Yea actually a better way to do this is after you cut the front one, let it down, take a piece from the top infront the ear that you just cut, as a GUIDE, then use that to make the cut in the back. It will flow from front to back perfectly. But the thought process is here
I have done this tutorial several times, and I could not be happier with it. I see a lot of beauticians throwing shade at this tutorial. I work two jobs just to get bye... I can't always afford a salon... and even when I can, they typically don't give me a lot of layers like I ask for. I have long, thick, wavy, hair, so everything costs more. I am trying to learn to get more out of my waves, and it is definitely a process. This cut is low maintenance and beautiful on my hair. Brad, I can't thank you enough for all your tutorials and all your fantastic content.
Likewise, it was very fortunate that it came out well on my long thick hair. Oh and length and now I have beautiful layers. I really think I was kissed by God! There’s no way I could’ve done this and the salon is never done my layers like this they would always look choppy for $100 a pop! This looks elegant and natural. My waves are just enough to toss it around! Glad your hair looks great too!
Same here. I've been growing my hair out for a few years and I had a lot of damaged, split ends and I wanted to have nice layered cut that didn't sacrifice too much length, but I also didn't have the money to go to salon either. So I just happened to be scrolling through random RU-vid videos and Mondo's butterfly cut tutorial popped up and I watched...and I watched eagerly, lol. Afterwards I went upstairs to my bathroom, wet my hair, took a deep breath and started cutting...and I couldn't be happier! I've been cutting my hair like this for a little while now and love it. It really is easy!
I tried this cut the other day, and let me tell you, it is not quick and easy when you have think hair. I separated each ponytail into four chunks that I struggled to cut and then had to do two more ponytails at my crown to blend it. Somehow it still came out GORGEOUS 😍 this cut is for everyone
I did this a few hours ago and have gotten so many compliments!! A lot of hair tutorials are stupid but this one actually works even on my long thick slightly wavy hair. Highly recommend!!
I am in my 60’s and I cut my hair as you show in this video. It was so easy and I had a real good pair of scissors and didn’t rush. My layers are so beautiful and my friends don’t believe me that I cut my own hair. They said it looked so perfect to be a home haircut. Thanks so much for this video.
Just did this last night and so happy with the results. It made my fine hair look at least twice as full (without any product or blow-drying) and I love how it frames my face.
Back in the late 90s, way before these videos, I went rappelling. I had my hair in a ponytail, but it was really windy that day, and my hair was long enough that it got caught in my circle 8. My husband's best friend came down to assist and finally said OMG! I am going to have to cut your hair. I said Just do it! I ended up having to taking his knife and cut 2-3" off. Go to the bathroom to take my hair down to see how big of a chunk it left and mentally preparing myself that I was going to have to make a call to my best friend's hairdresser bf. Pulled the hair tie out, and it fell down, perfectly layered. 😍 So, when this trend of videos started, I was not surprised with the good results. 🤣🤣Also started braiding my hair when going rappelling.😂
Dear Lord.😢 Glad you still have your hair & scalp intact. Good pn you for getting a great layered cut in the process. Wish me luck! I'm tired of this hair on my face & neck. I feel like I'm fixing to rappel right now.💇♀️💜
I finally took your advice and did this haircut! My hair was down to my tail and I pulled it all to the front took off about 7 inches and had the most amazing haircut touched by Angels! The layers were beautiful and just in time for my sons wedding! Really I am in love! Thank you! ❤
I just did this! Watched your video as I went along. I only took about an inch off though. I didn’t want a dramatic affect, just some soft layers and a bit off my hair to freshen it up! It came out so great!!! I spent a lot of time combing and getting that division and the two pony tails as perfect as possible before cutting! Thanks, this worked super well!
Did this today and it turned out so beautiful. I was worried it would be choppy but it looks amazing and gives my thin lifeless hair dimension and shape. Thanks Brad you are the best.
Thank you for this tutorial. My husband and daughter didn’t want me to cut more than and inch and a half off (I have not cut my hair in seven years and it was down to my butt) I use this method to trim off the inch and a half roughly 2 inches and my hair feels so much healthier. You can’t really see much of a difference but you can feel it. My hair is back to feeling like silk.
Really? I'm feeling like Impuls cutting my hair because I'm so bored of it. It's wavy/curly but the curls are starting to get to much weight and I don't know my hair just looks boring.
@@NanaMuffinLady yes!! my hair was looking flat and when i got the butterfly cut it really gave my hair dimension and made my hair not as heavy my and making my curls curl better :)
@@noemilozano6301 when i first got my hair cut my longest layer wad around to my shoulders, and now it’s about to my chest (gotten it cut once more since then- about 10 months ago)
When I went to hair school 24 years ago, I learned what was called the ABBA method cut. You had to do the 4 sections, but you combed the sections upward from each section, and matched it with a pre cut piece on top that made the top layer length. Each section was matched to the guide from the previous one. We most often did them by scissor cut, but there were a few clients who would wan to try it with the Feather Razor. It was a quick way to get a great style and it looked fabulous!
