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00:00 This is Gina. I'm gonna keep her hair long. I'm just gonna show a different version
00:05 of the way to do a long layer.
00:09 So just starting off with a natural part that meets up with the top of the head
00:22 and comes down to a center parting to the back. Just showing the sectioning. I'm gonna
00:28 take vertical sections, work my way backwards, bring everything forward to my
00:33 cutting line. So taking a vertical section off of the kind of lighter side,
00:40 so not the heavy side where she parts her hair, but the opposite. Bringing
00:45 everything forward and just keeping my fingers kind of square to the floor and
00:54 I'm gonna create a guide. Now you can see there's a little bit of a gap in the
01:00 hairline there, so I just have to kind of visualize that and bring it through.
01:06 That'll strengthen up as we kind of work our way backwards. So really what's gonna
01:15 happen is we're gonna create kind of a short to long effect. So shorter in the
01:20 front, longer in the back, but still quite long. So section two, same thing. Just
01:28 bring everything forward. So section one is my guide. Section two gets pulled all
01:37 the way to section one and we just create that connection. So if you want to get
01:44 technical, it's actually graduation because we're keeping our elevation
01:49 really low. But I feel like once you get into the lengths that you are with this,
01:57 things kind of get a little bit blurry.
02:01 Graduation doesn't really like sit up on the head at this length. So section three,
02:09 just pull all the way forward to section one. So I'm just adding more hair each
02:13 time that I take a section. So what I'm showing there is that once I get to the
02:27 length behind the ear, that I'm gonna skip the guide. So what I'm doing is just
02:35 preserving more length through the back. I just wanted there to be a
02:40 disconnection so that way the hair had a little bit more swing and it didn't
02:45 just sit so fluid as it worked back. So there's two guides. So there's a
02:50 guideline that we create from the front hairline to the top of the ear and then
02:55 a guideline that we create from the top of the ear to the back. But you'll notice
02:59 that everything still comes all the way forward. You can see it every time I go
03:04 past it how I skipped that guide. So it just gives it a completely different
03:13 look. If you wanted to skip again you could. If you didn't want to skip at all
03:19 that would be an option as well. I just wanted to preserve the length through
03:23 the back and I feel like this gives you just a little bit more options when it
03:28 comes to styling. The hair already kind of drops and gets longer into the back
03:33 anyway based upon the hairline. So you're really just kind of exaggerating that
03:38 change. So just pulling everything forward connecting to that guideline
03:48 taking that little bit of hair off the back. So there you can get a visual. You
03:56 get the short length in the front to the length in the back.
04:03 So side two same thing. Pulling everything forward connecting side two
04:20 with side one via the length from the first side. So here we are section two
04:27 coming all the way to section one. Just working my way down keeping my fingers
04:31 vertical. Really letting the over direction dictate the shape of the
04:38 haircut. Section three pull all the way to section one. The process is exactly
04:49 the same. Keeping everything consistent. Keeping the hair consistently damp. My
04:57 section size is the same every time. It's just a mirror opposite of the other side.
05:05 So here we've gotten to the top of the ear. So now we've skipped the guide and
05:12 just created a new guideline. You can see that where I've skipped. Now just
05:23 bringing everything to the new guideline as I work my way backwards.
05:28 [silence]
05:56 So as I work around to the back you can see how far the over direction is. Just
06:02 pulling everything all the way forward from the very back all the way to the
06:10 front.
06:12 [silence]
06:29 So there's the kind of visual from the other side. So shorten the front as it
06:35 gets longer to the back. Now just working off that natural parting. Really kind of
06:40 releasing some of the texture. Just seeing what the hair is going to react
06:44 to the way that we cut it. So using a little bit of the pre-based smoothing
06:49 solution. Just working it through the ends to give it some hydration. It'll
06:56 help with the blow-dry. It'll just assist in keeping my blow-dry time efficient.
07:00 Really seals the cuticle down on the hair. Gives a nice shine to the blow-dry.
07:07 So just using a vest brush and just working through and doing a flat wrap
07:12 technique. So I want to keep everything really small to the head. I don't want to
07:16 add a lot of volume. I'm not round brushing or anything like that. I really
07:19 want the haircut to do the talking. So just blow-drying everything down using
07:25 the head shape as a natural way to kind of put some bend in the hair. Blowing the
07:29 hair back off the face. Just really moving the root around so it doesn't lay
07:34 flat to the head. Blow-drying like this helps to give a nice swing to the hair.
07:49 Especially with working with long hair. It doesn't keep it in one spot. I feel
07:53 like if you use a round brush too much on long hair then it just kind of looks
07:57 very done. And that's not the thing that we're going for. So after I've kind of
08:02 gone through and wrapped it. Now going through and just blow-drying the hair.
08:05 Getting the last little bit of moisture out. Just moving it around kind of seeing
08:09 how it's going to look. So with the refinement here just elevating the hair
08:14 up. So kind of the opposite direction of the way that we did the original cut. And
08:18 then just point cutting into the edges. I just want to kind of soften a little
08:22 bit through the interior. Not really changing too much. Then going in and do a
08:29 little bit of slide cutting. I really like this technique on long hair.
08:32 Especially like a loose longer look.
08:36 Very visual. Just a way to accentuate the technique that we did. Also blur some of
08:51 the edges from the disconnections that we use from the front to the back. So
08:57 just sliding down. Not being very aggressive. Not changing up the way that
09:00 the technique works. Just adding a little bit of a layer through the top and
09:05 through the interior.
09:08 Using some of the finishing hairspray. Just want to give it a nice light hold.
09:22 Nothing too stiff and rigid. Just kind of adds a little bit of texture into the
09:28 hair.
09:30 You know to me it's just a more fun way to kind of do a long look. I don't think
09:40 you have to just do the same thing every time just because it's long hair. I think
09:44 we have options and I think this is a good one that fits her.
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