- So that means you really messed up.
- This has gone completely off the train rail.
(clippers buzz)
(gasps)
It seems the more I cut, the worse it gets.
(upbeat music)
It's been about a month and a half
since my last hair cut and as you can see,
I'm looking how the economy's feeling,
rough around the edges.
- The curls are fresh and alive.
Usually I like to keep them a little more tamed than this.
- My name is Nick Romero.
I'm a master barber.
I've been cutting hair for almost 19 years now.
I own a barber shop in San Diego, California.
- I used to cut my own hair,
and I would just go, pfft, pfft, pfft,
and not really care,
just as long as I had a buzz cut.
And then a month and a half ago,
Nick the Barber came into my life
and had me looking fresh, bro.
Two days after and we established
I was gonna grow the top of my hair out,
the country got shut down.
I don't know how I'm feeling about the beard.
I'm gonna line it up.
I'm gonna edge it up along with my taper up here.
I'm gonna taper it down this way,
but I might get rid of it.
I don't know.
We'll see.
- With everything that we have going on right now,
I wanna help you guys create the best haircut
you can do at home.
Let's go, quarantine cuts.
(upbeat music)
- I got my clipper.
I don't got the, like super close butter ones,
so my plan is to just use my regular razor
to do the zero and then fade up.
- I put on this crunchy, crusty little tie-dye shirt
that I got from school,
and we are going to pray.
Let's have a moment actually before we even start this.
Let's...
- It looks like you side you have maybe like a number four.
So, we're gonna go with a five first.
The clips that you're gonna get
is gonna come with a set of eight to one.
- Okay.
- So, you're gonna grab the five.
Your head goes like this, right?
- Yeah.
- And the top of your head is like an egg shape.
So your head goes like this.
This is 90 degrees.
No, no, not yours, everybody's.
- I'm just playing.
It's all good.
- Everything's round.
We're humans, right?
- I remember him saying something about a five,
so I grabbed this little five.
I'm gonna put it on the thing.
(clippers buzz)
Oh my god.
Oh, I'm so scared.
- Here we go.
I'm gonna do a five and a half.
Oh, it cuts.
Five and a half cuts.
(clippers buzz)
(gasps)
- My hair's coming off, oh my gosh.
Is this how Britney felt?
This is such a mess.
I'ma have to vacuum after this (beep).
Is this how you do it?
- Let me see the side.
All right, so you got maybe like a three, three and a half.
- Okay.
- So what I would do if I were you,
from this part of the ear right here,
I don't know what this is called.
- The earhole. - I'll look it up online.
- No, not the earhole, goddammit.
From here up, you're gonna do a skin fade.
Not fade, you're gonna do a skin.
Take the zero, and you're gonna do a zero right here.
From there, you're gonna go straight across to your ear.
Nope, no, you're going up,
you're going up.
You're going up.
Go straight down towards your ear.
(speaks Spanish)
This way, look.
(laughs)
This way.
This way to your ear.
- The zero I had a tough time understanding,
but it looks like it's just gonna go straight
into this like, little bulb on my ear.
(upbeat music)
Pretty dramatic, not looking too faded so far.
- I'm completely neglecting the back.
This is difficult.
How do you get the back?
- You guys need a mirror.
You're gonna need to look in the back of your head.
It's gonna be the hardest thing possible
'cause you guys have never done this before.
When you're cutting hair on the back of your head,
it's difficult because while you're looking in the mirror
and you're going this way,
in the mirror it's going this way.
So you have to understand that you're not cutting this way.
You're cutting over here.
(light music)
(clippers buzz)
(gasps)
- Oh my gosh.
(clippers buzz)
This looks atrocious.
- What I recommend you doing
is doing a straight line going up,
'cause then your neck is 3D.
Your neck is round.
You're gonna go up this way a little bit slightly,
slightly.
No, not up there.
You're below your ear.
A taper doesn't go past your ear.
You wanna make sure that it doesn't go past
the mid, your mid, mid of your ear.
- Okay.
