 What's up guys welcome to today's vlog today we're going to be going over one specific technique and that is a dry and wet cutting technique called stroking so I'm going to show you guys how to do it with your scissor and I'm also going to take you over to the mannequin and I'm going to show you guys how to cut hair using the technique as well. The thing I want to talk about first is the scissor so we're going to be cutting dry hair today and I'm not going to be using a dry cutting scissor so I want to share with you guys why I chose not to cut with a dry cutting scissor and the reason for that is most dry cutting scissors will push the hair a little bit. They're meant to glide through the hair so that you don't get all that tugging and pulling it's just a better experience for dry cutting which is great most of the time when you're using it for slide cutting techniques point cutting all those different things it feels really good. Now when you're doing a technique like stroking you want to make sure that you're gripping the hair as you're cutting so I'm going to choose today to go with the Mizetani type K. This is a medium range scissor so it's in the medium price point about $600 so if you guys are looking for a new scissor check out freesaloneducation.com and you can see this scissor on there so I'll link it below so you guys can check it out as well. I want to start off by saying that you can use any scissor to do this technique I've used many scissors throughout my career I started in beauty school with really cheap scissors and I worked my way up and now you guys know I use Mizetani scissors. Mizetani scissors in my opinion are the best scissors there are in the industry so you can do it with all different levels of scissors. Now there are things in your scissor that make it easier to do the technique. Things that I really like are to make sure that this thumb ring right here has a little groove in it. What that does allows a couple of different things so it allows me to cut with my thumb halfway in the hole just like that. That makes it easier to cut on top of your fingers and also when we're doing this stroking technique it allows me not to have my thumb all the way in the hole of the scissor so it allows me to move the scissor back and forth a lot easier. So let's show you guys how to do the technique so that you guys know what I'm talking about. So what you're going to do to do this technique is put your ring finger in just like you normally would then what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my thumb halfway in the blade just like this. Now if you don't have that groove what you're going to want to do is just twist your wrist up a little bit so that your thumb is in the hole enough to open and close the blade without slipping. So that's the only thing that's going to make it a little bit different. So you go from being like this with your wrist to you could be like this with your wrist. Now the key thing with this technique one thing that I've always thought of is you remember how you used to make a pencil look like it's rubber as you move it back and forth. So that's how you want the blade to move as you're cutting on top of your finger. You want it to shake up and down as you're cutting that's going to allow the blade to open and close give you a smoother movement with the blade. You don't want to see your hand going a mile a minute like this. You can but it's just easier to move the blade have your hand move just a little bit and have the blade move up and down like this. So the other thing that you're going to do when you're working with this technique is you're going to be going over top of your fingers you're going to have the section in your hand you're going to go over top of your fingers you're going to open as you come up and then close as you come down. So you're cutting open close open close open close just like that work your way down the section and cut. Now what I like to do when I was first learning this technique was sit at in front of the TV if you guys are watching the TV show whatever you're doing and just work on this motion just like this opening and closing the scissor and getting faster and faster at it so that no matter what as you're working the blade back and forth it's just an automatic movement that happens so it makes the technique when you put hair in your hand a lot easier to do. So we're going to get over to the mannequin I want to show you guys cutting hair in that way show you the effects that it creates hope you guys like this video let's get started with our step-by-step here we go. Okay so a few tools make this technique a lot easier this is the brocato vibra straight iron so what I'm going to do is just go through polish the haircut so let's assume that I've done a bob haircut already that's how this mannequin sits currently so we're just assuming we've cut our structured cut now I'm going to go through and create more texture and movement with the stroking technique so I polish the hair using the vibra straight iron which allows the hair to fall more uniform so when I'm cutting it dry I can see the weight and how it's shifting throughout the haircut so I just go through polish mid shaft to ends the blow dry we focus on the base and now you can see this shape the overall shape of the haircut as it sits currently now what I want to do is just tighten that shape up a little bit bring up the elevation so that the the graduation doesn't start so low and the density doesn't start so low so what I'm gonna do first is section off right underneath that crown area so where the hair would kind of blanket over I go and I create a nice triangle section the highest point at the the kind of low crown area and then going right behind the ear I'm gonna pull everything straight out from me creating more of a square look to the back of the head shape and here's a little trick that I like to do I like to put a little oil on the hair so I get slip with my fingers so I don't want to have a ton of tension or stickiness in my hand so I use the Joico this is the K-Pak color therapy restorative styling oil so this is really just a leave-in treatment but it gives a nice slip to the hair it's also putting a treatment on the hair at the same time so it's kind of a win-win for the