How To Cut And Taper A Fro | Transformation Tutorial

Welcome back to Game Changer. Today we got my boy Murph here: um Murphy's actually cutting his hair off he's had it for a while, I mean he's decided. You know it's time for me to get a mini fro him and his son, usually rock the same hairstyle. So um, what we're gon na do well, first I'll talk about a few complex. Well I'll, tell you what I'm about to do with these plaids these braids then I'll. Tell you a few a complications I ran into with this haircut. So first um, if you notice, I'm cutting off each individual braid uh braid with the scissors, if you notice, I'm also cutting the braid off above the rubber band. The reason why? Because the more hair I Leave Myself the more hair, I leave to shape it um. If I was to cut it below the rubber band, I might cut the hair uneven and then it'll already be low, so I won't be able to get that nice fro look, so I just want to Cut Above the rubber band. So if you notice Merv's hair on his edges, is already very light, which tells me that he's been getting it tapered and he's been cutting it down. That wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't so fresh. So now, when I try to blend that, throw in to the taper is going to be a very hard light to dark difference, so that won't leave me much room to transition. So that was something I had to work around and also Murph just got his hair. Braided very fresh lines, usually when the client hasn't um, usually when the client comes in to get their hair cut off. That'S very long. I recommend it. They don't get a Twist or braided within a few weeks before the cut, because I want those lines not to be so fresh, but I'll work around with that is to wash his hair very thorough, hot water it'll help get those lines out of his scalp. So if you Murph has a amazing shine to his hair texture all right, so you see first thing I do with the water run. You know I like I like to get the hair wet, very wet. I'M gon na apply the shampoo and I massage the scalp. His hair wasn't dirty at all, so when I'm massaging the scalp, what I'm really doing is getting those lines, I'm I'm really. I want to reduce the amount of lines that show in the scalp very, very important so sometimes to do that you can wash one two. Three times all right, I also want to watch those edges very well, so I don't want a hard transition between, like I said where he's been getting that taper on his edges and where that long hair starts. So it's all about getting the hair to revert back to its natural state, the more natural or the more version I can get in this hair. The easier it'll make my job when it's time to cut his hair all right, so you all watching I'll be back soon, foreign s. You know I watched it like twice a deep conditioned at once. It looks amazing all right, so it's all about taking your time and going through a very thorough process. Now I still have that issue. Look at these edges. It'S going to be very hard to transition it into the fro without leaving the hard line so uh we'll we'll talk about that as I go through now, CG, as you can see here, is a little uneven. So what I'll do is Murph wants to keep his throw kind of thick, but still still a bit low. So I'll start with a six just to even the hair, then I'll cut it down to length at a five now. The main reason I start with a six is because how do I work it um with the hair band with him having such a thick grade of hair, which is Amazing by the way it can be difficult on the Clippers to just run through very smoothly. So I'll start with a six because it has to grab less hair, then I'll work down from a five. So when you work backwards, it lets you cut longer hair or thicker hair down much easier without putting much as much stress in your hair, all right. So yeah, so that's what I'm doing coming down to sixth and I moved to a five and once we get to the next step I'll, let you know just watch me see how, if you notice I'm cutting with and against the gram, I want I'm doing every Witch cut pattern to get his hair even once. I feel that we have a nice even to go around the ears very important. You don't want to leave the hair longer around the ear. So when you're doing it, when you're cutting a throat, it's all about shape, shaping is very important. You can just cut the you, can't just cut the hair down evenly and think. Okay, you know what I Got ta Throw no because it has to blend in like a microphone when you're tapering out the the nape of the neck. When you tapering out the temples it has to smoothly transition into that from all right. So now see look at these hard lines. That is a hard hard line. So what I'll do is lightly comb, but first i'm gon na. So when I'm tapering, the first step is to put the primary line. If you watch any of my other YouTube videos, you got the primary line secondary line. Now, what I'm doing now is deboking. I got the one and a half on and I'm lightly tapering into this hard line right here where Murph has had his long hair and then what I'll do is I'll comb that same section down with the hard line is I'll come back with the one and Kind of tap at it right um. I call like a Feathering technique. I use the corner of the Clipper and I'm just working one section now. This won't be perfect. His first go around because again he's had that hard line for so long, but if you notice, I'm attacking that area very fiercely, see that one I put on I'm just using the corner and I'm just tapping that one area, okay, this is where the transition should Be let me see if I can work this in and get rid of the hard line, all right. So that's the main thing with that and then, when I come back in start to shape the fro I'll use, no guard on my either my BaByliss Pro or my Andy's Masters, I'm sorry, my BaByliss Pro or my walls, magic, clip and I'll work it out from There so I said a lot, so you can always rewind and just study that process that I said and wash my hands, I'm just kind of running you through it and you can go back and listen to it on your own time. So if you see now um the difference with blending, this secondary section is it's such a small window and again I have that issue of the hard transition. So if you notice it's a lot of Feathering a lot of light, tapering a lot of light taper, because his hair right here is already light. So what I have to do is transition from light to dark all right. A good transition is how smooth can it go from light to dark? So you all watch and I'll be back to you and I'm even using my my um, my trimmers, my Andy Shimmers light Strokes is how you transition from light to dark now another. This is another heart area: right Murph. It is occipital bone right below. It is where he had his braids. He had a taper on everything else. So again I have a hard line, not as hard as the sides, but that's another issue. We have to work with. So I'll start with is my three guard and