 what's up guys welcome to the live class live stream let me know where you are watching from in the chat I got Carly with me she's monitoring the chat so any of your questions just type Q put in your question and I will answer it basically today we're just gonna hang out I'm gonna show you guys a convex layered haircut convex layers basically just going with the head shape but we're also gonna do that balanced and what that means is our horizontal line is gonna stay parallel with our shoulders with the wall and we're gonna create this really fun kind of I don't want to call it a shag because I don't even know what a shag is anymore everybody's renamed it redone it including me a million different times but it's gonna be a fun medium length layered haircut so something very versatile something very salon friendly if you're not a stylist and you're watching this something that maybe you'd want to transition into because it's something different for the fall but not too different so you know some of you guys are a little more nervous about a change this could be a good thing for you so hopefully you're excited again post your questions in the chat so to really break down sectioning show you guys how this is gonna work we've got straight down the center right here and then we split everything front and back from the high point of the head which you'll see right here high point of the head here all the way down to behind the ear that is my basic sectioning that I do on almost every single haircut those of you guys that have been following me for a while you know this that sectioning to me is the most standard sectioning and it really just sets you up for success because you're working with the different densities and I've talked about this multiple times in the past but this density here when we look at from the front to the middle of the head here that's the same amount of hair so obviously the hairline comes across just like this on pretty much everyone maybe it dips a little bit in certain areas but for the most part you're working with the same exact amount of hair until you get to this point here and then it dives down and then you work with a lot more density in the back so the theory of this is why would you cut the front and treat it the same as the back when they're clearly not the same you're clearly working with a heavier density back here so section it away think about your process cut the front different than the back and then bring it all together at the end and you will have a more successful haircut when I was in beauty school I was taught to go from the top of the ear up so that always leaves this little bit that's kid that's bringing into the back and I'm now cutting it as part of the back but that's why I get a hole because now my haircut starts to mimic that hairline so think about those things as you go through and you're doing your haircuts then when you look at the back of the head here you can see that all of this all the way around to the opposite side is also all the same density so that's how we're gonna work it we're gonna work convex layers in the back of the head and then in the very front of the head I'm gonna do a little bit more creative discount not disconnect but a little more concave feel to the layers when you look at it from a vertical line standpoint because I want to push a little extra length towards the sides to keep my length and also I want a lot of movement around the face so that's why I'm gonna do that so balanced convex layers in the back concave balanced let's say they're gonna be yeah concave balanced layers in the front and I'll explain all that as I go any questions again type Q in the chat I'm here for you guys that's what we're doing this for also filming this for a video and of course that's what I forgot is to actually film this for the video so let me let me grab some hard drives here because we're gonna need those see what else my bag of a bag of fun here if I don't record this okay this is the one I want this is the one I want then you guys aren't gonna get it later and that would be terrible anything going on in the chat Carly oh good all right hello everyone oh well lucky you I remembered before I actually started cutting that's that's usually the worst part is I start going to town on the haircut and then then realize that wait don't you guys worry I'm I'm just making sure I could delete something this is really confusing you guys I'm sure all right back to that don't go anywhere I know I know you're now you want to run away because I'm doing something else don't do it just don't don't go anywhere all right we're now recording see that took no time another thing I want to show you guys and this is something that I've been working through here look at this got a little iPad did it really do that again I know what to do I want to show you guys this app especially you pros out there on arrangement mirror this hair tech app which I have no affiliation with it does kind of crash sometimes but I've been using it to kind of map out some of my haircuts so a couple things I want to show you so we're going to be working in the back so I'm going to show you guys the back real quick the way that we sectioned everything out so you've got that kind of high point of the head so I'll go with this little dotted line here I'm going to work so this is the apex right so right here oh wrong way that's also backwards whoever made this app it makes sense the way you did it but the human brain the way that works I feel like it definitely is a little off so