CLASSIC MEN’S HAIRCUT TUTORIAL | Sir Men’s Salon

Where are you guys going to go eat? Annapurna. Oh, nice. Have you been there? No, I haven't. It's delicious. Wow. Where is it located? There's one over off Eubank in the Spain area, and then there's one in UNM Silver and Central-ish over in the Brickyard or where do you call it? Brick Light Disco. Oh, yeah. Awesome. Oh, that sounds like a good one. It's East Indian, vegetarian, and it's delicious. I like that kind of stuff. Sounds good. I noticed that Indian food can be a little bit spicy, Yeah, it's a little, a tad bit more mild, and it's not as rich as a, because it's vegan and vegetarian, so they're not going to use a lot of dairy. You know, it's like right when you walked in, I didn't even notice you were visually impaired at all. Like, did you notice that? Like, I was just like, oh, here, go ahead and eat. I was like, Jesus. Yeah, there's no, like, you know, if you've seen, if you've never been around somebody who's visually impaired, you wouldn't, nobody would know. Exactly. And if you see a movie, you just think, you know, I'm supposed to fall on the ground and spaz a little, and that tells you something about my eyesight. Yeah, mine's a, it's a genetic thing. It's reduced over time, so I have some central, but I have no peripheral, so. And how long over time has it, like, reduced? Well, I drove until I was 27, and then I'm 40, almost 49 now. But I haven't driven since then, and it's kind of like, the hard thing is, like, it's daytime's the best, but at night it's even worse. Like, I don't see a lot. I have, like, night blindness in addition to the peripheral. Oh, wow. I use the joke of, like, the 40-year-old virgin where he's telling them, he's like, use your peripherals. Yeah, I love that movie. That's not me. There's no peripherals to be used. Yeah, that's kind of a little, you know, now I see the danger in that in the sense of, if you're not used to it, you know. Right. Well, and the driving thing ended up being, like, I could have actually still drove, but the thing is, like, my side vision was so, like, I wouldn't be able to see a little kid or something, you know, if I'm driving down the street. Not today, I mean, but, like, you know, years ago, I made the choice to, like, no, I don't want to do this. I just, if I caused, you know, that's just stubbornness too far. I was diagnosed when I was a kid, and, but they said, like, oh, you know, at some point, it will reduce, and at some point, there's no timing to this thing. It's not like, oh, like, five days from now, you're... Oh, no, no, sight will reduce. Yeah, the other... It's not all at once. Right, and they don't know that if, like, they say, like, oh, it won't go to zero, but, you know, there's no pattern to it, which is the good or bad of it, you don't really know. No, I'm originally from Chicago, but I have lived a lot of different places. I actually live in Oregon right now, but I was here and then moved to Oregon, and now I'm kind of constrained to whether to come back. A little pesky rain, weather, and maybe she over there might have some influence on this as well. Don't tell her. Are your wives from here? She's a special lady friend at the moment. Oh, that's a good story. Good joke. Well, you know, like, Big Lebowski. We've known each other for almost two years, haven't we? Yeah. That's a long time. Yeah. And then, you know, even in Oregon, when we... Yeah, she came with me, and it was just, the weather was not working for her. Oh, yeah. And I don't blame her, actually. Like, as far as Oregon, I think, just because that weather is different out there, it's... Yeah, it was just too... Yeah. Just something about the wetness, dampness there is not good for her health, so... So what do you do for a living? Oh, yeah. And what branch? Oh, nice. Yeah. It's not worth it. No, it was horrible. Yeah. And I went there, or was excited to go there, because of, like, a music scene. So I play music, but with COVID stuff, like, Oregon's way more restrictive than anybody else. It's still restrictive. Like, I get it for my safety, but it's, like, so far that it's... Yeah. Not yet. It's just me. Like, I do drums, guitar, keyboard. I was doing a bunch of other stuff, but with the site getting... It reduced some, and it just made things a little... Some stuff was, like... Anything with a small screen is pretty much horrible. It's almost for me to look at, so... Like, a lot of these synthesizer things out there have those, like, tiny screens on them that tell you, you know, oh, this preset, or this number, this value. And that was just horrible. So, like, I just... I had a bunch of that stuff and just decided to sell it, and just... I've been focusing a lot more on guitar and guitar effects, because the effects have taken a huge, like, leap, and they have become way more advanced and interesting. Huh. I keep getting copyrighted on YouTube, but they like me because I have people following me, and I produce good content. Yeah. And I'm