Melea: Are you excited, buddy?
Are you excited cause we love getting our hair cut, it's so much fun!
April: At least half of it will be awesome ... I'm just kidding.
Melea: Hey everyone!
I am Melea and on today's video I thought it would be a really good idea to show you
guys how to cut a little boy's hair ... Huh, little boy?
Yeah ... at home, so you can save some money, because it adds up super fast.
Since I'm terrified to even put scissors to his hair or even ...
April: You've never done it?
Melea: No, never done it.
I thought I'd grab April.
She runs the channel: Hair 101 With April.
She's the expert.
You have to subscribe to her channel and she's going to show us how to easily cut your little
boy's hair so you can save money at home.
Let's get started.
Okay guys, April is actually also going to dye my hair pink.
Yeah, you heard me, pink.
So, make sure you head over to her channel and watch that, cause I'm not going to share
it here.
If you guys want to see what it looks like, or maybe even do some of it yourself, you're
going to have to head over to her channel.
April: Yeah.
We're going to have fun.
Melea: It's going to be fun!
I'll link you guys to it in the description on YouTube if you don't know how to get to
her channel, too.
April: I am not the type of person to be anti mom-cuts-your-own-kids-hair.
I actually encourage it.
I think it's great.
If you're willing to learn that skill, I say go for it.
Invest in the products to make it easier for you.
Melea: Well, I feel like sometimes, too, I forget to make an appointment and then there's
no appointments and then ... April: Picture day.
Melea: Yeah, picture day and "Oh my gosh, I've got to get a haircut."
Or it's like Sunday or something and I'm like, "Oh my gosh," I mean, look how long his hair
is.
It's ... I left it growing.
When I knew we were going to do the video ... I was like don't cut the hair, don't cut
the hair and I was like "It's so long!"
Why don't you show us like what a mom would go and buy or what we could buy that would
be the tools that we need?
April: You do want to get a pair of hair cutting shears.
You don't want to just use paper cutting shears or whatever, cause there's a huge difference.
It will actually hurt your hand if you try to use regular scissors ... you'll cramp up.
Melea: I actually remember, in 4th grade, I actually took a scissors to my bangs.
I couldn't get them straight with a regular scissors and they ... shorter, shorter, they
were literally sticking out like that.
April: No, don't do that.
Melea: Don't do that!
April: So, get a pair of hair cutting shears.
You can go to Sally's and just get a pair.
Obviously, you need to pick the pair that's in your budget, but go as nice as you can.
The nicer you go, the easier it's going to be to cut and stuff.
This is a pretty basic, inexpensive shear.
Melea: We're thinking, we're investing, right, so we're hoping we never have to cut or go
pay for haircuts again.
April: Right.
Melea: Especially, if you're working ... one little boy ...
April: If you have five little boys, then you're out.
Melea: It's like $100 every few weeks.
April: Which is fine, if you can afford that, it's nice to just go and get it done, but
if you need to learn how to do it yourself, then it's definitely worth the investment.
Also, this is a life-saver.
Getting a pair of thinning shears.
Especially when you're learning, because you're going to have harsh lines in your haircuts
when you first learn.
I guarantee it.
Fine tooth are the ones that you want.
Melea: Okay, and I'll link you guys in the YouTube description below, some of the products
that you recommend.
We'll have them in the YouTube description so you guys can just go to where she tells
you to go and it will save some time.
April: So, also, if you're doing little boy's hair, obviously are going to need a pair of
trimmers.
Melea: How do you feel about the $25 clippers or the $30 clippers?
April: Like I said, they're going to be a little bit slower at cutting and maybe catch
a little bit more, but it'll get the job done.
You're going to want to get some, if you're just starting out, that have attachments ... like
the 1, 2, 3, 4 ... the attachments.
This will make your hair cut look a little bit more crisp around the edges.
It's a T-edger.
You can get this, but if you don't, you can still do this with the clippers.
That's an optional one.
Melea: Okay, to say I'm a little intimidated would be an understatement at this point.
April: Okay, so we have a 1/4 of an inch attachment on here, it's like "2."
So, you always stand in front of where you work.
That's really important.
You just kind of start at the bottom and you go up and then when you get to where the head
rolls you kind of just flip it up like this.
That blends it.
See how I kind of just roll it up?
You go all the way up to where it starts, if you put your comb on it, it starts to separate.
See the middle of the roll of the head?
That's it.
Now it's your turn.
Melea: Okay, my face probably says it all right about now.
Okay, flip.
Am I doing it?
April: Yeah.
If you need them to look down, you can say look at your tummy.
Melea: Can you look at your tummy?
April: There you go.
Melea: Whoa, look down, at your tummy, all the way, look at your tummy!
You gotta look down buddy, if you want a sucker later, you have to do that.
April: Yep, and bribing is always a good ... Melea: What?
I said a sucker?
[gasp] April: Yay!
Melea: Yay!
So, am I doing the flipping okay? April: Yeah.
Just go up.
Perfect, see how you can go crisscross and then you can go the forward way, too.
Yeah.
Okay, you see how this grows up?
Melea: Mm-hmm (affirmative) April: So, you need to kind of go downward
on that part.
Melea: If your kid has the swirly ... April: Yeah, it doesn't cut it if it doesn't
against the grain, so you have to kind of ...
Sometimes back here you're going all kinds of ways.
Melea: Right.
