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okay so in today's video I'm gonna be teaching you how to give yourself a
shape up, a lineup, an edge, anything you want to call it I'm gonna be teaching
you how to do it this tutorial can be used more than just doing it on yourself
you can also do this on someone else first I want to give a few disclaimers
number one odds are you're not a professional barber so you shouldn't be
expecting professional results so if your lineup doesn't come out as sharp
and professional as if the professional did it you shouldn't be angry or
disappointed or anything like that barbers have years of experience doing
like 20 haircuts per day so don't expect to just have results like them on your
first cut another disclaimer your hairline is on your head you want to get
your hairline as straight as possible right all right but there's something
you have to think about your head is not a straight surface so just keep that in
mind it is difficult to put a straight line on something that's round also you
want to follow the natural hairline that you already have you don't want to push
up one side more than the other or you messed up and now you want to push it up
even more if you can just get it as straight as possible no just follow your
natural hairline from me I naturally have an uneven hairline so when I give
myself Elano I cut it kind of uneven because if
I were to cut it even then oh look kind of push back you understand what I'm
saying just go with the flow but without further ado let's get into this air cut
okay so to give yourself a lineup you're going to need trimmers these are also
sometimes called outliners they're different from the regular Clippers that
you use to cut your hair down a nice pair of trimmers that you can check out
and buy for yourself are the and STI liners another pair are wall Detailers
or even the babble is gold effects but those are a bit more expensive I'm
pretty sure you can find all of those on Amazon with
no problems in this video other than the tremor I will be using two tools these
are the cut buddy and the speed tracer these just ensured that every line that
I make is straight because I'm tracing it the speed tracer makes it so that I
can draw on myself where the lineup will be before I actually do it that way I
can see what the result will be without actually having the result yet I find
this extremely helpful this tool also has many different curves these curves
can be used to trace out that curve section on the side called the C cup and
you can also use it to shape your beard however these are not absolutely like
mandatory or doing Allina but I do recommend you get one and if
you do want one you can go to the cut buddy.com and purchase one and you can
even use my cold wave man Mike when you purchase all right let's start the line
up like I said before I'm going to be using the speed tracer and the cut buddy
these tools are not mandatory for doing Alana
however I do recommend that you get them if you're a beginner
ok so first what you want to do is brush your hair gone down just so you can get
all the hairs that would normally hang over your hairline to hang over your
hairline because if you don't do this when you do your hairline and then you
brush your hair down you're still going to have hairs hanging over the line so
what I'm gonna do is place this tool on my hairline exactly where I want my
hairline to be and then I'm gonna use the speed tracer pencil to outline on my
head what it will look like this way I can get an idea of what the hairline
will look like before I actually even cut the hairline right here you're about
to see just how useful this tool is because I looked in the mirror and I
really didn't like the way that that long looked when I drew it on myself so
what I'm doing is just drawing another lon
basically to correct what I drew at first so this is a big big
help to me because if it wasn't for this then I would have just cut it without
even seeing what it would look like when it was actually going to be cut so just
keep that in mind so now I'm going to take a moment to look at the lines from
a different angle from the point of view of the camera I looked in the camera and
I liked what I saw so I'm gonna move on to the next area and that is the actual
shape up area as you can see I have a lot of hang over here what hanging over
hair basically is is when your hair grows over where your lineup actually
should be so a lot of times you watch a barbering video and you think the barber
is pushing someone's hairline back but really they're just cutting the hang
over hairs once again brush your hairline down so
you ensure that you would get any hair that would normally be a hangover hair
you could use something called a holding spray I personally do not use one but as
you can see I'm tracing the straight edge of the cut buddy onto my forehead
and as you can see I drew a straight line and I'm just filling that out and I
just move it over I just keep moving it over on my head
making sure that I can keep this as straight as possible it's not going to
be perfectly straight however because my head is not straight my head is round
just like your head is round or at least it should be and after I finish drawing
this line I'm gonna look in the mirror and just verify with myself then
confirm if I think this is how want my lineup to be so you could see me
checking it right now look straight on might look to the left might look to the
right might look up might look down do I like the way this lawn looks I'll make a
decision once I decide I'm gonna cut down the hair that's surrounding my
hairline a bit just so it has a smoother transition this is something that a lot
of people with short hair or sometimes even longer hair do they take that
section that's closest to their lineup and they cut it down you don't
absolutely have to do this but I recommend that you do and when you do it
make sure that you're using a guard on your clipper usually a one guard and
you're doing this with the Clipper not with the trimmer because if you do this
with the trimmer you might end up with some bald spots but yeah now it's time
for the actual cutting of the line up with your trimmer so if you didn't have
the line sit there that I drew then you would just start in the middle and work
your way over to the sides never start on one side and just work your way all
the way over to another side because you'll end up with a very slanted
hairline most of the time so start in the middle and then work your way over
to the sides but if you did use the cut buddy like I did and drew on to yourself
then you can just trace the line that you're drew and this makes it that much
easier if you didn't already know this tip then I'm pretty sure you would
appreciate it now
now let's get into cutting the c-cup you could freehand this um and just
trace the line that you did or you can take the tool just like this and you can
just use that to basically make it impossible to mess this up
because as long as you hold that tool in place and trace what is in front of that
tool you pretty much cannot mess up it's it's pretty hard to mess up and if you
do mess up then I don't know how because I have no idea unless your clippers like
Danny Phantom it can go through hard surfaces it's pretty impossible to mess
it up once that tools in place as you can see I'm just trimming everything
that's in front of that line and then going back and cool these areas up you
see that that looks pretty good doesn't it
so now you can go ahead and mirror what you did on the other side
when cutting these lines on the side they're pretty explanatory just follow
wherever you drew that line if you're having problems deciding where to draw
the line you could follow based on the edge of your eye or maybe even on where
your eyebrows changes direction people do these lines
often in different places so there's no really right or wrong way to do it it
depends on that person
and take a look at your final result obviously I'm gonna take the pencil off
of my head I'm not gonna keep that white line on all day although you could
because I've seen people do it so we've reached the end of this video thank you
for watching all the way through I hope that you learned something new today if
you want to watch my hair cut tutorial I'll leave a link below people are
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