Hi everyone it's April with Hair 101 today we are going to do a bob haircut it's just
a really simple cut it's straight across and i'm going to show you a couple techniques
that make this haircut look a little bit more polished and better so you're going to wash
the hair comb it out make sure it's tangle free and then i'm going to part the very front
of her part where she usually does it Ellie do you part on this side or this side?
Usually that side this side okay so this is a little trick when you're trying to find
someones part comb the hair straight back and then you just take your hand and push
it forward and it usually splits right where they usually part it the hair is trained to
go those separate ways so go ahead and part the hair where they wear it and then you're
going to make sure there is no hair stuff right underneath the ear right here so make
sure you comb that nice and straight no you need to be aware of the ear being there because
if you just comb straight down and like catch the ear with the comb you're going to hurt
them it's going to scratch their ears a little bit so I usually go into the ear and then
pull it out like that and then even hook the comb around the ear a little bit just to get
that little bit of hair that usually sticks along the ear right there and pull that out
so once you make sure that you have both of the sides really nice and straight and combed
out so now i'm going to go back from this part and i'm going to center it up so that
while i'm cutting the back section i'm at a center part and so that's what that looks
like it just takes a curve back to center and then i'm going to go ahead and part the
hair down the middle in the back the reason why I part the hair up here right now I don't
want to forget about it later on of course and when you're doing this haircut if you
don't cut the hair where they're going to be wearing it you will if they flip that over
you'll have a little bit longer piece so if they're going to be wearing it down the middle
also if they switch their part up and do both sides right down the middle you're going to
have to cut he down the middle and that way they can do any of them but she always I know
her pretty well and she always wears her hair at that part so go ahead and look down there
you go in the back after you have that straight back parting you're going to take just below
the curve of the head you're going to take two more partings and these are going to be
pretty straight but just a slight angle forward so the reason why I do that is because I like
bobs that are just a tiny bit longer in the front it's not really an aline because you
don't have any graduation but if you have a haircut cut straight like this and then
you look up a little bit it looks like it's shorter and then longer in the back and I
personally just don't really love that so I always do it just a little bit of a graduation
towards the front so when they look straight the line still looks straight and not like
like this the line will look straight so we're pushing the hair against her neck to get it
nice and flush against her head and then her head is tilted forward so you have this nice
area to work on and i'm going to just cut a guide point right here decide how short
you want it you definitely are not going to want to cut the hair shorter than where it
naturally grows you can do it right at that line if they want a nice short bob but i am
doing hers just like an inch below where it naturally grows out of her head so
and if your shears have been dropped you might have like a little burr on the edges of your
scissors and if it's catching on their skin then don't do it this way but you're going
to have to get your shears sharpened but you're not going to want to scratch them so this
should feel really smooth it shouldn't be cutting them at all or scratching them if
it is you're going to have to pick it up with your fingers like this and that's going to
take out some of the it's going to give you a little bit of a graduation and that's not
really what we want we want this to be really nice and blunt so hopefully you don't have
to do that so now this piece i'm not cutting it all the way over hear where it would naturally
fall i'm pulling it just a tiny bit over just a little bit and that's going to be what gives
us the little bit of length in the front now what this does when you're pushing the
hair down and cutting it right against their skin it undercuts it just a little bit so
it's going to naturally roll under her hair is not going to have to be round brushed and
it's really great for little girls because we don't have time to round brush our little
girls hair every single day before they go to school and so it's nice if you can get
a haircut that just dries that way that's ideal but of course we can't all have that
so she's just a lucky girl i'm going to come in on this side i'm moving where i'm cutting
and i'm flipping my hand this way so you can see that i'm over directing it just like I
did on this side just slightly but still following the same guideline okay now you're going to
want to check make sure that the length is the same and the way I do this is I find the
bones on their head and then I pull it straight and I can compare and see if one side was
a little bit longer I can just go in and adjust you're just pulling it straight down and this
does matter because we're going to start following this line all the way to the front of her
head if it's already uneven right now it's just going to magnify that further on as you
go so make sure that that's right then you're ready to take down your next section i'm going
to do an inch i'm making it parallel to the last parting so it's just slightly forward
and I don't really need to use clips for hers you are free to do that if you want go ahead
you clips but for her I can just comb it the opposite way and it's staying fine i'm going
to ditch the clips just for time sake whenever you do that make sure that you comb the hair
opposite of what you're doing so that you can see the parting lines because that's usually
helping you establish where you're cutting okay and we're just going to do the same thing
you can see the guide through you're just following that line that you already had established
all the way around and when this haircuts dry we're going to
go through and give it a little bit of texture into the ends because it's very very blunt
you don't have to do that you'll just have to see when it's dry if you like it but I
usually do go through and clean up any of these little hairs when it's dry especially
around the neck it can dry funny and the swirls have a mind of their own i'm changing positions