April: I usually just comb with the T-edgers.
The first thing I do is the little sideburns.
The first one is pretty easy cause ... Melea: How do you know where to put the sideburns?
That's the question.
April: I usually do it as soon as the hair is thick, sometimes it gets straggly and thin,
but I don't like taking it all the way off, unless they have glasses that go right there.
I like to leave it just a little bit to frame the ear.
Then you just make an arch around the ear.
Melea: This is the part I am most nervous about.
April: Oh.
So, then here you can go like this, but you just be really gentle, cause you don't want
to pinch their skin with the blades.
Then you can go like this and clean up all those little long pieces.
Okay, your turn.
And then I usually just peek at him from the front to make sure they're about the same.
If they're not, then you can adjust.
Melea: Look at me!
April: Are you ready?
[crosstalk 00:05:56] Melea: Close your eyes, ahh!
April: Now we're going to cut with the scissors on here, up on the top.
Melea: Okay.
April: This is broken down into a couple of sections, too.
What we're working on is just this middle part right here, on the roll of the head,
all the way around.
I'm going to comb this hair into my fingers and you can see down here that short piece,
that's going to be our guide.
You're going to take the scissors and just cut ... like that ... and it's okay that it's
longer on top, cause we're doing a mohawk.
Then you move your hands over a little bit and there's your guide ... and you cut.
So, your ring finger goes in the one with the ting, cause your pinky ...
Melea: Okay.
April: Like this ... Melea: Got it.
April: And then stick your ring finger in there.
Melea: This way.
April: Like this way.
Melea: Oh ... April: Back here.
Melea: This way.
April: Yes.
Now put your pinky on the ting.
Melea: Like that.
April: And now your thumb in.
Melea: Oh my goodness.
April: Yeah.
Melea: Okay, you know how to do this now!
Maybe we should make up a song.
So, like, comb, grab ... April: Thumb, cut!
Melea: Is that okay? April: Yeah.
Child: Thumb cut!
April: Good job!
Melea: We're going to do comb ... April: Put it in your thumb ... cut ... good
job palming ... holy cow!
Can you believe you're doing that?
Melea: So nervous right now.
Like, I don't want one side of his hair to look ugly, I mean, I know you'd fix it, but
still.
April: So, this line, you guys see it, right in here?
Melea: Mm-hmm (affirmative) April: You could take these thinning shears,
they're blending shears, actually, too.
And you just blend it in.
We just need to trim a little bit of the top and so you do, you just put it in a mohawk.
Okay, we're going to pull it all up and we're going to decide how much we want to cut off.
Probably not much.
Melea: Well, now that I know how to do this, I can make it shorter if I wanted to.
April: Yes, you can.
Now that you have that short, middle part ...
Melea: Mm-hmm (affirmative) April: You have these two long tunnels that
go between.
So now we're just going to connect those two by ... see this short piece?
That short piece?
We're just going to go like that ... all the way back.
So, if you break it into those sections, you won't get lost.
You'll be able to keep track of your haircut and then this is a cool little trick, too.
If you feel like you've missed some spots cause you're fingers were too far apart, you
can go and cross check and that's where you go ... because we've been taking sections
this way.
Melea: Right.
April: You cross check by taking a section the opposite direction and if there's any
tall pieces, you can cut those off.
Oh my gosh.
You're totally doing it.
Melea: I'm totally shaking, you guys.
Not only am I learning how to do this, but I'm learning how to do it in front of all
of you guys, so I really don't want to screw it up.
April: Another tip, don't cut past the second knuckle.
Melea: Oh, okay.
April: If you cut past the second knuckle you can cut your flesh and I would feel really
bad cause I forgot to tell you that.
On the front I always pull it forward towards me and flip it up.
And then you're done!
Can you believe you're done!
Melea: You're done!
April: It looks great!
You did a good job!
Melea: What do you think?
April: Mom, what do you think?
You helped do this.
Melea: I cannot believe I did this, seriously.
April: You did a good job!
It wasn't that bad.
Melea: When we originally going to do this video, I thought, okay, she's just going to
show me how to use the clippers and we're going to do a level 4 here and a level 2 here
and it's going to be super easy.
That's what I was expecting and I'm so glad you showed me how to do this, cause this is
way easier than I thought.
April: You feel like it looks a little bit better, too, than just buzzing it?
Melea: Yes, and way easier than I thought it was going to be.
April: Yeah.
There you go!
Melea: What do you think?
April: Handsome little guy.
Melea: You are the handsomest little boy in the world.
I love it.
Do you like mommy cutting your hair?
Should I do it again?
Yeah?
Should I do it again?
April: Yeah.
Melea: Okay, everyone, that is your tutorial. April you seriously rocked it.
April: Thanks.
Hopefully it made sense.
Melea: Yeah, it's so good.
Okay, make sure you subscribe to April and myself here on YouTube so you guys can get
lots more money save tips from me ... and more hair tips.
You do everything from waxing to hair to little girls hair, curling, all that kind of stuff.
I know you guys will like the videos I've done on that, so you're going to love her
stuff.
We are dying my hair pink ... like no, for reals, pink.
So, make sure you click over right now, I'm going to link you guys to it, right now, you
can click on it and head over to her channel so you guys can see me transform into pink
hair.
April: It's going to be cute.
Melea: It's going to be fun.
Okay, thanks guys!
See yeah.
April: Bye!