 what's up guys welcome to today's video so guess what today what we're going to be cutting is a fundamental haircut we're going to cut a square one length haircut one length haircuts are not only popular but they're also a great exercise for bettering your haircutting skills so hope you guys like the video let's get started oh and if you haven't signed up for fse on demand yet you have to go sign up it's fseondemand.com all of these videos that i'm creating go on there first so you're actually hearing about this video later than everybody else on there it's over seven thousand hairdressers on there already so go to fseondemand.com create an account it's free all the videos are free everything on there is free you can't even purchase anything on fse on demand and once you have your account you can download the fse on demand app and you can see all these different videos from all these different artists on there we've got video collections on there so much cool stuff that's getting uploaded every single day so go check it out fseondemand.com all right here's the video what's up guys welcome to today's video so what we're going to be focusing on in this video is basic haircutting so this is a one length square haircut the reason i wanted to do this video it's not that it's the most exciting haircut but i think the process of getting to the end result is exciting and it's also a great exercise for you to do to really work on your sectioning the cleanliness of your sectioning your precision cutting working with little tension there's multiple things in this haircut that can make you a better hair cutter so let's not focus on the end result as much even though it's going to be a nice one length long bob which is a pretty popular haircut nowadays but i'm just really focusing on being clean when you work so the sectioning is pretty simple go straight down the center center parting straight down center back and then i'm going to draw a vertical line right at the division point which separates the front and the back of the head right down to the ear so that gives me four quadrants the four quadrants are a basic beauty school haircut so i section that off and then i go from the occipital bone which is right where my comb is right there over to behind the ear and that's going to section off my first panel that i'm going to be cutting at the very bottom so one thing i want you to notice is my sectioning i'm keeping everything nice and tight and clean and out of the way that's just going to give me the most consistent end result so now as i get into the cutting part i'm working from the occipital bone down and i'm working with comb tension now the reason i'm working with comb tension is because a lot of times people put the hair in their fingers and they'll hold it super tight and they'll cut their line and it bounces back like a lot of people talk about calyx in the back or density in the back how do they get the best line well what you're going to do is use comb tension cut your line don't pull the hair from where it wants to live naturally and once you have that line cut and you get your entire haircut done then you go in and you cut it dry and you really define the line which i'll show you guys later but from occipital bone down i use comb tension then as the head starts to peel away i don't i no longer have to worry about elevation and by saying that i mean from occipital bone down if i put my fingers in the hair not only do i have to worry about pulling the hair too tight but i'm also elevating the hair a slight bit so if you're trying to get that nice clean one length feel to the haircut or a nice sharp line then you don't want to elevate the hair at all now as i work from occipital bone up then the head shape starts to peel away so i can still keep that true zero degree feel by slightly elevating the hair so i don't have to worry about having my fingers in there it also becomes a lot easier to cut it and it doesn't make the hair feel like such kind of dead weight just hanging over because it's not passing over too many corners which we've talked about in past videos so as i'm going through i'm still using the wide teeth of the comb i section my hair through and now we're talking about a one-length square haircut now what makes this haircut square is i cut a nice straight line by over directing the hair all back to this one line and i cut it straight what that's going to do is start to push a little bit of weight into the corner right behind the ear then what i'm going to do is i'm going to cut this another straight line as i work on the side of the head and that's going to really connect the two lines and make the square shape so what i was told a long time ago when i when i really started to learn precision haircutting is when you're working with square or any kind of shape you're basically looking down onto the head so if you were standing on top of it uh standing above the head looking down on it what does the outline perimeter shape look like if it's square you're going to have that line coming across the back you're going to have a line coming across the sides and that makes the square shape if you're working triangularly everything's being over directed back to the center and it's pushing that weight to the front so you start to see that triangle kind of starting to appear in the outline it has nothing to do with the layering the graduation any of that stuff throughout the haircut so i'm continuing through i'm keeping that slight bit of elevation keeping everything in my fingers as i work and then i'll go through and i'll cut my outline later but notice my over direction now this is the biggest thing that people i think i'm not going to say fail on but the biggest discovery that they make