 Alright guys, so I'm finishing up the edit on today's vlog. I'm really excited to show you guys this step-by-step video today. We did an asymmetrical pixie haircut with a tapered edge. This is the end result, so nice and short, tapered up, longer front, everything's disconnected. So I think you guys are really going to enjoy this cut. I don't want to waste any time. Let's get to the step-by-step video of today and I hope you guys are enjoying this vlog. Let me know what you think below in the comments. Hit the subscribe button and remember, new video every day at 10 a.m. So make sure that you tell your friends, let's get started. Here we go. Alright guys, so we're going to start off by taking a right-hand side parting. But if your guest parts on the left-hand side, then just do it on the left-hand side. Then we take from mid-crown in the back down to behind the ear. That's really just to part that off. And then I take along the parietal ridge to create that rectangular shape. Now you'll notice that I left out the entire right-hand side of the part and I just sectioned off that rectangle on the left-hand side, which is our heavy side of the haircut. Now I'm working down center back, creating my guideline for my traveling guide that I'm creating. So everything's being over-directed back to the previous section throughout the entire back side of this haircut. So you'll notice my finger angle is shifting a little bit more towards the head shape. But really, I'm just following the head shape with my fingers. So even though it appears that I'm taking the hair tighter to the head, at this point I am not, I'm just following the head shape down. So working palm to palm, traveling guide, you can see that even though I'm in the round of the head right now, I'm not over-directing the hair backwards. I'm just following that head shape. Working with a traveling guide is the hardest thing that you can do in haircutting because it's so hard to stay consistent throughout the haircut. So just make sure that you're really following that guide, that you see the guide and that you're not taking too much hair at once so that you can stay consistent with your haircut. I had a question a couple weeks back about how do you know that you're over-directing it to where you need to over-direct it to? So my answer to that would be make sure that when you bring that hair back and you see your guideline that you see a nice solid line. If that line looks diffused at all or looks like it has rough edges, that means that you've grabbed too much hair in your guideline and you're over-directing your guide. Your guide should look very, very solid. So just make sure, a key factor with that, don't just look for that darkness coming through your section and cut. Make sure that it's a solid line that you're seeing through the hair. Now we're going to work scissor over comb, making sure that steady blade stays with the bone of my comb. And I'm just using that comb to lift and go through the hair. I'm using the wider teeth, this is my YS Park 339 comb. I'm also using my Mizetani scissor, it's a 6-inch scissor, I'm in love with every Mizetani scissor that I own. I have about 12 of them, so every single one of them is great. So definitely check them out on free salon education if you're looking for new scissors. Now I'm working through, I like using a 6-inch scissor at minimum for scissor over comb because I can just get more hair in my hand at a time. And then, so now that I've done that scissor over comb detail, I wet the hair again and now I'm going through and cutting the opposite side, the right hand side. And to be completely honest with you guys, this haircut I did all weekend long, so I actually re-wet and cut this side on a completely different day. So I was trying to get this video done for you guys over the weekend and it was just taking multiple days. So that's another good thing about staying consistent and making sure you're working with true guidelines because you could leave a haircut for an entire day and come back to it and it's still going to be where it needs to be, I guess. So alright, we're working through, you'll notice a couple things change. I'm working through, I'm scooping underneath the hair, still pushing that new hair towards the guide and still working palm to palm through the haircut. That keeps me consistent as I'm cutting. Now we're going to work with a traveling guide here as well, but we're going to go from section 2 to 1 and then 3 to 2 and then 4 and 5 are all going to come back to 3. So I hope that makes sense for you guys. I wanted to do this diagram for you, but this is our over direction so that we keep a little bit of weight into the front. So here is our section number 1 that we cut. I'm now cutting on top of my fingers because of comfort. So working my way down, that's section 1, then we work to 2. 