 How are you? Yeah. How's it going? Are we rolling? Welcome back to Brad's hair school. Are you excited to be here? I am so excited and also Miss Manny Quinn is excited to be back. She got a cute color last time. She actually said that she's been loving the balayage and she said her day went really well and she's going on a second date. She liked you enough to come back to the salon and get a haircut by you? That's a repeat customer Brad. Your first repeat Eric, congratulations. Miss Manny Quinn is back. Eric is about to do his first haircut ever in his entire life, right? Is that true? Right? Ever, yeah. Which is weird. Why have you never done a haircut? I'm trying to think. Yeah, no, I've literally never done a haircut. I love how we grew up in a salon and you and John have never cut your hair. Okay, the only haircuts I would do when I would like take the old mannequins and then just like cut them like really short with scissors and it would look crazy. So if you guys haven't seen our previous video where we taught Eric how to balayage highlight the same way we're about to do right now, which is he is in the room behind me. He is wearing an earpiece in his ear as one does and he is going to listen to my verbal instructions on how to give a haircut to Miss Manny Quinn. He has all the supplies he needs in front of him. However, I will not be able to help him in person. I will not be able to give him any real physical instructions. He will have to do everything sort of blindly by just following what I say. I'm very confident in my haircutting abilities, even though I've never done it. And I would also say I'm very nervous because I have no idea what I'm doing. Perfect. I love that. Greet your client. Ask her what's up. How is life going? How's her boyfriend? Hey Miss Manny Quinn. How are you doing today? Can I get you a coffee or tea? She doesn't want coffee or tea. She actually wants a tequila soda. Okay. All right Miss Manny Quinn, it's coming right up. And she's caked. So I'm just going to say before we start, please don't cut yourself. Okay. Try not to cut past the second knuckle. I'm just going to put that out there, okay? That's an important rule because you can really slash yourself with these scissors. They're very sharp. Want to know what kind of haircut we're doing today, Eric? Is it a bob? Yeah. It is? I've always wanted to cut a bob, Brad. We're going to do a layered bob, Eric. A layered bob on Miss Manny Quinn for her second date with the guy or the woman if she wants. Does that mean anything to a layered bob? A bob is like a short haircut and layers means it's like, it's kind of like a ski slope, like it goes up. Uh-huh. A ski slope. So like a short haircut, ski slope. Great. So a lot of you guys wanted me to do the color while telling Eric how to do the color from the last video. So this time, I'm going to show you how I would do the haircut in a pre-recorded video so I can show you guys what I'm actually trying to tell her to do and what Eric is actually doing, okay? Brad, I am excited. I don't even think they're going to need the version of you doing it because mine's just going to be a 10 out of 10. Okay. So let's start out by combing all the hair back away from her face. Okay. Okay. It's actually not that easy to comb through. I'm not going to lie. Brad, it's like, why is it so hard to comb through? Um, it's not. What did you wash Miss Manny Quinn with? The only the best of the best. That would be X-Monitor Project X Shampooing Conditioner. Oh, thank God. I was so worried you washed her hair with anything besides that. Please. What else would I use? What comb are you using? I am using the one that is evenly spaced the entire way through. Oh, okay. So use one that has smaller spacings and bigger spacing on one side. Put the end of the bigger side in the middle of her head in the front. So follow her nose up to the middle of her scalp. Do I pick her nose on the way up? Yes. I'm there. So you're then going to follow the middle part all the way down to the nape of her neck. Does it have to be like exact? Yeah. Yeah. Are you having difficulties with this? I am. Why is this harder than coloring, Eric, for you? I don't know. All right. Is it parted? Yeah. I would say it is. Two sides. Okay. So let's start on the right side. You're just going to bend her head a bit forward. Miss Manny Quinn, I'm just going to have to bend your head a little forward, okay? You are going to take triangular sections. You're going to want to make one nice triangle. So two halves of a triangle at the nape of her neck. Does that make sense? No. So it's split in half, right? The top of the head is split in half. Okay. So you're going to go down to the nape of her neck. Yes, ma'am. Okay. And you're going to want to make one half of a triangle on one side and the other half on the other side so that you have one big triangle. You don't want to