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How To Cut Face Framing Layers

Mar 15, 2024
Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel if you are new, my name is Christy and I am a licensed stylist and in today's video I will show you how to achieve long

layers

to frame the

face

and what I intended to do was three videos. one where I just laid out the basic length that that video was, the second video was where I laid out how to do long

layers

that just blended really well into the hair, especially for people who maybe have fine hair or not as much density and then in In the third video we are going to do

face

framing

layers that I did today and also a curtain shot, but I decided to split it because maybe this is where you want to end up.
how to cut face framing layers
It may be good enough for you, but I'll have another one. Video coming soon where I explain how to make the curtain benches, so if you want to see how I achieve this and how I parted my hair, how I placed my fingers, where I put my scissors and the elevation and all that good stuff, continue on. Looking to get started, I'll tell you what you're going to need for this haircut. You'll need a comb, a rat tail comb, any type of comb where you can make nice, clean sections and part your hair. any type, it doesn't matter, it doesn't really matter and you will need a hair tie to be able to tie the back of your hair, which we will not use in this haircut, the most important thing is a hair cutting scissors and a bottle of water, but if you don't have one, keep wetting your hair so it doesn't dry out and you don't have different types of lengths because when your hair dries, the length increases and so I want to keep your hair nice and wet so everything stays the same length , but what you will have to do first is part your hair from the top of your head to your ear.
how to cut face framing layers

