 This is Matt Beck from freesaloneducation.com here with FSE Live number 9. We have a few things in store, we have a lot of questions, Brian's got those pulled up so let's just get to the team, we've got Brian here, Drea Bolen, Justin Scott, Thad Bolen, Christina Cavalcanti and we had just a night of technical difficulties so you figured it out though. Thankfully we're on the air I think. I'll say this though, you redid the whole thing and we haven't tried it yet live and it took less time than it did when it was stayed the same for a few months and things just all went wrong anyway so. Look at you with your positive outlook. Everything sucks. So yeah I did redo everything but I did test everything and it was fine Monday but it's okay we're good to go, we're live, we're going, tonight I'm gonna do some dry hair cutting, share some of my favorite quick tips with that of course they're quick and that's pretty much it. We have a ton of questions though so what I wanted to do tonight was set up kind of an old school podcast feel for the class and then we're gonna get into the dry cutting but what I would like to know from you guys is is there a live, not a live, a dry cutting technique that you would like to learn tonight. If there's something you want to learn post it in the comments in the chat box and we will get to it in a little bit so why don't we just cut through all the everything and just get right to questions. Boom. All right. All right so again if you want to partake in our questions keep an eye out of free salon education's Instagram every Wednesday when we're getting ready to do the show we put something up at the wheel and that's the questions that we pull from because that's where we know to look so be sure to keep an eye out for that. First one I love we got L White 2015 I work in a small town and I'm looking for a new way to recreate myself and my work. Do you have any suggestions? I've been in the hair business for 16 years and it's time for a change. Thanks. I actually super love this question because I think it's it brings us back to round table discussions on this one so I don't want to start someone. Dry it go. Oh okay I wasn't prepared I was still thinking about it. I know that's what's so fun about it. Okay so how to recreate. Yeah so I mean she's she's still obviously loves what she does it's been 16 years and she kind of wants to you know jazz things up a little bit. I would find a class that makes you a little uneasy of something that you're not really comfortable with go take that class and be re-inspired. Alright yeah I definitely agree education is a big thing. I know that's always one thing that re-inspires the hell out of me is you know just anything even if it's not something that you know I would necessarily like I love doing color but maybe if I went and took something else to re-inspire an area that maybe I hadn't thought of in a while like an up to class or something like that you'd be surprised but the littlest thing will just get you super inspired and then making sure that you don't just leave it in the class you know spend the whole class thinking about ways to bring it home and you know the guests that you've had for 16 years in your small town you know make it like a game for yourself. How many how many people can you work into talking to about this new technique or this new skill that you've picked up. Well and even if it's a back-to-basics class like I know when I after I take a class I always feel like I can take on the world and I want to change everything all the time. Alright. So that's what I say. Sweet. Have that gel. Anything. I mean I would think not just taking more classes but be excited about different things to your guests even the guests who's been coming to you for a few months or a few years. The more you get excited about trying new products or new styles or even just like a new blow-dry technique you're going to get them excited about having it done to them at least for once. So I think to kind of break you out in the not any of the same haircuts and blow-dries you're excited about something new most of the time your guest is going to be excited about something new as well. So that's one way to approach it. Alright. Is this a small town question? Yeah. Okay. So my thought process would be I because it's hard to find education obviously when you're in a small town I knowing growing up in Illinois in the small town I did with no bigger towns really around I don't even know where I would have found education so I think the cool thing is now is that we have things like what we're doing here and posting all this education online because I think that that's the best way to recreate yourself is education and now looking at the internet there's so many possibilities there's so many different companies out there now that are focused on online education and academies and groups that you can be a part of you know I would just say don't get sucked into all the random random group stuff that's happening I think sometimes it can be a little bit like really focus find something that is doing it in a good way and sharing information that is really it kind of like when you watch it you feel like it's for you that kind of thing right um yeah I don't know I think that'd be cool like if you know say cutting is her super passion if you know she found you know a cutter that spoke to her and really just sat there and maybe just blew through that and really just reinvented herself doing what she already loves and feels confident doing yeah then I think that would be not just a rebirth but like such a a restatement of confidence that would just come through in your work and would completely reinvent what you're doing yeah with people that you've already been doing it on or take like a huge class and like make it into like a class means vacation and go to like the sassu academy for like they're like when they're like many workshops yeah cool they have locations in what florida chicago and california right and new york and new york yeah miami oh yeah yeah i said florida uh but yeah that that way like you're getting a great classic you know that it's going to be an amazing class it's going to inspire you for cutting uh as well as you're