💈 TEACHING BEGINNER BARBER HOW TO TAPER FADE! BEST TAPER FADE TUTORIAL!

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Isn't that like considered a note card? Yeah, I don't know, I'm confused, but this is a MacBook. Yeah, we're gonna have a student. He didn't tell you? No, I mean he said he's gonna like, basically I'm not cutting your hair, it's gonna be the whole thing. It's gonna be like him, you're walking through it? Yeah, well I got, I was gonna go eat, I'm hungry, so I'm gonna head over to Faded Culture Academy, which if you're in San Antonio, Texas or in the surrounding areas and want to become a licensed barber, a great licensed barber at that, visit fadedcultureacademy.com. At least buy a t-shirt, this is what we're making. Right, Drew? Buy everything. Yeah, buy everything. Introducing Corey London. What's up, y'all? Glad to see y'all. About to do some fun stuff today, students don't know. So what I'm gonna have you guys do is I already have these little pieces of paper cut out. You guys are gonna write your name down and then we're gonna throw them in my handy dandy iPhone marker box. There you go. And then we'll select the name and then whoever gets chosen will be able to go next door. Here, spin around three times. Yeah, spin around, there you go. Take your shirt off, take your boots off. All right, all right, who is it, who is it? Ant. Ant, there you go. All right, let's go. You ready? We got the winner, we got the winner right here, Ant. All right, let's go, bro. What's going on, Faded Culture? Today, we got my boy Ant here from Faded Culture Academy, who's a student. I walked him down step by step on how to do this taper fade tutorial. I hope you enjoy these kind of videos. As always, let us know down in the comments below and let's jump right into it. Ant, right? Yeah, Anthony, but yeah, a lot of my people call me Ant. All right, how comfortable are you with the shears, brother? I'm pretty comfortable with it, okay. What is usually your process for shears? I would go, I'll start with the bangs and I'll try to bring it right above the eyes and then I do my three sections going down, going back, and then I'll come and do my cross-checking in the back. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. I mean, that's good, it's definitely not wrong, but if he's going to rock it back, I'm going to throw it back first, comb it, and then we're going to section it and cut it backwards since he's not going to rock it forward. Okay, so you're putting it the way he's going to style it? Correct, yeah. So like, for instance, what you just said, like, oh, you would technically bring the fringe up to above the eyebrows, which is good if that's what they're going to wear it like, right? If they're going to wear it forward, but if he's telling me he's going to wear it back, then that's what I'm worried about. How is it going to sit once it's back? Okay. And because he likes a lot of the length, there's not much to take away. So the way I like to do the back is get a profile section. How comfortable are you with sectioning? That is my hardest thing right now, is sectioning. Got it. Let me see you section this side real quick. So I want it about a comb's width. Exactly, but put it all the way on this side, you know what I'm saying? Yes, there you go. About a comb's width, somewhere in the center, like right there, yeah. And then from there, you're going to get the fine side of the comb? Correct. Go ahead. He's tall. So I want you to try it again real quick. Brush it all back. Back? Yeah, back. You always want to comb in the way he's going to, the way you're going to section. Okay. Brush it all back. And I want you to try to lay the comb down a little bit more. And I want you to keep this finger here for pressure, and I want you to slide back. But I want you to, you notice how my comb is real flat? Yeah. Instead of like this. Okay. And that way it makes it easier to do this. All right. So go ahead, take your time. Have your finger there, lay it down more flat. There you go. Now push back, put some tension with that finger, push with your finger. There you go. And once you get right here, pause, take the comb out. Now you have an easy section to split. Yeah, keep your finger there. Correct. Perfect. Makes a little bit more sense? Yeah. I see you smiling, man. Like it's something quick. That's good. Cool. So the section's a lot cleaner. It's still a little lopsided, which is not bad, but your section definitely parted a lot cleaner. What you could do too, I mean, you probably don't have this issue because you're taller. Can you slouch down a little bit, bro? Yeah, dude, I'm short. So I have to see where I'm going to start, right? Yeah. So instead of just guessing, I can put my comb there. I could have already seen my end point. If I want, I could put my thumb back here, split it, keep my finger there. See how it's a little more cleaner? Yeah. So what was the tip right there? Keeping the comb flat. And then using your finger to keep it. To keep some tension? Yeah. Correct. Hell yeah. So because I always want to see where I'm picking up the hair from, if I got to lean over, cool. There's no wrong with that. Notice here, all the tension is after the knuckle. So I want to grab all the hair there. Anything past it, I don't really want, I don't care to cut because I'm losing tension there. We need more