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Hi everyone it's April with Hair 101 Today we're going to show you how to donate hair
for locks of love. and we're going to chop her hair from
very long all the way down to a pixie cut. Like an Anne Hathaway look
the rules for locks of love to donate. You have to have at least
ten inches of hair. It's okay if it's been colored or permed
but it can not be bleached.So if you have bleached your hair you would have to let that hair grow out
and be cut off before you can donate again So her hair is natural. she has not colored it or permed it.
So we are good. and you also have to have at least
10 inches. And if you have layers in the hair, the shortest layer
that they would be able to use would be 10 inches
so if you took a regular 10 inch comb
that would be how you could tell how long the hair is
she's probably got like 22 inches here
so we are good. and we are going to cut the top to about there.
she'll be able to use all of her hair which is awesome
but if you do have layers that are shorter than 10 inches you can still cut that hair off and donate it
they will just separate the hairs out that are too short
and keep the rest of it
for the kids that are losing their hair for medical reasons
what i'm going to do now. since we're doing
a pixie cut on her. We are going to divide the hair into 4 sections and put pony tails
and braids in each of those 4 sections. So like a "T"
on the head. And this will help
have more of a uniform length through all of it
now on the top sections you'll want to keep them
a little bit more towards the side. you don't want to do it right on the top of the head
because you want to have that length
on the top for the pixie cut still and just make sure you put
the elastics or the hair ties in really tight
I usually even braid the hair after that too.
so that it's a little bit easier
so bring it away from the head a little bit because you have to cut above that
once you get that. Measure it and make sure you have your 10 inches
and then you can braid it really quick
while it's on the head. Because it's a lot easier
to braid on the head than after you cut it
and then i'll stick a small elastic in the bottom of this. Now if you were going to cut it into an A-line shape
you would pull all the hair into the back of the head
and do a low pony tail in the back. But since she's doing a really short pixie
we are going to do 4
so keep that in mind if you're trying to do a little bit more length
to leave on your head. you would just do a low pony tail on the back
you would just do one big one
so i'm just going to do the rest of those sections and then we'll start
alright now we're going to cut all these off. this is really easy
just go a little bit above the elastic or the hair tie
and chop it off. easy as that. there we go
there's one.
there's two. you just chop through it
it's too big to do it in one big swipe
and then you're going to have a really funky haircut here.
so we are going to take these braids. and then if you go on the locks of love website
you can just print out a little donation form you don't have to have this
it's up to you. but it gives you some of the directions and makes it easier
you are supposed to put them in a ziplock bag
and seal it up. then you fill out your form
and then you stick it all in a padded envelope
it's 234 southern boulevard, west palms beach florida
and then.. sorry about that. then stick it all in there
and make sure you pay enough postage because it would be bad if it came back
and you had to do it again. make it easy on yourself and just do it right
and then now we're going to wash her hair and get it all wet
alright so now
that you have the main bulk of the haircut off
you have this awesome haircut that no one would ever want to wear
ever.. we're going to part it off
in 5 sections. we're going to start with the mohawk. and you go a little bit above where the head rolls.
and section that up
i'm going to "V" it down
i'll show you here. spin her around
we are going to make a "V" down in the back like this
and that will
help us leave a little more length back where her head starts to roll
there we go. so put that in a clip
and then we're going to take a section down from that "V"
right behind the ear
and if you don't want to use clips you can push the hair
like that. just to separate your sections out
it helps you to know where you're cutting
where you need to go next
okay now we have our 5 sections
there we go
we need to get the sides
i'm going to do the right front side first
now in this haircut there is a little bit of length
in the fringe around the face so i'm going to take a razor
and cut off whats left of this hair
and just kind of start at the ear back and angle it forward
so that we have a little bit more length on the front
you hold it up above your fingers and chop it out.
and that's going to keep it really soft
so you will not have any tough lines around her ears or her face
i'm picking up little pieces of hair
and texturing it out now. Make sure your razor is sharp
when you're doing short haircuts like this
and now i'm going to take it forward. and angle it
around her face the other way. I did this one this way. and this one this way
so she has that little point. then i'm going to go through
and chop out in the perimeter on that side also
ok i'm going to do the same thing on the other side
with the hair up start
right above the ear. be careful not to cut their ear off
then i'm going to pull it forward
now go down on this side you see how it
has a really soft edge to it. that's what the razor
will do for you.
