Very Short Womens Clipper Haircut | Short Layered Haircut For Women

Gerard okay, guys today we're going to do a men's haircut and i'm going to kind of address a common question that i get with from a lot of beginner hairdressers and barbers, and they say how do i do a faster haircut? The easy answer is repetition. Do something enough to get faster, but there's also a lot of smaller answers that i'm going to show you along the way here now. Let me be really clear that the point of doing a faster haircut shouldn't be to get more heads in the door. The things i'm going to do to save time here are going to buy me time to do other things that a lot of barbers and stylists kind of look over and don't do so. Ultimately, our goal here is maybe not to do the best haircut you've ever seen, but i want this client to come back and the way you get a client to come back is have them leave glad that they found you and looking forward to returning. So the first thing i'm going to do to save time here, i'm not even wetting the whole head, i'm only wetting, the top. What i used to do with a men's haircut is start by cutting the sides and then cut the top. But i found over time that when i would cut the sides and then the top i'd have to come back to clean up the transition. But this way by starting on the top, when i cut the sides i just kind of do the transition at the same time all right andrew. So that's super interesting to me because um when i started my career, i started as a barber of a barber's license over 30 years ago, and i started as a barber trainee at sassoon and the sassoon way of doing barbering is to basically start from the top And all these years, nobody else has ever really done that, so i actually uh. I saw this first from ryan coleman, he's a hairdresser and i'm going to work down. So the first thing i'm going to do is start with the strip in the middle here. To kind of give me a this is going to kind of. I want to build my silhouette now the men's haircut men's haircut. Traditionally, you want things to be square. Of course, so what i'm doing to decide this length here is just thinking about how i want the hair to act like i want it long enough that it can lay down, but i want it short enough that it can stand up if you go too long, It can't stand up if you go too short, it can't lay down. So i want this to just be kind of like a normal haircut, we're going straight parallel to the floor and taking that shape all the way back. Essentially, i'm going to cut as far back as this hair will reach that line, i'm going to cut it and i'm you'll notice that i'm not a very neat hair cutter. I usually warn people that up front i'm doing a fast haircut, so good enough is good enough. It'S not just good it's good enough, so once i have that guide in the middle there see i can see it's short enough. It wants to stand up, but it's also long enough that it wants to lay down. I got that happy medium where hair is just alive and it does things and it moves so now i'm going to do is take sections outward. This way, pull them straight up here, cut it again, parallel to the floor uh one of my i'll call him a mentor. I'Ve learned a lot from this guy russell mays he's a hairdresser in orange county yeah russell shout out. He once told me: if you want to do a fast haircut, you need to cut every hair once so as i'm creating this shape outward here. I'M also texturizing at the same time, typically what i had done before i thought of all this. How to do a faster haircut is. I would cut in the shape with like a blunt club cut and then i'd go back and texturize. It afterward, but probably cut myself some nervous, but now this way i'm kind of putting in the shape and texturizing. At the same time, now, you'll notice that that first guide that i put in is a blunt cut. I left that blunt because it makes it easier for me to see it as i'm working outward here when everything's done i'll, go back and check it and see if it's too blunt to look nice but for the most part that'll probably be the only part that Needs refining andrew. I have a question from jennifer uh dong she's says she always has a hard time with cowlicks uh. Do you have any tips to help deal with calyx yeah? You can kind of assess them and comb them around and see how much they're willing to bend most people's kind of first reaction to a cow lick is to cut the hair shorter in that area, but the shorter the hair is the less it's going to bend. So i'll see what it wants to do on its own by just kind of shaking it while it's wet and then i'll determine how much i think i can get away with forcing it to go otherwise, and then i kind of figure out how much the client Can get away with forcing it to go otherwise and educate them? How to do so, but my ultimate favorite way to deal with the cowlick is to cut it based on what it wants to do. People don't think about this, but if you look at pictures of brad pitt on the red carpet, you cannot find a picture of him without a cowlick sticking up. So clients have a problem with a cowlick thinking that their problem's