 Hey guys, this is Pat back from freesaloneducation.com and we have Brian Hare here. We're gonna give him a haircut. We're gonna kind of create a pompadour with his curly wave. So what we're gonna do is just go in with the clipper, then we're gonna do scissor over comb a little bit and then we're gonna work wet on the top. So we've got it blown dry, it's washed, it's clean right now, but then, so after I get done with the clipper work, then I'm gonna go through with the scissor. So we're gonna start off, we're gonna use a three and a half blade because I wanna start with my longest blade first. So I'm gonna work with a three and a half. That'll take me right up to the recession point here in the long the parietal ridge. I'm not gonna go all the way up to the parietal. So just kind of working just up to that edge where that hairline is there. I'm gonna start off with our three and a half. Not too worried about this hair here because I'm gonna go in with a shorter guard in that point. We're just rocking that blade out. I wanna get this longer hair out of the way. And we'll just work that three and a half right along. I'm gonna follow the curve of the head right there with this guarded blade so that I kinda get that natural curve in. There should be kind of a natural shadow. I'm gonna go in and take that out again, scissor over comb around. Halfway up to where it was. Shouldn't see too much of a line during this because the blades are very, but it's just gonna give it a nice little gradation and blend. The final blade that we use. I'm not trying to go super tight with this one. I'm just gonna work the edges and leave it at that. Then I get that part done. Now I'm gonna go through. I wanna grab a longer barbering scissor. So I'll look for something more around the 6.5, seven inch range. And we can go in and just blend this. So we'll start on the other side on the temple. And all I'm doing is taking out basically just the parietal ridge area. And then the rest of it I'm gonna cut wet. I just wanna create a blend here. I'm using a wider tooth comb. That's gonna allow me to just have less tension so I'm not pulling the hair all over the place. That one doesn't help me create any lines in there. If you see little spaces, sometimes you might see little kind of gaps in movement. He's got a small little dent right here in his head. So what that does is it makes the hair a little bit longer so it creates almost what looks like a patch of longer hair. It's not, but just the density is different. So you're gonna see, technically the hair I guess is longer, but you're gonna see that kind of shadowing in there because of the dent. So it's good. That's why I like using scissors because the clipper would run right over that like it did. So scissors just help you with the detail work. So instead of doing this whole entire thing with scissors which would take you a long time, you can go in with the clippers, then go through with the scissors and finalize everything. I do enjoy spending extra time on a men's cut. I don't like doing it in just 15 minutes and getting them out. But in the same sense, you do need to make some money too. So it's good to have techniques that are gonna speed up your time. And I think that this is one of them. Just working with the clipper on the base and then going in with your scissors, fine tuning it. And I wanna go deeper with Brian's part just because he does kind of, his hair grows back further here. So is that an easy way to put it? So we're gonna go in and just do a little bit deeper parting and then push the hair over. I like that. Kind of fills in just a little bit of the gap makes a smoother line around. And the one request with him was to make sure that we leave the top a little bit longer. And in the pompadour, we definitely wanna do that. The most important thing here is just to create a nice clean edge in the haircut. So I'm gonna keep that hair parted. I'm just gonna scissor over comb. Just picking it up with my comb and cutting it. And I just wanna make sure that this line is balanced here. So you can see as I comb it down, it's got a little bit of a balance to it. So I'm just gonna keep working through until I get a nice solid edge on there. Then I'm gonna take one more section and this is where I think it's cool because it'll give me a little bit of a weight line. But now I can hold it in my hand here and I'm gonna cut my first line. So using that slight bit of graduation as my guideline. And then I'm gonna bring the rest of his hair to that. So what this is gonna do is push the weight heavier in the center, but it's gonna give it a nice gradual effect to get to that point. So we're removing the weight, which would be sitting off this edge. So you can see how it's building up that weight. But as soon as we part it back over this way, it'll collapse nice and lay really nice. So just working my way through. And you're probably gonna run out of hair at this point. So we'll leave that longest point right in the center, clean up the front just a little bit. Any haircut, even though we're gonna leave this top long, we wanna make sure that it's nice and cleaned up. So you can see how that line looks while when it gets pushed over, the blend is really nice together. All right, so we have the edge here. Again, I just wanna blend that in. So take your scissor, a little scissor over comb. Blend and what we're doing is basically creating our guideline. So now I can take a parting, bring it over in my hand, I'll work this line here into that graduated line right at the parietal. All the way across, you can see that line there. Another parting, bring it over to me. Not much to work with now. So now I know it'll be blended when it combs back over. So we've got that. Now I wanna go through just in the center portion here and I'm just gonna take clean sections across the head. Should see that point there. So I wanna connect them, the edge. So this is the hair that didn't make it over. I'm just gonna connect. I'm not too worried about this being perfect at this point. You could even go through and point cut this part if you want to. I like it to have a little bit more of a precision clean look for this haircut. Plus Brian has a little bit curly hair. So it's fun when all the hair falls uniform because you can push it into more curl formations and different things like that. So we're just working short to long on the fingers across the head. And when we get to the front here, biggest difference in this part is we're gonna over-direct it back so that he doesn't lose the length in the front because that will help push it up and pop it up in the front. Same on this side. So now that'll give him a little pop and a nice clean, clean look. So we're just gonna use a T-trimmer. And I wanna make this more of a natural hairline. So I'm just gonna work with the T-trimmer up, follow his hairline. So I'm working with the trimmer backwards. A little trimmer over comb here just to blend the edge.