 Hey there, chameleons! It's Camille, and today I'm doing something about this hair. I'm not saying that something needs to be done about it, but it's getting pretty long. Although it looks like probably a normal length right here, it's all the way down to my butt, I promise you. When I turn sideways, this is the middle of my butt, and when you grab it, you can stretch it all the way down here. You see that? Crazy. The shrinkage is real, ladies and gentlemen. Curls are so much longer than they seem. So I have to admit that I do really like my curls. I like that it's long, but I've been doing the long curls thing for so long. And I know a lot of you guys are like, oh my gosh, I wish I had your length, how do you grow it, and all of that. So I feel like this amount of that cutting it, but mostly I just want to cut it. Do you guys ever get to a point in your life where you're just like, I am dissatisfied for my life, I need change, something needs to be different? That's me right now. All you have to do is change your hair and all your problems will go away. And as someone who changes their hair quite often, I guess that makes it sound like I hate my life, but really I'm such a happy person. Anyways, there's so much to deal with, so much of this. It takes six hours to dry, it takes for frigging ever to condition, and I have to use so much product on it, takes huge jars of hair dye to dye all of this. Like even for a touch-up I used an entire jar of hair dye. It's just so high maintenance at this point, so nothing a good pair of scissors couldn't fix. Also side note, these are hair cutting scissors, so they are made for the hair cutting. Using real hair cutting scissors are better than paper ones because they prevent splinters, blah, blah, blah. I'm doing it right. Well I'm using the right tool that is. Not necessarily the right technique, I'm not a hairdresser. I do what pleases my eyes and pleases my soul. So without further ado, I'm going to show you guys how I cut my hair. For curly hair you always want to cut it while it's dry because that way you can see the length because the shrinkage as I showed you guys will make your hair look a lot longer when it's wet. And then when it's curly it will shrink all the way up and if you cut it when it was wet and you think it's going to be this length you're going to have hair up to here and you're going to be like where did all my hair go? Also this kind of shows the texture that you want and I cut based on curl not based on length. So unlike straight people hair, straight people. Unlike straight hair where you just want to cut it all one length. If I am straight hair I would probably let someone cut my hair and just be like cut it straight maybe give me layers. But it's very different. It's a whole different game. For this you want shape. When my hair goes out it grows just like it's just like a triangle right now and I hate having triangular hair. So I want to add some shape some like roundness to my hair. I want the curls to frame my face well so I'm going to cut it in a way that does that. Also this is going to help get rid of split ends and a little bit of the the damaged ends from bleaching. Here's a tip. Use a mirror. Hey that mean. So my first order of business is always washing, styling, laying my hair completely dry and making sure it's parted. Check. Got the scissors? Check. So now I'm going to start with the curls that frame my face so I can know how short I want the shorter ones to be and then figure out the rest from there pretty much. So this is my front curl. Her name is Jordan. I want her to be on my chin. So you just want to hold it there and snip. Whoa. Goodbye Jordan. So this is Jordan's best friend Melissa and she wants to be the same size. So I'm going to cut some more that are like the top layer so like from the part to the like top. I've lost some pretty good curls. This one was perfect. This is a perfect curl. That's some peace baby. But I already feel better about myself. My hair looks crazy right now because you can see that there's just like a layer here and then a long layer. We're just do not leave your hair like that. But it feels like light and fluffy and airy and I feel like I can jump around and go and bathe in some lilies or something. So I did that all the way around my head so you can see that there are shorter pieces over here too. Shorter pieces and then the back has some short pieces. Honestly I just turned my head. I look and I cut. I don't see the back of my head. I don't feel like I really need to. But if you guys need someone to help you then just ask someone to help you. That's it. Do cut your hair a little bit longer than you want it to be though because especially with curls when you cut it shorter than when you wash it and then have it re-curl again it will be slightly shorter because the weight of the curl isn't holding it down as much as it is so it kind of curls up a little bit more on its own. And just in case you make a mistake you can always go over and clip a little bit more but you can never add more hair. Except you can. They're called extensions. Anyways I'm gonna do the same thing for a second layer which I'm not doing any specific parting to figure out. I'm just pretty much here's a layer. Oh here's another layer. Just you know feeling it out very organic. Let's go in and trim the hedges. Get it because it's green like a little bush. It's so pretty I don't want to cut it. It's a perfect coil. But if I don't cut it I'll be ugly. Okay let's look at this comparison. So this is oh my goodness you guys don't even know how good this feels. It feels just like ah my hair is shoulder length. It's not all the way down to my butt and then there's just all of this hair is weighing me down on this side. But it's gonna be even very soon. Okay so now I'm just loosely parting it down the back and bringing the hair to the front so all of my hair is showing and I can see if I missed any pieces and see if it's even and as you can see like I'm just kind of pulling down to make sure all the long parts come and look right here we got a stickler. You know what we did to your kind. Cut throat this business. I'm just gonna kind of trim the bottom parts just to kind of shape it out and then again just pulling one more time like a little stragglers. Then you want to put your head straight, square your shoulders. Does this look even? Oh and wearing a lined shirt can help because you can just go across the lines. This actually looks pretty good to me and want the back to look good but I'm not going to look at the back. So I'm just gonna bring those hairs forwards and just make sure that there aren't some pieces that I just want to cut a little bit more which there are. Just take care of those. Okay so now I got a general good shape going on. I want to make this side a little bit more rounded because you can see this side is kind of a little bit more round. So I'm just going to sort of refine the layers and make it so that there's a little bit more of a gradient between all three of them and this is why you really want to separate each individual curl and cut it by itself and not the same length as its neighboring curl because that's how you get the perfect gradient. Like this one, new, separate those and I'll cut this one slightly shorter. All right so the bottom layer situation is looking good now I'm just going to add a little bit more to the top. So I want the top layers to be even shorter so I'm going to slowly trim those and you want to do this slowly because if you trim too fast you know you're going to end up bald. And I wouldn't really call this a layer just like a few curls here and there get to be shorter. Just the lucky one. Especially the curls that frame your face. Those ones get to be shorter for good reason. Those are the curls that deserve extra credit. Oh this feels so nice. I can feel breeze on my neck again. Oh my gosh. Oh I lost 20 pounds. All right so your hair is going to look a little bit weird and poofy because you did just separate all the curls and every time you cut one it's cut straight across which looks weird right now but once you wash your hair and they recoil it's going to just be part of the coil so it's going to look a little bit less blunt and it's going to blend a little bit easier. When you rewash it though if you find some curls that are off like once they already settle then just go ahead trim it, fix whatever little minor details need to be fixed and then you're good. I have never touched my hair so much in one video like oh my goodness even in my hair routine videos I don't touch my hair this much. I feel like 36 percent happier right now having this done. Oh my glob. Guys if you need something in your life I'm telling you change your hair get a haircut do something to your hair and now that I have this huge pile of green and some of these are so gorgeous oh my goodness I'm going to be posting a picture to Instagram of the hair first 10 people to DM me your address I will send you a lock of my hair and a handwritten note not even joking. Anyways that's it for today's video I hope you guys enjoyed it if you did don't forget to subscribe to my channel I also have my vlog channel and my cooking channel linked in the description box down below as well as all of my social media my Instagram is kind of popping so I'm just gonna slide that in there it's linked down there but yeah comment down below how you cut your hair or if you get it professionally done or what you thought about this video and I will read all the comments as usual but yeah so thanks so much for watching and I will see you chameleons in the next video kisses