 Thank you so much for joining me today. Today we're gonna have some fun, we're gonna cut some men's hair. Really excited to have all of you guys in the room. Let me know if you're new to these classes. Type new in the chat if you're an OG, you've been watching this since the beginning. I've been doing live classes for almost, coming on, I guess it was a year, probably late March, so we're coming up on a year of doing this consistently every single week. Now I'm doing it multiple times a week, so all you guys have to do is just download the FSE Now app and you'll see exactly when I'm gonna be live. If you want to figure out what that is, here is the, let's see if I can put that up, FSE Now app, yep, there it is. So if you want to join me, all you have to do is download the app. It's free. FSE Now is all you gotta type into the app store and you'll see it on Android and iPhone, so I hope you guys can join me on that. You'll get the alerts when I go live and all of that. Cool to see all the OGs. Kristin, what's up? Good to see you, Adrian. Charlene is new. Good to see you. Arizona, we got Robert Michael in the house. Jennifer is new. Jess Mac, yes, we were, she says I haven't seen you in so long. They were just in the virtual cutting club, which is a group that meets every single Monday. If you download the app, you'll be able to join that group as well. We do Zoom classes on Monday mornings and we cut hair together. I can watch you guys cut hair, make adjustments, all of that. So we've got that going on as well. Megan, what's up? Good to see you. John, love the hair. Super cool. What else we got? And Chelsea, Alyssa, Karen. Good to see everybody in the chat. All right, cool. We can do that all day and we probably will. But let me just put up the logo for the show. All right, guys, cool. So today, again, we're gonna be cutting men's hair. I pulled up an article that was talking about the trends for men's hair for 2021. Basically what I'm starting to realize is that everybody just wants to get clicks and views. So they say that every single men's cut there is medium fade, low fade, high fade, textured hair, crop cut, parted hair, disconnected undercuts. All of those things are gonna trend in 2021, apparently, according to the internet, which they're all liars. So what I'm seeing in men's hair is either longer styles for men, medium, length, longer, textured styles, kind of worn back. I'm seeing disconnected kind of swoop over higher top. And then this crop haircut, I don't know if it's currently trending, but the French crop is a really cool-looking men's cut. And I think it kind of translates into that younger kind of TikTok world a little bit of where the guys kind of have a messier disconnected top, but it's messy and a little bit shorter. So I want to show you guys that haircut today. Let me see if I can pull up with that crop cut look like. Let me see. French crop. This is what I did. You guys can do the same haircut. Let's see if I can find that exact image because that's what we're gonna go with. Yeah, here it is. So this is super cool. I like this cut. Dig everything about it so you guys can see. Let me see if it'll, there we go. So I love the texture, how it moves. It's got a purpose, but it's definitely a more messy look, shorter on the side. So that's what we're gonna go through today. I'm gonna show you guys step by step how to create that. So I hope you guys are down for that and excited like I am. South of France, what's up? All right. David Cole from Canada, Cynthia from Las Vegas. Good to see you guys. All right. Very cool. Let me pop over to the mannequin head. So a couple things that we want to do to prep the head for cutting. I understand I have a black shirt on. I will zoom out a little bit. You guys will see it better. Let's go here. So a couple of things I'm gonna do to prep this haircut, prep for the haircut. So we've got a longer top. This is a pretty typical guys gonna come in that wants this haircut. They're gonna have a little bit longer hair on top. So we're gonna cut into that. And it's gonna be grown out on the sides. This is a pretty kind of grown out look. We're gonna take this a little bit shorter using the clipper using a little clipper over comb technique. And then I'm gonna show you guys how to texturize and move this top into more of that crop look right now. It's kind of that disconnected undercut feel to the haircut. So first things first, I want to separate the top and the bottom. This is what I do with a lot of my men's cuts. We talked about this last week. I'm gonna be doing men's cutting on Mondays here on the on the channel on Facebook and YouTube. So last week, we talked a little bit about head shape. I want to get into that again today. If my guy has more of a rounded head shape, then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna section, I'm gonna create that top a little bit longer, have it sit up on the edge. If they have a longer face, I'm gonna build that weight out a little bit to stretch their face out. So basically what I don't want to do is make their face look or appear longer than it is, right? So go through here. I'll wet down some of the hair, and then I'm gonna blow dry the sides. So let's just say that I've taken this guy back to the shampoo bowl. I've cleaned his hair. We cleansed it, and now I'm going to go through and section it off. All right. So now I go just above that parietal ridge area right here. You've got your recession point underneath here where the hair kind of goes back. That's about where I want to section this. Take a little bit more of that into it. All right. I section this away. This is gonna come down. I'm gonna slide that clip up underneath. You don't have to clip the hair. I'm just gonna clip it today to kind of really show you guys that separation, but in the salon or in the barbershop, you could just obviously comb it back in a way that way. All right, so now we're gonna work our way around the crown of the head in that calic area in the back here, underneath that calic. I'll clip this. Hold that steady. And then we're gonna work our way around the opposite side. This to that recession point again. And this I've got a little bit shorter hair to work with. So if that's the case, if you have shorter hair, you can always slide it in your Velcro clip. These are gonna be back up on the store today. Just got them in the new FSE Velcro clip. So I comb this hair up just like let me move this. Like comb this hair up like that. And I'll put the place the Velcro clip there. And it'll just hold that hair in place up. There we go. So now we basically got the hair separated. Now it steps a little bit there. Just I can cut around this. All right. So now that I've got