 Yo yo what's happening fellas welcome back to the channel I am sure y'all are looking ridiculous right now. As of the filming of this video there's a huge thing going on right now we all have to stay quarantined well actually some states are trying to reopen it up I'm hey you won't see me going into any of those shops and I'm sure you guys are probably feeling the same way but you need a haircut. Well welcome to this video and welcome to my channel so I've been cutting my own hair since around 2015 or so and the reason why is because if you think about it you got a booking appointment to a barber you got a commute there you got a wait in line then you get your haircut then you drive all the way back home you take a shower all that takes around one to two hours okay I don't like wasting time like that so for me whenever I cut my hair it takes around you know 20-30 minutes then I take a shower then I do my hair and I'm ready to go and I can cut it more often so it saves me around a hundred dollars a month roughly and so today I'm gonna take you guys do how I cut my own hair personally it's not gonna be the quality of what a barber could do because a barber can see all of your head you're just doing this yourself with the mirror it's not gonna be the same exact quality but you're almost gonna get the same quality there's going to be some equipment that you guys are gonna need I'll leave as much as I can in the description below basically you're gonna need some clippers I have these wall clippers that I got from Amazon I'll leave a link in the description where you guys can pick it up you're gonna need a trimmer you're gonna need a handheld mirror you're gonna need a comb you're going to need some shears and this is optional I like having some thinning shears as well and you're gonna also need a bathroom with a mirror in it so just follow along this video is gonna be slightly longer than your normal hair cutting video because I show you guys exactly how I do everything and then you guys are gonna see me go from this to this and how you guys can get similar results so anyways enough talking let's head to the bathroom grow out the hair and let's cut it oh hey guys so as you can see with the power of editing I took my shirt off and I look like a caveman now what I normally do is I do a high skin fade like honestly my hair isn't even too long on the sides it's just long to me because I've been always doing a skin fade but yeah I'm looking kind of crazy right now I cut it around every week to two weeks that's a little extreme but you can do that whenever you cut your hair at home so first thing to do as usual is you're gonna want to clean your tremors and you want to lube them up and normally I would just cut my hair naked but since I'm filming a video you know I want anything to be exposed if I were you I would just do a naked sweep everything up afterwards you're gonna wash it all off anyways when you take a shower and you don't have to dirty another pair of shorts alright so for me since I do a high skin fade I start with the trimmer as my lowest setting the reason why I do is because I don't like lining myself up all the way around that's really hard to do if you're gonna use a mirror I'm sure with enough practice you can get it down very easily but I'm not willing to learn I'm not that big into hair anyways I know a lot of people love hairstyles and growing their hair out or cutting their hair everyone there's a lot of people that love hair I'm just not particularly nerdy about that and that's totally cool you know I'm nerdy about you know clothes Star Wars skateboarding you know I'm nerdy about a lot of things we all have our nerdyness in certain areas hair is just not one of them for me the trimmer gets a lot closer than the actual clippers at a zero guard you know with nothing on there so we're gonna start with the sideburns and we go all the way around and create our first line and always when you do you want to flick out you don't you don't want to just push in you want to flick out otherwise you're gonna create really harsh lines it's gonna be hard to you know clean that up and your hair cuz not gonna look real nice look up look up okay now we're gonna start from the back and go all the way around this is probably not the best way to do it skin fade but it's just what I do all right guys so what you want to do is follow the natural shape of your head if you just do a horizontal line surrounding your head it would just look weird your head has a natural curve to it so just follow that also good idea that I've got to do you want to comb the top of your hair all the way and you want to comb your sides down that way the clipper the trimmer can get all of it perfectly just get this all lined up perfectly so the clippers can just and then the top of your head just comb your hair out the way if you have hair clips that'd be ideal but I don't look freaky man look like Dragon Ball Z alright so again we're trying to follow that natural curve of your head but this part is really tricky so what I want you guys to do is just practice with the mirror without cutting your hair yet just the hand motions of using a mirror against another mirror because what you do especially when you're not used to it if you move your hands to the right it's gonna move to the left it's gonna feel super awkward so what you want to do just practice that first before you cut your hair alright so this is the most important step is getting this line even so we're gonna switch hands and we're gonna want to make it as even as possible because this is your first guideline and honestly the first guideline is probably the most important one because if you don't get this right you can really mess up your haircut and you can mess up the fade and I've done that plenty of times it's okay if you go a little bit too high don't worry just