SIDE Part with SHORTER Layers Tutorial #shorterlayers #movement

Hello everyone, welcome to my channel. I'm summer, today we're going to do another haircut

tutorial

and I'm going to show you how I create my

shorter

layered haircuts. I made this similar video last year in December and I have There were so many people in the comments asking me how would you do it in a

side

part

, what do you do differently with a

side

part

? Because I made the video in half, so I'm going to go ahead and show you how to do it. do it with a side part, you have to change your angles a little bit differently in the front as you cut, so I thought it would be a great way to explain all that to you and I'll touch on a couple more things that people have asked me about often in all the comments on that video so let's get started okay so I sectioned it off just separating the front from the back.

I'm not going to cut its perimeter just because that's not that important in this video. I'm going to do it mostly, just focus on the layering, how I put the

shorter

pieces on the back and then do a nice face framing on the front, so we'll go ahead and get started. so I like to start right in the middle and I'll just go in and separate I'll push this forward if you want to trim it you can but I usually push it over his shoulders and then we'll start cutting our

layers

so I always say move the comb forward and back.

I like the fine side of my comb to be on the top and then I'll turn it so it's on the bottom as well so we get a nice even tension. take that out, drop our bottom piece and we're going to see our guide here and we're going to cut, then we're going to go up the fine side of that comb, lift up, meet your guide, we're going to all work our way up to the top, so at first I cut it almost like a normal cape and when I get to the top that's when I tilt my hands to turn it and I cut it shorter at the top okay so we have our top. cut here and then to overextend it and shorten it, I'm going to pull this up and I'm going to twist my fingers so the bottom of your section falls off and then we're going to come into an Angle with your scissors and cut into that and then we're going to let it fall and that piece falls out nice and short.

I like that with my shorter

layers

you still see a little bit of curvature in the hair, that way when you blow dry them you'll get that lift and

movement

, so I like to use that kind of thinking in my mind as my guide. You can start by cutting this top piece first if you want, but I've never preferred to do it this way. like a lot of people do, this is the way I've always done it, it's worked for me so far, so we're going to go in and take our next section and then we're just going to take that hair out. the path and we're going to follow the same steps, so we're going to do the next section here and remember the fine side of that comb on the bottom to pull nice and tight, let's take it out, let that fall I can see my guide here and cut and then bring it up cut you can see all that hair that I need to cut there my guide cut it and then again we're up to here on that top so let's go to go up and turn the hands that hair is falling out and we can see a little bit of this guide that's left to cut nice and then we'll keep going down the sides of his head rounding and then I took another piece from that previous section, so I also get a lot of comments on that original shorter cape video from people saying, "This is great, It's good for fine hair types and it's all a personal preference.

The finer hair types there is a big difference between fine and thin hair types a lot of times those two things go hand in hand, but for the shorter layered style. You have to adjust the way you do the layers, you may not cut them as much as you do with, say, someone with medium texture like this mannequin or very coarse thick hair. I have a video that I will link in my description below where I show the difference and how you would adjust your shorter layers for someone with thin, fine hair. I do the half head where it shows the way I do it and then the half head where I show what happens when you don't fit and how you can create those holes and again remember when you're getting to that top piece is when you really you want to rotate those hands because that's how you're creating that shorter layer on top and then we're going to come out from this side of his head, so we're going to bring it out directly from the side of his head, you don't. you want to come back with it when you move through the head, you want to pull it right out of each section you're working on again, flip the comb to the finer side, pull nice and tight, let the bottom fall out and cut . and as you go around the head you may start to see the shape a little more and you may start to turn slightly earlier.