that section away, I'm going to blow dry real quick to smooth the hair out. And then we'll go in and we'll start our cut. So right here. So I'm gonna work, I'm gonna work all this underneath hair all the way around the head, nice and smooth to the head just kind of polish it down. I don't want to go in clippering wet hair is basically the key factor here. So if you didn't shampoo your client before and they have dry hair coming in, then obviously you could just section away and start your clippering. The reason I like sectioning the top away is because not only is it going to be disconnected, but I just want to be aware of where I'm cutting on the bottom and where I'm going to be cutting on the top. Alright, so now that that is dry and smoothed out, now we can start going in using our clipper the way again. All right. Now we can go in using our clipper. What I want to do is I want to start with my shortest guard first. I'm going to work around the head shape. Now you want to decide how you want this fade to look. For me, I like to follow the round of the head or follow the hairline. So I'm going to work through here down in just kind of scooping out as I work. So I'll go into the hair and then kick out away from the head. And I'll just continue working through. I'm going to be using the Andis master series clipper. This is a cordless clipper like this thing. I just purchased it not too long ago. And I'm going to be going in. I'm going to use my one and a half guard closed. So let's see here if it'll focus. So here is open. So this is the longest point that one and a half guard almost to two, right? And then you've got and then closed is going to be my one my true one and a half. So I'm going to work around the head shape here, just flicking my wrist out as I work around it. You can start in the front and the back. If you like to start in the front, if you're not comfortable with the length, you could start here and ask your client if that's the length they're working with or they're looking for and then work your way through the head. I'm going to start in the back corner and then work my way up towards the front. Zoom in a little bit more. Alright, so I'll start in the back. Again, this is going to be my shortest point. I don't do a lot of really close tight fades. I'm not a barber. I'm a hairdresser. But I have a rather large male clientele that I like to create these kind of like crop styles or textured styles. So I like to clean up the sides and I have a lot of fun and get creative with the top. So that's kind of what we're working through with here. So just following my way around the head. And I just watch the weight line as I'm working through because I want that weight line to drop and get longer towards the back. So kind of coming up here and then drop that weight line. So I flick my wrist out wherever I want to drop that weight off. So I drag the weight up and drop it off and just work my way around. Same thing here. Work up that sideburn area around the ear to fold his ear down and work at an angle with that clipper. Just flick your wrist out when you want to drop that weight off right in here. Same thing. So you can see right at that occipital bone area is where I start to flick my wrist out. I'm standing behind my work here, making sure that I keep all that weight balanced in the back of the head. Same thing when you get to the side of the head here. I'm going to work that clipper at an angle around his ear. And then I'm going to work my way up the sideburn. Same thing at an angle. So the next thing that I like to do is I could go in with another clipper guard. Like I could go from a one and a half to maybe three and fade this up a little bit and then blend those two. I like to just grab my wider tooth comb like this, or you could have a wider tooth comb like we sell on shop FSE like this. I don't sell this one. I like this one a lot though. So I think I picked this up. I don't even remember. I've had it forever. It's even broken on the edge talked about it last week. But I like this one because it glides very easy and it's a little bit fatter width wise. So you don't go so close to the head you can kind of use the bone of the comb as a guideline and work your way through. Now I'm going to do clipper over comb work. So what I want to do is I want to blend this line. So I'll kind of lean back with the comb and blend in my line through it. So I'll just kind of continue working back on the head. So right here, slide across, work my way back, and then following that head shape just like that all the way through. So that will start to blend that weight line in now I want to leave some weight and bulk into the back crown area. Not this much obviously but I want to build up that weight because that is going to give my haircut balance like his chin kind of comes out this way you want to have the crown of the head have a little bit of volume here and that's going to give balance to my haircut. So I'll continue working diagonal back working up the head shape just a little bit and I'll keep this comb diagonal back all the way through and then I'm going to come back diagonal back the opposite direction. So just making sure I kind of stay. So as I put my comb into the head I can see those little hairs sticking out and that's where I want to cut. So you're looking for that guide underneath. Also notice that I keep my middle finger up against the head as I'm working that kind of helps keep my comb steady and holding it where I want away from the head work through it. Now I'll look in the mirror to make sure that my line looks good in the fade. Now I'm going to do the same thing on the opposite side here. So now when I put the comb in this way I'm going to be working back off of the face. Really the reason for this is only because I don't want to throw the hair into my client's face. So I want to kind of work the same way of everything coming back off of the face as I work through it. So just watch that hair underneath and I use this analogy last week. I'll use it every single time I do clipper over comb. But I really think of it like a squeegee like you're moving that weight up the head. So if you're squeegee your windshield and you have a bunch of water on it and you squeegee across it removes the water from there and pushes most of the water to another area. You're kind of doing that when you're cutting with a clipper or cutting hair in general. If I cut it here it's just moving that weight line to there. Then I remove the weight line there and it puts it there. So clipper over comb is very similar to that because I take the weight and I cut it here but now it's there. Right. So now I move the comb up a little bit more and I cut it there. So