 What's up guys welcome to today's vlog today we're gonna do a shorter haircut in the pixie family it's not really a pixie cut definitely more of just a short haircut long bang and we're gonna do is we're gonna go in I got the Mizitani type Z dual texture scissor this is a texture scissor that I love using it's got texturizing blades on both sides so it's a really cool scissor and I want to use that for all my texturizing at the very end of this cut so thank you guys are always asking for shorter cuts you're always asking to use the texturizing scissor so I'm gonna show you guys some cool techniques to go along with that so I hope you guys like the video let me know in the comments below and if you haven't subscribed to this channel yet make sure you hit the subscribe button right now so you don't forget and you see all of our upcoming videos coming soon so hope you enjoy let's get started okay so we're gonna start off with the most important part of cutting hair which is sectioning off the head and what I'm gonna do is separate the top and the bottom whether this was a short cut a long cut it doesn't matter you want to make sure that you're always sectioning off your work keeping it organized so that you stay nice and consistent throughout the cut with the goal that you had in mind my goal here is to have a disconnected top so I section off the top I go right along the pridal ridge all the way back to mid crown that gives me a nice rectangle on the top of the head then I separate the front and the back at the division line the division line I really just feel the head shape I feel where it starts to curve back that's where I make my parting in this case it was right behind the ear and then I go directly down vertical parting down center back and then section off horizontal sections from there what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take a two inch portion in my fingers horizontally now cutting a pixie cut horizontal might seem kind of weird but what I wanted to do was really create a strong shape in the back and stay consistent and also push myself to work horizontally because I think if you push yourself to cut vertically and horizontally just as well you're gonna be a more rounded hairdresser because you're looking at the hair at all different angles horizontal is thinking about it one way vertical is thinking about it the opposite way so as I go through here I over direct the top that first section pinch it together what that does gives me kind of a fringy feel in the very back of the head shape and then I start working up nice small horizontal sections so as I go around the round of the head I need to make sure that I'm following the head shape and I'm not letting my hand drop because what that's gonna do is create too much weight and then I end up with those lines throughout the haircut so I want to create a seamless feel the only way you could create a seamless feel and a cut like this cutting it horizontal is to stay consistent with your elevation so really focus on how high you're elevating the hair make sure it's 90 degrees out from the head and then as I start to work up that crown portion of the head shape then I'll drop my elevation below 90 just to start to build up a little bit of weight as I work through the other key thing that I want you guys to look at here is the fact that we're working around the head shape so I'm not over directing everything back when you see the overhead view you'll see that I'm following the head shape around because I want to keep consistent length around the head shape as I'm working if I brought everything straight back to me the entire way see how I'm curving around the curve there if I brought everything straight back to me what I would do is I push a ton of length to the front and that would be more of a triangular feel or just pushing that extra weight towards the face and I don't want to do that in this cut I want to keep a consistent length around and continue that length into the side of the haircut so now notice my elevation drop throughout the back so that I didn't go straight up from the crown I wanted to bring down that elevation that's going to keep the head shape and keep the proportions of the head shape nice so I just work my way through that way now you can get a good look at how I pinch that hair together and that fringy look that it gives it because I'm over directing the bottom nape area up to my section it pushes a little bit of that length down which will give me some hair to play with once it's it's dry and we start doing some of that detail work so same thing on this side working my way around the head shape horizontal partings clipping everything away just keeping everything nice and clean I think this is the key thing for you guys to really focus on is each section should be nice and clean consistently the same size and then as you work through it you can see I'm working around the curve of the head there keeping a consistent length and just working that's going to create more rounded layers throughout it so if you look at shape and you look at elevation I was taught that shape has everything to do with your hands horizontally so because I'm rounding the head that's giving me a round feel to the haircut but then the elevation it has everything to do with how much weight you're keeping or removing so I'm keeping everything at a 90-degree point until I get up to the crown because I want seamless layering in the haircut but I'm following the round of the head horizontally because I want a rounded haircut so if I want a round layered haircut that's how I'm going to work through it so same thing here watch my elevation now because it will start to drop the reason for that is at the bottom of the crown is where I want my weight line to sit if you have somebody with even thicker hair than this if they have more of a really heavy density then you might elevate the hair a little bit longer then drop it right at the last minute so it's really hair cutting to me is kind of a dance in a way that you're working your way to a point and you're really passing that weight on as you work up the head so now I'm going to blow dry the back this is something technique that I like to do a lot with short hair is really finish the section that I was just working on because if I polish it out I can really see it make sure the length is exactly where I want it I can work out any of those calyx then I'll go through this is my blacksmith fit six and a half inch scissor it's a longer scissor than I was just using I was just using a five and a half inch type K so this is the six and a half inch blacksmith fit it's got a longer blade so it's a nice blade to go through and create a little scissor over comb cross-check work so I was just cross-checking going through there dusting the ends it's not even really a cross check because I went through horizontally but just dusting the ends making sure everything is flowing nice through there so now we're going to work diagonal forward and diagonal forward I can actually see my guide coming through sorry guys I only got the overhead view on this but I think it's actually a good view point of view for what we're doing so just diagonal forward partings working my way across the head shape again think about it this way so if I'm working if I was working horizontally across this you'd have a nice even line that follows all the way around to the face so even though I'm working vertically I'm still