 Hey guys, this is Matt Beck from FreeSalonEducation.com, what'd you say? I don't know, are we touching? We are touching, we're all very, very close. This is what happens when you spend way too much time being away on Christmas Day K and New Year's, right? This happens whenever you're not here. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, all right. She's filling paperwork out as we speak. Well, we decided that we wanted to be very close today, so we're taking it back to episode three. So welcome everyone watching live, this is the FSE Live podcast. Episode... Sorry? Whoa! Well, at least we know it's working live. It is, we're live. Thank you, Drew. Thank you, Drew, for testing. So thank you all for tuning in. We have a haircut coming up that I'm going to be doing. It's a quick, dry haircut. We wanted to bring it back to still a podcast format. We still want to sit down at a table and chat. So we have some questions from you guys that we're going to answer. I want to say thank you. We have the big wheel coming up, which I don't know if we have an image of that right now, but we'll show it to you in a minute. Did we forget? Yeah, we got to... Maybe that would be a good place for that camera with that. So, but we have some great, great sponsors on the wheel. MinervaBeauty.com. We love them. Furniture, you'll see it everywhere in all of the angles. Minerva Furniture. Also, demandforrest.com slash free salon education. Check them out. If you need marketing help with your salon business, it's automatic and it's awesome. Um, we got, so quick, fun thing. I actually... Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Slow down. Yeah, I know. We're there. I'm afraid I don't want to run too long. Happy Festivus. Because Justin will tip the table over. No, I'm just kidding. I will kick this tail right over and walk right out. So, uh, so Happy New Year. Dreia, what did you guys do? That did a lot. So we'll talk about it. That got a girlfriend. We're on this prize. So that got a girlfriend, which we're all very impressed. It's been four years that we've been here and he's never mentioned a girlfriend. I'm not saying he hasn't had one. He's mentioned ladies to me. Okay. We've had guy talk. Oh, bro, bro time. Okay. But so none of us have ever met a girlfriend before. So we still have. Oh, that's not true. I think he just keeps his personal life away from me. And I think that's, I like that. And this is why. But now, maybe this, but maybe this girl is, is like more... A man. Special. She's special. And important. Yeah. He's in his 20s. There's nothing wrong with dating. You know. I know. I'm excited. We're saying it as if like, he never, ever, ever talked about any girl. So we're going to have a talk about the birds and the bees. And how, how people get pregnant. This, it's... Oh, I know. I can't imagine why he keeps these personal things. It's private. But it only gets this way because he keeps them so private. All right. So, uh, and then Dreia, what did you do for New Year's? For New Year's, I got a girlfriend. Sorry. No, I did not get a girlfriend for Christmas. Okay. Or New Year's or any of those. She bartended in Louboutin's. Yeah, I bartended in Louboutin's on New Year's Eve. You did bartend? For a little bit, yeah. Okay. Which really just means she went behind the bar and served herself. That happens to everybody after 12. It's all right. No, after 12, I ended up bartending. So that was fun. Cool. Just for a little bit. All right. Justin. Saw Star Wars a few times. Okay. Yeah. Didn't get it by drunk driver. You told that all about it and everybody else? Yeah, no. We gave that a warning shot of if you don't see it before Brian gets back your SOL. Yeah, because that won't let anyone talk about Star Wars. Yeah, we think good. We were pretty good. We made fun of them a little bit, but it was all right. Nice. But again, it's not normal here. But no, it was a good holiday. All right. Cool. And then Brian was on vacation. I was. Went to Key West, had an amazing time. Super jealous. So if you want to see the pictures from that, you can go to my Instagram. Is it on Instagram? I didn't put that many up. I did more Snapchatting. This trip. Let it disappear. Speaking of Snapchatting. Or FaceTiming. What? FaceTiming. I did start Snapchatting. I'm a little confused by Snapchat, though. I know you are. I follow you. Every video you end, every video you end, you sound confused or cut off. Like you just ran a child over and you're like, oh crap, I gotta finish this. How do you know what happened? So I'm using Snapchat differently than most people would. Is it revolutionizing Snapchat? No, I'm just I'm doing it. It's a bit like people. He's not freeing the nipple. I'm just if I have like a business thing, then we put it up there and that's all it is. But like Mickey Bullock asked me a question about his salon. That was cool. It's a lot more typing than I thought. Yeah. I like those midday questions about Snapchat. Yeah. I only had two video questions. One for Mickey and his kid was in the background. And then the second one was from a lady and she was taking video of a coffee cup and talking. So I didn't you know. So I'm enjoying Snapchat because it's like a quick way to respond to people. But we'll see how it goes. And I did say something on the last podcast about as a salon using Snapchat might be kind of fun. So it's an idea that I'm kind of throwing out there because I think if you