high point of the head right here and then we're going to work our partings from the high point all the way down and back and the way that we're going to make this balanced is all of my sections are going to come straight down just like this right so here we go there we go there we go so I'm gonna work across now that is also going to be a traveling guy right so we have to travel as we go so when we look at is this going to be right yes actually oh wrong line this is hard to do standing up okay so here so this is going to go over and we're going to travel and bring each section over to the next so as we work through it we're going to be bringing the guide over and if you travel the guide to the newest section then that continues the travel if you start bringing the new section back to the guide then you start to build length on the haircut so when we go back to let's go the overhead look and I'll draw a line here this is what's going to make this balance and I'm doing this really fast this will not be the final result but we're going to bring everything back to this point here and cut it at a balanced line so basically when I look at the head shape from overhead here the line that I'm going to be creating is right here so everything's going to come back to this point and then I'm going to bring the guide to the next section and bring it straight back bring the guide to the next section bring it straight back and then all the way to the corner and then the corners come straight back so that's how we're going to cut that and maybe we'll break that down a little bit more let me know in the chat do you like that example do you like the iPad thing it will get better I promise it's my first time but let me know if that's something that you feel like brings a little bit extra value to the to the classes still nothing garlic cool thanks Denise all right so let's get started we're going to work straight down the center and I really want to be clean with this guys because I I want a really nice precise look for these layers so I want to go all the way down to the Nate so we've got our section here and I'm going to be working top to bottom as well just like this I'm gonna go straight up in the air and I want these layers to be kind of short because I really do want to bring quite a bit of texture into it I'm just going to follow the head shape around I'll tilt her head a little bit tilting of the head is kind of a I know I have a dark jacket tell me about it in the comments just watch my hand but I will try very hard to move out of the way so here I tilt the head to get my body more comfortable the last little bit this is going to be a little more of a collapsed layer because the head in the occipital bone area starts to curve in and I'm not going to follow that totally in because I don't mind it to have a little collapsed area and I'm also going to work that nape so this is more kind of turns into a non-convex layer in a way so there you go so nice and short pieces and then it works into a little bit longer so now I'm going to move to the left straight down all the way to the nape comb this hair off to the side and then I'm going to push my guide up and over right this floor I have all these cords I'm not even using and all I can see is all of them sorry for my mess guys all right right here up in the air guide over top of the new section and working down the head shape continuing through I'll speed this up a little bit for you guys because I know now you get it so just working on the nape grab a little bit of my old section scoop it up in my hand now make sure you don't comb the old but always last comb is pushing it away everybody's still good finger angle tips so so probably one of the number one things that angle is not very good probably one of the number one things with finger angle is if you're talking about this hand that's holding the hair it's definitely just stay with the head shape right and then as you kind of twist down if you needed to adjust body position you could I'm feeling pretty comfortable in this so I'm not really that worried about that now but as you work down just make sure you tilt the head because the head can go pretty far down on your client and then you don't have any issues you just are kind of aware of what you're doing right if you're talking about finger angle which isn't normally what you would say but with your scissor there's a couple things that I'm doing because I don't want to have my elbow up too high so what I like to do is just take my thumb and instead of having it in the regular way of the scissor I put it back through the backside of the scissor and I cut this way and this allows me to kind of cut along my finger without keeping my elbow up in the air so so that's kind of the tip on that I guess really have much more on that so I'm gonna go one more section before I get to the corner here grab a little bit of the old so here my fingers regular in the scissor but then as soon as I get to the next section right here my elbow would have to go up way higher so I just come in the back side of the scissor and cut just like that and then the last section when you get to the corner just like I showed you guys on the the iPad this is gonna come straight up so I'm gonna comb to make sure that I'm not pushing into that corner I'm gonna comb everything straight up to me looks like everything's pretty much lining up anyways like that and then the last bit you look down here just got a little bit to cut above here so look at the layers like I just love the way that it