Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from FreeSelonEducation.com and I'm so excited to show you guys something cool that I've actually been doing as I call here for about 10 years now and this is the technique that I use. A lot of people have been asking me about it. We've done about 68 videos now for you guys. So you know it's a question that's come up a lot and I said that I would show you guys on video if we had 3,000 subscribers on YouTube. Well it turns out we hit 3,300 today. So I'm really excited. I want to show you guys how I how I use my scissors to cut hair. I didn't want to do it right away when you guys were asking because I don't think it's the most important thing in hair cutting. So definitely watch our other videos and master the technique of body position, hand position, creating different weight, creating structure within a haircut. But you know this got to have some fun too. So let me just show you a couple things. A couple things I like to work on when I'm cutting hair is cutting with just the one blade. So if you want to look professional cutting hair then you just want that one blade to move. So if I'm cutting on top of my hands this blade moves and I just work my way through. A good way to practice this is to take your scissors. I put my ring finger in. My pinky pushes down on the little pinky tab here and then I push my other fingers in. So you want to make sure that the scissors is nice and tight before you even put your thumb into the scissors. Your thumb should not be holding grip on the scissors when you go to cut hair. So this keeps it sturdy. Then all I do is flip my hand around, add my thumb in and then I can work it up and down this way. Once you got that motion down it will become a very natural feel for you when you're holding your scissors. The other thing is how comfortable you are with your comb. So here's a little exercise I like to do to work both in my hands. So when I take the scissors I've got it so I can cut correctly. So no matter what I'm just moving that one blade. So once you have that down then what I'm going to do is I'm going to palm my scissors. A little funny story with this when I was first in beauty school I saw someone do this on stage at a hair show and I thought it looked cool so I went back to beauty school and started practicing. Well what they were doing and what most hairdressers are going to do that you see is they take their scissors and they toss it back into their hand, catch it with your pinky and hold on to it. Then they grab their comb and they comb through the hair. What then what they do is they push it back up into their hand this way. So they toss it back into their pinky, grab it, comb the hair then they pull it back up and cut. What I thought they were doing was tossing it back into the pinky and then swinging it back around and cutting. So there's just a little bit different motion from this which I can't really do that well. So we push it back and then we put it back in our hand this way and what I do is put it back into my pinky and then kick it out this way. So the unfortunate thing about that is sometimes your scissors fly open so you got to get good with it but what I'm doing is just putting it back in my pinky, releasing my pinky and swinging the scissors back around into my hand. So we're going to show that a little bit slower motion on the video. So then once you put all that together the exercise that I like to do is comb but the scissors in your hand cut, comb but the scissors in your hand cut and just work that so that you get quick with this motion so that this becomes one with your hands so that you don't have to worry whether you're point cutting, cutting on top of your hand or cutting palm to palm no matter what your scissors is always working back and forth. So I hope that got helps you guys. If you have any other questions please leave your comments. We'll definitely be able to answer them. Follow us, subscribe, hit the subscribe button. FreeSlineEducation.com has all kinds of free education for you guys including cool little tricks on your scissors, dry cutting, razor cutting, color styling, everything. So please follow us on there. Make sure you sign up for our email list and thank you guys for watching and subscribing to our channel and good luck with your scissors technique.