positive. So, eventually, I want to get someone like you to make me some beats. Nice. And then buy some, like, beats for the background, just so I can do... You know, because they really like to hear the engagement of me and the client. Yeah. But at the same time, it can't be just dead quiet from me and the client in the background. Yeah, so you just want something simple, like, lightweight behind the scenes. Exactly. Yeah, that makes sense. Oh, yeah. I even, like, ask for a piano or whatever. Yeah. Is this your shop? Yeah. Oh, okay. Awesome. Yeah. Yeah, we were... I did, like, you know, of course, things for, like, someone, like, a record label. Yeah, you did a surf or something. Yeah. You're, like, the top one. Oh, wow. I really appreciate that. Thank you so much. You'll see two months I'm done with this for using it up. Yeah, but even, like, the kind of stuff you've got right now, like, something like that, a little ambient, have a little, like, you know, jazzy, trip-hop, hip-hop kind of beat thing. That's very easy to just... Here you go. And then you can just reuse it, you know, wherever you like. And... But you can have that. You can have a little simple, little piano riff with it or something. Nothing too crazy. That would be awesome. And what I would do is just hire a person, and then they just may keep that by them often. Yeah. And then they could, you know... And then you've got the rights, you know, so that way you don't have to worry about... Exactly. There's some crazy copyright stuff going on. Like, there was a case a year or two ago where... What's her name? Katy Perry got sued, and the judge awarded the person who sued her because the song was, in essence, like Katy Perry's. And I'm like, holy crap. Because if you think about, like... Classical music covered pretty much anything that could ever be made. So it's like, oh... It's hard not to... So Mozart's family should be suing us all. Yeah, yeah. Because, in essence, we're just doing Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, whatever. And it's like, that's not good. Now, I'm not, you know... And then there's, you know, the old cases of, like, Vanilla Iceberg. Like, dude, you clearly rip them off, all right? Oh, my God. There's no doubt. You know, but LA's notorious for ripping people off. But it's like, you know, an A chord, a B chord, whatever, it's, like, the same stuff. So you can't... I don't know. Yeah, I see what you're saying there. It's too similar of a realm to... You can't call ripping off because there's only so many chords. It's gonna sound ripped off eventually. Unless you sample... You directly sample it. Like, look, that's clearly... Like, that happened with... What was it, Lil Nas X? Did the Old Country Road? Yeah. They ripped off Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails, and then he went after them, and they made him an executive producer. So he got... Oh, I see what you're saying. He gets royalties, yeah. So in a way, he sued them, pretty much, without suing them. He threatened them. He was like, look, you clearly... And when he threatened them, they actually knew he was telling the truth, and they adhered to that threat. It was like... LA people know exactly what they're doing. Like, they're, yeah, horrible at that. If you don't catch them, they'll just keep doing it. Okay, so you know what? I found something on YouTube, and it was a guy that was going around filming, and he's walking into a public building, like, filming the police, or filming, like, whoever's in there, but all of them say you can't film. But then when the police show up and everything, it is his right, I guess, to film or whatever. It's just weird. Yeah. Like, it'd be one thing if you were filming, like, something which was, like, a trade secret, you know? Or a debit card. Yeah, critical personal financial information. And that was, like, a weird show to watch, because it was like, you know, I kind of got addicted, because it was like, this ---- is weird. I've never seen anyone talk to the police like that. It's like, goddamn. Because they're all, we need your name, and he's like, that's so good. And it's like, Jesus Christ. You couldn't do that out here. Sorry to say, it's like, damn, you're ass would be grass. It was like... Well, yeah. I guess it's all based on, you know, everybody has the right to do what they want, but you're going to deal with being probably thrown in jail for overnight or something. Exactly. It's like seeing a woman be jailed, or something like that. Right. You can't do that. Or you want to just be any kind of high-ranking official. Any top-secret stuff, you're not going to, yeah. Even San Diego Lodge. Yeah. Anything with any kind of secret government-related thing, it's like, no. You want to work for Lockheed, or work for some contractor. It's in Oregon right now, though. So I could, you know, come down here and reset it all up. But yeah, I have it all right now. It depends. I mean, there's always a quality thing, or maybe, like, I don't