welcome back to the one minute barber in
this video i'm going to show you how to
cut your own hair
in the easiest possible way using a
clipper and only a number three guard
the whole haircut will be done with that
and you can see i've just cut my hair
that way
i've got some length on top if you're
wondering how to do that that's in this
video with the clipper and the number
three
i'm now in my 18th year as a barber and
i don't think i could describe this
any easier for you so let me show you
right away what we're gonna do
now as you can see the human head
doesn't just go straight up the way
like frankenstein there's a curve on the
head
so what we want to do is we want to
follow the trajectory of this
comb here we just want to go straight up
without curving over onto the top of the
head with a clipper
i'm going to take this big hand mirror
and i'm just going to hold that out in
front of me and comb my hair forwards
and then pull the fringe the bangs
pull them out of the way and
this side here pull it down
okay that's the starting point now we're
going to follow that comb trajectory
with the clipper
so straight up the side of the head
trust me
straight up
straight up straight up
i'm just working my way around going
straight up all the way around
so this is starting to blend in already
here but we need to think about this
area at the back of the head now and you
can see that there's still a curve there
on the back of the head that's known as
the occipital bone or
some people call it the occipital ridge
so again i'm just going to go straight
up
here i'm going to go straight up but
what i don't want to do is curve
over onto the top of the crown with the
clipper
be very careful not to do that this is
important because your head
shape from the side should have
a nice sort of curvature to it but if
you flatten this area
it just doesn't look quite right
so did you see what i did there i went
straight up but i didn't curve over
i just came straight off up like this
okay this side done the back done now
i'm going to do this side and what i'm
going to do is just pull all my hair
out of the way from the top so that
doesn't get involved in the short stuff
there we go and again i'm just going to
go straight up the side of the head
please don't panic when you do this try
to relax just be relaxed
chill out trust me it does work
you don't need to do anything crazy like
pull the clipper away or shove it in or
dig into your
head just relax straight up the side of
the head
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okay now to cut the top and this is the
bit that freaks everyone out they're
like
how can that possibly work believe me
it works what happens is it's gonna thin
the hair and it's gonna take
not the length but the density that the
hair is sitting on the top of the head
down that's the way it's going to work
but when you pick the hair up
it will be long what you need to do is
get all your hair
going in the right direction so for me
my hair goes like this
i'm just gonna comb it in the direction
that it lies
okay there we go that's about right for
me
maybe your hair drifts over to the side
okay if that's the case
that's the way you're gonna work now
that's in place
what i'm going to do is i'm going to
work with the grain
with the clipper i'm going to work in
this direction not against the hair
because what will happen is it will
stand the hair on end and cut it right
down in the length of the guard
we want to go with the grain with the
hair lying flat
here goes nothing so plant the clifford
at the back of the head and just
pull it forward with the grain of the
hair
did you see that hair coming off there
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little tip here if you don't want to
completely obliterate your fringe
just lift it slightly higher as you come
down to the fringe
or don't go over the fringe but that's
up to you
notice that the sides i come down this
way because that's the way that my hair
grows
in order to blend in that little bit at
the back with the three on the working
down method
get yourself very close to two mirrors
just like this
the same principle applies just work
down the way on the weight
okay so that has removed the bulk i've
taken the three straight up the sides
made it nice and square
i've taken the bulk off the size it's
still
slightly not blended in it's not perfect
but it's pretty close what about the
fringe
i'm just gonna pull that down now
remember this is a bush haircut this
isn't
the uh best haircut you're ever gonna
have
this is you cutting your own hair now
because
i'm gonna style this i don't mind
cutting it blunt on the front i can cut
it quite blunt
because what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna
pull up here and no one will ever know
so let's cut that blunt now
try and avoid your eyebrows when you do
this okay i'm gonna take the clipper and
plant it just above my eyebrows on the
forehead
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i'm not gonna lie that did scare me a
little bit
going around the eyebrows of the clipper
but just be careful okay
if i can do it you can do it
now we've got this ear hair around here
and the neck here to tidy up
my advice in this area is to just be
careful okay
don't go up too high into the hair you
only want to take
the tiny little hairs that are sticking
out okay they'll just be some tiny
little messy hair
so just try and basically draw around
your ear
with the corner of the clipper
that'll do me there now the neck here
that's a tricky one
when you look at your neck hair you'll
notice that there's an area where you
have
really dense hair and then sparse hair i
know
and there should be like a pretty kind
of solid line so
try not to go over that line with the
clipper because that's you going into
your head here your scalp here which is
not going to look right at all
so we're only taking the fluff off
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now that i've finished the cut it's not
the complete article
remember this is a bush haircut this
isn't a professional haircut but it's
acceptable
so i'm going to style it now with some
hair bond texturizer
i'll leave links for that down below and
if you're in the united states i'll
leave
links for gents of london salt spray
which is similar
but basically just spray this in and dry
it in the hair it'll make it really
rough and i love the finish of it so
let's take a look
and i love the smell of this stuff i'm
just going to dry it in and just ruffle
my hair as i work
i'm happy with that and because i'm a
little bit thinner on top it gives me a
chance to kind of fluff my hair up a
little bit when i use salt spray
great tip for you there look i hope you
enjoyed this video and you found
something useful in it
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your own
self hair cutting
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