On my social-media presence,
everybody know me as @Get_Beamed or Beam.
Today, I'm here to share what I do
on a everyday basis with you guys.
So, right here, I'm getting the hair
lifted off of the head.
While lifting the hair off the head,
I'm basically prepping it
to be able to run my clippers or my machine
smoothly through the hair so it won't snag.
I believe I'm using a No. 4 guard first,
because my client has cowlicks.
That was something that I identified
before picking the hair,
knowing different hair-growth patterns.
And me running through with a bigger guard
was helping me achieve a more consistent and fuller look,
opposed to taking it down way too low.
I'm giving my client a lower bald taper,
but I'll basically exaggerate the C-cups in this haircut.
So I want to start my taper low,
but I'm creating a rainbow shape
to ensure that I can set up this bursted look
in the side-taper area.
This is another important step right here.
I use the No. 2 guard,
and using my No. 2 guard in this part of the haircut
is ensuring that I don't cut his hair too low,
because the more hair you take away from the beginning,
you can never get the hair back.
But the less hair you take away,
you can seamlessly watch it transition.
I'm basically staying in a rainbow-like motion,
opposed to my guideline being straight across.
That rainbow is going to give me this bursted effect.
And now we starting the back taper.
Remember, whatever you do to one side,
you do to every side of the haircut
to keep this consistent look, to keep a flush look.
So I start my bald line off here,
and I'll repeat some of the same steps.
Yep, this is just consistency right here.
Following these steps and the techniques
to just keep you consistent throughout the haircut.
I'm just raking this hair out right now,
and I'm trying to just preserve as much bulk
but keep it consistent to get a nice flushed taper.
Using the corners of my blade
to feed certain hairs through the teeth
just to ensure that I can create a seamless transition.
I cut this client from a Afro to a wavelength haircut.
I want to ensure that I can get
all of his hair brought forward to me,
bring everything forward and everything laid down.
The rapid lotion basically is served
to bring all of the hair forward
and lay all of the hair completely flat for me,
prepping it for the lineup.
Because his hair is so used to sticking up
that I want to pull it forward and lay it down.
I want the hair to look like he's never had a Afro before.
Now, most important step.
I got my clippers completely closed,
and I'm floating over the client hair,
knocking off all of the loose hairs that are sticking up
just to make the haircut look that much more smooth
and that much more laid down.
My next step is to basically go into this haircut
and I want to give his beard some depth.
He has a full beard already,
but I want to give him more of a fuller,
a richer, a darker look, but also,
I want to start to set in my boundaries,
so right now I'm framing out.
My frame-out work is the most important work
throughout my whole haircut.
You want to give it a natural look,
but you also want it to be consistent.
I'm using a form of hair spray to lock the beard in
just to give it more of a nice, crispier look.
Now I go into my lineup work.
Now that I broke the border of the beard out,
my lineup work on the nape area.
I like to do my vertical bars.
I'll start off with my clippers straight,
and I'll bring the nape down to a slight V.
Most important part, using my center point,
which is my nose area. I'll take the nose,
and I'll put my clippers right above the nose.
That's my center point area.
It'll just keep me centered
and keep me straight and symmetrical.
This is how I start to create precision
throughout a haircut.
I make a lot of decisions as I go.
Sometimes I run into simple things,
how high I want the taper, how low I want the taper.
Working myself to the left slowly but surely.
Just trying to ensure that I can create
a nice, natural lineup
before any additives to this haircut.
And now I want to go in using three of my products,
my color card, using my own color,
and using my cordless compressor
that I designed from scratch,
and we're basically adding color.
We're giving the client a more richer, a more fuller look.
When using any enhancements or any additives,
I just basically consider this as a added service.
This is how you give the client
a different level of confidence.
You give it some pop, some fullness, some flash,
this modern-day look.
My pencil is basically served as a concealer.
Think of how women do their eyebrows.
They'll basically shape their eyebrows or get them waxed,
and then they'll add any additives or color
to tint the eyebrow, make it darker.
So I'm basically just manipulating things
that I see in other industries,
adding them to my current-day service,
and it's just giving the client a extra pop,
extra flare, and a nice crispy-clean look.
The hardest part to get right in any haircut
is client satisfactory,
because I feel like anybody can really
create a nice haircut, but it's up to the client.
And if the client feels like a million bucks
walking out the shop, honestly,
it doesn't even matter what the haircut look like.
Because if you can service somebody
and make them feel like, "Yeah, this is it,"
that's it. That's the hardest part.
And now stretching the skin,
angling my razor at a 45-degree angle,
bringing everything back to the highest point,
and using a advanced technique
which is called backstroking out,
which is when you flip the razor away from you
and you scoot away from you.
This is a dangerous technique
to any amateur that's out there.
I didn't start backstroking with my razor
until maybe my 10th year.
And barbering is just, this is what happens
when you become more of a vet at what you do.
I can get real comfortable with my razor.
It's like my No. 1 partner in crime.
So, now, cleaning up the top of the eyebrows.
As you guys can see, my client is more of a hairier client.
I just want to ensure that when he leave the barbershop,
he's completely clean.
Tend to things like this.
They've never had these services before,
never had their eyebrows cleaned up,
but it also brings more of their facial features out
and get them more of a clean look.
And now, oil sheen in the client hair,
doing my final spin, and that's perfect.
Symmetry's there. It's clean.
That's a really good haircut.
That is a really good haircut.