 What's up guys welcome to today's vlog today I've got two things to focus on one is a new scissor and two is a new haircut and the haircut that we're gonna focus on is a layered medium length cut so I really dig this one because it's nice and thick so it removes bulk from thick hair but it also adds layering and keeps some long layers on the top so I think a lot of people have a challenge when they have really thick heavy hair and they want layering in it I think we cut the layers way too short so what I did was created a technique so that on top we extend those layers into the back so it's almost like a disconnection through the back so you could see how these layers become disconnected but stay nice and long so you could curl them with an iron or whatever but we remove weight by creating concave layering underneath so I think you guys are gonna dig that also I got a new scissor that I used to own a long time ago but I ended up giving it away so today I got that scissor back it is the Mizetani Acro type K scissor and this is one of my all-time favorite scissors it's in the medium price point which is what I like about it and I got it in a five and a half inch so it's got a lot of power a lot of precision this thing cuts hair so smooth we use it for the wet cut we use it for the dry cut glad to have this thing back in my collection so I think you guys are gonna like that as well seeing that so make sure you comment below let me know if you have any questions about this cut and let's get started here we go okay so I really want to start off by going a little more in-depth with the scissor because I get a lot of emails about people asking which scissor is best for different scenarios this is a great scissor all around everybody wants the all-around scissor not a lot of people can invest in multiple scissors for different reasons so the great thing about the Acro type K it's a medium price point it's still not a cheap scissor but there's so many great benefits about it you can see the the finger hole one key thing that I look at it's got that little groove in it so I'm showing you that right there that allows you to have your finger outside of the scissor and do different cutting techniques but the metal just glides through the hair it's so soft the feel of the cut a lot of people like that feeling so it works with dry cutting it works with wet cutting it's just such a great all-around scissor I like using the five and a half inch I feel like the blade is nice and strong but you could get it longer than that and you wouldn't have any issues whatsoever super powerful scissor so the way that we section off the hair it's asymmetrical so we go from the parting so the partings on the left hand side that's where your guest would wear their part and then we extend that down a more of an asymmetrical triangle so we go back to the midpoint of the crown and then straight over to a to the high point of the temple area or the bridal ridge just a little bit below that and that's how we create that section that entire triangle is going to be our heavy side so that's something we want to keep in mind right now we're working on the weak side which is the smaller side because it's on the part side so I'm going through I'm going to create consistent concave layering and the reason I decided to go with concave layering is it gives a lot of movement even though this is the weak side we're going to do techniques throughout this haircut to give it balance and shape so we start off creating the concave layering adding a lot of layering and movement to this haircut also I'm not picking my length right now so a lot of people go through and cut the bottom first that doesn't mean that I don't do that but in a lot of cases I go through and I create my interior layers first I create I take out the weight that I want in the haircut and then I go and I cut the length later also a lot of people a very popular haircut right now is those really blunt ends and I think what happens where people fail when they're trying to create that haircut is they go through and they cut the blunt ends first then they layer off of those ends which just breaks up the ends what you want to do is you want to go in create layers and then bring that baseline up just a little bit and what that's going to do is give you a more blunt look a blunt edge a thicker edge to your haircut so you're going to see the end starting to get a little bit weak during this cut but that's not where those ends are going to be we're going to bring this haircut up quite a bit now we get back to the layering one thing with this is that we're working basically around the clock so all the way around the head everything's coming straight out using the previously cut section as a guide I'm only taking about an inch wide section I'm not too worried because we're working with longer layers in this cut and not a real tight short precision cut I can take a little bit wider sectioning so I'm not really worried about that affecting the overall shape so about an inch wide section allows you to do the haircut a little bit faster and I just go through I take a little bit the old and a little bit of the new and you'll always notice that I'm pushing the new section into my guideline so I'm never bringing the guide towards me so all of my combing is away from my body and going towards the guide so I push the hair towards the guideline a lot of people will shift that guide and then what happens is you start diffusing your guide you lose your guide and then you you end up with an unbalanced haircut in the end result so you can see those sections are not skinny it but