 What's up guys welcome to today's class super excited to have you guys here with me That's good That's what we're gonna go over today not necessarily the perfect haircut for fine hair But I want to talk about fine hair really break it down got a mannequin back here Danielle One of my stylist here at the salon colored it for me So it's really cool looking and I'm gonna show you guys some tricks on that on how to kind of go through fine hair And how to think about it. Let's pop over to the mannequin. I'll show you guys the color before we start cutting it Well, it's pretty cool. She did a great job melting different tones throughout it She used Paul Mitchell pop XG to color it really cool fantasy color you see all through there And we're going to cut so let's break down some fine hair thoughts Before we start cutting because what you want to do anytime you have a fine hair guest in the salon You want to assess where the hair starts to get weak because a lot of times if you look at the hair Kind of from this point down it doesn't look or this point up I guess you could say from this point up. It doesn't really look weak It's really from the neck down or the shoulder point down where this is a little bit weaker So that's what I would want to focus on with my client So I would look at and assess where the hair starts to get a little less dense a little weaker towards the ends And then that's where I want to base my hair cut in now I'm gonna do this dry today because I want to be able to see the density as I'm working in this section Everything's gonna be pretty simple as well. So we're gonna work through that first I'm gonna do the sectioning and then I'm gonna break it down over on the board So right here comb out the mannequin a little bit and what I want to look for is basically going from a session point Back to the occipital bone and I'm gonna draw a curved line from this point back to the occipital bone So right here comb the hair in the direction I want to take it and I draw a curved line back. It's like that I'll hold the rest of the hair in my hand turn it so you guys can see now We're gonna come across the occipital bone and Then I'm going to draw a line on the opposite side and meet Sometimes it's easier if you just want to kind of break this up and you want to clip the one side away If the layers are a little bit shorter, I'm not having really any issues here Working through it. This is really exposing some of that beautiful teal blue color. All right So now as I comb it up in the air I'm just looking for balance on both sides. So I want to make sure Both of these sides match up So now I'm going to twist it up and clip it away Slide that clip in now I'm going to go through and just assess the bottom kind of feel through it I'll look for those weak points. We're going to be cutting kind of a medium length haircut What I find with fine hair is that the longer it gets it's obviously going to get weaker towards the bottom This hair not only has been on the head quite a bit longer But fine hair tends to kind of break off as you're blow drying it different things. It's not as strong You're going to have more density in this area than you are in the ends because some of this hair is already just growing back From breaking through blow drying ironing all that stuff just kind of meeting it up with the hair that has broken off a little bit That's just going to give you more density throughout the cut Most likely your fine hair doesn't get to this point, right? So as it's growing some of it breaks now you got to kind of work and grow it out again Let's just kind of make it a rule that if you want a fuller looking hairstyle Number one is to get it to a length where your hair likes to stay dense. So look for that density I'm going to say this is about shoulder length is a good Length for somebody with fine hair or go shorter But going longer is just your hair is just not going to look as full You can definitely hit it with a wand give it some wave makes it feel a little bit fuller But in the end it's definitely going to always look weak at the bottom now that I have it sectioned away I'm actually going to hit it with an iron real quick I'm going to add a little bit of neuro protect to this bottom section And I'm going to iron over it just to smooth it out because I'm going to cut a nice baseline to begin with Is there a video tutorial for the color not yet? All right, so I'm just going to iron this nice and smooth here bottom section And if a client came in and obviously it's in the best interest to blow dry the shampoo blow dry do all that work Smooth out this bottom. You should do that. So just kind of assess what your client's hair is like Don't just start cutting it dry really blow it dry nice and smooth And then as you're working through it you'll have better results because obviously you'll have a nice smooth palette You're working on what kind of iron is that this is a palm Mitchell express iron Style plus I like this iron because it's nice and skinny So it's easy to work in tighter spots The better to cut wet or dry. So Faye, that's a great question I like cutting dry on fine hair sometimes So it's not an all the time rule sometimes especially on longer hair because I can see that density when the hair is wet It's harder to see how much density you're actually leaving on the head Sometimes it can be a little deceiving one way or the other So just making sure that I know exactly how thick the hair is going to feel when it's done But I like doing it straight so then when I go through it and cut it Obviously, um, I get a nice straight line to it. Then we can add a little bit of wave