in this video I'm gonna give him a fade and this is a flattop haircut so I'm
gonna shape up the top off after I fade it
when creating your initial guideline for this type of haircut you want to make
sure that you leave yourself enough blending space so that way you know it
doesn't look like a bowl cut you don't want to start with the hair bald too
high because then you won't have enough transition area so you see me when I
make this guideline I leave enough area for myself to blend and once again in
this video I'll be using the jrl clipper and like I said I'll be leaving
a review on this clipper pretty soon but here the the notch is fully open and I'm
making my guideline about an inch high
so here I close the lever all the way and begin to attack that bottom
guideline
and before you guys say anything yes I see the hair in the comb you're gonna
see me remove it in just a second I know it's gonna be somewhere somebody
to come in say something about that but I promise I'm about to remove it but
here we just open the lever up more and continue to blend out that bottom
guideline and here you see me adjust the lever one more time as you can see
with this clipper the lever is that the mechanism is very sticky so a lot of
times you have to keep readjusting it to get it to stay where you wanted to okay
now here's the quote unquote fading that we're going to be doing is mainly
clipper over comb and right here essentially what I'm doing is creating
another guideline this would be like a one open and we're doing clipper over
comb is very important too be aware of how much hair you're feeding
into the comb if you notice I never feed a lot of hair into the comb at one time
because I don't want to take out too much hair because once you cut off the
hair you can't put it back so if you make a mistake and cut off too much
you're pretty much doomed at that point it's nothing you can do to reverse it
you just have to end up taking the fade a lot higher than you want
so if you pay attention to what I'm doing
I'm just gradually feeding hair into the comb and I'm going lower and lower it so
that way I just eventually get to blend out so now what I want to do I want to
take out more hair so you see me close the lever and then I repeat the same
clipper over comb process it just now started out lower
like I said I wouldn't recommend this method for a beginner but if you're
i an intermediate to moderate level Barber then I would recommend
trying this and right here I'm just trying to show you that I'm just holding
the clipper flush I'm not really trying to dig into the skin I'm really just
trying to flick out dark spots but if you want to challenge yourself if you if
you feel like you've gotten using guards down to up to a science then go ahead
and try this without guards and I found that using the corner of the blade when
doing clipper over comb is it's very helpful notice I'm not trying to create
a new guideline I'm just specifically trying to target certain dark spots and with
the look that luckily the good thing with this type of haircut I won't need
to go too high with a clipper over comb because after I get so high I can just
use the Clipper to shape the hair how I want it to go so really you want you
only have to blend the bottom half of the haircut
and see the rest of it just strictly shaping so one tip that I want to show
you that I want to share with you guys and now looking back on this haircut I
saw where I was doing it see how when I get to the top I kind of leaned the
Clipper in you don't want to do that you want to go straight up with it I didn't
realize it but I was actually going in at an angle but when you're doing this
you want to go straight up so you can get more of that box look and they will
keep me from making the high top look too skinny so even while watching this I
had to teach myself I had a learning moment for my own self we're just gonna
we're just continuing to shape the hair around the entire head
like I said you don't want to cut off too much hair so be careful on how much
hair you feed into the Clipper you see me taking my time because I don't want
to cut out too much now hopefully this is a good angle for you guys I just
wanted to show you guys how I shape up the top
you're really just letting the clipper glide across the head
and the key to getting a really smooth flattop is to pick it out again I can't
tell you how many times I've seen this in a barber shop where barbers would
literally make one pass with the Clippers to shape up the hair and then
they'll just leave it like that but once I go home and pick their hair out it'll
be uneven because they only made one pass with the clipper so always made two
passes and when you're shaping up the top of the head so right here we're just
gonna proceed on to the lineup
you want to find the natural balance between the sharp and natural and you'll
see me come on top of the line because I don't want to dig too much into his
headline so I'm really trying to taper it down at the same time so that's why I
come on top of the line so I can get those small hairs that may be sticking
out so if you need to just gently any of you got value out of this video
subscribe if you like what you saw give me feedback in the comments thanks for
watching and I'll see you guys on the next video