Method/tips to trim my DD’s thick layered hair at home now we can’t go out

[NarniaBanarnia]

It is weeks (even months) overdue for a cut and I am kicking myself.

However I need to be practical. If we are indoors for weeks I need to trim it.

I have never trimmed hair in my life

I will get decent scissors (reccs??)

So her hair is long with long layers and I just
Want to take off the damaged ends, nothing really off the length if that makes sense.

When I get my own similar hair cut I notice the hair stylist cuts kind of INTO The ends of my Long layers at a kind of 45 degree angle? Some cutting just ‘straight’ too but then she randomly cuts ‘in’ with the scissors at a slight angle so that the ends of what she’s holding are then a little uneven?

Does that make sense??

She’s a great hsidrssser so I’m assuming her technique is a good one!!

Are there any online (easy, quick, idiot-proof) tutorials I could seek out?

Huge thanks!!! We can’t go many more weeks with untrimmed hair; she’s starting to look like a haystack!

Oh and I should add: if her hair is ‘blunt cut’ (?) it goes like an inverted triangle I have the same problem which is why I need to maintain some sense of cutting ‘in’ and layers

Don't try to blunt cut it.
Hold the hair away from the head when you cut it - don't pull it down.
Snip with confidence. but don't experiment.
You have seen the hairdresser do it, don't overthink it and don't snip too much.

[https://www.wikihow.com/Do-a-Layered-Haircut[]]

Thank you Mike!!!

I am going to start with the teeniest trim off the ends; let’s face it there’s little chance she’s headed out into the world any time in the next 3 months at best so if I screw up and it’s a bit dodgy/uneven it’s not that big a deal.

Actually nothing seems like that big a deal any more, does it??!!

I fed plan to avoid blunt cutting it... it’s a bad bad bad look on people with hair like me and her

Thank you

Any scissor reccs? Do Boots sell them?

Yes, Boots sell them. You need very sharp scissors.
If Boots haven't any, you could try Superdrug or Chemists, or the ethnic shops that sell haircare.

Don't use the scissors for anything other than haircutting.

The main thing is to not pull the hair downwards then snip along the comb in a straight line- the hair won't behave and you'll end up with mushroom shaped hair and straggly bits. You need to snip with confidence.

I'm not a hairdresser but I cut my own hair fairly often and have done so since I was a teenager. I have wavy but not thick hair. It needs a trim now but I've misplaced the scissors.

Good luck.

Look at the Unicorn haircuts on YouTube. There are different versions so that you can get ore layers. I have used this technique for 2 years and it is brilliant in my opinion😊

More layers not ore!

I trim my own hair, just look to youtube, there are many people showing how to, from professional hairdressers, to people like me who have been cutting our own hair for a while, good luck.x

Why can’t you leave her hair alone?