be using a lot of hair. I think this is harder than to explain than the color. Honestly, I thought the hair could have been much easier. I actually think it's harder. There's no real creative freedom here. It's a lot of precise measurement. Miss Manny Quinn, don't you worry. We're going to get it all sorted out for you. So you're going to be taking half a triangle cut out on each side of the head in order to form a one medium-sized triangle. Where does the triangle start? Okay. It started about an inch up from the nape of her neck. So where her hairline ends in the back. Okay. And then make a half on one side and the other half on the other side so that when you pull them both together, those two sections make one larger triangle. This is your guideline. So every section you pull after this is going to be guided by this piece that you're cutting right now. So whatever length you choose for this section guides the entire haircut. So no pressure. Okay. So basically the entire back of her neck is like in this triangle, right? Yeah. Wait. How short is this bob going to be? Maybe like a little below her chin. Here's the other complicated part. You're going to have both the scissors and the comb in one hand at the same time. Brad, if you could see me right now, I actually have the comb and the scissors in my right hand. Work. Yeah. I love that for you. Yep. Okay. So now take your left hand, hold the section out and then comb, starting at the root and work it to the bottom. And then your left hand, like doing the balayage is going to work as your anchor. Oh, damn. I look like a freaking professional. Okay. So you're going to cut below your fingers, not above. Okay. I'm actually a little nervous for the cutting. Yes, me too. Please don't cut yourself. We need to finish this video today. Go right below her chin around there. Oh, damn. That's a lot. Yeah. Do you already cut? No, I haven't done it yet. Okay. So you've got the section taught. Taught as hell. All right. So you're going to place it under your thumb on the hand that you're holding the hair with. So the left hand. The comb? Yeah. You sort of change hands now with the comb. So the comb now goes into your left. Oh, yeah. Into your left hand underneath your thumb. Now you're cutting below your fingers and you're not going past your first knuckle. Okay. Okay. I just cut all the way across. Oh, I didn't even tell you to cut it yet. I know. I got nervous. It started. Eric. I didn't even tell you to go. She already looks really good. Okay. Usually you don't cut an entire section that large with one swipe. Okay. Wait. And I don't go past one knuckle. Your first knuckle. You only have one knuckle. No, you have two. Oh. So like the major knuckle. The first one. Oh, the little tiny, the little baby knuckle. Finger bends. Okay. I'm just going to even it out a little bit. Okay. It is even as hell. Actually, Brad, on a second thought, it's really not that even. I'm Rick. Okay. Please make it as even as possible. This is your guide for the rest of the haircut. All right. No. Is her head tilted still? Oh, sh**. Oh, my God. Which way is this supposed to be tilted? Slightly forward. Yes, it is. So now that that's even, right? Hello? Yeah. I need some reassurance here. It is even as hell. All right. What do I do now? Now we're going to work on the other side. And you're going to take a small piece from the side you just did and carry it onto the other side and use it as your guide to cut the other side the exact same length. Cut small pieces at a time and keep using your guide as you travel around the head. Oh, my God. I almost just cut my finger. Please don't cut past your first knuckle, Eric. You hear me? He's yelling. You're going to cut yourself if you do not follow my directions. Okay. Don't cut past your first knuckle. Yes. That's like a little tiny piece. Yes. You work with very small sections at a time or else it gets uneven and weird. All right. I think it looks really sassy and fun. I am making sure that everything is nice and wet then scissoring it with my left set of fingers. Uh-huh. Damn, this is hard to do. This is way past my first knuckle. Eric, stop doing that. I don't understand. But like if I'm holding it and scissoring it, that means I do like a centimeter. Yeah. It's like a half an inch. It's like not a lot. No, it's not. All right. So I'm going to check my work now. So what you do is you pull both sides down at the same time. The left and the right side with both of your pointer fingers and your thumbs. See if they're both the same length. They should end at the same time out of your fingers. I just said it. What happened? What happened? Well, I was checking your pieces, the scissors. We're kind of pointed towards where the hair is in a bun and I kind of cut a little bit. How did you do that? I have no idea. All right. So it looks visually like it's all one length in the back