here, but their problems actually here and uh. So i i tend to kind of coach my clients through look, you got a cowlick here and they go. I know i hate it and i'll point out. You don't hate it because it looks bad. You hate it because you can't control it and then i'll cut it in a way that it looks good. So it's more of a thing we psychological problem. I can't tell this hair what to do. It looks bad, but you cannot find a picture of ryan austin without a cowlick sticking out. You cannot find a picture of david beckham without a coward sticking out. Unless it's you know a curated shoot, then they'll, probably photoshop it out. So now i'm going to do the same thing on the left side that i did on the right side got love coming in from a lot of a lot of our friends. Ben brown over in the uk, marina lantos jokingly, says, don't be nervous. Only your biggest fans are here with you. A lot of love guys, if you have any questions for andrew is a great educator, has a lot to share a lot of opinions about everything. So go ahead and ask away so particularly with this hair, because it's on the lighter side, it's going to show every little cut that i make and that's that's really why a huge part of the reason i'm kind of doing this broken jacket line to begin with It will mean less refining later, i said no refining earlier, but that's one of the reasons i want to do this fast is so i save time to refine if there's a job that i can well. First of all, if your client ever smells that you're rushing. That'S the number one worst thing you can do like i, i look at yelp reviews of salons and barbershops and the number one most common negative review that i see is that the barber rush, my haircut so whatever you're doing to be faster. They can't know that you're doing it to be faster and if it's flashy and throws hair everywhere, then they won't notice that you're doing it to be faster over another question andrew from brandon gastonian is wondering basically do you always start on the top now or is It really, depending on the cut, if you alter it depending on the cut um, i guess, depending on the cut, sometimes, if i'm doing like a mullet i'll start on the temple, but for the most part i almost always start on the top you'll see why, as I continue to work through this hairpin. I guess it makes a lot of sense with these more kind of square shapes as well as opposed to something that's, maybe a lot longer on the top or yeah. Absolutely all right. So now that i save time by texturizing the top as i cut the top, i can spend a little more time blow drying. So here's the phrase that pays when you get a client in the chair um when you know you're going to get a client for life you're just going to be a bad heart fan, they're, going to say one of two things, and hopefully both things they're going To say one i never knew my hair could look like that and well maybe the second one's not a phrase, but if you teach them something they didn't know about their hair, and this is fish fishing a barrel guys because guys don't know about their hair. But if you teach them something and you can get them to say, i never knew my hair could look like that. You'Ve got a client for life, so this next part here, i'm going to flat, wrap the whole head. You'Ll notice that when i sprayed it down, i didn't even wet the sides, because i don't want to spend the time to dry those sides. But i'm going to flat, wrap this and get everything as smooth as i can. 99.99 of men have never seen their hair thoroughly blow dried as soon as you thoroughly blow dry it and spend eight minutes treating this as though it were a graduated bob. You would never rush a graduated bob out without smoothing it out right treat this like that. 100 of the time they'll go, i didn't know my hair could look like that. The cowlick you asked about earlier. Have you tried flat wrapping it, so you say flat wrapping. Can you just give us an explanation of that? It looks like you're using a big flat brush yeah generally, i use high heat and high power and uh this whole hair flattens his head in various different directions. I'Ll go back left and right as you do it more. You start to figure out which way you can and can't go with certain heads, but the idea is - and this is the way i describe it to clients if you have a wrinkly t-shirt and you throw it into the dryer, the dryer will eat your t-shirt and Tumble it around until the wrinkles come out. That'S all we're doing here. Your cowlick is a wrinkle and that wave that you hate right here. That'S a wrinkle, we're just working those wrinkles out by eating it and trying to get around so with a brand new client. I'M explaining what's happening with our hair with a regular client, i'm shutting up and i'm making this very relaxing oops a barber. I know said that people don't go, get a shave because they forgot to shave that morning they don't get a shave, because it's a relaxing experience, if i'm with a regular client. I'M doing this as gently and calmingly as i can, and it's really tall for people to even like nod off in a