 what's up guys I'm just trying to figure out microphone issues but good to see you guys Adrian what's up good to see you Lisa what's up Benji Nilda Nilda good morning Teresa what's up having a Mitchell educator deja vu nice any special for today what's up Jay know what's going on with my mic today it's up Leanna I'm gonna try something I'm gonna try something real quick one sec let's see if this works let's see sorry guys technical difficulties when I do oh so now it's working but it keeps stopping so let's see I can hear you just fine no it's this mic is good but I can't take this mic over there so I need this mic to work which is working right now so we'll see we can hear you awesome thanks guys alright so let's go over I head over to the mannequin see what I'm saying this is a problem this is a problem you are right we can't hear hmm why why do you work and then you stop working let's come up with a solution that's what we do best I'm glad you guys are here with me though no worries you're trying I appreciate the support there alright let me grab one more thing let me see what's so weird is it works until I plug it into the computer alright let me try this hello aha could this be the answer I'm so hello hello hello hello hello how does that oh geez wow oops I have a client oops I have a client I love it say that all the time it's crazy how now we can hear you does it sound okay though how does that sound you guys let me know in the chat does that sound okay yes MJ all right all right poppy weasel awesome sound all right yes okay all right cool all right let's let's work on that then let's see if that's good for us as you can see currently I move things around again and I'm going to I'm gonna bring the chat up on this so I can see you guys guys I think we figured it out cool all right all right so now we're back and you guys can let me know if the sound goes away but I think we might be okay now so thank you guys so much for tuning in staying with me on this still quite a few people in the chat I will be looking at that watching that as we go through we are going to be doing a short to medium length haircut if any of you guys have suggestions along the way that's kind of what this is all about is us just sharing this time and figuring out haircutting together right so see you guys right in front of my face okay good now that the mannequins dry you know all right so I'm gonna do some quick sectioning real quick we're gonna go straight back comb it straight back and then I'm gonna work a center parting to start off my sectioning so right from the bridge of the nose we're gonna come back to the crown not over so we split it straight down the center so we're separating left and right now we're gonna separate front and back so we'll just turn separate front and back we'll do the same thing on the opposite side those of you guys that have followed my classes for a while you'll know that I like to get right to this high crown area or almost the apex of the head and drop it down and follow that hairline all the way back so not straight out the ear I like to go just behind it and follow the hairline down so that we're working with the same density in the back and then the same density in the front you're a rock and now thanks Benji appreciate it found our rhythm here for this cut today I'm gonna be using our new razor this is the evo razor pro not sure if you guys have seen it comes in a cool shiny purple color and then also this kind of black grayish gunmetal kind of color as well it's the same weight it's a little bit heavier than a scissor actually so it's got a really nice weight to it so it's easy when you're cutting with it to palm it and use it just like a scissor as you work through it alright so what I'm gonna do is in keeping the back separated I'm gonna slide my clip up underneath just keep that there do the same thing on the other side we'll miss here forward slide my clip up underneath I really just want to get that out of the way and then I'm gonna take a section straight down the center back just like this so once again separating left and right and then we're gonna get started in this nape area back here so what I'll do to start in the nape is work straight across here just take a nice little horizontal line out straight across like that I'm gonna comb the rest up I kind of comb it up and out of the way that way when I slide my clip in it holds it just out of the way better just like that clip it and it just kind of keeps it up and a little bit tighter we'll do the same thing over here horizontal line and then comb everything up and out of the way like that balance it out a little bit how we feeling so far in the chat good I want to find the best angle for you guys to watch grab a little bit more hair from the side a little more horizontal I want to grab a lens get a little tighter in there for you guys cover your eyes while I change this we go job there we go there we go now we get closer especially for a rain alright we're in there nice and tight let's see the other side I'll see better alright so I'm just gonna take about the razor's width here and I'll do a slight elevation but what I want to do is I want to create a softness on the edge there so not trying to go super blunt look like I want the razor look to this haircut so just nice and soft not trying to just cut through what I like about a razor too is I can