You just want to make sure you take small enough sections that way. Easily see your guide, you're not cutting too much, that's how you'll end up taking on too much at once, like your sections are too big and then if you lose your guide, that's how it can result in unevenness a lot of times. So now we're going to get to the other side and we're going to take our section again. Push that hair forward over your client's shoulder if necessary or you can simply clip it out of the way. The fine side of the comb you take out and you're just going to continue doing the same steps through the other side of the head, moving forward again to get to that top part and you're turning, so I think actually this mannequin that I'm on working now has a slightly longer length. that the mannequin's hair was in my first video so it will be interesting to see it later, the shorter pieces, how short you want to take it, it all depends on how comfortable your client is with it, like I said at least I try to make sure . there is enough curvature with that shorter piece on top, but I would say if her hair is super long you want to make sure the layers flow with the length of the hair, so if you go too short with the layers and her hair is super long you'll get that full mullet look which is fine if that's what your client wants but if they don't want that you need to increase the length or adjust the layers and again we move with the head so I'm going more direct here instead of backing up if you're backing up to you like you're not going to move with your client if you're backing up to you you're not going to get It's as short as a cape so you want to make sure you move with your head as you move forward, getting the areas out the right way and these side corners are where you start to notice that twist a little bit more. that in the middle and then we have our last piece here on the back and then I'll show you how I do my kind of cross checking while it's still wet before we move on to the front sides.

Okay, now that I've got her back cut what I like to do before I check is to re-spray the hair anywhere that needs it. I like to keep my hair fairly damp. You don't want it to dry out too much. I just feel like it carries. to a little bit of unevenness, so make sure that if you need to spray your clients hair while cutting, do it, it's very, I don't know, once it starts to dry, I feel like it comes out different as far as the evenness of the hair, so to go in and check it out, we're basically going to do the same steps, but I'm going to angle my hands a little bit differently at some points, so again we're just going to split that hair in half. pushing the pieces over your shoulder to get them out of the way or like I said before you can cut but we're going to go out again I like to flip my comb we're going to bring it in and I'm just going to twist it slightly and you can wait to do this until you've dried your hair.

I just like to jump in if you've seen any of my cutting

tutorial

s. I am very fond of dry cutting. I dry cut all the In my opinion you can never do enough dry cut, some people may not agree with that but I think it's important that the hair looks completely different once it's dry versus wet and you can really see how falls everywhere, especially if you know your client, do they like to wear it very straight? Do you like to use it more messy? so basically I'm just going over here you don't have to be so precise with your sections here and like I said I'm just going to slightly rotate my hands a little bit more as I move through one of the reasons I choose to do this after the fact is for one if the clients, let's say, have one length here and no layers, I feel like going in and cutting it the way.

What I did the first time removes some of that bulk and that length and makes it easier to go in and see if there's anything extra to cut and then there's a little less to clean up if that makes sense and on the other hand, it still spins that comb if you want for this, um, like I said, it's not as tedious here because you've already cut out most of what we're going through and shaping, maybe any pieces that I left out and to show you more, I'm going to go in and start twist at the bottom, instead it still falls out and then just its little hairs sticking out, that's what I'm cutting with this cross check. so all that hair fell out and we only have a little bit here okay so before we go to her sides what I'm going to do is I'm going to go in right at the top of her head and I'm just going to lift all this hair up and then I can see that I'm a little bit longer here in this corner that's on my right side and I'm just going to cut it, so now we're going to move to our sides and I'm just going to take everything down and to the sides, almost at the beginning I still cut like if I'm doing long layers, so to speak, I'll still tip my hand, but maybe I don't like cutting as much at the bottom. partly because sometimes you have a little hole in the hair and then depending on if the client wants a base frame in the front, which I'm going to do here, you're going to cut it anyway, so still with my sides I'm going to bring everything in. back, like I said, like I'm cutting a longer layer, okay, so we're just going to comb down and take our first piece here and, like I said, I don't like to just go out and cut right. away, I let the bottom really drop well and even after that I'm going to go in and rotate my hands as I lift so I can see my guide is right here, so I have an angle here with my hands and cut again we're going to go back, turn, I have my guide there, cut, turn, cut those little hairs and again, the reason I like to go a little easier at first with my sides is because even if someone has that medium texture.

Thick hair, most of the time, people's sides are a little bit thinner naturally, so I don't like to go in and cut the sides until I've seen it a little bit more on the dry side and how it falls out because it doesn't. you do. I want to create any kind of hole that's the worst thing you can do with a haircut and once you've cut it, it's there and that's it, so I like to be a little more conservative with my side. layers at the beginning, so again we'll go away from the face as we rotate it, we can see that our guide is peeking out right there.

I'm going to twist and let out the entire bottom section to keep our perimeter thick. especially if they're on the thinner side and then I cut my top layer here and then we'll keep pulling back and twisting, we'll let the bottom piece fall, cut and then I'll go down, just grab a little bit of the hair, bring it back, twisting it a little bit so it lines up really nice, we've got this little guy here sticking out and then since we're framing the face, I'm actually going to leave his sides for now and go in and cut him off at the end later.

