How to Cut Your Own Hair at Home in Simple and Professional Way? 6 Steps and 10 Rules

Do you know how to cut your own hair in simple and professional way? Now you might notice the trend of this year's hairstyle is the single length medium-sized hair that many celebrities such as Nicole Richie or Emily Blunt has done. You can easily cut your hair into the stylish hairstyle without wasting much money in Salon and felt frustrated.

Now you can watch the following tutorial provided by Cosmo Beauty Lab where Lee Stafford, the celebrity stylist showed the easy 6 steps how to cut your own hair at home! Then you can read further of the 10 basic rules how to cut your hair into a professional look.

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"The equipment you need is simple – an elastic hair tie, a pair of scissors and a spare half an hour!” - Celebrity stylist Lee Stafford

Cut Your Own Hair in Simple and Professional Way (6 steps, summerized by Natalie Wall for Cosmopolitan)

Step one: Get clean, dry and smooth hair. If you have frizzy hair, look for solutions within the article.

Step two: Tip your head upside down, brush your hair forward and gather it into a nice tight, secure ponytail that starts right on your hairline in the centre of your forehead.

Step three: Figure out the length you want your hair to be at (you can also find the solutions in the rules below). Measure the distance from where your pony tails starts to this point with a comb.

Step four: Pick up your pony tail and hold it firmly, lean forward and then shear that length off measured with the scissors and comb.

Step five: Change your grip on the scissors and pointing them directly into the hair, snip into the blunt end of the ponytail without no hard lines.

Step six: Pull off the hair elastic, then brush your hair or just shake your head to let the hair falls into place.

How to cut and take care your own hair in your home and get a professional look?

It's not hard to get a professional hairstyle even you cut your own hair in your home, in just half an hour! Just follow the following 10 rules.

Rule 1: The easiest way to get your hairstyle more shape is to razor just a little of the end of your hair. Razor on the inner sections to help your hair lay flat and natural.

Rule 2: If you want medium hair, keep your your hair shoulder-length or you can get a little longer for medium to thick hair. This is easy to maintain and offer enough weight to keep it smooth.

Rule 3: If you want undetectable layers, get invisible layers in the back and the front corners blunt and sharp

Rule 4: Keep your hair at your collarbone if you have thick, curly hair.

Rule 5: If you have frizz hair, use the hair care oil such as olive oil or straightening balm to control flat iron the ends after the hair dries. Recommended:Sexy Hair’s Starlight Hair Power Balm, Wella’s Oil Reflections.

Rule 6: Do not wash your hair too often if your hair too dry and frizz.

Rule 7:If your scalp gets oily, the easiest way is to use dry shampoo. Recommended: Serge Normant’s Meta Revive Dry Shampoo.

Rule 8: If you want smooth hairstyle? You can try “wet styling trick,” without any brushing.

Spray in some leave-in conditioner and use your fingers to scrunch until you get your hair in place. Let it dry, then spray it with dry shampoo.” - hair stylist Lecompte

Recommend: Bed Head’s Superstar Volumizing Leave-In Conditioner and Ojon’s Full Detox Rub-Out Dry Shampoo.

Rule 9: Choose fringe for your one-length cut, it's recommend to try a side-swept bang as it evens out the bluntness of the length

Rule 10: It's not recommend to have a bang when your hair longer than your collarbone which would make your hair dull and outdated.