 Alright guys so on today's vlog I did something that you guys have been requesting quite a bit. This is actually a cut that I've never put on video so pretty excited about it. This is the V shaped long haircut so a lot of you guys have been wondering how to create that V in the back and I've got a lot of tips for you guys so here is our end result on the mannequin so you can see the longer in the back a little bit shorter in the front. The long layers so I think you guys are going to dig this cut thanks for the requests out there and all the comments all the shares all that thank you guys so much let's get started with our step by step here we go. Alright guys so we're going to start off the haircut by taking a horseshoe shaped section along parietal ridge down through mid crown and then back down parietal ridge meeting at the recession points of the head right there. So very simple sectioning that's the one thing I love about this technique is that we have basically two sections the top and the bottom so we're going to start by taking our diagonal back partings and then over directing it straight to the front of the face straight out which you can see in the bottom left hand corner diagram that we're bringing it just straight out finger angle is parallel with the face so if you wanted to create different angles you can definitely play around with that but I like to keep it pretty pretty standard especially with medium density hair just keeping that finger angle parallel with the face works really well so just working our way down the head shape I think that one thing that you want to keep in mind is that a lot of people want to create the V shape of the layering and they want to do that either first or they don't pay attention to the structure of the haircut to aid in the V shape of the haircut so right now we're creating a shorter front longer back what that's going to do is put that point into the back but it's not going to create a perfect V shape what's going to create that is at the very end when we go in and do that detail work which I'm going to show you guys so just make sure my thought process is let's work on the interior of the haircut first let's work on the layering what we're doing now we're removing weight from the interior creating our layers and then that makes the perimeter detail work very simple because we're not working with so much weight so my elevation is nice and high medium level let's say fingers parallel to the face and just working those sections back stationary guide like I said before so each diagonal back section we're working more vertical at this point but just working my way down the head over directing everything over until I run out of hair once I run out of hair there's nothing left to cut and my line is created at that point so this is the last little bit you can see that I've shifted how I'm holding the scissor in my hand I've talked about this on past videos but it's really just as a comfort thing so I don't have to twist my wrist too much now we're going to work on the top this is a key part because I think what we want to do is we want to remove a little bit of weight from the top so that it's not sitting on our outer perimeter line so we can create a better line easier plus I wanted to create some layering throughout the haircut so my goal is to push as much weight as possible to the back of the head so I'm over directing everything towards me over top of the forehead and cutting a horizontal line parallel to the forehead in the front so that'll give me my shortest point in the front and pushing the density heavier into the back back point of the haircut so real simple just about three sections over directing them to the same spot so completely working with stationary guides my guideline came from just the corner recession point from the previously cut section just in case you guys are wondering you can see that v-shape you can see it with the wave how it kind of stacks up in the in the middle and gets longer to the very bottom point in the center back now we're just blow dry quick flat wrap quick iron work and then I'm going to go through and do some dry detail work in the haircut this is a great haircut for just getting a guest in and out of the salon but with a lot of detail so we do the wet cut now I'm going to go through detail and do some point cutting what we've talked about before in past videos as well is that point cutting is the best way to just remove some bulk from the edges it doesn't mean we want to change the haircut so I am taking a vertical section but you can see my over direction and my elevation is the same as I cut it when it was wet so I might be taking a vertical section now but it there's really no difference vertical is working with the density of the hair and a lot less with the shape so I'm going in here just removing some of that density lightening up the around the face and and the layers so the one thing that I want you to notice in my point cutting is that my steady blade is what is going towards my fingers so the blade that's in motion is staying away from my finger that allows me to not cut myself when point cutting so best trick for that is to just take your scissor pointed away from you and then point it back at you and that's how you should hold your scissor to do this type of point cutting we're doing a pretty deep point cut but keeping the scissor very vertical so that we're not removing too much bulk I'm not trying to change anything just softening the layering in the haircut so you can see that v-shape come into life now this is a little crazy this is not something I would do in the salon but I wanted to show you guys a visual of how I connect those two points obviously my guest would have shoulders and shoulder blades so what I would do is just comb it down the back of her back and create this v-shape but you what I want you to notice is the density around the edges of the hair it's nice and light the reason it's nice and light is because we went in into the interior work first so that allowed us to be able to just go in and create this soft v shape line in the haircut so the layers are already doing the v-shape and now I can just go to the perimeter and make sure that that connects the reason it doesn't completely connect right away is because when you're over directing everything to the front of the head what that's going to do is it's going to be great until you get to behind the ear and then your over direction is going past too many corners so it pushes a lot of extra weight in the very back of the haircut so just going through using the tip of that scissor to go through detail the outer perimeter and then you have a successful v-shaped long layered haircut and that's it you can see all the layers a lot of movement I really dig this haircut it's one that I've definitely done in this line quite a bit when people want that v-shape in there a little bit of brocato hairspray to finish it off and that is the end result hope you guys like this video if you do please share it with your friends hit the like button and make sure you subscribe to our channel we got new videos every day right here on freesaloneducation.com if you like that haircut and you want to see more make sure you hit the like button hit the share button share it with all of your friends I love seeing all of your comments and seeing what you thought about the video so make sure you post those below thank you guys so much for watching we'll see you guys on the next video thanks