had that kind of a professional Snapchat for your salon. Well, we talked about that on the news one too. Yeah. As long as actually doing that. They were. Yeah. They were already at each other. And that's how they communicate like let each other know like a lesson. Oh, that was. Yeah, you're right. Okay. All right. Cool. So that I think that that could be a cool thing to incorporate. You know, if you're a business trying to grow and all that. So what else? Anything else? What's in the box? What's in the box? Me and Christina. What would you do? We had family over, which was really awesome. We went to the Eagles game, which was really fun. Oh, yeah. They lost. Sorry that they got. Yeah, I saw that and I was like, oh, damn. Yeah, it was bitter, but it was really fun. And it definitely will be going back. The videos I saw didn't seem like Hayden gave a crap. No, Hayden had the best time ever. So yeah, I don't think it's like actually upset. Yeah, he told his girlfriend. It was on TV. You just want to see it. We were watching the game. No, I know. I know. Yeah, he was definitely dancing it up. So so that's pretty much it. Thank you guys. Happy New Year to everyone that is watching and and hanging out with us. We did get something fun from our pals at Andis. So I asked them for blades. You've got them. Yeah, they did send me blades. There's supposed to be a clipper though. So maybe there's another. So that one, Justin took that box, but we have actually really surprised. Justin didn't open that. I asked them so excited. I asked them if they could send me every single blade and they did that. So this looks exactly the same as they the Oster ones. They are the same build. They do the same thing. The Oster blades are interchangeable with the Andis clippers and Andis clippers. Okay. Yeah. So I'm not crazy. You are, but not because of this. So they're also sending their latest cordless clipper. I can't wait. So pretty psyched. We'll do a review of that when it comes. But thank you to Andis. I love the metal blades. You know, those are fantastic. Which one? The T24. Let me see. What is that? The three and a half. Yeah, we have everyone. The T24. It looks like it would be the... Justin has a confused puppy look on his face. No. It looks like it's a little bit bigger than the 1A. He's got the head cock and the ears. Like a drum. Dad, go on my... Can you get it? No. We're not going to do that or something right now. No. I want to see what size is compared to the other ones. See, and I could have cut your hair tonight. All right. So thank you to Andis for sending those blades. Thanks. We will be playing around with those later. Awesome. All right. We have a haircut. Let's do this haircut. We're going to do a haircut. If you guys have questions, well, we need to answer questions, but let's do the haircut first. Okay. Then we'll answer the questions at the end, because I feel like we'll get to as many questions as we can. You want to do a question while you're doing some certain things of setting up or something? We can do that as well, because we will have, if you guys are on watching live, you can ask the questions that way. And we're going to do a dry haircut, so I'm really excited about that. I don't have any before pictures of this, but it's going to happen really fast. So if you want to fast forward, if you're watching this later, and then go back and watch how we did it. That's cool. I can't type. Oh, geez. If they're watching live, they're going to see it. Whatever. All right, guys. All right. So let's move over. I'm going to go get set up. We're not moving. He's moving over. All right. So do you want to, let's just hit a question. Yeah. All right. First on the list, we got the Smokin' Baba. Says, how would you recommend to proceed when you're looking to leave a salon for a better salon, maybe even the competition, or a totally different kind of job? So basically, anybody can answer this, Matt, except for you. Okay. Fire bomb. Dray, go. Okay. So we all have. I know. So my last salon, I got the salon owner a nice little card thanking her for the time that I spent at the salon and letting her know how much I appreciated her, but that I was moving on to another opportunity that came around. The last one, I quit. The lady like promised me the world. There was nothing there for me. So I was leaving. She told me I came pictures up on the wall. The walls were all stucco and cement, so I couldn't nail it. So he's double set of tape. A little bit of stucco came off. I quit and I took my few guests with me. She sent me a bill to fix the stucco. That's my last experience of quitting. All right. Any time that I left someplace, it was to go somewhere that I thought there was a better opportunity. Yeah. Or it was just, it was more in line with the kind of path of where I wanted to go next. So, you know, I was never shy about that kind of stuff. So I just had the convo with the boss. I remember each one was hoping that they understood. None of, I think that also helps. None of them are direct competition. So there wasn't really an awkward. Except the time that I just got flat out fired by a voicemail. That was easy to leave. You didn't really have an option on that one. No, I was just, okay, bye. Thanks. Can I get my stuff, please? Yeah, I was gonna say, when I left my salon in Maryland, it was a really easy conversation because when I wasn't going to a comp, it wasn't offensive to the salon