 What's going on YouTube it's Arlen and I'm back with another video hope you guys are doing well I'm doing well everybody's safe you know just staying out the way staying tucked you know I'm saying I'm using my baby babyless liners to to make the ball line I'm using these ones in particular because they are my bald balled in clippers because they're not as sharp so I make sure that the ball line is straight and because I'm not really going too high in the back because I want to keep the shape especially in this afro taper so just keep that in mind you guys shape doesn't matter hey so I had to cut this off real quick and interrupt because I got these new little balders I don't know exactly what they're called but they're they're very tiny and they do the job for like this just to get the little areas so um yeah I had to say because these they come in handy for like if you want to get the mustache or the little on the taper on the little taper on the side and everything else so I mean I don't know what they're called I figure out what they're called and I'll let you guys know on how to get them but to make our first a guideline we are using our magic clips my you know my my my nice see through magic clips open lever doing an inch inch maybe a half an inch about an inch guideline making sure that my I'm cutting every single hair in every single direction because sometimes people hair grow to the left or to the right you always want to go against the grain so always think about which way their hair is going and then you cut accordingly to how their hair pattern is so we are closing up the the blade here and we're using our corners as you guys can see I'm pointing at my corners we use the corners to use it you get you're more precise when you use the corners so you do the corners then you go close halfway open cut against the grain always have hair pattern is different directions close halfway open play with the levers a lot find your little niche and yet just make it as light and blurry as possible so on the next step we have our number one guard on our magic clips the red guards I don't remember where I got them from but they're basically just the same as the the the black guards so I'm doing a half an inch a little bit lower than a half an inch to setting my guideline because I don't want to make a hard line to to so I won't be able to make the shape or and I'm also flicking out the top so it just makes it so much easier so when I do shape it up and it'll just make it easier and it won't be hard to take out so flick out you guys and keep the shape so now we're going in with our one and a half guard right here what I'm doing is that I'm trying to lighten up that dark spot above the number one guard so I am just using it to shape the head as you guys can see when I'm bringing it up it's not really I'm not really digging into the head I'm using that one and a half like like as you guys can you guys know when somebody like shapes the head with like with no guard think about it I'm doing it basically the same way but I'm using a guard to guard it you know like I'm using it as like a to be like an extra safety you know like when bowling you know use the you know the little you know the thingies you know I'm talking about right and when you bowl it's basically the same thing you guys if you guys get my analogy so now that you guys can see that that I shaped it in nice and neat we're gonna be coming in with our zero guard you always want to brush the hair down especially course here because their hair is very curly and it curls up when you put the guard through the hair so you always want to swipe swipe swipe and then brush swipe swipe swipe and then brush always do that so it can so you can see which hair you are cutting and it makes it it's like when people do a tattoo when I you know they do the ink and then they wipe it off you want to see what you're cutting and you want to have a good visual of what you're doing I mean that makes it makes it easier for everything you know and anything you do so here's a zero guard we're doing like a we do open just to lighten it up to see what what our guard does and then we do a close and then halfway and then you play with the lovers a lot to however you want it to look you know so I mean obviously you want to make it blurry so just do whatever you can to make it blurry use the corners a lot especially in tapers or in general so yeah and also I get I say this way I'm cutting his hair to the left because his hair grows that way you know so you always want to do that because it makes it so much easier it makes it look more cleaner when you cut against the grain instead of cutting it just straight up so we're doing the same steps as before to set in our our bald line so we use our our baby's liners to set in the bald line make sure that is straight we're doing a high taper so we're taking out the the low arch and then we're gonna come in with our barters to clean up and make it as smooth as possible so on the side taper I'm gonna be using a different clipper I'm gonna be using my my seniors but here's the catch my seniors with the Andis master blade on it so basically it's just like another master but it's a cordless and it's on a wall so it cuts the same but it does come out very nice it's because very smoothly all um the way to do it I don't know how exactly how to do it you just got to take apart some pieces of your clipper and put the blade in but I mean it comes out run it comes out