right now, right? Yes. Okay. Perfect. Okay. So now that we have our guide, this is going to guide the entire rest of your haircut. We're going to now take another section out on the, let's do the right side. Sure. So you're following that exact same half triangle and you're just taking out another like half an inch of hair. I feel so bad about the piece of hair. Was it bad? No. You really can't tell. Okay. All right. You good? I am. Nothing. Continue. Okay. So now let's work on one side at a time and let's cut small sections at a time. So you are going to use your prior cut to guide you like I keep saying. Okay. Next section. So you're combing the guide that you just cut and the new section at the same time altogether. All right. I just did a really nice cut. Yeah. How's your guide? It's really good. It's guiding you? I would say I feel like I'm very guided. Okay. So perfect. You're going to keep using that guide and you're going to cut across the hair until you get to the last piece and just make it all even. Just take your time, please. Wow. Yo, Miss Manny Quinn is feeling really good. She's healthy. She's healthy. I'm getting rid of those split ends. Snip, snip, snip. And coming in for the final cut of the new section. Done. Perfect. Now check if those are even on both sides the same process before. They're roughly the same if I go at different speeds. All right. Does it look visually even? Yeah. I'm feeling so good. Ready for the next step. It's a thrilling step. It really is. Okay. We're going to do the exact same thing again. So where would you say this next section is? Is it kind of like beginning to be including the front hairs yet? Yeah. Yeah. It's going like behind your ear kind of? Yeah. No, above her ear. Above her ear. Okay. Cool. So it's still diagonal though, right? Yeah. All right. Let's continue that. Take that next section out. Cut it again using your guide. Let me know if you have any questions. Are your sections nice? My sections are so nice. Oh, you didn't hear that. And who? You need to follow whichever section you're working on, stand directly in front of that section. So you're constantly moving your body around the head. Okay. Maybe that's what I'm missing. Yeah. If you were to stand behind the head and cut every section in that same position you're standing in, the hair would be short in the back and longer in the front. What we're doing here is making a line all the way around her head that's symmetrical. Right. So you're going to follow each section, stand right in front of it and cut the piece of hair. It's really hard. I'm combing it down and I'm scissoring behind it, going right to where the, my guide reaches the other pieces. Uh-huh. And I am only cutting to my second knuckle. Perfect. Even cut yourself yet. I'm very happy about that. No. Is it looking good? It's looking so fine. Hold on. My guide is telling me differently. Is it looking even? Looking nice? Ready. This is going to be a, this is like a textbook cut right here. Hold on. You can kind of tilt the head slightly to one side now and make sure it's just not like toppling back or forward. So your next section will probably be like a diagonal forward towards like the middle of her eyebrow. What are we seeing? We're not seeing much honestly. What do you mean? I am taking another piece of this section. It is approximately where, like I would say the end of her eyebrow. Okay. Cool. I can see my guide. Yep. My guide, baby. Okay. I'm not going to go past the second knuckle. Correcto. Wow. Now I'm feeling really confident. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm not going to lie. My guide just kind of jumped up a little bit. Why? I don't know Brad. Eric. Is the head still tilted to one side to the side? No. She's like tilted forward a little bit. Oh. Okay. See that's not what you want to do. What? Because now when you put her head up, it's going to be shorter in the front. Oh. Why would it make more sense? Why would it make more sense to tilt it to the side? Because then when you tilt it back, it's going to be shorter on the side. No, it won't. First of all, you're tilting it very slightly to the side just so you have a good view. But what will happen is the top layer, will it overextend over the other layers just the hair when you tilt it back up forward? All right. So we're just going to do a little correction, a cutting correction. Oh, God. It's a lot shorter in the front. What are you doing? Yeah. My guide's all kind of screwed up. Okay. I would say that that last section I just did was probably the best section I've done. You're getting better? What are you, Brad? Why? It's really f***ed up. You have to listen, Eric. No, it's not that bad, Brad. Communication is key. No, Brad, actually it's really even. What are you saying at this point? I don't even know. I don't even. It's not even. So, Miss Manny Quinn, what's going on in