 What's up guys welcome to today's vlog today I've got another men's cut for you my friend Matt is coming into the salon and we're gonna do his cut we're gonna take up the sides a little bit add a lot of texture to the top it's a shorter haircut very salon friendly what a lot of your guys are asking for out there so I think you're gonna like this cut definitely let me know if you have questions in the comments below let's get started with our step-by-step here we go okay so the first thing I did was I sprayed down Matt's hair with a little bit of water with my spray bottle and then now I'm going in with rusell grooming tonic and the thing I love about this product is I can quickly spray down his hair he didn't have a lot of product in his hair to begin with and then I can work the product in blow dry the hair and get it to be in a natural fall the grooming tonic has a nice really light hold but it does have a little bit of a hold so it's great for end styling but it's also great for just controlling the hair getting it ready for your clipper cutting so we're gonna use a number two guard like I said this cut is not gonna be a super fancy men's cut it's really a textured short men's cut something that's very salon friendly a lot of guys are gonna ask for so I want to go over just some quick tips with this and we'll go over some also some tips with cutting the top and creating that texture at the end so basics with the clipper what I'm doing is I'm going in and you'll notice that I leaf out or kind of pull the clipper out as I go up around the round of the head what that's gonna do is give me that graduated line so if you look at the top portion of where that clipper is finishing off there is a wait line happening in the hair we're actually gonna go in one of the techniques I like to use to get rid of that wait line is scissor over comb so we're gonna do that in a little bit so I pretty much place the wait line where I want it to fit on his head shape and then I start and I go through I get the length that I want and now I go to a little bit smaller guard this is the one guard so we start with the two guard now I go to the one just drop it down a little bit I'm trying to keep his hair line nice and natural feeling so the one guard takes it nice and close so it's not too blocky looking or something like that so we go through I'm using the one guard doing that little bit of a fade like I said I'm not I don't work in a barber shop I work in a hair salon so what we do is I wanted to create a nice clean look we have done closer fades on Matt in the past but I just find that lately a lot of the guys that we were doing closer fades on are coming in and wanting their hair to grow a little bit longer so you know and that's just what I'm seeing in the salon so you guys can let me know is that what you're seeing in the salon as well post that below I'm sure barbershops you're still doing a lot of the fade work it's still popular I'm not saying it's not but this tends to be a little bit of a transition for guys like Matt that we've been cutting so scissor-over-comb work key things I want you to see is that I have a steady blade that steady blade rests on the bone of the comb so this is my seven inch Mizetani solid scissor I love this scissor for scissor-over-comb because the handle is nice and small but the blade is really long so I get a lot of reach with the blade as I go through and it's got a lot of power to it when I'm working scissor over comb so I just keep that base steady work on moving just that one blade and now we're moving into cutting the neckline now the neckline this is a trick that I actually saw somebody on I think it was Maddy Conrad on Instagram do this live and so it was something that I kind of made a shift pretty quickly so I really liked this technique and what he did was he outlined where he wanted to cut first and went in with the clipper forward and then scoops up the hair and meets the line with it later on so what I loved about this is you're not attacking the neck with the blade down but it does allow you to kind of etch out your line first and then go in and cut so I thought that was a really cool tip so shout out to him on that and you know I wanted to add it I've been using that technique now that I've seen it on a lot of my men's cuts so I just kind of knock off that corner I don't want to corner it off too much or square it off too much in the back like I said I want to keep it nice and natural so I didn't really mess too much with his natural hairline which will give him a nice easy grow out also I'm going to go through and just work the outer edges of the haircut the perimeter of the haircut cleaning it up what I'm really doing is just removing some of those little hairs that grow in in different places and it makes the the outline the perimeter of the haircut look cleaner same thing around the ear just cleaning it up like I said guys this isn't a super fancy cut but another thing I want you to notice already right behind the ear right there on Matt's haircut he's got an end dent in his head which is right around his occipital bone which is pretty normal but you could see that shadowing we're gonna go in with our scissor over comb later on in the cut and actually remove that shadowing and I'll show you how to do that so now I section off the top right at the parietal ridge and I just work basically partings on each side and now I'm going to blow dry the hair down what that's going to do is really start to show me because when the hair is wet I see a lot of shadowing so I get a little bit you could get confused as you're working through the head so if you blow it dry and you work the hair down you're going to see how natural the hair falls you're going to see the real shadows that are happening and it's just going to give you a better result so now I'm going to start working on that shadowing this is where his head goes in a little bit that's something that for me a clipper because it's so wide doesn't capture these shadows as well as scissor over comb so I go in with the fine teeth of my comb and I work just that steady blade up and I cut through and I leaf up as I get to the top so I kind of pull back a little bit still keeps that graduation in there but my goal is to just start working out that heaviness that shadow that's in there so we'll finish up a little bit more scissor over comb again kind of the benefits of this we had the grooming tonic in the hair so as soon as I start blow drying it I get a little more control I use my comb to blow dry and then I get a nice soft feel nice natural feel to the lay of the hair makes it a lot easier to do your fade work or your your you know your blending work up the head so now we're gonna work on the callic this is a really cool tip I think here a lot of people have challenges with callics the best thing to do with a callic is to not fight the way that it wants to fall so what I'm gonna do is how Matt's call it kind of