 What's going on YouTube? How y'all doing? It's been a minute since I posted my last video. It's been like 10 days, almost like two weeks. I know I said I posted a little bit more frequently, but I was on vacation for about like four days. And then when I got back, it was my birthday this past Tuesday. So, you know, we just had to... Happy birthday to you. Everybody that reached out to me, that was some real ones. I had a fun time for my birthday. They spent it with friends and family, had some dinner, you know. The ones that reached out commented on my Instagram posts. I love y'all. In this video, we are doing a high taper. My client had curly hair on top. He hasn't got cut in about like a month. So, you know, we had to bless him. Feel me? You guys stay tuned for this video. Let me know what you guys think in the comment section below. You can hit me up on Instagram. Or you can also hit me up on YouTube. So, feel free to hit me up, man. Like I always say everybody, peace and love, baby. With good YouTube, how y'all doing? I'm back with another video. I know it's been way too long. It's been about like a week. I had so much things going on, but I'm back making a video for you guys because I love you guys so much. I love y'all so much. But we are doing a high taper. As you can see, I am tapering the back or I'm balding out the back with my babyless liners. The line is not gonna be that straight because of the angle I was cutting at. I didn't wanna get in front of my camera. So, please bear with me. I know I did not take my own advice about making the guidelines and the ball line straight. So, please bear with me. I'm sorry. So, for the first step, we have our Andis Masters creating that first guideline about fingers width to about half an inch or about an inch. As you guys can see, I was struggling to get the hair cut because his hair is very curly so it was really hard for my clippers to get through. So, what I'm doing when I get to the top is I'm just kind of flicking out. Flicking out, it was kind of hard because like I said, it was curly. So, the guidelines don't look that straight but as, I don't know if you guys watched my previous videos before but just make sure that you follow your guide and yeah, look how uneven I'm. Sorry, it was the angle I was cutting. So, make sure you have the lever all the way open to make that first guideline about half an inch to about fingers width. I don't know exactly how many inches or centimeters that is but yeah. So, we have our number two guard so I'm just taking off the bulk on the hair of the two and I'm just flicking out when I get to the top. I'm just trying to clear out the area because I couldn't see when I was making my first guideline so I was like, you know what man? I have to be able to see. So, I'm using the two to clear out that bulk of hair so when I do setting my other guideline it will be able, I'll be able to see what I'm cutting and you guys will be able to see what I'm cutting as well because this video is for you guys because like I said, I love you. So now that we got all the bulk out the way with that number two, I'm going to close up and blend out that ball line that I did in the beginning with the open lever. We close it and then we play with it halfway then open, close it, you see how I play with it. Take out as many dark spots as you can. You got to play with the lever to understand like what hair or what lever is going to cut which hair. So play with it, use the corners of your blade to kind of take out any dark spots or whatever you need, cut it at different angles because his hair is kind of growing at an angle on the right side right there so I'm cutting at an angle to the right. So make sure you guys keep that in mind. Always use the corners and always play with the lever. So now that we're finished with that step we are going to use our number one guard to make the second guideline. I have my Andis Masters purple guard, the magnetic guards. I don't know if you guys have access to these guards but I do like using this with coarse hair. So what I'm doing is I'm making a guideline about an inch to an half an inch and when I get to the spot that I want to stop at I flick out so that way it doesn't make a hard line. So that way I'm able to basically blend it out even easier when I do kind of want to take out that dark spot. But I think on this part you can see it's kind of blending already. So I'm just using the corners to kind of blend into that number two guard that I did. You can use the corners to kind of take out any of the dark spots. So I'm just flicking out when I get to the spot that I want to. So it is blending into it. So it'll take some time but if you've been cutting hair for a while like I have it's I mean it's pretty easy to do but I have my zero garden here and now I'm about to just take out that line that I had with the number one. I have it closed all the way and when I get there I'm just flicking flick flick because I don't want to go past that number one guard that I did. So when I get there to right there flick flick play with the levers, flick flick that's probably the best way I could