 The sectioning here is going to be based on a side parting so that side parting comes back then I split the head in half basically from behind the ear to behind the ear. To start off the technique I'm going to take a vertical section straight from the parting down so we'll have a weaker side or a less dense side and then we'll have a heavier side in this cut. As I start to take the hair out I'm going to start in the top part of this section so normally when we cut a bob we start in the bottom and work our way up. What I love about this is I get to determine the actual finger angle and I can see it better in my head of how I'm going to start this cut so then I know exactly how much weight I'm leaving on the cut and then I just follow that line straight down to the nape of the neck and then I can clean up that neckline later. Check my finger angle now if they have higher density of hair then I might shift my finger angle to be a little higher elevation. As I'm working through this is pretty easy just to kind of visualize that pointing it right down at the nape. See my finger angle as I'm working through it and now I'll just continue down that section staying vertical through it and just connecting those two points so I've got my point from above it's right in the inside of my finger down to my fingertip. My goal with this is to build a consistent weight line horizontally across the back and then start connecting into the front creating a little bit more of a triangular feel on the right side and then on the left side that's my part side that's the weaker side I'm going to cut more of a rounded shape on that. All right so you can see I'm continuing through same way everything's coming back to that guideline the previously cut hair so I take a little bit of the new hair bring it back to quite a bit of the old hair so I have a nice strong guide and you can start to see that build up of weight in there and this is one of my favorite things about cutting the hair this way is just watching the shape the actual shape of the bob that you're going to be working on anyways unfolding right before your eyes that's the most important part to me because I can make that first cut and then determine is this exactly where I want it to sit or do I want it a little bit shorter so that back point where the nape is that's actually you can see how long that is we're going to take most of that off so that's kind of the the great part about this when we start cutting from the bottom up a lot of times we cut that bottom so short because we're trying to cut it exactly the way it's going to live when you cut it from the top down I feel like it gives you a little bit more freedom and you don't even think about that bottom all right so now we're going to work on the opposite side so right here you can see that my fingers now pointing up in the air that's the biggest difference in the two sides you want your thumb to be pointing in the direction you're moving so this would be my new hair take the new hair pull it to the guideline right and I bring it here and I cut it so then I take my next section new hair to the guideline if I did the same combing on the opposite side of the head I'd be pushing the guide into the hair so if I shift my hand like this and now I come over top I'm now grabbing the new hair combing it over and bring it into the guide so new hair to the guide new hair to the guide that's the goal as we work through it we're traveling we traveled all the way across the back of the head a little by little half inch section at a time and then when we get to the behind the ear that's over directed straight back to us to cut a parallel line to our shoulders so if I'm staring straight into the back of the head that lines parallel to my shoulders as I go through as we go through and cut the head right if you look at the surface of the head the way that I think about this is we're cutting on a round surface so 45 changes throughout the head shapes if I'm holding the hair at this angle at the start you can see that from all the way up to the occipital bone which is right here that's all the same angle which is 90 degrees coming out from the head right then as soon as it gets over the occipital bone then it starts to go away from the head because the head curves away so what happens is this just gets heavier and heavier because the degree goes from being 90 which would be all this to then whatever this is which is straight out from the head that way so as I'm coming up it becomes more 45 degrees up here so when I pulled the hair out and I cut my first section here this was at about 45 degrees but then as I go into the nape and into the neck now I'm at 90 degrees so the degree changes because I don't base everything like the world is flat I base everything like the world is round the one thing I want you guys to notice in this part of the haircut is my elevation on the sides this is where a lot of people don't really go into detail they're so obsessed with the back of the cut and cutting that bob shape but there's so much that goes into the sides and the elevation of it because you don't want it to be super heavy on the sides because then you can't get a nice blunt cut line so when you look at all these haircuts that have these super nice blunt line blunt angles here it's because it's slightly elevated throughout the side so it lightens up the hairline and then you can go through and cut a really nice precise line if I didn't elevate that hair right there then what would happen is it would be too heavy and then I would cut it and it would just look like it was just hanging there elevate the sides as you're working so see that elevation I'm not straight down I'm elevating it nice and high to make it nice and light through it you can see right there like right under the ear where that hole is that's what we're taught in school to freak out about when in reality that's where the bob's going to be it's going to be at that point if you wanted it to be a little bit longer bob then you would cut all this graduation longer and then you would have a longer feeling around the ear there all right guys so we're going to continue through the right hand side here and this is going to be a little more over directed back also notice that I've sectioned off the top because I'm going to cut that separate but I'm over directing everything straight back I want to create more of a triangular feel on this side the opposite side I kind of follow that diagonal parting through gave it a little bit of a triangular feel but I followed more of the round of the head I'm cutting a straight diagonal forward line over directing it back pushing a little extra weight to the to the right side because we're going to create this nice asymmetrical bob feel shop fse all the tools that I use in these videos to create these videos the clips the combs the scissors and so now I'm just working through the top section so I let that down I work through the back first really just connecting these back sections so I'll comb the hair down figure out what hair wants to fall in the back and then what hair wants to stay on the sides and that's kind of how I decided how I connected take my guide from underneath and just continue that elevation so you can see no over direction my finger angle how I'm cutting it I'm really just following the guideline from underneath but I'm keeping it pretty high elevation throughout you can also see that there's a slight graduation laying underneath there that's because of that elevation that I'm doing right now I'm going to go in with Moroccan oil just to smooth it out I'm going to do a flat wrap blow a drive all right so now we're going to go through and we're going to detail the outer perimeter so notice how I'm just using the scissor to kind of draw my line first and I work through now the reason this is so easy to go through and cut is because of that elevation because of the light feel to that outer perimeter line so um if I didn't elevate it this would be very difficult I'd be chopping through it for hours right so just going through detailing that line you can see how beautiful this all falls together always blow dry it at the end just to get a little bit that weight out now I'm going in with one of my favorite texturizers it's a dry cutting scissor and a texturizer so that's why it glides through so easy that's on freestyleneducation.com or shop fse now I go in with my t-trimmer just to detail the line even more and then finish it off with a little bit of moroccan oil hairspray