Soo my mom and I did this like 2 days ago. Cut eachother's hair exactly as the video told us to. It really brought out my waves/curls (think: 18th century wigs mixed with that Kpop middle-part hair), buuuuut the length of the back really made it look more like a shag haircut (think: 80s guitarist wearing a way to small crop top). Honestly feel like I was a 18th century grunge guitarist 😅 My mom on the other hand had exactly the perfect result. Long wolfcut with middle part feathery bangs. Very lovely, and no weird pieces sticking out behind the bangs (like I had, cause I think we put the front ponytail too much at the front. We're gonna fix my haircut a bit so it's a bit more short, so wish me luck 🤞❤ Update: We fixed it up a little, made it shorter in the back and made the transition from front to back smother. It’s like a wild wolfcut now sorta and I LOVE it tysm
@@susanagarciamata9978 (I'm not sure if RU-vid is tripping or not cause I replied to this comment a sec ago and don't see it posted, but...) I'd suggest following the tutorial as best as you can and then trim it a bit freely by hand to get exactly what you want. If you want I can send you the before/during/after pictures we took? That way you can see how we did the ponytails, my hair texture as well as how it changed after fixing it by hand and I can also add a pic of how it looks now that it's grown out a little?
I did this during Covid and it was ok. I was nervous so I didn’t cut off too much. I actually have an appointment for Tuesday and I’m kinda thinking of canceling my appointment to save $110 not including tip. 🤔 I will cut more hair off when I do it myself
Haven't cut my hair in years and decided that today would be the day I get a haircut, but not at a salon, at home. My toxic trait is thinking I can cut hair like Brad with my swiss army knife scissors 😂😂 it turned out amazing! Giving wolf cut vibes for sure!
I have not been to a stylist for a year because the last one butchered my hair- why am I gonna pay $100+ dollars for you to butcher it- I CAN BUTCHER IT MYSELF! But this came out so cute ❤. OMG!!! Follow the directions and you won’t be disappointed!!!!
That's how I am 🤣 I paid $200 to have my hair ruined by a stylist. It was long, and she dyed it dark. Idk what was in that dark hair dye, but it never came out. She couldn't even get it out by stripping it. It remained. I still get it cut by stylists, but not dyed. I dye it myself. I go platinum blonde, so it took some years of trial and error to not damage my hair. I had to learn about toner. Other than that, I have had good success.
I felt the same. I paid and they butchered my hair all the time. I would go home and did my best to fix it. I got good at fixing their messes that I lost the fear of messing up my own hair. After all, I would find a way to fix it, right? I now cut my own hair and haven't seen a stylist in forever. I even discovered I had natural waves in my hair.
I followed this tutorial, my mom ofc did the cutting and OMG it worked like a charm! My aunt owns two hairdresser shops and I can’t wait to show her when we see her in a month!! Thx for it truly!
I appreciate this. I'm not the kind of person who will regularly go to a salon and maintain a haircut. My wavy hair looks just as good with this haircut that takes two minutes.
So many things to love about this cut! It's easy to do, it keeps looking good as it grows out- you just decide at what point you want to freshen it up- and it's free! 💖💖💖
OMG! Thanks Brad. I just followed this and I"m loving my results. Not so much layers for myself but it took off a ton of weight. And all of my tangled split ends are gone. I can't wait to dye it in time for Fall's cooler climate.
I used this tutorial to give myself a butterfly cut after I went to the hairdresser and got frustrated with her taking off 1/2 inch at a time, even after I said I wanted more dramatic layers. Anyway, I couldn't be any happier with the results of cutting my own hair at home using this tutorial! I had never cut my or anyone else's hair before, and you better believe I was nervous as hell, but it turned out gorgeous! I get so many compliments on my hair since I cut it!
I think if it take a long time, you are doing it right. I have long thick curly hair. I am pretty sure it takes me 20-30 minutes to put the ponytails in because I have to brush up section by section to ensure the ponytail is tight and not bumpy. The smooth correctly placed ponytail is key to getting this cut right. You are doing it right! :)
Brad, thank you so much for helping me cut my own hair! I feel honestly so sexy and cute with this butterfly cut. It was very easy and quick to do. Took me about 10 minutes, and I have been cutting my hair like this for the past 2 months.
The ponytail cut has been around for decades. I saw it first at a hair show in NYC 30 years ago. The placement of the ponytail decides the entire style.
Never knew it had a name lol - my aunt taught me this way and it’s the most common way I cut my hair, super easy. Adjust the ponytail positions to get different layer variances!
I have done this for the last two years and I get so many compliments! Saved a ton on haircuts! Btw: my profile picture doesn't show it because I have it in a braid thru a ball cap.
