What's up guys welcome to today's video today. We're going to be cutting a square layered haircuts It's going to be super fun I'm going to walk you guys through it step by step So if you have any questions post those in the comments below Sectioning is pretty simple. It's a basic four quadrant. So we go right down the center down center back And then we split it at the division point right behind the ear and then I start by taking my sections vertical in the back From occipital bone down and I pull that straight out from the head now the goal with cutting a square Shape is to make sure that everything comes directly out And you work with the traveling guide across So even though we're cutting vertical when I look at this line horizontal that I'm creating when I get done cutting the back of this head I'll see a nice horizontal square balanced line in the back of the head. So just bringing everything through I'll take about a half inch section pull that in. I'll take half of the hair that I cut previously as a guideline So you'll see it coming through there. You can see that line right around my fingers And then I bring the new hair to it and I cut it then I grab a little bit of that old hair a little bit of new hair and then keep bringing it out now When I get behind the ear this is where You want to make sure to keep this square you don't want to round off the corner You'll see how I'm showing that there you don't want to round the corner you want to bring everything straight back Pretend like you're in a box like you couldn't go over any further Just bring it straight back and cut it now. I'm gonna do the same thing on the opposite side You'll notice now my fingers are pointing up towards the sky what that does it allows me To comb the hair towards the guideline. So I shift my hand position So now I'm scooping the hair pulling the new hair towards the guide So I'll grab make sure you get a clean guide in there pulling it out straight Cutting the line Okay Okay, now you take a look at it horizontally you see that nice balance line happening in the back That's how you cross check it. So if you cut it vertically check it horizontally If you cut it diagonal forward you would check it diagonal back Just do the opposite of whatever you did the cross check it make sure your shape looks right now It take a little bit more hair Notice I didn't go all the way up the section. I'm gonna cut that a little bit different head the head shape curve Up in a way. So what I do is I just take a little bit at a time This is coming straight back staying in that square fashion But I just pull everything straight back to me and cut it use that traveling guide as I round that corner Still bringing everything back to my body and cutting it You Okay, now I'm going to move to the opposite side. So I'm going to cut this section in half. You'll see right at the crown area where the head starts to round up. I section that off, clip it away. And I'm going to work the top crown area a little bit different than I work this side section. So just be aware of that. So let me finish off this mid section here and just keep cutting that square line, working a traveling guide all the way over to behind the ear. All right guys, so as I finish up that side, now what I'm going to do is I'm going to work into the top crown area. That's still going to continue to be a traveling guide, but notice my elevation is much higher as I work into the crown because of the way the head curves up and over. So what I'm really doing is mimicking a 90 degrees straight out from the head shape, but still continuing to over direct it straight back parallel creating that horizontal line and keeping this haircut nice and balanced. So really it's straight up from the head until I get to that side area, which I'll do on this side as well. So I work my way across traveling, so grabbing a little bit of the old, bringing it to the new just so that I keep that guide consistent. And I work my way across the head. And then when I get right behind the ear, that's getting over directed straight back to me to keep it in that square box in the back. So see how I'm not over directing into the center. It's just straight off to the head straight back. All right, so now we're going to move into the side of the head. We're going to break this into two parts. So we're going to have a top and a bottom. I'm going to cut it at the pridele ridge right here. And then I'm going to section that top part away and we will work on that later. Our horizontal line is now going to shift. So our fingers should be parallel to that parting. We cut our baseline and now I'm going to elevate everything so we cut our line and then we layer it from that line up. So we're just creating layers following that horizontal line on the side of the head and just working our way all the way through to the edge. All right. So now I'll check that horizontally so we should see a nice straight line when we pull it out. Now we're going to work around the head shape but still continuing traveling guide all the way across the top of the head. I had somebody bring up the question the other day about traveling guides and if you're pulling the guide, pulling the hair to a guideline, then is it actually traveling? For me, I'm grabbing half of the guide and I'm pulling the new hair back to that. Then I grab half of that guide. That creates a traveling guide throughout the top. If I was pulling it back to that exact section that I cut, then that would be a stationary guide. So it's really important to understand the difference between the two. If you want to travel across the head and you want to have a guideline, you want to have a straight line, a balanced line, you need to grab just a tiny bit of it to use it as a guide and then grab your new hair. You don't want to grab too much new hair and then that'll create over direction and that will mess up the shape in the end result. So I did the same thing on the left side as I did on the right and now we're going to do the same thing on the top as we did before as well. I'm just going to continue across but now this is a great view of it allowing you to see how I travel, so how I take a new hair and then I cut some of that old and I bring it up to that point. And I just continue that all the way across the top of the head to create that nice balanced square effect. All right, so now I just check the balance in the front and we are ready to move on styling. The first product I'm choosing is Joyco DeFi Damage Protective Shield. This guards against any thermal and UV damage and then my second product choice is joyful volumizing styler. This is going to plump up the hair, make it nice and thick. It's a gel and cream hybrid which I love and it also doesn't feel sticky in the hair. So that's one of my number one things when I look at volumizing products, I don't want them to be sticky. So work the hair flat wrap motion and then I go through and I iron it even though I want volume in this haircut doesn't mean I need it to be big, right? So I wanted to plump up the hair, make it nice and full, but then I'm still smoothing it out because I wanted to assess it. I want you guys to see the shape. I want you to see how it works. And I do a little bit of slide cutting with my scissor as well. Remember, you guys are looking for tools. Check out free salon education.com, our online shop for scissors, com's clips, all of that. Last product I'm putting in is Joyco K-Pack Protect and Shine Serum. Really nice light weight shine serum. You can see how much shine is in the hair. Then we finished it off with a little bit of joy mist, medium hold hair spray. To give us our final result. All right, guys. So this is the deal. This is a basic haircut. This is a balanced haircut. Very fundamental. Take all the other videos you've ever watched on free salon education. Make sure you subscribe. You can use those other tools that we teach you to create an even more customized haircut for your clients. But I hope you guys enjoyed this video. 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