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Yeah, still going strong. Yeah, still going strong. That flew by. What'd you say? That flew by. Geez. Six? Wow. Welcome to being older, Carly. Speaking of being older. Speaking of being older. Speaking of being older. Thank you for that. Oh my God. Oh my God. Happy birthday. Oh my God. Happy birthday. Oh my God. I'm so glad. Oh my God. I'm so glad I can mix that. Yay. Awesome. Thank you guys. Now we throw the thing, right? At me? Yeah. I'm going to, I got to say, it's scary when you guys all aim those at my face. Happy birthday sweetie. Here, let me fix your hair. Is it good? No. No, it is not. No, it is not. We can edit that out. No, now it's perfect. Oh, thanks. Oh, that's very nice. Christine, you should do that more often. No, not taking that out of my hair. It was very nice of the confetti, right? Yeah. I meant she should do your hair more often. It looks good. No. Thanks. No, I thought you meant the confetti more often. So confused. I want glitter confetti. All right, so this episode is powered by MinervaBeauty.com. Yes, it is my birthday today. Thank you guys. I appreciate it. Another year older. I was saying to Carl, like weeks feel like days when you get older. So I feel like I'm happy that we're here doing this. And we've got Brian here. Hey, yeah, you do. Carly. Yeah. Christina. Sorry. Sorry. That's OK. Sometimes I'm running the cameras. Yeah. And I have to look at something and then I forget what you're saying. Yeah, I know. And I'm waiting for the... I'm paying attention to a couple of different things. That's why. A lot of different things. Make sure you subscribe because we got so much to say. Make sure you get interactive in the chat and in the comments. We actually had quite a few comments in the show last week. Finally. So thank you guys for typing and letting us know your opinions. That was great. We actually had a lot of views, more views than listens, which is new. So I feel like the show is growing. So yeah, so make sure you subscribe to us on YouTube if you haven't done so already. And then also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, all of that. Make sure you subscribe to us on there. And then if you want to watch the episodes or keep up to date with anything that we're doing, go to freesaloneducation.com and you can just click the podcast tab and you can see all the episodes on there as well. So it's very easy to access everything that we're doing. Today we got a fun show. We're going to talk about... We're just going to have some real reactions, which are just some hair reels that are going around. And then we're going to talk about some of the latest trends and then how you can take care of your hair without damaging it, hopefully. It's the goal. So first thing is real reactions. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to play some reels and we'll just kind of have our opinions or see what you think. And you guys can let us know in the comments as well what you think of these, but these are just all kind of hair related things. So here's the first one. I thought this one was pretty fun. You see what it did. Oh my gosh. It's not funny that you see the kick, but the kick just makes me laugh every time. It's like, bam. And then I thought that was funny. It's going to slay on audio. Yeah. Oh yeah, we should definitely explain what's going on. I think you should put all these videos on your Instagram so that people can go watch them. Actually go watch them after they listen to the podcast. I'll actually, I'll link them in the description of the podcast. This one, this guy, he takes a roll of tape and he puts the ponytail through the tape and then he takes a fan, like a piece of a fan. Yeah, like the front grill piece of just a typical electric fan. Yes. And he puts our hair through that and then he fans the hair over the fan. And this is how he's going to cut the hair. I had so much hope for this. Thinking it was going to be cool. What was your hope? I don't know. I thought it was going to be like some kind of cool editorial look. But to realize that this is a setup for a terrible haircut and it doesn't even show the after. It doesn't show the after now. When you pull hair into a ponytail, like a lot of videos are out there of ponytail haircuts. Like I even, I've done one, but you can't do, I mean, you can do one ponytail. But if you pull that up to the center of the head, that over direction is all over the place. Yeah. So that's kind of the thing that I wanted to showcase in this video. It is kind of funny, but it's also just, it is a wet, you can cut the hair like this, but is it going to have any purpose to it? Not really. No, because like, I look at that and, you know, I'm not exactly a precision cutter, but I'm like, you've got, you're just hoping that all of the hair is perfectly pulled through that ponytail exactly where it needs to be. And then when it comes through the fan, you don't know where, like that hair that's hanging off the front could be hair from the back of her head. Like there is no, this is just to show, look at how funny this is to cut it. This is not going to be any kind of sound haircut. Yeah. It's definitely for views, obviously, but at the same time too, a lot of people are pulling things in ponytail. So I just want people to understand like you're saying, like the over direction into one ponytail and then spread out over that fan. It does make it easy for him to cut because it takes the density away when you fan it out that much. Yeah. But it's just not going to, it's layering it. It's because it's like holding it all up in the air. We have no idea where that hair is going to live when all that crap comes out of her hair. And there's a big difference between