Fixing His Mod Hairstyle! He Wasn't a Fan Of This look Until He Saw This Spectacular Hair Transformation ❌

Alright, talk to me. Alright. What do you want to do? I have a picture actually. Okay. I have a picture. I want to get something like this. Okay. Yeah, like the mop cut. The mop cut. Yeah. My hair just like... I used to have it. It just like grew out way too much. I just can't... It's like hard to style now. A little heavy. Yeah, exactly. So you want to take it down real close to that? So it's like nice and tighter to the neck but still layered? Or do you want to reserve any of the length in the back? I don't really like the length of the back. You don't really like the length? Nah, I got it too long, yeah. I'm not sure. And like keep the bangs by like the eyebrow. I wanted to get it by like the eyebrow. Yeah, not too far above. Yeah, just like laying on it. It's just super heavy. Yeah. Super heavy. Your hair's thin. Yeah, man, I know. It's been a minute since I got a haircut. Like three, four months. How long was the ride to come here? Like 30 minutes. 30 minutes. Yeah, not bad at all. What did you hear about me? Actually, my mom found you on Instagram. Instagram? And she just like... It was like, do you want to hang out with me? Yeah, of course. Mod haircuts are not that difficult. And in this video, I'm going to show you why. But first, if you haven't yet, smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell. We are on the road to our first 100,000 subscribers and we need your help. If you are anything like me, which I'm sure you might be just a little bit, mod haircuts can be intimidating. When I first started doing these haircuts, I had no idea what I was doing. First, I learned how to get the job done. Then I learned the right way to execute this haircut and just about any other haircut. So first, as always, I'm going to map out my haircut with clean sections, sectioning off the back, the sides, and the top. Now, let me know in the comments if you would like a full breakdown video of how I section the head from the science of how I find the rounds of the head. My mindset on why I section what and how I map everything out from the fringe to the nape to the sideburns. Let me know in the comments and I will make that video for you guys. And if you didn't just notice, I actually made a mistake sectioning. I accidentally pulled too much of the fringe into the side panel. So I had to recognize my mistake and go back and resection that side panel. This is just one observation of why sectioning is so crucial because if I would have took too much of that fringe into the side panel, I'm then at risk of cutting too much off of this fringe. Now, two pro tips. When I'm sectioning off my side panels, I always use my comb to push the hair out of the eyes, especially if I'm not twisting the hair up. Sometimes the hair isn't long enough to twist up. It's very uncomfortable to have wet hair in your eyes the entire time your barber is working in the back of your head. Also, second pro tip, always re-saturate the hair after you've done your section. And before you start each panel, re-wet the hair. Some hair dries faster than others and you don't wanna be cutting some dry hair and some wet hair because you will get inconsistency in your cuts. Now, starting on the back panel with the profile section down the center of the back of his head, I'm going to establish my first incision, my first length. And as you can see there, I removed some of that extra hair coming from the crown at the top. Made my first incision. Then I'm gonna check that layer, see how it lays, see if I need to remove any more. And then I'm going to find that incision that I made first. Here I have way too much of it in my fingers so I'm gonna drop some of that just so I have what I need to continue that guide through the crown. Look at all that weight that was sitting on the crown. This is exactly why I pushed everything from the crown to the side when I made my first incision. I see way too many barbers trying to pull way too much hair into their fingers when they go to make an incision. Instead of trying to pull so much hair up into one incision, pull a little bit of hair up, make an incision, drop the hair, find your guide, make another incision. But now with all of that weight from our first layer removed from the top and a nice guide right in the center of the back of his head, we can take that guide and continue it down through the nape. Henry told me that he didn't really like the length. He said it was way too long in the back and hard to style. So we are going to be removing length. But right now, as we're doing this first layer, we're not really removing much length off the back of his neck. We are just removing weight. Starting with the first guide vertically through the center of his head. And you can even see here, I'm going back through and making sure that all of that weight is removed. Just pulling all the hair straight off of the head, making sure we're working round vertically and round horizontally for maximum movement. Now with that first guide through the center of the head, we're going to just keep pulling sections down to the