Vertical Short Layer Technique 90 degree haircut

🍃Create a center part

🍃Create basic sections 5 & 6, all the hair above the parietal ridge should be isolated

Create a Guide

🍃Start on the clients right side of the head

🍃Apply a 1/2" to 1" subsection

🍃Use fine teeth of comb to position the hair T to the section

🍃Use fingers to hold the hair at 90 degrees, T to the section, hold with medium and even tension

Cut the Hair

🍃Use primary scissor position

🍃Cut the length you want to use as a guide

🍃As you cut, your scissors and fingers holding the hair are parallel to the parting

🍃Cut from top to bottom if right handed and bottom to top if your left-handed

Layer Hair Below 5 & 6

🍃Comb the guide down to check how it falls, adjust as necessary

🍃Pickup some of the guide and then then the next 1/2" to 1" vertical subsections, parallel to the first

🍃Hold the subsections at 90 degrees and cut the guide

🍃Continue cutting vertical subsections until you reach the enter of the back

🍃Repeat cutting vertical layers at 90degrees on the left side

🍃Use horizontal subsections to cross check the cut, paying particular attention to the center back area to ensure that the connection of the right to the left side is even

Connection

🍃The rest of the cut is identical to the diagonal cut

🍃Create a safety section and cut the front perimeter to the desired length

🍃Connect the uncut hair to the cut hair

🍃Layer the top

🍃Clean up the perimeter

🍃Cross check using horizontal subsections