going to go to a cool location so you get to go do some sightseeing go hang out on the beach yeah my miami location in february there you go for your location of february i was gonna say i just looked at fad wearing that microphone and did you think fiance can you have fun i hate her too yeah sit there and can you turn that camera towards you oh you can okay i can do that fiance deadlifting pose the people need to see you but no what so all right so but what this really made me think of was i think tonight based on this is going to make my head a lot less stressed out i think and i know i'll give you guys the entire show but the one dry hair cutting technique i'll end it with like a few of my favorites as well but your guys is favorite dry cutting techniques and we'll each share a technique then can i go first before anyone takes yes because there's only one ideal yeah we'll let you go first and and it's it's cool even if we want to double up but i think a lot of people get out a lot out of that and i think i have my staple ones that people have probably seen a hundred times but i think it'd be kind of cool to um have everybody will tear up this bob a little bit and uh but and and share that but yeah that's cool all right so we have the entire show and also you guys if you want to see uh different techniques make sure that you post them as well all right that was a cool question does anybody else want to jump in on that well i think it's pretty much it's pretty obvious that we all think it's education yeah is what really is gonna it's what works for us obviously all we all think same thing but for different reasons and in different places but education l white 2015 i hope it works for you sweet uh Veronica scissor hands what's the best method for removing direct dyes without compromising the integrity of the hair oh brian i know i think i know somebody can answer this so right now like that when you whisper with a mic oh i forgot that you have a mic on your face i'm not comfortable this is you right now like um no so just from all of the forums and all the groups and everything that i'm on like i see everyone has their own way that they say and honestly i think it really comes down to the direct i itself some of them are way easier to remove than others i have a fun video that actually i've been meaning to post so this will remind me and i'll post it on my instagram so check that out uh i made justin i was by myself and i felt like i was going crazy this past weekend so what do you do when you feel like you're going crazy have justin be a witness that totally legit anything i am the most sane one i could find was justin so um i was trying to remove blue which had faded to green which was layered over pink but i'm like oh it's no big deal it's like it's direct diets fantasy color it should come out eventually no problem because the blue did cover over the pink like months ago no problem and when the blue faded obviously it just faded to like a greenish redid the blue it's the joyco that we've been loving the results well this is my first time trying to remove it i even showed matt the video um i was just doing a little shampoo cap with the shampoo and the bleach and developer and it was coming out like the second that it touched the hair and then as soon as i shampooed it the color immediately came back and it was green like i would put the bleach on it and it would go away completely there would be no green left and then one shampoo later here it comes that happened four times and then i toned it with some red to try to make the green calm down and as soon as the color touched the hair it went away and then once i shampooed it out the green came back so then i toned it again with like permanent color to make it just overpower it to the point where you wouldn't even see it anymore and i'll be damned if green wasn't showing right through that end color so i don't know if it's going to be that entire line of direct diets that we're going to have to deal with this eventually or if it's just the blues because i know that blues can be a nightmare these days when you did that purple a blue color on christina i got it out with just a light shampoo cap of a lightener and 10 volume boom it was super easy to remove at that point and another this was the sapphire blue sapphire sapphire the cobalt i might have even mixed the two what i'm really curious because that was peacock green in her hair yeah so that the green and the purple came out super easy um i want to try malibu has a direct dye remover really yeah i actually send it like the rum company i could have swore that didn't we meet the malibu people in chicago last year i sent this to you actually months ago oh and i actually found it because i went through our pictures of malibu direct dye oh yeah and it's 100 vegan in case that matters jane matskin is saying that it's just the blues and reds apparently what is zero lift developer that's water she said well no because she's saying zero lift developer and lightener works on joyco no i think pro vana has a zero lift developer in their line i forget what it does though but what the hell that like by definition what is that water that's like a that's like vegan steak yeah um i'm not sure i look into it i'll find out these are all things that we should we could be testing it should be tested tomorrow brian can you pick this up yeah yeah add it to my list zero lift we also live in a small town and not near a beauty supply store even though christina goes to one every week she doesn't go there picking up experimental things just pick up one of everything christina just walk in the store and say yes what needs to get the job done a lot of other people go out like hairdressers because they're at their stores a lot more often but you guys don't go to stores i just got my prime just started going yeah so i'm sure he will start grabbing extra things yeah so i was going to be an expensive day when i go anyone else removing direct eyes what's worked for you in the past okay well real quick they someone just said it's meant for toners so essentially it's just like a processing liquid yeah that makes sense it's weird that they call it a zero lift yeah thanks hannah banner to each send us