Bro, I don't even know what's going on anymore.
This has gone completely off the train rails.
It just, it goes down so hard, bro.
Look at that.
- I'm so itchy right now.
There's so much hair on me.
- Can I possibly get my girl to help me with the back?
- Yeah, you can.
- Uh-uh, that's cheating, Irish, no.
- Okay, Angel says no.
- No, wait, hold up.
- No, that's cheating.
You have to do it yourself.
Okay, I'm gonna have my actual barber help me
with the back then.
- Ooh.
- My girl ain't even a barber.
- Okay, no help.
No help.
- No help.
- No help
- No help?
- No help.
- Fine.
I can't do the taper that we had initially planned,
but that's kinda hard.
'Cause I was supposed to com at it like, that was,
my plan was to just come at it like this,
and then fix the back.
But like, it got so screwed up in the back.
I think I might just make it a fade
and go straight around like that.
- The back is rough.
(laughs)
Yuck.
Oo, lord Jesus.
- I think at this point,
the back's completely unsalvageable.
It seems the more I cut, the worse it gets.
So I might as well just show him what I've done,
so that I can just
(laughs)
try to figure out help by tomorrow.
- This is the face of somebody
who regrets everything they've ever done.
I was gonna try to give myself an edge up and stuff too,
but that's very ambitious
and that is, that's just not happening today.
Nope.
(laughs)
(upbeat music)
- Let's see.
All right.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Okay, that's a typical issue right there.
A lot of people don't know how to
get rid of that bottom line.
Let me see the other side.
- Nope.
(laughs)
- You look like you belong in the vampire Blade movie.
(laughs)
- [Angel] Yes.
Yes.
- That's a perfect Blade fade right there.
- It is.
Yeah, it's sharp right here.
I'm cutting.
- It doesn't look bad.
I could definitely even talk you through it over the phone
and you could, you know, look better than what it is.
With the same notes that I gave you,
I would've done probably the five
and then at the crown, the four and a half,
the four, the three and a half, the three,
working down.
Once you get that zero line and you do that one,
now you're fading the one to the three.
- I don't wanna incriminate myself worse,
but I gotta correct you.
I didn't have the fade.
I had the taper.
- Oh, you had the taper and Angel, oh.
So that means you really messed up.
- You see what I messed up?
(laughs)
Yours is supposed to be simple, Irish
- Oh, it went off the haywire.
- You're supposed to be the simple haircut.
Oh, I can't wait to see Angel.
- [Angel] Okay, the dramatic reveal.
Drumroll please.
- Okay.
Okay.
I can't see from the front.
Go ahead and let me see the,
give me a 360.
(laughs)
There you go.
Okay, you went and gave yourself a high and tight.
Look at that.
It's almost faded in the back.
Now, with yours, you wanted to keep the top, right?
- Yeah.
- It's harder.
It's harder when you gotta keep the top.
- So, this was a rough experience
(laughs)
mostly because my hair was a lot longer
than I thought it was.
- And I'll tell you what,
if you would've kept longer hair on the top and did this,
it would've taken a longer time for your hair to grow back
and get back to at least where you wanted it,
to feel normal.
- You know, I feel like this was a good first attempt.
- Mmhmm.
- But, you know, definitely could use some help
with, like, blending and stuff like that.
- Yeah.
(laughs)
- As a professional barber,
what would you rate each of our haircuts?
- I would give Irish,
only because you didn't mess it up
where you can fix it back, about a five, five and a half
and then Angel, I could still fix it.
It looks like you didn't give yourself much of a fade
up to the line.
It looks like it's all one number right there,
so I'm gonna give you a four.
- Ahh.
- I win.
(laughs)
- No.
- But you guys did good.
You guys did great.
I think we, I think you guys could do a better job
on each other.
How bout that?
- I agree with that, actually.
I think it would've been way easier
if I did not have to reach the back of my head.
- I think you guys did great.
I really do.
I think you did awesome.
- Follow up in person next time.
(laughs)
(upbeat music)