Hey guys!
It's Grace
Today I'm going to be showing you how I cut
and blend my hair extensions
I have the Irresistible Me Volume Vixen 20"
extensions
those are really really cool if you like really
really dramatic long kind of mermaid looking
hair but that's not really my thing
I prefer a little more natural looking extensions
that are primarily for volume so almost every
set of clip-in extensions that I've ever bought
or gotten I have cut to suit my hair a little
bit better
my rule of thumb when it comes to extensions
is however you're going to modify them always
work as though it's your real hair so just
think of it as being an extension of what
your real hair looks like
so I cut my extensions in the same sort of
pattern as my regular haircut so I have long
kind of layers I don't have crazy layers but
my hair is not completely blunt cut so I did
have to cut the front a little bit shorter
than the rest and so on
I'll explain everything I do as I go and I've
been wearing hair extensions for years, since
high school so I've really learned a lot of
tips and tricks that I want to share with
you just kind of some DOs and DONTs on cutting
your own hair extensions
I hope you guys find this helpful and I hope
you enjoy the video
Let's just get started!
So I cut and dyed my extensions on the same
day and I made a video on doing both but that
explains the t-shirt I like to wear a t-shirt
I don't care about when I'm cutting and dyeing
my extensions
you're just going to need a pair of haircutting
scissors, a flat iron and a hair brush
so you want to make sure that you've brushed
through your extensions fully before you get
started on cutting them just so that you know
that it's detangled and even
next you just want to determine how long your
natural hair is relative to the extensions
mine comes up to about here and I think I
want to cut my extensions to about here
this is just a basic first chop I'm going
to go back and even everything out
as you can see I like to move the scissors
in sort of a downward motion rather than just
cutting straight across
it just helps give it a little bit more of
a natural effect and will make it easier to
even out later on
now I'm just going to do the same thing on
the other side
so my hair is a little bit angled which means
that the front pieces are kind of gradually
shorter than the back pieces so I'm going
to make my hair extensions mimic that same
effect
I'm just clipping my hair out of the way so
that none of it gets caught up and cut with
my extensions
as you can see I'm just angling it and this
looks a little more natural, gives me some
long layers instead of being a completely
blunt cut
now something I've noticed
it's a little bit difficult to cut your non-dominant
side so I'm a rightie so it's easier for me
to cut the left side
what I like to do is actually close my hair
extensions into a drawer which might seem
a little silly but it's actually really effective
I found this is the easiest way for me to
cut them because they're being held in place
and are able to fall the way they naturally
fall but they're not gonna move or shift
so just make sure they're nice and sturdy
in the drawer and now I'm just going to angle
the other side and this is just the top piece
I have them both hanging here so that I can
compare them and make sure that they are even
so this is just the next to top 3 clip piece
and as you can see there is just sort of some
uneven areas from when I did the big cut so
I'm just trimming these and making it all
even
I like to cut up into my extensions just because
it gives it a little bit more of a natural
look
so I did this with every single piece but
I figured there was no reason to show all
of them
that's just you do the same thing with every
piece
and this is how it turned out
now when you put your hair extensions back
into your hair you just want to double check
that you didn't miss any pieces
that nothing looks strange
I noticed when I put mine back in that the
bottom piece looked a little bit too long
but I realized that that was just because
I had it put in at a weird angle so I just
fixed that
you don't want to go ahead and make any big
decisions like cut anything if it might just
be that your extensions are clipped in the
wrong place you know so you want to always
just make sure they are clipped in the right
place and that if anything looks really astray
then you can go back in and trim it
yeah this is how it turned out
I think it looks really good and natural
it blends in really well with my natural haircut
with the long layers and I'm really happy
with how it turned out
I hope you guys found this helpful and let
me know what kind of videos you want to see
next from me