it doesn't matter and because we're working with a little bit longer hair and as long as I can see my guide then then we're good on that portion so just again working my way around the head pulling that hair straight out from the head shape and creating those concave layers collapsing the shape concave is basically above 90 degrees you're creating a very extreme kind of dip in the shape of the haircut so you're cutting short to long and this is really removing almost a maximum amount of weight you could even remove more if you want if I kick my elbow up even further but I just want a nice soft consistent feel to the layers the comb I'm using in this cut is the ys park 334 comb I like this comb because it's it's great for longer hair because it's a little bit of a thicker comb so if you guys are familiar with using the 339 comb that's a nice small comb it's great for getting into those tighter places or cutting precision cuts because the comb doesn't get in the way but when you're working with longer hair and thicker hair a 334 comb is great because the bone of the comb is a little thicker the entire comb is a little thicker but the length of the comb is similar so if you like a shorter comb which I do that one works really well so we went around we cut that entire shape around the head shape and now what I'm going to do is start to cut my base you can see how far I'm bringing that up I wanted this to be a medium length haircut if you didn't want it to be a medium length and you wanted a longer cut you can absolutely cut this base longer I just really wanted that blunt edge so bringing it up it allows me to get that shape also I would just cut this straight across if they have shoulders obviously this mannequin doesn't have shoulders but if they have shoulders which most of your guests will you can cut this just a straight line across the back and then I'm gonna comb down my new section which with the mannequin she has a medium density so I could see my guide through there you might have to take that in a couple sections depending on your guest but now I'm going to go through and cut straight across now this works if it's above the shoulder if it's not above the shoulder I'm going to show you how to cut it on this side that way so if they have a shoulder and the hairs in the way just elevate it slightly just to get a little bit of lift I don't like the turn the head move that some people make it's not my thing I think it works for some people some people have the guests turn their head and then they have a more of a flat surface to cut on I think a slight elevation works just fine the other thing I want to point out is that there's going to be shorter layers on one side right now because we went higher up on the head shape so that created those shorter pieces that side is done now we're going to work on the opposite side the heavy side so I let down that triangle so don't be concerned about whether the lengths match up on the on those points because they're two different points of the head so now this is going to be also concave so we're going to cut from the shortest point I'm bringing that entire top section straight up off the head and then I'm going to continue my way throughout the head shape over directing everything to that guide which will then become a stationary guide we're cutting concave because we're cutting that short to long again so you see my finger angle pointing from almost my fingers almost pointing down at the part and then the back of my hand is straight up in the air so we're cutting that short to long which is going to create a lot of layers on the top of the head but push length to the opposite side and that is really the goal because when you look at thicker hair people cut lots and lots of layers on and then people have troubles trouble styling that because of the fact that those layers are just so short you can't get them on an iron you can't do certain things it starts to look more molady kind of so this is just a great way you can see the length and the movement of those layers now I'm going to go with my brocado mousse this mousse is great it's something I've been using for a long time now it's got a nice thick feel to it very conditioning on the hair and also has a nice medium hold but it doesn't get flaky or crunchy or anything like that so in honor of John Paul's birthday from Paul Mitchell this is actually the 413 brush I recorded this video on 413 so it's his birthday the brush is numbered after his birthday so we'll go ahead and use it one of my favorite brushes I've used use that brush for a long time so we'll go through also using the Dyson blow dryer a lot of you guys gonna have questions about that I believe that the Dyson blow dryer is a great blow dryer I've been using it all my guests I use it on these videos I think it's overpriced I don't think a consumer needs to pay this much money for it but as a professional if you want to splurge if you don't own a great scissor though I would go for the scissor first so I would get the type K scissor way before I would get the Dyson blow dryer because it doesn't make your job easier it's just a cool looking tool so I would get the scissor first get the combs with the clips get all that then get the blow dryer because you probably have a great professional blow dryer that does the same result so that's pretty much my my review on that I also have a full pledged video review of it as well so this is the brocato vibra straight iron it's one of my favorite flat irons the cool thing about this iron is that it vibrates as it iron so obviously vibra straight but the the great thing about the