welcome back to the one minute barber now i am so pleased to hear that so many of you are getting on
very well at cutting your own hair at home but today i want to give a
special mention to one youtuber a man named arlo guthrie also known as the gadget man
he's cut his own hair using my techniques and posted it on youtube so let's have a
look at his channel first of all so here's the brave youtuber in question arlo guthrie
arlo arlo's picking up a lot of views on his channel you can see some of his videos here 25 000
views on christmas lights 16 000 views on smart watches and he's quite a likable guy he's got
deadpan sense of humor and i can imagine that he gets a lot of viewing time on his videos so let's
have a look at arlo doing a one minute barber home haircut so as we watch along there's going
to be a few pitfalls i'm going to go over how you could possibly avoid those mistakes but there's
no cutting for me on this occasion so i'm gonna sit and i'm gonna enjoy the video with a coffee
i'm sitting here absolutely sh myself about filming this review
because it involves something i've never tried before and there's the potential for things to go
badly wrong well it can if you don't stick to the plan for men super clipper xtp model 747
5ru which i bought the other day because there's still no sign of my barber opening up again
that's a totally acceptable clipper to use not too expensive and like he said the barber may not
be open for a while so you decide about twice a year i'd be inclined to take myself down to a farm
where they could just wrestle me to the ground and get the shears out but i've always wondered
whether it's a job i could do myself and if ever there's a good time to find out it's now
i mean it's not like i'm going to be seen out in public for a couple of months yet so i googled
cut your own hair and i came across a globe called michael holm demonstrating how it's done
i should probably mention that michael isn't just some have a go hero off the internet
he was the finalist in scotland's best barber 2019 and that's good one of the things
one of six i've watched this video about 37 times now i've made some notes and i've put together the
equipment i'm going to need to get the job done a couple of mirrors okay so a couple of mirrors
that's good hey uh comb you guys scissors not the best scissors but it's a whole haircut
and this one fatty reverse head umbrella to catch the hair this thing's going to be
a problem oh and i got it i can tell that already one of these in case it all goes
horribly wrong the coward's way out he's got a backup plan i love this guy well here we go
let's go i'm only going to get one take at this good news is that if i screw it up the only answer
will be to cut the whole lot off and at least i'll get to know what it feels like to be bruce willis
michael says to start by doing the sides with a number two i'm not entirely sure i'm feeling
quite that brave one two so i'm going to start with a three yeah even a five is gonna make a
massive impact here his hair is very long so yeah a three is going to take heaps off
he's doing the right thing he's going straight up the sides
oh my god so he's a little bit shocked
yes oh my god yeah when you go down with a clipper on long hair it can be quite dramatic initially
now we can't see where his mirrors are set up here
my daughter's just coming
not at a good point and i wouldn't say this is my finest hour but i think once the top comes
off it'll start looking well we're getting there with us here cat arlo you're you're coming on
that's it now he's going over those areas uh quite a fair bit around the ears in the back
so let's get to michael then says he is number four on the top
and comb the hair forward oh
and i can always go down to a number three
if it if it doesn't work there we go you can always be cautious start with a longer number
and if that doesn't take much off which it's not yeah then go down i didn't think it would
so the three is going to definitely have an impact here
um still got quite a long way to go but it's not looking quite so daft
i wouldn't try and make it any shorter than that i like the length of that um
but maybe just tidy up the fringe yeah and then we just look at some blending in but um ah there was
quite a lot of hair to cut off there so i think i'm gonna go back to the sides again now this is
where arlo makes a little error he starts going up the grain uh beyond the parietal ridge that
ridge that sticks out which makes his hair cut a little bit tighter and you'll see at the end
it's not the end of the world but it just looks a little bit tighter than it needs to be
back to oh no i'm not gonna go number one taper the sides from top to bottom with a number two
one two so here we go ah yeah yeah so he should ideally work down the way but unfortunately he
works up the way and that's what takes it really tight on those areas just above the parietal ridge
i'm gonna have to go and confirm with the family
uh well the feedback from the family is not as bad as it could have been
a little bit of wispy at the back that still has to go and um it's a bit lopsided because you can
see on the right hand side there just how tight it's become because it's gone up the way slightly
rather than just sticking it just coming down the way this is what you would also
do on the crown is just come down like this on the crown going down with the grain to blend in
the moment you start going up you're making it tighter
well so far so good he doesn't need to find somewhere else to live but he's now working on
neatening up around the sides
just for just to lightly taper the edge is the number one let's see how arlo gets on with this
any mistakes can be glaring when you're
oh lovely
oh my god oh dear
not the end of the world this can be fixed it can be fixed it's very easy when you're just
uh doing the oh my god that's why i forgot to put the guard on so he needs to put one on and try
and fade this out now try and blend out this mistake just go slightly higher with the one
not too bad that's not too bad at that's about as good all i'm going to get it so there we go
my first time cutting my own hair and although it's a tad shorter than i would have liked
overall it's turned out a little bit better than i just did but i think it might be a bit
like losing your virginity it's more fun the second time and you should get better at it
my biggest mistakes well the really big one was forgetting to put the number two hair
guard back on after doing the edges which meant i took a huge chunk out of the side
i had to cut the rest but he did recover i wanted to hide the mistake this thing really is quite
benign with a number eight guard on it but without a guard it's vicious and you can make a hell of a
mess very very quickly my second mistake was not having a hand mirror so i could watch the
back as i cut it i had to do that largely by feel so not having a good mirror setup is probably the
biggest problem you're going to have you need two great big mirrors and you need to be able to see
from one mirror to the other so that you can see the back and the sides of your head
on occasion when i've been making these videos i need to get the right camera angle and the
camera is right where i want my mirror to be so i need to use just the viewfinder of the camera and
it becomes very difficult to see what i'm doing so it's hard for me without a mirror if you're
doing your own hair then you really need to get a good mirror set up
that would be my advice but listen i really enjoyed arlo's video he's quite funny he's got
deadpan sense of humor and enjoyed his channel so go and have a look at the gadget man arlo guthrie
the link's in the description below i hope you've enjoyed this video and i'll see you next time