some i would love to try any of that i would love to try malibu that'd be like a yeah yeah that doesn't that'll lift if you mix five volume and bleach you'll you'll get a bump i'm just saying yeah maybe they just call their five to ten volume but Paul Mitchell has the let's figure this out and then you have a processing liquid is seven and a half volume but it's clear because like five and ten volume are meant for like deposit only right but it's saying but she's saying mix it with lightener okay well either way let's try it and we'll see what happens i like that idea all right uh sheer adoration that's a good name i'm set to graduate cosmetology school in roughly three weeks and i'm pretty stoked what would you say would be the most important thing to keep in mind entering the industry at this point in time any advice or encouraging words dad an open mind but not a naive mind oh whoa whoa you should say that just became yoda for a minute all right anybody anybody else have the mic drop i want to top that yeah jaya okay the other boland well i'm not gonna get so philosophical as that did uh what do you guys think like if you came out so like if you just graduated all right you know what would you do different you know what advice i give to new graduates i feel like so many graduates that i meet not all because i don't want to be blanket statement but so many people that i meet fresh out of beauty school think they know everything and walk around with like this like attitude that is so off-putting to other like stylists that know it they don't know everything but at least know more because they've actually been in the business for a minute so i guess that's just sort of an offshoot of what that is saying like have an open mind you don't know everything yet listen like just keep your ears open people will try to help you yeah don't be an ass my advice is find a stylist that you look up to in your salon and make friends with them because you you're gonna want to be their friend so that when that time comes where you're stuck in a bind and you need help with something you can go to them and say draylor makes friends in order to get help in the future she's like kanya no but seriously like build that relationship so that you're comfortable with talking to them about anything mentor like follow them watch them how they do hair what it is you like about them and recreated in your own way support that i mean yeah that's cool my biggest peeve just seeing it again even when i was a teacher and seeing it now in the industry is like nobody's humble kind of what goes brian goes off of they come out of school and everything they're doing is like oh i'm a barber well no you're not what schools do you guys go to no i just no just seeing people on social media like things people post oh stuff like that like it's not a barber you're not a stylist you're you're brand new you have a lot to learn how i still have a lot to learn everybody does right don't put yourself on a pedestal that you can't do anything that anybody walks in that door yeah you know comic lectures they super super humble but stay like super hungry and always want to pick up everything you can educational wise because you never know what you're gonna do five years on the road yeah i mean i i've definitely met those kids that that you're talking about i just haven't like experienced like a those crazy i dated one oh okay you're having nuts like we please just calm down so but um my my big thing with the industry right now is that i i think it's at the greatest point because i think um where everyone was kind of like able to be like they're they're like a rock star in their own mind seven years ago now i think you actually have to prove it uh on because of social media and all of those things now phones are in the first um the but now i think you have to prove it so i think it's a it is a humbling industry now and i think there's a lot more opportunity in the industry because of it as well and i think that you the the cape like the people are much i i seriously cannot function my brain this week um i think i'm gonna have like i'm just gonna follow over i think um the who's your emergency contact what's that who's your emergency contact christina just call her 911 is the emergency contact um should you like they did in that one movie and i'll just start talking to him like that's what my mind feels like so um but i think that there's a lot more opportunity you can build your own brand very easily nowadays but it's also very easily not easily but easier than it was extreme christina turn up christina on there christina wants to talk and matt won't let her is it really not working i tested that too oh all right buddy deep breath but yeah so i think that there's a lot of opportunity go get it yeah go get it get it seal get that build your brand it's fun all right one more and then we'll move i mean we'll keep doing them one more before i dry cut yeah i really like this one because i actually had a few friends that make me ready to answer this question uh mosh hair says middle age gal just starting cosmetology school any advice for those of us taking the plunge later in life um one of my really really close friends i i admired the way that she went about it like she being a little bit older especially than everybody else there it was clear how much more serious she took school uh she didn't get wrapped up in all of like the beauty school drama with the young kids and the nonsense going on and i mean she killed she came out of school light years ahead because she took every single one of her hours and rung two hours out of them right and being a little bit more mature had a better idea of what she wanted in life so the first salon that she went and applied she's still there and now she's happy there and she makes a ton of money there so the the best advice i can give is get every single ounce of experience that you can out of school and make smart choices you know don't you're not behind you're ahead of the game because no one's going to look at you and say oh how long have you been doing hair that's a huge advantage that you have over the 18 19 20 year olds they're just going to assume that you've been at it for a while yeah