 Seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, go. What is up guys, welcome to today's vlog. Today is gonna be something a little bit different because I started out the vlog thinking one thing and then we completely changed it halfway through. So I was broadcasting live to the FSC partners out there letting them watch the vlog and then halfway through recording it I didn't realize that the camera shut off so I did half of the haircut and then I had no footage. So what I went back in and did thank you to pivot point is I had multiple mannequins. So what I did was I did one mannequin with scissors, one mannequin with clippers, exact same haircut because I wanted to show you guys the difference between the looks and to see if you guys could even see a difference because a lot of people have questions out there so I use clippers, so I use scissors and I'm here to tell you that there's not that much of a difference especially in this length of haircut. So if you're working this on, you're more comfortable with clippers, you can definitely do that. You're more comfortable with scissors. Go for it that way. I'm gonna show you both ways to do this haircut. We're gonna do half the head with scissors, half the head with clippers, mix the videos together to create one step-by-step video for you guys. I think you're gonna like it. Let's get started. All right guys, so the sectioning is very simple for this haircut. Most of my men's haircuts are a U shape on the top. So I'm going from parietal ridge around the mid crown and then back around the parietal ridge area is to section off the top from the bottom. Now, what we're gonna do with this cut and like I said in the beginning was we're gonna do half of it with scissors, half of it with clippers. So the first part is the scissor portion. My goal with this haircut was to create more of a grown-out feel. So what we're gonna do is straight layering, seamless layers, so pretty much everything straight out from the head. The only part that's gonna have a slight buildup of weight is right around that parietal ridge area. That has more of a 45 degree angle so you're gonna see that graduation happening but we'll deal with that later on in the cut. So I'm taking each section half inch at a time and working my way through the side of the head. Now, we're working a little bit blind. This is the more difficult side of the haircut because I'm scooping the new hair towards the guideline. I think a lot of us would just start combing forward because that is a little bit easier. So let's say from the face to the back of the head but it keeps you inconsistent because you would always be pushing your guide into the new hair instead of pushing the new hair into the guide and that's gonna create different lengths inconsistency in your guideline and then you're gonna get to the other side of the head and it's gonna be a completely different length. So in order to keep consistency, you wanna comb and scoop. So I take a parting down and then as I work towards the back of the head, the head starts to peel away even more. So I'm showing you right here as that crown bends away, now I have an even different angle to work with. So I wanna make sure that I'm well aware of that angle. I'll lift up a little higher elevation when I get towards the background area not too much more but just a slight bit which will give me a little bit less graduation in the crown. I definitely don't mind a slight buildup of weight in the crown but I don't want it to be super heavy and not fit the haircut that I'm going for. So work my way back, nice high elevation then my finger angle shifts down, follows the head shape, parallel to the head shape all the way into the nape of the neck. I would say the biggest challenge with this cut cutting in your fingers is that you start to pull away from the head because naturally you don't wanna be that tight in and what happens is then you end up with nice long hair in the back, you gotta go in with the clippers and cut anyways. Keeping your sections nice and clean, you can see how clean that parting was all the way down the head, sectioning and pushing it all the way away, clipping it away if you have to and just that'll help keep your work nice and clean. You can also see I adjust my scissor the way I'm holding it that helps me cut a little bit tighter in. It keeps my wrist straight so that I don't end up with wrist problems later on and it just keeps me more consistent. So I'm working my way all the way to the middle of the head, clipping that away again like I said before that keeps me nice and consistent throughout the cut. So check out that angle right at the top mid crown area when I do that first cut, that's where the weight is and then everything else is nice and seamless all the way down. So because we're elevating the hair what's gonna happen in the nape area is no matter what, we're gonna have some kind of like extra length happening. So we're gonna go in and detail that dry so I don't want you guys to worry about how much length is happening down there. I like the texture that we're creating but I am going to go in and fine tune it in the dry cut. So finishing up the last parting in our scissor cut portion of this haircut you can see the texture, you can see the seamless layers that have been built in the haircut. I think when you cut in your fingers you have a lot easier time with your elevation. So for me it's just kind of easier to see it happening when I'm working with this length of hair. We are gonna go in and do the clipper clippering as well but real quick I'm gonna go through and just cross check everything horizontally. So we cut everything vertically so now I just wanna check my lines horizontally do a little scissor over comb. I switched to a wider tooth comb so I was using a 339 comb. I went to the 334 just has a little bit wider teeth, a little bit stronger fatter comb and I used my Mizzatani solid seven inch scissors to do the scissor over comb work. Now I'm gonna use the Supra ZR Clipper. This is from Andis, it's a motorized clipper. We're super powerful and I'm using my YS Park 209 comb to go through it and I'm working horizontally. So this is the big difference between what I did with the scissors I went in vertically