length over here. I'm not going to cut nothing from the front because I need it to brush back. I'm going to just even this little tip out. Almost nothing, right? What I could do, if I keep this section here, hold on to it. As I get my new section, I can pick up part of what I previously cut to use as my guide. Like when you're cutting grass? Literally. We're Hispanics, brother. That's what we do. That's what we know. We cut grass. It's in our roots. It's very little, almost nothing. So from here, now that I have my guide pre-cut, I'm going to throw all of this to this side. And now this whole section is my guide, right? So from here, I'm just going to pull horizontal sections and match that. Notice even here, I'm still going to use my thumb. So I'm going to do this side and I'm going to see you do the other side. My guide is right there. I'm going to just match these little hairs. I can throw this hair back, grab my new section. You see my guide? Yeah. It'll take those time with the sectioning? 100%. That's the main thing. If you could take your time with your sectioning, the cutting is easy. I think it's the setup that people get lazy on. Yeah. And that's what starts to get messy. And then every time I'm guiding, I'm getting about as well. I'm trying to respect you. Remember, it gets less and less as we approach the front. Do you understand why it gets less and less as we approach the front? Because all that hair is going towards the back anyways. Correct. He's styling it in the comb. Correct. And once you get into what they call a line theory, because the head rounds, this is lower. So this hair needs to be longer in order for it to lay, right? Because the head starts to round this way. So where you're pulling the hair from, it starts to get lower. I want to re-saturate. And remember, my guide is about a comb's width. So what I can do is I can either split it down the middle or get my whole profile section again. And now I'm going to throw it this way and use the guide this way. And then it's going to be the same process. You're going to grab some. You see that little guide right there? Yeah. You're just going to cut. Okay. Palm your shears. So let go of them and put them inside. There you go. Yeah. That's something for sure I'm needing to practice is the palming it. Yeah. That's a good exercise. Well, my brother's mentioning here in the background, he's talking about our curriculum school, which you can find in the description down below. We have a whole bunch of like tips and tricks, techniques that you could learn on how to grow as a barber. So I would highly suggest you check it out. You get seven days for free in the community. We go over finances, marketing, the technical skill, of course, and personal development, which is a foundation to any career. You getting a little lost? Yeah. Not really lost. It's just hard to handle. Keep pulling. Try to see if you can find your guide. I would say right there. It's tedious, man, but you're going to see like practicing one single section a million times. Yeah. It's redundant. It's boring, but it's going to help that muscle memory. Find side of the comb. Use tension on your finger. Use tension on the back of the comb. It's a section. Yeah. That right? Yeah. Go ahead. You want to use the tension like you push the comb. So instead of pushing with this one, you want to push with this one. Okay. So let's restart that real quick. And then remember your starting point. You want to start at the section, right? Okay. And then use this to either push. You can use this finger or your thumb, whatever you feel comfortable with. Now go ahead and push. I want you to push with this one. Go ahead. And then what do you do? You let go of the comb. There you go. And then you pick it up. Boom. That was clean. Go ahead and grab. There you go. That's easier. When you're grabbing from the front, you can easily grab from back here. Now that you've already got a little hold of it, you can refine your tension from back here too now. Grab it, grab it, grab it. Don't let go of it. Keep pulling your attention. Your guide's right there. Easy with the knuckle. I don't want to have to kiss a finger, bro, just because you're bleeding, man. All right, now throw this back. Palm of your shoes. You want to get in that habit, man. All right. But we also, the importance of practicing, man, is right now, like I heard you whispering into it because you got to like think about it. Yeah. The point of practicing so much is that you're not thinking. Once you're here, you're already just, it's muscle memory. You know what to do. Okay. So let's go ahead. Next section. Beautiful. Use your finger. Use your finger. Go, go. Right there. Pause. Take that coma. Look up your section. There you go. See, things are getting cleaner. Remember, grab from the back too. Yes. There you go. That's how you're going to ensure tension. Okay. Boom. Beautiful. Now keep pushing up. Keep pushing up. Keep pulling your attention up. There you go. Right there. Boom. Throw it back. No, like throw that ass back. I was so excited. Holden, he opened his eyes. Right there. Pause. Take the coma. Pick up your section. Beautiful. I like how you move positions too now to the back of him. That's perfect. Yeah, that was real good. Keep pulling it. Keep this tight. Stay in cramping. You're not pulling enough tension. Like literally, you