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Now I'm going to grab all that hair in the back that I'm not going to use for this cut, tie it up with anything you have that can hold your hair back and separate it from the front. You'll see a common theme in how I part my hair when I'm doing layers to frame the face and when I do bangs, any type of bangs, I'm going to do a triangle at the front of my head, right next to my forehead, but depending How far you want to go back, that's how thick they will be. The layers are going to be so if you want them to have more density and you want more hair in there and you want it to look thicker, you can go back further, but I like to keep it like maybe one, maybe like two inches back at most and So I'm going to from there and I'll make a triangle and that triangle will end up right at the arch of my eyebrow, so it should look like this, so for now I'm just going to move this hair back. and now I'm going to do the same thing on the other side, so what I want to do is make sure that triangle and keep in mind that I parted my hair in the middle, so now that other triangle on the other side.
how to cut face framing layers
The side has to meet the tip of the triangle on this side, so what I'm going to do is lower it again and lower it to the same place. Okay, now that I have that established, I'm going to tie this up. back and get it out of the way now I'm going to do another section. I'm going to make an almost diagonal line to go with the natural fall of my hair. I'm going to make a diagonal. line maybe like an inch further back from the top of that triangle and I'm going to bring it up to my ear.
how to cut face framing layers
Now this hair I'm going to keep out of the way for now because I might need it later, so I'm just going to hold it back, this section will eventually reach this section, but what you always want to keep is the length along the perimeter right above your ear. This is what will maintain the length that will match the back. of your hair, so this is a length you won't want to cut. What I mean by that is that if you were to pull all of this forward, the way we're going to cut through what should happen is exactly that. it should fall off so I know if done correctly that's going to happen since I wish you could do this at home I would say let's take it out so now basically what I'm doing is leaving. to play it safe and I'm going to tie this.
I don't want this to be on this part of the haircut because I want to keep it secure, so I'm also going to tie that back, so now I'm just going to do the same part on this side. I'm going to make that diagonal line all the way to my ear, so here's the area that I'm not going to cut on this side and I'm going to take that out as well. of the path, so for now we'll just place this back and forth because we're going to work with the front sections, so where do I want this to go?
I'm going to take a piece from the front and just spread it out like this and I'm going to say well I want it to go up to here, I'd like it to go up to this part of my neck and what I'm going to do is lift it up. Lift it like this, notice how my fingers are looking directly at the ceiling and I'm doing this to establish the line, but I also don't want it to be heavy, so when I lift my fingers like this, I'm taking away the heaviness. so now that I measured it I'm going to keep it like this, from the floor to the ceiling and then I'm going to cut up and now I'm going to do the same thing.
I took a piece of hair from here from that first triangle that I made just to place it on the other side as well and since I have a guide I don't have to measure it again because I could follow this guide and cut now. what you want to do you're not going to grab this you're still going to grab this and you're going to hold it at that angle again at that hair lift if you have a normal hair density your hair is not very thin you can go up more or keep it like that, almost at a 90 degree angle.
Sometimes if people have really fine hair, what they do is they just cut the zero degree downward angle and that's fine too, but I want it to be that way. a little bit softer, so I'm going to raise my hands a little bit and I'm going to take them out now. I found my guide. You have to be able to see it, if you don't see it, that means you. I'm grabbing too much hair at once. I can see it here now. I'm not going to cut him off like that. I could do that, but I want to have more length as it goes back.
I want it to fall like this. This way, when you want your length to be longer, you're going to cut, you're going to take the hair and move it away from that area, so if I want this side to be longer, I'm going to pull the hair and direct it past my nose. To the other side of my face now, instead of going in and cutting from the top, I'm going to make sure to cut not at the top of my fingers, but at the bottom, and I'm going to go in from the bottom up, not from the top , because when you come in from the top it's like you're not playing it safe if you're not used to doing something like this, so you want to come in from the bottom.
It's easier to go from longer to shorter than from shorter to longer and I can see as long as I want and I can also make it longer by not only directing my fingers too much but I can also do it by bringing them closer together. a little bit lower a little less elevation and I'm also going to put my fingers like this, they're not straight like we cut the first piece, they're going to be at an angle obviously like I want, where I want it to be. The longest thing I'm going to do is come in from the bottom and meet that guide and you can see, let me move this, how it's starting to form.
I could go in a little more. I'm going to go in a little more and angle my fingers maybe a little less. There we go, so now I'm going to grab the other side before I grab this one and I'm going to do the exact same thing. there's my guide again, I can see it, it's here, so now I'm going to keep my fingers a little bit elevated, bring them down to find that guide and move up, you always have to go in and check that this is what makes the cuts of hair. Perfect, so let's see if we see that angle that we want to see and if you can see it, they look pretty good.
What about these two sides? They are equal? Because now they have to be measured perfectly together because now these new longer pieces are My new guidelines I'm not going to continue using the shorter part as my guide because then on the front this would come out too short. My new guide is the final point of that triangle I made at the beginning. Now. I'm grabbing that whole piece leaving out that little triangle that I'm just going to call our safety net. Some people will take this all at once and just chop it up, but I think especially if you're making it at home if you've never made it. cut the hair before, you should go piece by piece, little by little, without cutting too much, so now I'm going to move this because I don't need this piece anymore.
This is no longer my guide, so I'm just going. to move it and I'm just going to put it here behind my ear and now I'm going to raise it a little bit too until you can find your guide. This is my guide here and I have to be. to be able to see it because if not this is not going to end well so I want to take it out like this, spread it out, you want to spread it out so you can see everything now I'm going to go through my nose again. I'm going to be too direct and I'm going to cut from the bottom up until I find what I have to stick to, which is that guide, so if I see something that I want to get rid of, you can just look at it and make it look like that perfect angle, this piece of the back that I left out.
I can see what it's going to look like, so when I measure this I can see that it doesn't look like there's a very short layer and then there's that piece. I left that out no, it looks good before I take this back piece I'm going to finish the other side, which is exactly the same process but just on the other side, so now we establish that this will be the longest length in this The triangle just like the other side is going to be my new guide, so it's right here, so I don't really need this piece, so I'm going to put it in, I'm going to comb it over to this side and now I'm going to grab this whole piece and I'm going to do the same process, I'm going to comb it forward, make sure you watch it and what I'm going to cut is enough to take me all the way in, so I'm going to bring it forward, direct the hair, tilt my finger and I'm going to start from the bottom up , so I'm going to come in from the bottom and I'm going to work my way up, so when I comb it down, you should see the angle that I have on this side, which is a little bit dry, so I'm going to wet it so now we can measure it , I'm just going to comb it all forward and measure the ends so that when you comb these. both down should look exactly the same if they don't come back in and you can just pull your hair down like this and see if there's anything that you think might look better if you cut it a little bit shorter, also keep in mind when you wear your hair the closer you bring it up, you direct your hair the other way the more you angle your fingers the sharper the shape will be so you never want to do this this is what you never want to do never If you want to stick your fingers in and cut straight you always have to angle your fingers , you're never going to put them horizontally because that's exactly the type of line you're going to get, so now what I'm going to do is Drop this piece and I'm going to drop this triangle that I had and I'm going to see how they all measure and I'm going to measure them and they look like okay, so now I'm going to release this side of this piece that I've tied. up and here it is so you can stop layering completely here, you don't have to go any further back if all you want is something soft in the front, what am I going to do to measure the back piece that I just left.
Wow, I'm going to comb it all to the front and direct it back to the other side and see how these measurements happen. Those bottom hairs should fall out because I don't want to touch what I've been drinking. Take good care of that, I don't want to touch that, I'm just going to cut a little bit that helps the hair connect a little bit more and have an even softer falling effect when I comb it back, you just have a little bit more of a layer so I'm going to do the same thing on this side I'm going to let that piece go and now again I'm going to do the same thing I'm going to comb it all forward over direct and I angle my fingers again and just measure it and again you don't have to do that and what you want to happen you want these hairs, the hair closest to the perimeter, to fall there they go and there's that same little bit that I cut on the other side, I'm going to cut it on this side, so once you finish layering the front, I'm sure you've seen it in salons or maybe in other videos, they keep taking parts of the hair from the back. and comb it forward, comb it forward and make it come together and what they're doing is layering the back and making it connect, but we already layered the back, well I already layered the back in my last video so I don't have to do it. layer it again, I'm happy with the result, so I'm not going to plug it in if you don't have layers in your hair and you only did some front layers, you don't have to do that either.
If you have to go back further than the front or full side sections, you can leave it there and your hair will still look beautiful, so I'm going to comb it and blow dry it and all that and I'll be right back. show you how it turned out nice guys I'm back and this is how I styled it and I love the way these front layers fall, I like them more than I thought I would so I want you to keep a few things in mind about the way we section the hair now, if you do that and section your parts carefully, you'll be able to do this.
It cuts hair easily, you can also do it by just grabbing everything at once and cutting it, but I wouldn't recommend it, especially if you don't have much experience cutting hair which can make it a little more difficult. We're not going to leave too much space forever, theThe reason I wanted to do this haircut before doing any type of curtain bangs is because if you see the way it falls, it falls similar to how a curtain pen would if you were like that and I just styled it like I would. I did in the middle and then pushed it forward, so what I see happening now is that the layers that frame the long face are being used as curtain bangs, so if you go up a little shorter and frame the face a little shorter you'll have more bangs but sometimes you might think you want curtain bangs but then you end up with something like this and you're like oh wait that's exactly what I want to start with, I don't want to go too short I want to keep it long and see if I like it , how can I style it and if it's practical for me and then go and do a curtain bang if you want, if this is what you intended to get with a curtain bang, just that. effect that layered effect well this might be enough for you but actually they are long layers that frame the face but yes I love it I think it's easy to do in the end I hope this video was helpful I hope you you are.
I can follow if you choose to do this type of haircut and if you do go ahead and leave me a comment. I love reading them and that's it until the next time I do curtain bangs. See you and goodbye.

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