with a clipper I like to go in horizontally I can work my elevation throughout there just making sure it's nice and high parallel to the head and I work my way up the head shape. Then I can go back in maybe a diagonal back feeling to it which I will but it's just a lot easier to work with a clipper horizontally. Some of that extra length I'll grab it up in my hand and put it into the comb and then cut it off just to get myself started and then I'll work my way up the head shape the same. So the difference between the two techniques if we look at scissor cutting and clipper cutting there really isn't that big of a difference we're holding the hair basically the same. I created texture both ways so really I think this is a personal preference thing for me there's not that big of a difference I can work faster with clippers because I'm used to working with clippers faster than I work with scissors but somebody that only does scissor cutting it's totally cool you can do it that way as well I think both ways are great. I like to go in with the scissor cutting every once in a while because it trains my mind to think that way and to work through it for some of you you don't like using clippers so it's a great way to attack the haircut as well. Now I'm in the crown area and I'm point cutting I went back to my DB20 scissor from Izatani love this scissor check it out on freesiloneducation.com but this is basically my go to power scissor for all the haircuts that I do unless I'm doing scissor over comb I like a little bit longer scissor but this point cutting I'm over directing the hair back to the previous section I don't wanna push a bunch of length into the front of this haircut what I wanted to do with this cut is have a traveling guide that work my way all the way across the top of the head shape keeping the hair nice and short I almost want the top to mimic the side length so the side length will be a little bit shorter but not that much shorter I want this to feel like more of a grown out haircut than a disconnected top I don't really want that I also want them to be able to wear it kinda messy and not have to worry about it flopping over and being too long so as I go through it I round off the corners on the layers and then just don't do too much over direction even this little bit of over direction that I'm doing right now in the very front I'm gonna counteract that with some dry cutting techniques when we get into that portion of it so you can see it already wants to stand up now I go in, I blow it dry I'm using my 209 comb from YS Park this one's got nice wide teeth it's the same comb I use for the clipper cutting and I just power dry it laying the hair down pretty much the way that I want it to you can see me running the blow dryer nice and close to the scalp that's a real quick motion just to lay the hair down and now I'm gonna go in with my Mizetani puffin do some dry cutting work around the edges now I like a little bit of the extra length behind the ears so I'm just gonna round this off slightly take up the nape a little bit but then do some point cutting techniques lifting the hair up point cutting into it to shatter it but I like that extra length in the back I don't want it too tight same thing on the opposite side pick the hair up in the 209 comb do a little bit of point cutting in there great thing about the puffin scissor is that it's got those nice fat thick blades on it which is great power for cutting dry hair a lot of scissors get weak when they're cutting dry hair puffin is great for utilizing that power all the way through it same thing in the temple area sideburns I lift it up and I cut into it using that point cutting this is very freehand all the way through it even lifting up the hair around the ear and cutting I don't scoop out the ear I let that hair kinda come over it a bit all of that's gonna build into the texture of the cut I like seeing this as more like we said at the very beginning it's a grown out looking haircut with a lot of texture and it's just a really cool style now to finish it off some more dry cutting techniques we're gonna go through and point cut I know we did the point cutting in the wet cut but wet hair sticks together becomes more clumpy so you take out more weight that way so when you go through in the dry cut you're just taking out fine little hairs throughout the point cutting technique so that's just gonna help build in some of the texture and lighten up the ends of the hair so when you put product in it the hair stands up nice and easy I'm also gonna work the round of the head do some point cutting in there as well same idea just going in keeping the scissors very vertical not trying to take the hair shorter just trying to remove some of the bulk from the ends last technique I'm gonna do slide cutting I love any slide cutting techniques this is with the Mizetani Puffin so it glides right through that hair slide cutting just to add a little bit of short pieces to the bang area which we talked about before this is a carved texture icing from Burkato it's a nice light hold this will give you that bed head look without having a really extreme hold like you don't have to worry about when you have longer hair putting this product in your hair and having it pull your hair or anything like that it's got a nice hold to it but it's not super strong so it just gives you that nice lived in textured look so the product really brings the cut to life I also want to give a shout out to Jason he's one of our FSE partners in the middle of this cut he was asking what is the difference if you were to cut this with clippers over scissors so when the footage failed it kind of worked out and we got to show you guys both angles of the cut with clippers and also with scissors so hope you guys like it definitely let me know in the comments below what you thought of this video I might do some more comparisons so if you want to give me some ideas for different comparison videos go ahead shout them out thanks for watching guys alright guys like always if you like the video then make sure you let me know in the comments below love hearing your feedback on that I need you to let me know do you like the scissor cut 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