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hey guys adam here and no i am not in my cave so it's no secret that i've become a little bit beard
obsessed with fake beards and there's another one in this video um specifically i got into
the beards because i'm working on a mccready costume from the thing and after i had bought
several beards from fake beard wig store on etsy i felt confident enough to try and work with them
on my mccready beard and here is the result it just arrived the other day it is yak hair
uh i built the wire frame for it the color is fantastic but it it needs some final zhu
zhing some final finessing like all beards do so i have come to local beard mecca here old mission
barbershop uh literally around the corner from the cave and omar here come here omar hello sir how's
it going omar is going to help me whip my mccready beard into shape yes yes okay absolutely looking
forward to it is this the first fake beard you've trimmed i believe so i've done some fake hair but
i i don't think i've done fake facial hair i love that you're not sure though that is that's
awesome all right let's get into it pictures of kurt russell there yep that's exactly what we're
looking for we don't have the rights to show you the kurt russell pictures but we can look at them
right there see yeah okay and i mean right now the first thing i noticed is i got a little bit of
a wave here from the packaging yeah and i don't think it's right so there's like well let's see
do you know if this is combable i don't i just want to make sure not to yank off any strands or
anything like that but i think you should try gingerly and let's see yeah let's see
i'm curious to hear how this uh i know it doesn't quite work when i talk but that's not what
anyway i'm curious to hear how you feel like how this measures up to a real beard like
is it about as tough as real beard hair it's yak hair by the way yeah i saw that in the video so uh
i'm curious too just to see how uh how holds up it doesn't you know some people have that
you know straight slash wavy beard here similar to this oh yeah it's uh it's all latch hooked
onto that netting okay so i can okay there we go so as long as i'm holding it i love this
yeah it's actually combable i don't want to you know i'm not going too hard on it but yeah
oh yeah that looks so i also like i really want to get the shape right yes i also don't think
that it's exactly as yeah i mean i think we can do that and then are you okay with taking the
mustache up a bit just to expose a little bit of that absolutely yeah yeah i asked them to make the
mustache a little long okay perfect yeah and they put some little blonde hairs here and some little
blonde ones on the top of them i see that yeah i see that so yeah and so yeah just kind of trim
that just to ex expose all that let's see okay so they have this hanging to what they did i i'm uh
so the the bent wire is my solution yeah normally this is meant to be applied with makeup so yeah i
use the mustache to hide the wire a little god i got it okay so that's good to know so
as i'm going through i'm just going to go through carefully i like doing scissors with the
with the beard it's a little more forgiving that way okay so the ears going to be covered up with
with hair in general so oh yeah yeah he'll be i've got the hat over there if you want that
and i love this it's like the he-man mullet but with wavy hair yeah right no i mean it's a
perfect anti-hero custom see yeah this is for your inspiration perfect perfect all right right on
the nice thing is this beard's pretty chiseled it's not you know this wiry puffy mess she did a
really the i think it's a sheet the proprietor of fake beard wig um yeah they were very uh
conscientious and they were like is this thick enough and i'm like i think it's thick enough
they're like we'll add some more hair yeah we can always thin it out yeah no i think it's good
that's a trip i've never seen a beard though made with uh with animal hair
yeah the same uh it's the same kind of hair that they that was used for chewbacca
get out okay chewbacca's yak here the original chewbacca i don't know about the new chewbaccas
what i love about the kurt russell costume in the thing is what a
like it's 1981 and kurt russell's a giant movie star at that point
and he's dressed in that great weird awesome way the dumb hat
hidden behind the beard there's something so anti-hero about it right yeah
absolutely or like a rejection of hollywood in a great way and really funny yeah absolutely
okay so you're doing a wow you're trimming back the mustache now bring it in just a little bit
just around yeah just to expose the lips i'm just trying to get oh no look at that that's
totally yeah yeah yeah i got the good shape going and everything i'm just trying to
get as close yeah just as close to that as possible and there's a there's a way in
which his beard feels rough even though it's got this sort of rounded shape you know what i mean
yeah yeah let's make sure we keep it a little bit less yeah yeah definitely definitely and that can
be done even just you know teasing it out a bit too yeah yeah i just have it coming yeah just to
get the gentle shape yeah yeah and then yeah yeah because you can kind of see you know his hair is
messy and everything like that so you just give it just a slight disheveling you know what a great
haircut
yeah i'm trying to figure out that mustache without exposing the wire but
yeah because you can see it's a thinner mustache within the yeah i think but i don't know if i want
to you know expose too much because i think though i think you could bring it like yeah take some of
the like yeah i just wanted to yeah just so the ends come down yeah because the blend is a little
bit off oh yeah that's not so bad we could totally yeah i think you can totally yeah cut that down
right there just yeah just a little bit we'll just i'll just inch away at that one okay yeah
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and one of the things that i love about this exercise is that like you look at beards and
hair all day long and so they have a totally different landscape to you than they do to me
uh and so when you look at one you see all these aspects of it that most people don't understand
yeah absolute topography but there's also a weight and an attitude yeah and beards are very different
than cutting hair on the top of your head because a lot of beards grow uneven but look even or the
way that you trim them is kind of asymmetrical just to get a symmetrical look just based on the
i totally forgot that yeah absolutely my wife asked me to grow my beard all the way across
and i got rid of the two little spaces here and i didn't like it and so i grew
it i took it back again but it took me like a week to find my beard again oh man
right i was like oh wow it's not as simple as i thought it was and so i had to go in and do all i
make all these decisions i've been making without thinking yeah and that's why i think people
struggled a lot during the pandemic during you know trimming their own beards i had clients that
either left them or shaved them off completely just because they couldn't figure it out
oh wow omar yeah man i love the the texture here do you think we could
roughen this up a little bit yeah yeah definitely definitely that's the only
part that yeah i just wanted to see if the general shape was pretty good for
you yeah you're getting there this is a great this is terrific that's wonderful
so with the mustache i want to know how comfortable like you are with how short
i'm going i don't want to you know i'm just going just a little bit at a time but uh i think that's
kind of the final thing to do is the just to get the muscles down the mustache look as long as
yeah this is it's about it's about a quick visual impact i don't think we're in any danger of seeing
the wires yeah i don't think so either could absolutely go a little further but
you know i'll keep checking yeah actually on that part let's uh let's do this
man this cuts just like human hair oh good yeah
so would you recommend that like cosplayers who want a good trim for their costume come to a
barber shop for the trim i would think so actually you know just because i mean it's kind of tough
to shape it yourself unless you feel skilled enough with your scissors and whatnot you know
i mean i trim my own beard but when i came to this i was like i have no idea what i'm wearing
yeah it's kind of tough because your beard's being on your face but when you're trying to
do something for a costume and it's tough to see it because you know it's easier if
it's actually on your face because then you get to kind of see the entire shape because
when this comes off it looks it looks a little bit different yeah no i know it's fascinating
like i yeah yeah you know it's just but once you see it on the face oh okay so that's you know
cosplayers sitting in barber chairs getting there
full anime here it's going oh man that'd be great you know just have a little barbershop station at
a comic con or you know some type of convention yeah
homer i think we got it man i think so i think so thank you so
much absolutely genuine mccready it looks great awesome looks great um dude i can't
thank you enough that was fantastic of course of course any time thanks for stopping by uh
well i won't stop by the costume because i feel like they would clear the street but
uh i'll send you pictures yeah please do all right please do cheers cheers