 What's up guys welcome to today's video so guess what on the video today? I actually had a special request so I had a question on Instagram and it was from Melissa and Melissa asked She said love everything that you do I was wondering would you be so kind of showing us how to cut layers on shoulder length hair? Thanks for your time So so Melissa's question kind of sparked a little bit of an idea So I want to create a segment where I just kind of take your questions And I create a whole video based on that question because you got to assume that if Melissa has this question And a lot of other people have it as well So she wants to see medium length layered haircut. So what I did was I did a medium length layered haircut It's gonna be about shoulder length a lot of movement in the layering It's gonna be rounded layers kind of pushed off the face and then we also In this video do a curtain fringe as well also as a bonus on this video. I'm gonna show you guys at the end We're gonna do a hair color Experiment so I want to show you guys that as well So stay tuned after the haircut to see the finished product the finished result with our hair color as well Thank you to Paul Mitchell So thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't subscribed to the channel or on Instagram Make sure you follow us at free salon education or hit that subscribe button right here on YouTube. All right guys Let's get started with the video. Here we go. All right So we're gonna start off today's video by taking a center parting So we're just gonna work our way right down to the crown And then I'm gonna find where the head starts to curve right in the fringe area And that's where I'm gonna draw my triangle right straight down the hairline So notice I look for that hairline because I'm looking to work with similar density throughout the entire cut Twist up that triangle clip it out of the way That's literally gonna be the only section that we really take throughout this whole cut So it's gonna be pretty simple in that aspect. So now I'm gonna add in a palm of your neuro prime It's a nice blow-dry primer. It's got a nice medium light hold. I put it in the hair helps protect it from heat So I'll put it in there It helps control the hair while I cut it and then it helps with protecting the hair when I blow it dry So to start this haircut off We're gonna work on the left-hand side of the head and basically what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna work my way back This entire section until I get to where the hairline starts to drop into the nape into the back of the head right behind the ear So Working off the curve of the head. I really want to create almost a concave feel to the sides of the cut nice short layers Skinnying up the bottom and just creating layers that really fall nice around the ear and then Remove that weight from around the sides I'm also taking some density away from the outer perimeter of the cut which we're gonna cut at the very end so a few different techniques we're gonna throw into this and Things I think you'll find very valuable in the salon as you're working So notice I didn't start this haircut by cutting the length. I'm really working on the interior shape first So everything's getting elevated up. I'm gonna create layers that push off of the face The way that you do that is you cut the hair towards the face So I'm over directing everything over that very first section. So it becomes a stationary guide Taking vertical partings and pushing the hair you can see I'm pushing it right over top of that first Parting that I took that first section that I took so everything's going to to section one I'll continue that cut all the way back to just behind the ear where that hairline starts to drop That's where I'm gonna change things up. So notice I'm going back to that point. That's because the density is all the same in that section It's really important as hairdressers and those of you guys that are getting more into advanced hair cutting or even in school Just to understand the different densities that you're working with in the hair What is the formation of the hair? How much hair are you working with? Where how does the hairline? Flow because when you look at the hairline, that's gonna determine The outer perimeter of that cut and kind of the density throughout it. So the sides I'm cutting both the same. So now we're working on the right hand side The only difference is you always want to free up that bottom that elbow when you're cutting concave shapes So I'm standing in front of the head pulling everything to me Which tends to be a little bit easier anyways because you're pulling it towards yourself Anytime you're pushing away it gets a little bit harder to stay consistent So notice it's just a straight line across Somebody in the comments is gonna say something about me wearing black clothes in dark hair It's okay. Look at my fingers. Look at the angle You can still see the hair if you look at it There's a couple highlights that pop through in there, but just look at my finger angle. That's what you need to be judging That's the most important part. You can see my hands very clearly in this video So all the way parallel to the floor is how my fingers are working across. That's the cutting line that we're creating So I go all the way back to where that hairline starts to drop in the back and that's where I'm gonna stop on the sides So because I'm over