nice and it comes out very clean so we're doing a so we said our first guideline about half an inch and then now we're coming in with our closed lever and then halfway and then just make sure you clean all up use the corners a lot and make sure that and also just when you're doing a taper always brush down the hair I'm using the corners the entire time because I'm nitpicking at every little dark spot I see so don't don't be afraid to take your time and just do all that clean up work you guys because it pays off when seared you know when you're done with the cut and everything so we're doing our two guard now purple guards I'm just doing it so I can take off the bulk on the side I'm going in and I'm raising out exactly what I did with the number one and a half guard in the back taper I'm not really trying to to make a hard line I'm just doing it just to take off some bulk so I can see what I'm cutting and shaping it up at the same time so on this part we are using our number one guard to just to take off some light or some dark spots on this taper right here so we did use a number two guard so we know not to go past it because the number one is obviously a lower number and it does make it a lot worse if you went higher so we're just picking out all the dark spots we're using the corners playing with the levers a lot and make sure that you breast down and just follow these steps you guys it is easy steps guarantee you guys we get better at tapering from watching my videos not to be cocky but yeah so now we're gonna do our number zero guard and we're just gonna take out that bottom last piece of the hair on the taper so that way it is all come together and look more smooth we closed it up and then now we're just playing with our levers using the corners brushing the hair down just trying to eliminate all the dark spots as we can so yeah just be careful especially on tapers because you want to keep it in that general area you don't want to go too light on you know around the ear or go too high while trying to keep a good shape so just if you follow my steps you guys you guys will see so now for the lineup part start from the middle and then go from left to right or right to left that's how I do it I've actually tried a different way I tried going from right starting off at the right side and going left side honestly made it to me I mean it's all in preference I like doing it the way I do it you guys can do it the way you do it either way as long as the hairline comes out straight and crispy I mean there's really no there's no way to do it I just I'm just giving you my advice of how I do it so you guys can learn and try it out you know but my client he has a little bit crispier on the sides like oh the hairline on the side so I'm gonna eventually come in with enhancements to take it out because his um since we did a high taper on him the side lineup is not so dark so when I come in enhancements I'm actually gonna show it whoever you guys always go on my my comments that you didn't show the enhancements blah blah okay oh Jesus Christ okay so for the enhancements we're using the paint I don't know what it is I think it's like Kiss Express I think that's what it's called make sure when you do put it in your air gun or airbrush machine that you do put the paint and then you either put aftershave or water just so it thins it out so it doesn't get stuck in the gun so how I do my enhancements I just I followed the original lineup that I did previously and then I just I just I don't want to put too much but I don't want to put too little because I mean obviously I want people to know I'm using enhancements so I just I kind of just have neutralize it you know I don't want to make it too dark or too light so just make sure that you do follow your natural or your previous line you did before make sure that's crispy before you don't some people they don't like it so I mean I usually do in my videos so my hair cuts stand out more so yeah just make sure you followed your your previous lineup so right here I never really showed you guys me doing like the you know the pencil little ash looking mark on the hairline I've been just doing it recently I actually like how it comes out so I'm using I don't know what the brand of the pencil is I think you just type in on on Amazon or something like like hair pencils or hair yeah something like that but um so we're just make if we're just following the the hairline and everything the reason I do it because I mean honestly really makes the hairline just pop out this thing about it when a girl does their eyebrows they put that that white stuff around you know the edge or the little stuff around the edge to make it more pop that's basically what we're doing to the hairline right here you know just make sure that it because it makes it look way crisper you guys will see in a second when I'm done with everything so stay tuned hey man so hey this video is about wrapped up I want to thank you guys so much for supporting me in my YouTube I know I've been dropping a little bit more consistently than usual than before previous months or years so thank you guys a lot I mean it really doesn't mean a lot to me I'm up to like I think like AK now and subscribers I never thought I'll even make it to you know one thousand or five thousand I mean it's just getting bigger and bigger and I couldn't have done it without you guys so if you guys do not follow me on my my 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