chase after vintage stuff at all. There's a whole, like, I'm not getting the stuff to collect it. I want to use it. Yeah. And I also, like, there's a price point where I'm like, if it's too much, I don't want to take it out. And then what's the point? Like, look at this. You know. It's like, I'm not going to buy a vintage pair of scissors, which are called shears. I'm going to buy a pair of nano-powdered metal $1,200 shears by Mizutani, and I'm going to create direction with them and everything else. It's cool to have those, you know, those ones that you're going to collect them, but, you know, to get realistic and use them, you need to use relevant scissors. Unless you've got a ---- ton of money, and you're like, you know, like Joe Bonamassa, and you're like, I don't care. I'm going to take out this, I'm going to take this 59 Les Paul out that's worth $15,000, $25,000, because he can. Oh, yeah. I got you. He's pretty interesting. He does all his stuff. He does collect made by this amazing player, but he also, he declares that he does this stuff because he likes the stories and wants to keep the stories alive. Mike, that's kind of cool. But he does have his own guitar that he played as a kid, and he's like, I can't take this out because it's sentimental value. So to him, it's not the money, it's just the sentimental story. I could see that. That makes sense. I just couldn't do it because it's like, you know, it's like having an expensive car and you park it away from everybody because you can't, you know, if it got dinged, you'd start losing your mind. Yeah, I've seen that. Yeah, I've heard of someone telling me that they didn't go ultra high on their car just for that fact alone. Like I didn't want to have to worry about all that bullshit that comes along. And guitars are very weird. I mean, you can get like, there's certain groups like something between a thousand, two thousand is going to be a quality, good guitar that you can gig with forever as long as you, you know, maintain it. And then you get up to these like custom guitars that are four, five, six thousand, like I don't know. And what's custom about them? Color. Like a look. Oh, just that? No mechanical customization? They'll tell you that there's something better about it. But, you know, as a player, it's like, or maybe better said, as a listener, you wouldn't know. Oh, I got you. But, you know, maybe it'd be a little better. And that's what's important to listeners, right? I mean, sure. I guess, you know, there's a kind of thing like the scissors is an interesting idea, right? There's a comfort to it for you to use it. There's an accuracy and precision. And past that, it's like, is it more precise? Is it more comfortable? Okay, so, and these shears are, I'm going to give you the reasons why they are. So these ones, instead of having the regular traditional screw, they have a carbon resin fiber bearing. So the ergonomics behind that prevent carpal tunnel. Yep. These are also the only pair of shears in the world that use, you can't see it, but it's carved in the blade, nano-powdered metal. That will grip the hair and that cuts the hair differently. And under a microscope, it will look different. So to the naked eye, you probably can't see right away, but it does add that percentile of a difference to the naked eye. Yeah. Under a microscope, you'll really see. Watch, I'll show you. Well, watch here. I can see that. Yeah, you can. Yeah, that's what I'm saying as long as I'm holding it. And these are sprayed all gold ones. Those ones have a screw. Oh. And so, and these ones, and those were, I think these were 1,000. These were 1,500 that I'm pulling out now. Wow. These are made of Damascus steel. Huh. So the different types of metal, in my expert opinion, they do provide a difference in the hair cutting. But like, so it's like, you know, but most of the shoes, it's all hype. It's, look, let's take my Rolex watch, for instance. Yeah. This is going to tell worse time than the Apple Watch. I know, they don't keep track. Sorry to say. That's right. And at a certain point, it can't, you pay 20,000 for it. It is, you can, my Mavado that I wore that was 800, was, you know, equally as good, just to be honest. But I mean, there was a slight percentile of a difference. This has 18 karat gold, that one doesn't. Well, your scissors and your skill is the same thing like a musician in an instrument. Like, you could get a kid with a bucket, and they can make an amazing song. You know, but you could give that, you know, you could give a non-per drummer a $10,000 set of drums, and it's still going to sound like crap. Absolutely. But let me tell you this, Andy Warhol didn't get his supplies from Target. That's right. The difference is when you want to go to that big money level, use the best of the best. yeah, two things, you can definitely, I can use prison tools and do a minimal haircut, and I can use this to razor and comb and do it right here. It may be slower, they may bleed when you do it, but, you