right, connecting everything, just matching up my guide and removing all of that unnecessary weight that Henry does not like. With every section, we're going to remove all of the weight up top because that is in the way and we don't want to be trying to cut hair through the center and down into the nape with all of that hair falling on top. Midway through, I'm going to re-wet the hair, making sure that everything is evenly saturated. Now as I move from left to right, I'm making sure that I'm paying attention to my body position, moving my body with each section. And with each section, I'm going to pull a little bit from the previous section into that section so that I have a guide working all the way through it vertically. Having that vertical guide from the previous section will assure that I'm keeping that round shape vertically and horizontally. And I'm just going to keep repeating these steps all the way to the right until I've reached the back of the ear. And what I did here in this last section behind the ear is when I remove that weight, as I get to the top of that section, I'm actually going to pull the hair out and keep it nice and square at the top. For this haircut, I want to keep it nice and square on the side but round in the back. So once I have that side of the back done, I'm actually pulling everything up horizontally and just cross-checking through the bottom. Being aware that all of that length on the bottom, I'm going to remove after I'm completely done laying back. So now, since the right side of the back panel is done, I'm going to just keep repeating these steps throughout the left side of the back panel. I'm going to speed this up a little bit so you can watch visually. But if you have any questions about this, drop your question in the comment section and I will respond with an answer. Now, with everything layered in the back, it's time to start chopping off some of that length at the nape area. So, I'm just pulling everything straight out, chopping some of that length off with my shears, point cutting to make sure I'm not making anything too blunt, and then I'm elevating everything through the center, cross-checking all of that, making sure that everything horizontally is nice and round and even. You don't want any random long pieces. Trust me, clients will notice that. Once that's all done, I'm going to use my feather razor to really set in the length on the back of his neck. The feather razor is always going to leave your lengths more soft, more textured. When it comes to a mod cut, you want the haircut to look strong and structured, but you want your edges, your perimeter, to look nice and soft and textured. It's the perfect balance between a nice, strong, structured haircut that has a lot of movement, flow, and softness around the edges. This is how you're going to achieve the nice, wispy ends in the back and on the sideburns that most people desire when they see a mod haircut. Now that you're done with the back panel, it's time to connect that back panel into the sides. If you can understand this one single concept, I believe cutting hair becomes a lot easier. That is that every panel has a top perimeter and a bottom perimeter. For this side panel, I'm first attacking the bottom perimeter, the length of his sideburn. Dissecting the entire panel through the center, I remove the top and I'm just focusing on that bottom perimeter. Taking one guide from the back behind the ear and going through the bottom perimeter connecting the sideburn. I then will attack the top perimeter. The top perimeter, I'm going to do the same thing, find a guide from the back, pull everything straight off of the head and connect horizontally through that side panel. Now, in doing so, you will have a guide going through the top of your side panel and the bottom that works perfectly for your layers. Now, all you gotta do is connect the dots. Connect everything from your bottom length into your top length, essentially layering the entire side panel. And to do that, I'm just taking vertical sections throughout the side panel as I'm going to do on this other side panel. Again, connecting that bottom perimeter to the top perimeter, layering everything. Now again, I'm going to speed through this because we already did it on the other side, but I would like for you guys to see it visually. And again, if you have any questions about this, drop it in the comments and I will answer all of your questions. Also, we are in the process of creating an online community where I will be posting more in-depth videos similar to these YouTube tutorials where you will have private access but also be able to work with me one-on-one on your shear cutting techniques, on all different hair cutting techniques and I will also help you scale your barber business through social media. So be on the lookout for that and if you are interested in online coaching and not only learning more about cutting but also scaling your business, let me know in the comments. Next, we are going to attack the top. For this haircut, I wanted to set my perimeter throughout the front of the fringe first. So, taking one section down the middle makes it super easy for me