 What's going on YouTube? How y'all doing? So I'm back with another video. As promised, I'm dropping more and more trying to get that 100k by the end of your man. That is a goal. That is a goal. I'm just trying to get back into the YouTube thing. But that's my fault. You know, I'm stupid. So in this video, I'm kind of a client of mine. He's actually a pretty dope basketball player. He's in high school. He just may stay, but unfortunately they lost. He is one of the highest recruits in California. I'll put his Instagram in the description. So you guys should go check him out. He's actually pretty dope. And he's actually a pretty cool kid. I've been cutting him since he was like 13, 14, something like that. But now he's, I was coming when he was a little kid. Now he's, you know, like 66 or something like that. In this video, I am doing a high taper with a four against the grain. I always record his haircuts on Instagram. I don't know if you guys follow me on Instagram, but my Instagram is the same or it's going to be right there. Added an enhancement at the end. Stay tuned. I'm going to be dropping way more videos. Trust, trust, trust. But like I always say, peace and love, baby. I'm out. What's up YouTube? How y'all doing? I'm back with another video. Hope you guys enjoy this one. It's going to be a banger. Stay tuned. Comb the hair before cutting the hair down. We're going to be coming in with our number of four guard against the grain. I have it open at first. Make sure that's all even throughout the entire head and then close it just to get the extra doubles. You can never be wrong to double check, triple check or quadruple check. Just make sure that it's all even throughout the entire head. So I'm going to create a ball line right here with my liners. I'm going to go kind of right below the ear as you can see on the ear and like how it lines up right there. I'm going to try to get it right there if possible because we can do a high taper. So make sure that your ball line is straight. Mine didn't look that straight right here because I was cutting at a certain angle so I couldn't really see. I eventually came in and cleaned it all up and made it more straighter. But in the future just make sure that your ball line is straight. Like how I say straight ball line, straight guideline, straight fade, straight taper, all that. First step of this taper we have our babyless low pros. I like these clippers a lot. A lot of people they don't like them but I feel like they do the job. They a little heavy but I mean I'm as with them. You feel me? Make sure you have the lever all the way open right here. Make the guideline about I'll say about a fingers width or about an inch. Make sure that the guideline is straight. As you can see it is not straight because like I said before I was cutting at an angle so I couldn't really see. But for you guys that are new at cutting hair just make sure that the guideline is straight. So we're going to close it up right here. Take out that bottom line right there. I'm using the corner of the blade. Make sure you always use the corner of the blade so that way you have more control of your clipper. Then we close it up about I mean we open it up about halfway and then open it up all the way. And then you just want to play with the lever whatever dark spots you see. Just play with the lever to eliminate the dark spots because every lever is not going to do exactly what it's supposed to do. You got to really know your clipper and know your touch. So that's why I say play with the lever if you see any dark spots you know just close it up and just lighten it all up. So now we have our number one guard. We're going to have the lever all the way open to make the second guideline. Make the guideline about another fingers width or an inch. Again make it straight. As you get to the top you see I'm kind of flicking out when what I'm doing is when I get to the top where I want to stop at I flick out because I don't want to make another hard line and make it hard line it's harder to take out. So once you get to the top of where you want to just flick out. It might take some time to get used to as for the new barbers but eventually you'll know your touch and once you get it you just flick out. So here we have our one and a half guard and right here I'm flicking out. I'm just trying to lighten up that previous line I did with the number one with the number one and a half guard going up there flicking out just to blend it in see what it does to see what the guard does to the hair because not every guard does exactly what it's supposed to do as well. So when we get there we we flick up to the spot that we wanted to lighten up and then eventually we'll just blend down from there. So we have our number two guard right here and we're basically doing the exact same thing we did with our number one and a half guard. Make sure we're lighting up that spot so everything could blend in nice and smooth. So to take out that bottom portion line we have right there we have our zero guard. I have it open all the way just to see what it does light it up and then I eventually close it and then I play with the lever from there on so I close it then do halfway and then