now it's up a little bit higher. So you just got to be aware of that as you're cutting and you got to figure out where do you want to pick up the weight and where do you want to drop it off. There we go. Now I'm going to blend the side here. So now I've got some of this hair that I want to add into it. So I'm going to come up and I'm going to clip her all the way through and cut into that weight. This is going towards the face but I just feel like it's the best angle for me right now. And now I'm going to work my way back off. So just like that and then you look in the mirror and you just see how does that line look getting better. Nice and clean. So now I want to blend the two sides in the back. So we've kind of worked through this cut. So right in here I want these two to come together. So I'll stand back kind of take a look. Work diagonal back this way and then diagonal back the opposite. And this is really one of the reasons why I like to separate the massive like kind of calyx swirl area. So I go right under that swirl and then this is where I blend the fade and then from that I'll let the calyx fall over and I can cut that a little bit different. If you clipper the calyx a lot of times you lose control of it. So I'm going to go through here blending this back portion. See where I come in here. I just see that a little bit and that's what I removed. Now I can go in with a longer scissor. Do a little scissor over comb work to blend it some more right through here. So this is the Mizetani blacksmith fit scissor. Let me see if I can turn and get a better angle for you guys. So all the tools that I'm using obviously guys the OG's in the room if you guys could help posting the thanks Chris and I appreciate that help post the website where everybody can get the tools if they want but this is the blacksmith fit scissor. This is a gold edition. We don't have this anymore but but you can get it in silver. It's a six and a half inch scissor which I like for scissor over comb because it has more reach. I talk about this a lot but when you look at a shorter scissor like the one I use for precision cutting which is a five inch scissor. If I go to scissor over comb with the smaller scissor what happens is I'm trying to just get this little bit and I'm reaching in and my hand gets in the way a little bit as I reach in to try to get into more of the bone of the comb so I can only really cut like this little bit in the tip of the comb which is not ideally where I want to be. I want to be more in here and cutting this area. Just for me that's more comfortable. So when you have a longer scissor like this one I can be in that area and my hand still isn't even touching the comb and I can cut in that area. So just working through just like that. Also another little shout out. I think I'm live on Minerva Beauties Facebook as well. So if you guys are looking for salon furniture the best in the business best price is all of that if you need salon chairs, barbering chairs, you know hair cutting chairs, mirrors, equipment, tools, they have everything you need on Minerva Beauties website. So go to MinervaBeauty.com. Alright working my way up and just fading that hair in a little bit. There shouldn't be much work to do here. You've already done the clipper work. This is just little tiny details. If they have bumps in their head a little bit and you want to kind of get a little bit closer to the head this is always a good way to do it with the comb getting into a little bit tighter spot. Alright then the last thing I like to do before I start moving in the top and doing the edges is take my Misatani type Z dual texture scissor. This thing I see if I can focus. It's got texturizers on both sides. So what I love about this is that as I cut in you could see the spaces in the teeth. It doesn't get caught on the hair at all. So not that all texturizers do that as long as they're sharp but as I'm working through if I just want to cut that kind of 20 30 percent of the hair through it works really really well especially when you're dragging through the hair doesn't get caught at all. So I'm going to use this to just soften the edges not changing the weight not cutting too much into it at this point. I like the graduated feel that we have but I just want to soften the edges which will make them softer and blend a little bit better. It also helps with the client when they go to style it they won't have as heavy of weight line. All right we're going to do the same thing on the opposite side. Go through here and just cut into the edges of that weight. Now I'm going to use my T trimmer to go in and just work the edges a little bit cut into his sideburn work around the edge clean him up so I could pull his ear down and then work up around a bend is here this way if it wasn't plastic work my way around the edge and go a little trimmer over comb tighten this up if I want to and then work my edges I'm going to round off the back don't really need any hard lines in there give them a more natural looking hairline again little trimmer over comb all right get through this quick because a little bit different between that's kind of the biggest difference between mannequin hair and human right there is cutting around the edges because obviously he doesn't have hair growing sporadically all over the place all right so now I'm going to remove these clips from the top of the head we're going to have a much disconnected feel throughout the top and what we're going to do is we're going to go in blend some of that and then also cut into it add texture all that to the top this is really where the magic of this haircut comes in I'm going to spray it down because some of that hair is dried and I want to work with wet hair for a minute and then we'll go into dry hair we're also going to work this calyx area as well let me show you kind of where the calyx is so right in here some people have a double calyx it doesn't really matter what you have because cutting around a calyx is very similar so i'll show you guys a little trick so what i'm going to do is i'm going to comb saturate the hair so that it's not shooting out everywhere and figure out where that calyx wants the hair to go so this little swirl kind of wants the hair to be fed out like that so all you have to do is comb the hair in the direction the calyx wants it to go and then that's also the direction that you're going to go in and cut it so here we go i'm going to zoom in a little bit more you guys can see closer okay so this hair wants to come straight out of the head there and come down so i'm going to lift that vertical from that point and i'm going to come in here and cut my line like that and let it kind of fade in so we'll have a little