Learn Hair Styling Tips and Tricks

Learn Hair Styling Tips and Tricks The difference between professional and someone who just cuts hair Starring DC Barber In the Cut ‘09 Today’s haircut we’ll start with a number 2 and gradually down to a 3, 0, keep the sideburns crisp and if 2 isn’t short enough for our customer we might even go down to a 1-1/2 but I’ll let you see me do both. We’ll start here at the top number here with a number 2 and see what we’ll get and we’ll graduate down. We’re going to do a reverse fade meaning we’re not going to start at the bottom or anything like that we’re going to start at the top and what that does is eliminates all the lines, you‘ll see a lot of barbers doing this technique for a lot of people who don’t understand it when they see and they go barbering on this town and why they do it. This is sure as you get no hard lines, no hard lines that you have to work out and you have to eliminate or anything and this quick fade that actually go ahead and get your customer in and out and actually maximize your income as well. We’ll start with our number 2. And our client has a real good grated hair, keeps a clean scalp everything is great so you are able to see if you pay attention real closely you’ll be able to look at the cut from behind usually and be able to see if you have any long hands and again this haircut that we were time pressed and I mean this section could be knocked out you know probably 30 seconds. But again when you’re doing things with speed you want to make sure that you don’t negate the quality, you don’t takeaway heavy clients like when he’s just rushing me out for cheer. Sometimes they got things to do sometimes you got a booked scheduled but the most important thing is to make sure you listen to your customer. 2 things I like to go ahead and live by is keep a clean station and make sure your tools are on point. People ask me why you use so many different tools, we’ll talk about that later on or why I have so many different tools. They ask some questions about the clippers. Again, we always want to press the scalp and not to where he’s uncomfortable but just sort we’ll get as flat a surface as possible. Let’s go and have these fetched and I like to go back over and just push them here back so it stands up. You can go back over it again just to make sure you’re, here’s the chair, spin the chair. Watch out for the— area we’ll talk a little about that before. We’ll swirl here and we go into that area. You want to manipulate your clipper. Manipulate your machine just a little bit differently. Go on under hand, over hand. Now ask your client how’s that on the top? Okay. Okay, so he’s satisfied with number 2 on top let’s see with number 1-1/2 and what we would do from that point on is we’ll transition from here to here now when we get to this area along here, we’re going to keep this darker core so we’ll go ahead, we’ll manipulate our clip again and lift it up just a little bit right there. Let’s not cut as much hair flaky motion. Two ends just meet up. Use your comb again the— removed, the lose hair. I call it keeping it honest and actually see what you’re getting and then I’m stretching with my comb as well for our comb. A little trick if I’m actually doing this the time, I though it would just move it a lot faster because I wouldn’t eliminate all of this when we really have to go there with a smaller blade, I’ll show you a second which is a 1/8 and I’m going to bring it all up. Now I’m grabbing my 1/8 and my brush actually and transition it from the brush because the hair is going to get a little shorter. Usually you stand in many manicuring brushes just make sure that you keep them sanitized you keep them clean, all barbers using my thing most of that do but the bristles are really tight so that they move a lot of hair out of the way. Now just coming at lower point at transition that 1/8 consider that 1/2.