/* Video Transcript
 *
 *   mike - /fa/
 *
 * In case you can't undertand my mumbling,
 * or don't understand english very well. You can put
 * this in a translator.
 *
 */

I answered a lot of specific questions on the last video, so just click on the uploader's responses to see what I've already explained.

So I recorded this right after I got back from rugby practice, and therefore my hair is completely dry and unstyled. That's what it looks like.

I use CONAIR brand clippers. The cheapest ones I found at Target. They clippers don't matter too much as long as you oil them every once in a while.

That was a number #1 guard.

What I'm doing is clicking the blades forward. I'll use this to fade. You'll that I'll gradually click the blades back away from the guard as I progress.

Here I am cutting my shortest.

Now I am going 2nd shortest.

Now I'm 3 clicks back from where I began with the blades.

I switch to a #2 guard, but I advance the blades as closest to the guard as possible, to fade the sides better.

I come back over the entire sides with a #2 guard, to cut any stray hair.

You can sort of see how it's been cut here. Nowhere close to finished though.

Now I'll be cutting the back with a #2 guard.

To clean up the hair growing past my hairline, I'll use no guard.

As you can see the hair falls everywhere. That's why I am shirtless.

Now I am going to fade the back by going back over the area with a #1 guard with partially extended blades.

I am using this 3# guard to reduce some of the thicker and fluffier hair towards the top back of my head.

I'm planning on using scissors for the top, so I'm getting my head wet.

Here you can see just how my hair grows, the divide is where the hair is growing straight upwards, as opposed to my heavy bangs which lay down when wet.

And you can see I've cut  my bangs a lot since the last video.

Now I'm just using scissors to shorten the top, guys with thinner and flatter hair won't need to do this.

Scissoring the back is pretty dangerous. Be careful.

Here I am showing you how the sides of the top have more hair to allow the top to blend with the sides. Many novices make a mistake by cutting this away, and ending up with a high and tight.

Now I'm evening out the blend with the sides.

I've kind of got some hair on my face. This happens.

I'm just touching up the back now.

I am thinning out the temple apex at this point. It gives you a cleaner look.

I dislike when my sides touch my ears, and many of you military guys will too. Here I make sure it's clean.

Here is what it looks like with just a fingertip full of matte paste.


Alright, I hope this helps some of you guys.

Shout out to /fa/.