 Hey guys, this is Matt Beckley free salon education.com here with our new neighbor Dan and he moved in We've been looking at this area. He's going to a wedding. So I said, let's do a makeover and let's film it Why not? So what we're gonna do is focus on some key adjustments that I want to make in his haircut right away I looked at a few different things. So I want to show you guys if you look here, Dan has a pretty straight texture to his hair That's what I noticed right away and you can see He said he's never really gotten a quality haircut before so what you can see here is there's just some steps Leading up to it because his hair so straight it sticks kind of straight out So if you don't get the the layers the same length and you're gonna see those steps in the haircut So what we're gonna do is definitely make that adjustment. I'm gonna be working clipper over comb It's one of my favorite things to do We're not gonna take it too tight. He is going to a wedding and he wants a classic tapered look So we're gonna use our ys park 209 comb. It's it's a little bit thicker. So it's easier with scissor or clipper over comb So we're gonna work through his hair that way I want to start off with it kind of dry The other thing you'll notice about Dan's hair is that he he's loading it down with gel And that's something that a lot of guys do because they either their hair is too long It's a little bit out of control So we want to get Dan on a more regular schedule of getting a haircut So he doesn't have to mat it down with a lot of product and and show him some different product options that maybe won't make his hair so hard and Crunchy I guess we could say so we're gonna get started. I'm gonna work my taper up. So I'm gonna grab my clippers This is the clipper that I choose to use. It's a wall senior clipper works really well and I also use the austere Tighten to so we kind of flip back and forth but for clipper over comb this gets nice and tight So as we work through it'll work well for us So I'm gonna go through I'm gonna do the tight taper you guys can watch that and speed it up Just a little bit so we can get through it and then I'll go on to the next step. So as you can see we're tapering this in and One of the key things that I'm really focusing on is when I put the comb into the hair I'm just beveling it out slightly. So we're building up a little bit of a graduation in his haircut So that's what's really gonna build in that taper So I want to take it nice and close But then tilt my comb out and run the clipper back I'm also working diagonal back because that's gonna allow the weight flow to work back on his head if I were to work Horizontally it's gonna remove that weight line straight across and I wanted to have a little bit of a flow back and build that Taper up so that line the weight line should kind of fall a little bit lower towards the the nape of the neck So we're gonna keep working through keep doing that adjusting the lengths in his hair So he doesn't have those steps in his haircut and then we'll go move to the top Now as I'm working through the back here, I keep working on that diagonal back I don't want to switch to then go horizontal here because what that's gonna do is then shift the weight line back up I want to build in kind of a V shape to the weight And then I'll remove a little bit more of that with the scissor But in order to keep that nice and tight and build up that weight and keep the weight line going down I don't want to switch switch over So just make sure that that's a key thing that you want focus on there as well How I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go through with the trimmer I want to clean up all the edges really get that shape in there of what I want his hairline to look like And then I'll start working up the top I like to try to keep nice and organized we started on the the right hand side worked our way down Keeping diagonal did the same thing started on the the left side Working diagonal back all the way down Now when I clean up the hairline then go into the top It's really important to stay organized because I think if you don't stay organized That's how you end up with those steps in the haircut because you just fly through it That's typical of a salon. It's just trying to get through their day And that's not what we're trying to create We want quality haircuts coming out and the way that we're going to do that is staying organized So I'm gonna go in with my trimmer. I use a tea trimmer. I like that because especially when I'm working around the ear area The tea trimmer can just glide along the ear To create that Just really to remove that length around the ear Now I don't want to square off the back and this is a question that we've had quite a bit is What do I do with this calyx? You can see Dan has kind of a a calyx of different growth pattern in the back So I want to do is kind of create my own to make it work for for his hairline. So I take a look at A couple different things. You can see where it gets a little bit skinnier here. Then it gets fuller So really what I want to do is remove all of this stuff take a little bit of that Length that comes down here take some of that off and then round it up to the top So I'm going to work through with my trimmer doing that just kind of etching in The the overall shape that I'm trying to create maybe not the final shape to it I'm just working my way around and you can see how it starts to All start to come together Pretty much right away I'll go through with the reverse end of my My trimmer because that'll get the hair just a little bit closer to the skin. So it doesn't grow out as quickly for him We're gonna do the same thing on the opposite side. So I'll follow the hairline down Now where it starts to kind of the density goes away right here and the growth pattern shifts and changes I can go through and and really even just freehand Remove some of that weight. I'm not trying to comb it down or push it where it doesn't want to go in the first place Because all that's going to do is I'm going to lift it up cut it and now I'm going to have a hole right there And that's not what I'm trying to do. So we'll go through And now I really want to work This line for him All right, so now we're gonna wet down Dan's hair I want to find out where I really want his part to live And uh, this will it's a little bit easier to work on the top