Asymmetrical Pixie Haircut Tutorial | Matt Beck Vlog S2 E13

What's up guys, welcome to today's

vlog

? In today's

vlog

I have something that you all really like, which is a live model. Her name is Mary. She came in and wanted an

asymmetrical

pixie

cut, which was a big change for Mary. As you can see, this was what she came with before and this is what she has now, so I'm really excited to show you how we got there, show you the journey and we also use tons of different techniques in this video. I think even if you don't want to do this specific

haircut

, there will be things you can take away from it.

Also, we used multiple tools, we used Mizutani scissors, we used the Donald Scott carving comb, we used all kinds of different tricks to create this look, so I hope you liked the video, let me know in the comments below, hit the button subscribe if you haven't already and here we go guys so today there's an exciting video watch the before so a couple of things. I want you to realize quickly that there are very few disconnects looming there, so I think that has a lot to do with the section, the preparation of your last cut wherever you got it, so you want to make sure that in any moment your Sectioning a

haircut

has a purpose and you are really following the shape of the head or you will end up with disconnections that make no sense.

What I put into the preparation. The hair that is invisible. Where the memory shaper is like a. Medium hold gel. This is a new product from Paul Mitchell and what I like most about it is that it has a good glide. It has a nice medium hold and is excellent as a cutting lotion. It's really great on fine hair and creates a lot of shine. The section is quite simple. I go down the left side of her head and then I work my way back to about the middle of the crown and I do a diagonal parting back just to create kind of a V shape and then I bring that point up a little bit. a little bit lower on the right side because we're going to create a more disconnected

asymmetrical

feel on that side of the head, so we trim it nice and then as we go, this is where we'll start the haircut.

I'm working diagonally backwards because I want to work with the round part of the head. Now, the key thing I want you to see in this part of the haircut is that the angle of my finger comes out a little bit so you can see where I am. I'm pointing out that it gets a little longer towards the inside of my finger. What that will do is help work with the shape of the head so that Mary's head is a little bit flatter on the side, so I wanted to create that shape for If we give it a more square feel on the side instead of rounding it. , then our haircut wouldn't look good, so I'm really focused on making sure I don't round his head too much in this short part of In the haircut now I continue parting half an inch all the way back following the turn of the head and then just picking up a little bit of that old hair as a guide, but coming straight out of the head, so straight from the head that it doesn't build up.

The only part where the weight increases is the top, right around the parietal crest area, where your head starts to round out. That's where we'll build a little weight line to balance the shape of her head so she can see. I'm working palm to palm keeping everything nice and clean, the memory shape or the invisible, where the memory styler is really what helps hold the hair while I separate it. It's another benefit of using a product on your hair and also the The reason I like to use a product on your hair before while cutting is because I'm applying that product to every part of your hair as I go and then when I'm going to blow dry at the end, every part of her hair has The products saturated it, so again I follow the shape of the head with a half inch separation.

The things I like to think about when I'm at this point in the haircut is just the lift, the lift gets more difficult as you go up the head shape because my elbow is starting. get up in the air and as my elbow gets up in the air challenges you'll naturally want to lower your elbow so naturally that you would do a heavier form without even doing it on purpose so just make sure you keep that lift up when you're trying to remove weight in the shape of the head so that you can see straight from the head, still working diagonally back and continuing towards the lower nape area.

The other thing I want you to notice is that I'm keeping it fringed always looking at the bottom around the nape area because I personally like that more lived-in look with these types of shapes so I wanted to leave a little bit of length so that when I I lift that weight. to the hairline, so I get those fringed or sit strands, we're going to go in later with the razor and the scissors and we'll fine tune them to see that my lift went up in that section and then when I moved to this In section the elevation drops a little.

I follow the shape of the head and still put that weight line on top, but making sure I don't lower my lift too much or put too much weight on because I want that weight line to fit. below the parietal crest, you'll notice that in a moment, so now what I want to do is notice how round it marries the back of Mary's head, so I want to build a shape towards the crown area and then Tucking it right at the occipital bone to the nape of the neck gives it a more natural look, so the best thing about the haircut is that you can push the weight along the shape of the head to give it the appearance that we are always doing different things within fashion and style.

To create certain appearances and show different features, this is how we can build features into the shape of the head, so now my top direction will go directly over that. Now I'm working with a stationary guide keeping my finger angle the same. So I'm increasing the weight but I'm also pushing more weight behind the right ear and what that will do for me is start to create that asymmetrical feel in the haircut so you can see that I'm styling everything up to that point. stationary guide and cut it there. I've talked about this in a lot of videos in the past, a lot of times I'm pushing weight to cut later, so we're going to do it again with a utility knife and tune it up and we'll also do some slide cutting techniques, so we're pushing a lot of weight there, but right now we're doing a fundamental haircut to push the weight and then we'll get creative with it dry. cut, so now everything will go back to a stationary guide as well, so now I'm working diagonally forward and directing everything back creating that kind of line feel on the right side.

