Defined Curls With Skin Fade Haircut Demo With Denny Nolan

All right, hey guys, uh! This is denny denny's, a local barber! That'S been in the industry for 10 years and he's going to bring you curly hair from the captain's chair, all right danny. So what are we doing today? All right? Well uh. Today, i'm going to show you guys how i do a nice curly curly top uh with a nice low skin, fade um. I do this a lot in the shop um, and so you know for how often i do them. I'M sort of got a really good, efficient way of sort of banging them out in the shop cool awesome all right, let's get to it sweet, let's do it on curly's hair. I normally just start. I normally start by doing just the sides. Um, sometimes i'll uh cut the top down first, depending on how long it is but um in this case, because it's such a tight because it's such a tight curl, i like to do the sides first and so to see how it drapes over before i go Through and sort of saturate, the top, so all i'm really doing is i'm just wanting to just let it enough that i can come through and section out my top of my sides, it sort of holds itself. It just holds itself yeah and the dirtier it is. The better it tends to hold itself sweet, so obviously we're going to do a skin play again. We'Re going to do a skin pad right, so you're going to start with a one guard. I like to start with one and go and sort of follow the um sort of the temple point and sort of drop it below the exhibit. All the best thing that i ever learned, um in barbering, was learning how to actually fade out flip over cone fade out a one i'm like that was like. That was the pivotal point for me when everything sort of really started to change - and i really was able to really get into you know, i guess my style of barbering and just sort of like a loose like a loose um like a loose hand, action just Nice sleeping c shapes into my one, leaving almost like a 10 mil sort of gap just enough that i'm sort of doing two jobs in one go. I'M sort of setting i'm setting a guideline in a way, but i'm also fading it out. At the exact same time, if you are in a really high-paced shop like i am um and you you know some days it just it's, it's absolutely manic and you've got like five skin fades in a row um. You know this technique is just a really awesome way to be able to deliver really nice soft skin fades. I think the key word here is soft skin fade. You see a lot of you see a lot of lights. Those real harsh, slow, yeah um fades that have a really strong transition, that's it, but with this i suppose what we're trying to show today is keeping the fade soft um, keeping the transition from the skin to the one through to the quicker overcome. That'S right, really. Soft, i don't tend to focus just on one side i like to just i like to go around and do the whole thing i feel a bit disjointed. If i i feel very disjointed, if i just do like just do one side and then do all that and then come through, do the back and just do all that and then you know um i feel like i don't get as smooth of a flow. I'M doing it extra low today, because every time i do it really high um currently gets in trouble well, sort of oh i'll, actually start at the top and i'll set. My uh i'll set my clip my guide at the very top here um and then from there we i'll just fade down. Basically, so what boilers do you like to use these marvelous ones are the best boilers just and i've never used yeah. I'Ve used a few. So i've done my one and i've done the skin fade now so now it's time to join everything into the top. What i first start with is i'll just take the little i'll take the ledge out, first, just to just create a bit more of a join before i come through and start taking the weight out of everywhere else. Okay, so what is the hardest thing in barbarians? Cutting ah, what's the hardest thing, uh man like just like trying to do flatties um - and you know the schools - don't really um. They don't really make a point to um to really spend a lot of time doing them. At least it wasn't when i did mine. So you can see that's starting to really soften out now, so what i'm going to do from there is i'm going to start taking my body out through the top now and when i do it, i'm i'm not bringing one to the other, i'm bringing them both Together and that creates the most that's - creates my stability and my confidence in every single pass that i do so. I use one finger to keep me stable, whether or not that's like my hand, depending on how close i'm getting or if i'm quite far out like my finger, will keep my hand my comb hand steady. But then it allows me to then bring my clipper and my cone in together to really create that um that stable and controlled part all right. So i've taken pretty much all of my weight out now through the sides there. So i'm pretty much at the optimum length that i want to be uh through through the top here now, i'm going to do the last sort of little join now, which basically i bring my little one, and i play with my little my one and sort of One and a half - and i just do a quick join of that line. It'S really not a whole lot, like it'll, probably flick out pretty quickly. So what brought you to barbering denny? What brought me to barbara? Well, i originally so when i left high school, i um. I actually started a visual arts degree. I sort of wanted to prove my mum, my parents, wrong, that i could do some