 Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from free salon education calm And what I'm gonna do today is walk you through my version of the Jennifer Lawrence haircut One of the biggest haircuts right now. You're seeing is this trend And the greatest thing about it for me is that this haircut is so versatile you can style it in so many different ways So we're gonna start off Just parietal ridge sectioning on both sides down to a point in the back. That's basically low crown area then what I'm gonna do is take Vertical section straight down the back and then diagonal forward sections just below occipital bone You can see right now how I'm working there. So finger angle is diagonal forward and the key to this part is that I'm actually Walking around that corner. So I'm not just cutting a straight line You'll see me take fine sections and just work my way around that edge so that I don't leave too much weight Sitting in that back corner. So it's gonna round it off slightly I'm gonna work my way up this section Everything is gonna be coming basically straight out from the head. Maybe a slight Lower elevation, but for the most part everything is just straight out from the head as I work up to that occipital bone area Again walking around that corner. You'll see I readjust and I changed my finger angle to follow the curve of the head This is just gonna give it a softer feel and you want to make sure that Anytime you're cutting something and you don't want too much weight You just walk that corner the corner is what's creating all of the weight because the head's starting to move away from you There you go. You can see it's nice and soft just real soft layers laying there And again, I don't like to speed these haircuts up because I like you to see every little detail that's happening because every detail is important in creating a precise haircut so Again, nice fine sections. I could have brought that little tiny piece into it But I want to work this there still would have been extra Overdirection in that piece if I would have tried to take it all at once So you want to make sure even though it's a little bit of hair left don't rush yourself and you know grab what you just grab what's gonna be I Guess the right piece is what I'm trying to say So I drop that little tiny piece down it will finish off this the section and see my elevation It's not changing now. I'm just gonna go through a little scissor over comb Just working up dusting the ends I don't want not looking for big mistakes if I see that then I want to go back in and cut But so I went diagonal forward with my cut now I'm gonna go through and I'm basically cross-checking using scissor over comb So just going through there dusting off the ends making sure everything looks nice I'm gonna do the exact same thing on this opposite side here The tricky part about this Sectioning or working on the opposite side is that you're gonna start low and work high so my scissors started to tip of my finger here and And I'm working Obviously from the the neckline to the occipital bone this way So I just want to make sure that I go back in and I make that curve like I was telling you before You just want to follow the curve of the head And make sure you do that You can see my fingers kind of tuck in there just to follow that line You can see as I take my my section I'm only grabbing Just what I need just enough of that Guide line So I'm not pulling too much hair from the bottom because the further you pull that hair It's gonna make your guide seem shorter even though it's really not so you'll end up cutting a hole in your haircut But you didn't want before so again just following that line you can see a nice Crisp clean look to it nice small sections is you know the biggest tip I can give you on this part Watch your elevation on this because now my elbows in the air so my hand naturally is gonna want to drop down So I just got to make sure I keep in my mind that elevation is straight out from the head All right, and again diagonal back. I cut diagonal forward. So now I'm gonna go in cross-check it scissor over comb diagonal back Shouldn't be much to cut there All right, we're gonna let down both of the side sections And I'm gonna section it from the division point in the head so push the front to the front and the back to the back and just really Keeping those two things separate because there is a big corner right there We're gonna be working with everything's gonna come directly vertical now I'm working on top of my fingers and I'm gonna draw a straight line at the beginning right now I'm drawing a straight line up into the air. So I'm not curving my finger I'm not following the round of the head here I want to leave a little bit of a weight line in this haircut. So traveling guide Keep working through this angle will show you that line that we're working with Straight up in the air. They'll leave a little bit of weight right at that point there Which is good for somebody because even if you look at Jennifer Lawrence She's got a little bit of a rounder head. So it leaves the weight An extra bulk in the back of the head and it just makes the head look more proportioned correctly We're working our way straight up now. You're gonna see my section Starts to work around even more of the round of the head if you look at the very top of that section The head's starting to peel away. So what you're gonna notice is at this point On my next section, I'm gonna follow the head a little bit more because I don't want to leave too much weight So as we start to round that head a little more. I'm gonna round off what I'm cutting So you see that little extra bit of elevation not going completely 90 degrees because I don't I still do you want a slight weight line But I'm elevating it more than I was. I'm not just cutting that straight line up in the air. So we'll cut straight up in the air here then another comb and just