2 goes back to 1. So it's a slight over direction, it's going to push a little bit of extra weight forward. Finding my guideline. Now the top part of that section, you're going to see that over direction because the head shape is moving away. So we're going to get a heavier weight line throughout the top of the section and now I'm going to scoop everything and everything's going to come back to section 3. So we're cutting 3, then shifting 4, then bringing back 5 and then that gives us that extra weight in the front. Over direction is such a big part of hair cutting, but it's really important to make sure that you understand how far you're over directing hair. We've talked about in a couple of the previous vlogs about the fact that if you over direct hair too far you're going to push too much weight. This is a good example of just pushing enough weight to work with later. Now we're going to go through, this is the crown of the head so I separate the front and the back. I've let out that little rectangle shape that we took out of there and now I'm going to build up a nice blend, but with a little bit heavier weight line into the back. So everything's coming back towards me, still cutting with the same guide as we used in the back, but blending in the crown. Working palm to palm, this is on a rotating kind of axis, so let's say pie shape sections or triangle shape sections throughout the back and blend that. Now we're going to work with a stationary guide and this is going to create more of a, you could call it a triangular shape in the front, but we're over directing pushing a ton of weight forward to finish out the hair cut. So working on top of my fingers, you can see my finger angle is following the head shape in the back. It's going to leave a little bit of a longer point towards the parting, which I like to have a little bit of a heavier shift at the part because it makes it a little bit more versatile and allows it to lay a little heavier. Sometimes people layer that too much and then it just looks too kind of spiky and I don't know the words, but it just doesn't look right to me always. So going through that is the front of the haircut. Now I'm going to start the blow dry using my 339 comb. I like blow drying with a comb on a pixie haircut because it does soften the hair. This is something that in the salon, Brian has asked me how you get a mannequin so flat. Well, this is anybody with any hair type you're trying to smooth out their hair. You can use a 339 comb. And then I go through with my brocato vibrostate iron and I iron out the rest of the haircut. Give it a little nice shine and polish. Now we're going to work with our Mizetani Solid. This is a seven inch scissor. Like I said before, six inch minimum for me with scissor over comb. We got our YS Park 209 comb and we're going to go through. That's got nice wide teeth. We're working with dry hair at this point. I'm going to scoop up the hair, tap it down into the comb, and then work that seven inch scissor all the way up the head shape. Now I love a seven inch scissor for dry cutting as long as it's a good seven inch scissor because a lot of times with a long blade, you lose a lot of power in the cut with the Mizetani scissor. You don't have to worry about that. This has the ball bearing axis in the screw. So it's got a really nice smooth opening clothes. And again, with a lot of seven inch scissors, you couldn't do that with the tip either because the tip is just a little bit weaker. So it would push the hair. We're just going to go around detail work is the key to this cut. A lot of people would just leave it finished blow dry and get the client out. I think the detail work is what separates good hairdressers from great hairdressers. So make sure that you're working through putting in that detail work. I love this is one of the newer scissors from Mizetani. This is a titanium version. So it's a $50 upgrade to get the titanium black version of the scissor makes the scissor a lot stronger. So I like that just working through. Now I'm going to go into my back to my six inch scissor and work that detail work around the ear. Most of the time when I'm working around the ear, I like to use a little bit smaller scissor just so I have more control. We're going to straighten out that sideburn area. And I'm just working that steady. So the steady blade is going against the skin during that. So it doesn't. So I don't have to worry about cutting anybody. So I just work through. So make sure that if you haven't gotten down the fact that just your thumb moves, you want to work on that first. And then start working that steady blade against the skin to do your detail work. Working along the skin, adding in those details. That's where over direction came in and played a key role in what we're creating now. We over directed the hair to add that extra weight in the front. So then I can go through and add that detail work in. Again, over direction on the top, push the weight down. But that doesn't finish out the haircut. You want to go in, put in that detail work. Scissor overcombs one of my favorite techniques. There is, because there's just something about combing up hair and watching it fall and drop into a perfect formation. So it's almost like you're going through and just checking your work as you go, but adding that soft detail to it. So now I used card from Bercato. This was our texture cream wax that I really fallen in love with. I use it on almost every cut that's shorter to get that texture and movement. But you can see, cool haircut. I hope you guys enjoy it. 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