- Today, how to cut the hair of your boyfriend,
girlfriend, husband, fiance, and significant other.
- When you've never done it before.
(cash register rings) (gentle music)
- Hi.
I'm not nervous.
I mean, hi, I'm The Deal Guy, Matt Granite.
- And I'm Daria, and I have no idea what I'm doing.
- If you've never cut hair before,
I know many of you are home,
I know that there's no choice in life right now
other than what I'm about to endure.
Daria cut my hair once.
How long ago was it?
- A week and a half.
- A week and a half ago.
And for the people that you love in your life
who you have to trust
when they hold sharp objects and scissors,
Daria's going to take you through cutting my hair.
I think you could probably do a regular pair of scissors
but we spent very little money
to get this kit delivered from Amazon.
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and a reminder for searching for other essentials
like toilet paper and face masks,
whatever it is you need for this time,
I'm hunting them down around the clock,
but this is more of a departure
from what I typically do as a consumer advocate
to let Daria give you a full haircutting tutorial.
- So I'm gonna start with using a spray bottle
that we got on Amazon.
You can use any spray bottle.
And I'm gonna mist his hair
so that it's nice and wet and I can see what I'm cutting.
- Yeah, oh, it's nice and damp.
We forgot to mention.
Before you cut,
put any towel over your shoulders, like this.
- And then you're gonna take a comb
and you're gonna brush the hair that you're about to cut,
just so you can see what you're doing.
So once you've combed down the hair,
you're gonna take your comb,
and I like to brush it up instead of using my fingers.
I measure out and see if there's any hairs
that are longer than others.
And if there are, that's when I'm gonna take the scissors
and I'm just gonna start cutting like this, not like this.
Cutting a little bit at a time
to make sure that if I do make a mistake,
it's not gonna affect the whole line of hair.
Once you've done one section of hair,
you can move on to another section of hair
and do the exact same thing and keep going.
- And as Daria has mentioned to me,
at a typical haircut, you move around a little.
In this case, don't move at all.
They can't handle a lot of the subtleties of your movement
and that will further screw up
your potential for a bad haircut.
- And remember that you can always respray the hair
so that it's still wet when you're cutting it
and it looks nice and you can see what you're doing.
I'm gonna take my comb and I brush his hair back.
The reason I'm doing this
is that it creates almost like a neutral canvas
so that I could see what I'm doing later.
And then I'm gonna take just the front part of his hair
so that I'm gonna start with a little part of his hair,
then start cutting there,
and then work my way back like that.
So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna cut around Matt's ear,
but because I, again, this is my second time cutting hair,
I'm not gonna show you with the scissors,
I'm just gonna show you what I'm gonna do.
So you see how the hair here is longer?
So I'm going to cut that.
When I cut his hair, I'm going to pull his ear down
and I'm gonna keep one hand here.
And with my other hand, I'm gonna use the scissors
and I'm gonna cut this area.
- And a tip for the person receiving the haircut,
don't talk when the scissors are really close to your ear
and try to not breathe heavily
even though you're very nervous.
- When you're cutting around the ear,
pretend my hand here is the ear, what you should do
is that you shouldn't have the blade like this
against the person's skin.
You should use the lower part of the blade
and you should drag it carefully across their skin,
especially around the ear area
so that you don't hurt them or yourself.
So if you see, this part of his hair is almost straight
but it's not 'cause hair grows differently,
so I'm going to cut a little bit more
on this side than on that side,
but I'm going to basically brush it down
and use the same technique.
And then once I'm done, I'm gonna probably take the scissors
and cut them straight like this using little motions
so that I don't take a chunk of his hair off.
- For the sideburns, guys, women,
we can correct this with a razor,
a regular manual razor in our shower,
so do not ask the person cutting your hair
other than evening it out
if you wanna go a little bit short or mechanically.
Daria has now completed my haircut
and although you probably can't tell a huge difference,
I'm going to take a quick shower,
and then I'm gonna come sit right on back in this chair
and you'll see the before and the after,
and then actually, what I'm assuming
is a fantastic job that she did.
And this is the end.
- [Daria] So this is the after product of the haircut.
And the best part is if I screwed up,
he's not leaving the house.
Hello.
(camera shutter clicks)
- I think it looks great.
I evened up my sideburns a little bit
in the mirror with my regular straight razor type thing.
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Do you have any final words?
- No, make sure that you guys stay apart but together,
like us.
- We're apart?
- No, we're-- - We're not social distancing.
We're in the same darn house.
- We're social distancing
from everyone outside of this house.
- Okay, fine.
I got nervous for a second.
- But we're together, yes.