a slight Bend around that corner and remove that a little bit of extra weight We're gonna do that all the way through this next part This was most comfortable for me working on top of my fingers through the whole thing You could switch palm to palm here if you want, but just works best for me this way Sometimes when I have a guest in the chair, it's easier at this point to be cutting it palm to palm But you know, it just depends on the height of the head manic and I had it up a little higher Okay, now again. Well now we're working on the opposite side right hand side of her head we're going to be Elevating straight out and working straight up just like we did in the past or the previous section This angle you'll really get to see how I'm following the round once I get past that point In the back right under the crown once I get past that then I start to follow the round of the head a little bit more Basically working straight up right now and then as I get around this corner here You're gonna see me following it more now start off straight up in the air then re comb Follow the round a little bit more. So my finger angle. You'll see you just slightly changes I'm showing you where the round so at that point the head is rounding off So my finger angle changes and I just take off that slight bit away and real simple Something I want to point out to you guys we while we're working on this section Everything's basically the same right here Make sure you check out freeslawneducation.com because we have Over now a hundred haircutting videos color videos All kinds of different videos for hairdressers to learn from and they're all free So if you get a chance go to freeslawneducation.com and you can check them out Again just working on that round of the head there So you can see that little bit of weight kind of building up, but it's not too much Which is going to be easier for your guests to style and And it just looks better in the overall picture of the haircut Notice when I'm cutting even on top of my fingers just that one blade is moving and that's something if you don't have that down yet Make sure you work on that because it's just going to make your lines so much crisper in your cuts See nice flow to the back. Everything looks balanced Now we're gonna work on the side and hopefully I think I'm gonna pull up a picture. Yeah, there we go picture of Jennifer Lawrence and what you can see is right around the ear. It's a lot tighter So what I'm going to do is section this into two sections will have our top half which will clip away And then the underneath right around the ear I'm going to take a diagonal forward section and I'm going to take that really tight to the head So it's almost like we're gonna undercut this point this portion Because it's a mannequin. I'm gonna leave it a little bit longer, but We're gonna undercut it a little bit Working diagonal forward traveling guide, so I'm not trying to build up a long Kind of sideburn area. We don't really want that there So I'm traveling the guide and just so there'd be a slight bit of weight because of the diagonal forward section Now I'm gonna work on top of the head on the top section Still diagonal forward But instead of cutting palm to palm now I'm gonna work on top of my fingers So I'm gonna use that bottom piece as a guide and I'm gonna cut shorts along in there and remove that way This point I am following the round of the head. So you'll see that happening That gives it that kind of push forward. You'll see in her hair. It's layered and push forward Almost like it's triangular, but it there's no weight into it. So This technique helps break it up if you wanted to even a little bit piece here You could point cut at this point, but I like to build the structure in there And I'll point cut it when it's dry and I'm combing from the underneath up for me I like that because it's me basically Keeping that guideline in there and just taking small sections and working through it. So Separate the bottom and the top just a little bit of hair at a time Working through diagonal forward and removing the weight 90 degrees at this point Basically straight out from the head and you can see it falls forward really nice. Just like the look you're seeing in the picture Except on a mannequin obviously And to do the same thing on this side. So we're gonna section off half of it the top's gonna go away We're gonna do a little slight undercut cutting diagonal forward in our fingers palm to palm Kind of an underneath view Thaddeus is getting very creative in this part of it But it shows a good angle there now we're gonna work on top of our fingers again using the bottom section as our guideline When you're working with your scissor and you get that one blade moving the great thing about it is you're gonna have your steady blade Resting against your finger and then the cutting blade is gonna come down and cut it So you have less of a chance of cutting yourself if you're just moving that one blade You can see following the round of the head there. That's all 90 degrees straight out from the head and following the round So There won't shouldn't be too much of a weight build up in there Here we go just finishing it up and again don't take too much hair. So that little tiny bit that I had left I don't just add that to my section just to get done with the haircut you Section it off and then you can just finish it off with that little bit All right, so nice even flow to the haircut very weightless because we're working on 90 degree angles Now I'm gonna split the front in the back of the head again So we're gonna be working in the back crown area first then we can work on the front I like to separate these in most haircuts because the crown of the head is definitely you're gonna work it differently So I want to work with the calyx here. So depending on how much of a calyx they have I may do Less tension I guess Would be a good way