guest it's good and also for doing this technique you don't want your fingers to stick to the hair so it allows that slide so starting off the technique we talked about the opening close of the scissor so as I come up I'm opening and as I come down on the hair I'm closing using just the tip of the scissor a lot of people when they do this technique for the first time they want to go in with the middle part of the blade which is usually where a lot of people like to cut but you really just want to focus on using the tip that's what's gonna give you that structure it's what's gonna help you cut lines with this technique so just really focus on my finger angle everything's pointing up my elevation is up and my over direction is straight out so there will there really is no over direction everything's coming straight out from the head to create a nice foundation in the back of the head shape so that we're not pushing too much weight forward also look at the size of my section the thicker the section is the harder this technique is so when you first start off doing it make sure you take nice tiny sections maybe in a half an inch at a time and work your way through so you can already see how I've collapsed that shape on the interior of this cut now we've got our exterior that we're gonna go through and cut as well before I do that I'm gonna go through and detail the outer perimeter this you could do at the very end if you want to I like to really see that shape unfolding so I'm gonna go through and just polish out that line again using the tip of the scissor so the type K is great because it's got a nice strong blade it allows me to start to see that shape now you could see how long that top is I'm gonna go through and do a little bit of the stroking technique on the top as well just to lighten it up so again no over direction everything's coming straight out from the head opening as I come up closing as I come down but I tell everybody when I'm teaching this technique hands-on is slow and steady there's no reason to rush through this technique so make sure you go nice and slow get the technique down and as you get better at it you will get faster it's a pretty good visual I think from the top you're really seeing when I'm opening and when I'm closing it I also didn't speed this video up so that you guys would hopefully be able to see how that technique is working through the great part about cutting hair dry as opposed to cutting it wet when you're cutting hair wet it sticks together so you get harder lines which in turn can create some density throughout the haircut and give you weight lines in places that you didn't want when you go in and cut it dry all the hair is separated it's all its own piece of fabric so as I go through and I cut it I'm getting a more of a diffuse line which doesn't build up as much density so I don't get those weight lines throughout the cut now we're gonna work in the front fringe area I'm leaving a slight asymmetrical feel to the front so the right-hand side of the mannequin is gonna be longer than it is on the left hand side I'll show you why in a little bit but we're going through I'm just over directing that entire top section over to me on the opposite side opposite side from where the the person is gonna wear it so I go through I do the stroking technique down creating that line creating that separation the texture and then when I push it back over you can see the angle that it creates this is great for people that get too heavy of a bang or too heavy of a face frame it just really breaks it up so now I'm going to throw in the joyco this is the iron clad thermal protectant spray it's really light hold but it's great for thermal protection and also allowing me to kind of create my style with the iron without it being too crunchy and then I can go in with a finishing spray once I get the the style set but this product is great for really the workability of the style so what I'm doing is with the vibra straight iron I'm bringing everything just like I cut it over to the opposite side giving it a nice bend with the iron you can curl with this iron you can straighten with it and then what I'm going to do is kick it back over to the opposite side which will give it a nice little flip and movement on to the opposite side so when people want that that side swept bang this is a great technique for doing that creating that look even if you're not working with a bob if you're working with longer hair whatever it is iron everything to the opposite side give it a little curl then when you kick it back you get that flip now this is the joyco power spray this is a really strong hold hairspray dries really quickly I spray it on the hair it really sets that hold you can see the kick of the fringe and then also the kick in that disconnection I'm gonna show you guys another style because I know people are gonna comment and say no one where they're bangs in their face there are people that would but if you're a person that would not I'm gonna show you a style for that as well so here's the texture of the movement you can see in the back of the haircut you can see how great that shape looks it really kind of has a nice bill of weight but it's not too much and now what I'm gonna do is just go through with my blow dryer and blow dry the fringe up and over this is where that asymmetrical feel comes in that makes it really work out great it helps hold the hair back because it's a little bit longer on the right side but when you comb it back off of the face you actually get a symmetrical feel to the haircut so not only does it allow it to help it stay on the opposite side because it's a little bit longer but you get the symmetrical feel as well so hope you guys like this look definitely let me know if you have questions on the technique but pretty cool finish to the haircut hope you guys like it make sure you tag me and let me know what you think below all right guys and again remember when you're doing this technique by yourself in your house where you're watching TV just practice moving this blade back and forth opening and closing this is not something that will be easy right away for most of you but as you work on it you'll get better and better faster and 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