chances are if you're watching this video you've seen so many barbers shifting towards scissor cuts
and longer styles not just that some of the most well-known celebs in the world like tom holland
leonardo dicaprio and robert pattinson are leading the way with style right now in this video you'll
learn how to do a whole head scissor cut using my removal and refinement method these skills come
from my 20-year background in the barber industry so keep watching barbara and i will share with you
first things first we need to get the hair wet it's really important when you're scissor
cutting hair to make sure that it is wet and it's under control here's just easier to work
with and it sections nicely when it's wet now i did say to you that there was going to be a
removal and a refinement process so this is the removal process we're going in picking up the
hair with your fingers and just scissor cutting it across the fingers and working our way back
to the next section you'll notice that i started at the tempo but really you can start anywhere
as long as you have a method and you know you're going to cover the whole head so for instance if
you're left-handed you could just start on the other side of the head and come around this way
then back round to the front of the head and i'm going to go a little bit higher
and trim some more length off before i get to the refinement stage
you can see how fast i'm working here i'm basically pulling my fingers out to the same
length each time and i'm just judging it i'm not actually looking for
the previous section each time i'm just pulling my fingers out because i'm going
to come back and get to the refinement part now so refining basically what we do is we
slide the scissor in and lift the hair up with the scissor and then place the comb underneath it
now what you're looking for is any hairs that are sticking out and we're working now horizontally
across the sections that we just picked up so you'll notice i'm not taking away anywhere near
as much now the last part was removal this is me starting to refine the scissor work
please let me know down below if you've ever tried this scissor over comb technique it is great to
watch but let me tell you it's even more fun to cut it's great fun it's a really creative way to
cut hair and there's more to it than just refining i mean you can see here i'm actually going lower
down now and i'm actually removing bulk plus refining at the same time i i do do that and
you'll see me doing it on the other side of the head i won't even bother with the removal part
i'll go straight into what we would call just removal and refinement at the same time because
once you've got that guide that you've made you know on this side of the head you can continue
to work around using the scissor over comb and just remove and refine at the same time
what is common for me and i would definitely recommend that you do it as well
is to go over your refined area more than once and refine it more because what you'll find is
that you're taking tiny tiny little bits off and it's getting more and more refined so keep
looking over it if there's any long hair that's just sticking out you can just take that off
i did say that i was going to join up removal and refinement and here you
can see okay because i've got a guide from the other side of the head and the guide i mean is
i've already cut some short hair it means i can just go in pick up some short hair
and all the long hair with the scissor and start cutting my way down towards the bottom
one thing i will say if you're going to do this scissor over comb if the hair was much longer
than this you couldn't remove and refine at the same time it would be there would be too much
hair hanging over the comb so you would have to go for the the bulk removal using your fingers first
by the way i'm guessing that if you're watching this you are a barber or you're interested in
barbering so comment down below and tell me what stage you're at because it will help me to put
out future content and um i'd love to know about any ideas or any questions and believe me there's
never a silly question just about cutting hair anything at all i can help you with or anything
if you're a person who is just starting out and you currently know nothing about barbarian well
i do have a three-hour course it's a beginner's course and it's quite well structured
it'll take you through four of the most common and important haircuts as well as teaching you
things like how to hold scissors how to hold a comb and various things about bones in the head
and texture and hair etc etc and i will leave a link down below it's on udemy and
if that's something that interests you you can check that out
one of the bonuses about that is even if you don't know how to hold the scissors in comb
and pick up here there's a free lesson on that course to get you started and
you don't need to sign up you can watch that for free and that link is in the description
something else i want to ask you tell me what is the hardest thing right now for you cutting
hair put that in the comments below tell me what is the biggest challenge for you
is it a certain hair type is it that you can't get a job in a barber shop maybe it's hard to find a
placement are you in college barber school are you not making any money at barbarian you tell me