do. So I close it up first and then flick flick and then if it's any darker than I do halfway and then play with the lever open. I know my guard has like a little chip in it but I've had these guards since like barber school. So I've had these guards like like nine, 10 years now. So yeah, I think it's time for me to get new ones. I got to contact Andis to get some new guards because I know the newer zero guards they came out with before they kind of, I didn't like them. So I know that Andis came out with better ones. So yeah, yeah, but I don't know if you guys like masters cause they are kind of heavy but I do recommend masters for coarse hair because for some reason it's, they do, they do pretty good for me. It's probably one of my favorite clippers, the Andis because you can cut honestly any type of hair. It's just like a lot of people don't like it because they're very heavy. So, but the heavy ones were when you had the corded clippers. I don't know if you guys remember the corded clippers but the corded men masters, hey man, those were heavy, you know? But right here, I'm sorry for talking too much guys but right here, we have a number two guard like what we did in the practice to debulk all the area. So we have the number two and I'm just flicking up when I get there, getting around the ears so that way I'll be able to set the line up pretty, you know, nicely. And then when I get right there, I'm just going with the grain just to see what the guard is gonna take down the hair. So it does, it does debulk it. So yeah, I was talking to my client a lot right here about, I think football is something. So if he's talking a lot, you know, that's, you know, when you're a barber, you gotta interact with all your clients, you know? That's how you keep your clients. You gotta build a relationship with your clients, you know? Some people, you know, I've been in a lot, like three different shops and like some barbers, they don't even talk to their clients. And it's kind of like, man, you gotta interact with their clients, you know? But back to the cut, I am gonna bald out. So I'm doing a high taper. So I'm doing a ball line kind of where the hook starts on the top of the head. So I'm doing right where the temple's at or right with the bottom of the vertical bars, you just bald it out right there and make sure that you gotta go kind of by the ear. Don't go behind the ear because your tapers is gonna look all funky behind the ear. And I don't, that's not my style, a taper. Some people do like it, but that's just not me. I don't really like the, you know, the taper so far back over there because it just makes it look so like bursty, you feel me? So now we're just balding out with my Stylecraft balders. These ones are actually pretty good. I feel like they die. Actually, I feel like they die pretty quick. Yeah, I feel like they die pretty quick. I do like the Andis ones or I do like the Wall ones, but these are my Stylecraft balders. And I do like these ones a lot. They do the job, they get very close and everything. You just gotta charge them quite a lot. So we are gonna have our masters again, making the guideline about fingers width or about a half an inch. I'm using the corners. When I get around by the ear, I kind of make it at an angle. I kind of do like a little, like a rainbow type thing, you know? Because I don't wanna go too far in the back, in the back of the ear to make it like heck of a big taper. So we have our, we close the lever right here and then open it up, close it halfway open, close it halfway open using the corners because that's the most important part of tapers, use the corners because you wanna, you have more precision, you have, you can, you have more, just more precise. So I don't know how to say it. I'm not really great at explaining things, you know? So we also have our number one guard right here doing the same steps that we did in the back of the head. Number one, get to the top where you wanna stop at. You flick out, you flick out, make sure that the guy lands about like a half an inch to an inch. Once you get to the back of the ear, you kind of wanna round it off or kind of do at an angle so that way it doesn't make it too far in the back over there. So that's not like a broken record, y'all. I really do sound like a broken record. So we have our one and a half guard on our, the magic clips? Yeah, the magic clips. Those are one and a half guard. I got these guards from the style craft clippers they do come with guards. So this is a one and a half. So what I'm doing, I'm just cleaning up that area on the top because I did see it was dark. So with that one and a half we'll just kind of take out those dark spots because we did it too. You remember to take off the bulk. So just use the corner of the clipper or the guard and just, you know, flick it out. Make sure you do press the hair down a lot because you kind of, with coarse hair when you do, when you cut the hair it kind of brushes it back up. So you got to comb a lot when you cut coarse hair. So we have our zero guard again. So we were just going to use the corner of the blades that hair is kind of grown at