I'm just debulking. If you can know if you notice, I'm attacking it very hard very aggressively before I even put my primary line in, I want to start the transition phase. I want to start because again my only priority is to get this from light to dark with the smoothest transition as possible. So if you can see I'm attacking behind the ears everything with the three then I come put my primary line in nice hard line. Then I add, my secondary line same process decides now another issue. I ran with the backup um, with the name of Murphy, with the nape of the neck, which is um this area, I'm working right here, merged hair grows at multiple different growth patterns and they can be difficult when you're trying to fade, especially with a fro, because Then I need this hair to grow down, so I can comb it comb with it cut against it all right. Remember you always want to comb with the hair cut against the grain, so what you have to do is actually kind of comb in those growth patterns to get it to work. So if it's going to the side, I comb to the side and kind of cut in a circular motion away from the growth pattern. Remember I know I'm saying a lot right now, but this video is to help right. If you want to watch the video to just watch me cut, I did an ASMR video on this exact same haircut, so this video is the most mainly for people who want to learn all right, so watch my hands right when you fade when you blend, when You working on transitioning of the hair, it's all about the wrist and hand placement well wrist motion hand, placing wash my thumb. So it's on the neck of the Clippers. My index finger is on the back of the neck of the Clippers and I'm just rotating My Wrist all right. I want a nice smooth rotation on my wrist, no stiff movement. You have to be very smooth and let the Clippers glide through the hair. Now the guard that I'm using now is a one and a half again, I'm attacking and I'm debugging, that hard line that was created when Murph had long hair to the short table. All right now, I'm deboking the secondary section. So I'm going now right here. I have my one guard: it's all about light, Strokes, okay, light stroke, so you all watch me and if you notice, I'm using the column no brush all right. Combing helps keep the hair in the section on the growth line where the hair comes down at brush kind of clumps, the hair together, it's brushes are made to give waves or to lay the hair down. I want the hair to actually stand up in this growth pattern so that way on his growth line, the you know the section where the hair grows so that way when he Styles his hair and he brushes his hair, combs or whatever he does. The hair will still look neat even after the cut, even after he Styles it all right. So you all watch, I'm just transitioning next I'll come back, so it's so. Let'S just talk about this right, fading and transitioning, hair or styling hair cutting hair. It'S all about a process right, so my process is two line: two section primary section, secondary section, debulk and then work from there. So once you have a system now, it's the workarounds right, it's like when you're building something if you know how to build. You know how to build if you know Dimensions, if you know the processes, if you know equations, everything else is easy. Now the workarounds are what you have to figure out the issues so like with murph's. Here, okay, the workarounds would have been. He just got to taper it. I have a hard line. He has multiple different growth patterns, yada yada, yeah like or some clients might have extreme density in one area, extremely light density. Next, you know little things like that. Sometimes, when you bother certain sections, these are the workarounds. You have to learn once you master the system, though, and I'll drop a video one day or I might put up DVD. I don't know what I'll do, but I'll figure some out to teach. That'S the system, because, once you learn the system, it works without your haircut, it works on every hair texture. You just have to master it. So if you notice, I think this haircut came out pretty great. To be honest with you, especially what I have to work with, but I mastered the system, I mastered hand placement. I know how to debug. I know in certain areas need a lighter touch. Certain areas need me to be more firm on the Clippers right. If now, if I'm trying an example for that, so I don't want to just tell you that and not tell you how I do it. If I'm working an area, I need to take more hair off, I'm more firm with my hand, placement or more firm, with the amount of clipper pressure I apply in that area of the hair. If I need to take the other right here, let me pause a bear claw method, I'm what I'm doing is debulking the sides and cutting the hair down towards the edge up. So that way, I can get a nice edge up now back to what I'm saying, if I need to cut less hair off what I'll do is Boom I'll, just tap it lighter debulking the edge up getting the hair to lay down his hair has been long For a while haircuts is just using the workarounds right so now let me apply shaves you're! Oh I'm super excited to let you all know, I'm actually talking to a chemist, I'm in the lab, I'm creating my own shave gel it's going to be amazing. Um! You know I studied some of the top shave shells on the market and I found some of the deficiencies, whether it be a certain chemical compound. They use that isn't good and causes irritation over time, um, whether it be, but how thick the thickness right. I'M excited to announce this when it comes, I'm dropping my own shave Channel all right. So if you notice right here, what I'm doing is I'm watching this natural edge up? I'M stretching the skin I'm using my Razor and I'm just contouring to the shape to the curve of the edge up already all right. So the reason why I'm stretching both fingers I want to so when you're, using the razor the art of using the razor is tight skin, makes it easier to use a razor right. If you have hair with a soft cuticle outer layer, that's the outer layer and you have tight skin also when you have a razor handle with a heavy hand and I'll come out one of those later. But now, if you notice I'm just following this natural edge up all right, so you all watch, it's really good to be back. I hope you learned something um if it's anything I didn't go over in this video that you want me to go over in the next video. Please let me know in the comments, because I got like nine nine ten videos I'm about to drop. I'M just happy to be back hope. You all learned something. So if you look right at emerge, taper that is literally a great transition from where he came from. He went from really long hair to really dark hair, and you know I just hope you all learned how to work through certain issues all right. I really appreciate it happy to be back. You all watch um after clip coming soon take care foreign foreign, foreign