chair, so typically as the hair is about dry, i'll, stop and i'll show the client go seen your hair like this before right, they go. Yeah, that's what it looks like every time. I try to blow dry it then i point out the magic doesn't happen as the hair dries. The magic happens after it dries once your hair's dry, keep it on high heat, keep working it around and then i'll explain the whole cuticle thing. The surface of your hair is rough and those rough surfaces catch on each other and that's what causes frizz when you smooth out those surfaces using heat, the hair starts to separate. It starts to get that jagged look and as it's starting to get there. You'Ll want to start pushing it about where you want to lay now the way that i'm going to get this to lay, i would say, 70 percent style, i'm not going to put it exactly where i want it styled, i'm more so going to try to lay It i guess symmetrically, because i want this to be somewhat of a medical haircut if they knew they wanted to wear a part. I would kind of set the part in at this point, but this is going to be the generic straightforward, men's haircut. Drill part: it either way you can wear it forward and wear that whatever our buddy ben brown has a recollection of you doing a haircut with a pocket knife he's confirmed or denied [ Laughter ], not something you want to do uh in the salon. This man is lethal. I'Ve never been a knife guy. Until like six months ago, someone gave me a knife, and i was like i guess i can carry that. Yeah kelly gave me a knife for christmas. Two years and shinola makes really nice knives yeah. We were just discussing andrew and i andrews nice shinola watch uh. They also make knives beautiful ones with wooden handles, so i've actually had clients speak up as i'm doing this for the first time and they go like i've actually had. Somebody ask why i'm playing with their hair and i'll just explain to them. Look just like your hair is dry, doesn't mean it's styled for styling your hair. So, as i said a minute ago, if you can teach your clients something there will be a client for life, most men and a lot of women don't even understand the full purpose of the blow dryer. They think it's made to dry hair. But it's made to add volume and straighten out hair and create um at bend. You can see now, as i've been working on this for a little bit. The texture is completely different than it was right, as it was dried. So one way that i look at this blow dry is, if i spend an extra minute blow drying these corners to get them to lay really nicely i'm going to spend two minutes less cutting them. If it just lays right, you don't have to refine it as much. You cut it one time and it's laying right and now would you expect your um, your client now to blow dry their hair every time or do you think that they? This will just help? You make the haircut better, so if they don't blow dry, it's still going to look good, i would say both um. I spent a lot of years with the thought process that if, if i show a guy everything his hair can do - and he decides i'm going to take the time to do that every day - that's the guy who's going to spend a hundred dollars in a haircut. That'S the guy who's going to buy a hair, dryer and a brush from me and that's the guy who, for day-to-day wear, is going to look better than the average person. So i used to kind of look at it like if you give them. If you care about their hair more than they care about their hair, you'll give them something to care about, and your business will build better because of it. But what i learned over time is also by doing a good haircut. You don't have to style it like. I ran into enough really really amazing, hair cutters, who said: oh, i don't even teach them to blow dry hair because my haircuts look good without it, and i was like offended by that. But then i started to realize it's absolutely true. If you do a good haircut of the shapes there, if the texture is all right, they don't have to style it anyways and i'll even point that out to the clients like i'll say, look on wednesdays, put yelling and go like this on friday nights. Do this blow dry thing so, as i said earlier, if i cut the sides and then the top, then i have to go back to do the transition, but this way by cutting the top first, as i cut the sides, i'm going to kind of like clean Up that transition, as i go again cut every hair once so, i'm not even going to worry about what's happening here, i'm going to just start on the top and kind of work down. Now, when i see people do clipper over comb, i see like this number. A lot - and that drives me crazy because i'm not trying to use the corner of my clipper to chip in a bunch of lines. I want one pass to be the exact shape that i want for my haircut. So i'm going to hold this out to my shape and whether i'm holding it horizontally like this or vertically, i'm like picturing that design line out here that i want and, as i work up, i'm going to go up and through the weight line to soften it. As i go now, i never realized that this was like weird that i did this, but