owner. She was fine with it. She understood that I was moving to a completely different state. And she actually, to this day, she still says, if you want to come back to Maryland, the door's open. Right. I think whenever I left my previous jobs, it was never, you know what, I'm sick of this crap. I'm out of here. It was always, this is what I'm following my heart. That's where I feel like I need to go for this job. And that way it just, it leaves it so that they have to be a jerk. To like, they either accept it or they have to go out of their possible comfort zone and be like nasty about it. Well, I think if you're honest and you're just played about it, then it's a pretty easy. Or just burn the place down. Yeah, like I said, my first thing, fire bomb. Yeah. Molotov cocktail, done. So if you don't want to get arrested, probably don't follow Justin's advice. Just don't get caught, that's all. All right, so we want to move into the next one. One more. All right, the coffee ex queen says, what is your advice on clients growing out a pixie cut? It sure is a tedious thing. I have a couple of people that I've been doing this with and to make them feel a little bit better and more productive. I have them constantly coming in for cleanups. That way they still feel like they're doing something proactive. And it keeps like the hairline in a better place. And where is, oh, it's that camera. I'm like, what the hell's looking at us? Your mama. Yeah, that's what's worked well for me. Cleanups, neckline, cleanups, that stuff. Cleanups and neckline because when you have somebody who has super short hair, one of the first things that bothers them is around the ears, around the neck. And for the most part, you can keep that fairly short until you get that top area a little bit longer. Justin. I second that. Gee, thanks. I mean, there's really not much more to go on about that other than just even also while that top keeps growing out, keep that neckline nice and tight and tapered until it gets at least a collar. That'd be it. You know, nice undercuts, undercuts are always fun. All right, are we ready for this haircut? Boom. All right, guys. So you can, can you see it on the screen, Brian? I'm going to watch the screen. Okay, cool. So we are going to do a quick dry cut. And the thing I like about this is that it's not quick as in when a guest comes in, you're going to do, yeah, he's not, you can come up to me for a second. I'm talking. So you can get on my face, dad. Right in there. You might have to, yeah. Okay, so this is a quick haircut now at this point, but we did spend a lot of time prepping the haircut. So I don't want anybody to think, I think a lot of times people look at dry cutting as a guest would come in, sit in your chair, you flat iron them right there without washing them and then get them out quick. And I, yeah. So that'll smell good. This is, we have cleansed fully, we've conditioned, we've blown dry with a flat wrap motion to smooth it out. And then we use the flat iron to smooth it even more. So it's, it's been polished to be cut dry. So we're going to get into the haircut, basically how I've sectioned it off. We have a left-hand side parting. I'm going to keep that natural. I'm not going to go overload with the, with the partings or the sectioning. We're going to start in the back taking a vertical section. So I'll turn this so you guys can see. So I'm pinching out a vertical section in the back. Oh, spin it. Brian, you better watch. I'm watching. I wonder how to do a quick haircut. I know. All your haircuts are quick. All everything I do is quick. That's right. Sounds like a personal problem. So I'm going to pinch the hair. You can see as soon as I pinch this into my fingers, it creates a 40, basically a 45 degree angle. So I want to look at that. And I'm going to draw that angle in using my scissor. So you can see how I'm working my way out. And I'll hold the hair up so you can see it. What scissor are you working with there, boss, man? This is the Mizetani puffin, which is a dry cutting scissor. Get this out of the way. So you can see how it bevels down. I'll hold it out, but it's a broken edge. And that's what I really wanted to create in this haircut. Let's see. Donuts. Come on. All right. So right here, you can see that angle. So we wanted that beveled edge, but I want it to be nice and soft right around the baseline. We'll go in and cut that later as well. So moving next to it, again, pinching the hair. You see it, that? And working that 45 degree angle some more. That's straight out from the head mat or over directed? It's straight out from the head. Yep. Okay. Now at this haircut, would you use a, your comfort at least, are you using a larger puffin or one of the smaller puffins? This is a smaller, it's the 5.5. I actually wish I would have gotten the 6 inch, to be honest. For this haircut or just in general? In general. I think with the dry cutting, so you can see how broken that is. That's what I really love about this technique, is that it gives it that soft edge. We'll go in and we'll clean it up with the tip of the scissor. But for the most part, I like having that kind of shattered, thanks, shattered look to it. Yeah. So I wish I would have gotten the 6 inch, only because with point cutting and stuff, I like to get in deeper with the blade. And this blade's pretty small, you can see. You just make it so easy. I know. Now, all right, my question, because I notice