build-up of weight in that area and then i'm going to comb the hair next to it and i'm not going to over direct that too much i really want that hair to come straight out from where it wants to fall and that's where i'm going to cut it what this is going to do is allow that calyx to kind of dictate where it wants to go that's the number one if you try to pull that hair into a different area and cut it what's going to happen is that calyx is going to fight and when the client goes to style their hair they're going to have a challenge because they're going to be fighting that calyx the whole time so for me i like to just comb the calyx exactly where it wants to be for instance this part wants to be right here i'm going to comb it out and then i'm going to go in and cut just like this down i just continue working around that calyx area just in the back so right at that division point that's where i'm going to stop because the top we're going to cut a little bit different so again here is where this hair wants to live it comes straight out from the head and i'm going to work up that hair out from where it wants to live and now if you want you could blow dry this see how it wants to lay and then go in do a little scissor over comb work if you wanted to just kind of blend it a little bit more but then once you start to blow it dry you'll see how it reacts then you can kind of texturize cut into it so it lays the best all right so now we need to move into this kind of textured crop look of the haircut here out a little bit okay so the way that we're going to work this is i want to go horizontally across the haircut i'll say it horizontally some people call this vertical i'm not really sure on that i'm going to work straight up just like this in the previous cut there had been a triangle kind of feel to it we're going to cut more straight across the top of the head just like this work across now if you need to blend the corners in you can do that that's kind of where i lose the hair so because of the previous haircut which becomes a pretty salon reality feel to it so now i'm going to bring the new section back to that guideline so we'll go here and cut so over directing back there we go now i'm going to over direct this next section back to the previous as well slightly moving forward here now as we get to the front of the head shape the head starts to curve forward towards the nose and because of that we start to get extra over direction so this is where you're going to want your you're going to want in your head to be over directing this part of the hair back a little bit more because you're just thinking it's all the same the problem is the head shape here starts to curve a little bit forward so all this hair when you start over directing it back is coming around around so it's going to be even longer and we don't want too much length in the front of this cut we really want it to be about half the forehead depending on the size of therefore so if you look at this here so michelle is asking does the app cost money it does not cost money it is a free app free salon education so bring the hair back just to the previous section and cut and then again bring this hair back to that previous section so let me show you when you go here that i'm not over directing it too far this is basically straight up from where it lives and then i cut across like this right straight line across go to the overhead show you guys that view real quick right here straight up so what we did was we went horizontal across here brought everything to this point and cut then we take our next section just like this and bring it back slightly to that previous section and cut then again this one slightly back and cut and back cut so we're just slowly moving across the head then when we get to this very front section it's kind of straight up from where it lives and we cut across that way so that's the first thing that gets us roughly where we want in our length especially through this top portion but then when we get into this area here that's where we want to take off a little bit of length so what i'll do let me show you guys a little trick is i like to take this front portion of the haircut and now i'm going to take a diagonal forward actually i'm going to blow it dry and then we'll cut into it so let me dry this a little bit use my ergo diamond head brush you can pick this up on our online store as well just a small paddle brush and what we're about to do here is one of my favorite things on the planet so um which is kind of fine-tuning men's hair so when you get hair it gets kind of bulky well let's go when hair gets a little bit bulky you got to understand that the guy if he leaves the salon it kind of looks like this he's going to have a hard time doing anything with it so you got to go in give it a little extra effort to get the result that you're looking for so a couple things with the front of the head see how long that front is that's not quite what our our goal is we want to cut that a little bit shorter we want it more crop like in the front so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take a slight diagonal forward section comb that hair up just like that place my fse velcro clip here and then you can see how it separates it just kind of holds that hair you just press it in and it holds do the same thing on the opposite side with a diagonal forward line so then we're only working in this kind of fringe area place that clip in and we can work each side of the haircut all right now i'm going to go in with my texturizing scissor i go to texturizer here for this situation is the uragi six let me see if it'll focus in this one does not have the dual texture blades the reason i like that is because i like to work that solid blade through and then cut into it this also removes about 30 percent of the hair when you cut the other thing with this scissor that i really like is that it's an even handle so that way i can flip it to either side depending on how i'm going to cut because i like having that steady blade as the full blade and then the texturizers as the blade that moves with my thumb so i'm going to cut length using the texture scissor but it's just not going to give me as much of a blunt line so that is my goal here so i'm going to go through and i'm just going to start working that more blunt line into the hair now i don't have to completely create a line yet because i can go in with my regular scissor and do that but i want to go through and remove some of this bulk and start getting the line now look how shattered that is and i can easily just point cut through it now here's why i like having because i had this steady blade there right now i can flip the scissor