i have like a scrubbing motion when i do clipper over comb. I don't know exactly when or why i started doing that, but people started pointing out that it's not common, and i think the reason i do it is. It adds a little bit of texture, like i'm kind of shaking when i do it. So i'm not getting a perfectly clean straight line, which means i'm getting more of a finished unfinished look. What type of clip are you using? People are wondering always about that. This is a jrl, and this is their old old model. I want to say it was their first one that they came out with now. Here'S another thing that i've learned um. If i take this shape that i started on the right temple and i work it all the way around to the left temple more often than not it'll start here and then it'll end up here or here. So what i do is when i get to about the middle of the back of the head. I make sure that i've cleaned up the top of this as much as i'm happy with i'm going to go back to the left. Temple double check, my right side. So i can kind of match it over here. Sometimes i'll even just cut this one piece right, there make sure they're even and then come back and connect these yeah. Some people are giving shout outs to the comb. That'S the ys park, large clipper column. We do have those at harebrained.pro is that is that one of your go-to's? This is the only go-to yeah, it's the 280. The 280. there's also the 282 as a smaller, smaller version. Sometimes people like that for sheer overcome when i first got this comb. I was a little concerned with how stiff it was a lot of the clipper combs that i was using previously were really flexible. I found that was good for like if somebody had a dip in their head. I could really like dig it in there, but now i actually kind of appreciate how stiff this is. I feel like if i'm dealing with really coarse thick hair, i can kind of control it a little better. I went back to a flexible comb one time and it just felt like it was going to break in my hand. You have to agree, i like stiffer ball, bring homes and then maybe flexible. For that final point, one percent of detail, i think, when people go too crazy with flexible combs, they tend to make some divots in their shape, he's looking very david bowie right now. I know i wish i could leave that, but you can. He won't complain. So here's another thing: i've learned over the years. If i pick up a tool, i'm going to do everything i need to do with that tool before i set it down. I used to just do one job pick up another tool. Do another job and uh. I i paid attention for a couple haircuts, how much time i was picking things up and setting things down, and it was. It worked out to like a minute and a half per haircut, which, after 15 haircuts that's a whole other haircut almost or it really really adds up, and so, if i'm going to do something with one clipper, i'm going to do everything i want to do with That clipper before i set it down, i think we also have to point out with everything else. Hairdressers have to do right now to keep sanitation that 15 minutes, or so that could be 15 minutes that allows you to take your mask off outside and get a fresh breath. So all the things you're talking about are, you know even more important now than ever. Our buddy tab is watching hope, you're doing well tom. I haven't seen you in a while saying it looks great so essentially just free handing the whole edge down nice and tight yeah, i'm i don't know exactly where i'm going with this haircut, i'm just kind of going, but i know that see on a human head. I would have a better idea of how i wanted to finish the edges, but because this is so, i don't know, what's the word, mata kitty, mannequiny um, i'm just really like you said free handing it, but i know that i want to get that done with This clipper and then never pick it up again. So i'm done i'm not picking it up, i'm really enjoying all the things that you're saying because they're things that i think you know you've kind of come to naturally. But i've heard most of the masters that i've ever worked with, say them. You know they're starting on the top. That'S a sassoon thing. The whole thing about like not having to pick up the tool again, kirk kiefner, used to say that all the time, one of the kind of godfathers of men's haircutting. So i love that you know that just that someone who's fully dedicated to what they're doing kind of comes to these things. Naturally, i appreciate that yeah so same thing with these edgers i'm going to do the lineup, i'm going to ball out the bottom of the taper, i'm going to do everything and before i set this thing down now granted if i'm working on an actual client, i'm Not cutting this fast, that's the other thing is like whenever i found that if i was running late, i would actually make up time by slowing down, so i wouldn't have to go back and fix anything all right. Here'S a very pertinent question coming in from stuart wentworth: what's your approach to working the edges around the mask so obviously, especially here in california, unfortunately we're