as they're cutting hair is they take the corner away so they start to create almost like a round shape because they follow the head shape around now square is not for everybody but if you're trying to really create a strong foundation that square look then you got to make sure that you don't round that corner so notice i bring the hair down and then everything comes back to me in that line see my over direction as i kind of pull it back i'm pulling it back because i'm keeping that line straight in the back so that is the key thing definitely focus on that and cutting these basic shapes guys is the foundation of every haircut you're ever going to do in the salon so for me learning these basic shapes is the best exercise that you can do you don't have to get all fancy on your mannequin head just go through and really cut these basic shapes learn your partings your sectioning your elevation your tension all that stuff can happen on a mannequin head and then as you you know get into the salon and you have guests and you're working with different hair types then you know the fundamentals the mechanics everything that you need to have success in the salon you don't have to be afraid you don't have to worry about what texture or what density comes in so that you can see that bold straight line in the back now as i go through here i can really decide for a square haircut i'm going to go through and cut a straight line if i want now go triangular i could just keep over directing everything back to that line and extend that line into the front kind of push it a little bit longer in the front round i would just follow the round of the head but because we're cutting square i'm keeping these square lines i'm bringing everything down and i'm going to cut from that corner where we push that weight i'm going to cut a straight line across now again not using tension until i get a little bit further up and sometimes because of the density on the side of the head and in this case in this haircut for the majority of the the time i'm using just comb tension combing it down and sometimes like that not using any tension at all just letting it live free but now as the head starts to curve away and we get above the eye the eyebrow that head shape pushes away so i need to control the hair a little bit so i do light tension in my fingers still not totally elevating the hair but lifting it slightly because the head shape is peeling away it gives me a little bit more freedom to elevate a little bit and then i go through and i cut my line so you can see combing the hair making sure i'm really consistent a lot of people are like well why would you comb that many times the reason you comb that many times is because the hair you have to make sure that every single piece of hair is coming down especially in a one-length haircut you want to make sure all that hair is consistently combed down because if it's not and you cut it and then you go to re comb it you're going to have those long hairs coming through if you've ever had a haircut or cut a haircut and at the end you see long straggly hairs sticking out it's because you or your hairdresser didn't comb consistently enough and get the hair down so they it's not that they miss the hair they cut their line but then as they comb the hair down more hair got detangled and it's longer than the the line that they cut so we're finishing up just going through same exact thing on this side the other thing about the square cut and cutting a foundational cut is it's very balanced throughout so both sides the back everything is the same but it really puts off a nice shape and like i said at the beginning this is a pretty popular haircut so a lot of people are wearing a bob this long the reason i cut a little bit longer is i'm going to do a series of these videos i'm going to cut a graduation in the next one also using paul mitral super skinny serum to blow dry and flat wrap this just helps blow dry the hair faster it's a serum makes their really shiny silky and i wanted that for my end result so this is going to be a series guys so i'm going to go through and i'm going to cut a graduated bob on her as well so i wanted to show you guys multiple different things triangular looks really just get back into the fundamentals because that's what haircutting is all about it's putting the pieces together it's you know the one thing that you look at when you watch a haircutting video or whatever you're watching like all the haircuts that everybody does comes from these fundamental cuts so it's really important to know it's important to practice it get a mannequin and practice through i flatwrapped the hair around the head and made sure i didn't have any part lines in there and then i went through with the paul mitral neuro iron and just smoothed it out and got it ready for this part of the cut so now this is the detail work um i go through with the just the tip of my scissor and i cut my my outline um and a lot of people try to get that outline right away in the wet cut and the most important thing is to just do your cut do your foundational cut and then in the dry cut go through and do your outline so use a paul mitral invisible wear it's a new undone texture spray just spray that on just give me a little bit of hold but you can see the corners that build up in that square haircut that's what's cool you see the shape kind of unfold and then now i use the texture spray to really build in some texture and expand the shape um but you can see kind of how it builds up at the bottom that's what the one length feel gives it so hope you guys like this video um definitely check out all the videos that we have to offer on fse on demand hope you guys are enjoying it and i'll see you guys on the next video