create that little line just with the flick of my wrist and really decide what I want that line to look like opposed to a scissor you got to kind of create the angle with your fingers or do slide cutting or whatever so it's just a little bit easier on this side we're gonna come kind of on top finger like this and you can just pinch take off any little bits that you want does the client's hair type texture or hair so that's the great thing MJ about this sectioning is that it's good for all hair types because really what it's doing is it's making you aware of the density and the area that you're working in the head so that's why I like to section basically like that all the time there might be variations of that sectioning where I might take it into more sections but for the most part that's that's the straight-up sectioning that I do so your choice of comb so when I'm cutting with a razor a wider tooth like this 705 comb I I prefer because I like the loose tension sometimes I'll go in with a tighter tension like I really want to get that tight from scalp to end but when I'm just cutting with the razor and I just want to grab and get nice sectioning to it curly hair cutting with the razor creating texture I don't like to have a ton of tension on the hair so I just use that comb just to control slightly but I'm not I'm not pulling anything really tight so that's why I choose to have a nice loose teeth you see that nice bevel that we get because we're using the razor it's a nice soft line when you cut with a scissor it's great to it's just a different look because you'll get a definite more stacked and harsh feeling to that line which is the purpose but with a razor you just get a little bit more texture a little more forgiveness a little more softness do it when you're working through of it already and I'll just continue working this right side for now because once you get your body position set it's it's best to kind of for me to stick with that particular position so that I stay more consistent if I'm bouncing from side to side you can lose that consistency so just keep your body position the same a little bit of elevation here not too much right not all the way up here because elevation still matters in razor cutting but I look at I can see my guide through even though it's a little bit softer because it's a razor you see it start to fall and as soon as I see it fall I can come all the way out here and still cut my line because I can see the line through there that's another difference in a scissor so that allows me to get more back and forth movement with the razor and the more back and forth movement the softer the lines gonna fall so another beauty of using the razor see it fall out and I can see it through so now just a heavier pass back and forth still cutting that line but now again nice soft level to it we're gonna get kind of what we call a closed shape which is closing off the face so what we're doing is we're pushing all that weight forward by over directing it back the other great thing about this is I don't think one tool should do every hair cut so we can always go through with the scissor and create a more defined line if we wanted to in the end result it's really up to you and when you think about some of you guys might be in hair school they always talk about that hole that happens right behind the ear well that hole happens because you're going through and you're cutting and you're not being aware that you're pulling hair from the opposite from the front of the head as opposed to the back so it's following the hairline so you get less density and the hairline starts to creep into your haircut if you separate it like this and you've got your front and back separated you don't really get a hole because you're not working into the front so it kind of takes away that fear that you're gonna have that dreaded hole in the haircut still bringing it slightly elevated watch the bottom fall out and then a nice probably one inch back and forth almost two inch pass with the razor create a really nice soft edge the more precise you want this to be the tighter and quicker you're gonna make your movements with the razor the other thing about this evil razor I like the balance because when I'm holding it in my hand so when I'm holding this in my hand like we designed it to really literally fit in your hand like that so I put my pointer finger on the top of it put my pointer finger on the top and that's kind of how I make that movement back and forth like I just kind of tap through it and that allows just a softness to the stroke of the razor so just back and forth like this just kind of tapping it you can also pinch it like this if you want we created this little finger we go focus this part where you can grip it here a little bit tighter if you like to work tighter in but I prefer just to kind of tap through the top just like this little teaser for you guys I am gonna be blow drying for the first time with this blow dryer that dries the hair using light blow drying with a lightsaber so Tara one thing um yeah it's closed and open is kind of how I refer to it because you're pushing weight towards the face you're closing off the face if you're pulling weight off of the face you're opening up the face and then if you're just keeping everything balanced within we just call it balanced so that's the that's the way that we go about that