so it's really important when you're going from really long hair to short hair that you get enough texture in there
otherwise you start looking like you have this big helmet of hair
because theres been so much hair
growing in from when it was long
okay so now that i have those two things done i'm going to take my scissors
and i'm going to graduate up
so you should have some sort of a guide
down here and i'm going to point cut in
and follow it up from that shorter piece.
underneath. try not to grab that top hair
that's better. so that will be the length for the sides
we're going to do the same thing over here
...... still a little bit longer on this side
alright then i'm going to go back through with my razor again
and pencil out a little bit of this
just to give it some nice texture
alright same thing with the back. i'm going to take my razor again
starting at the bottom and chop away at it
and then start right here
i'm going to connect these two sections so up here you pull it out
and you go down with it
this is a really fun thing i like to do. make sure they don't have any moles
that stick out. you can take the razor, if it has a guard on it
and go against their neck
lightly and then once again right here
then we're going to pull up this hair from the guide on the top
and take the razor and pull it down
alright so now we're going to grab our scissors again
and part that hair right down the middle and start with this section right here
and take small sections. about and inch. and pull them up
and i'm going to stick my had like this, right against her neck
this is going to give it a really pretty shape
so you put your fingers right against her head.
and you cut downward
a longer piece. there we go
and that's going to give you a good guide
and do that all the way across on that section
so this is mainly this section that we're doing. we're going to deal with this in a minute
so do that on the other side. take your first section up
and what this does. is it leaves that little bit of fringe that you razored out
down at the bottom so it's not chopping it off. if you were going like this
and then chopping up this way.. it would take off
the fringe that you had. so i always like to do
my necklines with pixie cuts like this. with my hand against their neck
and she has some long ones right there.
just take those off. and this is another reason why I like to use the razor. I can comb
those up and out of the way and i can take this along
and give it a really nice clean shave
everyone has a little bit of hair that grows downward. then that way it looks nice and clean
when you go back down
so now we're going to move back up into
this section of the back and i'm going to start right here
i'm going to connect this from the front side. back
so i'm going to start right here. and there's that guide
from this bottom section below. and i'm going to chop out with a point cut
okay other side
alright we are going to take the top section out and mess it up a little bit
okay so this is where we are going to have lots of fun with the texture because we need
little pieces of bangs out of the top of this hair to do the mini baby bangs
and if you do it really blunt on the top
it will look like a fuzzy helmet
you need to have tons of different lengths
like empty space and filled in space
so we are going to take the razor. it helps get that look. we are going to go around the fringe area
and we're going to slice some of this out
so you want to sweep it this way? Yes. okay because that's where it's going.
when it starts to look about the right length
you can take your scissors
and you go in like this an lightly with your scissors
and shape out a point
see how it has negative space here. you go in and do that
a lot of this is just looking at it
looking at where it doesn't look right and what needs to change
if it's a little too thick how are you going to thin it
are you going to use your thinning shears or the razor
the thinning shears will give it a more uniform thinnes the razor will give it
a missing whole spot
and same with the scissors when you use them this way
similar to what the razor is doing you have a little bit more control
there we go. so it's fun on the baby bangs like this to go a little bit shorter
where the point is that they would part it
and then have it a little bit longer
okay so that's the front area we are going to go through
and pull this all up.
