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So now we have the sides cut and the back cut we now have to blend in and we have to cut the top.
So when it comes to blending in there’s many ways, there’s a clipper over comb technique, where you use again a big comb, it's nice and big so the clipper blade fits
because if we were to blend in with a small comb there’s always the chance that you may take hair away that you don’t want, so by having a bigger comb, nice and flexible,
you just get a bit of protection.
And then you just pick the hair up, pulling the comb out and you’re just taking the corners away that you don’t want, just nice and steady.
Just working our way towards the back of the hair.
There’s another technique we can use and this one we call scissor over comb.
It's scissors in, keep your hair up and you snip it away just working your way down the hair.
Always remember to keep the comb in your fingers, not in your hand.
I’m just working my way towards the front.
So we’ve had clipper over comb, scissor over comb.
Now we have the basic sort of shape we damp the hair down.
Now I’m just going to cut the top. And this one I shall be starting at the front working my way back.
You have to get a nice firm grip of the hair, working my way towards the crown.
I’m working my way back towards the crown again.
A little bit more water.
And we’ll now go back to scissor over comb.
I’m just working my way towards the front.
And back to my big clipper comb. We’ll just pick off any edges that remain from the blend.
Now I’m just going to repeat the process on this side.
Now the comb, that we call a flat top comb, although we not only use it for flat tops it's a good way if you put the comb in the hair and you can just check for some longer ends.
I’m just putting the comb in and picking the hair up.
And also you’ll notice that I’m not holding it on the handle because you’ve got less control. Right in my fingertips.
And swap over hands and just come in at the side and again just enables you to check for any longer hair.
Repeat the process.
Okay, now we can just move onto the back of the head just to blend in.
And we’ll just move onto the very front.
I’m just using scissor over comb, I’ll just take a little bit more off.
I’m just picking away a bit at the front.
We’ll pick up a pair of texturising scissors. I'm just going to lighting just go over all the tips of the hair and just give it a slightly softer look.
I’m just going to dry it off.
I’ll just remove some of the hair.
And when the hair’s nice and dry you can style it.
This gentleman wants a wet look gel.
I’m just going to break the product down. I’m just going to lightly coat all the hair.
And then what’s left we come back.
And then we can put the hair in the desired style.
And there you have short back and sides, short and choppy on the top.