an angle right there. So using the corner, close it up halfway open play with it a lot to take out any dark spots that is necessary. I'm just trying to clean up everything right here because it's already kind of blended. So I'm just cleaning it up right here. Just cleaning and cleaning. I know it looks like I passed some in the back to the ear right there but his hair is kind of like weird back there. It kind of grows at a different angle. So yeah, I don't know. I've been cutting this kid for a long time and I've always, every time I cut him back there like it always, it kind of gets like a patch or it looks very light back there. But you know, that's just the way his hair is. It's crazy like that. So now for the lineup we are doing. Well, first off we're just combing out the hair because his hair is very long out there. So you want to get the hair nice and even by combing it out. I think we're going to come in with a one guard or one and a half open or one open. Yeah, a one open on the masters. We're going to go with the grain so that way it deep bulks the hair line. So when you do setting that first line it's going to make it nice and crispy. So we're doing it with the grain. A lot of people do like a one and a half or a two but I like doing a one. I mean, for this instance his hair is very long on top so you can do it either way. I like doing a one because to me it makes it more crispier when you do it with a one other than a one and a half because I don't want to have to keep going over it and then having to brush it back down again with a one and a half or two. So a one open with the grain works best for me because that's just like how I like doing it. I've been coming here for a while now. I'm not going to tell you that that's the best way but for me it works. But I don't know if you guys seen what I just, you know, kind of had the shaving cream right here. He had a, I'm just cleaning up the area right there but the shaving cream is going to do is just going to lift the hair when I put a hot towel on it. And also it takes off any excess dirt you have on the forehead. So we have our hot towel right here. You see that thing steaming. Make sure it's not too hot for your client's forehead or skin. I tested it out on myself, on my wrist before putting it on him. And I also asked him when I was putting it on, is it too hot? He said no, so yeah. So you want to keep it on there for a good, probably like 20 to 30 seconds. Make sure you apply pressure on it. So that way the steam could, you know, get to the hair and make it stand up. So you want to keep it on there. And like I said, 20 to 30 seconds. So for the lineup, we're going to start from the middle and then work away from left to right. With the hot towel, it really did help out because it is cutting like it, you know, it's kind of do it like butter. So we're going from the left to right. I always just say, however you guys want to make your lineup, that's on you guys. I can't tell you how to do it. It's just all what you feel comfortable with. So I start from the middle, to the left, and then to the right. Make sure it all meets into the middle at the end. Like, but there's really nothing you can say about it. Just make sure that the lineup is straight, you know, make sure the lineup is straight and try not to cut your client's forehead. You know, some clients have sensitive skin. Try not to do that, you guys, because it does suck, especially when you look at the end and the client's hair is all, you know, his head is all red from, you know, the liners. So I was like, don't do that. So we're putting in the handspins on. I know a lot of people, they get on me for not recording, me putting in the handspins on, which I don't understand why. But like I said, just make sure that when you do apply the enhancements, just follow your guide. Follow the lineup. That's all you got to do. That's what I told you guys before, just make sure that the lineup is straight as possible or straight as it can be. And then just follow it. Just follow it. Just don't put too much on the forehead because you don't want it too shiny. So just follow it. You want to just kind of let's tap it, tap it, tap it. Because I have put a lot on somebody's forehead and man, dude, it looks shiny as hell. So you don't want to do that. Just tap it, tap it, tap it. If you see it and it looks cool, keep it like that. Just tap it, follow that lineup. And I mean, you guys are Gucci, man. That's what you got to do. I'll put the airbrush machine and also the airbrush gun in the description below so that way you know what you want to get. I do use the kiss express dye. I use the black, not the jet black, just the black and or dark brown. I do use those ones. So kiss express, I put it in the description below as well. Look at that cut, y'all. Looks fresh, right? Let me know what you guys think in the comment section below. Thank you guys for watching my video. Put the post notifications on, like, comment, subscribe. Man, like I say, man, I'm very humble for you guys to watch me. Peace and love is always love for me. So thank you guys a lot. Until next time, I'll see you.