 Hey guys Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com I'm gonna bring you guys a cool new tool that I've been using for a long time now It's really when I pick up a razor. This is what I pick up. It's the Donald Scott carving comb It comes in all different shapes and sizes. This is the fine teeth Edition I guess you could say addition of the Donald Scott carving comb. There's also a wide-tooth version there's a chopstick version and then there's the Donald Scott twist version which has no comb on it whatsoever now the great thing about this Tool and what Donald created it created it for was so that you could have all of this in your hand at the same time So I could have my Mizutani scissors, which I love so much I can comb the hair I can cut the hair and then I can also razor the hair if I want to all at the same time So I love this tool. We're gonna go through I'm gonna do a triangular graduation for you guys With a little bit of a modern twist to it because we're gonna do it with a razor And I'm gonna I'm gonna use both ends of this which is a cutting side full cutting side and then a texturizing side So we're gonna get started. I got this section off I already cut my baseline which we did in a previous video with my scissors to get a nice straight baseline I prepped the hair with the cloud nine blow up serum from brocado. Love this product it's gonna help with the blow dry later and I like to put it in prior to cutting so that I get it saturated all the way through the hair And then I also prepped it with the Donald Scott prepare Which I'm gonna use all the way through this haircut because it gives a nice slip to the hair And it's really created for using a razor. So we're gonna saturate this instead of using a spray bottle I can use prepare for that. So I take out my clip I'm gonna make my first section. We're gonna be working on a slight diagonal forward Sectioning and then I'll clip it away I like to put the clip in facing up because what that does is holds the hair away from me a lot of you guys If you just shove the clip in this way, it doesn't hold it as well And we want to hold that nice and tight away from the rest of the hair So a little quick tip for you there now. I'm gonna work on subsections of what I just Sectioned out now. We're gonna work with the razor. I can see my line right there of what I want to cut So as I lift this out pre from the previous cut already, I can see that graduation through it So we're gonna comb it out using the fine teeth of the Donald Scott carving comb And I'm just gonna work down the hair and Cut it now everything's gonna be coming straight back to me not straight back to the center So don't don't plan on working everything over the more you over direct the more weight you push And I think with a triangular graduation a lot of times what happens is we over direct it too far And we push too much weight to the front and you don't want to do that But you can see it's starting to build up a nice shape in there We'll take another section down beauty of this razor is everything just works so quickly In the haircut now I don't really have to clip that away because it's already out of the way So just to save some time in the salon And we're gonna bring this back a little more elevation And we're gonna cut through there just like that Split that sectioning apart Bringing it back to me and following that line that we're creating Now a key thing to focus on is working I'm working that full cutting side. My elevation is still high I don't want to bring it all the way down here and cut because then I'm gonna have too much of a weight line So make sure that elevation is up Then as the head drops in your elevation can drop a bit Now once I cut through like that and I want to add a little bit of texture. That's the beauty of the carving comb I can bring this all back go to the texturizing side and Just take out some of that weight and bulk in there so Back to the full cutting side Straight over directed back Not getting greedy not taking too much hair in my hand and cutting through you're starting to see that triangular shape building Bringing it back texturizing side Just skinny enough those ends a little bit I'm gonna bring back the rest of the hair Following that line still Oh geez and just working through the hair I'm gonna bring that back and check it it released a little faster than I wanted and now bring it back one more time Texture side right on the ends just lightening that up a little bit So now we're working slight diagonal forward grabbing up the hair and working through I Like to kind of hold this almost like a pencil in my hand and work my line in that way when I'm working down with the razor So we'll just come through here And basically like I said drawing with a pencil through there So let's let down some more hair slight diagonal forward again Now this is a little bit different because we're working on a side parting So I'll show you guys what I do different in the back here So we're just gonna go vertical down the back just to tie in this back portion And I'm gonna be really light and give a lot of motion on the top here because I don't the tighter I am with the with cutting the bolder that weight line is going to be in the back So I really want to feather it out and the way that we do that is just a heavier motion with the The carving comb so working back and forth nice and nice and heavy then we move into where we were so Combing everything straight back to me And working that line creating that triangular graduation Same thing here vertical with a heavy pass of the carving comb So it's nice and light Working my way down the head Following that line The other key thing is to make sure that you're really combing that hair at the scalp And that's why I like the tight teeth of the carving comb as I'm working through because it really Scoops up all those little hairs so you don't miss them now this side is being over directed further Because it was parted on the left side So we're gonna have a little extra weight and heaviness and length on The right side so we're gonna take care of that now So you can see as we comb her up here So now there's a couple things that I want to do with this side So this side's a skinny side So it's a lot easier to as we cut that line the weight is pretty pretty Standard so you don't have to worry about too much density in the hair But on this side we pushed all of this weight over so now what we're gonna do is I'm gonna take this into sections I'm gonna bring her facing me over here I'm gonna work that hair forward And I'm gonna take out a nice triangle in The front of the hair and what you should see is this is where that extra length is in the front So you can see that that's longer than the rest of the haircut Turn it so you can see that and you can see that these two sides now Will match up so what I like to do is build in a nice fringe in the front here to tie it all together It works really nice with the haircut gives it a little bit more of a modern feel to it as well So and the great thing about using a carving comb is I can comb all this hair forward just like this in my hand And I can draw What I want that fringe to look like in the front So I'm just holding that nice and tight in my hand and I'm working a nice side fringe into it you guys can see how That works So cool