why do they cut all one length hair like this?

[pdy2kn6]

i was looking at a one length hair trim on youtube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVklbuDev2M ) , which i thought turned out great, but i was just wondering if anyone knew why they cut the hair in sections (from bottom to top) instead of just doing it by pulling all the hair back and doing the same method, holding the hair straight and cutting the hair? i would of thought if you did it by keeping the hair back (instead of sectioning it from bottom to top) you would ensure that all strands are identical? hmm...

[bakertwins2004]

It ensures you get a uniform trim all over. Also many time it isn't all one length. Most of the times the sides will have some taper and it helps ease those in.

[demitasse]

This would be virtually impossible on my iii thick hair. Good luck getting a pair of scissors through the entire circumference of my hair. It would be all choppy and uneven.

Sectioning the hair out into smaller chunks makes it easier to manage and gives a cleaner cut.

[may1em]

I think these instructions are aimed at trimming somebody else's hair and not meant as a self-trim technique. Working on someone else's head, you have a lot more ability for control over evenness and this technique would allow you to avoid cramming a lot of hair into the scissors at once.

I used something similar to trim my hair when it was short (though I needed a lot more checking in the mirror to make sure it was even and people around me to say if it was even or not). I also used this method to trim my sister's hair a few years back. Take a bit near the nape, clip up the rest, cut, check for evenness, take more hair down, repeat. ETA: By "short" I mean back when I was in the habit of growing to shoulder and cutting to chin or ear.

I think that a lot of the self-trimming methods we use have us cut all or half of the hair together because our arms aren't long enough for this method to work. I'd use this method if someone else asked me to trim their hair .

But with a lot less of cut off, if the person didn't ask for a chop. I thought the stylist in the video was pretty representative of the scissor-happy stylists of the world. I wouldn't call what he did to her hair a "trim" at all.

[pdy2kn6]

oh yeah i think your right bakertwins, perhaps this is more a method for making hair and front face framing layers blend in

[pdy2kn6]

I think these instructions are aimed at trimming somebody else's hair and not meant as a self-trim technique. Working on someone else's head, you have a lot more ability for control over evenness and this technique would allow you to avoid cramming a lot of hair into the scissors at once.
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oh yeah i understand that, i would never try this as a self trim method, my arms dont bend that way unfortunately. but i was just wondering because some people other people a trim doing it this method, whereas other people just comb the hair over the shoulders and pull it straight and then trim it all that way, pulling it between their fingers, as opposed to the sectioning.

I would of thought that the sectioning would make some strands potentially slightly varying in length, as opposed to making a thick wall like non sectioning may do.
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[Curlsgirl]

oh yeah i understand that, i would never try this as a self trim method, my arms dont bend that way unfortunately. but i was just wondering because some people other people a trim doing it this method, whereas other people just comb the hair over the shoulders and pull it straight and then trim it all that way, pulling it between their fingers, as opposed to the sectioning.

I would of thought that the sectioning would make some strands potentially slightly varying in length, as opposed to making a thick wall like non sectioning may do.
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I have also thought this and wondered why hairdressers sometimes do and sometimes don't do this. I just thought it gave a sort of "beveled" cut rather than all just one length such as encouraging the hair to turn under or flip out whichever one you wanted it to do. Maybe not that.

[ericthegreat]

Cutting ALL of your hair in the back at once will not give you a one length effect. Because of the severe differences in tension that would lie from the hair on your front hairline to the hair in the middle and the hair on your nape, you would get a completely uneven choppy effect if you were to just trim all of your hair pulled to your back at once. This is why you need to section away the top layers of your hair first and trim away the bottom, the bottom is the starting guide from where your stylist will trim the top layers of your hair to.

[may1em]

Thick hair cut with a good eye would probably respond better to sectioning than to being cut all as one entity. As all one entity, you think you're cutting everything even, but you need to take into account distortion due to thickness of the clump you're cutting. Is the blade really going to slice through 2 inches of hair easily and evenly, or are you going to wind up with the blades being diverted by the thickness, leaving some parts longer and dulling your scissors?

I self-trim with my hair all together, but I have to be very careful to snip small amounts away at a time (while holding everything where I want it). The scissors just couldn't handle one quick chop.