Today I'm gonna be following a YouTube tutorial's instructions on how to cut my own hair.

And then I'm going to be cutting my own hair.

So earlier this year there was a trend of attempting to follow other people's YouTube tutorials

to see if they were actually doable. For example, I myself recreated one of Simply Nailogical's nail art videos

with solidly mediocre results, but apparently very upsetting nail shapes.

So today I'll be venturing into a different but arguably more high stakes genre of tutorial—hair-doing.

As for my current hairdo, I haven't cut it or done anything official to it since Brad Mondo snipped it for our perfect makeover video

and I think it's time for it to be short once more.

Up until this point I've had trouble finding the right time to get it done,

mainly because I don't want to cut it in the middle of producing a video and have my hair just suddenly change.

But because we're sort of always filming something in the background, I decided to just make a video about it

so it actually finally happens

and maybe I'll learn something in the process

Maybe. *send help*

Now, I don't think I'm the first person to do this—

in fact, I know I'm not the first person to do this

and though my personal inspiration for this video

was Jenna Marbles' rachet salon,

I'm gonna link a few haircutting videos in the description below

for your viewing pleasure.

So I guess with that, let's begin.

My only hope is that I don't end up in a hairdresser reacts video.

Uh-uh, that is a....

*shook*

disaster

Okay. So we have transformed our filming room into sort of like a hair studio

and now I'm here ready to cut my hair

with some hopefully protective layers on the ground and table

and a giant vanity in front of me that I can barely see because my camera is right in front of it.

Oh yeah, you can't see anything

So, after looking through quite a bit of the Youtube "cutting your own hair" video catalogue

It seems like most of the tutorials that teach you a doable seeming method to cut your own hair

are done by like recreational hair cutters and not really by professionals

which make them seem more achievable but also way less sanctioned

But I guess that just adds to the fun

And for my hair type there seems to be like two general categories of self haircut tutorials

The first of which is for like a long layered haircut

and the other which is for a shorter, more blunt bob cut

long bobs, short bobs, it's up to you bob

As I mentioned before, I'm looking to take out a little lenght, so I'm leaning towards the long bob path

Which, actually, isn't a super different length than from when Brad cut my hair

though his style was more layered and he also lightened my hair a bit

Which I think woked well and looked good for like spring and summer

but know that it's November and it's becoming winter, I'm looking for something more severe

Blunt and dark. Sort of like how it is at 6 p.m. now that daylight savings time has kicked in

Is it daylight savings time or standard time?

Well...what? Did Ben Frankling do it?

Oh my God

I feel like that's my first negative feeling towards Ben Franklin

So I will be dying the leftovers of my hair back to my natural color or perhaps even a bit darker

and we'll also be following a Youtube tutorial for that

This could be like a fun video transition. Ready?

*Funny wheuh noise*

So the tutorial I've chosen is the one by Sharee Annonuevo

And it's called "How to cut your hair short and straight"

Which is what I want

And her technique is to basically put your hair into two pigtails with rubber bands

and then use the rubber to measure where you should cut and then chop

Now that seems to be the general advice from everyone. To use rubber bands and then cut along the rubber bands

It seems like some video employ like a unicorn horn method, while others opt to tie your hair underneath your chin

like a little goatee

Do I look like a goat?

Like the Taylor Swift goat?

*goat yell by human in background*

*goat yells by Sofia*

And though I would have enjoyed either of those methods

I actually don't think that my hair is uniformly long enough to pull it off down here

or up there. So we're going with pigtails

So I think that's all we need to explain, so let's turn on the tutorial and whip out the scissors

"Hey guys, what's up and welcome back to my channel"

So, in today's video I'm going to cut my hair

Same

So the tutorial starts with just combing out your hair, so let's do that

Oh, thare actually are a fair amount of knots in my hair

And then step two is to make sure my part is where I want it to be

I feel like my part is always a little bit uneven

Is that a line?

But is it straight?

Whatever

And then the third step is to divide my hair into two even sections, regardless of my part

and put one side to the side

"Now, here's a close-up of my dry ends, and now you can clearly see that it is in need of a cut"

Do my ends look like that?

Kind of, honestly

Alright, and then the next step is to make like a very smooth and flat pigtail on this side

with the rubber band

Alright, how is that?

Oh, well this is not the chopping rubberband

This is the intermediary rubber band

And then do the same the side I just put away

Oh, how is that? I haven't rocked the pigtails in a minute

Maybe like '98, like in kindergarden years

Alright so, I will watch to confirm but I'm pretty sure the next step is the cutting template rubber band

"Now with another rubber band, tie that beneath the ponytail you just did

This rubber band will act as a guide as to show how short you will cut your hair"

Yes

This is the important one, the other one was just to throw away

So, it's in, and now I'm gonna pull it downwards

I feel like my ideal length for this lob is like shoulder length or maybe a little bit above shoulder length

But I feel like for the initial chop I should give a little bit of leeway and like go a little longer

Just because like, when I'm gonna be evening it out and fixing it, I can only go shorter

Alright, so the next I put in another measuring rubber band on the other side

and I have to get the two rubber bands even so the cut is even

I feel like this is pretty close to even, I'm just gonna go check in the bathroom really quick, just to make sure

I think that this rubber band over here is slightly lower than this rubber band

But I think the lower rubber bands are at the same height

Or at least sort of like approximately close? Near to each other? Hopefully?