fact that it vibrates is that the less friction you have on the hair the less damage you're gonna get so a lot of people will go straight up to the hottest heat with their iron they'll pass over at a hundred times the vibra straight iron is cool because it oscillates over the hair kind of works the kinks out of the hair works its way over the hair but doesn't create as much damage as most flat irons do and then also I usually keep it around 390 375 because you can go nice and slow over the hair there's no reason to rush it and then you get a lot less heat damage on the hair a lot of our guests so if you're out there and you're not a hairdresser a lot of people ramp up the heat so that they can get that worked on faster but really that is not the way to do it you want to go nice and slow pass over the hair and make sure you're creating the least amount of damage as possible so this is the last bit and you remember if if you remember we over directed the top section of the hair all the way to the front what that does is pushes the length to the back so because we have that length in the back you can see that disconnection do not cut off that disconnection it's there on purpose it gives it the movement the layers underneath it the shorter layers give it the depth and give it the kind of volume feel and hold the shape of the haircut but those top layers are what you can iron and have some fun with so just make sure that when you go through it I'm point cutting those layers but I'm just point cutting them to break them up not to remove it so this is the last little bit we're gonna style it I'm gonna show you guys three different styles with this cut the first one is a fringe that lays down some people like the fringe in front so you can see how nice and soft that angle is that we created with those layers we didn't even cut the fringe if you think about it it didn't seem like we were but we were cutting it when we cut those layers so we got that nice soft feel to it you could see the blunt edge on the haircut which is very popular right now and then you could see all the movement with those layers when I get my hands moving through there so you could see the longer layers but then you can see some of those shorter layers throughout the interior of it as well so the next style I'm just gonna take the blow dryer the nozzle of the blow dryer and blow dry the fringe up so a lot of people like to wear the fringe back and over so I want to show that style as well same haircut different style so I'll spray a little bit of like a working spray I use the brocato firm hair spray just to give me that hold in the front and then as soon as I hit it with the heat on the iron it holds that front fringe up and that's all you have to do to change that style up so the blow dryer would be the same iron work would be the same and then you just pop the front up at the end so now I want to go through a little bit of curling iron work this is an inch and a half curling iron this is a palmetial iron I just go through I curl everything in the same direction off of the face you can change this up have some fun with it you can curl every other section different ways you know I'm just trying to give it more of that wave and bounce and natural feel like I say to you guys all the time I'm trying to create salon friendly looks that you can do quick and easy because obviously I realize that you guys don't have all the time in the world with every guest so the quicker we can create different techniques the better off we are so just working my way through just like the clock did we did with the cut we're gonna do in the same thing with the iron work just working our way through taking maybe two inch square sections out and ironing them the same direction finishing off a couple times on the top other key thing I'm not really messing with those sections as I take them off the hot heat so you heat them up with the iron and then make sure that you don't really mess them much let them set let them cool and then I go through with my hands start breaking it up now it's not a super modern feel to just have curled hair so what I like to do is break up those curls so now it seems a little bit dated to me at this point so what I do is I go through with my vibrostrate iron and just pull out some of the ends of the curl which you could do on on a little bit longer hair it's easier because you can wrap it around the iron and leave the ends out with shorter hair and some of the shorter layers it was easier for me to just curl it completely with the iron and then just go through and break it up at the end so just going through the vibrostrate iron hitting the ends obviously I wouldn't do a straight look and a curly look so I wouldn't want to hit hair twice with a flat iron but in this case I wanted to show you guys multiple styles so finishing up this is the brocado firm hold hairspray and I really like this end result I love all the layers the movement I hope you guys love it hope you guys can use it in the song let me know what you think in the comments below thanks for watching all right guys like always if you like this haircut then hit the like button hit the share button share this video with all of your hairdresser friends out there also I want to announce a mizzatani scissor giveaway so those of you guys that have joined our fsc partner program I'm giving away one mizzatani scissor to you our fsc partner program is our live classes online that we do every month it's $9.99 a month for students and $20 a month for stylists so it's super affordable and you get a live 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