Doodle Teddy Bear Face Grooming Demo

My favorite shears to use to do pretty much any doodle face, but especially for this kind of coat, is the Neera Slayer, the reverse curves. So for starters, I'm going to go ahead and clean out this area in front of the eyes. It looks like currently they've been done with straight shears and straight up, but I want to create a more rounded look. Now I'm not trimming this close to the skin because I don't want it to show, so just a little bit above. But by doing this, I'm going to start creating this circular kind of teddy bear look that the owner has requested. And since they're reverse, I can go ahead and comfortably go the other way too, which is awesome. Yeah, you can definitely see here on these sides that this has been cut all the way to down here, so we definitely want all of that to grow out. And as I had mentioned previously, it is better to leave the coat, if I were to try to blend in those little corners to the outside here, it is going to make it 10 times more difficult for me to ever get it where I want it to be. So the next thing I'm going to do, he's like falling asleep, I'm going to trim out the hair above the eyes. So he's got pretty short eyelashes. I'm going to lift up the hair in the top, and I'm going to place my fingers over the little lashes, and using the back of my reverse curves, I'm going to trim out the hair that is above the eyelashes. And that'll be easier if your dog's lashes are already long, but it's a little harder to hold them down when the lashes are short. Okay, and he is being so good, I can't believe I met him today. Don't bite me. Thank you. Aw. Okay, so I mean, he's already looking pretty cute, you guys. I always get excited when I'm on the face. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead with the curves. I'm going to lift up his little ear, but I'm making sure you don't want to be pulling back here, because then you're moving the skin, which will then move the hair. So when you put it back down, that's not really where it's going to go. I'm going to go ahead with the curve, work my way up here. I'm not going to bring it up to the top of the head yet, just because I want that ear to be down where it goes. But you can already see how much cleaner this looks without that hair under the ear. And already from the front, you can see how much softer this side looks and more connected than this side over here. And I feel like, at least to me, like almost like magic when I use these shears to trim any part of the face, especially on dogs with this kind of like hair combo. And it is. It's literally like magic. And sometimes I'm like, wow, I can't believe I did that. And I don't really think it's me. I think the scissors are just like I don't know, possessed with penis spirit. So you can go from the top and then blend it into the bottom here. And we're really softening that side up. So I'm going to comb all the hair back. Okay. And then I'm just going to comb forward just a little itty bitty smiddle little of it. And I'm going to go ahead and even that up, starting from one side of the eye and working my way across. Oh, wow. And then I'm going to take a little bit more and comb that forward. And I'm going to once again, even it up, but this time my layer, I'm going to even it up a little bit further away. If you ever see any little dingle dangles, you can just fix them up at any point in time. Now I am going to take my shear to the top of the head. Oh my God. He's so good. If you watch this course, if you've gotten to this point, you've been blessed and all of your doodles are going to be like this going forward. You just have to email this to 12 people. Oh, this is coming out super cute. Okay. Now I'm just going to even up the top of the head, make sure it's a nice round top and blend it into the back of the neck, which these years will make it really like you can't mess it up. Especially. I love these for here in the back of the neck as well, because just you can come here and just, I mean, you could, what can't you use them for except for places that you want it to be straight.