I already finished this other side, so we'll let this other side fall again. Remember to spray it if necessary and we're going to do the same. Let's start with our first section. Push this hair towards the face, get it out of the way and again we move everything away from the face, so if you're standing where I am, you're going to pull it towards you again, use that fine side of that comb for a little bit more tension, pull back , turn, the whole butt is falling out, in fact, I'm going to turn it a little more just because we're in this space here, right behind the ear, where you normally make a hole. to happen, that's where it's going to happen, so I'm going to direct this even further up to drop it and then cut, we're going to take our next section here, get this out of the way, we're going to move away from the face while the spin this is falling, keep an angle on your fingers and cut nice and then I'm just going to go over it slightly pulling it up to see if any pieces are sticking out and cutting where necessary, it'll be fine, now that we're done. with the sides for now and I'm about to frame my face.

What I like to do first is kind of cross check this top side layer, so this is where the difference starts in doing it on a side part versus the middle part if it's in the middle you're just bringing everything all the way up, but because we're parting the hair on the head, you're going to bring in the part that you're checking and place it in the center of the part line and then they're going to cut off everything that's left out, so this will look pretty good if you cansee if I bring it all the way up it looks like it's longer on this left side, but when you adjust its angle to be centered with that part, it blends much better with literally just a little bit of hair that needs to be cut, so there it is where you would really fit, you can cut down the middle and everything usually blends in, but if you have a side part that always parts on the side or you always wear your hair on the side, cut it to the side and then like I said, just style it. you're going to center where that part is instead of centering it in the middle of the head, so we're just going to go in there. now and I do the face framing and the face framing, all with shorter layers.

I feel like people typically like to see a decent amount of face framing, they want almost kind of a side sweep, especially if they have a side part, so I'm just going to bring this hair down and I'm going to part it right along his ear, so we'll separate right behind the ear. Basically, the mannequin's ear is in a weird place and then I'm going to cut this from the back. because I want to keep things nice and I'm even going to do the same thing on this other side again, so let's go right to this ear and we're going to trim this back section out of the way and then I'm going to repaint, she's a little bit dry here and we're going to start framing our face.

Okay, let's go in and frame our face. Now I basically want to keep his shortest part in this section between his mouth and his nose and then I'm going to grab the first piece here and I'm going to pull it down if you pull with a lot of tension, go a little bit more than you want to see just because you're pulling it, it's going to shrink a little bit when you lift that tension, so I'm going to go in, I'm going to angle my fingers down, I'm going to go in at an angle with my scissors and I'm going to slide down, so now that I've made my guide , I'm just going to go in and grab the hair and slide my scissors down away from your face and then we're just going to keep bringing this hair forward to meet where you're working, so I'm going to go into kind of a curve with my scissors. .

I can see the hair starting here. Place my scissors over my fingers here and cut and then you can wear the hair too. forward and sort of coming up from the bottom to meet your guide once you reach a certain point. I feel like it's a little bit easier than trying to keep tilting and extending your hands, turning my hands down, coming up from that bottom and turning my scissors almost and then cutting them, the reason I turn them is I feel like it maintains that angle line and then I come back again from the back, bring it down and cut it, we have a very nice framing so now that we have this side done, now we are going to blend this other side and to combine it, I will take this first piece and I will comb it and see where match up here so I can see my guide right there and I'm basically going to visually look at it and angle my hands up with my scissors and cut and that blends that together really nicely.

In fact, I'm going to get this out of the way and then we're going to do the same things little by little. I don't like to take this whole section and try to do it in one go because if you cut too much again, it's already done, so just take it a little at a time. If you're comfortable taking it all in and you feel like you're going to kill it and do a good job, do it, but it's better if you're just starting out or doing it yourself, take it a little at a time, okay?

I'm going to go in, pull down, we see our guide here and we'll just cut our scissors. Take the next section. Keep those hands at an angle. Look at your guide and cut. We will continue to take our hair. I'm going to take this. last piece and again you can come up from the bottom if you want if it's a little bit easier to see and let it fall nicely now that we have both sides of the face frame done what I like to do to check the layers on the side so to check these front face frame pieces, what I like to do is bring everything from this side section, I'll bring it all the way forward, turn it around and trim off any little bit that's left out, so here we are.

