How to Blunt Cut the Back for Women's Hairstyles

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Chris Faircloth, Artistic Director and c-owner of Salon Teez. For Expert Village, this is how to trim women's hair. We'll be using a horizontal type of sectioning for this. Just from the top of the ear or about the middle of the ear, I'll create a straight, just coming straight across and this gives us our horizontal section. Notice my finger angle is more in a horizontal position. It mirrors the section that I just took. And now I'll be using a palm to palm cutting method. The reason I want to do this is it keeps my thumb just slightly in the thumb hole and it allows me not to bend my wrist so that my wrist becomes unstable or my thumb fits all the way into the thumb hole creating more of a quacky motion. So by cutting palm to palm, I'm able just to cut the blade that I need to use. Cutting palm to palm, my cutting blade is actually on top, using very little tension and just slightly trimming the hair off. Now we've got a nice clean blunt line. Move over to the next section and mirror the line that I created on the right side for the left side. It's important that my body position is in front of the hair that I'm actually cutting. Standing to the left or standing to the right might actually increase my finger angle or give me more of a short to long or a long to short type of effect. I don't need to take that whole piece so what I'll do is actually subsection that section so that I can see where my guide is and line that up. My guide will actually slip just slightly through my fingers and I'll be able to cut the hair on the left side. Since I'm right handed and I work right to left, I'll go back to the right side and create another horizontal line, sub sectioning my right back section. If you're a left hander, you may want to start on the left side as it's probably easier to work left to right for you guys. Place my comb in the side of the head or the side back of the head and see where the comb starts to come off of the head for me. There I'll visually see where I need to create my next section and just slightly place my comb in and bring that over so that I create my horizontal line here as well. I can lift the hair up and see that my guide of the previously cut hair is right underneath that. I want to have that just slip slightly into my fingers and now cutting palm to palm again, cut the hair that hangs down. Because the top section is just a little bit smaller than the two sections that we had in the back of the head, I can just completely drop this section down and comb the hair in its natural fall. This hair won't necessarily come all the way to the back so just comb it in its natural fall. This way it prevents any short to long or long to short. Again, I see where my guide is, I simply let that slip between my fingers and that would totally cut the back and just trim it where we have a nice hard edge or nice hard perimeter line, blunt line for the back of the head."