as long as you hold yourself like you have sweet that's why i agree with my beard so i looked over okay his confidence has skyrocketed he's got a girlfriend it's also my third monster for the day nice oh my god you know i think ryan killed that question all right yeah i think that was good i was gonna say i have to agree with everything brian said on yeah brian's like amazing guys let's cut some mannequin all right let's do this okay so yes and i want you guys to grab whatever your favorite scissors for this as well because i know all of you guys don't use dry cutting scissors brian uses the speed star swivel i use the pair that no one can ever buy actually we did have question earlier maybe you can answer this one okay some of the best dry cutting shears that you uh yeah we're gonna go over that for sure all right so uh brian is up first brian's gonna showcase his dry cutting skills um mad fat skills his mad fat skills so mad fat skills yep not really that was a it was i just didn't want to move that's sanitized yeah that's my teacher used to tell me yes all right so all right can you see my scissors oh god i'm so matte back right now they're clean there is no max back can we stop at that i even i even stop with that one it's not focusing i'll hold him by my face my sword speed star my double swivel i fell in love with double swivel in beauty school and now it's all i can use i look like an idiot when i try to use regular ones uh you don't have to move your hand to like i can honestly all the fun little tricks that matt does with his scissors i can hold them the same way but i pretty much always hold my hand in the same position and backhand is super easy because i don't have to twist and get crazy that was the first thing i fell in love with them in beauty school was that backhand you're not really like doing anything different when i went to teach brian yeah it's honestly it's one of those things what i liked the guy that made me first pick up a pair of double swivels he said they're not for everybody they're very much for just certain it's certain types of people that are gonna love them and people either love them or hate them i've never found anyone that's gray area with swivels before you buy a pair i would suggest picking up a pair like if somebody around you has one pick them up see how you feel with it because preferably come pick up brian's because they're really nice they're very good or you know if you find they're kind of like i'm at the point now where i want to buy new scissors just because i want new scissors because i just want new things but i don't need new scissors because these will probably last longer than i will you know what you should do is you just have a backup though for when you send them i do stole matt's double swivels so i do have a backup he does have a backup yeah i'm gonna use your backup pair because kiyoshi sent me a pair of double swivels as well and i did not want them but they were shocked on the hell out of those yeah so the um but the difference between double swivel and single swivel is this part i wait which part swivels this part that part swivels on a single on a single so it's around this way i don't know can you see okay you see that sad can you focus if i go in a little it should autofocus so that swivels on a single on the double you get that to go as well which is what gives you the ridiculous amount of freedom like freedom you really want to know what it is what makes it so perfect for me it lets you be a little bit more lazy as far as posture goes like i don't like my posture i don't have to work as hard to get that perfect angle with the scissors and make sure that i don't have the flair that matt does because i can just sit there like this and get every single pose nope i did however when i first started i cut my eyelid with my swivels because i was holding them and i went to go scratch an itch and they slipped and sniffed at the last minute and cut my eyelid and then i realized how close i was to almost stabbing out my eyeball and i looked at my client and i said excuse me one minute and i sat down my scissors and i went to the bathroom and i'm like oh my god i just almost stabbed out my eye no there were some cheap swivels no it literally it if you go back in my old face pictures there's a sip of the snack that is good your injuries never cease to amaze me i know i i go big all right so when it comes to dry cutting i love my scissors i like these this particular cutting blade because it's super crazy sharp so i do get as precise as i want to get with most of my cuts but i've got like the mega powerhouse kind of stuff so i can get in there because it's got that the d19 blade so it's weighted down the middle which gives me the power for dry cutting without you know worrying it i don't slip i don't slide like i cut the damn hair when i go in there with it because it's got that power um it was i remember the haircut that i first started doing this dry cutting technique on it was matt and we talked about it with the client because he'd seen how i'd been cutting her hair and it was just coming out bob-ish but way too heavy so he suggested and taught me with the uh the dry cutting and i watched him do it a few times but i hadn't really tried it and then he told me to try it on her and i absolutely loved it and it's great for a scenario like this she's got the cute bob but it just it's a little too heavy and i it's a little too solid like right now a lot of the people they want it that little more textured through the ends and they want to lighten it up a little bit especially if they're bringing in a picture that has it like kind of beach waved where it's like really really textured through the ends this is a great technique to dry cut out that weight through the ends and keep it so you can have a sharp bob when it's a bob or when you curl it it's just like there is no definitive end to it so it's just it's not precise again because i'm not a precise person i don't think any of this will be precise tonight so i'm just i i grab myself a chunk um what i like to do is you know make sure that just be aware of the look i want to go for if i want to shatter everything then i'll dry cut until everything comes out of my hand