around and have this blade kind of on the bottom again and i can work through the opposite side now i'll go through and i'll start working where i want to cut that line again this is 30 percent of the hair that we're cutting so you can see how it quickly pretty much takes out that weight and creates a line take that these two velcro clips off now we're starting to get that line in the haircut i'll go through and just create more of a blunt edge using that 30 percent now if you want to get it away from their eyes a little bit you can always hold it in your comb point cut through it just like that starting to get more of a cropped effect hold this up in my comb so now i'll put down my texture scissor and i'm going to go in with more of a blunt cutting scissor here and i'll just remove some of those little hairs that we have again if you want to lift the hair up and point cut into it create that blunt look so now we've got this edge going now what do we need to do we need to create texture through the top portion so what i want you guys to do um is a couple things we got it's christin's birthday on monday happy birthday christin very cool we're almost birthday buddies my birthday is on the 15th i don't know which day that is all right so now we're going to use a tri razor here this is our tool we came out with it patent pending selling it all over the world so if you want one check out our website we're shipping them all over the place so here is the tri razor and i forgot to give one of these away i did give one away last week but i want to give one away today so if you guys um want a tri razor comment in the comments uh and just say tri razor in the comment if you want one and uh at the very end i will give one away for you guys all right so now i'm going to use a tri razor to create some texture in here but i want to get some of this hair out of the way here we go and let me go to the overhead and i'm going to show you guys love seeing all that oh geez just kicking things now see i can't read your comments and do this at the same time all right so now let me show you some tricks with the tri razor where is my tri razor oh you guys are awesome love seeing all the the commenting all right so here's a tri razor guys this is the tool it's super awesome 100 cutting side then you've got texturizing sides that work great in men's hair um also great in long hair great in every kind of hair you can do basic normal razor cuts this way and then you can create texture so texture is what we're going to do today so what i'll do is i'll comb i'm standing in front of the head i'm going to comb some hair up place my uh velcro clip in there and we're going to work through creating some peaciness so 25 texture side i put it down on the head and i slide it comb that out now it's creating texture pieces i'll go here 25 percent texture side and slide now you don't have to go all the way to the scalp you could create just a soft feel if you wanted to take a section in your hand and then just come in here 25 percent texture side and just take out 25 percent of that hair you could do that as well um get more comfortable with the tool before you start digging at things but that starts to create that texture through the top we're creating a textured crop so that's how we want to go about it now we have most of our bulk in the front of the head here so again i'll move down just a little bit comb the hair back add the velcro clip you don't even have to slide the velcro clip in you just push it into the hair like this and it holds that section nice and clean now come through here 25 texture right here i just come in and i slide and i work both sides of it which is going to remove 25 percent of that hair and add a ton of texture into it lift that up we're gonna do the same thing just go a little bit more now when i get into this fringe area here um tilt him back just a little bit when i get into this fringe area here i may hold it more in my hand like this and then go in with that 25 texture side and cut just so that i'm not dragging it on the fringe and then maybe even work a couple more pieces different areas you go through there cut it drop it down pour it a little bit so you can see all that depth uh that we created using the tool so you can see how it moves around but it's got a ton of texture popping through it all right let's do some more you go to the front angle here do you see see how it's popping now we still have a little heaviness in the front which is okay uh this haircut kind of calls for that but i can still take a little bit more out so as i work through here i'll comb that hair forward and i'll take my tri razor and i'll pinch and cut pinch and cut and just kind of tap through it um one of the coolest things a client said in our salon uh last week brine did a dry cut dry haircut with the tri razor which we did last tuesday online as well um but he did a dry haircut with it and the client said that when he uses his scissors to do it a lot of times she feels a pull but when he used the tri razor she felt no pull which i thought was really cool um it speaks a lot to this tool this is sharper than a scissor blade i actually also just watched a youtube video where a guy took it's called like the sharpest knife in the world you could probably look it up on youtube but he literally built his own knife and he used razor blades um and created a case that lined up razor blades and made that a knife as opposed to just sharpening a piece of metal razor blades are sharper than scissors so as long as you have a fresh blade and then you have a casing like this which i'll show you guys in a second how the casing works but the casing holds the blade tight and firm so when you go in to cut with it you get i'm not going to cut that fringe area but i want to cut on top of it you get a much sharper smoother uh feeling than you do when you just slide through with a scissor blade so it's pretty cool uh and i thought that was a really nice compliment because hearing customers you know talk about getting a dry razor cut a lot of us for some reason we were taught to freak out about it but it's only if you use a dull blade all right so look at all that texture that we created it was a basic blunt haircut through the top but then when you go in with the tri razor you create all that and now the last little bit i'm gonna do some detail work um and i think i'm gonna use a texturizing scissor go back to the uragi six and i'll just kind of lift i want this to be disconnected but i don't want it to be bubbly right and here's another thing that i think about a lot when my customers come back into the salon i don't want them to have a really bad shape in their haircut when they come back