kind of forms into her head but then you could see where that con cave effect kind of comes in keeps a little bit of length on the bottom but for the most part we just got that convex through the back just really layers it up nice so now we're gonna do the same thing on the right side my body position is not gonna change I'm gonna stick to the same same side everything is going to the only difference here is that I was pushing the guide to the new section because the new section was moving this way now I'm gonna be pulling the guide to the new section because we're moving the opposite direction did that answer their question about the finger angle okay they just quit and leave so like that's not what I was saying at all this guy doesn't know anything keep in the sections clean I know some of us don't want to we want to just get it done I get it the same way oh good sweet but you got to keep it clean alright so kind of mentioned that at the beginning who would this style be best for but I think personally it's for somebody that wants something new has medium length hair but doesn't want a ton of change I think that this would be a good haircut adds a lot of layering but keeps a good amount of length in there so actually take my jacket off because I feel like if you can see my arms maybe hiding in the it might help with the angles but so I think that this is for somebody that is looking for a change that client but they don't want a huge change this is definitely something super fun you can customize it so they don't you don't change too much you know like you could even go a little bit longer I wouldn't recommend it though because I think that this having this kind of more shag effect to it is really what makes this haircut stand out the difference that's a good question what is the difference between convex and concave layers here we go why does it do that you know what I found about this iPad I never had an iPad before until recently display and brightness that's how I get to this just so we remember it forgets what I what I don't want it to do like for instance this front screen all this like this weird picture of myself I don't want it to be there and I've removed it all of these things these little gadgets many times and after like three days they show up again I don't know know what it is so it forgets what I like and I don't like that about it okay what is the difference in concave and convex so this is convex this is where this app is super cool convex okay so everything is going with the round of the head that concave so then that makes the layers fall in uniform with the head right so everything kind of falls and works its way around now the concave is the complete opposite so let me just concave goes like this like this and gets cut like this so what that does when you bring the hair up to this point and cut it in that line that creates kind of it's not disconnected it creates length because you're cutting shorter to longer throughout it and collapses the shape so convex is going to be layering still so it's not graduation it's not building up a weight line but what it's doing is following the head shape and just kind of stacking itself through the head shape showcasing the head shape concave what that does is when you cut that scoop out you're removing extra weight pushing extra length down so you get a collapsed look you're still going to initially get that layered look but then as the hair starts to get further and further away from the head which would be kind of this point right here you're further away from the head that's when the length and extra weight starts to happen because your angle is getting pushed away right so anytime you start to get further away from the head or start pulling hair further away from where it lives you get weight and length so concave kind of gives you that so it's a way to cut shorter layers start to stack them up and then collapse it and keep extra length and push it towards the bottom just gives it a really cool effect so when you look at how the hair is going to fall let's see if I can draw this this is probably freehand and I'm scared to do it but this so concave is going to kind of fall like this sometimes I don't want it to zoom in like that and then kick out and have extra length in this area but be shorter here at the top and then convex is going to fall more like like you're seeing now like this with just a little bit of length towards the bottom that line is awesome that line is great okay so again do you like the iPad you enjoy the iPad descriptions I kind of like them I feel like they they help take away when you take away all the little strands of hair it simplifies it a little bit so down here great question all right my initial combing is going to be up and just kind of scooping everything from the root up and then my last combs are going to be pulling that guide to where I want it to guide so here elbows in the air look at that I want that so here comb the guide to the new section my feet I'm going to spread my feet out a little bit more just to help my body position this isn't the greatest body position of all time to get the bottom here but it is going to help me stay consistent still this is the last section pre getting to the corner comb this up and over and then the last bit is the corner so I'm going to bring that straight back sweet so there is our convex so take a look when you look at the profile how the layering kind of comes around but there's nothing that starts to like kind of bulk up at the bottom because we're