form of like tertiary study, like my sister could uh and that i could come. I could complete something like six months in and um because it became an art school drop out. I was like all right. Well, uh, i'll i'll, go, get an apprenticeship, and so i tried all the classic avenues. You know i tried um. I tried um uh to get sparky's builder carpenter. I couldn't get anything and mum actually said to me one day. She goes. Why don't you try um? She goes, but you try hairdressing because you're all very creative and one night, and i thought oh yeah, all right and uh. You know ten years later here i am trying your hands with skin fade. I got lucky um. I i finished my apprenticeship and um. I sort of did about 10 months at another salon before i landed um before i landed at um and uh yeah, it's been like eight years later, um yeah - and here i am - i find personally um using the blow. Dryer actually helps soften yeah the fade, and it actually helps pulls. It out pulls the fade out and yeah. When you come back through with a clipper over the comb swipe, it helps take that a little bit more just finishes it a bit more uh i haven't had to stop, but someone i saw i had to go. I had to so bad one time like and um. I was happy and i was like that to finish the haircut and i was like yeah cool all right. We'Re done, i'm gon na um wrap it down and then he goes the guy goes. Oh, can you trim my beard and it was a huge beard too, like he wanted to be like, like completely like nearly like locked up, and i was like you've got. I was like, and so i said i spent. I spent the whole time standing there clenching and just like in agonizing cramps. Just like it's not gon na happen, it's not gon na happen. It'S not gon na happen and i've never done a bit. I'Ve never done a beer trim so fast in my life. All right, all right so danny. What are we uh all right, so we're gon na? How do you approach curly hair? Like ah? Do you love pulling drag sort of things? I just i trust my sections. I don't um. I don't cut curly hair any too much different to how i would cut any other hair type. Even if the customer says to you like. Oh, can you thin it out, because it's too bulky you're actually you're, actually better off going shorter um to remove the bulk that way than you are um to run thinning scissors through or any form of texturizers um, because it couldn't agree more well we're seeing a Lot of those um, those trends hit barbering right now, where we're seeing a lot of um a lot of sectioning yeah a lot of sectioning a lot of complex cutting yeah yeah. What'S your take on that? Oh look! If it works, if it works, it works right. Um i i like to live life, pretty simple um as simple as i can, and i like to try and keep my cutting style as simple as possible if you're in a hectically busy shop like if you're just in a walk-in shop um, you know, and you Sort of need to and you're only sort of allowing, like you know, 25 minutes, um to 30 minutes for a haircut. Sometimes you don't have time to you know, go through and do all those fancy sections that what i've just done there it's pretty much just achieved. That'S the top done there. You go super simple, you know by keeping just by just keeping everything solid cut on the ends. The curl just wants to hold together so much better right than if i tried to go through and break that up. So if, when i come through and now style it with um some foaming tonic, the curls are just gon na they're just going to suck it up. I am a big fan of the new foam tonic um. I use it in pretty much every cut whether or not someone's going to style it or not. It'S just it's the best leave-in, it's the best pre-selling product, it's the best. It'S just it's just bloody awesome right um and it's the best product in curly's, hair um between that and salt spray. But i i love using the um. The tongue just binds the curl you can either so for someone like early like he could get like. That'S. What'S so great about the the new tonic is that he can set and forget? So you can, when the hair is damp, um put the foam tongue through scrunch it all through and you can walk out the door and just let it dry and it'll and it'll dry really really nicely like it is now um but um. I can also. We can also diffuse it as well, which is what i am going to do today. So we can get a nice sort of finished um a finished result, get it down to the roots, but what that does too is it helps too so stretching it out, and then i can bump it back in whenever i use the diffuser. I very rarely ever push it past um, one lowest lowest speed, lowest power, because what you want to do is you want to be able to sit it on the head without without burning decline, lower speed, because if you have too much velocity coming out of the Diffuser, but it will start to move things around and what will happen is you'll. Have um you'll still have a curl but you're going to make it fluffy i mean it doesn't take much to just to just move it yeah. You don't want to break it. Yeah. Just want to move it, you know, that's it. That'S sweet all right, so fresh cuts from the captain's chair with denny curly hair. Here we come yeah bro looks good man, nice and low tight. You can see the flow of it. You'Ve kept the corners on the curl, so it gives it a nice shape. Yep stoked looks good. It'S like you can't ever jump in no, no, no brother peter thought. It looks good