- What's going on everyone, it's Chris Heria.
I don't know if you can tell, but today I need a haircut.
So I'm going to be bringing you along with me,
because I've been getting messages for years
about who cuts my hair and how I cut my hair.
So I'm going to introduce you to my good friend, Jovan.
He's the hands behind all the hairstyles
that you guys have seen in the past videos.
What's good brother, yo, yo! - Good to see you, man.
- Chris, Kevin; Kevin, Chris. - Yo, Kevin, man.
- It's finally good to meet you, man.
- Pleasure to finally meet you.
- The most amazing, prolific,
one of the top guys in our industry.
- I just wanted introduce the guys,
to the man behind the hairstyles over the past couple years.
- We're finally going to unlock
how to cut Chris Heria's hair.
All right, man.
What do we got going on?
What are we going to do?
- [Chris] Looking for something like this short.
- [Jovan] Okay. So same style,
we just kind of bring it down a little bit.
- We kind of just do the sides,
and we let the top grow for a while.
Let's do it, man. (transition whooshing)
- First step that we have is water or some sort
of a grooming spray,
which is what I use, right here.
Get it inside his hair, saturated,
just so we can get the sectioning down.
- Man, these guys should have seen my hair
back in the metal days, bro.
- You don't even know, it was down all the way over here.
You would've never recognized him.
Oh, Chris Heria, back in the-
- That was, literally, when I was 16.
It was actually a Mohawk, you know?
Like, the sides were shaved.
- [Jovan] And it was kind like an undercut.
- [Chris] That's when I was in the band with Raul.
- [Jovan] Shout out to Raul.
So what I'm gonna do is, right,
we have a nice clean section of where
I want everything to lay down.
And then I just gotta clip his hair up on the top.
- I eventually cut my long hair one day,
because one time I was driving
and I was stuck at a red light or whatever,
and somebody pulled up (brakes squealing)
and like tried to holler, bro. (person whistling)
I put my window down and the guy was like, oh (beep),
and he pulled off.
I went to the barber the next day,
and I was like, yo, we're cutting this.
- So real quick, now that we have this all sectioned out,
second step I take is actually my 1 1/2,
and I create a guideline right here
from the temple point peak, right where the arch is,
right here, all the way straight through
above his occipital.
If you guys don't know what that is,
it's that little bone in the back of your head right here.
- [Chris] Yo, speaking of like cutting all the way
in a circle by the temple,
remember when you just did that?
Just left it like that for Fred?
(all laughing)
- Shout out for you, bro.
We did a good haircut.
So now that we got this section kind of like cut off already
with our 1 1/2, step three, creating the grading,
the transition from our zero all the way to our 1 1/2.
So all this is going to be tapered out.
This will be tapered out,
and again, we're going to go more shadow.
So these parts are going to get lower
as we progress into the haircut.
- Jovan doesn't only cut my hair.
He pretty much cuts everybody's hair in the office.
Paz, Don, my brother, even my son, yo.
- [Jovan] Yeah, we got the whole family on deck.
I'm with the guys 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
So they can't ever have bad haircuts.
- You've had some cameos in some of the vlogs.
- And if you guys again, (bell dinging)
have any questions I try to do my best
to reach out to everybody.
- Do they be in your DMs asking you about
how you cut my hair?
- Yes.
It was annoying with the DMs,
because then everybody was like, oh, how do you do it?
How do you do it?
And it's like, we figured out a haircut that worked for him.
- Look, now you can send him this video.
Crazy how much a good haircut can do for you, man.
In my opinion, life is about continuing on your legacy.
And that starts with your haircut, bro.
- You can have a bad day,
and one haircut can be the changer of that mood.
So as you can see guys, we're just finishing up
the actual fading tapering out of the sides
on the temple and the back.
What I do is I fade up into here
and start bringing this lighter.
So that way haircut lasts him.
He doesn't have to come back so often.
On this part right here,
you're going to grab a trimmer.
What we wanna do is just take out
all these tiny bits of hair,
which begins to create what they call that blurry fade.
And then what I'll do is go all the way down low
with the clipper and just edge out
all these tiny little hairs.
- So Kevin, tell us about your story, man,
like how you got into calisthenics.
I remember you had sent me your transformation,
and I was just like, whoa,
and how much did you lose in total?
- [Kevin] 60 pounds, give or take.
- What were you training at that point?
For about five times a week?
- [Kevin] That was the body building,
but then calisthenics that started when we went
into lockdown and the gyms were closed.
It's like, I want keep up with the physique that I've got.
We get a bar, some rings
and then just started up from there.
- How did you make the transition
from gym to starting to train at home?
- It's easy to sit down on a chair or lay down on a bench
and push weights, right?
But to do a proper correct push up,
or even a pull up, correct form, as you know-
- Takes technique, takes time.
- Or an obsessive personality.
- [Chris] That's amazing.
- Always trying to be the best at it.
- Oh, and it shows.
That type of mentality transfers into other things in life
as well that you can apply into literally anything.
When did you finally feel like I'm motivated now?
I want to get stronger, faster.
- I wanted to be able to run after my son
and not my son run after me.
You know, just be strong enough to keep up
and to be a role model for them as well.
- [Chris] That's my number one motivation too, bro.
That's so dope.
- So again, step one, saturation with water.
Step two, 1 1/2.
Step three, we brought it all down to skin.
Step four, take this transition
and start softening this fade up.
We're going to leave a little bit of weight in there,
but we're just going to try to blend all this in here
with our flat comb.
Then we'll get into our scissors.
So dark hair, white comb.
I know exactly where I'm cutting.
