 What's up guys welcome to another video so today what I'm gonna be going over is a technique called point cutting now Some of you guys might be thinking that's a basic technique, but there is a lot of things to know about point cutting So I want to show you guys some strategies to get your hands in the right position I also want to show you guys the different types of point cutting and the result you get when you do it So let's get started with the video here we go Okay, so a cool thing about having this channel is that I get to test out new products when they come out and Also, I work with certain companies that support free salon education Paul Mitchell is one of those companies So anytime they come out with something new they send it to me and I get to try it out And I get to show it to you guys so they sent me this big bag of stuff Oh, it's the magic tides No idea what magic tides means bring fairy tale looks to life with one unbelievably versatile kit a heat-safe Bag houses your tools of the trade so you can focus on creating their happily ever-after So the reason I have this bag is today we're gonna do some point cutting so I want to smooth out the hair So the one thing that I'm really excited about in this bag is a brand new iron from Paul Mitchell Pro Tools So I'll be using that to smooth the hair, but then after that I'm not gonna use this thing anymore I'd like to send it to one of you guys. I have plenty of these iron So if you'd like this iron after I use it once Leave a comment below also subscribe to this channel and you get a chance to win But make sure you subscribe the last thing in this box is this nice curling iron as well This is a limited edition express curl Ceramic surface to be teed evenly for consistent long-lasting curls really nice. It's a one-inch barrel So I'll give that away as well. So if you'd like to win it win these two things then leave a comment again subscribe Thank you very much. Okay on with the video. All right guys So this is the brand new Paul Mitchell Magic Tides limited edition express iron smooth It's great for smoothing hair, which is what we're gonna do today. It's also great for curling the hair creating waves It's got a digital temperature control with LCD display also quickly heats up to 410 degrees in 60 seconds So if you want to win this thing, let me know in the comments below So step one for point cutting is point towards your buddy then your body So my dad always taught me when I'm using a knife to point towards your buddy Not your body today We want to point towards our buddy and then back at our body and that's going to be the correct way to point cut You could see the old school way of point cutting our ways I see people point cutting is to stick your elbow up in the air and kind of go down towards the hair What you want to do is flip your hand over and that way you're using the steady blade to graze across your finger So you don't cut yourself But you're also in a more comfortable position the first technique that I'm going to show you guys is a fanning technique So what you do is you take the the section in your hand and you just bend your fingers to fan the hair out And then you you kind of go a little bit deep into the hair But nice and vertical on the section just to remove a slight bit of hair Now if you wanted to remove more bulk you wouldn't you would just turn the scissor a little bit and you take Out more bulk but for the most part that technique I like to use just to remove a little bit of weight from the hair Now you can see I take more of a 45-degree angle at the hair and I take more chunky sections out of it What that's going to do is create more texture So that's not really to remove bulk as much as it is to take out the texture now this third technique I really love this is a quick point cutting technique where we remove weight from the entire section of hair So I start off right around the mid shaft of the hair and I just slide my finger up doing a really quick point cut and In random places that what that's gonna do for me is just remove a bunch of bulk from the hair all the way up to section But it's not in just one line like we would normally do it So I'm also you can see the quick point cut But I decided to go a little bit further with this video and I set up a go pro So I'm gonna show you guys that view of it as well So you can actually see me opening and closing the scissor, but this I wanted to show you guys It does remove bulk from the hair, but not a ton. So you're just going through and doing that point cut You can see again. It's a very quick motion You're sliding up the hair this I slow down, but this isn't the GoPro view I will have the GoPro view for you in just one second here It is so you can see it opening and then it closes as it taps down to my hand so that The motionless blade the blade that doesn't move the steady blade is hitting my middle finger and when I feel it hit my middle finger That's when I close now. Are you gonna cut yourself trying this technique? You might cut yourself It's part of the job, right? But just make sure that you practice in practice go slow at the beginning and work your way up until you feel More comfortable with it and the last technique that we're gonna focus on is called precision point cutting Basically, what I'm doing here is I'm creating a line So I keep my scissors at a nice extreme angle so I create a line But it's a nice soft broken line so it still falls nice and has some nice texture to it Thank you guys so much for watching this video if you have any questions Let me know in the comments below also make sure you subscribe and hit that bell So you get an alert anytime I come out with a video if you're looking to upgrade your salon tools Then check out our shop on free salon education comm Everything that we use pretty much in these videos is available on there use the code Matt Beck vlog at checkout You'll get 20% off your order of over $100. Hope you guys enjoyed this video again. I will see you guys on the next one. Thanks