know, don't worry. I've seen that happen too, where someone just, you can tell when the haircut's going to be good. So let me ask her this, what do you think of the length on that side? Do you like it that length, or do you want it shorter than that on the sides? This side here, or? Just both of the sides in general. Like, just a slight, not too much of a taper, but a nice, shorter in the back. What does it feel like to you? The top is probably good. The top I want a little bit shorter, and I'm going to blend this on the side, don't worry about that. Do you like the way this base of shortness is, or do you want to go a tiny bit shorter? Well, right now, I have to go back to Oregon, and it's colder there, so a little length is probably alright in that regard. So I'll blend these sides in nice and clean and have that. Yeah, but, because it's on your ears, what does it feel like to you? Well, I'm going to put it around those ears. No, this is good. I like this. Yeah, it is. When I put it together, you'll notice it is. And I'll do it around the ears. Because I haven't shaved his neck, I haven't done any of that yet. No, I'm good with that, because I'd like to let it, like, I'll let it, you know, grow a little bit more over the winter anyway. This one will look sick, trust me. Are you from here? Uh, Moreno Valley. You're looking all Chester Chilton like. Sorry. He has good hair. I know he does. Geez, on a scale one to three, he has, like, Italian type of hair where it's straight but full, but. It's just a problem when it gets too long, it just, like, flats. Yeah, I like the way this is going to look, watch, guarantee. Yeah. I want to see what she says when I'm. Yeah, I'm going to put product in it one spot. yeah. I just want to blend these sides just a little bit better so I'm going to dry it. Yeah, you know they might stick out a bit too. You might have to. No, they won't. Okay, I cut them so they won't and I'm going to soften it and. I already knew that how I can already tell once I go into the hair. Yeah. That if you cut it too short, they will stick up. Yeah. But I'm going to take it down as short as I could without having it do any sticking up. It's going to be what you'll see. I'm good at nothing but this, but I am very good at this. How long have you been here in the shop? I've only been here three years. Okay. I'm probably going to open up a barber school here in the next six months. Ah. Where did you go to school? Or was it all. For barber school I went to Metro Barber School College or whatever. They're closed now and then I challenged the state board for my instructor license and then recently just retained that and. I just figured it's $20,000 to go to barber school. It's like damn if you have 50 students a year that's a million dollars. It's like so you know it's hard. Yeah. Even just a few would be you know I don't know how much the license is but. What for them to get the license? No for you to maintain your license is that you have to pay per year for that? That's like 60 bucks. Oh. A hundred bucks. So even if you had a few kids or students like you'd be coming out on top. Well I don't pay anything for their license. I just have my own license. Okay. That you have to get like just say you're a doctor and you go get licensed to practice then you open up a practice and you see patients. Yeah. That's kind of what the education one is. As long as you're a licensed educator that you can then you can hand down hours. Yeah. I mean you open up a school and you. Oh alright they just have to have the time put in. Yeah it's 1,200 hours so that's what you provide for them. Which is unfortunate here is they don't you don't provide they don't really it's not structured to say that you have to pass like your your initial test either. So it's like this school just graduates and you're kind of on your own. Where I'll be different is all of my graduate students, I want them to come in so I can prep them and get them ready for the state board before they even go and make sure they have all the right equipment. You know, I have 100% success rate of passing students. Now, a lot of the schools will just get you in there, financial aid pays them and pays you a million dollars a year and they don't care if you graduate or not. They just crank them out. Absolutely. And when they say like, well, you know, what will be different between your school and their schools? They don't have dice and blow dryers. They don't even have all this equipment. So I'll have all the best of the best and then the best educators over there. So it'd be like a super school. And so they get all the best ----, they'll have YouTube channel and everything else. It'll be more geared towards 2022 and everything. And it's easy to do because financial aid is very interesting because you don't worry about paying for the student. Oh, yeah. You know, financial aid just cuts them and they pay for the schooling and they come and you get the money regardless. Okay. So that's kind of