- [Chris] Amazing transformation, brother.
What's the next goal?
You going to do some handstands?
- [Kevin] Yeah.
- [Crew Member] Want to see some handstands?
- Oh yeah, he was just, yeah, he was just talking about it.
He said he wants to start learning
how to lock in the handstand.
I told him, you gotta talk to Chris,
so Chris can show you how to stack-
- [Chris] 100%.
After this cut we'll get right into some handstands.
- [Jovan] Yeah, do some handstands.
- Let's talk a little bit about you, Jovan.
What's up with the workouts?
- So I can't do a front lever.
I can't do a manifesto.
I stopped doing pull ups a long time ago.
- Yo, but at one point we were training
almost every single day. - No, we were.
- Yeah, I was just jumping into his routine pretty much.
- Yo, let's put him on the spot right now.
(Jovan laughing)
We wanna see a 60 day transformation starting today.
- I'm going to try to vlog every single day
to give you guys like a good transformation.
Inspo and definitely inspo.
I have great inspirations
in this place - Yeah, you got this, bro.
that I can actually say, I got this man, I got this.
Now we're going to do one of our last steps
that we have in here is to actually take texturizing shears
or notching shears, and we're going to start taking this
and softening up the blend as much as we can.
Then we're going to attack the top.
Little by little, most of the hair that's still long
and dark that we need to fade out.
As you can see, we go from this heavy kind of weighted area
right here into a more nicer transition.
Get the other side to match real quick.
- So Jovan is an artist when it comes to haircuts
and hairstyles.
When you first got started, how did you get
from being a beginner to very high level stuff?
- In 1994, my father was sick.
I needed something to make money fast.
Since I'm a second generation barber, right,
cutting hair is in my blood.
My grandfather did it in New York City, in the Bronx.
And now I'm a barber currently today,
28 years in the industry,
I just worked my way up from, you know,
the hood shop in Naranja,
the same owner as the flea market.
You have to learn how to be quick,
different textures, different hair.
From there, I just started doing shows on Netflix.
I got a couple of celebrity clientele from there
and then, you know, the rest is history.
Now our sixth step is to just bring down
the top of the hair so we can balance it out
with the rest of the haircut.
Just take some grooming spray, right?
I'm going to spray it on the top of the hair.
It helps me grab his hair for actual, like cutting purposes
before we actually get to the blow drying of the hair.
So what I do is I make an actual section down the middle.
This is going to give you my guideline to work with.
What I wanna do is just bring down it a little bit,
but I wanna keep everything as even as possible.
I take this section right here, work it up to where
I see a guideline that works perfectly for me,
and I just make one cut.
And I just go all the way straight to the back.
Now that I have a guideline that I'm looking for
right here in the middle.
I wanna do, I actually take this one section off
right in here.
You'll see that there's a small little guideline
right down the middle.
I wanna do what we call point cut.
This adds texture.
So I'm still cutting down into that actual line
that we made, texturizing at the same time.
Gives Chris a lot of flexibility
when he wants to move his hair around
where it's not just a straight cut.
Now that we have that sectioned off in the middle,
take another guideline right here.
Take that same section again, be square.
Again, just point cutting everything.
That's what you see on camera is all that flexibility
and that movement.
- Jovan's also a man of many talents.
He's also a musician, singer.
We've made some music together.
You guys wanna hear some of it?
Leave it down in the comment section.
Maybe we'll release something.
- Yeah, we got some music out, man.
I go under the name JReyne,
which is like my first initial and my middle name.
- Okay, where can you find it?
- Everywhere.
Yeah, we have Apple Music, Spotify all platforms.
So at this point I'm just going to blow dry
while he's moving his hair around.
Dry hair tells the truth, wet hair lies.
We want it to be camera ready.
We want it to be when he wakes up,
he hasn't got too much work.
Last step, we're going right back to our thinning shears
or our texturizing shears.
You see how this side's just a little bit longer
than the other side?
We're just going to take that, twist it up,
make that incision right there.
And then we get that flexibility
of being able to move the hair however we want.
We just need a little bit.
And then what I'll do is I'll grab some sort of a fiber.
We don't like to put too much crazy product in his hair.
We don't do like a paste or anything.
We do like dry stuff.
Get it inside the hair, put it inside the roots.
And it gives me like a stiffness.
If I want to just keep it like right there.
And then what he'll do is he'll move it around.
Chris, what do you think?
- Bro, it's looking good, like always.
But how about we get Kevin in on here?
We get your expertise. - Hell, yeah.
Maybe you can show us like - Kevin, get in here.
a little skill, little technique.
- You know, one thing I saw you doing on the side
of Chris's hair when you was texturizing it, right?
- [Jovan] Correct.
- So another technique you could actually work
a little bit of channel cut.
So what channel cutting is if we comb the hair
in the direction where you want it to lay,
with your scissor on the surface of the top of the hair,
you're slowly going to start to open and close the scissors,
and that's going to help to encourage to push shorter hair
towards longer hair.
And it's going to encourage the hair to
actually fall away from you.
- [Chris] You got killer technique, brother.
- You learn something new everyday, eh?
- [Chris] Killer technique.
Woo. - Check that out.
Tell me what you think. - All right, man.
Yes, sir.
Now you guys know how I cut my hair.
You guys met the boy, Jovan.
- You already know.
- The legend, Kevin.
We're going to ahead and get some food,
get a workout in, and I will see you next Thursday.
Mad love.
Peace out.
(upbeat music)
Once you feel yourself going this way again,
you're gonna just pulse it to tilt you back further.
♪ Yeah, you got it ♪
- [Chris] Smash that like button, guys.