having that ponytail and pulling it straight up in the air and cutting it off and then letting it fall over that fan area and then cutting it there at a low elevation. So now not only have you elevated it with the ponytail, but now you've put it at a low elevation afterwards. And it's just, so it's kind of a crazy... It just makes me think like when I learned to stop cutting my own hair was when I used to just like grab hair, twist it and cut it to get texture. Yeah. And then wasn't paying attention and twisted it too tight and cut it too close to the head and had a bald spot surrounded by long hair. Like that's just all I think about when I see ponytail haircut. Anything like this, it's not that simple. Yeah. It's our job to make it look that simple. It is not that simple. Yeah. The ponytail haircut that I did on YouTube was like a small ponytail on the front that over directed everything forward. Then there was a small ponytail that went straight up in the head, but it was clearly sectioned where it should be. And then there was another ponytail in the very back of the head that was over directed up and put into a ponytail. So it was a lot of different over directions for layered haircuts. It's not even you wouldn't do like a precision haircut like that. But if you wanted to add some layers to a haircut, there are some ways to do it, but putting it into one ponytail and bringing everything up and then letting it drop to the ground is just going to cause. See, this is why we need to bring back hair shows so that people can do cool creative stuff like that on stage again. Yeah. That's got to be heavy on her head though. Like I... Right. But think about how cool that would look on stage or to do a style like that on stage. That'd be cool. For sure. Because when you see it online like that, it's not a tutorial. Right. Yeah. All right. Here's the next one. This one we all kind of saw. I don't know if they put it on every hairdresser's feed this week, but this is an interesting contraption that we can't figure out where it came from. So if anybody knows in the comments where you can actually get this thing, but what are our thoughts about this? So this... And what are your thoughts on this show? For the listeners, it looks like... Basically it looks like they have a hot glue gun that is producing super teeny tiny fine little bleach stripes on the hair to create a baby lights effect very quickly. They have a kids tool out that is... It puts beads or wraps a string around your hair for decoration, and that's kind of what it reminds me of. Yeah. Okay. Love that. I gotta be honest. I would absolutely love to try this. Because like I... Especially if someone has been doing hand painting for so long, I find myself having so little patience for trying to do a lot of baby lights. But I know that there is... There's a market for that. There's a look for that. I love the way it looks. I just run out of patience after like four foils of baby lights. But this I could see myself like, yeah, let's crank through and just do a ton of these tiny little highlights. Don't you feel like though, like when I watch this, I feel like there's just something about a brush pushing it onto the hair just slightly. Not like... Not a lot, but a little more pressure and a little more control with that pressure than using this gun that looks like it. I don't know how the gun's pulling the hair in and how it's spreading the lighter on. I think it's just going like on top like a cock and gun. Yeah, is that enough? Well, he's taking... Or they, I don't know who's doing this. Very small. They're super fine sections. Yeah. So I think it really is just utilizing that part of balayage where you don't smear it in for the fade and you just brush it on to create like that little dome that will help incubate inside. I really do think those highlights are going to look just like that when done. It won't have that fade in with all the different dimensional lifts that you normally get from hand painting. It is interesting like... Yeah, like maybe for a client that wants like not too many levels. Right. Just a nice... Yeah. To me, this comes off as someone who wants less of like that that ombre effect that a lot of hand painting can give you and more just like... Like a natural highlight. Yeah. Or someone with like finer hair. Like I feel like that would be good. Yeah. A-I-O-N hair. That logo on the cape is the same as the thing. Oh, okay. So we'll have to look it up. Oh, look at you detective. We'll put you on the cape Middleton case. You know me, I'm very observant. So... All right. All right, cool. And then... All right, next one. Oh my God. No, I have not ever done that. That was a clip. That's a strand test. So... Strands. That like those were very close to the scalp. Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't go that close. She went in and ripped it out with a clip. I wouldn't even rip it out. No, I thought... No, it looked like it was... Was it ripped out with a clip or did you just close the texturizers and just pull it out? No, I think she closed the texturizers and pulled it out. But I feel like I wouldn't take it off the head. I can refresh this. For a strand test. Like why? Because... Here, let me just take a giant chunk of your hair. Yeah, like... And call you in a week to tell you if we should bleach it. Thought process though. I don't know why she went so deep with it, but you could use texturizing shears to slide through it and actually grab it. You know, enough strands to actually test something instead of cutting a chunk. Yeah. It's a little more invisible. I don't know if it's invisible the way that she did it there. I couldn't tell it by the hands. I'll have to watch it again. I didn't watch that part. I'm