Short Slick Back High Fade - Haircut Tutorial

What'S going on guys David Fowler here welcome to another tutorial and today's video we're going to be doing a meant to high fade with a trim on top, it's gon na be short on top kind of spiky. This is more like a regular haircut like the top of hair cuz. We do daily at the barbershop, so this is gon na be fun. So the first thing we're gon na do we're gon na create a first guide using our machine with a lever closed. In this case, I'm using the Babyliss effects create that the guide, and now I'm going to go ahead and create a second guide. This is gon na be with the lever open, which is gon na be 1/2, and this is gon na be half an inch. I will say between those two guides, I'm gon na apologize because for some reason, there's footage missing from this from this recording. But I will explain whatever is missing so here I remove it all the bulk and how you can see. On top of the half guide that I made, I created another guy that was with a 1 open, so pretty much. We have a zero. We have a half and then we have a 1 open. Just just keep that in mind. So so here I'm using use my shavers just to remove and bald out the bottom anything a funder need. The 0 guide just make sure you leave a little a little bit of room between the shaver and your 0 guide, because you know just in case that you create a harsh line and you need to fade it or blend it or remove it. Using your shaver. You don't want to get too close between those two guides and then you have no room to fade and then, if you, if you create a guide and it's gon na be hard to remove it. So just keep that in mind. I usually keep kind of like half. I also have an inch a quarter to a half an inch between - oh, my god, just so just so. It has a nice faded. Look so we're gon na go ahead and start fading, the first guy that will be the zero guide, so we're gon na start with a lever open. Then we start closing that lever a little by little. A lot of people have promised erasing the first guide, which is the skin line. If you have problems with that, I would recommend you to fade that first, like that, you don't have to worry about at the end, and actually you can see what your guides are, because you still have you know you haven't faded anything else, so you can see Where your limit is so you don't, you know, pass that limit when you're fading. So I would recommend you to fade that first, that's what I usually recommend where people are you starting line new, like beginners, I recommend just to remove that skin line first and then go from there. So now we're gon na start doing gon na go ahead and start closing that lever little by little and as you close that lever your strokes become lower and lower. You don't go as high anymore with the machine and that's just you know. You continue working on that until you that lot line is fully fully blended, so I'm actually gon na cut the top first, just because it's honestly makes it so much easier when you cut the top, you already know what does length on top is. You can just fade from there so, instead of cutting the sides cutting the top and then feeding everything into each other, I think it just creates more work. So that's why we kinda top first on the top we're going to use a shear over comb or scissor over comb technique, just because the client likes it very short. I wouldn't be able to grab this hair with my fingers, so I scissor over comb works perfectly for this decline already had product on his hair, so actually that it makes it a lot easier for me to cut it this way. So this is a technique that a lot of people back in special back in the day or actually in a lot of shops is people still use. They apply a tiny bit of very soft hair gel to the to the hair, and then they use the the shear over comb technique to cut the top. And honestly, I mean as long as you cross-check and as long as you are very consistent on the way you pass in that comb and the way you cut in you're, actually gon na create a good haircut, and you know, you're gon na is gon na, be A 90 degree haircut because you have pretty much most likely following the head shape, and so it's gon na be a 90-degree haircut. It'S not! You know honestly like when I was done with this haircut off camera actually double-check. The top make sure that it was good and - and it was good, it was good - it was actually pretty even so. This technique is it's a technique that I know a lot of people use it because it's quick to cut this way, but you got ta be very careful. This. The chances of you making mistakes is very high because there's no precision it really there's no precision what you're doing so. You skip that in mind. You know it's a great technique. I just don't use anymore because I like to make sure that this precision and I create the shape that I want to create, and I just the shape the head is, is giving me. You know what I mean so just just keep that in mind. So now we're gon na do we're gon na go to start using our clipper over comb, so I'm gon na start fading already, I'm gon na start feeding from the top the length that I have on top when I start fading into my number half that we Already of 0 that we already blended so that's when we use a clipper over comb technique just to create that shape and also to to blend. So my comb is gon na be a 90 degrees from the wall, so not even from the head from the wall, because we're gon na leave the haircut square and then