Sectioning Tips for Women's Hairstyles

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris Faircloth, Artistic Director and co-owner of Salon Teez. For Expert Village, this is how to trim women's hair. I sectioned the hair off into three different sections that we'll actually be using when trimming the hair, or the type of sectioning that we'll be using when trimming the hair. The first section is a vertical section. This section goes from the top to the bottom and is combed out in a vertical manner. This allows us to create a sense of elongation or length in the hair when trimming or cutting hair. This hair section looks like this where it's from the top to the bottom and gives us some length so once we cut the hair off here, as we drop that it tends to give us more length in the hair, or sense of elongation. Think of a Jennifer Anniston type of haircut when using that type of section. The next section is more of a horizontal type section. This section is a lot of times what you see stylists using mostly in the salon. It's combed straight out from the head but this section is actually wider horizontally than it is vertically so that by cutting the hair this way, this actually gives us more of a weight building or adding weight to the hair as the hair falls. When cutting hair like this, you'll typically think of a typical bob or that type of haircut where a lot of the weight is down at the perimeter of the hair. The third type of section that we'll be using is actually a diagonal section. Diagonal is basically going from one point of the head to the other point of the head but on a diagonal surface so it's not horizontal nor is it vertical, it's in between, it would intersect the two. By creating this type of sectioning in cutting on a round surface as most heads are round, it gives us a sense of more roundness to the hair. When we cut we want to make sure that our finger angle is in position with our diagonal. If we cut it on more of a horizontal or more of a vertical, then we still create elongation but with some roundness. If we cut it on a horizontal, we still get some roundness going on but it gives us more of a sense of a long to short type of effect. This type of sectioning actually creates more roundness in the head and think of more of a Dorothy Hammill type of haircut when using this type of sectioning."