so observant. But yeah, it was so... That was like scalp and down. It was like the one thing that they look for when you take the state board exam is how close to the head you do the texturizers. Oh. They didn't even have me use texturizers. Yeah, no. Are you licensed? Yeah, I remember the nail test. That was the biggest fear for me. All right. I don't know if these videos are really... I dropped my corner during my test. What'd you do? This one goes with the theme of the robot. I don't know. How does it look like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle out there? It is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Is it? Yeah. It's Leonardo. Oh, gosh. Oh. Yeah, I... His face. So this is... They're coming for our jobs. Literally someone built a robot. Oh, yeah. I forget to tell everybody what's happening. Thank you, Chris. Yeah. Yeah. Someone built a robot that looks like Leonardo from the Ninja Turtles, or it is him, and he's chopping this guy's hair with a clipper and a comb. He hits it with a comb a couple of times to move it up, which I think is hilarious. So this must just be popping up the top for him. Oh, putting the cape on, too. Notice that little strangulation. Look how much elevation he gets with that. Yeah, one more. And then bam. And the guy's face is wincing, so... Yeah, he's miserable. That's what my client's faces look like. It is. I can see from my chair. We'll move on from the reels. That was... It's fun, though. And we're all getting fed the same ones anyways. Today's episode of Splitting Hares is sponsored by Mevo Entour, hosted by Mevo Salon & Spa Software. It's an in-person series of beauty and wellness business conferences spanning five major U.S. cities in 2024. Mevo Entour welcomes spa and salon owners and managers to learn from some of the industry's best network with like-minded professionals and walk away with newfound ideas and inspiration for implementing it in their businesses. Upcoming conference locations include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas. Next stop on the conference series is New York City with an all-day event full of peer-to-peer networking, interactive strategic sessions on maximizing profit, creating unforgettable guest moments and overcoming industry challenges and more. For more information on Mevo Entour or to register for an upcoming conference, please visit mevo.com-mevo-on-tour. All right, the nirvana hair one. Let's talk about that. Okay. I do want to try to show everybody what the style looks like. Just describe it really well. Kurt Cobain nirvana? Yeah, I mean, that's basically what it looks like. It's a lob that people are wearing. Yes, the nirvana is the 2024's hottest haircut. So the red carpet has been filled with examples of the cut, which is defined by its length. It meets the shoulder or collarbone and blunt cut finish. The style is nothing but relaxed, super cool, and slightly disheveled. I think Kurt Cobain, but 30 years later, which is where the haircut gets its name. That is a weird way to put that. Someone who's very dead. So they have Jennifer Aniston's new cut, which is sort of like what you're saying, the lob. Yeah. With some, I mean, I guess, longer liars in the front. And then they have a picture of Emma Stone with her. Sydney Sweeney. Oh, yeah. I think she just cut her hair, right? I like the Sydney Sweeney one. Did she cut it or was it a wig? Oh, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know either. Because it looked like she could have just cut it. Right. What was that, the Oscars? Yeah. Yeah. I just love it. Like the names of these things, like they're just in a couple of years, it'll be called something else. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Nirvana. Nirvana. Nirvana. All right. Here's the Vogue. What's Nirvana? Oh, it's the lob. Can you hit the iPad? There she is. So this one I think really actually looks like Kurt Cobain's in a way. It's just a dirty lob. He didn't really have much of a haircut. But, you know, but yeah, it's just, that's all it is. And then Jennifer Aniston, that one. I love her. And then, you know, the other ones won't. All right. So cut a lob and make it dirty. Yeah. Yeah. And what kind of products would you guys like, probably that one that you like is probably where you'd go. Yeah. I mean, I love a good dry texture spray. Yeah. I'd probably finish those ends off with some kind of like super light cream to make them a little bit pieceier while having a texture spray like keep it apart. Yeah. Because like that's one thing that I'm noticing through these pictures is, I guess that's the 90s grunge of it is like there's no fuzziness to any of it. Like everything has definition through the ends as though it was not washed. Yeah. I like the haircut. I think it's complimentary to a lot of people. Yeah. And it's an easy transition. Yeah. Like you're like, oh, I want to change, but nothing too crazy because in three months, your hair is going to be back to the way it was before. Yeah. Like it's not a ton of like, I saw that there's like a butterfly lob now, which is like that same haircut, but with a lot of layers, I guess. Is that kind of like what Zendaya kind of has? Probably. Like the Jenin. Is that kind of what you're talking about? Could be. I forget. But I think your mom got it kind of. It seems like. Your mom got it. Your mama. I think your mom got it. You said it. Your mom got it. Yeah. She does. Literally your mom. Yeah. She just got her hair done. She's like the best client every seven weeks. Yeah. Yeah. She's loyal. Yeah. No. And her hair always looks good. Yeah. Yeah. She never. Yeah. I should take more after her. All right. We got. You just got to stop coming here for it. We don't have much time. So. I know I'm