over here i'm cutting this way so the combing in this haircut is very important because
if you way over combed it like this and cut it you're going to mess up that line that
you have so try to remember where it was and i'm doing this and flipping my hand this
way just because this way I was cutting the hair pushing it this way and and now I want
to be doing it this way if I cut the hair this way and then cut the hair that way too
sometimes it can push it all this way and then you'll have like a longer and a shorter
side because it's over directing the hair more than it would be if you cut it the same
direction you were cutting the other side at so something to think about and it's really
not hard to just bring your hand like this you're not twisting your wrist more than you
would it should be pretty comfortable just to flip your hand that way and sometimes I
get down eye level with it and check it out alright we're going to take another section
back once you get up to the top of the head you don't need to pull the sections back any
more you can start doing them on the sides this is going to be our last section right
at the top of her head and we're just going to cut along that guide alright so we're going
to do the front side now you can just look straight there you go so at this point you
want them to be looking straight or even slightly chin up so that you can see where the hair
is going to fall and it should all be at the natural fall so anything past this bone should
be able to come back here and if you see anything longer than your guide go ahead and cut that
off now okay go ahead and look down one more time there are just a couple stray hairs grab
those so now we're going to go to the side over here and i'm going to tilt her head slightly
this way and now i'm going to use my fingers and i'm going to part the hair right where
that ear is and then i'm going to push this hair behind so that I can have it at the zero
elevation cut that piece off okay tilt just a little bit no like that there you go and
then i'm going to make sure that there is no hair stuck behind the ear comb it straight
down and like I said I'm doing a slightly forward slightly angled like this and it's
make sense once we dry this and you should be following your guide and notice that i'm
also pulling the hair like this where she's actually going to be wearing it i'm not following
it all the way around her face that will keep it shorter and we don't want to get it short
right there we want to keep a little bit of the length around her face to frame her face
so i'm pulling this hair along the hairline like this and then cutting it off and if the
hair is too thick you can do this in a couple sections hers it's fine I can see my guide
and i'm comfortable with cutting that amount of hair so it's okay and then roll it around
if you see any long little pieces you can grab those so now we're going to do this side
and you're going to tilt your head just a little bit like this there you go and part
it down so that this can be straight down without having to worry about that ear follow
that guide slightly angling it forward
directing it back to the guide alright last thing you want to do is just check and make
sure that your sides are even make sure they're sitting straight their legs aren't crossed
and I like to do a little check for their shoulders right here too I like to look straight
in at them so just the angle that you have and get my head right level with their chins
so that I can see and just check and make sure that one side is not sitting on the shoulder
and the other one is raised off it gives you a little bit better of a reference to see
it looks alright so we're going to go ahead and dry it up oh wait really quick you wanted
bangs huh you want them straight forward or do you want to have them swooshed to the side
kind of swooshed to the side swish it to the side that sounds good to me so there are a
couple ways to do this i'm going to cut her bangs with a razor because I don't want them
super blunt because I know how hard it is to grow out super blunt bangs on little girls
and they change their minds a lot so that's how i'm doing it i'm just going to take the
razor in here start it right above her eye and just blend it down and slowly move my
fingers down because i'm going for a little bit more length and that's a really soft blended
way to do it so you don't have any big choppy marks and now we're going to dry it up while
we're blow drying this front part if you have a swoopy bang you always want to hold the
blow dryer like this and direct it this way and that will just help you have that flowing
sweeping look so one really quick tip about blowdrying even
if you're going to round brush it it's best to blow dry the hair until it's at a point
to where it's almost dry on it's own and then you go back in with your round brush and you
can heat up the round brush and let it cool into the shape that you want but if you start
with sopping wet hair and try to round brush it's going to take you forever and it's just
not necessary this is strumming the hair and blowdrying it in the direction that the hair
grows and that will help fill down the cuticle and then you go back in and round brush also
when i'm blowdrying I don't use clips you'll notice that in my other videos I get the hair
pretty dry and then I just have them look forward to do the back and comb the hair like
this up and then i'll use the back so just watch and see how I do it I don't use clips
okay i'm crazy like that now i'm going to teach you how to make money grow on trees
first you i'm just going to check her bangs we can do a little bit heavier on the bangs
here so and now that it's dry i'm going to use my shears because I don't want to hurt
her the razor could be a little bit snaggy that's better she just needed a little bit
more and she has a little bit of a cowlick in there so it's nice to do a little bit thicker
to cover that up and if you wanted to cut some texture into this it'd be really easy
to just go through with the shears and you could just lift it up a little bit and deep
point cut into some of the ends if you have any spots that you want a little bit more
texture in just a little bit right here as soon as the texture and the lines look where
you want them and look like what you want them to look like you are done and your client
is ready to go alright thanks guys thanks for watching I hope that this helped you guys
in some of your basic cuts and let me know if you guys have any more requests and i'm
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