Alright, so I'm pretty sure that the next step is just to cut, but let's just double check to make sure

*exhale*

"I'm scared"

"i'm scared"

"It's not that much, but I'm still scared"

She is scared? Should I be scared?

I mean, I guess it makes sense to be nervous, but I felt like we were just going along so well, so confidently

She was telling me what to do and now I'm not so sure

Though I guess she did publish the video, so it must not have turned out too bad in her opinion

Alright, so she just cuts right above the rubber band

She just goes for it. She just just starts sawing, basically

I'm gonna do this this side first, because I can see it in this mirror here

Oh my go(sh)

Alright I just wanna make sure my scissors aren't like at an angle

I mean, I guess we would just end up with like an angled bob, but that's not what this turorial is about

Ready?

Oh, Oh my God, it's happening

You can't say that

Oh my God, it was totally at an angle. Oh God, it's at an angle now, it's getting worse

Look

*laughter*

I don't know. Oh my God.

The weird thing is, it looks crazy right here, right? It looks crazy

But right here it looks okay.

Maybe if they like trim the video like just to this part. I'm determined to come back

And listen, we all start from somewhere. Like Drake I started from the bottom and now we "hair"

What does that mean?

Okay, so now I think we just do, hopefully, the same thing on the other side

I'm trying to now mess up the same amount on both sides

Ready?

Are you serious?

Oh my God Ty, I'm doing a really bad job. Oh my God. Oh, this is a hack job. This is character assasination

You know what? The look pretty similar

I think that if I were to ever do this again, I would need a couple more pigtails

Because my pigtails are way too thick for me to hack through

YES. It's a similar sensation

My hair smells good

Here, do you want some? I call this serial killer ASMR

Okay, so we're here now, so let me just see what's next up in our tutorial

I think it's probably take out your pigtails and look at what you have wrought

But, I think we should just double check I guess.

"Now it's time to reveal how the actual cut looks"

Yeah, (Background: Yeah.) Sofia: We'll do that

"I'm liking what I'm seeing but of course we need to go in and clean the cut up, a bit"

Alright, there we go. I guess what I'm gonna see and then we'll clean it up

OOOOOOOH~

Oh it's incredibly uneven. Alright, ready for the other one?

Oh, wow, that's really uneven

Okay, first eye check: the lenght itself I really like. I can't see the back, so I can't see the jaggedness

But like, I like this

*Triggered*

That's so rude

I was gonna say I'm going for a Dua Lipa haircut and you say Lord Farquaad

Well, regardless it's still pretty choppy so I think we've to fix it so it's even all the way around

Which is in fact Sharee's next step

"Start by sectioning your hair off and work with the bottom layers"

Alright so, now that I have sort of like half my hair down, I'm going to split my hair once again into like halves

And then try and see if I can(t?) cut them even

"Comb the hair straight, pinch your hair with your fingers, slide it down 'till you reach the end

and then cut off those jagged ends straight

Alright, so I'm giving that a go. Having a hard time with my depth perception, as you can tell

Interestingly enough, that's not doing a lot for me. Like, as I let go, it's still realy long in the back there

Alright, I'm going to do a first evening pass before I do Sharee's method

just because I don't think that she anticipated my level of mess up

See, I feel like now there's less of that like crazy long stuff

Now it's more just like, generally jagged

Alright, so now I'm gonna go back to Sharee's method of like pinching the hair together and cutting straight across to even it

But see, look. Now when I let it go, did you see that?

Look, look, I let it go and then, what is that?

How?

Because it seems like every time I bring my hair together, I end up cutting the front part of my hair

Which is already like the lenght I want, and then the back part doesn't end up doing anything

You see what I'm saying

And even though Sharee's has more tricks as to how to even out the back,

I'm worried that I'm gonna keep accidentally cutting the front as well.

So I'm just gonna do some point cutting throughout to soften up the edges

But beside that, I'm not sure there's really much more I can do at this point

I mean, listen, I actually don't think it looks like too crazy bad right now. It's just the back that is bad

Yeah, so who can really tell?

Now, in the rest of Sharee's tutorial, she basically continues to even it out and then she straightens her hair

to show you how it looks and I think in general, she seems to do a really good job with her own hair

And I think that for me her tutorial definitely worked to a degree

I had some fun doing the main choppage and I'm still pretty impressed by these guys right here

But I think, in general, I may need to seek some professional help

for my lump. But for now, we're just gonna move on to the dye

and hope that if I darken evrything up a bit, it will be harder to see

Okay, so I went to go take a shower because I was covered in hair, and getting very itchy

In fact, uh, my station is still covered in hair and in fact my chair is also covered in hair

I don't think I knew this beforehand, but it seems that hair is the glitter of body parts

Bur regardless, I have a hair dying video cued up, so let's dye

*making noises* Meh eh eh eh

So this video is called "Watch me dye my hair" and it's by mayratouchofglam

and to be fair it's not exactly a tutorial, she's sort of walking through how she dyes her hair

But her method seems easy enough and her hair ends up looking pretty good so, I'm on board