you kind of did it, and I think before we're out of these sections, I want you to go over it. When you're holding it, how do you know where to start? Because I know this is, it's still broken and it's not quite so exact, but you're using the previous as a little bit of a guide of where to go. Right, so I grab a little bit of what I just cut, and then I move straight over to the new, parting new section. So when I over-directed out, I pinch it, and as I'm pulling out, you could see the line in there. So I just go in and I will start working that line. So basically once it drops out, start cutting. Yeah, yeah, but don't wait till it all drops out, because if you do that, you won't see that angle. So make sure you start a little sooner. Now these side sections, that's still straight out because I can't tell from this angle. It's still straight out, but it's over-directed back because the head's starting to curve away. So I'll show you guys. It's not, obviously, yeah, it's not straight out, straight back. Okay, straight back. Yeah, so straight back from the head. This would be straight out, obviously, so straight back. I'm just here to help you translate for the morons, like me. So you're almost creating a box back there. Yep, I am. All right, so you can see how shattered that bottom is. I'm not worried about the look of that at this point. What I wanted to do was create that bubble edge. I'm going to cut all of that off at the end of the haircut. So I really just want to focus on keeping that 45-degree angle. Obviously, when I hold hair up, it's going to elevate it. So I'm going to get a little bit of that layering in the bottom of the haircut. So we'll take another diagonal forward section from both sides. I'll show you. And as long as I can see my previous section through this, I know I didn't take too much hair. So just make sure you don't take a lot. And now we're going to work really focusing on elevation and how much we're doing this T's cutting in the haircut. So again, now that the head's starting to curve away, I want to focus on how I'm elevating the hair. Because we're still working on this round here, I don't have to elevate that much. But to make sure that I don't stack it up too much or build too thick of a back, I really want to stay focused on that. We said this was a dry cut. Did we say what kind of haircut it is? Like what the end result's going to be? The end result? It's going to be like a long bob. Is what we're creating. A shattered long bob. And then we're going to do a little fringe around the face. Love that. That was supposed to be a surprise. Now they know. And knowing it's half the battle. So pinching that hair is falling out. So that's where I'm going to start doing the dry cutting. So it's nice and shattered there. Hair over the face that really actually looks like a person leaning forward. What's that? I said that mannequin just looked very real on this camera. Like leaning forward like that with the face covered. I actually, I really love this mannequin. This is the first time. So Pivot Point sent us a bunch of mannequins and they're sending us more. But this one is the, what do they call it? The snap cap mannequin head. It's delicious. So this entire head of hair comes off of this head. You can replace it with another head of hair. Which is really cool. And we hadn't used them. And then so today I did. And the hair quality is great. It's not too thick. And it smoothed out really nice. It seems to be like sturdy. Because when I was, when these first came like I saw it and I'm like, is that going to like wiggle around? Like when you're like trying to do the haircut? Yeah. It seems like it just like stays put. Which is good. Well, that's a funny thing too. Like when you, so the last couple weeks of how to use different mannequins because we ran out of our Pivot Point mannequins. And you notice like those heads don't fit on the stands as well. So it's, it's really nice having a mannequin head that actually fits. So Matt, you have a question from Jesus Martinez. Yeah. He wants to know what products are in the hair. So products in the hair, I prepped it with Bercato's Cream Gel, which I really love. And, and that was pretty much it. But that's not true. I did, I used the Shield from Amica because they sent us a bunch of fun products. So a nice spray on iron product. I got another good question. Yeah. BB Parisi, with this technique work on curly hair or should it be straightened first? I can see the finished result being very soft and romantic on natural curls. Yeah. It's actually really awesome on curls and I would do it right on the curly hair. I would not straighten it first. Yeah. Yeah. Because if you straighten the hair, you could see that this is a very free technique. There's nothing technical about this. Vidal Sassoon would probably like roll over. Jesus. Yeah. Well, I'm just saying like there's nothing precise about it except for the elevation and over direction I'm keeping the same and we are using a guideline but it's very shattered through the haircut. So on curly hair that works really well because you're still building structure but you're allowing a lot of air and freedom within the layers. Now if it was somebody that wore it, well I was just going to ask, if it was somebody that wears it both curly and straight, would you recommend doing this straight just so that it wasn't too disconnected when they iron it? Yeah. No, I mean, did