 Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, go. So, let it go. What's up guys, welcome to today's vlog. Today I have a special vlog for you guys because I have a live model. His name is Nico. It's a men's cut. It's got disconnection, all kinds of fun stuff going on in the haircut. Also, a bunch of things that I wouldn't have personally done to his haircut. So I'm gonna make some adjustments to it as I go. This is definitely a work in progress. But I wanna kinda show you guys that process because we get a lot of clients coming in that have haircuts that are not so perfect and we have to make adjustments to it to start it on the track to being the way that you would wanna cut it in the salon. So I know you guys are gonna like it because of all the adjustments that we're gonna make to the haircut. So we're gonna get started. Let's get started with our step by step. Here we go. All right guys, so this is Nico. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start off by assessing his hair. I've never cut his hair before. So like I said in the beginning, this is gonna be some adjustments that we're gonna make to the haircut. So I look at the hairline. I look at how his hair grows. And I start talking to him about lengths that he wants to keep on the top and how short he wants the sides and all of that. Now we're gonna go in, we're gonna shampoo him. This is the He's a 10 shampoo, three and one shampoo conditioner body wash. They sent this to me. It's the first time I've used it, but I wanted to try it out. Definitely left his hair feeling nice and soft, cleansed the hair really well. I think the most important thing is a guy is to have a nice deep cleansing shampoo, especially if you use a lot of products. So I'm sure you guys have heard of It's a 10. Well, this is He's a 10. So brand new product and I'm gonna give it a shot. Like I said, the three and one shampoo, they also sent me a gel and a styling cream to put on the hair at the end. So we're gonna use those products to style. So when I looked at Nico's haircut and I sectioned it all off, you can see that the way that they sectioned the top, whoever previously cut his hair, it was very symmetrical in the top, but in the back it kind of goes asymmetrical. So the part wasn't exactly the way that I would want it. So what I'm gonna do is as I cut the hair, I'm gonna build up that weight line on the right-hand side to start growing the hair a little bit. Nico also said to me right away was that he wanted to do kind of a top knot on his hair. That was his goal. So I'm gonna keep the top nice and long. So we're gonna start off, I blue dry the hair after I shampooed it. So I shampoo it to get all of the stuff out of it and also work all those callix out with the nice warm water. And then I go through and I blow dry with my comb to get all the hair going in the right direction. Just gives a smoother transition when you go in to do the slight fade on the hair or the graduation or whatever you wanna call it. So I'm gonna use a few different techniques to create the sides of the haircut. I'm gonna start off using a clipper technique with a number two guard on the Andis Pro Alloy Clipper. Great thing about this clipper, if you guys don't know about it, it's a new clipper from Andis. They sent me and it has a cooling technology to it so it doesn't get hot like the other clippers. So if you're doing multiple haircuts in a row and your clipper tends to get pretty hot, this is a great clipper for that. It's also got a lot of power to it when it goes in to cut the hair. So we're starting from the temple, working back down to the nape, using that two guard fully open. When I made my open is the blade is at its longest point and using that two guard, like I said. So just working through, working with the grain, against the grain, just getting a nice smooth transition. What you'll notice about Nico's hair, you can see it right in this hairline how that hair kind of curves and grows in different patterns. So it's really important that when you're going through with your clipper work, that you go at it at different angles, just to get every bit of hair the same length as you're working through it. So just fine-tuning the side. Now we're gonna move into the Andis Supra ZR. This video is not sponsored by Andis. It just happens that they like to send me clippers, which I really enjoy. So thank you, Andis. This is a cordless clipper. So I really love this one for the freedom that I have in the salon. It's also super powerful. It has, I believe, five different speed settings. So you can decide how much power, how fast you want that blade to move. And what I'm gonna do is just go through and do some clipper over comb. Clipper over comb is something that I do quite a bit in the salon. I'm using my YS Park 209 comb. I chose the white version of it because I'm working with darker hair. It just allows me to see that hair coming through a little bit easier. And I'm just working that graduated line that we're creating, kind of layering it up a little bit and smoothing the transition from the short hair to the longer hair on the sides. So you could do that with a clipper guard as well. It's just not the way that I like to do it. I like to go through it with clipper over comb. The other thing I love about clipper over comb is the fact that there's different, you know, highs and lows within somebody's head shape. There's divots in people's heads, so it creates shadows. So if you're doing clipper over comb, you can kind of go a little bit deeper when there's those shadows. So it helps transition that fade a little bit better. So now I'm assessing that part. So you could see how the part really works its way up towards the center crown of its head. I want that part to go a little bit more straight over, following the parietal ridge a little bit more. But that's unfortunately not how the haircut is. So I have to make some adjustments myself. So we go in, we do scissor over comb work throughout the sides, and I just leave it a little bit longer towards that background area. So then later on, once that grows out, I can start working it into the top of the haircut. So to create the top of the haircut, we're gonna keep it nice and simple. Like I said, he wants to wear in a top knot in the very back. So I don't want, I want the hair to all be able to reach the back. So we're gonna create a almost triangular feel. So we're gonna push all that weight to the front and keep it nice and heavy so he can flip it back into the crown of his head. He could also tie it up if he wants to. But it's nice to have it not undone, like have a purpose. So I go through, just clean it up, and then we're gonna blow it dry. So the reason I'm gonna blow it dry is because I wanna create some texture and make it a little bit lighter on the top of the head. Nico has very, very thick hair. So after I get through doing the details on the sides, what I'm gonna do is just go through and do some point cutting on the top. So this is trimmer over comb, just working some details around the edges of his haircut. Just keeping it nice and natural. I'm not