of the hair on the longer part of the hair when it's wet So all right, so we got Dan's hair comb back It's nice and saturated I'm gonna work off of a parting. So he's got a right hand side part a little deeper with it Really base this on the hairline. I like to Um, Dan does not have a receding hairline. So that's good. It's good for him. It's good news. So, um Can go a little bit deeper with it But again, just having that parting exactly where I want it helps with The rest of the haircut. So now I'm going to go through I'm going to go back to my ys part comb I know it's a dark color and he's got dark hair, but um, I want to use this to blend everything in together And I'm going to work scissor over comb for this part We're going to work our way up the hairline. I don't want to go too far. Just comb it back down and then work again Slightly tilting that comb out building up that slight bit of graduation in there And you can see the wait line So as I work down We'll shoot it at this angle so we can hopefully see the build up of weight in there But I'm barely I'm just dusting the ends off Just to blend in that wait line because I really do Like having a nice solid wait line in there for this haircut We're going to work our way into the back same thing. I'm just going to dust over what I had already clipper over combed Just to kind of give a final check on it. You can also work up diagonal forward And just dust it just a little cross checking And then I'll work back diagonal back to really remove Any weight that I'm anything on this side working up the head But the biggest thing to notice is that I haven't shifted my comb angle at all I'm working diagonal back all the time if you can see this edge popping up over It's really just all of his hair coming over to this side. So it's extra heavy right there So what I want to do is take Right above the round of the head The parietal ridge whatever you want to call it Take that out That's where the heaviness is. So I'm just going to work on that instead of working on everything at once And remove some of that bulk This is to really get that big line out of there And then I'm going to go through And I'm going to work my double zero Uraqi scissor By texturizing scissor because I want to remove a little bit of extra bulk From Dan's hair. So if we can get You can show it this way a little better We can go in here and I'm actually going to dig the comb in a little bit deeper and just work That texturizing scissor through Removing some of that bulk because he's still going to have a line when the hair falls over A weight line, but this is just taking out that extra bit of weight that would be coming through there So now we comb his hair over so you can see there's still Weight there, but it's not as heavy as it was Now Dan's got another little calyp that kind of pushes this hair forward here So I can just go in with my Uraqi scissor for that as well And just remove a little bit of that excess weight And it'll blend it up nice And for the last little bit I want to go through I'm going to add a little texture to his hair because he it's thicker So I'm going to go through Just do some point cutting But also create a little bit of an angled line in there so Everything needs to be over directed up And then I'm just going to slightly change my finger angle So instead of it being flat across because that's just going to build too many layers there I want to add a little bit of extra weight Flapping over so we're just going to go through and do a point cut And connect the two sides here That's going to give him that extra length to kind of flip over Now everything's going to be over directed to the previous In the very front I want to change it up just a little bit Because I do want to leave quite a bit of length in the front I just want to remove a little bit of weight So working diagonal forward From the part over to the hairline around the temple area And that way it'll just give a little kick up But won't be so heavy in that area right along the temple Now right in here this pushes over Dan's got another calic in here So I'm going to section the rest of his hair away And I just want to work on this calic that kind of tosses the hair over so we're going to work Scissor over comb I'm going to let it shoot up because that's what it wants to do anyways I don't want to take the rest of his hair this short But that little bit it's not going to hurt anything and you can see how that kind of makes that disappear It makes everything comb together And that's pretty much it. It's a nice classic tapered haircut What I'm going to do real quick is Dan's going to a wedding so he can't have a beard You know it's out of control So we're going to go in and just clean that up and make it match into the haircut And that's really what I want to create so Let me show his I like the length of his beard. There's nothing wrong with that so I want to go in and just take off The overgrown parts of it Just a recap of what we've done We took Dan's hair that had a little bit of step steppiness to it And we corrected that we use diagonal back sections starting right at the temple area Working our way back to the nape of the neck on both sides Just kept with that diagonal back sectioning and that's again that's really important because That's going to keep this weight right here. And I think that's an important part of this haircut And what really separates a lot of haircuts that I see out on the street when I think it's a good haircut We're not so good haircut is that A lot of people bring this crown area too too far up and it gets too short and you don't have that weight So it doesn't um Balance the head shape that well. So just really work on diagonal back. That'll help you out there We build up a nice taper to the hair and then went in right here at his calic And just basically removed that cut it about an inch long and then allowed this longer hair to fall over it So just be easier for him to style. He won't have to deal with that And then we cleaned up his beard and now Dan's a new man. He's ready for the wedding So I hope that this video helps you guys make sure you subscribe to us on youtube Follow us on facebook twitter instagram And if you have any questions about anything that we've done here that we didn't cover Make sure you post them below in the comments and thank you guys for watching. We'll see you on the next video