to it at the end All right, so now I've got the hair smoothed out and we're going to cut one length So let me go over to the board to show you guys something real quick So our thought process here is that we're we sectioned off this disconnection. That's what we're dealing with right now So what we're going to do with all of this hair underneath We're going to pull that hair straight down and cut it blunt not the best drawer But we're going to bring it straight down cut it blunt at the length that we want it What that's going to do is it's going to keep all of the density as much density as we have at that length And we're going to cut our line now The reason we want to do that is because we also want to add layers to this fine hair to create some movement But I don't want to take away and layer all of it So being able to keep almost from that parietal ridge that recession point down to the occipital bone All of that cutting at one length is going to keep it full and then we'll start layering the top I'm going to do all of that parallel to the floor just lift it straight up in the air and start point cutting into it And softening some of those layers So you can see here same thing all of this is going to be brought down cut blunt at that point here And then all the top is going to be brought straight up cut into kind of a square layer on the top of the head That's our that's our work through with this haircut. So first things first. We got to cut blunt I'm going to use a wider tooth comb. Uh, this is available on our shop shop fse I'm going to use a wider tooth comb because I'm cutting it dry and I don't want to hold too much tension on the hair I really just want to comb it down to control it and then let the hair just hang where it naturally wants to And I'm going to start cutting my line You can see how it's you can't see really anything from this point over But then when you get here you really start to see through the hair and even more at this point So I'm going to go a little bit below, but I want to cut my line right down here And this is where we'll have the fullest point in the hair. So right here bring the hair down I want to make sure that you're directly in the back Obviously when you're working in a mirror, you're going to be able to see straight on with the mirror Make sure the client's looking straight ahead their head's not tilted at all their legs aren't crossed So they're sitting straight and then you can go through and you can cut your line in the back So what I'm going to do is I'm going to hold the comb down Wide teeth right here and I'm going to go through and I'm going to cut my blunt line On the bottom look how full this looks compared to how weak this looks right here That's going to give you a much fuller effect in fine hair And then you can go through and you can obviously give this a little wand iron to build it up But it's going to have it nice and thick if I were to elevate that part of the head What's going to happen is it would lighten up the ends and it wouldn't it would make it feel way less full So here we go moving around the head I'm shifting over into the corner I'm going to cut a round line around the head shape And I'm just holding the hair still with my comb And the reason I'm doing that is because the hair would tend to push with the scissor This is a really sharp scissor But and it has a little bit of grip on the hair a lot of people's scissors kind of push the hair a little bit Have it more of a hot knife through butter feel but that feeling is the hair pushing a little bit So you want to make sure when you're going through the hair that you have the comb there just as a safety And this would be right above the shoulder kind of right on top of the shoulder So I don't have to worry about it if we were going a little bit lower maybe on shoulder That's where we chose to cut this and I would have her turn her head a little bit And then I would cut it a line in the most natural fall possible the same thing on this side And because I'm using the comb to hold the hair in in place I can come through here and I can cut back towards my line If I were just cutting the hair like this I would not want to come back at it I would want to go this way to push the hair in the same direction But because I'm holding it still with my comb again here down just matching those two lines up There we go nice blunt feel through the haircut not worried about total outcome of that yet Because I'm going to go through and do the rest of the cut and then I'll work that perimeter even more And then we'll go through in style. So now we've got our length cut I'm going to go through and work the top section Like I said before all of this is going to kind of come straight up I'm going to let this down for now and you'll see it kind of come over everything Now you could continue to cut this hair blunt if you wanted But you'll see that that's hitting right where that density I was talking about so where it gets a little bit thinner So what I'm going to do I'm going to comb this into a couple sections. I'll comb it back find the parting They're going to wear comb it back here one of those days So here's the parting part right there and then I'm going to find what splits the front and back so right here Down to the hairline. We talk about this all the time. So there's that hairline This is kind of the hair that's going to sit in the back of the head. I'll clip the rest of this away I'm going to do the same thing On the opposite side over here find the front and the back down to the hairline All of this hair wants to fall into the back and all of this hair wants to fall into the side Clip that away now. We've got our back portion. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this I'm going to elevate it up So I'm going to stand on the left hand side of the head So left hand side of the head vertical section straight down the center back to bring this up now my guide I will see kind of from the bottom you can decide Do you want to cut at that guideline here? Or do you want to go a little bit past it? You go past it. It's going to push hair below the um the perimeter line That's okay You can always go in and point cut that or cut it blunt at the end And that's what I'm going to choose to do because I want to push a little extra weight to the bottom And I don't want extra short layers on the top. So here we go up like that The guideline falls out and now I'm going to go in and I'm going to point cut through the hair So now take a look At how full when you take away these pieces how full the back of this looks right here starts to kind of elevate out Uh, it's got that fullness to it. Um, and that's the same thing I want to do on both sides This side now I'm going to bring it up to the center guideline falls out Now what's happening when I pull this hair up into the center? It's over directing What happens when we over direct when we over direct it pushes weight away from where we're pulling it to So if I'm pulling it away, uh towards my body, it's going to push the most weight away from my body So right here bring this hair up cut your line And you can see how this starts to build a really nice kind of lob shape to it medium length haircut feel Now these little pieces are going beyond the perimeter that we knew was going to happen That's what we can go in and take off later. I'm going to do the same thing on the Hopefully you're getting some ideas to share with your hairdresser here So we lift the hair up just like that and we're going to cut it all being brought to that center point Just like this point cut through Now maybe we break down point cutting just a little bit one of the things that I like to do with point cutting We talked about this in our virtual cutting club classes Well, one of the things I like to do with point cutting is point towards your body and back at your body Towards your body back at your body and that's how you cut You don't want to come this way lifting your elbow up and cutting into it because look what happens As I cut into it that blade is attacking my finger if I shift it like this my elbow goes down So I'm more comfortable and then the blade that's coming out my finger is being blocked by the steady blade So I can actually go through here and not worry about cutting myself because I feel this blade rubbing across my hand So I just come down cut and come through and cut so work on That motion as you come through and you're cutting the hair so that you can kind of decide now If you want to cut a precise line one point cutting You're going to go in and come at more of an angle and you can work that precise line If you want to remove just a tiny bit of weight within haircut You would go and start shifting your hand up the more of an angle that gets more tea to the section Right tea to the section. This is going to take out very little weight. So you'll be removing just tiny little bits So if I bring the example over here, I comb her hair up I've got a nice little line in here and if I go in straight on like this I'm barely taking out any so if I'm here comb the hair up and I cut like this I'm not taking out any hair if I want to remove this takes out quite a bit of hair draw your line across And then just come directly in like this and soften that line So hard line through cut it blunt like this be even harder or and then at the end you can just soften it a little bit Great point. My knuckles are scared for life. Love it. Rachel. Thanks so much Everybody uh Colleen. Thank you Lisa, thank you very cool to see all of you guys in there. Thanks. Thanks for joining today now Super simple in the the other two sides. We're going to go through and I'm going to lift this up We've obviously got our length underneath. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to back out I'm going to show you guys this little trick here So what I want to do is I'm going to take my guests I'm going to tell her to tilt her head just slightly towards me like this in the chair It's the beauty of working with a client. They can help you create a nice little style So I'm going to come over here. I'm going to grab all of this hair I'm going to lift it up over her head and I can see the guideline start to fall out So right here, this is all the little hairs that we cut blunt at the bottom So when I start seeing that and I can see it kind of through here and see my guide from the rest I can go through lift it up and point cut my length across So just like this point cut my length across kind of connecting it to that back point again Not pulling in this perimeter because I want to keep that perimeter Nice and then there we go again. It's a nice length to it Now we're going to do the same thing on the opposite side Let your guest do some of the work have them tilt towards you just slightly that way because there's a chair Here that way you can comfortably get everything over if you want to lean over the chair and pull it up You can do that too. So here we go grab just a little bit of that hair as a guideline Bring it all up to me this point and point cut through now What's happening to the front pieces of this haircut these pieces here? They're going to be a little bit longer Why are they going to be a little bit longer because the forehead starts to move