I have a small piece that was left out. This is the way I like to start my cross check for the face frame. I always find that it blends everything together really well and keeps it even, so again we're going to turn and again it's cutting those layers a little bit more on the side, so we've got just a little bit of hair peeking out here and we'll get to her front piece again, zooming out. of his face in front of her. Turn the face and cut those top pieces and then the last step I like to do to frame my face.

I'm going to take my section. I'm going to go up, go all the way and lightly remove any hair that's sticking out. Framing the face can be a real challenge for some people. I've been checking my face framing this way. I don't even know how many years and so far it has worked very well for me, so don't give up. If you're a little off on some points, cross check this way and I promise it will make a difference in terms of making sure it matches up well on both sides and I'll just do the same thing. thing on this other side, so I'm going to take my first section from the back, we're going to come in towards you, towards your face, turn and I've got all that hair that needs to come out and then we're going to move our comb up on that section forward. as we twist and cut, we move forward, we twist and yes, look at everything that needs to come out.

That's why I do this because you can also look at it in a different way. Instead of with the hair down like I said, the face-framing part can be quite challenging, especially if you're new and I've always found this cross-check works for me. I also want to take note because this is a side. If it was a middle part, you would go right out to the center of the face, but we want to bring everything to the center of the part, so instead of stopping, let's say here where it would be if it were based on the middle part. center part of her head or face, you will still direct too much and take her to that center part and then cut again, like I said, those are the main differences between how I did it on a center part versus a side part.

The back is all the same, it's the sides that you have to adjust your hands a little more and again we're just going to cross here the same thing I did on the other side, we're going to go all the way. up and up and trim any little hairs that might be sticking out and then what I like to do to bring my sides and back together, if there's any gap between the frame of your face and the length of your back, we're going to go back to spray Okay, so I check with your um to match the face frame on the front.

I just like right behind his ear, grab him from behind, push him forward and then you're essentially going to go in, bring him forward, cut maybe a few little hairs. that might be peeking out so here's everything she needs to cut out and then like I said once she dries styled you'll be able to see a little bit more if she needs to bring more of that back in so I'm going to go ahead and dry and comb it. I'm going to blow dry it the same way I did my other short cape and then we'll do the fun part which is the dry cutting which is my favorite part.

Okay, now we've blown it out and styled it, as you can see, we have a lot of layers in the hair. I'll also link in the description below my blow drying tutorial on how I can blow dry it, because I People asked me about the last short layer, so her hair turned out really pretty, she has a lot of layers, um and actually , with the long ones I don't hate them as much as I thought at the top because they are a little short. He asked me about the length, but it turned out really well, so what we're going to do now is just go through and check anywhere, texture anything that needs to be cut, sometimes on your top pieces, I'll hit them with the thinning.

He cuts a little and then around the front of her face. This bang definitely needs some texturing and maybe cutting a little more around her face. We'll see so I'm just going to show you how I go about texturing and dry cutting hair okay so we're just styling and like I said I like to texturize it all depends on your client. She's a little perky for me at some points, but basically for cruising. We're just going to go in like you're cutting at the beginning and just take it out and cut it into anything that you see sticking out, she's actually blending in really well sometimes down here at the bottom is where you need to cut it a little bit more, but sometimes there may be a little disconnect there, but she's blending in really well, so I'm going to go ahead and do this all over the hair in the back, so start at the top with an angle, my hand is still and I cut it.

It's got a couple pieces in there and I'm just going to keep going down while I rotate my hands and one other good thing about this, even if you don't have pieces that are sticking out, you could go in and do a point cut if you feel like it needs a little bit of texturing, but no. If you don't necessarily feel like it needs to take weight off, the point cut will help smooth it out without making it too soft. shredded or thinned, especially if her client wants to keep a lot of that thick look, usually if my clients want to see a lot of texture and

movement

, I'll thin those ends a little more, so again, that's it. personal preference and twist it again as she goes down through the hair, so here's a little bit that needs to come out and when I'm making this cut, I'm trying to make a little bit more of a pointy cut. instead of going straight because I don't want to create harsh lines, so like I said, I'll link to the blow drying that I did on how to get this fullness in the curve of the ends.