directing everything to the front all of those layers are starting to get longer towards the back And that's really the goal You also have to look at the head shape the head shape is curving a lot in the back of the head So it curves not only in the crown area, but then around the occipital bone as well So I'm now not gonna cut concave and I'm gonna work just a straight line still parallel with the floor Across and I'm gonna cut square more square layers or balanced layers in the back So my guide is now gonna be traveling. It's not gonna be stationary So I'm gonna cut my first section and then I'm gonna work my way across that way So you'll see everything's over directed straight up and we're gonna hit the overtop angle So you can see that everything's just coming back to that previous section So we're traveling across the back of the head creating a balanced line horizontally and vertically See I grab a little bit of the old and then bring in the new I'm working my way all the way over to that hairline everything coming straight up Parallel to the floor straight up in the air now if I had a guess that had a higher density of hair And I really wanted to remove some extra weight I could even shift my finger angle even a little bit more in this and cut more concave layers in the back That would take out some more weight if she had high density Then maybe I would go in with some point cutting instead of cutting a blunt line That tends to take out a little bit more weight So there's different options based on the density of your client's hair So in this last section, you'll notice there wasn't anything to cut So I move on now we're gonna go into the fringe So what I wanted to do is cut a nice open kind of curtain fringe If you if you want to call it that so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna work with a little bit of elevation I'm gonna work with vertical partings One little tip and this something I learned from Richard Manna, I believe He cuts the length so notice that I'm checking where I want my guide to be then I have a ton of hair So what I'm gonna do is cut the bulk of it off first then I'm gonna go in and point cut a line I'll show you guys that again so you can see it But I go in I point cut because I want to create a nice soft feel so I cut the blunt line for my length Then I go in with point cutting a little bit of deeper point cutting But here's the tip right here. So as I comb the hair over I've got a lot of hair in my hand So in order to control it I cut the bulk of it off first I don't go all the way to the guide I can still see my guide underneath and then I go in and I point cut that length to match my guide So what that's doing is just allowing me to control the hair a little bit better I thought that was such a cool tip Any time I'm around a different hairdresser that I haven't worked with before I always try to grab something from them that I can bring into what I do And that was one thing that I really thought was cool is just being able to control that hair because sometimes when we were Hairdressers when we go in to cut that long hair that's over our fingers It's challenging and it gets in the way. So just take that bulk off then go in and cut your lines However, you'd like so the last bit I wanted this to be a medium length haircut So we cut some shorter layers in there cut the interior part and now we're going in cutting the exterior the perimeter line Wanted it to be a little bit more of a blunt feel a nice solid line So I'm just cutting everything at that one length and the layers will kind of come to life from there So cutting off making sure all the hair looks nice and healthy as we work through it and this is a great Medium length cut for your guests. So now I'm gonna blow it dry. I'm gonna use Paul Mitchell lift We're gonna do some color real quick too because what I wanted to do is I want to play around with Paul Mitchell sent me their new VG series. I used it in a past video to make a blonde But they have a level five and I was like well if it's a violet gold then what does it look like at a level five? so Thought I put this all over the head and get a really nice idea for what that tone looks like thought you guys might find That interesting as well. So we're gonna deepen our to a level five now Definitely one thing that I've noticed about this color Is that it's got like kind of an iridescent feel so when it hits the light you get different shades from it It's it's a VG what you would think is violet gold, but it's a neutral base So with a violet kind of overcast So I really love the violet tones that come through on it You're gonna see it in the end result But that was kind of one of my favorite things about this color because you're always looking for Nice violet, but that looks natural That kind of has that natural under tone to it and a lot of them are kind of fantasy color looking So this one to me just has that violet hue that richness to it But still violet which I really really love and I think you guys will love in the salon as well So I'll check that out on palmichael calm and that's it. I hope you guys like the cut You can see the layers you can see the opened up curtain face frame fringe I hope you guys like it subscribe to our YouTube channel I'm free salon education everything and also our Instagram. Thank you guys so much for watching Can't wait to share another video with you guys. It'll be coming soon. Thanks