that make sense? Yep. I would do, if they were going to wear it straight sometimes then I would make sure it looks good straight so I would want to do it straight. If they're always going to wear it curly then I go and just cut it curly because you could cut it straight, you're going to have to cut it again once it curls up. So, you know, that's kind of a personal preference but because I don't think the results going to be affected too much but I think you're going to have to do more work if you don't just cut it curly. But you can see, I mean, I just love how soft that is and how it falls and tucks in. Again, this is all going to go away so and we can customize that. May even use, like Christina was just saying, the carving comb for this bottom little bit. I was going to say, this reminds me of a haircut that you got a while ago. A haircut that I got a while ago. Yeah, the chop. Drake keeps asking me to. That was actually one of my favorite haircuts and it's kind of making me miss that right now. That's what I'm saying. So, the thing that reminded me of this is Christina was talking about this a little bit shorter but Taylor Swift is wearing kind of like, what did you say it was, Chris? Like, shattered longer front a little bit? You didn't say? No. She has a fringe bang but then it's long, is it a longer bob though? Okay. I was going to say this haircut when I had it was so versatile whether I wore my hair straight, whether I wore it curly. Right. Well, when I curled my hair because I don't have curly hair but you could pull it up for the gym. It was a great, great style. Yeah, and you could wear it. This could be a longer cut as well. All right, so wait, hold on. Right now you're moving into a little bit more of natural fall rather than. So now I'm just combing all of the hair to where it lives, basically. Straight down, we have our side parting here. Now the question always comes up, Matt. What about the people that say they've moved their part? Yeah, so you're going to do it the exact same way. If they have a center part, then you're going to make the same moves. If they have a part on the other side, if they flip it, then I would cut it as a center part and then they could flip it. Would be my recommendation there. All right, so we've got the parting in and it's really important when you're doing dry cutting to keep the hair really at its natural fall so you can see how the weight is living and shifting throughout the haircut. I'm going to over direct everything straight back to me and cut it there. So it's going to get a lot longer in the front. So you're going to keep that box shaping that you showed earlier? It's going to be more of a triangular shape for the people that look at shape that way because it's going to get longer into the front, but keeping it in the box in the back. So that's what I'm saying though. The fact is going to be a triangle, but when you're combing, you're going to comb it straight to that. Yes, so guide is coming from there and then we just go in and we're half closing the scissor to create this technique. You can see it falls nice and soft. Slight gradual move forward. Delicious. Same thing here. I'm not pinching the hair at this point. You could, but the less hair you're working with in this slide cutting technique, the better. Sometimes I would twist it, depending on what part of the head I was on, because I'll twist it over here so you'll see it. When I'm on this side, because I like to keep kind of the same, we're bringing everything back like this, I will twist in my hand a bit and come over to this side because I really want to keep that same angle and I don't want to work my way up. It'd be too hard this way. Really just as a comfort thing, I overdrag the hair back, pinch it, and work my way to the top. That seemed clear to everyone. Yup. Yeah, yeah. It's very customized haircut for each person. Yeah. Because you're going to be obviously taking more of a shattered feel to somebody who has more hair. Yeah, if somebody had really thick hair at this point, when I was doing this haircut, I would make sure that my elevation was a lot higher. I was going deeper with the texturizing in the haircut. Krista is asking, does the client's head stay tilted forward? I think so, if that's where client's head tilting forward has nothing to do with the end result of the haircut. When you tilt a client's head forward, really the only reason I'm doing that is if I get the head in this position, which is basically a 45 degree angle for my body, because this would be flat. So I have the head tilted out of 45. So when I hold the hair out here, I'm holding it right in front of my body, and I can go in and make that cut. If I had her head tilted like this, then to get that same angle, I have to be all the way down like this. If her head's tilted too much, then I have to be all the way up here like this. So it's really, this is all about my comfort, has nothing to do with the end result of the haircut. Could I cut the same exact haircut with her head like this or like this? Yeah, it would be the same haircut. Just be harder for me to do it. That make sense? Yep, totally. Well, I also think it's easier for a guest to sit there with their head forward, then for a little bit, then for you who are doing countless haircuts a day to be twisting your body into uncomfortable positions. Right. I heard that worded when I was in school, as it's better for them to