 So the sectioning for this cut is very simple it's a rectangle on top of the head we use the parietal ridge as a focus point and then straight across the center crown and then I built a triangle off of that which you can see that point of the triangle goes down to the occipital bone which is where we're going to start taking our first parting. So we take our first parting slight diagonal forward just to kind of get that movement in the direction plus a diagonal parting is a lot easier to work with than a vertical it's just more comfortable so as I work across the head shape I'm going to be working on a slight diagonal forward working straight out from the head so the most part we're working 90 degrees straight out and then I you could see that my finger kind of tucks its way down I'm tucking my finger because the head shape is shifting that way I want to keep it at 90 degrees it keeps a nice seamless feel to the layering the only build-up of weight that's happening is right at that top occipital bone area which is where the head shape starts to curve away that's where you get that build-up of weight which is great we want a little bit of weight build-up in the crown area so now I'm working with a traveling guy to work all the way around the head shape no over directions really happening is just slightly back to the previous the reason for that is I want to create that nice seamless feel around the head shape and working those round layers so everything's coming out it's giving a very seamless feel the weight's not being pushed or shifted anywhere and this is going to create a nice base platform for the top of the haircut that's going to really be what this haircut's all about is is creating a symmetrical feel so that the haircut can work its way back and forth and you can wear it in a lot of different ways so we just work our way all the way across you can see it gets a little bit longer towards the front temple area that's just a natural kind of feel for me as I'm working around the head shape I like to keep a little bit of length in the front and now the biggest difference on the right hand side is that my fingers are pointed down the reason I choose to point my fingers down is so that my combing stays consistent as I work the left hand side of the haircut the entire time I was combing all the new section any parting I took I took the new hair and I pushed it towards the guide so I want to do the same thing on the right hand side as well so I take my parting and I comb the new hair towards the guideline this keeps all of the weight distribution in your haircut consistent a lot of people when they first start cutting hair they end up with one side longer than the other and a lot of the times this has nothing to do with necessarily losing your guide it's just how you're combing the hair to the guide and if you start pushing your guide away then you start creating a shorter side of the haircut and then one side ends up longer than the other so you want to make sure that that consistency is in the combing the combing is the hardest part of hair cutting the cutting part is easy so you want to make sure that you stay consistent keep the structure in there take small sections and work your way around the head so we're just finishing up the side you can see I really want you to focus on how thick those sections are that I'm taking I could rush it I could grab all that hair and condense it and pull it all together but what would happen is it would completely change the consistency of the shape it would push a lot more weight forward so what I'm doing is just grabbing half inch section by half inch section working my way around the head and getting that consistent result you can see naturally it's over directed back a little bit so we get a little bit of length now I'm going to go through and cross check somebody said something on a previous video made a comment about cross checking totally want to show this more often show you guys what it's all about so we went diagonal forward through the entire haircut so now I'm going to go diagonal back and just cross check it and make sure that the lengths are exactly where I want it you shouldn't be cutting much when you cross check if you go through and it looks like there's a lot of weight in one area and go back through the way that you originally cut it fix it and then go back through and cross check it again you can see as I cross check it I'm just dusting the ends not really changing too much in the haircut now I'm going to do a flat wrap blow dry what I like to do is just see the consistency in the weight because a lot of times when you see your hair wet it's it lies to you a little bit looks a lot better than it does when it's dry so I want to make sure that the weight distribution is right so I go through I flat wrap it blow it dry and then I go in and cut the top it's also a good technique because you're going to blow dry the head anyways so I blow dry it nice and smooth and now when I finish the top all I have to do is blow dry the top so you're kind of you're doing the steps a little bit different but you're taking just as many steps as you go through it so now I've got my Donald Scott twist this is a really cool razor it's got 100 cutting side and a 25 cutting side so if you want to add texture to a haircut you flip it and you can do some texturizing right now I'm using the 100 car carving side to go through and just cut now what makes this a versatile top and makes it so you can flip it back and forth is that we're going to cut it bring everything over directed to one side cut it at the length that I want so I grab a little bit of guideline from the opposite side the underneath that I cut already and I do a heavy stroke with the razor which gives me a lot of texture a lot of movement and nice soft layers over direct everything over to me and I do the same thing on the opposite side taking that section bring it over to me and cutting it at a guideline so we create a different guide on each side um and then we go through over directing everything over what this is doing is building up the heaviest point in the very center of the cut so you'll see you can actually kind of see that v forming in the very front of the haircut that's because we pushed all that weight to the center and that's what makes this cut and this technique so unique now we're going to use our brocado this is the cloud nine blowout serum I really love this product it's nice and light so I just want to really smooth out the hair have a little bit of hold to it give that shine and then we'll go in with the texture product at the end so just blow dry and giving a little bit of lift you can see I'm using a vent brush instead of a paddle brush this one I want to have a little bit of volume in the top so allowing that air to kind of get under the brush a lot of people use the same brush for everything you want to make sure that your brush goes with your technique so right now I want to not put as much tension on the hair go through nice and light build in that volume and now I'm using the vibrastrate iron which vibrates as it irons which is such a cool feature because it allows less damage on the hair helps kind of separate the hair as it vibrates over it so you're getting it smoother faster it's just a really cool iron love using that tool so just smoothing out the very front you'll notice I'm not really I didn't have to run the iron over everything I smoothed it with the brush and then I just polished out that front fringe area and now the finishing touch is our carve this is brocado texture icing so it's just a real texture cream and I put that throughout the hair brush it into the hair a little bit and just really show off all that texture that we created with the razor and the precision feel to the bottom hope you guys like this cut definitely if you have any questions please let me know in the comments below I enjoy you guys sticking with it throughout the entire video