Self-trimmers with a side-swept fringe...

[SkyChild]

...how do you work out how much of your hair to cut for a fringe? I have a section at the front which was a side-swept fringe but it's growing and has kind of attached itself to a growing out layer at the back now there's this big lumpy bit. I think I'd like a long fringe/face framing layers but can't work out which section to cut so it doesn't clump together! If anyone can give me any advice, I'd be grateful.

[Seeshami]

If I remember correctly fringe should be sectioned off at your pupils.

[AmberMuffinz]

I just comb down my bangs and cut lol. My fringe is long though, not at all short.

[SkyChild]

Ooh Seeshami, that's interesting, I'll try that.
Ambermuffinz, is fringe and bangs not the same thing? I'm confused. I would've just combed it forward and taken a pair of scissors to it before but I'm trying to be careful about how much I take off as this is the first time I've tried to grow it without basically just ignoring it!

[lapushka]

The end of your eyebrows and section up. No more than half (and that's already a lot) of the top of your head when sectioning horizontally across your head!