Mary was very particular in the consultation that she wanted to leave as much length as possible on the right side, but as hairdressers we have to decide well if we are going to leave that length, how do we make it look good? So what I did was direct everything back to create the Then I go through a line and just go back over that section and lift it up nice and high creating concave layers so the sides have more layers and aren't super heavy and it will still have that feeling of texture now that I'm. You will work horizontally on top or you could call it vertical.

I still don't know exactly, everyone says it differently, so just straight across the top, directing everything back to a stationary guide so the guide comes back directly over the middle of the crown and what. What it's going to do is push the extra length to the front, but give me that kind of connection that I need between the short part of your haircut and the long part, so we're creating a lot of short layers on top right now, but they will get a lot. longer as we go on the head shape, so you see, I'm just cutting straight, what it does is collapse the top and build up weight towards the front, so my goal is not to round this shape in absolute because I still want to have those weight lines there so everything is straight, my fingers are flat with the top of the head, so now you can see as I brush it, you can see how it falls forward, but we've created a lot of layers , tons of movement.

You'll see that once we get it on the dry side, so now I have the Donald Scott carving comb. This is another really cool tool available in free classroom education. I'm using the 50% carved side to work on the nape of the neck. What is done is to remove 50% of the hair and leave the other 50% on the head to give it texture. It's a good way to collapse the shape a little if you want and this is helping me tuck her hair down. nape, so I'm going to leave that volume at the top and fold it down and also create that kind of fun hairline where it starts a little shorter in the middle and gets a little longer towards the outside.

Now I'm using my ego palette. brush, this is actually the Ergo Diamondhead Paddle Brush, so it's a miniature sized paddle brush that I really love for short hair. If you want to see more details, check out the free salon education.com for that, but I'm still working on the head shape by flipping the hair up creating a little volume and then going over with my Paul Mitchell neuro straightener to smooth it out, so I straighten it all diagonally. What I want to do is work with the shape of the head, so I'm not trying to fight anything and I'm not creating any parts on top of the head.

That's really key when you're going in and doing a dry cut, is making sure you don't blow dry a difficult part. in the hair, so now this is the Mizutani puffin scissors, it's a dry cutting scissors. I'm going through the back of my head and this is right where I pushed all that weight, so what I like to do is go ahead and do a little bit. of sliding cutting with the puffin because it is a dry cutting scissors, you can see how thick the blades are, they have great power to cut dry hair, also the Mizutani type box scissors that I was using for precision cutting at principle.

I love that before my precision cuts, but I don't want to use it on dry hair, not because it won't cut it but because it will dull the scissor, so you use a dry cutting scissor to go in and do that power cutting job. with dry hair the blade is creative so it doesn't ruin your precision scissors so same thing here after doing a little spot cut I make a little sliding cut just to add a little bit more to the bang area around it. the little point of the hairline cutting around the edges just to clean it up but still keep it alive which is what I really like and now I'm going to do the same thing with the puffin right here to tie the front back now.

The last technique I'm going to do, you've seen it before, is the provocative cutting technique. If this is your first time watching one of these videos, I have tons of videos on this slide cutting technique or the tease cutting technique, but what I'm doing is I'm just flipping my hair towards me and then I do a flipping motion. half open and half closed tease as I cut the hair, so I go half way up to take the weight off the hair and creating a nice line that turns into a really cool frame, almost like a face frame or a side bang, so The last thing I'm going to do is a little bit more tip cutting, so I take those same partings at the top of the head and just do a deep spot cut to take the weight off and also create some texture.

You can see how bold those lines are at the top, so I just want to cut them out, soften them a little bit and the last thing I'm going to use is Paul Mitchell spray wax. It has a flexible texture, I love this product, it is one of my favorites, like if I were stranded on an island, this would be the product I would choose, it gives a lot of texture, it has good hold, it is very soft when you use it. I use a flat iron with it so I love it and you can see all the bold texture that came from this cut, how it goes to the nape of the neck, you can see the asymmetrical feel across the entire back pushing to the right side and then the nice soft feel . of those round layers that we created in the front and you can see how it builds up, that weight keeps your head from looking super round by using that shape to square it so I hope you liked the video let me know in the comments. next well guys as always I hope you liked the video, if you liked this video make sure to hit the like button below and subscribe to the channel by hitting the subscribe button so you don't miss out on the multiple videos that I am posting every week, do you have any haircut requests?

Post them in the comments below too. I love getting your ideas and don't forget you can go to the free education room with pickup. Mizutani scissors Donald Scott carving combing combs clips Everything you see in this video you can mostly buy at Three Saw and Education com. Thank you very much for the support. I will see you inthe next video.