What's up, YouTube? It's Wave Man Mike, and in this video, I will teach you how to do a lineup.
I don't want to waste any time, so let's get right into it. You'll want to make sure you're always
starting in the center and moving out to the sides. From there, also remember that your head
is not a flat surface; it's round. So depending on if you're looking up, down, or straight,
the angles will be a little bit different. If you look up like this, the middle will be higher than
the sides. You see how it curves upward in the middle. If you look down like this, the sides
will be higher than the middle, and if you look straight, then the line should be relatively flat.
So let's get this lineup started. We're going to start in the center,
just like I said at the beginning of the video, and we're just going to get our first area. Just
know where we want our line to be. After you get that line where you want it to be,
go ahead and brush the hair down just so you can see where it would lay over. Now I'm going to go
ahead and start on the left side. So I'm going to start in the center and move over to the left. You
might want to get a handheld mirror just so you can see more angles. So I got a mirror in front
of me, and then I got a mirror in my hand. As you can see, I'm starting in the middle
right now, and I'm just moving over to the left. Me, I'm kind of conservative with my hairline,
so I barely take anything off. But if yours isn't as naturally straight as mine, then you can go a
little bit further up. I wouldn't recommend going more than like two millimeters, maybe three above
wherever it is at the time you start. And my hairline is naturally uneven anyway, and I don't
really try to make it as even as possible. I like to follow the natural line so that way it doesn't
give a push-back appearance if I do try to just create a whole new line, you know what I mean?
As you can see, I'm doing the other side right now. I started in the center,
now moving my way over to the right side. And every so often, just like I said before,
I'm just going to brush the hair back now just to see where it lays at. And you can look up, you can
look down just to make sure that those angles look right depending on where your head is positioned.
And you see what I just did actually? I wouldn't recommend doing something like this. Don't ever
push the clippers up; always start at the top and move downward. You know, I recorded
this video about two or three years ago, and I don't know why I never uploaded it. Maybe I did,
but I can't find it on my channel to save my life, so I'm just saying I didn't upload it. But yeah,
anyway, go ahead and brush the hair back down just so you can see where the hair is laying
at. As you can see, mine is starting to look pretty straight right there. Do you see that?
And now we're coming to the point where I'm going to check the corners and see if they line up if
they're the same height. The one on the left side of the screen is a little bit higher,
but my hairline naturally is a little bit higher on the left side.
I'm just going to do a little adjustment on the right side, just to bring it up a tad bit,
not a whole bunch. Just at the corner, because that's really where it would show the most.
Hold on, let me see what I'm doing right here. As I said, it's been like three years since I
recorded this video, so I don't really... Oh, I see what I'm doing. So, I just put a marker in
there in the hair, and then I'm just following that to the center. Does that make sense?
I'm guessing this is before I had the Cut Buddy because the Cut Buddy would have
been really helpful in this situation. Those little pencils that they have,
where you can draw out the line before you even do it, would have been so helpful right here at
this moment. And then the actual Cut Buddy tool, too, I could just lay that flat down on the lineup
and really make sure it's as straight as possible. If you're not familiar with the Cut Buddy, I'll go
ahead and leave a short clip on the screen right now so you can see what that would look like.
"How to give yourself a lineup using the Cut Buddy" [Music]
Place the Cut Buddy where you want your lineup to be. Then, use the Speed Tracer pencil to draw
your outlines. You can see what your lineup will look like before you even start cutting. [Music]
Now, start tracing your outlines with your trimmers. Follow Waveman Mike on Instagram,
TikTok, and YouTube. [Music] Now, enjoy your final result. [Music]
Do you see how that could have been useful in this situation? So, I'm pretty sure I must not have had
the Cut Buddy back then because I don't see why I wouldn't have used it in this situation. Nope,
it looks like I just spoke too soon because look at this, I got the company right here. I'm being
serious. I didn't even know I was using it in this video. This was such a long time ago, so I
didn't remember. But actually, in this video, I'm just using it straight on the Cut Buddy. I didn't
even draw with the Speed Tracer pencil, and this is actually the method I use most often. I usually
only use the Speed Tracer pencil if I'm going out somewhere, just because I do like that white
outline on there when I finish up. If I'm doing it like this with just the Cut Buddy by itself, it's
usually if I'm just doing that haircut at night or something like that. Do you get what I'm saying?
Now, just go ahead and make sure that both sides are equal to each other. Make sure they line up,
make sure they both are in the same spot and make sure one's not further back than the other side.
I think the right side is a little bit lower than the left side. It can still come up a little bit
more just because it has this little slant in it. It's like right there, the last inch or so,
it just curves downward. Oh, I actually just did it with my hand. You see that, how it just curves
down where that last little bit, oh, also one more tip. So, I like to line mine up with something on
my head that I'm used to, so for me, it's the edge of my eyes that I usually get the edge of
my lineup to line up with. But some people might do it with like the edge of their iris in their
eyes. I think that's a little bit harder only because your iris moves, but the edge of your
eyes doesn't. Or you can line it up with the edge of your eyebrows as well, some people do that too.
And one more thing, you can't forget to line up the back of your head too. So let's go ahead and
brush down this section and let's just do the back line up behind our ears. This is honestly probably
the easiest part of any haircut. Sometimes I do it even if I don't give myself a haircut. You
can just follow the line, there's almost always a line there that you can follow. But if there isn't
like, you can just create a line by yourself. You have a pretty good idea of what this area should
look like and it's a pretty short area, so it's pretty hard to mess it up. Even if you do mess up,
just try to create a straight line and almost nobody will know that you messed up just because
it doesn't go all the way across your head. Do you know what I mean? Just look at how fast that
section is finished. Now we can move on to the other side. It's literally that quick, that easy.
It's so hard to mess this up, and as I said, even if you do mess up, unless you just push it back
like a whole inch or half an inch, nobody's even going to know that you messed up. On the contrary,
there is another section right back there that is pretty easy to mess up, and people will notice if
you mess it up. That's when you go around your ears. So, I'm not even going to do this section
on camera, really. I was just going to edit this part out, but I'm just showing you that I need
three mirrors in order to do this section behind my ears because there's no way I can really hold a
mirror and hold the Clippers and hold down my ear all at the same time. I would literally need three
hands. It's not that difficult to do this section, but it just does require a little bit more of your
attention. And as you can see, I am making double sure and triply sure that I checked before I start
really getting into the cutting behind the ear because everything you do in the mirror is going
to feel like you're doing it backward. When you try to move left, it's going to feel like you're
moving right. When you try to move left, I mean, you know what I mean. Everything feels backward.
And I didn't use enhancements in this video just because most people don't even have enhancements,
so this is just an example of a natural hairline that you can do by yourself at home without any
additional enhancements. I hope you enjoyed this video. I tried to make it as quick and
to the point as possible. I hope it helped you out. Please tell me in the comment section what
you want to see next. I'm Wave Man Mike. Go subscribe, comment, and like. Enjoy your day!