to isolate my fringe. Essentially, what we are doing here is face framing. So, when I section off my fringe, I want to make sure that the two sections stemming from that top middle section go all the way through the sides about right where the front of his ears. You want to make sure you have some of your sideburns in that section with your fringe. Especially for this haircut because it's a mid-length mod cut, you want to make sure that the fringe sits nice on the eyebrows but also connects and blends nice into the sideburns. Them sideburns are going to hug his cheekbones and the edges of his eyebrows. Now, once you have the perimeter of your fringe connected into your sideburns and everything looks nice and framed, we are going to go and start working in our layers through the top. Taking one section from the front to the back, we are going to use the length of our fringe and work that guide all the way through the center of the head into the back where we have an obvious guide at the crown. Now, you might be asking why am I using my feather razor? Why am I doing this pinching technique instead of just using my shear? The simple answer is it's all preference. If I were to use a shear, I'd probably point cut so that I'm not leaving many blunt lines but essentially, you can leave as many blunt lines you can just use your shear and cut flat straight across and then you can add your texture in the end. I personally just want to get better at this technique and sometimes I believe it's just more aesthetically pleasing for my videos but that doesn't mean that this is a right or wrong way to do it. Find what works for you, master it and film it. Now that we have that single guide going from the fringe to the crown, we can then start lifting the hair up section by section. Here I started from the back and I worked my way forward and I'm just taking that guide from the middle and working to the left and then working to the right. Making sure as I work towards the sides, I'm keeping everything nice and square because we decided that we want more of a square shape up top but we also don't want it to look disconnected so we are making sure that the top is connected into the sides. With the top completely done, it's now time to refine. One specific area that I wanted to refine was this right side pan. Over the ear there was just a little bit too much weight. The one right side burn there was just a little too long. Not much, just little touch ups. I always say when you have a good process by the end of your haircut, you shouldn't have a ton of huge mistakes. It should be slight refining and then styling. There wasn't much to refine, really just that one side burn, little bit of weight over the right ear and then using my feather razor to add more texture on the back of the neck to make them ends just a little bit more wispy. For the style of this haircut, I used Claim 13 texture powder while the hair was still a little damp. Then I used my diffuser to really work that hair product into the hair and now with the haircut completely styled, I'll then refine one more time with my feather razor. Just working around the head, adding texture where I think parts of the head are just a little too flat, maybe just need a little bit more weight removed. Here I'm just removing some weight around the front top area, just adding a little bit more texture. The hair looks one way wet but when you dry it, it looks another way and then when you style it, that is the complete look so you really wanna make sure you don't just call it a day at the end without styling it, without refining it because your client will appreciate that fine detail. Like even the little stuff, right here, I'm just removing all the hair off the back of his neck with my feather razor where some barbers wouldn't even do that, they would just let all the hair on the back of the nape cover that. Now Henry is absolutely rocking this mod haircut. He was obsessed with it, I'm obsessed with it and as you can see, this is how he came in and this is how he's leaving, literally owning this mod haircut. I did add a little bit of hairspray at the end just to hold this look because we took some videos inside and we took a few outside as well. I didn't want the wind to be blowing his hair around and I really just wanted this style to last all day for him. Please let me know in the comments what you think of this haircut. Again, this is how he came in and this is how he is leaving. We completely transformed Henry's look. He came in with just a completely overgrown mod haircut and he is leaving with the perfect mod cut, completely tailored to his head shape, his personality. He is rocking this haircut in true model fashion. I am extremely happy with this haircut. Let me know in the comments if you are happy with this haircut and on your way out, please smash that subscribe button, hit that notification bell so you can be notified every time we drop a haircut tutorial just like this one. Let me know if you guys want to see more mod haircuts. Let me know what different types of haircuts you guys want to see and as always, I appreciate you stopping by. I'll catch you guys on the next one. Peace.