that's your new line and just try and make it even from there and a lot of this is just looking at it in the mirror making some adjustments looking at it again until it's perfect and how you like it so next up we're going to throw on the two guard and most clippers come with a lever and how it works is basically if you push the lever down that means it is open which adds a half size to whatever guard you're using if there's no guard that means it's a half and close means you just lift the lever back up and whatever guard is on there it's just the regular size it is if it's a two it's a two and the reason why the lever exists is to help you blend and fade because you know there's no two and a half guard there's no three and a half guard that comes with most kits and so what I'm doing is I'm going straight up going up a little bit higher and then pulling out again you always want to flick out that way you can get a nice blend otherwise it's going to create a really weird line on your head because the natural shape of your head curves in and if you follow in it's just going to look really bad so you want to flick out and the reason why I do this is because I have a start point and an end point and most barbers aren't going to like that but again this is a home haircutting tutorial this ain't no barbershop so I have a start point with the trimmer and an end point with the two and a half and then you want to use the the guards in between to try and blend inside that's just how I like doing it so now we're going to throw in the half guard and you're just going to follow that first line that you created just go up a you know maybe a half inch or an inch or so depending on where you started your skin fade since mine's a little bit high up I don't want to go too crazy with it because we don't have that much real estate especially around my temple area but in the back you can go a little bit higher all right so now we're going to throw on the one guard and now you're just going to follow that line that you created from the half and just want to go up a little bit higher and again you're always trying to stick to following the shape of your head and you're flicking out that way you're not going to create really bad harsh lines that are hard to blend and that's the whole thing with haircuts you just want to make it look even as possible because if one side is more faded than the other it's just going to look really wonky and just looks really weird all right so it gets a little harder here because it's starting to like blend in this is where the fun begins you already technically created another line with the one even though it's starting to fade in a little bit because you're pulling out so you're going to go to the one and a half and go almost to where you ended your two and a half that way you just use the two to blend it afterwards so we're going to do one and a half now remember we're still on the one clip now we're on open so make sure one and a half and you're going to see that the line on the side of your head isn't going to be like you know it's not going to be like that it's starting to slowly become straight and that's what you want if there's any abnormal hair strands it's going to really show especially with the skin fade so just want to make sure it's a straight line and if it curves out you can fix it by just going like a half guy up or something or just flicking out okay that's why you flick out okay so like I just said what is this animal crossing so like I just said your ultimate goals are trying to get like a straight fade because if you have bumps or ridges with your fade it's going to look really bad and that's not what you want as you guys can see the back of my head it's already starting to get that fade going and to keep it safe whenever you're creating a new line it's better to just go a little bit lower than a little bit higher because if you go too high you can't really get that hair back and you're going to have to wait for your next haircut or your fade's going to have to be a little bit higher but if you go too low it's okay you can adjust and you can always go slightly higher and see if you like it or not okay so now we've got the two guard on and remember we ended at a two and a half on the side it's going to be really easy you just don't want to go as high as you did and you just want to kind of blend it in get the straight hairs and then you're going to always do some micro adjustments you might have to put on the one or the half guard again and then you just play with it so we're going to do it to close not to open because too open would be a two and a half which we already did all right guys so we did a zero with the trimmer we did a half already we did a one did a one and a half and we ended it with the two and a half now we just have the two one and then you just want to try and blend it as best as you can kind of the easy part because you can see like little ridges on the side of your face and using the two will blend it if you see other ridges then you'll just use the other guards to blend it and then you just want to make a little bit of micro adjustments and it's okay to go over it the same part multiple times because there's going to be a lot of stray hairs and you just want to do it till it looks even to your eyes and i saw like a little bit of a ridge so we're going to use the half guard again and we're going to try and blend that so it's just a straight line going up my temple and this is just the part where you make a bunch of micro adjustments okay now here comes probably the most important part is you want to get the actual skin fade going because you created a line with the trimmer and this is the last part you're going to want to blend it's the hardest part so what i really recommend you guys do is you flick out with the corner of your clippers because