unable to work on clients right now, but when you are, you have to work with masks on both client and Hairdresser, so it looks like you're going to show us, so what i do is i take the person's small hair. Okay, i'll show you, if uh, if you take this and you twist it like that, give it a little x there, it pulls the strap out of the way to sideburn, oh nice. So on some masks you can just leave it like that through the whole haircut. But sometimes it does like this number uh, so i whether i have to do that for a second or leave it that way. I just i twist the thingy. The funny thing about the masks is for 15 years i've been pulling people's ears. I'Ve been pulling people's skin up and touching people. I don't feel weird about it and as soon as this mask thing became a thing i realized, i'm like is, is it okay? If i move your, i can. I can touch the ear, no problem without thinking about it, but as soon as i have to touch somebody's mask, i feel like i'm adjusting their boxers or something moving forward. All right, so you switched to a different clipper. Tell us a little bit about what's happening. Now so this clipper cuts really really slowly. You'Ll see that i have to go over everything a couple times with it, and that's actually why i like it like every now and then i think, okay, it's cutting too slow. I got ta, get a new blade or replace it or something, but what i find is when i'm blending a haircut, i don't want a clipper, that's gon na. Take it all off in one pass like that. Jrl one pass it's gone, it has to do with different type of motors in the clipper. Is that what it is? I actually don't know yeah um this clipper like when i started using it. A lot of people are like. Oh, you use one of those um, but i like that it just cuts so slow. I mean you'll see it's going to take me 15 passes here to cut this, but to me it feels like you know. If you're going to sketch a circle, you've got a pencil, you can kind of lightly touch the pencil of the paper and take a couple passes before you get that circle. You get a better circle than if i hand you a sharpie marker and say as soon as you touch the paper that circles there. You know it kind of goes with your whole theory of like kind of uh breaking the lines up a little bit rather than super super short yeah and that's um. Funny thing. I get a lot of questions about like how do you get such a texturized? Look in your haircut and uh the answer: is you take big sloppy sections, you use clippers that don't cut very fast and as long as it looks good um, you don't have to perfect. Everything like you know, sometimes for if it's a really important haircut for a photo shoot or something i'll i'll take my time to make sure i cut it right and like i'll, put everything in really structured and go back and deconstruct it, but for the most part, Most of my haircuts, i just kind of it's gon na sound, so bad, not not really half acid, but i understand that the organic movements of like an erratic over caffeinated hairdresser's hand can translate very well into nice, texture and haircut. Lots of love coming in michelle howell says i can't wait for the day i'm able to move around the head with such familiarity. You can tell how familiar he is with the human head and hair amazing to watch. Thank you, brown, giving you a shout out can't believe how neat this is on a mannequin, great work andrew. I can't wait to meet ben we've been internet friends, for you know he was here in our orange county uh. When was that last, i guess i have no frame of time anymore. We did a live with him here in orange county he's just next time, we'll have to get everyone together and have a little post pandemic jam, and what attachment is that on your clipper uh? That'S a one guard, so is that pretty typical for you, you do the overclocking that's pretty much. The only guard i ever use is the one. That'S like your blender yeah. I uh. I can kind of, like anything shorter than the one i can more or less sort of free hand and then anything longer than one i'd rather just scissor over comb um. I'M not picking up my scissors again because i already set them down. Okay, i'm gon na use a texturizer, i'm not it's funny like some people are assumed that i use a texturizing scissor a lot looking at my haircuts, but the only time i ever use a texturizing scissors, sometimes on the sides or the corners never take it up. Here i don't like what it does to the way the hair moves. It just kind of makes everything too chaotic, but with very short hair. If i'm trying to texturize this in any other way, it's too easy to put holes in the haircut, especially on lighter colored hair like this like. If i were to come in here and point cut these sides, it would be holy. Have you ever thought of it? As almost like a manual clipper, because you know the way, a clipper has the two serrated, the serrated edge and the solid edge, and then it moves horizontally like sometimes when i see the texturizing scissor like this, i think it's kind of like a manual effect yeah. I could see that the way i actually think of