Shoulder | Armpit

[Arctic]

Hi
Sorry - I can't add anything helpful (I know nothing!) but wondered if you'd be kind enough to give me some advice?
Two questions - how do I microtrim shoulder length hair by myself? And what can I do with heavy, straight, shoulder length hair to get it out of the way?

Thanks for any help.

When you have enough posts (25+) have a look at my blog, I have been collecting styles for shoulder length hair there. It's only a tip of an iceberg what I have there, but enough to give some ideas. You can find link to the particular posts under my blog's header.

If you hair isn't long enough for Feye's self trimming method, your best bet is to sort of mimic what hair dressers would do. If your hair is not very thick you can get away with not sectioning your hair, but for all thicknesses I find the best results come from sectioning your hair into at least 2 parts vertically (like 2 big layers - thick hair would benefit from more than 2). The hemline will become much neater this way.

I usually cut my hair dry, and use fine tooth comb as a help to align all the hairs in the section I'm working on. This is for blunt hemline. I take a small section of hair, enough for it to easily fit between my index and middle finger. Glide my fingers down the hair and when I come near the ends I stop, bring the hairs in an angle I can see them but hold them tightly so the strand you are holding does not move, nor the angle of yor fingers (I use bathroom mirror as help), and snip the wanted lengths off. I take next small section and include a tiny bit of hairs from previous section, and cut the new section to the same length as the previous. I travel around horizontally around my hair this way. Then I release the hair bunned at the top of my head and do the same for this layer of hair, making sure they are of same length as the lower layer is. Then I check that sides are even.

It's really difficult to explain in short post, sorry. Basically comb well, comb straight down (if you want blunt cut), use your fingers to put tension on the strand, snip the ends. Use the newly trimmed hair as guide to the next section you are working with. Section your hair into manageable pieces, both horizontally and vertically. Depending your hairtype and preferences, you might like cutting your hair wet or dry.