taking small sections directing them straight out from the head to create seamless layers as well and also around shape because we're following the round of the head it's just we're working vertically so we're working more with elevation same thing on the opposite side biggest difference here is that my fingers are pointing down we have a golden rule that your thumb should always be pointing in the direction you're moving so because I'm moving to the right my thumb is pointed to the right so that just allows me to have consistent combing if you think about how I was combing the hair on the opposite side I was combing it away from the face towards the guideline so in this same thing I'm combing it away from the face towards the guideline hopefully I got that right I'm not really sure but I'm combing everything very consistent throughout the head I'm working back with my type K this is a five and a half inch scissor anytime I'm working precision I like to work with a shorter scissor because the blade is stronger now I'm also going through an elevating just that top edge on the round of the head because I tend to lose a little tension when I go through and cut you can see that the very top of that section is in between my fingers that's where I lose tension a little bit so I like to go in and just soften it with a little point cutting right around that round of the head so now we're going to connect the top this is really what makes this haircut so everything for the most part that we've cut so far is very consistent cut with the round of the head cut with 90 degree elevation for the most part now we're going to go through create more of a rooftop kind of triangular feel on the very top of the head so I'm going to over direct everything connecting that point to the side of the hair so we take a guideline from the side and then I just draw a line straight up to create that point so now I'm going to work my way across the top of the head until I get to about three inches away from the front and then I'm going to start to over direct everything straight back and the reason I'm going to do that is I'm it's again kind of like a dance so I work three sections up I kind of walk my way up to the front keeping consistent layering throughout that then I decide at that point as I'm going to go around that round of the head I want to push extra weight to the front so I start over directing everything back so you can see that happening there same thing here now I've got something to connect it to so I grab a piece from the side and I grab a piece from the top and just connect those the reason I'm doing a point cutting technique is point cutting gives you more of a jagged edge so not as much weight line build up so that's I'm really just trying to create texture and soft softer feel on the top of the head that's going to come through in the end result when we start really polishing it out I'm going to use my texturizing scissors as well so there's a lot of things that are going to go into creating texture on this we didn't need those nice hard solid lines on there so this is that front part that I'm just going to over direct to the center of the head we could call it the high point apex part of the head I don't want to over direct it all the way back over mid crown if I did that would be way too long in the front you're already going to see that there's a lot of length up there but we've got nice short layers working through on the top so we're going to use our brocato mousse this is a really light mousse I like it it's got a medium hold and it's very conditioning so I like using that in the hair it doesn't make the hair crunchy or hard so we're going to work that through the head and then I'm going to do a blow dry flat wrap so you're really going to notice me using that nozzle to blow the air over top of the cuticle of the hair adding a lot of shine I think a lot of people and this is just an assumption but I think a lot of people with short hair would just do a quick blow dry just to get it done and then they would add product in there what you're doing is you're taking out all the shine if you do it that way if you do like a power dry so what I'm doing is I'm polishing the hair from the scalp to mid shaft really working that air over top of the cuticle laying the cuticle down and adding that shine then what I'm going to do is use my brocato vibra straight iron that's going to go over the ends but before I do that I want to use hot shapes this is a cloud nine product from brocato and let's talk about heat protectant for a second what I do is I spray that in it's a wet based heat protectant the reason I like that is if you think about it when you spray something dry on dry hair if it's a dry protectant spray there's nothing wrong with it it's great but it doesn't really penetrate into the hair so wet products are going to actually go in there so what I do is I spray the wet heat protectant on there I hit it with the blow dryer a little bit then I polish through and iron the ends then you don't get damage on your hair now we're using our type z dual texture scissor the breakdown of this tool that I love so much is that because both blades are texturizers there's no pull in the hair whatsoever so I go through create that texture you'll see that I'm over directing everything to my side and then it's actually going to be worn on the opposite side so what you want to do is over direct everything over cut through mid shaft to ends to just lighten up the front of the fringe and then I'm going to do the same thing point cutting dragging that texture scissor through the hair but not getting any pull because of the type z dual texture aspects of it so now you can see all that texture I go through I do one more quick little flat wrap what this does is gets all the loose hairs out of the head and now I'm going to go in with joyco matte grip this product has a lot more hold than I thought it would so it was cool it smells great it's probably the best smelling product I have here I put it through the hair and then once I got it into the hair I noticed I left it in my hands a little too long so what I did was I brushed through the product into the hair I put a little bit more product on my hands just to have it go in the hair a little more of a wet application so the longer it stays in your hands the drier it gets and the stickier it gets which is great for people that want that hold you just need to make sure that you go right into the hair with it and then you can start molding don't wait so you can see I'm working with that fringy area in the nape adding a little bit of product to that I love the way the fringe kind of comes over but has a lot of texture to it so I think you guys will be able to utilize that technique for sure let me know if you have any questions in the comments below I'd love to answer those but we're just going to finish it off I got broccato's firmhold hair spray just to give me that finishing touch and then we'll give it a spin for you you can see all the texture in it but also that expansion where we dropped our elevation in the back pretty cool so hope you guys like it let me know again in the comments below so I hope you guys enjoyed the video definitely let me know in the comments below if you have any questions also hit that like button share this video with your friends and if you're not a hairdresser but you were inspired by this cut you 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