we are going to leave a couple inches on the top we are going to thin it, razor it
it will get a little bit shorter looking but i'm going to take that front guide
piece that we just cut right there and i'm going to use that as a guide
for about how long to do the rest of it and i'm going to point cut into it
so that I have longer pieces in there too
grabbing all of the mohawk in that. now we'll take it around here
so right now when you pull this up
you should be able to see where your back
and where your front are going to meet so all that needs to happen
here is just chunk out that in between space
and it should match up
pretty close alright so now we're going to go back in
she has lots and lots of hair ha ha okay so now i'm going to take some of this out. here's the guide from the side
and here's the guide from the top so you can take smaller sections
there and it's a little bit more dramatic like that and then you chunk out
and then do the other side
you should be able to see the guide there and there take out the middle
alright so we need to texture now
i'm going to take my thinning shears and do some scissor over comb
i'm going to start on this right side
right above her ear and what you do is you lift
the hair with the comb make sure it's all up
and take the thinning shears
and chip into the ends as you move up
and then use the scissors down here to keep the hair lifted while you switch
and then you comb it back down
you lose all that fluffiness. because we don't like that
right???? unless you want to look fluffy
I don't think you do so we're just going to do that. roll through
on the sides
and it's so soft looking when you use these thinning shears
i've said it a lot i use these all the time
they are the 24-20 I don't know what brand they are
it doesn't really say you don't have to buy the nicest pair of these things.
they work pretty good just get whatever you can find that are
fine tapered
pay special attention to this area right here where the head starts to roll
because that's where it can start to look really like a shelf
there you go alright we are going to do this other side
lift with the thinning shears
there we go
take your scissors and chop those out okay right here
okay so the sides are looking good we are going to do that to the back now
we don't want a fluffy back
and there's always
everyone has so much hair right here so you are going to have to
play and play and play with that area
let see we have these
these are some other thinning shears
these are my crazy big chunker things
and you can play with these a little bit be careful with these because they do
take out big chunks of hair so make sure you do it on the very ends
where you want lots of texture but they are really fun for short hair
like this there we go thats fun
so you can see we have all this fun texture back here
she can spike it out she can lay it flat. and when she lays it flat
it looks smooth when she spikes it out it looks fun
not like a helmet and that's what you want to go for
alright so now the top we'll take our razor
and we'll go through the top with the razor
and then we'll do the thinning shears
this needs a lot of texture
thats what makes this work and look awesome
i'm going to take diagonal sections going the way her bangs are
so she's combing it this way i'm going to take diagonal sections like this
just pencil through like that on this section
so right here. look down and we'll pencil out
and texture just keep working back
on the top of the head all the way back
you are supposed to stand where you are working
so once you get back where you can't see
you can step to the back and do the same thing and take them this way
the i'm going to come on this side and do it this way
and i just changed my razor before i did this haircut so it is super sharp
and that's the best thing to do if you're going to do a cut like this make sure your razor is super sharp
but with that said when you change your razor be really careful
because it cuts a lot more hair than when it's dull
so if you're used to a dull razor when you switch it up just adjust your tension
and everything to the amount of chop you want to get
the hair should feel light
it shouldn't feel heavy right in here it still feels heavy
I'm going to take a little bit more i'm going to take the hair straight up like this
I'm going to use the razor
to knock it out. so it will pull it out of my fingers
now i'm going to take the thinning shears through this
I love it when the hair does this
this little rooster tail
it's so fun i just take my thinning shears
and just cut a little more if you see any long pieces
just go crazy on them
this is just a lot of looking where you think it looks thicker
and taking it and playing with it
alright let see So I think that we've gotten the basic look of what we want to do i'm going to blow dry this
and them i'm going to see if I need to do anything else
I always do that
when I do a cut I always blow dry then touch up
If I need to with the razor or thinning shears
okay so for stying it's so easy to do this because you just play with it
pomade makes or breaks a short haircut
so i have a dry wax here. this is enjoy dry wax and then I have the
redkin rewind
pomade. it's just a pliable paste i'm going to go through and dip my hands in
this is fun it makes spider webs. just put it through the hair
and it will make it
piecey. and then the dry wax pieces out
even just a little bit more and i just dig out a chunk of this stuff
it can be hard to get
and then I either emulsify it in my hands
to warm it up so it's more spreadable
or you can even blow dry the container a little bit if you want
and this stuff is nice because it stays dry looking
and you can piece out all of this texture stuff
and it helps
if you want to do more smooth look you can smooth it down
the pieces
and it's fun on the side
do you like that rooster tail yes. i do
you almost could do
a little mohawk with this too you could pull it up thanks for watching everyone. I hope you enjoyed our haircut
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if you find another place that does the same thing it is awesome to help sick kids
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