need to squeeze that. Okay. A little bit more up, a little bit more up. Your guide's right here. All right, cool. Now I got it. Take your time, bro. There you go. I feel like I'm grabbing too much at the back. Yeah, you're grabbing at the back. What's happening is you just need to angle your comb a little bit more. Okay. Some more. Yeah, so it's going to be kind of like this. Okay. All right, because we're just using this point anyways. All right. Correct. Pull with your finger. Remember, take the comb out. There you go. Step back there. Grab your section. Remember, squeeze. Squeeze as you're pulling up. There you go. There you go, sir. Perfect. Keep your tension. Keep it easy. I'm going to use low heat, about medium speed. I'm going to start blow-drying it. I'm using my fingers to help speed up the blow-drying process. All right. And notice this is here, so I don't want to point it down to the scalp. It's obviously going to burn them. Okay. I'm literally just trying to strip away all the water already. I know the blow dryer can be used to kind of style the hair. 100%. We'll get to that at the end too, how to add volume with blow dryer. Obviously, we can't cut wet hair, so we got to dry. Yeah. All right. This is pretty dry. Let me see you do this side. I start with my one and a half. And if I feel like I need to, then I'll come in. If the hair is really long, then I'll come in with my three guard. Okay. My whole purpose of debulking, my mindset, I like for them to come in where it looks like they got a haircut maybe like two to three weeks ago. So whenever I'm debulking, my one and a half guard is probably closest to that. Okay. I could probably still remove that, continue my debulking process with my three guard. I'm setting my first guideline. What do you usually set in your first guideline with? My trimmers also, but instead of going up like that, I have them flipped around. I kind of just tag it in there. Is there a reason? No, there's no reason, honestly. To me, I think that's just how I started off doing it. Gotcha. Have you tried this way? I've tried it once or twice. I think I need a zero gap in my trimmers just because they don't catch the hair as easily as that. Gotcha. We actually do have a whole tutorial too on how to zero gap trimmers and clippers if you haven't checked it out. Oh, no. Yeah. And even here, man, as I'm creating my guideline, notice as I approach this, I'm still flicking out. I'm creating space. I say that because when I say guidelines a lot of the time, some people want to really force in a guideline. Yeah. It just makes it a lot harder to fade. Okay. So here that I'm doing this, I want you to do the other half. Cool. Use your brush. Hell yeah. I'm going to put my one guard. You're pretty comfortable with the clippers from what I see. Just need to get you comfortable with the sectioning. Yeah, sectioning, scissors, and then I think my hardest thing is this guideline. That's probably one of my main guidelines that I have the most struggle getting out. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah, we'll see that when it comes down to it. See, even once I get to my one and a half guard, man, I'm already thinking, how can I connect this no matter what? I'm not thinking in terms of creating more guidelines. So if I got to be softer at the top, then I'll do that. You know what I'm saying? I'm already thinking, of course, it's going to be very hard, but it's already blending somewhat in. You know what I mean? Yeah. I can come in and touch it up with my thinning shears. And that's just you being a little light-handed. Exactly. And even like right now that I'm just using my corners to get in there. When people get regular fades and you're constantly just thinking guidelines, that's when people start going into the, passing the parietal ridge and going into that top length. Not perfect, but it's pretty, you know what I'm saying? It's not too bad. Yeah. So here you go. I want you to try to attempt to do the same. All right. I definitely feel like maybe your side looks a little bit lighter than mine. It's just a little lighter. So what I see already from the back, notice how even my, this guide is a little bit lighter on mine. Yeah. So that tells me that you were, you know, you were just digging in a little too much with that initial one. Okay. So now we know next time, let's try to be soft from even the beginning. Okay. You know what I mean? All right. Let me see. Not bad though. I mean, you're creating space, but again, your mindset right now is probably creating guidelines, which is exactly what you're doing. It's not bad. Yeah. But if we can get you to start thinking and creating space, that's how you'll start trying to get more of this outcome. Okay. But I want to keep going through it all so I can show you how I would approach that. Okay. And now I'm personally already done on this side with my setup. Do you feel like you need a different guard? I have a two guard. I have a two guard. Is that cool enough? Yeah. I'd say two, because you already did that with a three. Yes, sir. I mean, I feel like I'm getting it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want you to feel like you need to do more than what you normally do. I need to see exactly where you're at so I can then help you. You know what I mean? Okay. Don't overthink it. All right. Yeah. I feel like... If you're already done, you're already done. I would rather hear that than you just be there. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Yeah. You're already done? Yeah. Okay, cool. All I see is right here. And then from there, I'll just probably coming up a little bit with my corners. I notice as you approach these corners, you tend to start doing this. Okay. Right? Yeah. Here, I'm literally doing the opposite. I'm coming this way so I can just finish cleaning that out. And then it's pretty much done though. Go ahead and comb that or brush that. Yeah. I like the way it sits. Do you feel like just you releasing maybe a little bit more pressure moving forward? Yeah, definitely. It's me just having to stop being so pushing and digging into the head with so hard. Okay, cool. That doesn't take time, but at least we can take a mental note of that. This is my side. Ant's doing the right side. Like he mentioned, he feels that he probably just digged in a little bit more. So that's why we have what looks like three guidelines. But moving forward, he's going to take a mental note. We're going to release a little bit of pressure and try to just create space versus guidelines. Here, I have my half guard, three fourths and notice I'm just using the corners of it as well because I'm already thinking of how can I blend in to this already? Yes. It's creating a faint line somewhere in some spots, but it's okay. I don't want to keep chasing it. It's good that you have a process, man, like to go to, you have a system to rely on. Only problem is when we start to rely too hard on a system, we forget that it's an art. And with that saying, or with that said, we forget that we can control, like, notice how high I'm going with the half guard and I'm still blending it out so we can still control. This is just a tool to help us blend. We don't have to depend on it to create the blend for us. Yeah. Dude, what stuck with me is we have this one guy here in town named Chewy. He could do a whole fade with just a trimmer and that just shows like how much he's using his tool to just carve and sculpt. You know what I mean? That's what I've been, uh, I've been seeing videos on Instagram and stuff like that too, where people were just trying to just trimmers and they put like three minute haircuts or whatever. Yeah. And it's possible. And so I'm, I'm definitely like, I'm like, you gotta have like a steady hand. You gotta have. And so, yeah, you saying that about the having a system though, I felt like that, that clicked for me a little bit. Like I shouldn't just rely on just the system. I should definitely, you know, try to just use my eyes. There you go. There you go. The autistic side. You can't say that on camera, dog. The autistic side. That's crazy. You can get it canceled. See how pretty much he's my half guard and I got rid of that second. Yeah. I want you to attempt to do the same. Okay. I even came up a little high and I'm literally using this to blend. To be up here. I want you to try to attempt to do the same, even though you do have that third guideline. I want you to focus on this one. Okay. If we push into that, that's okay. All right. Let's just keep going again. I want you. I want to see what you naturally do. I don't want you to overthink it too much. All right. Don't overthink it, man. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I'm feeling like, yeah. Okay, cool. All right. I noticed, obviously you had to close the lever a little bit more. Yeah. And that was because initially, again, we're going back to, we just set in that first one a little too rough, right? Yeah. So here you're done with the half guard. I'm going to keep it at the three fourths position just so I can even out the space on both sides. I'm going to do exactly what I was doing on the other side. Oh yeah. So you're going into that guideline. Yeah. Well, because yeah, initially you took out what we needed to, right? Yeah. But again, I'm already thinking I need to blend this in already. Okay. So whatever I got to do as I approached this up here, like I said, I'm, I'm, it looks like I'm laying the whole clipper down. You're just using that corner. I'm using that corner and I'm literally laying this down instead. Okay. But again, just exactly what you said earlier, you just using your eye, what needs to be evened out, what needs to be removed. Let's go for that. It's going to take time, man. Don't expect it to happen from one cut to another. Yeah. It's going to take time. It's learning your tools exactly at what angle does it do what, how much does it cut at what angle? Yeah. I just started getting the idea down for when that hit, when the hair grows different directions. Yeah. That's a whole nother thing, man. So does laying the full clipper down versus only using the corner. Like I get it. It's just, uh, like more or less like lengthwise at a time. Like you're only doing certain, like you're doing small amounts versus a whole. Yes. Big part. But does it, does it have any other light differences? Yeah. Yeah. So when you lay the full clipper down, you're cutting true to what it is, which is a half. You're cutting more hair. Anytime you start angling it and using more of the corner, you're cutting less and less. That's what I'm saying. With time, you'll notice the small, subtle difference that this makes versus this makes versus this makes