 Hi everyone my name is Jason Reyes. I'm here excited to share with you guys some cool techniques. You know similar things that I always see in barring is just how do you blend and how do you fade and how do you connect that top. So in this tutorial you guys are going to learn how to blend, how to clip over comb, scissor over comb and also how to connect that top and finish it off with a cool style. Hope you guys enjoy it. Starting off I section the hair from the crown area towards the front. What I'm looking at is the cowlick and as I create that division it's key and it's very important that we keep that section extremely clean. This is going to help me balance out the haircut and proportion off the opposite side. I clip that out of my way and I start here with a number two and I with the open blade and if you notice here as I start to work that I'm going to use more the heel of the clipper so that's going to be more the back part of it so I could continue to steadily build weight as I work upward. So I'm not digging into it if you notice that blade is just a lot flatter working against the head shape. Working my way all the way around to the opposite side. As I continue that I then close the lever and then work my way counterclockwise towards the opposite side again focusing just more on that back heel of the clipper. With my trimmer here I'm going to set in my guideline. This is going to be very important as I'm working with the lower fade. I'm going to set in first what's going to be my shortest length. I want to make sure that it's nice and clean. I keep it very low around the ear. What I'm looking at is the amount of space that I have to create the gradients for the length that I already have with a pre-existing haircut. So because I want to steadily build some weight I'm going to keep that just a little bit lower so that way it just fits a little bit more suitable to the head shape and also it's going to leave me just enough room so I could leave that length that I need towards the crown area. I worked this from front to back and the same from front to back and the reason for that is because it has just slightly a dip towards the back so if you could say it's not a smiley face but it does have a diagonal back. I'll move that all the way to connecting it towards the center. The bottom part I'm not focused on because later on you'll see that we're going to shave that off so I'm not going to waste my time cutting that hair off. Here I just balance it off the center and make sure that that line is nice and clean as this will be my guide for the entire haircut. I go here now to a one and a half open blade and using that same method but here I start a little bit of toe and then I start working more towards the heel of it so the toe just helps me diminish a little bit of the line and then as I work more of the heel of the clipper it continues to build subtle weight as I move up towards the head shape. My hand is also very light as I'm cutting once I approach the opposite side I'm going to close that lever and I'm going to work my way again around the head shape till I end up where I started first. Here I'm using a lot more of that heel of the clipper folding that ear down it's very important that we have control and I want to discomfort the guests as I'm working my way around and here if you see again I approach it from front to back in the same exact manner so even though I work my way around the head shape I still went from front to back. I go in with the number one guard and I have an open blade so I start off with an open blade and then I start to close that down so I start diminishing a little bit more of that weight line so here I went with that open and then I started to close it down so I'm going to start fading and blending that from the front towards the back with the open blade and then I'm going to close that blade and a lot of times in this area you'll see me use a little bit more of the corners of the clipper and that is because of the contour and the roundness of the head shape. Here I start off with my open zero and if you notice also I call this like a fanning motion my hand is extremely extremely light so think about like if you were applying makeup right your hand is going to be very very light if you were trying to blend or fade something out the same way if you were coloring hair right if you want to blend something your hand becomes very light so the same things with my clipper my hand becomes extremely light as I start to blend I grab my comb in a C shape manner and this is just going to allow me to be able to build some weight so I don't really move much of my wrist what I use most it's just my fingers to fold that comb so I could comb it back down for control and then up to cut here I'm just using my comb as an extension of length I'm working against the head shape away from the head shape so I'm not resting that so it's in a floating comb position and if you notice also as I continue working my way up my elevation is higher and higher and higher so I can soften that line so through this bottom area if you see it's slightly in an anchored position but it's just because I want to slightly build some weight so just think about the same way you would do with finger angle I have the same approach exact with my comb angle now I go back with my number two just to refine some of that length and blend in what we just did with our clipper over comb before I continue moving on so I like to work it through panels so I start off with one panel and make sure that that panel is nice and clean it's blended all the way out and that basically sets my guideline so I could continue to work my way all the way around the head shape with that open blade working a lot more with that toe of the clipper you notice as I start to diminish that line so I start off almost like in a fanning motion so my elbow is a little bit higher up the clipper is also in a position where the teeth are facing in if you notice the bottom of the clipper is slightly lifted and then I start shifting that slightly downward until I start to blend in that line and what this does is with the same exact length I create a little bit of distance and then I work my way from the bottom up just to continue to suddenly build that weight so a lot of times when I'm blending you know the question is do I start bottom to top or top to bottom it depends here I start to work bottom to top because now I'm trying to build some of that weight so first I diminish the shape and now I'm building that weight and creating that gradients up into the 16 length that I created so here with my number one open blade working with the corners of the clipper but if you notice also that my clipper is going to mirror the same section angle so that angle that I created for it as my guideline my clipper has to mirror that also so if that has a diagonal back my clipper should be also mirroring that same shape so it's a little