when they leave they always look good um but are we really thinking about how they're going to look in three weeks because that's really what i'm thinking about so when i go in to cut his hair um i want to make sure that these sides are not going to grow directly out and explode quickly so i want it to be disconnected but i also want to take out a little bit of the bulk so keeping the feeling of the disconnection but removing bulk now a little fun fact for you guys on our website now on our online store we have payment plans i know some of you guys aren't in the us we can't sell scissors outside the us at this point um i apologize for that but if you're inside the us in canada then uh you can buy scissors on our website if you're anywhere in the world you can buy the tri razor so we do ship that all over the place all right so now let's finish this calic area uragi six right around the calic i let the hair still fall where it wants to but i want to take out just a little bit of bulk and let this lay a little lighter so i will work around that calic area dragging from the point of the calic out so scissor cut out scissor cut out that way now same thing on the opposite side when i go here i'll flip the scissor around and i'll drag from the point out and just cut into it still not forcing that calic to do something it doesn't want to do but do i tell my stylist so he will make the ends of my hair choppy like blades of grass i like that description um so texture is a good word to use with stylists um and let's see i like like the criss cross movements of that haircut that i showed you guys see if i can pull it back up um yeah so this is kind of our goal this is what we were going for i like those criss cross movements he even has a little bit of highlight to it now here's the other thing guys i didn't cut this haircut oh that's my son i didn't cut this haircut at all so i want to make that very clear um that's not my haircut i don't even know i don't know whose haircut that was i just googled it this is my haircut you're looking at all right so one thing that i kind of want to do is i want to cut some blunt chunks into this because i like the thought of that you could do that with the tri razor as well but scissors always cuts blunt lines really really good um but just those blunt lines create that kind of unique texture i think all right last bit heavier than i want it to be all right so there's a couple different products you could use i think to create this style for me i like more of a matte finish product so we either have a reformer a mitch reformer or maverick dry paste i think you could use either one i'm always kind of geared towards mitch this clean cut products what i use in my hair so anytime you want more of a matte finish i like going with the the reformer i'm going to start with a tiny bit and i'm going to run that in my hands so just like that i'll run it in my hands like this get it all over my hands first then i'm going to start to kind of work that through the top now i don't want to go too much in the front of the hair at the very beginning you kind of start wiping your hands into the hair first and then once i get that kind of into the hair then i'll start working it into the front and then the other thing i'll do is brush the product in because we've put so much texture into this hair already that it will activate really easily but i don't want the hair to have a total messy feel i like the texture don't need the mess so i'll comb this hair brush it forward a little bit with the product in it and then as soon as i start putting my hands back in it it's now got product all over it so then i can start to move the hair a little bit and take kind of these chunkier pieces and put them in different directions so creating some of that separation piecing some of this stuff together criss-crossing the texture is one of the things i like most about this french crop look so like this hair is going this way and then you've got hair coming back the other way i think what shows this haircut off so much and so well is that um the highlights that go through it so adding maybe a couple painted highlights in i'll do a class on hand painting highlights for guys we'll do that coming up but you know it's pretty simple you just kind of you could even style their hair and just paint lightener into it it's always a good way to do it but you can see that texture it moves through it you go to the top angle so even through here adding some of those pieces activating that hair a little bit just twisting it so another little tip when you have that product on your hands just add a little twist to the hair as you go through and let that product work there we go what do you guys think i'm digging it i feel like it's got a really cool look to it really nice texture hope you guys like it as much as i do diamond dog thank you so much samantha i appreciate it let's find a towel all right thank you guys lucy thank you uh everybody's commenting tri-raiser still awesome the white the top view with the white floor looks great thanks christin i appreciate that yeah we uh we got our white floor so now it all goes together and i've got all new camera angles so um now we're a little fresher they all match up so i think it was uh this is the first test really of the new cameras and lighting and white floor and all that working together so thanks for noticing all right there's the cut what do you do with the crop to make a cut it's thicker longer on thinning or recession smo-mo let me see if i can pull up your question here um i feel like this is a great question uh what do you do with the crop to make it thicker and longer on thinning or recession so i actually think that the crop haircut is ideal for uh somebody that's thinning or has a recession so what we've been doing on guys quite a bit is when they have a recession here we like this is where you can't you can't say that like one thing is a is really a trend it's whatever fits right on that guy so if a guy comes in he's got a massive like recession point really goes back on his head then maybe a style that comes up and over combs over to the side isn't really ideal and if he's got thin hair even more um you could still add this texture in doing some point cutting through the top on thin hair but then the crop haircut is perfect for thin hair because you're cutting more of a blunt thicker feel to the bottom here just don't go through and do as much texturizing because you don't need to um but having that blunt line and then just having it messy and just keep your blunt edge so have it come down and cut even more of a blunt feel to the front of this so like if i go in and right in here you know i'm like cutting more