How to Trim Your Own Bangs

Hi Kate, Your youtube clip appears to be set to private. Thanks for posting and I absolutely look forward to attempting to cut my own bangs.

Amy: thanks for letting me know!! I just changed it!

You have no idea how much time and effort spent going to the hairdresser every 2 weeks you have just saved me! I tried to do it once and of course did exactly what you said NOT to do with straight across bangs. This lead to a trip to my very upset hairdresser about 20 minutes later. I’ll give this a try and let you know how it turns out! Thanks!!

I always make my fiance cut my bangs because he is type a. I just hack them. hahaha!

Great tip!! Thank!

Fabulous -thanks for the tutorial – I can’t wait to try it. 🙂

Hey Kate, I just wanna say that you’ve really inspired me to style my hair more. Lately I’ve been getting really lazy and just throwing it up in a messy bun every day, but now that I’ve been reading through your blog, I definitely have a new motivation to have cute hair. 🙂 I subscribed to your blog (found it through Pinterest, since everyone was posting that cute hair picture) and I can’t wait to read more! (You’ve also made me seriously consider cutting my hair, haha)

~Joanna @ Southern Daisy

I’d love to see how you style your bangs. I absolutely love yours and struggle with mine every morning. Love your site and your tutorials! – Rhonda

Joanna: I’m so glad! Thank you for taking the time to write me that note! 🙂

Rhonda: thats coming soon!!

Visiting from Cassie’s blog…LOVE all your hair tutorials! Definitely following along so I don’t miss out! 🙂

THANK YOU! My mom will love you for this 🙂

Kate, I love your blog. I’m getting my hair cut similar to your style later in the week. I’m wondering how I should describe the kind of bang I’m looking for. Every single time I’ve ever asked for a “long, swoopy bang,” I end up with a chunk of hair that has no style or swoop – and that is just shorter than the rest of my hair! I need some lingo that my stylist will get. I appreciate any help you can give me.

Sarah

Thank you so much for posting this! I’ll look forward to your tutorial on how to style your bangs 🙂 Keep up the great blog! Nicole

Sarah: go for words like “angled, soft, side swept” and start with them at the top of your cheek and go shorter if necessary! Good luck! Oh and bring a photo of bangs you like! 🙂

Thanks, Kate! 🙂

Sarah

Kate, this is so helpful! I love your blog! I used to never leave my house without perfect hair, but about 6 years ago I was diagnosed with a autoimmune disorder that affected my thyroid. I lost a lot of hair! The only good thing is I had very thick hair to begin with, but I lost my of it in my bangs area. I pretty much “gave up” on my hair and just started wearing a headband so I wouldn’t have to deal with the loss. You had me curling my hair this morning, buying new hair products and feeling good for the first time in 6 years. My hair did so much for me and I feel that coming back! Thanks for this site! You are a life saver.

just found your website today~ LOVE IT! thank you for the tutorials! Just curious what type of hair do you have? I have baby fine/thin. It is so hard to get it to look like it has volume/body.

The Chrest Family: Thanks for reading! My hair: It’s medium. Not thick, but a lot of fine/medium hair. 🙂

Rooted in Atascocita: Thank you for sharing that with me! I’m so glad you have been enjoying styling your hair!

Just found your blog through Pinterest and I am so glad I did! I LOVE all of the hair tutorials! Thank you! 🙂 Also – I moved to NC recently and can’t believe fall doesn’t come til November! So yes, I will definitely be finding some cold Starbucks still even though I am craving those cool days and hot drinks!

Kate, love this video. That’s exactly how my stylist told me to trim in case of EMERGENCY – I really can pop in any time for a trim and her salon is across the street. But you know, there are “those days”.
OH and I had half up success! It was those magic bobby pins. The drugstore ones are going in the trash. NO comparison.

Hi, Kate. I just found your blog, and I love it!

I tried this and my bangs are–voila!– good as new. 🙂

You might have already said this someplace else on your blog, but do you wash your hair everyday?

You are so brave! How are you so fearless? Maybe I’m just scarred for life because my mother cut my bangs freakishly short and crooked when I was about six. It took them a year to grow out long enough to be cut normally again. Not kidding! Lol.

Glad to hear you all are having good results with DIY bang trims! 🙂

Kelly: yes, I wash my hair everyday!

Kristin: glad you got the experience the difference in quality Bobby pins! 🙂

YAY! I needed this video SO bad!! Thank you.

Thank you so much for this. I always have that in between hair cuts that I wish my bangs were shorter but not necessarily the rest of my hair. I have admitadly tried to do them myself before and not very succesful. So I usually just try to deal with my bangs until its time for my next appt. So I am sooo thrilled that you have shared the right way to do it.

I am really loving your blog! I got here with Pinterest and bookmarked it. Love this video, I always cut my bangs and regret it. Thank you! 🙂

You are most clicked on “Flexible Posts” @ Anti-Procrastination Tuesday and are featured this week. Thanks for linking up at New Nostalgia!

p.s. I am a hair stylist and even I enjoyed this post:) Great job.

