So allow me to share with you a great technique called weave and back cutting. I’m going to use our Wet Cutting Sam Villa Signature Series Shear. Now the technique. Determine where you want to take out weight or where you might want to create a sense of looseness, or where you choose to create a sense of volume. Lets go to the right side of the crown area. Simply take a slice, elevate the slice, hold it into your hand, take your guiding blade, the thumb blade is on top, the guide blade is on the bottom. Simply weave your guide blade just as if you were doing a highlight. You determine how much hair you choose to extract. Now, pretend that you are going to back-comb the hair, just as you would with a comb. Instead we are using our wet cutting shear and our thumb to flex and actually cut. Watch. I flex my thumb and I back cut. I flex and I back cut. Flex, move back. Notice how I am not closing the shear completely, just slightly. You will feel in your left hand, your holding hand, the hair become loose. Don’t let that concern you. Just continue with work the technique. Now you can see, it doesn’t take out a lot, depending on how much you weave. So you’re not releasing a lot of hair. Lets do it one more time. What’s the technique called? It’s called, weave and back cut. Take another slice. The thickness of the slice, you can base that on the density of the hair. The finer the hair, the thicker the slice I’m going to take. The coarser the hair, the more thickness it is, the finer and the thinner the slice I’m going to take. Now to the technique. Guiding blade is on the bottom, weave the scissor. Now where you weave determines the degree of shortness. So be aware of that. Lets come out about mid-way. Weave the scissor through and remember, just as you’re doing a highlight, now come through, pinch with your thumb, flex your thumb. Take a look at the scissor, it never closes completely. I simply move through that section until I’ve completed cutting across the section. And then once again, simply comb through the section and you will see that you release a small amount of weight. It’s great for creating visible layers inside a one length hair. Imagine a guest that has one length hair, chooses to keep her hair one length but then wants a sense of frothiness or volume up on top, without it looking layered. A great technique to do. Weave and back cut. There’s more to come in the texture story.