the line you created is curved so if you use a whole blade where it's flat you're going to create really weird lines so if you just use a corner you just flick it out just slightly it's going to get a little bit of hairs it might take a little bit longer and that's how you get rid of that really really harsh line you know if you don't get the fade right with the one or the two it's fine if you don't get the fade right from your skin to the half guard it's definitely going to look like a home haircut and you guys might be asking why i'm using the clippers instead of the trimmers well like i said before the clippers don't get as close to the skin as the trimmer so if you use a trimmer to try and blend it you can create even harsher lines but the zero guard on the clipper doesn't get as close to the skin it gets really close just not as close to the trimmer and it's easier to blend it with the clipper because it doesn't get as close as you guys can see it turned out decent you know the fades not perfect but you know good enough and especially after two days you're not even gonna notice a difference so we're gonna use a trimmer and you want to just line yourself up remember you don't have to do behind your ear or the back of your head because you already did the skin fade with the trimmer so don't have to pull my ear back and do this shit you know i'm saying you know these lines right here by my temple maybe a little bit down right here that's all you have to do so just try and get a straight line just just nick it a tiny bit now we're gonna flick out from right here so we get this line right here and that's pretty much it for me i'm letting my hair grow a little bit but let me give you a quick pointer especially since you know we're all in quarantine why not grow out the top of your head and then just maintain the sides that's what i would do if i were you guys but if you guys if you're as top the hair is too long what you want to do is you want to wet your hair if you have an empty windex bottle you know rinse it out and then put water in there you can spray your head like a barber but i'm saving that windex just in case because it has alcohol and it'll kill some bacteria during quarantine grab your comb this will stretch out the hairs and then this is what you want to do you grab your shears so what you want to do is you want to grab some strands of hair stretch it out completely then trim what you want to trim off right so you just created a new line now you want to grab some more hair along with this that you just cut off that way you already have a line and then you already can see the extra strands and you just trim that off and match that line next see how this is or this is my guideline right here and then you're gonna trim off some more you can do that all the way around your head then i have these trimming shears basically they have teeth in it stop focusing on my face basically they have teeth in it and it's not going to cut all your hair it's going to cut little pieces of it which means you're going to have a lot of texture so some some hairs will be shorter some hairs will be longer and it makes your hair cut a little bit a lot a little bit nicer whenever you style it so you're just gonna you know trim in random spots nothing too crazy so that is the haircut again i would make sure you are necked you know i'm wearing shorts so i don't expose myself but i would do it necked hop in the shower you wash all this hair off it's not going to clog your drain don't even trip if so just buy some drain oh this haircut i'm not very good on the left side of the head if a barber was a 10 out of 10 this is like a seven and eight maybe passable and that's totally cool that's what i'm all about i'm gonna take a shower style the hair we'll check out the full haircut afterwards all right so right after the shower i grab a razor with a single blade to basically line up my forehead because you know most barbers they use either a hot towel or cream that opens up the pores when you take a hot shower your pores are open and you can easily shave your hair and i like using the razor instead of clippers because clippers are always clipping right with the razor if you push up on the hair it's okay it's not going to cut anything unless you actually shave it but with the clipper if you just push up a little bit too far it's going to look really bad so i just recommend using a razor for that all right guys that's a haircut it doesn't look too bad when you look at the front but on the side you know there could be some improvements but again it's a diy haircut like give me a break come on you're cutting your hair on your own it's not going to be barbershop worthy but it's decent and by day two it's going to look it's going to look just fine i don't know what do you guys think leave a comment down below and if you guys found this video helpful or informative make sure you turn that like button blue let the youtube algorithm gods bless this channel with love and i hope you guys try this out honestly you save a lot of money it's actually a good skill to know especially during these times and for you kids out there you can turn this into a side hustle cut your friend's hair that way you can pay for your own haircut i don't know up to you guys but yeah um keep practicing you know i'm still practicing even though i've been doing this for years i'm still not the best i've gone to the point where i don't care if it doesn't look as perfect because like i said by day two it's going to look just fine follow me on instagram if you guys haven't already at fly with johnny's high and until then stay fly stay healthy cut your hair do it it's fun i'm out peace you know make sure you guys clean up your mess use a broom sweep this up and if you're not sweeping with this you know type of bamboo asian broom are you really sweeping