it - and this is funny because i don't own a gun - i'm not i'm, not a gun guy, but this is a gun that there's my aimer. That'S where i aim where i want to cut - and this is my trigger, so i just pull the trigger. So when i teach it in my classes, i tell them. Okay, aim it and then pull the trigger pew pew, pew, pew, pew, pew and so to this day i mean years and years after kind of thinking of that sometimes at work. My little brain just starts going pew pew pew pew pew cow. Can we get a shot of andrew's hand, that's holding the comb, because again this is um. You know in classic barbering there's a certain specific way to hold the comb, which again am i doing it right? You are, it's called the c shape thing and that allows you to flip and rotate the comb. So is that something you came to naturally, or is that something that someone shared with you? When i worked in my first salon back in like 2003, there was a barber there who had been cutting hair for like 40 years or something and he was kind of a jerk um like he would always pick on the way i did things and but at The same time like the things he picked on and i ended up like getting literally to him and and they were helpful, so he showed me to hold my comb this way, but basically viewers. I got a finger on top. I got a finger on the thumb on the bottom and then on the back side. Here, i'm using my middle finger to pull that against my palm to keep it all stiff. And so i have the dexterity of just pointing like with my finger to get the comb around, but then it's a good sturdy, solid grip there, sometimes without thinking about it, i'll hold the comb this way, but then like after one. Second, i'm like oh where's, the comb going. It allows you when you're holding it the way that you're holding it now to flip it without changing hands. You watch a lot of people that hold it the other way when they, when they want to comb the hair. They move the comb to the other hand and they comb it and back to your thing, you do that all day long, you can add another 10 minutes to your day. You have any idea how long this has taken so far. The haircut yeah 26 minutes nice. So for years and years and years i was taking appointments every 30 minutes and that would have been about done right there um now i take an hour per haircut and the things that i do to um to save that time that we've been going over this Whole time here, hang on, i spaced, oh yeah, sorry so at this point like this could be a done enough haircut, but i'm gon na go back in and just refine things a little bit because why not? I said i was done with these scissors, but i'll take them because you lie well. I did such a fast haircut that i have time now to do a better haircut, because i did a faster haircut to refine it make the magic. You would always think uh. Better and faster can't exist at the same time, but i realized, if you're faster at the things that you can be faster at it gives you time to be better at the other things. So i often tell my clients and they've. Definitely given me this feedback as well the difference between like a 25 haircut 100 haircut is this. Last part after you straighten everything out, you get everything kind of laying nicely you go back in and you refine this little bit of refining here is so massive. So what i'm doing is i'm adding a little more texture to this i'm kind of like spreading the hair. Apart with my fingers and i'm adding air between the ends, that's the way i like to think of it. I'M not removing hair, i'm adding air in the direction in which i cut will have a great influence on the way the hair will want to bend and leg. This is another huge thing and a great way you can deal with cowlicks as well like if i cut shorter hairs for longer hairs going out this way, the hair will want to bend that way more and this way less so like let's say i wanted these Corners to stick out, i could grab them and texturize them upward and then, when the hair is roughed up, they'll want to kick up, but if i want them to bend down, i can grab them, texturize them downward, and this is something that is, i'm almost embarrassed To say this: for like 10 years, i was cutting hair and i didn't realize the difference between doing this and doing this didn't realize it. And then one day somebody made a small comment about it and i was like wait a minute that makes sense, and i started kind of utilizing it and sort of harnessing it to control the way the hair would lay. I started getting comments from clients saying your haircut is the easiest haircut to style, and it's because of this, because these hairs, if they're all cut the same length, they all want to do the same thing. They all act the same. But if i cut shorter hairs to longer hairs pointed downward like this, as you would imagine, these shorter hairs are more rigid and the longer hairs are less rigid. They want to bend more and so you're not going to get resistance from this long hair being able to push the short hair up. No, it's going to work the other way. The short hair is so rigid. It'S going to push the