spreads out what I'm gonna do is bring everything straight out from the head I'm gonna work diagonal sections diagonal partings following the head shape and that will allow the hair to do what it wants to do naturally and then I can show him some blow drying techniques later that will kind of help him out with styling it so you can see I'm working almost like a pie shaped section so or little triangles so I can work all the way around the head and then when I get to behind the ear that's where I'll stop my sectioning so I shift around triangle sections all the way to behind the ear and then I work the other side you can see how nice that falls you don't get any of the weird callic things happening because we followed the way that the hair wanted to fall in the first place so same thing I'm working that diagonal you'll notice I'm pushing the hair away for me the reason I'm pushing the hair away is because I'm pushing that new hair into the guideline we talked about this and pretty much every cut every video that we do you never want to pull your guide to the new hair because that's pulling the guide out of its position so it's no longer a guide or it becomes shorter than you wanted it to so just make sure as you're working through the head that you're always pulling the new the new section to the guide now we're gonna go through I'm gonna call these vertical sections all the way through the top of the head it's about a half an inch wide you don't want to go too far we're trying to get a nice consistent feel to the top of Matt's head I'm gonna follow the head shape all the way down but then once I get to this fringe area you're gonna notice that because of his head shape because the head kind of moves down it grows doesn't grow but it adds length to the front of the haircut so even though I'm following the head shape I'm following the head shape and then the head starts to peel down so I get more length in the front which is a way more flattering look than just following the head shape all the way down so allowing your finger to kind of follow the head shape and then just give it a little over direction right there at the very front will give you a little extra length and complete the style so another thing you're gonna notice is that we're following the same rule that we followed when we were cutting the calic everything the new partings are coming towards the guideline we're over directing them towards the guide the key thing here again is to make sure that you don't take too thick of a guideline or too thick of a section because if you do you're gonna be over directing the hair way further than you want what we want to have is a nice consistent feel so if I pass my fingers over this vertically I have the same length and if I go through horizontally we have the same length we're trying to create a nice consistent round shape on the top of his head but we are over directing everything up so it will pass a little bit of weight over to the bridal ridge which will give it a nice even denser look on the very corners of the head which is you know flattering for for most male head shapes so you can see that little bit extra length this is a different view I want to give you guys two different angles of it so this is just a different view of what we did what as we work on the opposite side another thing is we are combing so you see me pushing away now because I'm pushing that new hair towards the guide so just staying consistent as I cut the hair is you know the most important thing in hair cutting just keep the same motions you'll get the same result on both sides so notice the thickness of the sections they're not thick at all because we don't want all that over direction so just really stay focused on those little details throughout the cut another thing I did switch up my scissors so this is the Mizetani DB 20 scissor I talk about it in pretty much every haircut it's my go-to scissor for everything we used a longer scissor for scissor over comb but I like a shorter more powerful scissor for any precision work cutting lines in the haircut so I use the Mizetani DB 20 you could check out all those scissors on our website freeselineeducation.com and don't forget that we do have a 20% off coupon if you put in the code Matt Beck vlog one word in the checkout so now I'm gonna go through cross check everything you can see it's a nice even line that's because we didn't do a lot of over direction so nice smooth feel to the to the hair and then because I added a little extra density to the very front I go through and I point cut a nice soft point cut just to the ends of the hair to soften it up you can see how clean this look is this isn't you know it's nothing fancy but it's a nice clean cut and it has a lot of purpose to it everything is nice and smooth the lines are good you know we used a lot of different technique in this and also that calic being able to adjust the calic area I think is gonna be a big beneficial thing for you guys so I always finish the style with a blow dry shampoo matte out you know get the loose hairs off of them blow dry the hair for the finish because we did blow dry it for the cutting part but now you're gonna see me giving it that extra volume and I'm gonna go in with my brocado carved this is a product it's kind of a staple in what I use for texture so it's a cream based product doesn't have a strong hold to it so people that like that more natural feel to their hair this is a great product for that so definitely check that product out it's brocado carved you can see nice texture style everything's nice and smooth clean cut you can wear this haircut anywhere it's very versatile so hope you guys like the cut I'm gonna finish up my style work a little bit here we're also gonna clean it up with the edger so we've got our tea trimmer back out and I'm just going in and just removing a couple loose hairs that I saw right in the front after I styled it so just always checking those details I mean a lot of people can get out a clipper and start trying to cut hair the biggest thing it separates us as professionals as we focus on every little detail it's why people shouldn't cut their own hair and we get to go in we clean it up and we really bring that value into doing a haircut so hope you guys like the cut let me know what you think in the comments alright guys and like always if you liked Matt's cut then hit the like button hit the share button share this video with all of your friends out there and if you want 20% off your purchase on free salon education calm then use the code Matt Beck vlog at checkout Matt Beck vlog at checkout you'll get 20% off scissors carving combs brushes all kinds of different stuff on there for you guys to enjoy so thank you guys for the support also if you're not a hairdresser and you saw this video and it inspired you to get your hair done somewhere else and you're looking for a salon then go 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