Intro
Hi It's April with Hair 101. Today We're going to do a haircut on Tayden
He is my cute little neighbor. It's called the slick rick, right??
right? Is that what it's called? And he's gonna get it for his back to school.
so basically what it is. It's really short
just an open blade clipper. And it has
a non blended line all the way around. and then the top of it
it's just going to be probably half of what this is. Probably short
and then we'll sweep it to the side
throwback haircut.
but it's really fun. but he's going to look awesome. so we're going to go ahead and start
he's already had this haircut so we're just trimming it up. You're going to start
on the right side and just open your clippers
this is open. Okay I better show you.
for people that don't know. So this is closed where it's really short.
it cuts a lot shorter. This is open it gives you a tiny bit
more length. So you have this little lever on the side of your clippers.
just make sure it's as tall and open as it can get
and then you'll start and go
from the ear and just make it all the way up. with your hand. hold the hair on the top
away so you're not going to cut any of that
just keep doing that around and you don't have to be
100% perfect on your line right here. just make it really
close. Because you can go back through with the peanut clippers
and clean it up when you're done
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awesome
alright and you can see sometimes there's the little lines in the hair. it's just how the hair grows.
or it could be something with the clippers. so you need to cross check it.
so you can go back in. and go a different direction
against the grain that you were going.
and it should just clean it up. You see that?
so any of those little problems can be fixed with that
are you getting itchy?
nope!
alright we're just moving around the side here.
you got some little scars on you head. did you fall down and get a bump?
you're a boy. for sure!
all the way
there we go. Ok look straight right here. You want to make sure when you're doing the sides
they're looking straight so you don't have a crooked line
to go off of.
...... alright. so now just go through and check. you see this little cowlick.
We're going to take some of that off
so with stuff like this. this might be from when
he slept on it. since his hair was dried
you can take the clippers really softly and blend it in.
But we're also going to cut that later
that's just a little trick
you can just play with it
alright so now we're going to do the top now
So,
we're going to cut with scissors on the top. so we're going to spray it and get it wet
it's a lot easier to cut wet hair with scissors than dry hair
and it's better for your shears too
alright
so i'm going to start on the right front side
and what we're going to do
we're going to take it up like this. and right about where
your fingers start. you're just going to cut that off. there we go. and we'll do that all the way around
ok, so if you have a
cowlick on the very top of the head that sticks straight up. and you don't want to do that.
you'll want to leave a little bit more length back there.
so on this back part we can take it up a little bit
and chip away
that way when it lays down it's still going to have. that look of
having it combed over and not short and spiky
lets turn this around
so this is going to be where most people have a cowlick so we'll just take it up
and chop it out
it still has enough length to where it can lay down
ok so we're just going to go and take half of the length off of the top. and it should blend into your edges
when i pulled it up you could see there was about that much length on the side that was shorter.
i'll do it again right here and show you. see this?
it's short long and short because of what we did before.
so you'll go through that top section and chip it out
I like point cutting for stuff like this because it needs to look blended.
we're also going to go through
with the thinning shears to blend it a little more
so you can see right here
on this side. that the line dips down a little bit
now that we got that hair out of the way. we can clean this up
so we're going to go through with
our clippers. on this underneath part again
and we're going to do this
okay so now you can take this and
softly draw in the line
you want to keep it as straight as you can
and i'm not pushing this really hard against the head. I'm just softly
making that little cleaner shape
you got a little itch on your ear bud??
there you go. all better right??
there we go
so then i'll take the comb up right here to blend it
there you go now we'll do the same thing on
the other side
so i'm combing that hair down to make sure we don't have any long pieces
and just very lightly
not pushing into his scalp. going through
and giving it a little bit more of a solid line look now if you push all the way down onto the scalp
you're going to get too hard of a line. because it's going to cut a little bit more
than what you have down here. and so if you do that. You'll have to go through
with the clipper closed all the way like that and redo all the edges
so it blends. so you can fix it if it does happen.
but you're not going to want to do that
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i'm sticking the comb up underneath and pulling it downward and taking just a little bit
of the edge off
and that gives it the blended look alright lets have a look at this
so the only thing i see now is just this little
spot right here where it's kind of like a cowlick
you're going to make sure by getting it wet. just to see what it's doing
i'm going back through it with the scissors
it's just a little bit long
and also stuff like this is really really
easy to fix with your shears
your thinning shears
i'm going to go back through with the thinning shears and clip into all of the ends
just on the tips
we have a little bit of a long spot
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and there it is a little bit longer on this side where he'd have a little spike poking up
when we comb it over. so that's ok just hit it with the thinning shears, and if it looks good when it's done
leave it. It's better than having
a piece of hair sticking up right there
alright and look in the mirror. let's see if we got it all.
there we have it. let's give you a good spin
there is our
slick rick haircut
thanks for being my little model today
you did good. thanks everyone. we'll see you next time