if i want it to stay looking like a bob then i'll just dry cut until i'm almost to what is the outside of her bob so get my little guys go in open it's going to be like a little bit of open and closed again i like my little double swivel because i just have to like twitch my thumb and it gives me that little open and close and it's just coming in on the clothes each time right i do it without it well this i've never tried i do it but i've never tried to describe it as i'm doing it so that's funny yeah just in i roll my fingers back i like to come out as i do it and then to make sure that i leave the bob don't cut that end piece this is taylor swift you're messing up right now just so you know nothing can mess with t swift did you not see her acceptance speech it's i know but what i like about it especially in a solid bob when i go through and i'll like i would go through and do the whole thing but we have a lot of other people that need to go when you go through and do it it gives because you've removed that weight from underneath and sort of just tease that out even more of that tuck under naturally which just gives it a really cool look and had i gone crazy on this then she'd have a super broken line all the way around the bob and that's my favorite dry cutting technique awesome okay wait so hand that off to draia draia you can put that on we're gonna answer another question so you can get situated with that draia and then uh we should probably give it back to that actually in case he wants to speak but one bolt and draia doesn't want him to speak nope all right yeah let's let's do another question draia you can get set up if you want actually okay hair by sarah jay how would you place a balayage client how would you place a balayage on a client with really curly hair um in my experience i do the exact same thing i just make my lines much more bold excuse me um just think about what you do differently when you foil a curly-headed client and sort of approach it the same way the same way that a foil can disappear into curls so can balayage so don't be afraid to go in with something much more bold i would make sure that you find out how often they wear it straight versus curly because if they wear it straight half the time and you give them really bold balayage you could end up looking like uh kelly clarkson circa 2000 so yeah that's what i would say that's a good it's pretty solid cool draia are you ready oh this girl you know three other people have to go after you could have just like you could have just brought that down a little bit you could have brought the center one down a little bit that's hilarious it's not it's draia is that can you zoom in on this on this little it goes up and down it's amazing and it wasn't set up evenly before it was straight though it's still not it's like all right i'll put it the one on this leg and then the three on that leg one job dra it's okay teasing you not that right now i know her haircuts are straight as an arrow no that's okay that's good that's pretty good whatever it's okay our floors crooked anyway so it doesn't really matter whatever all right um do you want to go yeah i can go now all right let's yeah so i like the um it's tiny puffins it's what i have in my scissor case these are mats but i'm using them today um my technique is a little similar to brian's i just do it a little bit differently hey then he does it which is fine i like to take a nice clean section i don't grab the hair i have to get brian a hard time because he gives me just as hard of a time on everything else all right let's see this so i like to have mine elevated up a little bit more and i'm not doing i'm doing more of a stroking method of closing all the way on the way in versus just a little bit that he does and i don't tease as much so brian's tease he is so i think how your favorite is just a better version of brian just read what you're doing i didn't say a better version than yours i said a different version i do want to mention a couple things about this technique in general so um a couple things that i like so brian when brian took his chunk of hair he did take it all the way down to the hairline right so he started at the outer perimeter of the haircut so he's going to get a more shattered look what drae is doing is she's elevating the hair more so i have a piece dropped yeah and then attacking the interior of the section um in a more uniform way because you are actually combing and taking your section and where brian kind of you pinch your ends right yeah i'm holding them in between my fingers right so that it fans out a little bit so it's similar the the action is this the action is similar and but it's not the same okay neither one is better right i didn't say that and what scissor did you choose i chose the puffins that's what i usually use in my case so five and a half these are the five so somebody did ask about choosing um dry cutting scissors the visibility puffin is a dry cutting scissor and brian have you ever tried it no we should have you get up and try it after she's done because you will feel like there's a big difference and i'd like to get that reaction because there's a complete different feeling when you cut with a dry cutting scissor we'll have to get you the speed star puffin yeah maybe level them up i'm there all day right okay one thing i do want to focus on is i know you can do it from underneath i always go above and have my elbow pointing up just uh help guide the hair and i just go in there our chat room feels bad for me if adria is burning me they are are they really i didn't mean to burn you um but whereas i have more of a light tease through there where brian's like sticks out from the head but that's just how i go oh it's great well no i'm just saying like there's a difference between how you're going and and because you're only closing a little you're getting more of a tease in there whereas i'm doing more of a stroking method yeah so there's not as much teasing yeah perfect good job jaya thanks i was just trying to let's have brian brian get up to the same technique wait hers or not you're you i'm not capable of doing it you're the bad one with the good cheer yeah same thing you just did that you go next and