blunt through it it's going to have a thicker feeling and appear to be thicker than if you chopped into it or tried to swoop it up over so you're kind of hiding the recession but at the same time you're adding bulk to that area which is really good all right let's see any other questions you guys have for me just type q put in your question that way i can see it really easily uh in the chat what do you want for your birthday how old are you do you like birthdays or hate them this is still a question so you it is that is a question Jess you're very you're very right um i like birthdays i don't mind them um i feel like i uh you know i'm gonna be 38 coming up so uh getting older but but i still i'm excited i'm excited for my 40s when that happens so so that's that and what do i want for my birthday i don't i'm super excited because my son has his first school lacrosse practice on my birthday so that's what i want i want to be there and uh enjoying that um let's see uh can you use the tri-raiser on very curly hair absolutely it's a great tool for curly hair i actually think i'm going to be doing a class real soon using the amber mannequin from pivot point which is extra curly coily hair and i'm going to use the tri-raiser for that uh to cut one of danielle's color techniques so that'll be coming up where do you get your mannequins i get them from pivot point um so if you guys are looking for mannequins pivot points definitely a good place to get them uh good quality not cheap but the best quality um very cool uh does this cut work really well with straight hair yes straight hair works really well as well you're very welcome lucy uh wish i could do something with my husband's hair so thin and baby fine um i mean i have thin and oh gosh getting a cramp um i have baby thin hair as well and i think that uh one of the key things is to cut blunt um anytime somebody has fine hair and i do this with my uh female customers as well i try to keep blunt lines as much as possible um i'm bad about texturizing because i'm a perfectionist and checks my length at the end the cut advice cal totally get it um so be a perfection so this is what i like to do because i'm not a perfectionist in life but i'm a perfectionist in and cutting hair um because i like seeing those lines but then i love cutting texture into those lines so what i'll do is i'll do a perfection haircut or perfect haircut blow it dry see the lines and then go in and diffuse those lines which is kind of what we went over in virtual cutting club today so get perfect lines with a purpose then go in and texturize them and um then you know you already had a perfect haircut so texturizing them is good you don't have to check that later um is it best to keep the sideburns or not because i see you kept the sideburns um so it doesn't matter um whatever your guest likes this has sideburns that you can't make go away so if i even if i cut them up they would still show because because he has sideburns but you don't have to um so does that apply to calic area too if they are receding for blunt yes i would cut blunt in a calic area or the crown of the head if they're receding or if they're thinning in the back um a little extra length and cut blunt lines instead of point cutting into it um looks good already about the tri razor thank you gary so much i really appreciate it um you know i appreciate everyone on here that's bought a tri razor already um i get an alert every single time on my phone that one is ordered uh so i love seeing it throughout the day you guys are awesome i i really appreciate the support um you know this is our first tool that we ever came out with on our own um and the amount of people that have purchased it it blows us away and um i can't thank you guys enough it's super cool it's 44 bucks you know um we ship it all over the world sometimes the usps is terrible and uh we're trying to figure out ways but we ship it uh all day every day and uh they're all just thank you guys thank you for for the support and supporting what we're doing great cut and finish thank you very much appreciate it love working with curly hair so do why um are you perfectionist do you find it hard to stop cutting yes and no so i am a perfectionist but i don't get caught up so i'm i can easily let things go so i try to do that because it depends on the situation but for the most part i need to like my wife is a perfectionist and she won't she can't let it go she can't stop um for me i'm definitely good at like moving on to the next thing or in the middle of a cut especially because i cut mannequins a lot i in the middle of the cut i'm like oh i need to do that so then i'll go do that thing as well so i can stop but i am a perfectionist in wanting it to be perfect but i can let it go um uh let's see we're five years apart to the day i don't know if you're talking about me and you but that's that's awesome um what do you do for baby fine hair we'll talk about that one of these days uh we should get into that for sure all right cool next live stream i'll be live tomorrow and i'm going to have you guys put your birthdays in because i want to know when they are um i got to get off this one but i do want to know it'd be fun to see everybody's birthdays um can you show how to change the blade oh yeah let me show you guys that because i do want to make this a separate video as well i have it right here all right so this here this is how you change the tri razor blade okay so one of the biggest things about the tri razor to understand is that there's two different sides of top and a bottom even though they look similar they're not identical so the top is the side that has a crease right so let me go a little closer can i zoom in more yes okay oh that's even better oh don't lose focus all right so the top is the side with the crease right here now the crease is important because you're gonna pop this open so you pull this here so you pull that open the top comes off and then this pulls up just like that and then there's three blades inside those blades easily can be changed out and then once you put them back in you got the top of the tri razor here you push it on there's little edges right here and you just snap each corner in those two corners and then this top piece goes right back on clicks on and then you've got your blades back and ready to go now when you do a haircut this is the thing i like about the tri razor is that sometimes when you do a haircut you don't really use these two sides you might not or you might only use it a little bit but you use this one all the time well you could just change out that blade that's pretty simple each tri razor comes with in the box with three three blades in the tri razor already ready