Hair cuts: How To Cut Freehand

Hi, my name is Nick Davis from Simplicity Remastered, and I'm here to show you the five basic cutting techniques. The next technique I am going to show you is freehand. Freehand is a way of cutting the hair without using the comb to actually pick the hair up.

So it is very much about looking at the hair and removing small quantities of hair using your scissors, in a very free and loose technique. You can do a complete haircut using freehand technique. But as I said before, it's a very very advanced technique, because you must understand the structure and form of the finished haircut.

There are four basics ways of using your scissors. The first way is to blunt cut. This is when you lift up the hair, and you cut completely, bluntly, and aligned.

The next way is to point. The pointing is literally no more than a centimeter of the tip of your scissor. You go through and you point the line that you have already cut.

The third way, which I call deep cutting, is when you open your scissor all the way, and you work all the way down to your desired line. The forth way is to slice. A slice works from the base to the end.

You do not drag your scissor through, but you use very short scissor action motions to slice from the root up to the end. This is a slicing technique. There should be no discomfort when cutting hair and each one of these scissor uses will give you a different result on each haircut.