then let's have you sit down let's just get i just want to see what you think i feel like i'm holding a lightsaber right now okay all right so sit down sit only because you have a mic when you sit down because i want to talk to you about okay so tell me what did you feel it was a little bit different i felt i don't know how to say it i didn't feel like i had as much power behind it right like you didn't feel the tug of the hair right like i didn't feel like this i felt like i might have had a little more leeway like mine if you were to try to go beyond just a tiny little wiggle you're going to take all that hair right yeah it sounds like he's describing the push and effect of the puffins yeah so it's definitely a softer feel yeah yeah man it sounds like he's describing that push and effect that the puffins do yeah which they're supposed to do yep right no no i mean it's doing what it's supposed to that's what i'm saying like yeah this like i can i can tell the difference in something that's meant to do dry hair versus learning how to do dry hair with what i have cool is that going to answer drea thank you christina unfortunately she's not mic of course unfortunately her mic doesn't work just got vindicated and she's not mic'd drea was like obviously drea's like all right i want to get i didn't sandbag i didn't mean to make you sound bad brian drea was like i didn't mean to burn you did i use enough gasoline was was there enough napalm on the fire is it still burning okay let's cut some hair quit burning people yeah damn bolans christina just muted that sign my uh dry kind of technique i know i'm on but i wasn't on that part he's waiting till he's main main stage all right so i know so i want to also be using the puffins i like the puffins because of that sliding technique that what brian was just describing they have a tendency to push the hair when you're doing a slide cutting technique they also are great for detailing work because of the tip they're great for just getting in there and really just detailing everything out what part the tip just the tip gotcha they have a powerful tip all right so my technique is going to be slide cutting i like to use slide cutting when i want to make a haircut a little bit pieceier maybe get in with some spray wax and really piece everything out so what i like to do is just go in just ever so slightly after i've calmed down and worked my way down now what you have to focus on is how much hair you're actually grabbing a hold off so i'm going to show you went without the shears open when i go in all i'm doing is going in and grabbing just ever so slightly so i'm not going in and cutting all of this hair if somebody has a lot of density i might section the hair out off i got one thanks buddy for those of you who don't know because just doesn't have a mic anymore he just offered me a clip so if somebody has a lot of density i would section it off start with the lower layers and just go in and start slide cutting things that you also want to be aware of are things like ears as well as earrings so that's another reason why you want to make sure like where that your shears are and you're just going to go in and like brian was talking about with why he likes his double swivels you're just going to take your thumb and have it ever so slightly in there and just start just slowly notching your way down you're not just dragging the shears through if you're dragging them through you're not you're going to have like a tearing sound it's not going to be a very fun haircut for your client but the puffins are just going to go in and as you're cutting they're just going to be pushing that hair away so it leaves like a nice soft finish after you go down through the lower um the underneath layer you can then go through and go into that top layer and just do some more slide cutting that way you're going to get like a nice like pc texture throughout the side so after i would go in throughout before putting any product in i would just start to take notice to like where i'm starting to see peaceiness if i want to go in and take more out i know i know things justin okay so let's uh let's hit another question that i don't hear is asked what's the effect and benefit of slide cutting like with that angle you can just answer and we'll so i like to use that uh technique when i'm looking for a piece here more shaggy or like haircuts so that way i can go in with either like a texture wax or a spray wax oh we've been spun a texture wax and it really just getting there and start messing around with the hair and playing with it until i see the piece of this and the texture that i'm looking for we're wearing a tank because we're a kind of boycotting winner i just muted you all right so all right so it's already nine oh four so we will so justin has got his technique all lined up let's get a check himself i have to make i had this on upside down all right um i can't tell you what pair of shears are my favorite because no one else can ever buy these or have them so i'm sure they can have that handle they could have that handle all right so i mean what would be uh you are kind of favorite shear similar to this i got them before they were cool um this uh edge i think that's similar to the blacksmith fit yeah i think it's similar to that i enjoy this for dry cutting for the fact that it's not a ton of weight there okay i'm not using it for a ton of weight um they were kind of doing different motions what i usually use my dry cutting for using it to kind of soften the edge more so than take so much bulk out of a haircut okay so i'm just gonna go through take a section again that said watch out for some ears and depending on where i want to take the bulk out if i'm only going to work and soften just the edge of it i'm going to take my section and just kind of point cut in as i work out just to break it up a little bit i work out or if you have again you want to break it up just a little more you would control as much hair as you could and just cut into that section now i think the key of this it's obviously point cutting yes but what it is but what i like is that it's a deep point cut but you're keeping the scissor very vertical to the section itself yeah so it's you're not