following the head shape and removing weight that whole time if this was concave all this hair would have been brought up all the way up to here to be cut so it would have scooped out this top section or top part of the layering but then it would have built a ton of density on the bottom and actually I had a client yesterday that I kind of based this haircut off of I did concave layering on her yesterday and I when I got done I was blow drying it because she had finer hair that's why I chose to do that but when I started to blow dry it and got it finished it just seemed too heavy on the bottom and it didn't look like it had the right shape so that's why I chose to try it to show you guys today kind of try out just doing the convex with this haircut and then and I think it would have been a better result I had to do a lot of extra effort and the dry cut because I didn't cut it convex yesterday so so that's the changes we make but that's the fun thing about hair cutting and how you can kind of adjust and reapply things as you go alright so now we're gonna move into the top and the top's pretty simple when we break it down the way that I'm going to work through the top is horizontal sections through the top here and we're going to pull that all to the center and we're gonna use this little piece as a guide yes I have done haircuts like this recently but I didn't do a convex back so I think that's gonna be one of the biggest differences I also really wanted kind of a nice curtain fringe in this so that's why we're gonna over direct everything to that center point I'm gonna go right over top of the nose though and try to leave a little extra heaviness right in that fringe area I think it'll look cool so we'll take down our right side comb this out we're going to take we're gonna take a vertical section and this will be a stationary guide so this will actually go quite a bit faster we're gonna go straight in front of the nose like that that's where I'm going to cut it from this angle here just like this just make sure you're over directing top of the nose I'll take another section and this part you got to really put on your trusting like attitude I don't know you got to really trust yourself because you're gonna feel like you're cutting a lot but if you don't cut a lot you're gonna have way too heavy way too much going on in the front it's not gonna look right so trust yourself the head shape is moving away at this point so because it's moving away if you leave it too long it'll get way too long and sometimes depending on the length of the hair I disconnect that bottom portion here but for this particular technique I don't need to you can see pretty much falls and connects with the rest of the haircut already so now same thing on this side let it down my guide is gonna come from the center same trap or same stationary guide but now I'm combing this new section front just like that another one how's everybody doing out there feeling good not sure if you guys know but I'm launching online Academy next week advanced Academy and it's not just for haircutting it's actually for haircutting and we also do classes so you can certify in the haircutting system which is cool because it has eight different haircuts and then you get quizzes at the end of the haircuts it's a good training tool for you or your staff and then when you complete the whole thing you get a certificate automatically sent to you and then we're also gonna work on content creation as well because it's one thing to do great haircuts but you've got to capture them and know how to edit them and market yourself in this new world and I've been doing it for a long time so I thought it would be kind of cool to meet with you guys on a weekly basis and teach you how to do all that stuff maybe it's even like your social media manager you want to sign up for it or whatever but it's 50 bucks a month or $500 a year if you do the $500 a year you get a scissor so again it'll be haircutting classes but also we will do video editing different tricks different apps I like to use all that stuff to share all the secrets to everything I'm doing so look at that haircut what do you guys think questions awesome Patty Patty signed up for the Academy I saw her name all right I think I'm gonna leave this sort of wavy I don't know kind of liking it wavy also all those classes I was talking about those are over zoom so we'll be you'll be able to ask me questions as we go it won't be like it won't be just a live chat a lot you can actually talk to me I really want it to be a more intimate kind of setting than me just being up here teaching the whole time like I want to see your social media want to help you grow with it actually bring something to it rather than just teaching haircuts and hoping you guys are doing good with it I want to really see what's going on all right I had a little bit of product here through yeah this is cool it's a cool cool cut I'm an all out of diffuser got one it's a great question let me know when you find out um no the uh I mean I think if you cut the layers like with intention like if you if you kind of know what shape you're creating it won't get too big in the crown so like understand the density of the hair and what what texture what formation of the hair that you're working with and then once you kind of know that then base your layering on that then when you blow dry if you know that their hair is thick or gets really bulky or you feel like it's gonna do that then maybe don't round brush it maybe do a smooth kind of vent brush polish