be uncomfortable for 15 minutes than you for 15 years. Right. All right, now we're going to work into the fringe kind of like, I want to add some shatter pieces around her face, because I don't want this just to be all the way headed to the front. So what I like to do here is find the point where these two pieces match up, right? So I could take out all of this fringe area and then that haircut matches up right there. So what I'm going to do is go in. That's a really helpful way to do that. So that you both sides say the same? Yeah, yeah. That's like the first time that I've ever heard anyone explain that. All right, well, I'm glad you tuned in. Hey, I'm here for you, buddy. All right, so now what I'm going to do is I'm going to twist the hair in the front, right? So I'm going to grab this triangle out of the front and grab a little bit from the opposite side. I'll show you guys what the section looks like. It's a triangle. Let me tilt this down. Got that, Thad? Pretty good. So we have a triangle here. I'm bringing everything over to myself. Now, to twist the hair, you got to think about it, because if I just twist this any way that I want, it's going to over direct hair in different ways. I want to over direct this part on this side of the head further away from where it lives, right? So we'll grab all this hair, comb it, so it's precise or as precise as it's going to get. Hold it in my hand, shift the hair over, and then this is where we're going to start our cut. So it's going to give me a little extra length, and I'm just going to work my way all the way through this hair. Cut it off. Leave it like that. Leave it like that. And then you can see a nice soft transition, which gives it a little extra throw because of the twist on the end on this side. We can do this. It's a way you twist it toward you to make it get longer the other way. Twist it the opposite direction of where it's going to fall. So then this one, we go the same thing on this side. We'll twist it away from where it's going to live, and then we'll work our way through. It doesn't give it a ton more length or over direction, but just enough to where it's nice. You can see softens that edge right there. So soft. And brings it through. Sexual. It's very optimal. Beautiful. That's kind of good. What's wrong with you? All of you. All right. Didn't you miss us? Yes, I did. So that's going to be another three weeks. Oh, I need my other other scissor stuff. You got to take it, Brian. What do you mean take it? What am I going to do? All right, I'll go finish the haircut. Hang on. All right, I'm going to take advantage of this to do another question. I was going to say just go do a quick color check. Candy Sunshine 8. What's a good way to get your stubborn clients to rebook without sounding pushy? I know what works for me is to just let them know that I want to... I had heard early on to even before you have issues getting people to book, say you're not that crazy booked yet, to almost make it sound like you are when you go to rebook them. Be like, I just want to make sure that you don't have any problems and you get the time that you want. So why don't we just go ahead and put it in now? If you need to move it, you can, but I'd rather just have something in there now so that you don't have to worry about it. And then... Almost make it sound like it's a favorite right. It adds a little bit more. It's booking up really quick for whatever reason you may have for the next few weeks. I mean, that worked well for me. All the carbon combs are in the top. Draw the station over there right underneath the cabinet. You're the best. And if they're calling in for an appointment, always make sure you deny them their first request. What? Dad, no, is this why you were single for so long? Don't answer the phone anymore, Dad. I'm joking. Actually, no, I knew someone who, a manager of a salon who, when somebody called to book an appointment and they would ask for a time or day, he would always twist it like 15 minutes. Even if that time that they wanted was available, they'd be like, oh, can you do either 15 minutes earlier or 15 minutes later than what they requested just so that they didn't feel that they could just call. Mind game. And get the appointment that they were looking for right away. Yeah, because that way you're not being pushy, but you're adding a very slight sense of emergency to them needing to revoke that appointment. And then just be really, really consistent with that. And then before you know it, there will actually be that sense of emergency. Because I like to bring up holidays. Certain times a year, there's always something that you can use as an excuse for why people need to, oh, that's going to be prom season, or oh, that's Valentine's Day. I always like to do the- That's a Tuesday. Put it onto their schedule type of thing. Oh, I want to make sure it fits into your schedule when you need it. That way you're not too pushy and bullying them. I just- I like to bully them. I know you do. I mean, that's- My rebooking's gone up very dramatically. You know, ask him, since I started bullying the hell out of my guests, my bookings went up there and they keep him. Yeah, I mean, I've had some discussions with people. Are they crying? They are. It's good. They like to power reports too. All right, so that was a fantastic commercial break. Let's get back into the haircut. We're for more sponsors. Don't come for me. Just