so and those of you guys that just got excited about the blow dryer in the chat I'll break it down for you I'll tell you all about it in a little bit so yeah so it and if you want to learn more about that we have a I have an online course on free salon education calm there's also a seven day masterclass I break it all down and that face shapes and all everything so you can take that so that's all in free salon education calm continuing through and a lot of people think of a razor as like creating rougher edges it's not that it's you're skinning up the edge was what you do with scissors and point cutting texturizers all that stuff you're doing the same thing you're just doing it in a faster more efficient way when you use a razor so don't be afraid you're not creating split ends or anything like that he's a very sharp fresh blade in here which this takes a standard feather blade we also have our own Evo razor blades so if you want to get those but if you already have feather blades or have place where you like to get them you can use those in them as well you can see that's a quick easy way cut a graduation and we're gonna do the same thing on the opposite side you can see that tap the subtle movement now we're moving a little bit more of like a salon piece you guys can get more of an idea of the actual speed kind of work on this heavier stroke with the razor now once I get up we got a lot less density up here so I'm kind of just grab this section look it's got a really nice airy kind of feel to it and that is really again the benefit of cutting with the razor now we're just gonna move into the sides sides are really simple especially when cutting a closed shape side down we're just gonna connect it in I'll take slightly diagonal forward parting and I can see my line now I can just come in here she had some layers too so not much to not much to cut at this point bring it all down we'll do the same thing on the left side like I said not much to cut there all right now we're gonna blow a dry and then we will do some more cutting to finish it off because you got to finalize it with a little bit of dry cutting so so we talked about this blow dryer on our podcast but here is the packaging that came in it's called the Zuvie Halo and key benefits are so there's a care mode for optimizing hair health while maintaining fast drying speed there's a fast mode optimized for drying speed while leaving your hair healthy and then soft mode softer airflow and less light for those with sensitive scalp and then style mode for those with the styling concentrator and then cool mode hold the mode button to trigger a burst of cool air so there's a button on it I'll show you guys the back this looks like and I'll give you guys my real opinion this is not like a sponsored thing but we have right here all the different modes you turn on then you can select through the different modes came on right away with on care mode definitely has this like kind of intake on the back like we can unscrew that clean out the filter it's built really nice then you can see this mirror kind of light on the front so when you fire it up and it creates the heat through the light source for the most part does have hot air coming out of it though for sure faster drying shiny healthier hair lightweight cooler temperature energy efficient unlike traditional hairdryers that use extreme heat Zuvie Halo quickly dries the hair but quickly dries the water on the surface of your hair while leaving the inside cortex hydrated and healthier we maintain lower temperatures and fast drying speed so I think this thing was like around 300 bucks so it's not cheap does come with a few different attachments this one's hilarious to me because this is the concentrator it's huge but it locks on with a magnet in the front just but it makes the blow dryer go from being like oh this is kind of sleek and nice to like chunky blow dryer also blocks the light when you have the concentrator so I did read something that when you want to dry the hair you should not have the concentrator which has a professional most of time you want a concentrator on but dry the hair using the light and everything then use the concentrator to style but that just seems like a hassle to me there's also a diffuser I like the diffuser looks cool and I think the light will shine through this yeah so you do get some light through the diffuser which is nice I really like the diffuser a lot I think this if you had curly hair this is a great tool for you and then the air only comes out of this little hole but it comes out pretty fast but if you want to diffuse the air coming out of that and you just want to use more of the light you can put this attachment on and then that still gives there's still air coming out of it but it spreads it out a little bit different so I do like that so I think when I changed so I just noticed it was on soft I think when I changed the dental air attachment dispenses air for sensitive scalps used with fast mode so I think when I put the diffuser on let me see no maybe I just hit the button I thought I was reading what put on but it was on soft mode for some reason so let's see the different modes here we got care mode fast mode soft so when you put it in fast mode there's the tiniest bit more power to the blow it sounds like or like the motor gets a little bit louder but I don't think it's really not that