let's start by getting the top out of the way with hair grippers then I'll decide the distance
between my blending line and my bald line if you want to make life harder for yourself go
higher with your bald line so the Bald line first I'm using my Andis T outliner this is
the finest blade that I have on a Clipper and I'm just going to remove all the hair below my bald
line now you'll notice at the front at the temple I've left a little dip the reason for the dip is
because if I keep it a little bit darker around that area it kind of frames the face a little bit
so clean the whole area down and then go over your bald area with your foil
shaver that takes it down to absolutely nothing and we can work up from there
each grade that we move up with on the Clipper will be about the width of a pencil and I'm
starting with my Andis T outliner again so I'm just going to go a pencil width up
into this line and I'm going to follow it so it'll be parallel all the way along this line
clean that off again now the same thing with the zero on the wall Magic Clip
that's the next grade up from the T outliner then the same thing with the
one and a half mm I'll just work into that line about one pencil width again
with that out of the way we can move on to the number one and again about
one pencil width so we're building up into different layers of stubble
now the one and a half guard slightly different now we're gonna work straight up but not round
over to the parting just aim for the ceiling so we're going higher than a pencil width here
just work your way straight up don't take away the bulk up by that parting remember
I do see some people do that but I think it can look a bit severe so let's keep it like that and
I want to style the hair over towards the camera when I'm finished I don't want it to be swept over
the way it's gripped okay I'm just taking a step back now I'm putting the half guard on and I'm
just going to try and scrub out this line here so I don't want to go as high as I did with my one
I'm using the corner of the Clipper and I'm just going to go a little bit higher on that line there
I'll work my way over that and you can see it's starting to disappear but sometimes the half guard
doesn't pick everything up and just the bare Blade with the lever down it's the same length but it
does a better job of picking the hair up so it's metal it's just a easier way to pick the hair up
so this is me just picking away what I'm looking for now is little Shadows little
marks that I can use the corner of the Clipper to tidy up now that we have a good blend going
I'm going to make downward Strokes with the foil shaver that can just soften any line
that might be there although there's barely anything there to be seen around the temple
I'm going to use my exposed blade shave it just to cut a bit more definition in that
face framing shape so just slightly inside the hairline I don't want anything dramatic I just
want a subtle line to frame my client's face but a line that is there nonetheless
with this weight at the top I'm going to use my big flat Clipper comb and what I'm
going to do is try and create a straight line by lifting the hair up and I'm going
to run the Clipper up the teeth I don't want to hold the comb vertically I want to hold it
horizontally and and that way I can ensure that I'm blending up to the same point when I'm working
the client doesn't actually have straight hair which would make this really prominent
you'll be able to see the Blended line but his hair is a bit curlier
this is the finished look I've used this model for another video on my channel so
if you'd like to see how to cut the top of this and learn about cutting hair with
clipper over comb then click this video here until next time good luck with your fades