Amy: Well thanks! 🙂

Great post! i am just loving your blog! I would love it if you would share this and/or any other projects you have been up to at Tuesday Talent Show at Chef In Training! Thanks so much and I hope to see you there!
-Nikki
http://chef-n-training.blogspot.com/

This was a very helpful video! Thank you.

Thank you, thank you!! Now I know what I did wrong the last time I trimmed my daughters bangs and she was NOT happy. We’ll see if she’ll let me try again. 🙂 I’m your newest follower, too.

Kimberly @ The Brown Eyes Have It

I love your hair! My hair is a couple inches past my shoulders. If I wanted to get your look, would I need to get it cut in the elongated bob or will your style techniques work on my hair too? I am going to buy the hair products you use. Your hair is absolutely Beautiful!! Move to Louisville so you can be my new hairdresser! 😉

Kelley: yes! You can do these styles on longer hair!

Thanks so much for the tips on trimming my bangs. I’m also trying to do mine and then I botch them! After watching your video, I am confident I can do my own! I’m your newest follower. Thanks again!

I’ve NEVER had someone cut my bangs and me be happy with them..until after I watched this video- and I did them myself! The faith, creativity and joy of you and your sisters blog is inspiring 🙂

Kate, I just found your blog and love it. I have never been able to do anything with my hair. It looks good at home and then I go outside it does what it wants. It frizzes. Help

Amazing!!! Thanks so MUCH!!! I didn’t want to go to the hair-styler yet.. Now I can hold off even longer!! Thank you!!

I stumbled across your blog today and I think I watched every hair video you have on here. Needless to say the dishes are still not done and the laundry is still unfolded, but I learned the mystery of cutting bangs:) I love this post and your blog! Keep up the great work!
–Your Newest Fan 🙂

Would you make a slower more broken down video please?(:

you are awesome! thank you so much for posting all of these videos! i want to try all of these things now because my hair is your length and i never knew i could do so much with it! thank you! i can’t wait to see more! 🙂

Brittany

THANK YOU for this tutorial! I am always giving my bangs a little trim and this really helped me with the side sweep! I was totally doing it wrong…. 🙂
My daughter thanks you too bc I am trimming her bangs today. Now, there will be no sighs of “well that’s just great mom… you over corrected and took too much off!” ha!

Not sure what I’ve been doing to my hair but with the winter and a recent highlighting job my bangs were looking very icky on the ends. I really couldn’t get to my hairstylist for a little longer so I decided to see if I could use this to trim a bit of the split ends off and et voila it worked just enough to make them look SO much better!! I’m going to get my hair cut this week, we’ll see if she notices I messed with them… 😀

Oh.my.word. I am SO sharing this! I wish I would have had this one week ago!!! Thankfully not tragic, but nonetheless not like a stylist! THANK YOU!

thanks!! great tip!!! Hey and did anyone ever tell you that you kind of look like the waitress from Always Sunny in Philadelphia?

Kate, I’m just wondering why you only take 3/4 of your bangs out to trim? Why do you not trim all of the bangs? I only trust myself when it comes to my bangs (hairstylists usually disappoint) and the other part of the bangs has to be trimmed sometime, right?

Can you do a video on how to style/blowdry your swoop bangs? I have a hard time with mine and my hair stylist can always make them look better than I can. Any tips?

Kate, I wanted to let you know that I have used this tutorial for the better! I went for a haircut this past Saturday and have had to modify how it looks a little each day. Yesterday I decided that the hairdresser didn’t take as much as I would have liked for my bangs. I watched the video, pulled more of my hair over and hoped for the best! It looks great! Thank you so much for the tips!

I would also like to know why you only take 3/4 of your bang to trim. I would love to see how you trim the rest of your bang to crown area to give it the layered look that’s not too short looking and blends with the rest of your hair. I have had such a hard time figuring out how much hair should go into the bang area and when I tell my hairstylist side swept bangs I usually only get that very front section and it doesn’t blend well with the rest of my layers. Any help you can provide showing how you trim the top section (where you part or how we should tell where our bangs should start) or all of your layers would be so helpful. And, do you ever using thinning shears to make your layers blend better?

Thank you so much for this! I do have one follow up question: What if my bangs have been grown out for a while and are past my chin. Can I cut them straight across until they get to a workable length and then use the technique shown in your video or should I just use that technique until I get them to the appropriate length I want?

Thanks so much for the video!

Kate…I have my bangs layered for volume. Do you have a tutoral for layering bangs for volume, without making them looking 80ish?

Kate , all of the blow drying and flat ironing get s my hair looking really yucky on the ends. I deep condition and use very good products, do you have any advice ? Am I the only person with this issue , I never see anyone else’s hair fried looking , please help

I love your blog!! You have beautiful hair. I wish you were near me so you could do my hair. I followed your bang tutorial to trim my bangs and they are perfect! Thanks for making pretty hair look easy.