like a good thing. I think there's always room for quality approach. Well, you know, you see, you make 150,000 a year as a barber. If you have multiple barber shops, you might clear 225,000. A school, you'll clear a million a year. There'll be, you know, all guaranteed money. You won't be cutting hair. That's kind of amazing. And if you, you will be cutting hair because I don't do head hair, but you'll do it for free as a demonstration. Yeah, yeah. So it's- Yeah, because you're just watching over, supervising the students. Well, I'll be doing practical instruction and then I'll hire another educator to do a theory with her, which is just the written part of the test. But I've probably passed every test that they have known that man, it's just full of mystery. So it's like, there's, it's kind of like this. That practical is worth a lot. Yeah, it is. Yeah, because the theory, anybody can pass. It's the same thing in music. You can find- You can pass the theory. You can find tons of kids that talk, that can, you know, regurgitate a book to you. Absolutely. Yeah, but it doesn't- But can you cut? It doesn't sound or look like anything good. Yeah, absolutely. And I've seen that a hundred thousand times. Go to Supercuts and you'll realize that that's what- That's all that is. Yeah. And it's like, someone told me over there that they don't, they're like, no, no, it's a timer, you gotta get them out. And it's like, oh no, I could never do that. Cause it's like, damn. I doubt Picasso was just kicking out painting after painting or whatever. Yeah. I'm like, I don't answer the phone, I'm like an idiot. Well, that kind of gets the whole point of art, right? How do you find art? And art is not like, you know, you can learn a lot of the foundation things in books, but expression, you can't. That's not teachable. Yeah. What's that? Yeah, it looks a lot better. Weight loss. And he can do anything with it. Yeah. You can have it like this. Right. If he wants to pop it up, he can pop it up. If he wants to add a little bit of that. I added texture, so it'll stand up even. So he'll be able to, you know, pop it like that if he wants to. See how you like it a little bit more? Yeah. Just a tiny bit more. Messy like that. You can have it just like that. Okay. And look at how that looks. He has really good hair. Let me ask you about, so are you having a beard or do you want to have your sideburns outlined? Oh. I, sometimes I shave it off and so it's not. You don't need to use sideburns though. They can, yeah, they can be cleaned up for sure. You can, you can have them, that's fine, I don't mind. Oh, okay. Yeah. And watch, I'll make sure, now that I know you're not gonna bear a beard or whatever, you can. Yeah. Definitely can. Because those things grow like a weed quickest and get annoying. You can see how he looks now. Yeah, this beard thing, it's like, give it three days, it'll, it's like Play-Doh, just comes out. Yeah, you can do it. And what product are you using that now? Is it a spray? Yeah, it's like a texture spray thing I'm using right now. I think it's a clear paste. You sell any of the clay? Yeah, I, you know what, I'm all out of these. Okay, what would you recommend? I can always go find some somewhere. Yeah, and I'll show you which one it is. Because I've gotten hair dough before off of Amazon. I recommend this one. They even have it, they carry it over at, at that Ulta Beauty Supply. Okay. And for the same price, I only sell it for, so it's like, you know. I'm just all out, because these guys can't even buy anything. Yeah. Yeah, and you can even. Is it Ulta? Yeah, it's Ulta Beauty Supply. And they should, yeah, take a photo of it. That way they'll have some over there. I think it's 24 bucks as well. Okay. If they're charging more, it's not worth, it's 24 dollars. Okay. Well, sir, watch. Okay, so, do you want me to show him the mirror? Nah, I'm good. Okay, just because, and I. I trust her, our eyes will see it. But I want you to stand up and kind of somewhat, because I know you can see a little bit, see through over here too in the mirror. Just be careful, watch, because, and then I want to get this, because. How does it feel? Yeah, that's the main thing. I love it. That's what I guess I was asking. I like that. And do you kind of toggle kind of. Yeah, because I guess. I like that too. I'll do this, or do whatever, so yeah. That gives me enough options. Oh yeah, look at that product though, how that product works in it. Look, I didn't want to do that to him, because I didn't know for sure if he'd want me to, so I left it a little bit conservative, but look, it will do that all day. Yeah, that's way better. You love that? Yeah. Okay, good, thank God. That is like more structured. That looks beautiful. Yeah, it's good. Good, I'm very glad that you like it too, because I notice I want to make sure that she's, because she knows what you like. Oh yeah, cool. Watch, let me do this side. I'll pull it back up. This is a good weapon and a cane. Jesus Christ. Yeah.