sorry. I heard that smoke alarms were going off because of my blow dry. All right. Do we do one more? And we really don't have time. It's your birthday. Whatever you want. All right. Let's do trivia real quick. That's how we'll do trivia. And then we'll come back and spin. And then we'll spin. So if you could let someone know someone in the chat ask what. A spin do. So. We got some newbies in there. Yeah. All right. So a spin is we spin the wheel of the free wheel. It has tons of different prizes on it. They're mostly for their preferred professional hairdressers. So we have tools, razors, scissors. Minerva beauty is giving away a TheraGun from their website. Formulate.co is giving away a free custom formulation hair product. So if you want to spin in your professional, let us know in the chat and we will put you on that. All right. I have a question. So this is the side sweep. When Bieber burst onto the music scene in this year, he sported a signature side swept hairstyle with his bangs combed over to the side and the layers falling effortlessly. This look quickly became the phenomenon inspired millions of teenagers to copy the style. What year did he first do this haircut? Are you tired of the same old formulation that just doesn't seem to work for your hair and skin? Then go give my friends at formulate a visit. Go to formulate.co slash Matt Beck. When visiting their website, you're going to fill out a simple quiz to find out everything you need to know about your hair and skin. And it's going to give you the perfect formulation for you. And also the needs of your hair and skin change over time and with the season. So if you have dry skin, dry scalp, thin hair, thick hair, curly hair, wavy hair, the formulate chemists are here to help. Go fill out the free quiz. Figure out what's going on with your hair. Get connected with the formulate chemist. And you can do all of that by going to formulate.co slash Matt Beck. What year is it now? 2024. That's tricky. I'm terrible with that. Well, think about his age. I don't know how old he is. I'm just trying to think about where I was when clients started bringing me that. That's when you know you're old. Is it the closest one wins? Yeah, we're doing prices right rules. Yeah. When do we guess now? 2008. I'm going 10. 10. Oh, it's 2009. So I didn't go over. Closer to that. Going over. All right. All right. Congrats. I got two. Yeah. Two to one to one to zero. I got to be honest. I kind of did that one. I knew you did because so Carly last night he's like, all right. So we were going to take turns everyone asking a question, but he's like, Carly doesn't have a point yet. So that wouldn't be fair. Like we want to give her a chance to have a point. So I didn't know what this question was. And as soon as you read it, I knew you did it in favor of her. That's how much of a. I did too. It's what I looked at. You're such a sweet uncle. You know, I'm a millennial trivia. Everyone gets a trophy. Yeah. In my world. Uncle Oprah. All right. All right. So spinning the wheel. You know what? I'll pick somebody from the comments of the last show. And hopefully they're watching the next. Nancy says happy birthday and she said 1998. It may be Nancy. Nancy, are you a professional? You want to spend the wheel to win a prize? Let us know. She might not be Nancy. All right. So I've got. What's Brian doing? By this pants. So Denise Jones. All right, Denise commented on the last episode and she looks like she's a pro and she got the answer right about the red head. She had commented it about the anesthesia and stuff. Okay. So Denise Jones, you're spinning. Didn't she spin last week? Was that her? No, I picked. I don't know. That's not how I picked. Okay. But maybe that's not her, right? I don't know. Oh man. Oh my God. The week's running. Whatever. She's spinning again. Yup. Spin it. Double the prizes. Double the fun. All right. Here we go. That was a good spin, Brian. Last week was weak. Oh, your pants look nice, Brian. Mevo. That's great. All right. Heck yeah. So Denise, you win a ticket to one of our millennium's upcoming events, Mevo's events to be inspired. They're all over the country. So get in contact with me and I will send you the information. It's Matt at freesaloneducation.com. So Matt at freesaloneducation.com. Email me. Let me know that you're the winner of the Mevo ticket and I'll send you all the information and we'll get you hooked up. Are we going to any of those? There's one in New York in June, I think. I think I'm speaking at that one. Do you need support? I mean, you can go attend. All right. Cool. So that's it. That's the show. I feel like, you know, we'll edit it. It would be good. The magic's in the editing. It was fun. Yeah. Yeah. We had some fun. All right. Cool. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with us. Thank you guys for the birthday stuff. Balloons. We want to be here without you. I wanted to do more. I wanted to do more, but I know how to run this stuff. And I can be creative on the end of helping you with ideas. But I don't know how to get the ideas onto here. Let's say like music or pictures or videos. So happy birthday. Oh, I'll teach you that. I don't really want to learn. Only for special tastes like this. Oh man. Well, we have other, we have other birthdays to figure it out. Okay. And then you can help. Yeah. I'll teach you. Sweet. You got a month. Everyone's birthday is going to look so much better than yours. That's good. Right. Yours is next, right? Yep. April. All right. Thanks guys. It's time to do hair. We're late. All right. We'll see you guys later. Thank you so much for watching. Subscribe to the channel. Make sure you follow us on everything. Follow Brian. Hairstyle. Carly. We'll see you next time. Bye. Bye.