Hi Kate, thank you for all your sharings! I watched this video as well as how to straighten your hair, but do you have one on how to style or straighten your bangs? Cause my bangs are exactly like yours but I’m trying to find out how to best straighten them.
Thanks!

I found your video tutorial
In Pinterest after watching and how well you explain I felt confident enough to cut my own bangs!! It was great and the best is that I had awesome results!! Thank you so much and God bless !!!

Hi Kate, I love your tutorials! My hair is the same length as yours and I could never do anything with it but now I have so many ways to fix it cute! I get up and fix my hair for work and always leave the house with great looking hair and I even get compliments! Thanks so much! 🙂 -Emily

Fairy Hair Godmother: I absolutly loved this video! ‘Or your hair stylist will kill you!!’ BAHAHAHAH 🙂 You inspire me… lots 🙂

thank you, thank you, thank you <3
i can’t tell thank you enough… i was starting to feel miserable with my bangs, they are straight and i hate when someone cuts them straight (just like you said NOT to) because it doesnt look good on my face… so i got courage and start snipping them as you said in video… and it turned out just fine for the first time! with a little practice i will become master of bangs 🙂 thank you :*

Just tried this very nervously for the first time, and it worked brilliantly!! Thank you so much!

omg i love your blog . what kind of haircut do you have ?? is it anangled bob or just a one length ?? cuz that how i want my hair .

-cheyanne

Hi Kate i love your blog but could you tell what i can do with my bangs so they want always be i my face and frizy

Thank you so much for this! I just tried it and my bangs look SOOOO amazing! My hairdresser always just cut straight across!

you are just the cutest thing! Can you come and do my hair everysingle day? Keep up the wonderful work! And come by my blog to say hello. Jodi
http://mashabakescupcakes.blogspot.com/

I came across your website on Pinterest last night and trimmed my banges…I love them…now if you could only tell me how to trim my 3 y/o daughters banges so they don’t look so chopped up (partly because she won’t sit still and I keep taking much off). I can’t see paying to take her to the salon just yet for fear they will want to trim all of her hair! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! You are amazing! 🙂

Just discovered your blog and I love it!! I am almost 55 years old but I love to be stylish and have long hair. Your hair tutorials are amazing. Thanks for showing your style for all ages!!

I have just found my new favorite blog thanks sooo much ! My hair cut is like yours or at least it is when i leave the salon , now I’ll be able to keep it up and have new ways to wear it also . I also love your style and that you are a real woman with a real shape , also just like me .I try and dress similar to you from what I can tell but I get lost somwhere .I love all the cuteness of your style very classy , elagant and stylish with out showing too much . love love love this blog thank u for showing us your great style :))))))

Kate, thanks so much for posting this video! With all my travel lately, I wasn’t able to get in for a bang trim between haircuts. I trimmed them tonight and they will work until I get to next week’s appointment. You rock!

Sandy

I LOVE YOUR BLOG!! SO many cute ideas! I can’t wait to start trying some of them! 🙂 I didn’t know you could wear your hair SO many ways!! Look forward to following! 🙂

I just cut my own bangs the night before last and yesterday, got so many compliments! Thank you for this tutorial! 🙂

I had read your blog.It is very informative.Thanks for sharing it.

When I was a teenager I used to cut my bangs.. but I would do it really wrong! I saw this yesterday and decided to give it a try.. I actually cut about 3 inches off because they were too long ( it’s been 3 months since I’ve been to the hairdresser because I’m growing it out!) This technique worked really well!

Do you have any suggestions for bangs and cowlicks? Thanks to my Dad, I have 2 on each side of the crown which is why I never attempted to cut my own bangs, BUT it is so expensive! I believe I will try your tip because of course I was cutting side to side and looked like a 5 year old! I will be trying!!! Thanks for the great blog, glad I found you!!!

i should of seen this video BEFORE i made the mistake to cut them in a “straight” angle! that explains my ugly short bangs.. but thanks for the video.. i will defiantly keep it in mind..

Thank you for the tutorial. My bangs look better than they have in years!

I just tried this, it works so well! I really doubted that I could cut my bangs nicely myself but your tutorial is super easy to follow. Thanks!

Can’t find tutorial. What am I doing wrong. Using my mobile.

Hi! I found your blog after desperately realizing that I don’t know how to style my hair!
Great video I think I’ll do this right before I have to get a haircut so that if I mess up my hairstylist can fix it! Hehe 🙂 I was just wondering, what kind of scissors are you using? Can we use regular scissors to trim our bangs? Thank you so much! It’s also been encouraging to run into another Christian!

I tried, it worked! Thanks so much!

I’m wondering how you would describe your bangs to a hair stylist? I always say I want long bangs but they never quite turn out like yours and that is what I am shooting for. I get the long bang but then the top seems like it’s own section and totally separate – not sure how to make it all go together like yours.

Hi Kate, LOVE your blog! I cut my own bangs this weekend and my hair stylist SIL didn’t kill me! Thanks for your awesome tutorials. 🙂