welcome to the one minute barber in this video i'm going to show you how to cut the sides of
your own hair with a number one and i know exactly what major problem you're going to come up against
and i'm going to show you how to solve it very easily in this video here's what you're gonna need
you're gonna need your clipper you're gonna need a comb a number one a number two and a
one and a half if you have one but not necessary get yourself two mirrors one for behind you and
one in front of you i'm using this hand mirror and the tiny little viewfinder on the camera
for your benefit but for you i would suggest you use the two biggest mirrors that you can find i've
also got these very bright lights up here look you can see in the mirror this big light here
and i've got a big light up there and that is going to help me see what i'm doing while i cut
i reckon this hoodie's going to collect a lot of hair so i'm going to get changed into a t-shirt
and a gown and i'm gonna do that right now okay so i've got my gown on and i'm using a neocape by the
way which has this neoprene neck this is really good for keeping hair out i'll drop a link in
the description below for where you can get them to cut the sides i'm going to show you a method
that i've been using my entire career something i learned very early and it's a very simple method
what i think is going to be a problem for you at home though is when you get to this area
right around here and you try to blend it in when you're using a number one or below you're
getting so close to the skin that the colour of your skin shows through so even if you have that
nice and straight and it looks like there's no ledges and it's all blended in the shade
variation because of the skin and the darker hair up here will make it look like it's not blended in
so i'm going to show you how to overcome that in this video let's do the number one to kick
off with and i'm going to show you exactly how i want you to do it i want you to go straight up
the sides of the head there if i place my comb here you can see the angle that i want you to take
i want you to confidently go straight up past this area here straight up and off the side of the head
and that's going to work a treat now you need to trust me on this straight up thing if you
had to have a fight with Anthony Joshua would you uppercut them sideways or would you up and
cut them straight up the middle like any normal person would exactly so we're going straight up
the side of the head with the clipper let me show you when you hit this area you need
to be coming off the head i don't want you to start rounding over the head just straight up
so let me show you don't panic just keep going straight up like you're going for the ceiling okay
you do need a steady hand for this so lay off the five cups of coffee before you start okay
so i've gone straight up there it looks a little bit blended in but still quite dark in this area
here very dark and so i'm going to do the other side and we'll deal with the back separately
straight up straight up and off that ridge the parietal ridge as it's known
what i really don't want is to be eating into this area here so if i go in
too flat with a clipper and keep it close to the ridge here then it's going to really take this
far too short what i really want is i want it to start getting longer around this area here
so the clipper glides away from the head at that point
at the back of the head we have a similar ridge it's known as the occipital bone
wherever it is on your head it could be higher lower right in the middle that's the point where
you want to be leaving the head with the number one and just going straight up let me show you
okay so it's quite hard to see the camera viewfinder in the little mirror so
i'm gonna put my glasses on and we'll have another go
so as you can see here i've gone straight up the sides and at the back i've gone up to the
occipital bone but i've not gone higher than that because if i go higher than that i'm going to have
real trouble trying to blend out that dark area so stick to those rules okay so how do we blend
out this dark area that we see at the back and it decides well what's happened is your skin here is
visible through the number one up here this hair it doesn't just grow here it's coming from all
the way up here down to here okay so you've got this a lot of hair you've got like a weight of
hair here okay so let's push the long stuff out of the way and what we want to do is we want to make
this slightly shorter but nowhere near as short as we went with the number one okay so i'm gonna
use a number two so number two on and i'm gonna go straight up the side with the number two now
literally anything in the way here is gonna get cut anything in the way of the number
two is gonna get cut so if you leave your fringe hanging over that's gonna get cut too
straight up this side now
almost forgot that
so you can see at the back it's far from complete i've taken a huge amount of that darkness away
by going in with a number two but i've left it two very distinct shades there's where the one was and
then there's where the two was but we need to join them together this couldn't be easier let's get
back to that number one guard and i'll show you exactly what to do and here is the secret trick
yeah so we've basically got a one and a half on here now now what we want to do is we want to go
up higher than we did with the one but not as high as we went with the two do you understand that
so somewhere in between and then we want to be leaving the head don't just stop dead okay
you want to go up follow your normal trajectory like you did with the one and start to peel off
when you hear it cutting okay as soon as you hear that cutting you can start to peel off the side
and that's going to knock out that number two line so let me show you how to do that
right we've done the one the two and the one and a half what we need to do now is
deal with this neck here that's around here and i'm gonna recommend that you
do this with a half that's push the lever down okay now the reason i'm saying this is because
if you make it too clean you could make some very wonky lines at the back doing it yourself
wonky yeah there's an area at the nape of the neck where you can visibly see that the hair
is starting to grow in some amount of density that's your head here okay the sparse stuff
that's your neck here so don't go beyond the hairline remember we're using a half for safety
we don't need to make it too clean this is only to get us to the next barbershop visit
a good idea and it will really help you when you're working is to use something like this which
is a fade brush and just brush all the debris off every now and again while you're cutting
and it just gives you a better view of what you're doing now please keep
this in mind don't lose the plot over little imperfections this is not a professional haircut
this is just what i would call a bush haircut albeit a little bit more intricate than what
i would normally show you how to do anyway i'm going to ice the cake with some hair bond super
which is probably the best product ever made well certainly that i've ever used
it never lets me down that stuff so a one on the side then blended in with a number
two then blend it in with a one and a half tell me what you think in the comments below
i hope you enjoyed the video stay tuned i'll be back with more you