Now here’s a great technique working with the blending shear. Have you ever had a guest come in, the like to keep their hair long at the front but they complain about how the hair keeps dropping into their eye. This is a great technique to control the front face frame area. Simply come through, take a diagonal forward slice. The principles of movement apply, over-direct the hair because we want this hair to move back and away from the face. We simply come through, take the blending shear with the blunt blade on the bottom. Notice the line that I am placing it in, it’s diagonal. So its shorter on top and longer as it gets underneath. That diagonal line will reinforce the hair moving back and away from the face. Blunt blade is placed in on the diagonal come through, weave it through. Close, back stroke. Open, close, backstroke. Open, close, backstroke. Release that section. Take another slice, over-direct. Don’t comb this out, that will enable you to know where you’re at. Bring it up and over, diagonal line. Remember, where you place the scissor determines how short that length is going to be inside that existing length. Weave the blade through. Close and backstroke. Now you’re probably asking yourself, why backstroke? Take a look at this length here, right here. When I come in and close, watch that hair move, see how it moved. So I am closing on the same spot but it’s never on the same line. Let’s take one more last section. Elevate and over-direct. Weave the blunt blade through. Close, backstroke, open, close, backstroke. Now watch the length or the weight that we’ve extracted, we’ve maintained the length. Notice how I am combing that hair out vertically so as not to pull on that. Now watch this. As I comb this hair through, watch that hair now stay back and move away from the face. Just a great technique to utilize around the perimeter edge, to control movement. For example, if I had a one length bob and the client wants to keep the one length but they want lift up on the top or they want to run their hands through it and keep it away from their face, take horizontal sections going across the top, weave the blunt blade through and work it up into the crown area. It will have the elusion of still looking one length but when they brush that hair back it gives them a sense of volume. You’re going to love it using your blending shear. Texture shear, back stroke.