and so forth. Okay. You I'm looking at what's actually happening up here. Course correcting as it's doing, like if I went in here and I saw I cut too much, which I did in the beginning, then I moved my lever. And if I'm up here and I'm seeing that it's cutting too much, and then I'm like, okay, I'll start doing this. You know what I'm saying? I'm really just looking at it like an art. Okay. Oh yeah. So now we got our last line and that's just this right here. Yes, sir. So I like to do a three-step process. And even when I work on my own, I still split it in two. Okay. Right now I'm splitting it in two cause I'm working with you. But even when it's me personally, just cutting every day, I split it in two. And even here, look, I'm already trying to see how I can connect. My system is usually closed halfway fully open, but again, I don't want to rely on that. Okay. If I can get it out in one stroke with just clothes and cool, I'm done. You know what I mean? Yeah. I think that might be my biggest thing is just learning how to get it softer. So I'm gonna go halfway, but I mean, it's already almost blended in and I'm gonna go fully open just touch-ups 30 coming out, right? So I'm gonna close it. I'm gonna do this little part just cause I noticed this part gets a little tricky. So I'm gonna do this part because I want you to notice even the small differences of from here to here, here, even though I'm trying to be cautious and not creating a line, I could already see no matter how cautious I am, because the hair gets darker here, I'm going to create a line no matter what. And that's just because of the way that the hair is growing. Exactly. But again, it doesn't mean I'm not trying to connect. It's just, I already know. Yeah. Then I'm gonna go halfway. Notice the grain is coming this way. I want to make sure I'm cutting against it. So my angle is this way. That's how you get a consistent fade too. Just by following the hair. Noticing the grain. Yeah. Fully open. Here you go. And again, just do what you would normally do, man. I don't want you to overthink it. But these are so hard to figure out what's halfway or not. This is like... Oh, cause you use clicks? Yeah, I use clicks. Yeah. Gotcha. So this is like halfway you think? Yeah. And you could even, like I was telling you, so like if you're scared, if you don't think that's halfway, if you want to start a little bit more open, gauge it right here before you go crazy. And then, okay, this is where like we go back to using your eye. Okay. And just focusing on what's actually happening over here. Not depending too much on the tool. Okay, cool. This is your first attempt at that. So if you feel like it's cutting too much, okay, boom. All right. It's coming out clean. Damn it, man. You're making me proud. Looks good, bro. Right? Hold on. What do you know that I don't, dog? He's like, you're doing it wrong. I was really trying to just focus on the pressure. It shows because I saw you were like way high, but yet you were just going for what you needed. Yeah. I'm not going to lie. I was a little nervous. I was like, I hope you don't zap him. And you were literally angling your clipper enough to where it wasn't cutting more than what it needed to. All right. I don't know how comfortable you are with your electric shaver. I want to see this. Same thing, man. Once I'm up here, it's just pressure. And I turn it around and use it like if it was a clipper, if I need to start angling it, so be it. So I'd say the only time I really use the bald shavers is when, is like at the beginning. Like after I get all like those bottom hairs out. Okay. Like that's when I use it. So you usually shave in the beginning? Yeah. Like those bottom hairs that you just did. Yeah. Like I'll do that. So let me see that. Let me see that real quick. Am I touching the fade with this? You can a little bit. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Like literally right there's barely anything. Remember releasing pressure. He's in the corner, but if you feel like you're done again, I want you to normally do what you would normally do. So I can, that's how I'm going to help you. I want you to try to change it. Yeah. And what I normally do. Yeah. That's it. Cool. The only thing I saw again right here is if you feel this grain this way, I always run my back of my finger in different directions just to see him. Like if you go this way. Oh yeah. So for that reason, I use both foils and I'll put it down. I mean, you can still hear it cut a little bit. Yeah. And because I already knew that this hair was facing up and I'm applying a little bit of pressure going down and it's smooth. So making sure you go like opposite. Always opposite. It's a big difference, right? Yeah. He said, Oh dang. Go home and shave my nuts. But bro, those small details, yeah. Your client will notice. They'll be like, I've had clients tell me like, dude, your fades last longer than any other. When another barber cuts me and it's simple things like that. Just making sure it's actually all bald. Correct. Okay. I'm coming right here. I mean, it's literally, I repeat my process. So the only difference here is obviously since he's getting a C cup, it's already real light. So I'm gonna stay away from that. Okay. That's why you're using just the left side. Yeah. I'm literally just using my corners just to create my space already.