don't what? Don't come for me. All right, so we- So this is the last little bit. I'm going to use the chopstick pro. Oh, that's a good one. Which is- It's- Are you excited, Drea? I do. I like that one. Okay, so- That's a good choice, man. I'm going to use the chopstick pro. I'm not even going to really use a comb. I'm just going to see where it lays. I'm going to pinch, again, little bits here and go in. Nice and close on this. We're good. All right, so I'm just going to work that fringe area and just use the chopstick pro at a 45-degree angle and just etch out- Now, Matt, if you're doing this based off of how it is going to just visually lay and look, why is her head still tilted forward and not straight up? Well, because I- Again, so I can get into the hair and it's laying against her head. And then I'm going to tilt her back and see what it looks like. So we will be moving it back. Cool thing about the chopstick pro, too, on a human being, we can work this right along her hairline there, but because this girl's really plastic. It just sounds scrappy. So long as you're guessing, some of our humans here are plastic as well. You can get the razor all up in there. Right, so then when I tilt her up, so we'll see just some pieces in here. That's delicious. Now, would you use like the- at this point, would you use maybe a cutting spray while you're in there? Is he using one? No, because I want to keep it dry, just because I like seeing exactly what it's going to look like. But if I needed it, if I needed to go in there more precise or something, I would. So I think that that's good. Now I'm going to use the regular carving comb wide and go in and just with the 50% carve side, my body like this. This is a 50% carve, just working the ends of the hair, just to soften that and add a little bit more texture. Not much. I'm not putting a lot of pressure on it. Now there might be some people at home that are cringing because you're using a razor on dry hair. It's a fresh blade, so it cuts just like- Well that's a them problem, not a him problem. Yeah, speaking of blades, Anna Naderhauser is asking, when is the shop getting the blades? Oh, we do have blades, so we have- Boom! You might not be able to purchase them, but we do have them. We have them, but you don't. That just went on the top- Coming soon. My top priority list of- Technically the shop here has them, but she can't. They don't mean our shop, like shop FSE, I think, is what you're talking about. Yeah, shop FSE, yeah. They're not up there yet. So give it an hour. You just got them in. So okay. Wait till you get to home and put them up. Our last order of carving combs, I ordered the blades to put up on the site as well. I should order one. Does the hair go behind the ear on that mannequin? There's an ear on this mannequin. What? It's like, it's legit. Wow, like- Yeah, this thing's nice. That's intense. Yeah. All right. I'm digging this. Like it. Do you love it? I don't care. It's never going away for me. All right, that's good. Love you too. All right, cool. That looks really good, Matt. Matt, that looks fantastic. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. What did you say? See, it looks like shit. I heard the pitch the more she's lying. I heard you. She does. I'm getting caught on it. I heard rumor that we're getting a schedule of who's teaching classes coming up. Yeah. That's true. All right. So ironing. I just did a haircut. Just posted a video this week and talked about this little trick of slight curl in the opposite direction. Sometimes that doesn't need to vibrate. Said no one ever. Go ahead. So we'll kick the top over a little bit. Yes, I do do your hair like this. Christina gets her haircut while she's driving. All right. Anybody have any questions? No, but you sold VB Parisi. You sold her to him. Sold her or him. You want that cut now? All right, Matt. So you gave this guest this haircut. Yes. Now say in six weeks they want the same haircut. Yes. How would you go about trimming it up? Same way. I'm so sad that I zoomed in. Do it again. I wish you had that face on Zoom. Hit rewind and do it again. No, I would do it exactly the same way. I would iron it the same way and then go in and do the technique the same. Now honestly. This is not a haircut that you need to maintain. I would say four weeks, five weeks maintain. Every couple weeks it's shattered. So there's not a structure. It's not going to explode out. So I would say this is a good like, this is a great haircut for clients that don't want to come in that often. You still got to get them in often because that's part of the business. But if they have to push it a little bit, this is a good haircut for them. Okay, my question. And I think now would be a really good time while you're standing right there. Would you mind pulling out a section and just showing how you'll clean this up when they come back in five weeks? How to hold it and do that tease cutting while only removing like a half inch because they're not looking to go significantly shorter. Yeah. So when I go in, I'll grab a section. And the good thing is you have pretty much the same thing. I would pinch just on the very ends of the hair and I would work just with a little bit. So you would almost take shorter strokes. Yeah. I mean, depending. So if she came back and she was like, oh, this side was really bulky, then I would go in even though I didn't want to cut a lot of length off, I would go