open making sure that I'm using the corner of my blade that's the most important part with tapers because tapers is a fade basically in a general area and you kind of want to be precise with your taper so you want to keep that fade in that area you do not want to make it go any higher you don't want to make it too low either so you kind of want to get in the right spot so use your levers to pick out any dark spots. As you can see it is coming together the taper so just make sure you use the corners flick out use your angles use your touch and that's it. So on to the side taper we're going to be doing a high taper so we're going to eliminate the hook so we're just spotting out from where the hooks meets the top of the hairline to the top of the ear so we have our lever all the way open we're basically doing the same exact steps as we did in the back taper. I have my lever all the way open I think it's about it's not an inch about like a half an inch right here I kind of want to keep the fade a little bit lower or the taper a little bit lower so we have the lever kind of out I want to say yeah about half an inch so we're going to be closing up right here the levers close using the corners and as you can see right here I'm going to be opening up just a slight halfway then I'm going to open it up I'm just playing with the levers trying to eliminate any dark spots I see using the corners also while trying to keep the fade low or the taper low in that general area so now we have our number one we're going to make the same guideline about half an inch to an inch on this taper again we're doing the same exact steps from the back taper just make sure that it straight flick out when you when you're supposed to at the top just flick out and um yeah I feel like I'm I feel like I sound like a broken record okay I'll keep repeating myself but you know in barbering it's all about repetition it's all about repeating the same steps it's all about learning from your the steps or the mistakes that you make so I mean don't feel don't be afraid to mess up in barbering because you're gonna mess up you know but with that being said we have our number one and a half and we're just flicking out using the corners just making sure that we lighten up those dark spots but back what I was saying is if you know you're new barbering you don't want to mess up you're gonna have to learn from what you just did so I messed up plenty of times when I when I first started I messed up a lot but you learn from it man you know you can't learn from you can't learn anything without failure so just keep that in mind you guys man just failure creates success so now that we changed up the angles we have our zero guard we're just gonna be taking out that initial line that we made with the one guard guideline so now we're just gonna be fading all out using the lever I have it open and then closed and then halfway I'm just playing with it to create or to take out any dark spots or as of right here I'm doing kind of at an angle I'm cutting this hair because hair grows at a certain angle you also you always want to kind of cut against the grain you don't really want to do cross grain I've done that a lot in my you know learning going cross grain it does cut it but it also kind of like makes it a little patchy so just keep that in mind you guys just trying to go against the grain at all costs and right here we're just using the one one guard just to clean all up just to you know take out any dark spots but for the ear lineup I mean there's really nothing I can say about this is make sure that it is crispy as you can don't go too hard right there because that's a sensitive area you know the neck is kind of soft and just follow the ear use the corner and just follow the ear for the most important part of this haircut the lineup I'm using hairspray to make sure that his hair stays still when I make the line some hair doesn't stay so if you want to do that you know just make it dry off first and then come in I'm starting from the middle of his forehead and then working my way to the left yeah his left are right yeah this makes sure that it is straight try not to push the hairline too far back you can only push the hairline back if it's necessary you don't want to you know push it too far back in this hair you know his forehead is huge so let's push it back as necessary if you have to if you need to match it with the other side then that's fine because some hair some hairlines they one grows higher than the other so just you know keep that in mind you fellas so now we're just finishing up the cut I use enhancements on his front lineup you didn't have you don't have to his hairline is already kind of crispy as it is but I wanted to do it for the sake of the video my camera ended up dying while I was doing it so we didn't get to record that part but with that being said the video is about over I appreciate you guys so much for supporting me my journey 500k is right around the corner I just gotta be consistent and stay grinding so yeah let me know what you guys think at the end of the video or a few seconds it's a fire cut y'all so let me know what you guys think I'm out man peace love I love you man so so much love y'all