to go and then a box of five blades as well you can order 10 packs of blades on our site but this is how it how it comes and then with a top on the box as well all right that's an extreme close-up um all right thanks kel appreciate that you see got mine too trisha thank you so much i got one it's amazing so fast thank you so much it's super cool um ana you're very welcome uh thank you roller girl appreciate it happy birthday to win is just so jess is next week so your next monday or not just christen how much is the tri razor what's up johnny i gotta send you one pal um and i gotta get you on here to do a live please um on an amends one day but they are 44 95 on our website um shipping is free over a hundred dollars if you spend over a hundred dollars so depending on what you're getting guys and we are about to restock all of our combs and stuff i think we're placing and we're getting another order in soon so um john great question uh yes i would do the same method just cut it longer um or maybe over direct to that front back just a little bit more so you know how we pull it straight up i would just go back a little bit more really want one of those clicking tripods it's funny um so the clicking tripod is from pivot point so if you guys are looking for a new tripod this thing is pretty awesome because it's the best tripod currently and if i really i love tripods like based on uh filming and different things for camera stuff i would make a tripod if i really felt like there was a big market for it but pivot point has a great one so not only um is it heavy duty what which is great for blow drying not great for travel but great for blow drying and um you know just have feeling sturdy but this little thing here which is this little pin that you pull out so let me show you guys go back over here zoom can i zoom there we go so this little pin right here this pulls out so you pull out and twist it and then the head freely rotates around so when you're an educator this is the best tripod on the planet um or i mean a stylus in this lawn too if you're practicing but then when you lock it back then it stops turning pull it out turns you lock it back in doesn't turn so it's a pretty nice tripod um that's about it doesn't really that's the only really different fancy thing that it does and it's a couple hundred bucks maybe a little bit more than that um to get it but it's definitely worth it i think uh so nice the classes in spanish just one day i totally agree um maybe maybe we'll figure it out i would love to to figure that out i probably it won't be me but maybe a translator we could have in here that would be cool uh see if we can figure that out uh let's see all right should i pick a winner let's see how much the velcro clips so uh the velcro clips i believe are like there's a couple different packs um and they'll be back on the website today a lot of you guys ordered them and we ran out so we got a new order in they used to have a different logo on them so they're going from this which would look like this to the fse logo which i'm super psyched about so i got to take new pictures of them though so i'll do that today and then uh you guys can order them on our website probably by this evening you'll be able to order them you can get like a six pack or a four pack i think or something um i don't really remember i think it's or it's a two pack i don't know but um they're very very handy you can use them in long hair short hair you just part the hair and push it in and it stays holds the hair and they come out really really easy so really uh cool product to have i'm on pivot point now sweet very cool you're welcome pivot point send me some free mannequins thanks uh yes i'm in pa uh guys you don't know please do a video on woman's crop with long length side bang that's a cool idea i'll do that for sure uh 51 and two years of paul mitchell your videos helped me so much john super cool i just whistled while i talked um love all your stuff you feature thank you so much i like the logo too but here's the thing um i we we're trying to brand everything with freesaw and education so just makes more sense to do it that way um and the fse logo is sweet you can't can't deny that play button with the fse it's pretty cool um our mind technically vintage now yeah one of like you know not one of a kind because there's multiple out there but save them because everybody also destroy them and you'll still have them i'm in pa too kel's super cool uh we're near philadelphia uh thanks matt i've learned a lot from you cool all right let me pick a um a winner let me see how am i going to do this wish might have the new logo i know the old logo is cool too though you could swap it out with somebody somebody wants to buy the new one or collect them all uh all right okay so here we go who's going to win who's going to win i'm just scanning through scanning through are you new are you new did you write tri-raiser um all right first tri-raiser i see is the winner here it is lisa kerr is the winner so lisa all you have to do is email me matt at free salon education dot com uh and just say that you're the winner and what i'll do is i'll email you back a code to purchase it uh for free so purchase it for free i don't know if that makes sense but um i'll send you a code for a free tri-raiser uh so lisa congratulations against lisa kerr t m r tomorrow i don't know um and linda you are disqualified for calling it the trim razor i'm just kidding um no lisa you're the winner tri-raiser thank you so much uh we will do more giveaways tomorrow 12 30 p.m eastern standard time i'll be live on here i'm gonna be uh what am i gonna cut tomorrow i forget exactly what i'm cutting tomorrow but uh is lisa still on here hopefully but congrats lisa um again email me matt at free salon education dot com and i will get you that code yes she is sweet very cool i can't wait to see what you do with it lisa uh send me that email all right you guys are the best um if you have any other questions make sure you download the fse now app which is right here it's available on the app store it is free um all these classes are on there and also much more uh tons of classes tons of free content over i think there's over 300 free videos on there and there's more and more going up all the time so you guys can watch that and be alerted when there's new classes plus we have new stuff coming up with live streaming and different things it's going to be on the app as well so make sure you get it um and that's pretty much it fse now on the app store so download it all right let's see is that it close this out here close that out there uh appreciate the support all right that's it see you guys thanks so much see you tomorrow