There is a prejudice that cutting your own hair is a bad omen. In the old days, it was claimed that girls, along with cut off hair, “cut off” their suitors or even changed their fate and, of course, for the worse. Any superstition is built, as a rule, on the experience of our ancestors.
In our cosmic time, you can easily get around these barriers, you just have to treat them like a game: easy and fun. Especially if you have no problems with suitors, and white light is not visible through the bangs. What to do? How? Cut your own bangs! It has been noticed that most girls today cope with this on their own, not at all because they save money or there is no one to ask to do it quickly. But because they do not trust and do not want to entrust their beauty into the hands of unverified hairdressers.
The article will tell you how to cut bangs at home yourself. Some professional hairdressers claim that they know more than twenty types of bangs. But the main ones are not so many. Usually, the type of bangs is chosen depending on the shape of the face, the structure and thickness of the hair, and even the color.
- standard line;
- bevelled bangs;
- "torn" variant;
- arched bangs.
There are no less ways to cut it. Let's dwell on some of them that are suitable for home haircuts and do not require special skills.
Preparing how to cut bangs myself
For the process to be successful, it is better to thoroughly prepare for it:
- make sure your scissors are sharp enough;
- prepare a comb with thick short teeth and a sharp end;
- get up, or rather sit facing the light and the mirror;
- put a napkin on the place where the cut hair will fall;
- part carefully, separating each hair;
- it will be more convenient to remove the rest of the hair at the back of the head, pin it up or secure it with a hoop so as not to interfere. You can stab strands at the temples.
Important! It is not recommended to make bangs from hair growing on the temporal part
Cutting bangs on wet hair
- Wet bangs with water.
- Comb her with a thick toothed comb.
- Take a strand of hair with one hand, distribute it between your fingers and pull it out, cut it off with the other hand.
- Very important point! Wet hair should be cut one centimeter more than the level you have set.
- So that the final result does not force you to make a hairstyle that is cheerfully called "beaver", you need to cut slowly but surely, without unnecessary trembling in your hands.
- If the bangs are thick, you need to hold the scissors a little at an angle to the floor. First, so that they do not slip,and secondly, to make the edge smooth and beautiful.
- After the entire bangs are trimmed, it will be necessary to carefully comb and trim individual protruding hairs.
The easiest way to cut hair
This way, how to cut bangs yourself, is mainly suitable for those who have long bangs. Despite the ease and simplicity, it deserves attention and the result may unexpectedly please many.
Prepare an elastic band for hair. Collect all the hair in one bun in the center, at the bridge of the nose and put an elastic band on them a little higher than the place where you are going to cut the bangs. Holding the edge and pulling a little, cut off the hair. And that's it.
Haircut with a ruler
With the help of a simple device, such a difficult task as cutting your own bangs evenly is simplified as much as possible and takes no more than 3-4 minutes.
To do this, prepare two rulers, put them together and secure at one end with a hair band (clothespin or binder). Get a kind of clothespin from the rulers. There is a special tool for this purpose, but you can use a strip of cardboard about 30 cm long, about 2 cm wide, folded in the middle.
In the interval between the rulers, we evenly distribute the hair, after carefully combing it. Set at the desired level and cut them flush with the ruler. All. It remains only to comb the bangs again and remove excess hair.
Beveled bangs
For creative and determined individuals who are accustomed to experimentation, advice on how to cut your own bangs at home can only be to not get carried away and start cutting all your hair. You can try to make a hairstyle with the effect of oblique bangs, which also helps to successfully hide individual flaws. Oblique bangs can also be cut in several ways.
- Take the bangs in hand and twist into a flagellum, twisting several times, take it a little obliquely to the side and cut off the strand with one confident movement.
- Comb the hair to the side, distribute it between the fingers, cut off the excess hair obliquely.
- If you wear bangs on the right side, therefore, when you cut - pull your hair to the left. You can also twist them with a flagellum, or you can, holding them between your fingers, cut them off obliquely or use the two-line method.
- In the end, comb, remove excess.
Haircut with thinning scissors
- To give the bangs a fuller look and make styling easier, they are usually thinned out with thinning scissors, walking several times along the entire bang at a distance of 2-3 cm from the ends of the hair.
- If there are no thinning scissors, you can try the usual ones, setting them vertically, make a few notches at the ends of the hair in a chaotic manner.
- To give more volume, you can also make thinning inside the bangs. Pin up the top of it. Make the hair at the base of their growth 2-3 cm shorter than the rest andgo over them with thinning scissors.
"Ragged" bangs
This is one of the varieties of bangs that is difficult to somehow spoil, but you need to be able to style it to make it stylish. An excellent result is obtained on thick hair and voluminous bangs, if cut in separate strands.
To do this, we divide the hair into small flagella, twist it and with the sharp tip of the scissors, which we hold vertically, we make several notches. The deeper they are, the more "torn" the bangs will turn out. This option is also suitable for owners of thin hair, because, creating "artistic" negligence, it gives the entire hairstyle the missing volume.
Despite the fact that "torn" bangs are combined with almost any haircut and suits many, not everyone is ready to try it on themselves.
As you can see, all this is not difficult at all. Therefore, the answer to the question of how to properly cut your own bangs, there can be only one answer: very simple. First, use any of the above methods to cut the bangs, and then use thinning to make it more attractive and lush.
Now you know how to cut your own bangs at home. It remains only to wait until it grows back, if you just left the hairdresser yesterday and try to do it yourself next time. Perhaps the result will exceed all expectations and you will have a great opportunity to significantly reduce time and money, as well as secure suchuseful skill: how to cut your own bangs at home.