I use two different brush sizes so that way I use a bigger thicker one on the perimeter of your base and then as I go up the head I go to a smaller brush to create the curve a little bit more so that match. I'm going to enter only this very upper layer and only deeply. cut the point on that and then we're going to get to the sides right here, she's got a spot, I don't like how that's actually okay, okay, like I said, her front punch is definitely for me, it's too heavy, like that that I'm going to texturize that with my thinning scissors I'm just going to grab a little bit and then I still go in at an angle with my scissors and I just move my thumb as I work down, I feel like these mannequin hairs are like the opposite of a bunch of people like I could never have bangs and texture them.

I'm envious of how much hair this mannequin has and then actually her whole top piece here I'm going to cut off too, I don't like it. how thick it looks falling there normally with a side part, you'll probably texturize a little more around the face where the hair parts just because you have more hair resting there compared to the other side, I really don't feel like I need to do it, barely I'll do it there, but usually because the hair is unevenly distributed, that's why you can texturize more on one side than the other and then add a little more frame to the face, I think. she just needs a little bit more in this center section here so I'm literally going to grab that piece and I'm going to tilt it forward and right here is what bothers me not much just a little bit she has so much hair on the damn sides of her head that I'm going to cut at this bottom part it's so thick again that's why the dry cut is so important because you can really see how the hair turns out and then Sometimes I also flat iron the hair to see how it falls smoother, but usually everything is mix well whenever you cut it dry, whether it's super full in your dryer or not, and I'm just going to come over here on this other side and do the same thing very lightly in this center area again.

I'll take it forward and down and yeah, there it's driving me crazy. I'm going to texture a little more on this. front piece here where it has the split side because again there is a little bit more weight over here and often customers like that one side of the head can be thicker than the other so even if they don't have a Lots of layers, you may need to trim it just for that reason alone as I have more hair on the left side of my head than the right so if I wear it on my shorter bob I usually cut it a little longer on this side because by the time I'm bald around here, but it's naturally thicker on my left side than the right and then to check the front of the face with a side part, it's going to recenter it on this part where they have it, so if it's on the right side or the left side, where unlike when it's in the middle, you're going to bring everything right to the center of that chin with a side part, you're going to take it and bring it up to where the hair is parting, so you can Go ahead and stand behind them or in front of them, bring it closer to match, cut it where you need it and then I'm going to take a look one more time and see if I need to intervene anywhere, but I think she's good, she's got a lot of body, so I'll show you that it's a little bit off. this front piece here, so I'm going to cut it to blend it together.

I'm about to come. Now I can see it better here. I'm going to go up and make a point cut so that this is what hangs here.Again, I'm just doing it little by little so I don't cut too much, we have it lined up much better, yeah, she has some really beautiful layers and like I said, I'm actually surprised by how much I like her. shorter pieces up to here compared to the length so we have a nice chunk there but it all flows in so as long as you make everything float and blend together you can go pretty short with the layers and then from the side We just have that nice face frame that blends in, but we didn't cut it too short, so we still keep that fullness throughout the bottom, okay guys, here we have our final result, we have some nice shorter layers throughout. the hair we are having a lot of movement everywhere beautiful face framed in the front I am very happy with how it turned out honestly the main difference between a shorter layered haircut or a general haircut with a side part versus the one I did back in December in the channel is that when you go to check the layers at the top, instead of bringing everything towards the center of the head, you are going to center it on the parting line, so that if they separate on the side right, you're going to go up and take it up from that parting line and the same thing if it's on the left side like that, that's how the hair falls so when it's down, everything's going to match up a little bit more on the sides, remember that you're You're going to angle your hands as you move up the head, really direct the angle of your fingers for those top pieces and then remember on the sides, if you're nervous about cutting too much or making a hole, stay away from the face.

As you continue to tilt to place those shorter pieces and then the face frame and sides again, you're going to bring that in to double check the face frame pieces to where the center of your part is not the center of the face and then small sections. when you're creating that face framing so you have the most control and always remember to be able to see your guide before cutting, so I'll link the haircut I did in December with the shorter layers in the description below as well as how i got this dryer down there too so i hope you enjoyed this video leave a comment below like share and subscribe and i'll see you next week.