your life? Nothing. Yo, Brad, I'm not going to lie. She's really quiet today. By the way, Eric, Miss Manny Quinn has our daughter's dance recital in 20 minutes. Wait. So are you telling me she's a dance mom? Yes. And so she's f***ed out of here in 15 minutes with a blow-dry. Is she going to yell at me? Yes. Miss Manny Quinn, I'm working on. I'm working on it. She's looking pretty Bob-like, Brad. And where exactly is the length? Approximately an inch underneath her chin. Okay, cool. So should I make these ones a little longer, like a 90s cut? No. We want just a nice, chopped bob. Oh my God, this one's really close to my hand. Snip, snip, snip. It's pretty good. Oh. Now, once you go that side, you're going to repeat the entire process on the other side. Miss Manny Quinn, you're going to meet on time for your dance recital tonight. Keep going, Eric. You got this. Miss Manny Quinn is going to tilt this way. Oh. Where did this little piece come from? What is that? Hey, Brad. What? It's a little f***ed up in the back. I want this to look good, Eric. Me? Brad, this has my name on it. I'm just not really trusting my guide. I don't trust you or your guide. So... So what kind of dance is your daughter into? Oh, hip-hop? She does jazz. I've always wanted to do tap dance myself. She only does jazz, Eric. For some reason, the front pieces are not as evenly cut. All right, Brad, I am on the last section. Okay. I'm not going to lie. I think my thumb is too big for these scissors. It's a large thumb, Eric. Yep. And we have the last section coming up here. I'm going to start calling her Bob because she has such a nice bob. How does it look visually? Very appealing. Yeah? Yeah. Hey, Brad, this whole, like, you know, start at the top and, like, make sure your hands, like, go all the way down. That's kind of useless to me. I'm not going to lie. Oh, good. But I think she looks good. So it's all cut? Yeah. Okay. So now we're just going to do some light layering. Oh, Jesus. Okay. Part the hair down the center again. Wet it. All right. Brad, I have to tell her, right? She probably fell asleep by now. Oh, she's definitely broke up from all the water in her face. Okay. Ms. Mandy, come we're going to do some light layering. Okay. So you're going to take pie slices. Pie slices. Does that make sense? Not at all. Do you know what the apex of a head is? No. It's the high point of the head. So if you lay the comb on the top of the head, you'll see where the highest point is. Got it. Okay. So pretend that's the middle of the pie. And so you're making slices all around that. Pie. I got a piece of pie back here. Okay. So you're combing it out 90 degrees away, and you're holding it vertically with your, with your pointer and your index finger. And your index finger. My, I thought I was bleeding, but I'm not. Get your fingers in there and clamp it down with your fingers. Okay. It's not really the bottom pieces, right? And so you're going to hold it vertically. So your, your elbow should be in the air. Oh, it's way up there, Brad. All right. You're going to cut upwards on that vertical. Okay. The length of the hair is the stuff that dropped. Yeah. Now you're just creating a bevel in the hair. So your first cut should be your guide, right? I'm going in. I'm just going to do it. Okay. But your first cut is not, not past your knuckle. Okay. You're cutting a little piece at a time and you can comb it back out again and use that same guide and cut again. Oh. No, I think I'm doing this right. I can't wait to see what this turns out like. If you kind of like prop up the hair a little bit, like move it around, you should be able to see like layer it. Oh, yeah. I guess. Okay. That's fine. All right. Now you're going to take those same small pie slices out of the entire head. And so you can actually use now a small part of the previous pie section you, you cut and bring it to the next section and follow that guide. All right, Brad, you're going to walk me through that again because it seems like I remember it, but I don't really know. So. All right. So you comb it out. Comb it out to 90 degrees. Yeah. Your elbows in the air. You're holding it out vertically from the head. Okay. Okay. And then you're cutting upwards. Okay. But the guide is nowhere to be found. Oh. Find your guide, Eric. Yeah. I don't know if this is coming out the right way. How, how much have you already cut? I'm like at the front now. Oh, they're big sections, boy. These are large sections. So normally you would kind of travel. What? Nothing, Brad. Keep going. I'm listening. All right. So typically I would kind of travel around the head making a sort of rounded layering, but you don't got time for that. You aren't going to understand what I'm saying anyway. So we're just going to kind of do like a one step 90 degree layer and just give her some kind of a harsh layering. I was also going to tell you to over direct back when you get to the ear, but you kind of already went over the ear apparently, right? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to have like a chunk missing now. How did you know? Because I'm a hairstylist right now. See how like behind the ear, Eric, the hairline goes way up? Yeah. If you don't over direct and add a little bit of length there, you'll never have the same length as you do in the back. Okay. All right. So when you get to the ear on the other side, make sure you over direct slightly back, which means you're pulling the section 90 degree from the head and then kind of pulling it backward towards her neck. Did you finish the other side? Oh yeah, I finished the first side. Yeah. So we're just going to have a few layers in the back here and we're just going to take the length off that. Look at that nice layer. Brad. What? I'm pretty sure that the layers are going to really screw me over and we're just going to go snip, snip and you can see some nice layers in the hair. Yeah. The layers are looking good. Yes. I think. All right. And they have, she has layers going all the way around, Brad. Oh, she's done? Yeah. Well, that's it. Do I blow it out? So you blow dry it with a round brush? Yes, Manny Quinn. We're going to blow dry you out right now. She's a fifth year old mom and she wants a mom bob, so please blow dry it accordingly. Okay. First steps first, I'm going to put a little gliderade in her hair, obviously. Right? You have to put a gliderade. You have to. So I'm going to leave you to this though. I'm going to let you blow dry and use the thing cheers without me telling you what to do because I think they're kind of self-explanatory and I'm going to come look at what you did when you're all done, okay? Okay. Good luck and don't. I'm going to do a little bit of thinning. All right, Brad. I'm ready. You ready? Yeah. All right. I'm going to come see you. Brad, it's like good, right? Don't make fun of me too hard because I tried really, really hard. She looks like the candy factory movie. What's the movie? Willy Wonka. She looks like Willy Wonka. I tried to get her to finish like Anna Wintour. It goes in. That's a nice one. Really? Why is the back so much longer? Let's sit down. Let's talk about this. First of all, if it ends right here, the front ends up here. I know. I thought the longer pieces were in the front. What is that? Brad, let's just say the haircutting is a lot more technical than the coloring. You meant she does better on the coloring. Okay. Also these layers. I think you missed a few pieces there. Okay. That was really hard. Brad, I mean, I mean, never mind. She's never coming back. So I think where you kind of went wrong, Eric, is the head tilting, I'm guessing. You tilted the head too far to one side. I didn't understand the head tilting. I'm not going to lie. And in the layering, you just missed pieces. You didn't over-direct. Wait, wait, Brad. You didn't over-direct. What is over-directing? This would be not over-directing. This is fully... Because it's not in the head. This is over-directing back. So when you let it go, it has extra length. She hates you. This mannequin, I'm so sorry. It'll grow back. Brad, give me a grade. So I'm going to have to give you... C. I'll take a C. I'll take a C. I feel like this is actually almost up to par with some kids in hair school. So... Coloring is much easier, and hair cutting is so much harder. So you'd be more of a colorist. I'd be on hundo-pia colorist. All right. So we have a giveaway going on right now. An X-Mondo giveaway. Really? What are we giving away? A trip to New York for you to get a Mondo makeover on my channel. And it ends on September 22nd. So if you guys would like to win a Mondo makeover, all you got to do is show your love for X-Mondo. Definitely follow us on X-Mondo. Harass me on Instagram. And just show how much you want it, how much you deserve it. Post something in hashtag X-Mondo, hashtag Mondo makeovers. And you'll be entered to possibly win a Mondo makeover. I'll be posting the winner on my Instagram as of September 22nd. And just to be very clear, I will not be doing the Mondo makeover. So your hair will look significantly better than this. I will be doing it. Make sure you follow Eric on Instagram at ericmono underscore. Follow me, bramonoysi, and follow my friend X-MondoHair on Instagram. And also, check out our new channel. It's called Brad & Eric. Woo! If you like us together, which some of you, for some reason do, then go on that channel and check out our videos. You see what we go for. There's something that we've been through. And I think that's all. Check out the new shampoo conditioner at x-mondohair.com. It's called Project X. And it's our everyday shampoo conditioner. And it's stunning. And thank you guys so much for watching today. Don't forget to live extra life. And I will see you all next time. Peace!