different from soft so it's probably more a little more heat maybe I don't know let's see okay fast mode definitely hotter way hotter all right all right now I'm gonna put the diffuser on which okay this is kind of crazy because the so when you put the diffuser on and you're in fast mode probably any of the modes but definitely I was just in fast mode and soft mode which had a lot of heat without the diffuser but once you put the diffuser on and you're in fast mode you actually don't have a lot of heat at all which goes to show that the light is doing the most work and the heat of the blood like the airflow is doing a lot less when I put it into style mode then I feel the heat start coming out through this concentrate or attachment so that's kind of crazy so if you're going to put this attachment on you need to have it in style mode it's still not very hot though like when you put this concentrator on you're not getting much heat so you had somebody with really thick coarse hair and you wanted to round brush them I mean you're getting some heat but it's just not not a heat that we're used to for sure let's see what it's like here because this is very fine feeling hair so like as hairdressers when we're blow drying usually if I'm if I have this airflow coming down towards my legs in my area here like I just feel like I'm getting hotter and this feels like air conditioning air is hitting my feet so like there's not a lot of heat being pushed out of this thing how it also I might have hit the button it could have been on care so that's annoying because it's it's moving the spots without me knowing it so probably because I keep my hand up in this area when I'm blow drying now we're back in style so is it loud I would say it's it's like any blow dryer on low like a typical blow dryer on low mode maybe a Dyson it sounds like a Dyson like it comes on that high-pitched sound it just I it has no like there's not hot heat around like I don't feel hotter than when I started blow drying which is crazy but I also feel like like the hair feels shiny I feel like it's controlling a little bit but like that frizziness of the hair I feel like if I took this concentrator off I'd get more heat and be able to lay that cubicle down a little bit better but I also wouldn't have as much control with the airflow so that part try yeah you can't can't round brush like normally when you get done blow drying a section and the hair feels really hot or to touch it like that's not that's not the case of all so I'm gonna show you guys a couple things I like to do to finish off doesn't look like it holds the shape of the brush yeah that's so I'm in my thoughts a little bit with it because I love everything about it except for the fact that it doesn't seem like to really like control the hair too much but but at the same time like struggling because the hair looks shiny it does have a shape so it did control it a little bit but it just feels a little alright so yeah it looks shiny it does have shine to it so now I'm gonna go in and just soften the edge and this you can do even if you did like a scissor bob just being able to go in and just soften it up a little bit so like right here see a little bit of a weight line so what I'll do is I'll just grab that I'll just kind of just go over the top just light the soft and into it and it literally disappears the weight so I like to do that just on the top edge of my graduation you do that on men's like shorter hair pixie cuts any hair that you want to just kind of soften have it lay just a little bit nicer you just do a little surface weight removal just be really nice and light with your your hand a little bit of pinch cutting will give me a little texture in the cut must smooth out the ends a little bit just so that I don't like these beveled under just dates there cut a little bit so I'm gonna go through and just smooth that out I can definitely see how that blow dryer would create less damage because it doesn't really get that hot and the light I can see benefiting you know blow drying and getting it dry faster I just feel like in the style and finish is where it's maybe lacks a little bit but as I use it more I feel like I'll have a better opinion on that because I do really like most things about it you can see just how taking that from being beveled in so now opening up the face with it a little bit more creates a little bit more of a modern look this I'll just bevel under the top layer but how do we feel about that cut a simple fun texture thanks Tara who we don't need as much heat as we think we do that's a great valid point all right cool so we rise all right there we go so let me know in the let me know in the chat what you think of the haircut super excited to be back on here with you guys thanks Adrian appreciate it I'm sure if you guys were on here still I'll be live hopefully every Tuesday around this time so be on the lookout make sure you subscribe to the channel also go to freestyleneducation.com to take the free masterclass sign up for that and check out all the tools the razors our scissor line all of that is available on freestyleneducation.com podcast comes out tomorrow so stay tuned for that and I hope you guys are watching it and enjoying it but if you're new to the channel splitting hairs podcast so go check that out all right thank you guys I will see you soon have a good week thanks for watching