to put it So right now I'm gonna work that straight-up line that we were working before in the back I'm gonna work straight up in the air and that'll again leave some weight Right in the crown area so that they have that kind of proportioned head head shape look Just to give them a little extra volume See basically straight up in the air. I'm gonna work traveling guide Everything coming straight out you wouldn't want to over direct this all to the center because what's gonna happen is too much weight It's gonna build up just because you can't really see it in this but My partings for that are just following the round of the head so a slight diagonal back Straight out from the head, and I'm just cutting that straight line straight up towards the ceiling Now you'll be able to see the sectioning basically that I had on the other side So you can see there is a weight line, but it's not too much. It's not too extreme in there Now we're gonna take everything and over direct it just to the center Division point so basically the high point of the head. We're gonna over direct everything back to that and we're gonna cut a short to long We're gonna use the basically the hair the hair right around the occipital bone. We're gonna use that as a guideline and cut Straight up base. We're gonna be creating a triangular feel to the top of the head so cutting short to long Putting all that hair in my hands and just combing it back Just don't comb it back too far because you don't want to push too much hair to the very front of the head Grab the rest from the fringe and over direct it back to center back not center back high point of the head There we go You can see you're cutting shorts along and we're gonna do the same thing on the other side But we're gonna be standing in front of the head So that we're still cutting that short to long Your heaviest point will be right down the center of this haircut. So I'm pushing it away from my body Over the apex or high point of the head Cutting shorts along and there we go. That's Almost the end of the haircut. We're gonna do a little bit of a fringe Cut right now. So we're gonna over direct everything. I'm gonna pull it towards me Diagonally and work our fringe so no matter what you want to do if you want to do this to go from Your right side to your left side, you're gonna pull everything to the right side So whatever side your part is on you're gonna pull the hair to that side and just cut it work your way diagonal Forward on the head and just over direct it to yourself and cut it and you can see gives us a nice side fringe In the haircut now. We're gonna do a flat wrap for the blow dry Real quick and I'm gonna show you all of this just kind of show you how the haircut is coming out We're using freestyle systems. They're a good partner of a free salon education calm We really appreciate their support and they're supporting free salon education as well So it's just a hanging blow dryer system. It's really really great for for doing a blow dry now We're gonna go through and smooth the top of the head working diagonal forward there There you go, that's our dry result without any dry cutting now We're gonna go through and point cut the top And what I'm gonna do is start mid shaft on the hair and work Basically parallel to the hair so that I'm not removing a ton of weight in there I just want to take little tiny hairs out of it just to free up a little bit of the weight in there Then I'll shift to the top of this section and point cut in there some more to remove some more weight So we'll start again mid shaft here Break up some of that weight in the mid shaft, then we're gonna go to the ends and break up some weight in there Point cutting is not meant to change the shape of the haircut So what's most important to remember right here is that? You know, you don't want to take out too much hair or destroy the line So you can see that heavy point right in the center That's what you want in this haircut because it gives it that kind of freedom to move around in the top There you go. You can see those layers building up through there some of those shorter hairs in there from the point cutting You're gonna help give it some texture volume in there Now we're gonna go through and just do a little slide cut right around the face frame That'll break up those pieces in there Another point cutting technique I'm just gonna work let the hair kind of fall down and point cut as it releases So hold it in my fingers and pull my hand away and then work the point cutting in there And do the same thing on the back. So I'll take the scissor and lift up the hair And as it falls down just point cutting and keeping those Scissors straight on to the head so they're not removing too much weight Just cuts little pieces right around the crown area and again in the crown now I'm gonna go with a really deep point cut which will give a lot of volume in the crown and again just some fun pieces They give this haircut a little bit of little style a little difference In the fringe area a little tease cutting just to remove some more a little bit of you know weight in there You'll see that with the tease cutting in this we've talked about it before but Real heavy tees because that'll remove weight, but it it's not gonna cut a big line in the haircut. So We go a little bit more and that is our haircut. We're gonna use our indie powder I really like this because it creates a ton of texture. You're about to see Just right through there And that is our Jennifer Lawrence inspired haircut big deal right now and you can see Pretty similar especially because that one is a mannequin. So we're obviously not gonna look the same or it's not good But I hope you guys like that haircut Please check out more haircuts on freesaloneducation.com and support companies that help support us freestyle systems and millennium software And thank you guys and we'll see you at the next video