the style at the end long-layered haircut is a pretty common thing requested in the salon so hopefully I can make it fun for you guys show you guys a few tips if you have any questions post them in the comments below and make sure you subscribe right now so you stay notified when I come out with new videos because we're coming out with videos all the time let's get started with the step-by-step here we go alright guys so the first thing I'm gonna do is prep the hair with marula oil this is a rare oil styling perfecting serum basically what it's gonna do is smooth the hair control it and add a lot of shine to the finished style the reason I put it in before the cut and I brush it through with my ergo paddle brush is because I want to fully saturate the hair with the product so you only get the benefit from the product if it touches every bit of hair so apply the product and then go through with a nice flat paddle brush brush it through and then I do my sectioning my sectioning is for quadrant so I want to keep this nice and basic and then what I'm gonna do is go through and cut my bold baseline at the beginning so I go through decide the length crystal like most of my long hair guests in the salon doesn't want to lose a lot of length so what I do is I comb the hair straight down and I look for that weak point in the hair where the density gets a little smaller that tells me that's where the damages or where the hair is getting weaker so that's where I'll cut my line to get a nice strong line and keep her hair nice and healthy so now we're gonna move into the elevation point of the cut key thing here is to use that previously cut section at the nape as your guideline so when you elevate the hair you'll see that nape part fall out that's where you start cutting that's gonna bring in that layering pattern then I'm gonna work on a pinwheel or pie shaped sections off of that diagonal forward working about half an inch to an inch based on the density around her head shape so bringing it back to the previous so I'm following the head shape around creating those more rounded layers and then the other key thing you want to focus on is how much you're elevating the hair so two things you want to work on where your over direction is to keep consistency in your layers so make sure that every single time you're consistently bringing it back just that half an inch to the guide and then also making sure that that elevation is where you want it to be a lot of people cut long layers and it ends up being super heavy around the top portion of the layering and the reason for that is it's all because of the elevation so I go through I don't mind having a little bit of weight but I don't want anything really below 45 degrees so if you look at where the hair would be coming straight off her head in the crown area in that very center part of her head that's at about 45 degrees so I get a nice little graduation of build up a weight for that layering it's gonna look really nice when we go through and style it now I want to create more of a rounded feel in the front but more extreme over direction so we're gonna create a face frame and also layers in the side of the head so I start off my sectioning I go diagonal forward with my partings and I pull the hair across her forehead and then I do a slide cutting technique with the DB 20 scissor and I glide the scissor through so a lot of you guys would slide this right in front of her face what that does it builds up too much weight I'm elevating the hair and over directing it so because I'm doing that elevation I'm gonna take out more weight so it's gonna be nice and light big mistakes that happen I think in long layer or face frame haircuts is the fact that we create too much weight and then the guest feels heavy new technique we're gonna throw in right here see how I'm flipping that scissor upside down the way that you do that is you just kind of hold it up in front of you and then drop the scissor forward and put your thumb in the other direction and that just allows you to have more comfort when slide cutting you can do it the same way that I did on the other side but I like to switch it up just to give myself a little more comfort so there you go that's gonna give her that center parting nice layers you can see them working through there one thing you really want to to be aware of is the face shape so the way face shape kind of plays a role in a face frame or bangs or anything like that is you don't want to make somebody's face look too short so if she had two long layers in the front it would shrink her face a little bit and it wouldn't match up right so I kept those layers starting a little bit more below right just below the chin that kind of brings the hair back up into her face you can see the straight version of the cut and then I go through and now when I put an iron on it it's gonna elevate them even more so I don't want them to be too short so you could still wrap them around but I didn't want them to be too long because then it would there would be too much separation between the layers at the bottom of the hair and where her chin starts so just keeping everything nice proportioned so I go through I'm using a neuro styling products and also this iron from Paul Mitchell it's a wand iron it's got interchangeable attachments to it so I really dig that I'm using the one inch attachment on the wand and then finish it up with a rare oil spray from Marula so you can see that little buildup of weight with the layers the face frame hope you guys like it let me know alright guys and like always if you liked this haircut in this video then hit that like button share this video with all of your hairdresser friends I'd love to have them following this vlog as well and remember 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