long hairs down. It'S kind of like if i had a stack of paper that was long on one side and shortened the other and i wobbled the stack it would want to fall toward the long side, not toward the shorter, more rigid side. So when i'm done with the haircut i go through and i pull up every little section all the way around the head and i go. Oh that's really. Even that's not going to do much of anything it'll do whatever you style it to do. But by doing this it wants to do that, so let me reiterate doing a faster haircut. Sometimes it can be about doing more haircuts, but it really shouldn't be if you could do a faster haircut, take your extra time to refine and stop and check and move things and use that extra time to educate your client about styling. You know how you sell a lot of product. You show your client how to style their hair. I don't work at my current salon. Much actually right now, not at all, but even before the pandemic. I'Ve only been working in the salon or two days a week. So my retail sales are like whatever, but when i used to be full time in the salon, my retail was twice as much as the next highest and the reason was, i taught everybody how to style their hair. Hey i'd love for you to talk a little bit of business for a moment, because you know one of the things i keep seeing in different forums. Is people very challenged by not being able to double book and realizing that that's probably not going to happen for a while, with the limit on how many people can come in and really you know, the only answer that i have is well. You need to charge more, and i think this is one of the biggest challenges people have what's been your experience of going from in the past, from lower prices to higher prices, which is you know something i know you've done over the years. Well, basically, when i, when i became fully fully booked to where, like oh, you want to get in with andrew yeah, he can see you next month. Um. I realized. I couldn't work any more hours. In the day, i hired an assistant to try to get more work done and that didn't add up either, because even the extra heads that i brought in paid her, and so i just broke even eventually tab pointed out to me. You need to raise your prices. Yeah, so i was terrified to raise my prices at first, because you're worried that, like your clients are going to be mad at you for it or something and some of them will be, but after going through it the first time i realized, i mean the goal. Isn'T for your clients to be mad at you, but you're? The literal goal of raising your price uh, at least in my own career, has been to have less clients in the chair. I went from being booked five weeks out being both two weeks out by raising my prices, five dollars, because i lost that many people and then every time i got super booked again. I would just raise my prices again. It was never about like. I think i'm better now, so i'm gon na charge more it was. I have too many clients waiting. I need to charge more and what i learned. This is really interesting. So when i started cutting here, i was at 20 bucks and i'm super super booked. Today i charge 100 and i would say, thirty percent of my clientele has been with me since twenty dollars and ten percent of them left and came back and said. Okay, i didn't think you're worth a hundred bucks and then i got a haircut somewhere else um. So that's really interesting to me the amount of people that are on my books that have been on my books for 15 years now, even at five times the price. Now, okay, so you can see that um, the haircut looks cool i'll call. That done, which is great, a lot of love coming in from people all over the world. When i think that i'm done, i push the haircut around and i just see what it wants to do. The way i like to describe it to my clients and what i'm actually doing is i'll, take everything and push it over this way. I'Ll go! Okay! If it goes over this way, does anything go out of place? No, it's stuck here! Okay! Well, if it goes over, this way is anything out of place. No, it's stuck there, and so, if i could push it in every far extreme and nothing comes out of place, then the haircut's done so what i like to do at this point. This is usually when the client goes. I didn't know my hair could look like that. I didn't know my hair could have that kind of texture, because the client never blow-dried his hair. To this extent, you'll notice i mean i did put in a little bit of a blow dry spray, but that's just because it makes it faster um i didn't put in styling product, and i point that out to the client i say: look the product didn't make Your hair separate like this: that's the blow dryer and the cut and um. So they learned something you know, i i tell them when you blow dry your hair, when you think you're done go for another three minutes on the days that you want to have better hair than everybody else, and then one thing i love doing too is after They like the way it looks i'll mess it up and then i'll tell them to run their fingers through it. And then i go, oh, my