forward So there's a little bit more over direction of that piece because we're cutting everything straight up So all of this is being cut straight up and because it's being cut straight up You're going to get that little bit of extra length So now we've got a nice medium length haircut that has Of a really solid foundation. That's number one really solid foundation This cut which has a really solid foundation in the base area here But then the layers that just fall over top of it to have a ton of movement because of the point cutting So that's the key thing that I want you guys to think about as you go through these haircuts is Everything has to have a purpose has to have a reason of why it works hair cutting is not complicated But if you don't know what you're doing if you haven't been through these scenarios If you don't understand hair texture type density all that stuff Then you're not going to understand how simple it is It becomes simple because you learn and you learn how to kind of manipulate the situation So underneath here solid baseline over top of it broken line Now what I want to do is I want to go through here in this area right here And I want to kind of fine tune it just by bringing this hair down and cutting into with a point cut technique A little bit of that baseline of the haircut right here. You could see where some of that passes by Lily thinks one side's longer than the other probably that's okay We are going to work through that right now. We're working the perimeter of the cut Now what I want to do is I want to comb down wide teeth wide teeth through the hair And I'm just going to soften that line around the perimeter same thing here point cutting I don't want a blunt line now. I want it to be nice and soft got much more modern feel to it As we cut through so here these are the pieces Lily's talking about right here So this stuff we're all we're going to cut it all off It's the disconnection from the elevation that we did this side is a little bit I over directed it more and so that's really what it is. This is the weaker side too So both sides of the haircut are not exactly the same So like as you're working through a haircut if they part their hair on the side like this one She parts it over here to this side show you guys So she parts over to this side here So she's going to have a little bit different lengths Because one side has this much hair and the other side has you know this much hair So but I can see my guide right through there and that's what I'm aiming for So point cut this mannequin does not have thick hair. Uh, Andrea Just so you know, this is actually super thin not super thin I obviously have clients that have a little bit thinner hair than this But she doesn't have thick hair and if you saw it at the beginning, it's very very light density It looks full because of what we just did, but it does not it's not a full hair mannequin I actually the Erica mannequin that I use that has Burnett hair is much Thicker feeling and then some of the other ones have even thicker This one is the thinnest hair mannequin. You can see the scalp of her as you're working through So don't be don't be discouraged and these techniques will definitely make somebody with fine hair way fuller Also has a nice blowout from Danielle as well So you're seeing that some of that volume in there And I'm going to show you guys a couple other techniques that will make it look a little fuller So let me see where we're at. See if we have any questions. You think it looks so easy Now I got Paul Mitchell Pro Tools wand here. I can get it to you once the focus on her face There you go. Pop this thing on here It's got a kind of a this nozzle goes in a cone shape in a way So it starts what I like is it starts a little bit wider So when I put the hair into it, I get a little bit tighter wave towards the mid shaft But not super tight at the base The base I just want to create a little extra volume Which is going to give me uh, this is going to give me the volume and then this will give me a little extra twist And then the ends I don't actually even wrap around this and I'm also going to use my ergo diamond head brush This is available on our online store as well. Uh, shop fse Those of you guys that are og's in the chat, can you please write shop fse? Put the link in there so everybody can see it on all the different platforms I'd really appreciate that. Let's see here. I can pop it up as well But shop fse if you guys are looking for brushes scissors our new tri razor, uh, which is this tool here Not really using it today, but just give it a little shout out. Uh, this is our tri razor It's got a three tools in one cuts a hundred percent of the hair 25 and 50 percent all in one tool We're shipping that worldwide. So if you want to purchase it go to our online store Keep posting that in the chat for me guys. You guys are the best I just want to be a little organic with the way that I pull these pieces out And then I'm just going to softly bring it around the iron and I want to put it in kind of a Ribbon motion so not putting it all together. I'll show you guys what I mean So right there you could see how it kind of just lays in a nice ribbon pattern What I mean by don't just kind of clump it all together is take a section and wrap it kind of on top of itself Like this unless you're looking for tighter curls If you're just looking to add a little bit of wave to the hair in turn will create Some fullness to fine hair go through it just like that And uh wave it underneath here. I'll just give it a little bend at the base I have a booklet of all the items in our online store. Um, I do not have a