HOW TO MODERNIZE A PIXIE HAIRCUT TUTORIAL | MATT BECK VLOG 24

Alright guys, in today's Vlog I have a real live model for you. I know many of you have been asking for that mannequin. Today we have Helen from Heaven, the salon where one of my friends saw Michael Greg in Win Chester. Virginia, so I'm excited to show you this cut, what we're going to do. I called Helen during my class today because she wanted to alter her shape a little, so I saw her

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. I like the

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of hers, but what I wanted to do is just remove some volume in different areas, so let's do it step by step, so I hope you like it, let us know in the comments below, here we go . our step by step alright guys so we're going to start by sectioning the top of the haircut the section is going to be a little bit asymmetrical because what I'm going to do is go a little bit a little bit higher this is the heavier side here and then This is the exposed side, the weaker side, the side that she has her part on, so we're going to start by working with a low elevation on the side of the part, the reason we're working with a lower elevation on this side and then on the other side we're going to do a higher elevation.

I want to lose a little more weight. I want to have a line of weight working along the length of cum to build a nice shape on the side of her head, so my tool of choice for this cut is the Ys Park 339 comb, which is a nice little comb with tight teeth, making it excellent for precision cuts and Motani's db20 scissors. I have a 5.7 inch. It is my favorite scissors for everything, wet cutting and dry cutting. I definitely have all the Motani scissors and that's the one I use the most, so let's go over what I want you to notice about what I'm doing in this part. cutting is what I work on, you can see in the diagram.

I work the middle part of the haircut first, so I take a diagonal back part all the way to the end, but I only work the middle part first and then work from the nape of the neck. from the neck to the top of the occipital bone, this simply allows me to keep my body position working the same as I continue with the haircut, so I am more consistent now working with the firm back blade of the scissors just to detail the edges of what I wanted to do. With this cut to give it a little more modern feel, I wanted to add lines to the outer perimeter of the haircut so you could see a nice solid shape to the cut.

I also wanted to remove a lot of the bulk. It went and eliminated a lot of the connection, so I think what I noticed because the cool thing was I was teaching a class in Virginia for my friend Michael Greg and I saw Helen, she was one of the stylists there. and I saw her from across the room and I saw the shape of her haircut and the shape of her haircut was really so connected that it was creating a more rounded shape on the top of her head and I just didn't think. that was the most flattering shape for the shape of his face and the shape of his head, so I asked him if he would keep it after and we could cut it and make some adjustments, so that's really where we are. doing and you can notice that on this side this is the heavy side now, so the whole top of the haircut, everything that I have separated will fall on this point, so what I'm doing is working with a higher elevation, which You can see on the main sheets, on the contrary, on the left side of the video.

I'm working with a higher elevation to eliminate the weight and create that disconnection from the top, so now when the top drops, there will be a little bit of a structure to hold it up, but it doesn't push it, it doesn't round it, uh and it's not all connected together so it's going to give you a definitely more modern feel and uh it's just going to make your haircut stand out so work diagonally back on both sides uh it's pretty standard, the only difference like I said is the lift so I just work with that high lift so you guys notice my over steering here what I wanted to do is push a little bit of extra weight into the crown area so I move on.

I keep my oversteer pretty similar, uh, while working on the side, but what that will do is accumulate additional weight on the crown, which I'm going to go into in detail dry. I kinda also work the same way, so I did the top section first as I work now. I'm working on the bottom section in the nape area of ​​the occipital bone. I'm still working diagonally backwards, still working outwards. off your head and take that weight off this was a great situation because I can't work with live models and often you know I'm posting videos almost every day um which are step by step haircut videos for getting a live model was great and also Michael has a beautiful salon so the lighting was great so it was a pretty ideal situation to create a hair cutting video so just a little bit of scissor over the comb to tighten the neck area. and now we're going to work through a horizontal line at the top of the head.

You can see my angle here. You can see it above. We're leading everything back, taking our guide from the crown of the head and just cutting a nice straight horizontal line parallel to the top of the head and we'll work it all the way through. We're doing extreme oversteer on this because I want to push a lot of weight to the front. What I love about his haircut is. the disconnection in the front, so I don't want to mess with that too much, but I do want to have some kind of connection in the rear and I want to create that kind of forward thrust, so oversteering is a great way to do it.

So the last bit and that's the finished part of the wet cut so you can see that structure. You can see how the weight bevels around the occipital bone. Now we are going to do a quick drying with our dryer. Ergo Paddle Brush Ergo Hair Dryer and I really see that shape come to life. You can see that disconnect now. I have my Vib iron and we're going to go over and work on a lot of details, so I'm working. top of your head working a point cutting technique and the goal of this point cutting technique in the haircut is simply to soften the weight line that I have created, so I deliberately created that weight line that is located just around his ear, um, but I wanted to soften it up a little bit.

Now I'm going to go over and work on the details of the edges of the haircut, so I'm using the firm blade of a scissor against his skin to guide my scissors up and create that nice hard line in the haircut. I told you about that before. With this specific haircut, what I want to do is add a little more detail to all the edges, so working around the temporal temple area, now working on the back of the head and just drawing those lines now I want to work on the back of the crown because this is a little bit heavier back here, it had more over steering.

I want to go horizontally and make some spot cuts because that allows me to work better with the shape. and remove the weight now we're going to go through scissor over comb this is actually just to add more details um the details are not done wet so we go through, we build the shape on the wet base, then we go in dry and we do all of our techniques that We know to really fine-tune the haircut, so going through the scissors over the comb, now I'm doing a little more spot cutting adding a little bit of texture, softening the shape and doing the details around the edges of the haircut. so I'm going to comb the hair forward and just work with the tip of the scissors to add that detail on the outside edge, um, and then a little more scissor on the comb to smooth it out and give it that shape, so I just take everything I know, everything I learn and I add it to every haircut because that makes every haircut stand out and it makes every haircut your own, so it's this detail work that people pay extra for and They don't even pay extra for it. which makes your haircuts great, so really work on that D that dyes the dry detail in your haircut, so just go over the top a little bit more, cut into the point, smoothing it out but also adding texture of text, um, and that's the final result of the haircut.

I'll do a little more detail around the ear in a second, so I'll comb it forward. I love seeing those layers and how they are placed and how the color appears on top. This makes the haircut really stand out. And this is what I was talking about, making it a little more modern, so what I really want you to notice is that the left side balances the right side even though we cut it asymmetrically and there's our hope for the final result. you guys like it, hope that helps you, um, the most important thing to break this down and sum it all up is that she had a great haircut, um, it had nothing to do with the haircut that she had, all that we did.

We went Twisted, we did some dry cutting techniques, they took weight off where maybe it shouldn't have been and then created a more modern feel to the cut, very good, I hope you like this haircut, make sure to hit the like button . the share button share it with all your friends and see you in the next video do you have Instagram or something like that? Yeah, I do what is _ Helen Morrison, that's what's cool guys, see you next. time