goodness, especially with like longer hair like the undercuts and stuff like when they see it moving nicely after it's been blow-dried to go. I never could move like that, and that is the phrase that pays any other questions. A lot of love just coming in from everyone all over um. You know, ben brown was asking a question and i'm not sure the answer were you ever on the harebrained podcast yeah a lot of times. You were yeah, so you've been uh yeah and if you guys want to hear that you can just google hair brain conversations and you'll find our final podcasts are everywhere, where podcasts are and uh run by gordon miller, our ceo. So he interviewed you a while back all right. Let'S talk about product, so i'm using a matte paste that i actually make um as i'm applying this. It'S like really really really thin on my hands, there's barely any on there. I explained to the client. Like look, your hair is already standing where you want to stand. Your hair was already laying where you want to lay so we're not using the product to control your hair. The only thing we're using this product to do is make your hair stick together. A little bit another way, i explain it especially more with longer hairs. I'Ll say. Look if i say one hair stand up, it's going to fall down over its own weight, but if i say hey all your hairs stick together, they're going to hold each other up. So the product's just going to make the hair a little bit sticky and when the hair is a little bit sticky, it's more willing to do stuff. As i apply it, i mostly put it on the root and i put less on the ends, because if you get too much on the ends, it weighs it down how? How do you get it to the root and not on the ends so like once? I have it rubbed in on my hands i'll kind of do this number, like that kind of reach, through the hair and massage the scalp a little bit and then once most of the product is kind of put on that way, i'll take it and pull it Through the ends a little bit, our good buddy sid sotong is wondering if you have any more products coming out andrew no, the thing is when i did the first product the dry, which is what i have in here right now. The reason i made it is, there was a great product that i loved that went off the market like they just stopped, making it it disappeared. And so i had a need for a product and i made a replacement for it and similarly with the other product that i have, which i don't have out here right now, but it's more of a pomade. The reason i made that is, i felt there was a need for it, because at that point all the big pomades were very heavily barber marketed, and i my salon that i worked in at the time. Even they said we don't want that as a barber product. We want like salon products here, so i was like well i'll make a pomade that can look good in a salon, so there were like more or less needs or holes in the market for what i was making. The thing is like i have hair sprays that i love. I have blow-dry sprays that i love that i can't do better than you know um, so i don't want to try to come out with another product. That'S just going to like fit into a space of already perfected products. If i ever one day woke up with a need for another product, i would probably try to make it, but my approach to styling is very, very minimal and actually picked it up from ryan teal. He curated a shoot one time that i was able to work on and when i was flying out there he said oh yeah bring my hair stuff, but don't worry about products. I got products and i was like alright cool, so i brought my tools and i showed up and he had a spray bottle full of water and he had a bottle of like shine spray, and that was it and i was like i thought you said you Have products - and he goes oh, we're doing a photo shoot. You don't need to load it up with products because we need to move the hair. A bunch, and i learned on that day. Good hair doesn't come from a jar like if you can get the hair to do something without loading it up with products, then you know hair and a guy um. Oh my gosh, i read his instagram name, some barber that i know he said uh he's like. I know how to cut hair, but i don't know hair and he goes i want to know hair and when you start using less product and and relying more on what the hair wants to do and how the heat can change the hair. You know hair. You know if, if all styling hair is he was putting product in it, you got some stuff to learn. Awesome well, andrew, as always, it's been a pleasure uh. You have so much so many fans from all over they're, so thankful. I want to thank everyone for watching thanks again to andrew does hair, and hopefully everyone in california will uh will be getting back to work soon on everyone all over the world. I know it's it's a difficult time, but if we can just focus on being the best that we can be in terms of training and education, that's what hair brain can do for you. I know that's what andrew's focused on sharing and helping people grow and i'll. Let you finish up with any final words. No, that's it. You did really well yeah appreciate you thanks.