trying to get fancy with the sides of the haircut. You can see how that 209 comb will bend its way through the head shape. That's very helpful. Like I said, the head has different highs and lows in it. So this comb kind of allows it to sink down in there and create those nice beveled looks to it. So a little trimmer over comb, finishing up, fine-tuning the details, trying to keep it nice and natural in the back. Nice kind of rounded feel to it and taking it nice and nice and tight, but not too tight. I'm not trying to make this a skin fade. Some of you guys out there might like it. If you're great at doing a skin fade, go ahead. No one's holding you back from that. So now I'm gonna go through, finish it off with some point cutting. I'm actually using my Pen Slim Scissor for this portion of it. So I did the Blacksmith Fit Solid in the scissor over comb portion, which was a seven inch scissor. This is a six inch fine blade scissor. Thing I love about this is it does have a lot of power. It's a nano-powder metal, so it grips the hair, but it's nice and sleek so it gets into the hair exactly the way that I want it. One of my favorite scissors. So it's a Mizetani Pen Slim six inch scissor. So I'm going nice and deep with that point cut as I work through my fingers, over directing everything to the very back. So as I'm point cutting, I'm bringing everything back to where I cut it in the original part of the haircut. So I'm not trying to change the shape at all. Finishing up those details. This is just taking it a little bit tighter around the edges. Just keep it nice and soft. Now we're gonna do his eyebrows. I like doing the eyebrows with a scissor because I feel like I have a little bit more control and I feel like I'm cutting more one eyebrow at a time rather than going through with a clipper and taking off multiple at a time. So sometimes I'll use a trimmer, but for the most part I like to use a scissor to clean that up. So now what we're gonna do is we're gonna add some hair color to his hair because and only because his friends decided to bet him that he wouldn't frost his tips or something like that. So he decided to frost his own tips. So now that the tips of his hair have blonde on them and that's all. So what I wanna do is get this back to normal. So I go through, this is vibro color. It's permanent hair color, but I'm using a 10 volume to keep it nice and soft. I didn't want the translucency of a semi permanent color. So I just went in there and I'm using the vibro color to bring it back to his natural in the very back. I don't need highlights in the disconnected part of the back. I'm already gonna have that kind of separation feel to it. So I do paint a little bit of extra color even in parts that weren't colored because I think as a rule, it's always good to add any of that color that you're already adding to it, add it in other places, just in case just to soften the feel of it. So now I'm gonna go through, this is with a well of free lights and I'm gonna paint some highlights in there. Now he was up to highlights. Now obviously he didn't need frosted tips, but if we just kind of balayage some highlighted pieces, kind of hand paint some pieces in there, just gives it a nice fresh look to the cut, kind of pulls it all together. So what I'm doing is I'm just taking diagonal forward sections. You can really just pick pieces out that you're looking to highlight and paint freely throughout the top of the head. You're not trying to complicate this. Now the complicated part is how you paint the pieces. So what I'm doing is I'm taking bigger chunks of hair, holding them into a triangular shape and then just painting the top surface of the hair color. The reason that I'm painting it back off of his face is because that's what you're gonna see when he pulls his hair back. So I don't wanna paint the underneath. I wouldn't pull the hair forward towards his face when I'm painting it. So you can see I grabbed those big chunks, pinched them together with my fingers, just like you would do with women's hair and then I paint the edges and the top portion of the section and then allow that to lay over top. So this is a real quick, easy add-on for guys and this is something that a lot of, I color 80% of the guys that get into my chair and the reason is because I just do simple, quick techniques like this and I don't make it a weird thing. It's just making nice, natural, feeling looks to the guy's hair and doing it really quick. So for this I would probably charge an extra $25, $30 depending on where you are and where your area is, you could be more or less but I base it on the amount of time it takes me. This took me literally five minutes to do, a half an ounce of color and I was done. Now I'm using the Minerva Color Processor. This is also great for guys because it allows you to process his hair in 10 minutes. So I process the entire thing in 10 minutes, rinse it out and you have your final look. Just kind of rotates around the head, has a little heat feel to it but it's also processing and allowing. You can see how bright that highlight is. That was 10 minutes later and there you go. So now we're gonna style it. This is the He's a 10 gel. Now that gel is coming out so slow. That's actually sped up. It's a very thick gel and I did like that. I like the shine that it gave. It smelled good and it had a nice hold but then once I started to blow it dry, the thing I did like about this product a lot is that his hair had a hold but it didn't feel sticky and that was really what I was hoping for when I went to style it because guys here you don't want it to feel like it has a ton of product in it, especially when you're blow drying it. So we're blow drying it to get it to lay exactly where we want it. Then what I'm gonna do is go in with the other shaping product and create the exact finished look that we're going for. But you can see the shine coming off of his hair. So this is the It's a 10 Miracle Pliable Paste and I think the miracle about this product and what is really crazy about it, it smells good first off, that's not the miracle though. The feel of it in your hands feels like a little bit sticky but then as soon as I got it in the hair it has so much hold to it. You could really mold the hair wherever you wanted it to but it wasn't super greasy. So that was one of my favorite parts about the product. Again, this isn't a sponsored video by them, they just sent me the product to try it out but I do really enjoy the product. I like the gel first and then putting this Miracle Pliable Paste in it to give it a nice finished look to the haircut. You can see those highlights popping through and that is our end result. So hope you guys like the video, definitely let me know. Hope you liked the little color add-in, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that as well. So thank you guys for watching this. All right guys, like always if you liked this cut then hit that thumbs up button below. Also hit the subscribe button if you have not done that already and I have two new announcements to make. 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