DIY Layered Haircut

Yep….you just read that right…DIY haircut….as in I cut my own hair!
It really wasn’t that hard, and it was super quick. I have seen tutorials around the web where you basically pull all of your hair straight up and chop off a few inches in one straight line leaving you with a long layered hair cut.

I also found this video on YouTube where she pulled it into a ponytail, chopped some off and voila…same effect.

I’ve actually done this in the past when my hair was shorter and it worked just fine. Now my hair is down past my bra in the middle of my back and it is stick straight. It has no body what so ever, and the weight of all that length was making it be so dull and lifeless.  Curls wouldn’t last, they would just fall out. I knew something had to be done, and simple long layers would not be the solution. I created a variation of the ponytail hair cut, and here is what you need to do it.

• Hair cutting scissors
• Brush
• Ponytail holder
• Mirror

Basically I cut my hair in sections pulling each section up in a ponytail on the top of my head. This diagram will help you out.

I started by pulling everything up into a ponytail, brushing it straight up and then cutting 1.5-2 inches.
Then I created a section from about the middle of the ear up, pulled it up into a ponytail and left what was basically zone 4 down. I chopped off about another 1.5-2 inches.
I continued on going from about the temple up, leaving zone 3&4 down and cutting 1.5-2 inches off the ponytail.
For zone 1 I actually pulled up a 1 inch section surrounding my center part, leaving zones 2,3&4 down, and cutting 1.5-2 inches off of the tiny zone 1.
By the time I finished I pretty much taken 6-8 inches off of zone 1.
Here is the result with a bit of curl from the curling iron this morning:

It’s still a bit flatter than most peoples hair, but if you saw what it looked like to begin with you would see that this is an improvement.

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