or is it keeping up with trends are you trying to find inspiration about where to move your career
it is quite common for barbers to get stale so don't worry about that it happens to us all
when i'm working around the ears what i normally do is i always
cut away from the ear so trim away from the ear
on the top now what i'm going to do is section out the top to the side
now you can see i don't need clips or anything because it's wet and i'm just going to take
i've already discussed this with a client i'm gonna take about three inches off
and i'm gonna keep working my way back i'll just like i did on the sides with my fingers it's not
so easy to do scissor over comb on the top it's something that only really is good for the sides
so
now i'm cutting back across the top now remember i've already removed bulk and refined at the sides
but i need to join it in so if i pick up a bit of the top and a bit the sides and i comb that back
i'm just going to take the long stuff that is sticking out and that's all i need to take there
because i've cut the top from the front to the back i'm just
coming in and i'm picking up with my scissor
and just further refining i just want to make sure that the top flows down nicely into the back
on the other side i'm just going to do the same thing i'm just going to um tie in and work my
way back just trim any long stuff that's kind of hanging out there shouldn't be much
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for the fringe i don't really care too much because he's sweeping it back i'm just gonna
pull it down to his eyebrows and just trim off really anything that i don't like the look
of this kind of sticking out but i'm not that fast about trying to do anything to make it sit
nicely coming forward because that's not the way it's going to sit it's going to be brushed back
when you're styling long hair one of your best friends is moose like volumizing mousse it gives
it lift it gives it body especially people with flat hair but even if they have quite thick hair
you can still use mousse because it gives it hold and i would strongly recommend that you use mousse
and a great brand is avenue man and i'll leave a affiliate link for that an amazing affiliate
link down below but definitely use mousse if you can work you work your mousse in and then
grab a vent brush now event brush is a brush with holes in it and it lets the air flow through it it
leaves the hair a little bit looser when you blow dry it back and it's very very good for long hair
when i'm dry when i'm blow drying hair i normally blow dry it back so it's hot and then each section
i'm on i'll switch the air dry to cold and cool it down by switching to cold and cooling it down dry
then you're more likely to retain the shape and it also gives the hair a little bit of a
shine because it flattens the cuticle of the hair strand that's a bit technical for you but it works
so a little bit of a little bit cleaning up around the edges what we don't want to do is
really make sure that you don't go in beyond the hairline keep the clipper outside the hairline
at the ear just put the comb in behind the ear and flip it out okay just flip it out and
then trim across the comb and we'll try and make a straight line down the back here but
you want to make sure that if you make a straight line down the back
that you are not cutting in beyond the hairline because that can look pretty hellish
all right so i've got a straight line now i'm just going to tape it away these little neck hairs here
and don't go too wild okay we don't want to go too high with the trimmer we just want to get rid
of the neck here and leave it kind of natural if you're working with long hair it really suits the
style to leave the back of the neck natural and not have any kind of like solid line at the back
so i'm just i just i'm just picking away i take a little bit off the neck use the comb as a barrier
and because i don't want to go in too deep or anything with a clipper i'm just trimming
across trying to take away any just individual long hairs just to make it a little bit neater
and i'll just make like a clean line
down from the ear to the nape of the neck on the back on the other side there
using your comb as a barrier is a great tool you know i just always just flip the hair out
and run along the comb it just keeps it safe you know and you can actually keep the ear behind
the comb as well that's a good way to run the clipper across the hair without touching the ear
so my client has a quite a rugged beard he's a real highlander like me and he likes to keep a
quite a long beard so i'm not going too crazy he's allowed me to just kind of
neaten up around the edges a little bit so just at the edge i'll make sure there's no
hair in his mouth and just edge up with the razor a little bit nothing too crazy
now a good tip is to just um put the comb on the lip and
run the clipper across the comb that gives you a perfect line across the mouth
a little bit in the inning up with a razor
something i'll say is that my method is not the only method but it's something that you
can use you can see the end cut here it is a very clean finish and it does work nicely
you can use other methods there's a thousand and one ways to cut hair but this is
something for you to learn i really hope you've enjoyed this video hit subscribe if you want to
see more from me and i'll see you again in my next video good luck with your scissor cuts