 What's up guys welcome to today's video today? We're gonna be taking Collins hair here and making it graduation ready So I'm gonna walk you guys through how we clean this up step by step. So here we go All right guys so going into the haircut what I look for is Really that parietal ridge area where the head starts to curve down and I section all of that off I'm using the FSE Velcro clips. You can get them on our online store shop FSE and I just start working clipper over comb I'm using my andis cordless master series clipper. I'm also using the ys park 282 barbering comb This thing makes it super easy because it's about the same width of the clipper And I just work those diagonal back sections Lifting the hair up and cutting it and what I like to think about this is I go tighter towards the Hairline and then I start to work that comb just a little bit further off the head as I work my way up Usually I'll go in and cut the hair a little bit longer at first and then just kind of whittle it down a Little bit at a time that way I get to that link that I'm looking for For me I like clipper over comb because it just has a little bit more freedom to kind of Decide what length you want and kind of play around with how that hair is gonna react to the length that you're cutting it So I just work my way up now another key tip here is to just work back off that crown So don't cut too far into the crown area. You want a little extra length in the back of the head I think that helps kind of form the head shape a lot better So you'll see I'm just kind of working my way through leaving that wait line I will go in and cut it more in my hands During the wet portion of the cut now. This is a nice little tip for the hairline I like to go through carve that line first then go in backhand and Scoop the rest of the hair out so you get that nice defined line You kind of decide exactly where you want it to be and then you can kind of clean up the rest around the edges Another little tip comb the hair forward right in that front hairline temple area Then you can slide that trimmer up and around we're gonna do the same thing on the right-hand side So the red comb that I have here guys I'm also using the andus t-trimmer, but that red comb is a ys park 339 comb I love this comb for detailing work in the wet cut. It's a smaller comb So it just kind of helps me get into those tighter spots All right So now that we've finished the sides and the outer perimeter now we move on the top That's the fun part remove those velcro clips And then I wet down the top using a spray bottle find that parietal ridge area And then I draw a parting straight across it and that's how I'm gonna connect these sides and the top So I work that down and now you're gonna see I kind of slightly Over-direct each section back what that's gonna do is give me a little extra link towards the front I don't want this to be a completely square or round shape I want to push a little extra weight towards the front of the head So we're gonna do this on both sides, and then we'll move into the top All right, so now as we move into the top section, we're gonna create a square top So everything's gonna come straight up towards the ceiling parallel with the ceiling or parallel with the floor Whatever you want to say just bringing it straight up and just slightly back So I will bring the hair back to the previous section that I cut And then we'll add a little extra length in the front because the head shape starts to move forward So that you're allowing the head shape to kind of dictate that length. So we want to keep some length in the front I think that's what makes this style so cool is having that extra especially in wavy hair that extra length in the front But we'll just kind of work our way through the top until we get to the front And I'll show you guys another technique there If you guys will see me point cutting what point cutting does is it gives me a softer line So instead of creating a really blunt heavy line on the top of the head I want a little bit of movement a little bit more texture That plays with his waves a little bit as well You can see that slight bit more of over direction back in the very front just add a little extra length Still doing that point cutting and work my way through now I take a diagonal back parting and just finish up kind of trimming that fringe area What I don't want is to just have a straight bulky kind of blunt line in the front So I like to kind of follow the head shape and take off that corner right in the front Just gives me a little bit of a softer shape In his fringe area Okay, so now we blow a dry quick blow dry with our hands because we're gonna add some highlights to this cut just to really Bring in that dimension and movement. So I'm gonna use palmatril synchro lift soft. This has got up to seven levels of lift It's a very gentle lightener. He's already got blonder hair So I'm just really just trying to pop in some brightness. So we use our Belcro clip little zigzag parting Weave into it add that foil in I'm using foil on the front three sections Because I want to incubate and I want to pop the most brightness in the very front fringe That he has and then we're gonna do a little bit of hand painting through the rest So anytime I'm working with guys or just shorter hair in the salon I want to make time the most effective as possible So you could do this technique on male female whatever guest you have in your chair that has shorter hair This is a great technique to add kind of a gradation where it starts brighter in the front gets a little bit softer In towards the back. So we put in these weaved foils first Add the most brightness because of the incubation and then we go in and do a little bit of hand painting So I'm gonna do one more foil and then you'll see me do that hand painting technique. So there we go We got three foils in now. I just kind of comb the hair into the direction It's gonna lay and then I just go in vertically with the brush and just slightly paint So I kind of load the brush up with lightener, but then softly paint it over the surface of the shape of the haircut So a little bit of lifting with my fingers just so that you're not pushing too hard in so that's the key here guys So that you don't get bleeding in this technique You want to make sure that you're not pushing too hard into the hair Really just want to paint this lightener on to the surface nice and light And that'll pop some brightness just like the Sun would naturally and that's what we're going for now in between those foils And towards the front I'm going to also do a little bit of hand painting because You're gonna have that brightness from the foil and then you'll have kind of a medium brightness from the hand painting And then you also have his natural level. So it'll it'll bring in more dimension Which will make it look more natural because you don't just have You know shots of blonde sprouting from his roots, you know, like that's not natural So I want to go in and add that multi-dimension which will make it look like the Sun just kissed it So you're gonna see here process him. I'm gonna style him up and you'll be able to see these highlights go through We processed him for probably about 20 minutes no longer than that didn't really need to not going for platinum here guys Just a natural look so Paul Mitchell steady grip gel In puts comb that through the hair now use a diffuser To just really hold those curls in and then we're gonna finish it off with Mitch Barber's classic By Paul Mitchell and I'm just gonna work that through to add some shine definition to the curl a little bit of texture And kind of bring that out. You can see the highlights popping through You can see that wave that that link that we created in the front the nice clean sides that we put in it as well He throws his glasses on completes to look Styling guy ready for graduation. Hope you guys liked this cut in color. Let me know in the comments below Please hit that share button share this with all of your friends Make sure you subscribe to the channel because we're coming out with videos all of the time And that's it guys. Thank you so much for watching