 Hi guys, welcome back to my channel or welcome if you're new. For those of you who don't know me, my name's Sam. I am a professional hairstylist and welcome to my bathroom. Today, I am going to be cutting my hair. I'm not doing anything like drastic, but I wanted to just clean up my cut. The last time I got a haircut was over three months ago. Just to make sure everything is looking fresh and healthy and to, you know, allow my hair to continue growing because I am trying to grow it out. But let me show you what my haircut looks like at the moment. So, I do have some long layers throughout, but then the length of my hair, as you can see from the back, it is blunt and all one length straight across. And then I have some face framing pieces which are getting pretty grown out at this point. So I'm going to trim those up and make them a little bit shorter. And I also, if you see when I pull all of my hair forward, because it comes to all one length in the back, which originally is what I wanted and what I liked, but then when I pull it all forward, you can see the front is longer than these pieces in the back. So I want to just bring it across to all one length in the front so that way when I pull it forward, it'll look super blunt and make my hair look like really thick and full from the front. And then what that's going to do is then when I pull my hair back, it's going to have a slight V shape to it in the back. So I just thought that this would be interesting and it's not necessarily a tutorial, but you know, you can kind of watch what I'm doing and maybe pick up some tips for yourself. So I'm going to, let me just do it like this, make it easier. I'm going to put a cape on myself. You can grab a towel or whatever. That way I don't get hair all over myself. It's really hot today too and I'm a little sweaty if you couldn't tell. So I really don't want this hair sticking all over me. So first things first, I'm going to brush through my hair because I have not brushed it yet today. And I'm doing this on dry, clean hair, no product in it. I didn't style it. All I did was I blew it out straight and you can see it's not pin straight, but I never wear my hair completely pin straight. So if you do wear your hair pin straight, you're going to want to style it like that whenever you're cutting it. So that way everything is like falling where it's supposed to. I always part it down the middle. I have a pretty intense widow's peak though. So my parts are never completely perfect. And again, I'm just cleaning up my cut. I'm not chopping off a significant amount. So it doesn't have to be completely perfect. So I have my hair parted where I normally part it and I'm just going to follow that middle part all the way down straight across in the back and pull it all forward in front of me. So for this tutorial, not really tutorial, you're going to need a comb, some kind of clip, and of course some hair cutting shears. Do not go and grab scissors from your kitchen or from your craft drawer. You want proper shears that are meant for cutting hair because otherwise you could create damage to your hair. You want to make sure that you are creating a nice clean sharp cut. And then I'm also going to be using some texturizing shears. So these, as you can see, they have little teeth in them. So they don't cut a straight across line. They create a jagged line, almost like a weave kind of. So these are going to help create texture and deep bulk, which I really like to do for my layers because I don't want them to be too blunt or look too choppy or steppy. So I'm going to start with the left side of my head and I'm going to take a section straight across and split that into two, just so I have a little bit less hair to work with. If your hair is thicker than mine, you can take an even smaller section if you need to. So I'm going to comb it all forward and I'm going to see where the shortest piece is. So you see the difference in the length there. I want to just bring it all to there so that it's all one length and blunt from the front. So I'm going to comb through that and then I'm going to put the hair between my pointer and middle finger. Drag that down and I'm just going to cut straight across. And you want to keep your head straight. You don't want to tilt or move around because any way that you tilt your head, it's going to create over direction with the hair. And then when you do look straight, it's not going to be a straight line. So you want to just hold your head completely straight forward. So I'm going to let this top section down, brush it all down and I'm going to do the exact same thing. So you can see the blunt line and then where this is a little bit longer. So that's what I'm going to cut off right there. Can you see the difference? This side versus this side, like look how much thicker and fuller that makes my hair look from the front, right? Compared to this side. So we're going to do the exact same thing on this side. I'm going to split it in half, comb it all down and I'm just going to cut right at that shortest piece. Let the top layer down, same thing. And then I'm just going to check and make sure that everything feels like it's pretty even on both sides. Okay, so now that I cut the length, when I pull it back, you can see a little bit of a difference before it was like all straight across one length in the back and now it is a little more tapered and has a little bit of a slight V. I'm going to go through and clean up these layers. So the way that I'm going to do that, because I already have the layers in my hair, it's easy for me to just like pick them up, but they kind of start like by my temple. So if I come across at my temple and then I go in a little bit of like a diagonal back shape following the natural curvature of my head, that's where all of my layers are. So I'm going to pick all of this up and the rest of my hair, I'm going to just push to the back. And I'm going to split this into vertical sections to make it easier. And I'm going to comb upwards like this. And I'm just going to point cut into these layers. Because I don't necessarily want to make them shorter, but I do want to, you know, clean them up a little bit just like that. I'm going to take another vertical piece, push upwards. And you want to make sure that you are holding the hair with a really nice tight grip while you're doing this. And the same thing with this last piece. And the reason why I'm cutting into it like this rather than just like cutting straight across like that is because if I were to just cut a straight across line, it's going to be so blunt and it's going to just look really steppy and choppy and not be blended. And I don't like that look, that's not what we want. We want these layers to be soft and blended. So, same thing on this side, starting at my temples, going in a diagonal back shape, following the head shape. Push this hair back. I'm getting sweaty, can you tell? It's so hot in here. So now I do want to cut my face frame just a teeny bit shorter. So I'm going to go like 2 inches back from my hairline and I'm going to come down and make a triangle just like that. And then these are going to be my face frame pieces. And there's a few different ways that you can do this. You can brush it across this way and just cut into the hair. Do the same thing on the other side and then just comb it forward, make sure that it's about the same length on both sides, which it is just a little bit shorter. I don't necessarily want them to be like bangs, but I just wanted to bring them up a little bit. And then the last thing that I'm going to do, because these layers are already decently blended, but I do want to texturize them a little bit more and just kind of like debulk. So I'm just going to literally grab wherever I see layers and then I'm going to take my texturizing shears and I'm going to just cut into the lengths of it. And same thing, you'll notice I'm going in vertically because even though these won't create like a blunt straight across line, but sometimes I feel like you can kind of see the zigzag line that it cuts. So I like to go in vertically, so that way it is undetectable. And you see how that just like softened that up even more? It just like makes it so much softer and more blended. Like this side, I feel like you can see the layers a little bit more than you can on this side. This side, they all just like blend in and then on this side, they're just like kind of sitting there. So I'm going to do the same thing on this side, grab the layers where I can see them and kind of fan the hair out. And you don't want to do this too, too much because you don't want the ends to look like frayed and thin and, you know, damaged. So I always say do a little bit at a time, brush it out, see how it looks, and then if you need to debulk some more, cut some more, then do so. But, you know, you don't want to go crazy and then end up cutting too much. Super simple, I didn't really cut a lot off, but I do feel like it made a huge difference in how my hair looks. I feel like it just looks a little bit more freshened up. Definitely fuller, especially from the front. Actually, let me take this cape off, so you can see it a little bit better. So yeah, you can see how it just looks a lot fuller from the front. So yeah, that's how I cut my hair at home. So yeah, let me know what you guys think. I am so sorry for how sweaty I've looked throughout this video. So I'm going to go sit in front of the air conditioner now, but I hope that you guys enjoyed this video, found it entertaining, maybe learned something. If you did, please give it a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel before you go and follow me over on Instagram for more hair tips and tutorials. And I'll see you in my next video. Bye.