How to Create Volume in 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. The next type of technique that we'll do is a technique called back cutting. What we'll do here is actually use a horizontal piece or a horizontal section of hair. This particular technique actually creates a lot of weight in the hair and a lot of movement as far as volume is concerned. For those clients that are looking for a lot of volume, this is a great technique to use. We'll take our section that will be about an inch and a half section. Again that's horizontal because we do want to create some weight and some fullness. We'll use our shear but typically with this, we don't want to close down. We're still kind of talking but as we move towards the scalp, we're gradually closing the blade of the shear but not all the way to the scalp and not all the way closed. I'll do this is slow motion so you that you can see what the effect will be and we'll work all the way through the hair shaft. Notice that I'm kind of talking my shear through, at the same time I'm not slide cutting. It's almost a teasing motion that I would be using here like as if we were teasing the hair with a comb. Now you'll have short and long pieces in there and that's okay because what that will give us is a lot of volume and a lot of movement underneath, almost like a support structure in the hair shaft. Once you've had some practice at this, you move at a faster pace because you want to work through the hair very, very quickly. We can also weave out hair with the bottom blade so that we're not taking all of that hair and now we'll just talk the hair, again, I'm not pushing the blade, I'm talking the blade through so I'm not creating a slide cutting type of effect. The layers blend in very nicely and that gives us more support underneath so that we can get a good amount of volume. This technique would only want to be used in the top of the head although we could use it around the middle section of the hair to give us some more movement and some more volume as well."