Assignment 20- Penelope Pierson- How to cut your own hair (If you have straight hair)

1.) Get in the moment. Don't psych yourself out, and just go for it.

2.) Make sure your hair isn't wet or sitting different than normal. If it's wet, wherever you cut will be higher than you expected when dry. If it's sitting odd, for example, if your hair was tied up all day and it has a bump in it, don't cut it that day. The bump will make the hair off.

3.) section your hair where you normally part it

4.) Put your hair into two ponytails, one ponytail for either section.

5.) Place the elastic right above where you want to cut your hair.

6.) Take two more elastics and put an inch or two below where you plan to cut your hair

7.) Repeat on the other side

8.) Mentally prepare yourself. Hair grows back, it's fine if it doesn't work.

9.) Cut in-between the two elastics. Try to do it all in one cut, without having to restart the cut multiple times.

10.) Repeat on the other side.

11.) Take out the two elastics left in your hair, leaving you with a blunt, uneven cut.

12.) Realize you just cut your hair and ignore the back, only look at how it looks in the front.

13.) Now that you see how bad the back looks, either enlist the help of your mom or parent to straighten it out, or if your hair is long enough, cut it yourself by doing some crazy stretching.

14.) If you're not looking for the blunt look, face your scissors up and cut upwards, to help blend and soften the edges.

15.) Done! Completed hair look that may or may not make you happy.