bit tricky if you're working all the way around the head shape you've got to remind yourself that it's almost like a smiley face right that you're creating that circle so you're coming with that tip down and then it slightly moves upward as you notice here so again with that open blade and then I use a brush just to make sure that I get the hair off of the scalp many times the hair stays so short that it stays stuck to the scalp and then you can't really see the gradients and the blend that you've created I like using a glove and a lot of times why I use a glove is just to avoid any hair splinters so going here with one and if you notice it's a very very light hand and it's a floating motion so whenever the head shape starts to go inward I just start working against that head shape so it's not so much of a scooping motion but just having a very very light hand so you could feel the surface of the bone structure as you're working with it I'll continue working my way towards the opposite side folding the ear down I'm always used to that you know I think a lot of times when you're working with the guests it's one of the most important things that sometimes you might hit them over the ear and just creates a little bit of discomfort and then from that front if you notice I stop right above the ear so around the mastery process area and then I start working front to back again and it's because if you think about it's slightly like a rounded shape so it's not only just building weight in the vertical dimension but also in the horizontal dimension because of my clipper position I slightly build subtle weight towards the back because that's going to help me through that crown area just have that little bit longer length working around the ear again with that open blade and if you notice I'm working more with the toe of the clipper and then I slightly start to float with that and use a little bit more of the heel of the clipper I go back to a number one to refine the gradients making sure that I brushed the hair off of the scalp so I could see and then working in that same manner from front to back taking off that guard and here I'm just floating so here my hand is extremely extremely like when I'm working many times it's barely even touching the scalp so this is something that you have to get used to also if you notice how I hold my clipper it's almost like how modern day you text on a phone or how you hold a remote control with my thumb on the top so that just gives me a little bit of more flexibility and whatever I do on one side I must repeat on the opposite side so I go back with the clipper over comb and if you see again with that C-shaped motion how quick and simple and easy it is to comb that hair back down for control and then comb it up as you're cutting you see that the comb there I start cutting bringing my clipper upward instead of just horizontally and the reason that I do that is because I just want to get into specific smaller areas instead of when I go in horizontally I tend to cut a lot more once we've done that we start to refine that shape I remove my clip and apply some moisture some water towards the top so I could cut the top with the top I'm going to cut from side to side so I start in that crown area and what I'm trying to do here is just create it just a little bit flatter of a surface I'm looking at the bone structure in itself what he had previously was just a little bit round for it so create just a little bit of too much weight towards the center I wanted to push some of that weight out towards the corner so basically I'm cutting a flat layer through that top so if you notice where you see the most amount of length coming off there was going to be that center so if you notice where the part is I leave that extended upward because a lot of times I need that length to create volume as I'm going to comb the hair sectioning is extremely important to me so if you see every section that I take has to be very clean so I'm always very very aware of that as I'm cutting hair you know I always say like the movie Karate Kid you must practice and practice and practice so these are things that I constantly practice to make sure that I have consistency when I'm cutting hair if you see the front it has a slight over direction backwards and that's all going to be dictated on how much length you want towards the front and also if they have a receding hairline he didn't have one but I did want a little bit more of that extension of length so here I'm going to use blade slip one of my favorite products to utilize this is going to help me soften the hair as I shave if you see it's white but it'll go on clear onto the skin so because it's a small detail I'm not using my shaving cream if I was shaving a larger area I would have used my shaving cream here but if you see how soft it is and how easy it is to shave also one of my favorite things about this product is as I shave there's not a lot of residue left behind so it actually softens the hair make sure that I stretch out the skin whenever I'm shaving I stretch out the skin and I lay my blade nice and flat against them against the skin here I'm using grooming spray this is also one of my favorite products to utilize when I want just a little bit of volume into the hair as you see I'm blow drying the hair I always say it's all about that base so you know that song it's all about that base that's exactly what I'm doing as I'm creating that volume right movement is going to come from the base so this is what I need to blow dry first so if you see I bring in my brush my 413 brush almost like in a rocking motion and then I create lots of tension with that as I bring the teeth backward so I start elevating that hair up and I focus more on the base more on the base the ends of it I just bring them all back because I want something that's going to be not going to be that it's not going to be extremely polished so after I comb the hair into place I'm going to go in with a little bit of scissor over comb just to balance out clean out any little bits of weight line and I'm going to here use my dry paste this is going to give me a little bit more of a flexible hold the hair is going to have a very matte finish with that but you'll see the nice texture that's created through that here you see an end result you see how the weight balance is just a little bit longer towards the back how it drops down a little bit through that fade creating a little bit of proportion towards the top and to finish it off I'm going to use some of my skin tonic this could be applied face anywhere on the skin so it's going to be a little bit more of a refreshing feel that you feel with that and here what I do is just give them a slightly different look you know I find that a lot of times for guys versatility is key on them so I like to show them more than one way to be able to brush and style the hair and this is more of a textured look hope you guys enjoy