in with heavier strokes like this. But I'm not cutting as much hair. You can see it teasing up because that's going to keep a lot of the length in the haircut, right? But I'm saying because this haircut's so great, what do you do when the girl says, I want exactly that again? Yeah. Just give me the same thing as last time. It's very simple as doing it the exact same way. You're just going to take these pieces. Shorter strokes. Yeah. And just work with shorter strokes through it and just clean the ends. Cool. You could do that technique, you know, to clean up a haircut or whatever. What I like about this haircut and you guys, you know, you could do this haircut if you like it. That's cool. Not everybody's going to ask for this type of haircut, but this technique you can use on every single person that you ever cut their hair. So you could do a whole wet haircut then go through a detail of dry with this technique. It's one of my favorite ones. And you guys probably know that if you watched for a while because I do it a lot, but it's because it's one of the, you know, number one, go-to techniques that I use because it softens things so well. If you hit your guess on the head, call that mic drop. Any questions on the seed? No, everybody's loving it and raising about it. Cool. Bebe is a her. I figured that out. Bebe is a her. All right. I said a sorry. How do we like the new format? That's what I want to know. So leave your comments below. Try to comment. Leave your comments right now. Comment like crazy after we upload the video. So because all of your comments that you're making right now are disappearing. And they won't be on there later. But not in our hearts. We'd love to see the trail of the comments. So keep, tell everybody how much you love them. But then go back on later and make sure you leave your comments so we can see them because I would like to know if you like this format with the table and the education. Christina's been pushing for this kind of thing for a while. And I totally agree that this is, I think this is a better type of project. I think Drian enjoys it too because I am now her back. I have a pillow. We also have to spin the wheel. And Draya is going to be up next week teaching. So we're going to work jam. We're going to work together. We're going to come up with something. Cool. And then, I mean, we're not going to work together here. But throughout the week, we're going to work together. I don't need to hold my hand right. We're going to come up with something cool. So if you guys have anything out there that you want to see, make sure you comment. Send it to us and let us know. Snapchat, Jay. Draya is going to spin the wheel. We have a lot of cool people. Thad, let's do everything next week. None of us are even going to come. She's going to do the class, the camera, the wheel, all of the above. We are choosing from the people who ask questions. All right. We'll just hit Draya and just randomly pick someone. All right. And it looks delicious. I'm just kidding. Let's talk about what. They participated. Lady Limitless. Lady Limitless. So Lady Limitless has an opportunity to win. Donald Scott Carvinko, which we used tonight. Delicious. Sunlight's Bolly Box. My fave. Jay Lace Clothing. Olaplex. Parker Razors. Ergo Brushes, which we love. Yeah, we do. Again, Donald Scott. MinervaBeauty.com sending something cool. FSE. What are we giving away, Chris? Not that tart anymore. Yeah, we can't give away that anymore. Something awesome. She's not watching this. It'll be a surprise package. Yeah. All right. And it's just going to be Matt's head shot. And he's going to sign it. Mainstream is giving away. Like Christina. Christina is going to sign it. 100% of the money you bring in for one month total. Millennium, three months free of Mevo. And Mizetani Scissors are still on the wheel. Is it the $100 offer free pair still? It is. I think it's a free pair of scissors. Yeah. So, spin the wheel. What's the name? That's intense. You might want to know that before you spin that. What was the name? It wasn't Lucy Lawless. It was Lady Limitless. Lady Limitless. Well, shit. Lady Limitless, some scissors. All right. She quickly approached in graduation. Congratulations. All right, that wheel was so tight. I don't know what happened. Drea, why is it so tight? I didn't touch it. Justin tightened it. I didn't do nothing. All right, cool. So, congratulations. We need to send a contest. I told you, you might want to clarify before she spins it. Contest at FreeSwanEducation.com. Send your address. And you got some new scissors. You're not on camera. I know. I don't need to be. He's got a mic still. That's okay. I'm mic'd. It's like, God, we don't have to see him. Can you zoom it over here? I don't have to be on camera, but zoom in on my face. I love the cameras on Matt at the same time. Can we get a smoke machine to do all of them? Can we do 3D? I'll lean in on this one. Can you turn you into Oz? That's okay. All right. Thank you guys so much. That probably sounds terrible. All right. Thank you guys so much for watching. Happy New Year to everyone. Kermit and Speaker. Follow. Yeah. We could do the same one. Yeah. Follow Dreya. Dre Day 2289. Justin. To my car in a parking lot. Okay. All right. I'm Justin Scott. Hair style. Thad bull, thad. Thad bull nice. He doesn't have a mic. He's taken. And Christina is at underscore Stine. 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