what's up guys it's Thomas from the Barber Style Directory and welcome back
to another video now in this video we're gonna be doing a design and it's not
gonna be anything too crazy but we are gonna fade around the design just a
little bit just to add a little bit of pop to it and to make it stand out the
key to getting a good design is to take your time and just to break it down into
small steps that way you make it easy on yourself there will also be a blog
associated with this video and I go more into detail about how I did this design
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so without further ado let's get into the video
I'm gonna start this haircut out by taking the one and a half and removing
the weight where I'm gonna put the design in this would just make it easier
once you put in the parts in the shapes with the liner and here I apply some
Tresemme holding spray and I applied so make the hair stand still and
then here you see me go in and I'm gonna make a rough draft now when you're
first putting in a design it doesn't have to be perfect it just needs to be
outlined
and you see using the corners of the blade a lot
like I said in this video we're gonna give it some some popr
we want this design to have a little dimension to it so that's why you see me
doing this right here I'm basically gonna fade around it but right now this
is still part of my rough draft
and I'm gonna fade into the design so here you just see me taking the wahl
Detailers and making my face line around the head you'll see how it comes
together at the end so as you can see I made the rough draft of the design but
now what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna fade the other side first and then I'm
gonna come back to this last to blend everything in now the emphasis of
this video is not to fade itself it's more so in the design so here you're
gonna see me rush through this process I have other videos where I do the
same process but for this video I'm just gonna speed through it now that's a zero
guard
and then here's the one guard and then here you seen you take the one and a
half guard and I just taper down his front edge up just so the hair won't
stick up and it'll make his line last a lot longer
all right now this is the emphasis of the video so here I take the
number zero guard and I start to blend into the design so pretty much I'm just
removing weight from around the design right now I still want it dark but I want to
smooth and that's why you seen you're taking the zero guard and what I'm doing
now is basically a taper I'm just blending into the darkness and I'm using
the corners of the blade also
and I want everything to be smooth so here I'm just removing the excess weight
and you gotta take the one and a half guard just remove that bulk right there
on the ridge of the head
here you see the emphasizing that I'm only using the corners of the blade I'm
really just trying to blend it to that that darkness just so it's a gradual
fade now you can pretty much see it coming together now I tried to get him
to cut his sideburns off but he likes sideburns so the customer's always right
so here you just need blending in the sideburns and now I'm gonna do the
finishing touches with the design
and we will proceed with the front edge up we're going to keep everything
natural I'm not going to push anything back
and this part is a must just to get the the loose hairs off his head
and then now I'm just about to clean the part up and make it sharper with the
razor and when you're doing designs always use shave gel because if you
don't you'll really irritate somebody's scalp
everybody has their own technique when they use a razor I like to use
short strokes just so I don't I don't Nick anyone that's just my preference
but everybody else take it all depends on you know whatever floats your boat
some people use longer strokes I use shorter ones let me know what you guys
think of this in the comments do you like how I turned out and if you want to
see more videos like this comment below
thanks for watching and I will see you guys on the next video