just in the crown and then round brush the sides like just make some adjustments in that as opposed to we have to stop I think this is the thing we have to stop treating every area of the head as the same thing like we go in and we blow dry hair with a round brush the same way off to scalp on base off base whatever it is we're doing it exactly the same all the way throughout when if we just adjusted and use a different tool for the crown because the crown is different and reacts different than the rest of the head then you're gonna have more success so I think one thing for me is I've never treated the head well not never but in the last six or seven years of my career so far I don't treat the head the same anymore I think about it all differently and I I separate it before I go in and do whatever technique I'm doing so like I'm not even diffusing and lifting the crown at all because I know the crown is gonna lift so I'm going through I did the sides the back everything and I kind of work around the crown don't even go too too much into it I'm also trying to put a quite a bit of weight right here in the fringe and I'm not scrunching the fringe too much because I don't want like this real like harsh curl to happen in the front either so just letting the diffuser do the work low airflow high heat you could even do low heat if you want to keep your hair healthy longer this is the last haircut of her existence so I mean maybe there'll be one more but not as worried about the health of her hair colors fun Carly the job yes so I have picked a few people but as long as they commented on the thing I've been taking a look so I was kind of looking for specific hair types so and hair lengths and what people are willing to do so you know I should have done I should have had people post in the comments like what haircut they want you know what I mean like what they're hoping for it's fun it's not for everyone I love the shape of like the fringe when you start to look at like like how it comes and fades off the face I have the new this is the new hybrid size so now we have a five point six five inch a little bit shorter that was kind of a request from me some people like a longer scissor I like shorter scissors so I asked them we had to like completely redesign not redesign it but like it wasn't as easy as just making it shorter let's put it that way because this is a very specific design when we came out with it it has a slide cutting side and then the last quarter inch is precision cutting and basically the way that a dry cutting scissor works just so you guys know a little education here a dry cutting scissor has a sharp blade on one side it's fully sharp and then the other side is sort of dull so when it comes together it glides a little bit more through the hair as opposed to just grabbing the hair and cutting it so that's why a lot of people are like can you do wet cutting with a dry cutting scissor as well it's a little bit harder now with that being said like yesterday my client when I got done at the end I did all of her dry cutting with this scissor and when we design this this portion is fully sharp from the tip up so you get a full cut when you close the scissor on this much of the blade but then the rest of it if you want to put it in the hair and slide through it you can do that as well so if you're point cutting or whatever you still get a nice crisp cut but it also does slide cutting so for instance if I come in here and I've got the hair in this part of the blade it's just gonna glide through it's gonna feel very soft now if I want to come in and do a little point cutting and remove some stuff around the hairline or around the fringe that tip fully cuts it off no problem doesn't push there so you have the ability to kind of do both that's what makes this scissor so unique and cool and I don't know anybody else that has has this type of scissor let me see I did want to just want to cut around the fringe a little bit because that's a little long for me so I'll grab my wide tooth comb here love the cut love the shears love that I'll do a little just kind of hold there in my hands fine-tuning a little more of a line and we have an automatic discount on our website shop fse can you type that in the chat Carly shop fse.com you get 30% off this scissor normally 300 bucks 30% off so what is that $90 off if you just all you have to do is go to check out in it automatically takes it off for you so you don't even have to worry about put it in a code or anything just go ahead and do it you can also sign up to the Academy on there as well so if any of you guys are interested ready to actually put in put in the time with me you know you got a the Academy you're not it's not a lazy thing I'm actually gonna hold you accountable it's fun right spanned it out a little bit and there you go people feel good all right sweet well thank you guys very much be on the lookout for the finalized video I will be posting that on YouTube soon so I hope you guys enjoyed the class if you want to do more classes with me just go to shop fse.com and you can sign up for all the upcoming events that I have going on just click on the Academy link and go down to upcoming events you can see all the class lineups for every week coming up they're on Mondays mostly the next one the one coming up is on Tuesday because of Labor Day but we are doing them every week and then also you can check out all the scissors and all that tons of deals going on and I appreciate your as a support I will see you guys next time all right thank you