Hi everyone it's April with Hair 101 today i'm going to show you how to do this cute
it's a cute spiky kind of textured haircut i don't even know what to call this we should
make a name for it the Kat cut so this is one of my favorite haircuts that I do on my
clients Kat is my favorite because her hair is amazing look at this you have to get behind
I have to get behind her it's like platinum her hair is amazing so we are going to tighten
up the back trim this up and up in here she's going to grow these out on the sides and do
you want to do anything different with your bangs?
do you just want to let them grow well you're so good at deciding what should happen so
however you think it should go you always know best alright we are going to wash her
alright we are ready to start cutting we are going to start in the back with this haircut
and one little tip is if your client has blond or light hair you should usually use a black
cape because it gives a contrast especially if the hair is hanging down over the cape
you'll be able to see the line a little bit better and if they have dark or black or brown
hair you are going to want to use a silver or a white or a lighter color cape so there's
the tip for the day we are going to start back here and we do kind of a slight it's
like a little bit of an aline shape but higher and so we're going to part it down the middle
in the back and I like to just push the hair I don't usually use clips if the hair is already
this short if i'm going from longer to short then i'll tie it up with clips but ok so once
you get the part in I just take the angle and then comb that hair up
and then the same thing on this side and you want to make sure that the partings are clean
and symmetrical so if this goes to about there you want to make sure that it starts at the
same point and ends at the same point on the other side okay combing is really important
just to keep it clean just make sure you direct the hair away from the part and that will
keep your part open i'm going to start with razoring the bottom out just to give it the
soft look so this is taking off about a half of an inch of length
and I always tell you this but make sure there's not any moles or anything that you're going
to scrape off with the razor cause that would hurt and make sure you have a guard if you're
going to do that okay so now we're going to start right here in the middle and take up
about an inch section keep your hand against the neck and we're just going to cut off about
half an inch to an inch okay so that's going to serve as our guide in the middle and we're
going to part it down the middle and lift this section up follow that part line that
you have and you're going to lift it up and you're going to find your guide and then point
cut all the way down and I always point cut Kat's hair because we don't want to thin it
too much afterwards I don't really use a lot of razor thinning shears with her because
she doesn't have super thick hair but the point cutting still gives it the texture so
that we don't have to go back in and do that so same thing on the other side i'm going
to part it down the middle lift this up and i'm going to keep my hands in the same angle
as that part and go up into the guide that I have set up here Okay and the down here
I usually just kind of take this up and make sure that I don't have any long pieces tucked
underneath there so you want that to be nice and tight and this is as short as my fingers
will let it go my hands are touching her head and then i'm just kind of point cutting out
anything that goes past my fingers now we're going to comb down the rest of this hair and
i'm going to layer it up from this line that we've established with this guide okay so
starting in the middle take this section straight out and you're going to see right here there
is a chunk of hair missing that's your guide so you're going to cut up from that guide
and letting it angle out just a little bit so that we can leave some of the length on
the top and you're going to do that all on the back so just move over a little bit taking
half of that section moving along to the right and then to the left now we're going this
way same thing there's the guide and try not to cut past that first knuckle okay so we
have the back nice and short now we are going to take it up a little bit higher and we're
going to do this area now in here the crown so she likes to spike this so I do deep point
cutting so I leave the hair inch and a half long and I just kind of chip in and then I
can go ahead and pull sections coming horizontal this way now so anything that reaches up you'll
be able to see right here.
there's the guide and then there's where it doesn't reach any more just cut off that tip
sorry it's okay it's just mine don't worry let's have a dance party instead alright so
now i'm going to take sections this way and make anything that meets up to this guide
chop it off alright so I usually go through and just check it by pulling it up making
sure and she wants her sides to grow so we're not going to do too much with those this time
but of course originally on the haircut I pulled it out and up like that at an angle
so that it left length on the bottom and shorter on the top so that's where the angle for the
layers are if you wanted to make them more layered you could pull them out straight like
this way and chop into there but we wanted to leave some length so I might play with
them a little bit once we have it dry if they're too long anywhere that's the basic haircut
even though we just trimmed her you can still kind of see how you would shape out the rest
of it so you would take the sides and pull them up like this and point cut into them
all the way along here until you match up with the back on both sides and then the front
you would just if it's really long that you're going from to short you would take this up
like this and make sure that you blend in the front to this shorter spike back here
and then you would do the bangs and the fringe hopefully that makes sense if not maybe i'll
have to make another video cutting someone else's hair into the Kat cut shorter but we'll
see okay i'm going to blow dry this okay so I just blow dried this forward and then this
straight up and then this down and then you can go through and see if there's any spots
that are too long or are bugging you so this haircuts really fun you can style it all up
in like a fohawk with the sides down or you can pull everything forward and you can even
try to like lay it down and have it be really soft Like it spikey it has a lot of different
ways you can play with it because it has so much texture make sure if you're doing this
on someone that has really thick hair you will have to go through with a razor and thinning
shears and texture it out a lot you still can make it look like this you are just going
to have to do a lot more work but the most important thing with this haircut is to get
lots of really cute detail like this that you're going to be able to pull around the
face so that it keeps it soft and you can flat iron it but I think that the natural
wave in her hair is just really pretty so i'm not going to flat iron sorry about that
so this is my favorite product for hairstyles like this it's called enjoy dry wax and it
just looks like a really dull sticky paste and it's really hard to get out as soon as
it heats up a little bit it comes out a lot easier so you can blow dry it for a second
and then rub your hands on it or you can just rub your hands until it gets warm if you have
cold hands usually the blow drier helps out a little bit but you just kind of stick it
on your hands and you can texture out these little pieces around the face cute haircut
april does it feel good ? do you want me to change anything no it looks great you always
do great oh thanks you're just saying that no i'm not I only get stopped 25 times a week
okay hold on there's one spot in the back so back here you always want to make sure
you check your neck line before you send them off it just looks a little bit thick and bulky
there i'm just going to take it and shape it small adjustments don't be afraid to do
small adjustments on your clients before they leave it doesn't make you look like you don't
know what you're doing it just makes them happier then they don't have to call you and
say that something is bugging them alright thank you so much Kat cute!
thanks so much for watching everyone I hope that this video helped you with your cutting
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