welcome to the one minute barber my name is michael holm and in this video i'm going
to show you a really easy way that you can cut the top of your own hair with clippers
all you're going to need is a comb a set of clippers a gown and a nice big mirror like
the mirror i've got behind me right here you'll also notice the room i'm in is quite well lit
so if you've got a nice bright light bulb or a bright room that's a great place to cut your
own hair this channel is all about barber tips and looking after your own hair so if that's the sort
of content that interests you don't forget to hit subscribe and hit the little bell so that you get
notified whenever i put a new video out so with that out of the way let's get on with the cut
that's better so i'm going to start right here near my crown and i'm going to pick that up
with my comb and pinch it between my fingers as best as i possibly can okay and i can see
that there's a little bit of long hair here on this side so i'll get my clipper
switch it on with a closed blade and just work straight across that
now that's just cut that exactly as a scissor would
but it's far easier to go in with a clipper than a scissor so i'm going to let that down
and we're going to move forward just ever so slightly and pick up another section
so there we are i can see there's a few long hairs there
and i've just done exactly the same thing as i did previously so now i'm just going to move forward
slightly again right down the middle of the head again and i'm going to take a little bit more
off once more again just comb over work your way forward slightly more again and i can see there's
some dramatically longer hair there so i'm going to make that slightly shorter with my clipper
that ties it into the section that i've just cut
and then again i'm going to work my way forward in another section you can see i keep working my way
towards the front what i do at the front is going to be slightly different so keep your eyes on that
so this section at the front here i'm going to over direct it back
that means i'm going to pull it back slightly and that will keep the fringe longer when i cut it
so i've cut all the way down the middle from the front to the back now i need to do a similar
thing on this side of the middle and then on the other side of the middle now we need to cut down
this section here let's keep it organized keep it in order and do our sections one at a time
when i collect this in my fingers i can see that there's some very long hair right there so
i'm going to cut that off first that's giving me an indication of what i should be cutting
and i'm going to work my way forward this time it's easier actually because
we've got this short hair from the middle section and it's easy to match up our sections that way
so this is far easier if you're using a cordless clipper having a cord on your clipper is such
a hindrance if you've got a set of cordless clippers you'll notice how much easier it is
you don't need to spend a lot of money on cordless clippers
now these clippers that i'm using they're andis masters they really are top quality clippers
but you don't need to go for the most expensive clipper that money will buy
so i'm over directing back here because i'm at the fringe again so just lifting up and pulling back
ever so slightly and then i'm going to cut across and that's going to keep it longer at the front
so we've done right down the middle we've done this side now we need to do this side
okay so i'm going to take a section right here and you'll see that there's some very long hair
and some short hair from the middle where i cut already
so what i want to do is take that long hair away i'm using the middle as my guideline
and i'm just going to keep working my way forward now often i get asked should i have the blade
open or closed when i do cuts like this well you should have it closed so when i say closed i mean
that the the bottom blade is pulled back and these two blades are in alignment
not in the pushed forward position so keep it closed your clipper cuts far better like that
i'm almost at the front again so i'll cut this
section and then i need to start thinking about over directing it
back so now i'm close to the front and i'm going to pick it up but remember rather than
there i'm just going to over direct it back ever so slightly now that i've done the bulk of the
work on the top i need to blend it in and this is going to be such an easy method to blend in
let me show you how it's done you have a ridge on the side of your head which i go on about all the
time this is the parietal ridge so what we're going to do is just work straight down the way
with the clipper on the parallel ridge what i don't want you to do is start over here with a
clipper and work your way down i want you to start around about the ridge and just come straight down
onto the bulk of the hair now i have a number two that's a six millimeter guard set up on my andis
master clipper i'm closing the blade i don't need to worry about working with an open blade
if your hair is longer then start with maybe a three or a four depending on how long it is
so a picture speaks a thousand words i'll cut mine and you can follow along at the end
straight away i can hear it that is cutting some hair
it's not cutting a lot it's just taking the bulk that's sticking out off
i'm happy with that now i'm going to do the other side i'm going to comb the fringe all over here
because i don't want the fringe to be part of this blending in at the side
and i'm going to comb this down like that okay
so i've removed the excess bulk from the other side as well now
and i'm totally happy with the sides and the top and the fringe but i need to deal with the bit
at the back of the head by the occipital bone and i'm going to use the same method that i used there
with the number two working my way down on the bone the occipital bone sticks out there's a
little ridge there so we want to come down around about that area and trim it that way
so on my hair you can see because i had a skin fade last week
i've got this pronounced line here and i'm going to take that down
with a one and a half now because i feel like the two just didn't get quite short enough i
wouldn't recommend that you do this unless your hair is very short on the sides as well
still a little bit of a line so i'm going to go down to number one now
and i'm going to be very careful to work a lot lower than i did with the one and a half
so i've just finished my cut and i've styled it with a little bit of hair bond distorter that's a
professional hair clay now you just put that into wet hair and dry it in that's what i've done and
i've ruffled it up on top to have it kind of messy you can wear your hair any way you want but after
you've cut it i would advise try styling it to make sure that it's sitting the way that you want
if you did find that method difficult click this video right here that's a slightly easier method
for cutting the top of your hair with clippers and keeping it long i would love to see how your home
haircuts are turning out so if you want to show me i'm on instagram it's the one minute barber and
you can use the hashtag one minute barber and i'll get to see everything that you're up to yourself
but listen i want to wish you all the best of luck with your hair cutting and see you guys next time