creating lines no you're gonna if you're again bring it out up here you're not going to go in this way you're going to keep it parallel to that hair the whole time right and yeah that's it that's that's usually one i can go to it's a quick easy one similar point cutting great for men's hair to texturize to blend in that side to the top as well so i like is a i actually watch all these guys work and except for draya i actually see all of them actually do these on their car oh all right cool he's got you all right brad let's do do another question i'm gonna all right and i'll show my we got the spin oh wait you're doing yours uh okay actually this is a good question that i don't know the answer to so if somebody does i would like to answer it uh jason lesher is asking is there a place out there on the internet or somewhere that you can find a list of all of the big hair shows like the one in chicago that's coming up like where would you find a list of all of the hair shows i actually have no clue i don't think there's a single uniform list but if you go to the different distributors they will have a list of how you know who well i mean look at the ones that are in the area that or that you've heard other people talk about whether it's uh cosmoprop whether it is maybe if you just find cities that you'd like to go to and just do like you're gonna yeah or you can check out go hair show just like hair show i was gonna say the convention center has a list of yeah yeah because it's because there's not one company that puts on all these hair shows so you're probably gonna need to find yeah or if you want to start a blog boom you just got a million views already on that there you go million bees up place one million views they get a silver push button in no time yep all right matt okay cool so um so just to finish it off i'm gonna show you guys a couple of my favorites um i have put out quite a few um haircuts over the last oprah's favorite things oprah's favorite what no um okay so a couple techniques that i want to show you guys there's one that i do in pretty much every haircut that i've shown in the last couple weeks but i don't think i go into much detail about it and that is really detailing the outer line of a haircut i think a lot of people when they see those really sharp lines in haircuts they think it happens most of the time on the wet cut but in reality it's happening always almost always in the dry cut so um after i did this haircut what i did was i went through and you guys can see it if you check out the video but what i did was i went through when i use the tip of my scissor and this is the puffin as well the thing i like about the puffin is it has a nice sharp point to it so i can go through and i can draw this line um and a nice sharp edge on the line so what i'll do is i'll work back and forth on the guest's neck line drawing that line and then what i'll usually do is have them just kind of twist their head back and forth and then it will open it up again and that's really the reason i do that is because i can go through detail it a little bit more and then i know that when they leave anytime they're moving their head around that line is going to sit nice and solid on the haircut so uh that works really well for me and that was a big uh moment for me in my hair cutting because when i learned that that's really how they get those really straight lines now when you look at the weight and how it shifts in a haircut that has everything to do with your elevation but the bottom base line is going to have a lot to do with in the dry cut you creating those lines in there um yeah i don't know what you said he he he just shook his head no don't don't listen to him all right so um last technique that i want to show you guys because they did do the teasing technique so i'm not going to do that i do have a third way of doing it that is better than both what no um but i want to go through i want to show you guys uh two techniques stroking technique and then i'll show you no thumbs and then that uh will be the end of that so vertical section the stroking technique what that's going to do is it's like point cutting but it's removing um it's creating layers creating graduation whatever you want it's creating a line but it's creating a shattered line so um if you want to diffuse a haircut you want a more razor defect in a haircut it's similar to point cutting you could do it with point cutting but i find it to be a little bit more comfortable because sometimes like when you looked at justin's uh point cutting that he was doing he was coming in here like this i'm going to be the same way but i can drop my elbow down hold it here and this is just more comfortable for me as i'm going through working the stroking technique so uh thad will kind of zoom in on this what you do is you open up lift up and open down and close um some people that teach this teach that you're gonna close on the way up but that's a complete lie to me i don't understand how you can come down and then cut on the way up and you always see people in a class like uh working their arm really weird because of it i think it's come down and then as soon as i feel the back end of the scissor right at the screw when i feel that screw hit my fingers that's when i close the scissor down so i'm coming down and closing so i'm completely closed when i hit and then i release it and i throw the hair back can you repeat after me for just one second yes i think no we're not mad yes somebody from theodore from malaysia yes is asking do you need to use different scissors for men's versus women's hair um i do i use uh different scissors for pretty much everything i use um all different lengths of scissors i like longer scissors for men's cutting because i do a lot of scissor over comb um so dad do you want to zoom out real quick testicles so here here's a couple of things so this is this is the misatani uh blacksmith solid scissor this is my mostly my men's cutting scissor my women's cutting scissor is the db 20 which is this one so you can see uh the difference in blade length or let me get out of the way you can see the difference in blade length the reason i use a shorter blade for women's cutting uh and precision cutting is