this is gon na give us that shape that we want, and it's gon na blend, the Hair, so it's gon na be super super easy just to fey from there usually does the technique I like to use so go ahead here, I'm quite in using number two. It'S gon na be a two with the lever open and that's gon na blend into the clipper over comb technique that I use and then, after that, we're gon na go ahead and close that lever and then we're just gon na start fading down fading from there. Here we're using a one and a half with lever open and then we're gon na go ahead and close that lever. Honestly, I'm gon na be honest. You probably wouldn't have had to use that 1/2. I would have just jumped into the the one open, but I wanted to do want to have because I know a lot of barbecues, the one I have I think kind of liked it. So I didn't want to skip that card, but yeah you could have have gone from the two to the number one. If you wanted to you know, but that's just that's just that's just my preference. If I want to be quicker, but I know a lot of bar board really like using the halves like the one and a half and the one, sixteen, so that's why I put that in here. So here we're using a one open and then once we have that one open. When I go ahead and close that lever and then what you can see like, you can start already seen that it's getting faded. This client has really difficult hit to fade on one side, so that's this side, the side that we're looking at right now, it's actually very difficult to fade, just because the hair grows on the opposite direction right. We want the hair to slicked back a little bit and it just grows in the opposite direction, so you really have to work with this hair and the problem is that you cannot cut it too short on the side, because if you cut it too too shoreline You go with the fade too too high. Then it's gon na happen is that the hair is really gon na spike up right. So it's kind of tricky. You see there, you create that shape or you create those those two shades right. So usually, what I like to do, I create the the shape instead of the shade so pretty much. What it is is that I make sure that the hair is a sculpture. It has a nice seal or add to way. So actually it looks nice because he kind of creates a nice shape on the head. Instead of going for the tones for the perfect fade that it's just gon na look blurry from one side. But you know, then, when the client start tries to style, the hair is now gon na. Look the best right, so sometimes you're gon na make decisions like that, and this client has said this side is more difficult than the other one. I'M going to show you guys at the end how the other side looks the other side, just kind of fades so much better. The hair grows in the direction that they would like it to grow. So you know just keep that in mind. It'S always. It'S always important to remember that this is Stephanie over here. They call this is Larry, so you guys gon na soon learn more about stuff, so here we're using a hot towel, because when I shave the back the back and shave I create the shape up. So pretty much with the shape was pretty easy. He doesn't get much on the shape up. All we really do is just kind of clean up a little bit of the whatever extra hairs that we see. We now clean up the neck, just to make sure that everything is it's clean there just make sure guys you clean the neck. You know how many times I go to the mall, and I see these nice haircuts very nice haircuts with a bunch of hair on the neck, and it just drives me crazy because I'm like, why are barbers being lazy? You put on all this work on making the face, look so nice and then you leave the hair, the other of the nape or the neck pull of hair. So I just don't get it so here you know we using a blade. We did apply a little bit of shape in jail and we applied a hot towel just to softened the skin. Just to make sure that you know I don't like shaving my clients dry. It'S just you know. My comments already got used to me using nice products on their face and the neck and everything, and they just like it, so here just double check in making sure that everything is the right way. Everything it's just. It has a nice shape that I wanted how to sell like. Sometimes you have to pick between the shape or the shade, and then you know in this case. Definitely the shape is more import because we want to make sure the client can style their hair and they can actually it grows nicely the way they wanted to grow. So you know that's more important, sometimes of the actual shape of it. So here I'm just adding a little extra product, not much because how I said a client already had product in his hair, he said is really difficult to manage, so he has to put product. He puts like a really heavy kind of pomade to keep it like. Slicked back, the good thing is that the hairs kind of wavy, so it's leaks back even when short, a lot of very straight hair, does not slicked back when it is short, so you know just just keep that in mind. It'S important length is important when you doing certain style. So here's the final look, I think it looks great. He really goes well with his head shape and that's what I really wanted. You can see this side actually faint aligned eyes. He grows in the night direction and that's it that's the video guys. I hope you guys enjoy don't forget to subscribe, like it share with somebody that can benefit from its video I'll see you guys. The next one take care.