booklet, but we have a website So you could just go to the website. I just redid it too. We got snowed in so spent the day Redoing our online store. It looks super cool. There's tons of videos on there And it's a little more interactive than it used to be Which is pretty cool Just working everything off of the face So you can buy this uh wand iron on paul mitchell's website for sure It's cool too because these uh, it's called unclipped express ion unclipped It's one of my favorite things because these I'm not gonna try to take this off right now because I'll probably burn myself But these oh, there we go. You can unlock it. Look at that. I'm probably not gonna be able to get back on Yeah, you can unlock it and lock it and you can get it comes with different attachments You can buy other ones. It's a bunch of tools in one which I always enjoy being able to change it up a little bit So just go to paulmitchell.com I'm not leaving the hair in it too long for one I don't want to create damage to you don't need to I'm just creating a soft kind of defined wave in the hair And we'll assess the rest of that in a second and see the spray a little bit mitchell worked up Uh, this is a great flexible hold air spray. Um, what I love about this hair spray Why it's one of my favorites is because it's dry So, um, you can kind of use quite a bit of it And it doesn't make the hair feel sticky, uh, which is another good thing for fine hair Because it makes the hair feel thicker and you can lay it overlay it Uh multiple times and it doesn't wade the hair down pieces around it too Sorry, just in front of you guys So number one, I just love the fullness of this haircut how it works How easy it is to do so you can see kind of the blunt edge of it How it really kind of works through allowing the fullness on the bottom But tons of movement throughout the rest So, you know, if somebody had even finer hair than this that is one thing that I think a lot of people are like, you know This mannequin, uh, they're not believing that it has super fine hair, uh, which is totally fine If you had finer hair than this if you believe that your guest has finer hair than this And what I would say is go through it and just don't elevate these layers as much So don't pull them straight up to the ceiling Pull them out like here and then build the weight off of that perimeter line And then you'd have a full feeling throughout here. You wouldn't have these shorter pieces within the cut So that would give it even more fullness as you, uh, kind of work through So I wouldn't blow dryer hair flat because then it wouldn't create as much volume in here So being able to go in and, uh, you know, just give it a little bit of a style with the wand iron Maybe blow dry it with a round brush and then just hit it with the wand iron a little bit to just Create that wave and the body in there and then that helps your shape expand Like thicker hair might kind of get this look if it has a tiny bit of wave too It might already have this look fine hair is going to lay flatter So then you need to do something to enhance that wave Um and going in with the products like I talked about lighter weight, um hair sprays like worked up Palmatial worked up is uh, you can go in and miss over the hair It doesn't sit heavy like some some other hair sprays finishing sprays They go in the hair wet, uh, and they get kind of clumpy worked up You can really just keep working through the hair and building more and more volume and body throughout it So I think the overlaying of products really helps build the body in uh in your fine hair as well What if the client wants to keep their hair length long, but their hair is weak Adele great question We kind of talked about this already though when you look at a client that has longer hair But it looks weak got to cut it unless they don't mind it looking weak That's the thing too like clients might like it weak looking So at that point you just you can just do what you can Don't layer it more because if you layer it more, uh, it's going to get even weaker Um, so what I would do with them is discuss the options Which is taking it shorter to that the point where they have the most density That's my opinion uh as a professional and then if they steer away from that opinion Then that's on them, but I'll let them know that my recommendation is to take it up If they don't want to take it up it's kind of up to them at that point But it's really important to to fill them with as much knowledge as you have with fine hair products styling Choices multiple different looks that they could do. Um, you know with this length of hair They could wear it kind of smoothed out if they wanted to but give them some products to plump it up Powdery products drier products Kind of stack them on there and then you know, then they have options and they see what the style can do And once you've given them that knowledge, then they might make a better choice if you're just like, oh, okay You don't want it long. Let me do that Then you're gonna you're kind of causing yourself trouble because they're not going to like it in the long run And they didn't take your advice. So really fun hanging out with you guys today. How to blast Uh, I can't wait till next tuesday. So remember these classes are always on tuesdays 12 p.m. Eastern standard time. We also have other classes coming up But uh next week, it'll definitely be on tuesday. So be on the lookout. 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It's a super fun tool to use check it out on shop fse And uh, it's pretty much it All right Thank you guys. I'll see you guys on the next video Thanks so much