I have curly hair maybe I should try it but my hair doesn’t grow anymore longer than it is now I really don’t want to chop it all off because it shrinks
I was just going to ask about doing this on curly hair. I have long layers, but my hair is straighter underneath and gets curlier and curlier until it reaches my crown, which has lots of shrinkage and because it's so thick and curly, it ends up looking very poofy overall, especially the shortest layer, which sometimes has the short, puffy "shelf" type look...ugh!!! I absolutely hate it and have fought it my entire life! I explain it to every hair stylist and I still end up with the same problem. Do you think this cut offers more layers than a regular "long layers" cut?
58 curlyish hair. Did exactly what brad said and came out damn good 😮. Thank you!! Make sure you wet hair first and at least sharpen your dollar store scissors. Who knew.
I have very thick straight hair, and did exactly this… i will forever cut my hair this way! So simple, symmetrical, and my hair feels so much lighter! I do not layer my hair for the purpose of volume… but for my hair to feel lighter.
I haven’t seen someone do it with really thick wavy hair😢I really want to know what it looks like on my hair type before I do it. The women that I’ve seen do it claims their hair is thick and it’s not😅 so I’m not convinced yet.
is this what you do when a client asks for this kind of cut? 😅 bc if my hairstylist started pulling my hair up in ponytails like that i'd walk- no i'd RUN out of that salon 🏃🏼♀️😭😭
This works. It works better for me if I do one pony tail to the front, but leave some of the back hair out of it so the ends don't get too thin. My daughter has really thick hair so she pulls it all to a front pony tail to do it.
I have naturally straight (it's so straight it's painful) hair and I got this haircut a few weeks ago. I really hated it because it was bland, in the way, and just doesn't have any volume. The longer I have it, the more I like it. No regrets.
Layered hair is literally what gives you volume but you have to style it for it to work. You can't just let it dry naturally or just blow dry it with no styling. Blow drying Your roots with your head upside down helps with volume. Then with your head back upright, use a big barrel brush at the roots and ends while blow drying. This will help give even more volume with the curl at the ends. If your hair doesn't hold curl well then you would definitely need to use products in it but even then this style still might not work for you. So many people think you can get layers and it will just naturally look this way when dry, it doesn't. If you're someone that doesn't want to style your hair all the time or you have super straight hair that doesnt hold curl even when using products then don't opt for dramatic layers like this. I have thick, wavy hair and when I was in my teens in the 90s layers were super trendy due to Jennifer Aniston's hair on the show Friends. I stupidly wanted to look like everyone else who was getting her cut so I got my hair layered for the first time just like hers. I didnt realize though that you had to style it to get it to look like this. I would just blow dry it with out using a barrel brush/product and couldn't understand why it didn't look like everyone else's. I was devastated lol. Wasn't until I became an adult that I started actually trying styling products and tools that I realized why it didnt look the same. My hair has been all one length for years now and I always just straighten it but I'm getting so bored with it. It's just to thick and heavy looking so I really want to cut it. I'm coinsidering trying layers again and getting it thinned out but I'm not a fan of the way this cut looks in the back. I'm tempted to cut my own hair only because I rarely leave my house due to severe social anxiety and agoraphobia. Last time I had it cut by a stylist was 10 years ago 😬. Brad has another tutorial showing how to cut layers in your own hair that I think looks so much better than this cut but I just don't think I can do it myself though. My hair is just to thick to do it easily. Sorry your cut didn't turn out the way you had hoped it would.
I cant believe it, i did it just now, i tought i would be going to have to get a buzzcut lol but this tutorial was AMAZING thank you a lot for the vid man
One time I was getting my super long hair cut and donating to Locks of love. She put it in a ponytail and cut it off. When she let it down, it was literally the best I ever looked and the best haircut ever. I didn’t have the heart to tell her that I didn’t want a haircut after that. Unfortunately, she messed it up like every other hairdresser. I guess thick wavy hair doesn’t need a professional.
Can u do a haircut tutorial for rlly curly, puffy and frizzy hair?? My hair is like that and I can't seem to find a haircut for my type of hair. But if it's literally IMPOSSIBLE then that's totally fine.
I just did this to my hair and my mom loves it. She wants me to do it to her, but I was apprehensive yesterday, so the next time I see her, if she’s down, I’ll do it for her.💚
I have hair down to my butt and cut off ten inches btw. I usually wear all my hair swept to one side so I made it work. I wish he told people this is for a center part only.
@@Deathsdearlybeloved yw! He should have specified that it would only work for a center part. I think if I had shorter hair it would have been a disaster. Happy to help 💕
Hiii! I wanted to thank you for the tutorial 😄 It's super easy, well explained, and the result is incredible 😍 I have wavy hair, but quite long so it didn't really had a shape... 😅 Now it looks more... rebellious! I really like it and my family and friends too^^ Thanks a lot! 🥰
I did it today just an hour ago and it looks gorgeous ❤ I love it I feel so good now that my hair is a lil bit laighter cause I have a think hair ❤❤it's a good method 😊