because the longer the blade is the weaker it gets towards the end um so i'm working on it uh so the the weaker it gets towards the end so i would say that this scissor is it's strong but it does get weaker as it gets towards the end of the scissor now is it down to get the friction on but as i work here and i'm working scissor over comb through a men's haircut this is going to take a lot more uh of the head shape so it's going to take on a lot more of the head shape so i'll work through scissor over comb when i'm working precision i'm not cutting past my second knuckle based on tension anyways so i don't need a longer scissor because i'm just working this little bit i probably do cut past my second knuckle but then i re comb and then i cut again um so that's pretty much that now uh and my puffin is actually it's a five and a half inch so it it definitely doesn't get too long i think the longer the scissor even in dry cutting the weaker it's going to be and you need a strong scissor for dry cutting um that you use six inch right dreah is yours five and a half five and a half so um so that's that so i'm six point stroking technique going through closing on your way down just practice this technique i used to do it on my shampoo and set ladies in beauty school and then i have to perm them right after and the lines would be so screwed up that i would be trying to roll the perm rod down and i'd try to capture all those ends that i screwed up through it practice on while you're in school and if you're not in school get a mannequin this is erica she's available um on freestyleneducation.com but you can swipe right for erica yeah but you can get her and you can practice that technique through there now last one last one is no thumbs the thing i like about this technique and i actually really for this i like a even handled scissor this is the misatani retro it's another five and a half inch but i like an even handle what you're going to do is you hold the scissor normal you take out your thumb you put your pointer finger in the scissor blade and let it drop this you kick open and close just like that so it's open up down and close open up down and close and then i just lift the hair up this is uh there's no rhyme or reason to where i'm lifting and i go in so as i lift the hair up i'm looking through what i'm doing is taking out some pieces within the interior of the haircut not cutting a lot of hair you don't want to see chunks of hair falling down and what i'm doing is i'm opening up and then as i come down i grip the hair just little bits of it and i close as i come down so it's almost like you're grabbing some hair and bringing it down uh and cutting through it and this technique you just get faster as you practice um maybe while you're watching lots of tv and different netflix series you could just sit there and practice working this here i'll show you guys because that is a question that people ask it's not a lot of hair no what it who invented it the first person i saw do it was takashi and then ira does it i haven't really ever seen it anybody else i don't think so no it's um i like using this technique because when you're going through like you'll see he does do it in the salon little pieces again jerry is still the only one so you'll see all these little pieces so it's it's taking out and it's adding air to a shape so you create that shape that solid shape and then you go through and you take out those little pieces randomly through the haircut and then again like that was saying if you go in with a spray wax or something like that it's going to add a lot more texture to it so it's creating texture without creating a lot of lines boom solid so erica erica is a nice lady okay so um was there any techniques that we saw that we didn't cover nope i don't think there's really any more sheer hander hander bananaer wants to know how often you oil your shares and i think it's good when you're especially with you a lot of dry cutting to make sure yeah i mean we have mizutani sends you oil when you get your scissor so and there's most of the time in their scissor this one doesn't have it but um where's my black smith fit there's actually a little hole right here that can you lady black smith mombazo wow that's good look at that zoom there's a little hole right there where you put the oil so it's an easy way to oil your scissors and a lot of people ask me which beginner scissor i would recommend black smith fit is definitely one of them super comfortable and even at a 6.5 inch it's really strong pretty powerful but you could get this one um but yeah so oil i mean we oil our scissors i i use so many different scissors i mean this is i feel it's everybody's kind of different they feel whatever they because again it's it's also how tight you keep your shares as well yeah determine how much you need to oil them yeah you know if they're super tight against each other you're gonna have a lot more friction on more hairs because it's stuck in there the important thing to to make sure is that when you have your scissor um health class here let me go over and then we can spend the wheel too here's that you can get this important thing to know is that when you're cleaning your scissor make sure that you use a tissue to clean off the hair um what happened i don't even know i think we're teaching a 12th grade health class i know just the tip whatever i'm seeing that you can't ever not be my jeez i know christina just left we just look crazy because we're just like talking over there no one can hear any of it and everyone loves her laugh it's the best all right so let's spin the wheel let's okay this this night was pure chaos but it was needed i believe because you want to hug no i feel good what episode is very happy yeah you have you said nine but it says it's not i changed it i saw that when i before we started so i did change it so is it six or nine if you refresh it's nine we're on nine um uh i random selection yeah all right let's go l white two zero one five because that's not random all right let's give it a spin okay wait wait we gotta talk about it we gotta talk about who we have on all these great people that donated all these 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