Other Barbers Push His Fade Too Hight... Not Me

When you have somebody ask you to give them a blurry fade but maybe it's a new client or maybe it's a hair texture that you're just not familiar with yet, is that something that gives you anxiety? Do you jump back and forth trying to figure out what haircutting system it is that I'm going to use to accomplish this fade? Well I'm going to be breaking down today the Never Late Again framework and this is a universal haircutting system that works for every single hair texture, every single haircut, high fades, low fades, tapers and it's going to give you the level of efficiency that's going to help you be the most reliable barber in the city without feeling any stress when it comes out to cutting hair. You're going to notice that the first step of the Never Late Again framework is without fully balding out the haircut, start your initial guideline with the clip or close. Some of you guys may be doing it with the trimmer now and it's just going to be way too harsh, way too sharp of a line to fade out at the end. Save your trimmers for balding, save your trimmers for lining up. The secondary guideline that we're going to do in the Never Late Again framework is with the half guard all the way closed. Now the reason that we're doing the half guard closed is because we need some space to be able to create that transition from bald to half. Now some of you may be doing this with no guard all the way open, that's how I learned when I first started, but that's it. That is a more challenging line to fade out than if you just do it with the half guard closed. You're going to notice here that we're going to start fading our way down with plastic guards. We're actually going to be switching to the one and a half guard now and this is what we're going to be using to debulk. We're going to be using this to create shape and we're going to be able to start to set the tone for where we want the transition from dark to light to be in this fade. So I'm using this one and a half guard because when it's open you can see how dark it's actually leaving the hair and you notice I'm not using the most hard pressure right. You kind of see I have my clipper tilted up and off the head a little bit so that reduces the amount of hair that is going to be cut at once. I want to have a nice soft finish for this fade. This is also what's going to kind of help it blend smoothly up into the length on top because my client did not want any removed off the top. So this freehand motion with the one and a half guard all the way open really helps me maintain that control and you may all right now be in a position where you feel like you need to use all of your guards. Leave that in the comments down below. Are you somebody that needs to use your seven, your six, your five, your four, your three, your two? If you do and you've never tried freehanding before you know I would just advise that you use as little guards as possible. I like to skip straight to the one and a half but if you do still need to use the training wheels of all the other guards practice this hand motion still. I think you're going to notice after a few attempts you're actually going to need to use less and less guards. The less guards you have the more custom your haircut is going to be able to be to the client who's sitting in your chair. You're going to be able to give them haircuts that they can't get anywhere else. You know the barber who uses every single guard open and closed it's a cookie cutter haircut. There is no customization for the client but you with the NeverLateAgain framework you're going to learn how to give people that custom finish that they've been wanting. Now you can see we already did the one and a half open. I kept it dark and we did the one and a half closed because it started to lighten it up a little bit. Now this is where you can start to see how easily the the different guard lengths can blend together. Pay attention to the hand motion that I'm doing here. Do you see how I'm applying pressure at the bottom but I'm floating my way up and off the head. By the way guys I went straight back to the half guard. The same guard that I used to put in the secondary guideline I'm not using the one. I'm just opening the lever on that same guard floating my way up into the length that I cut with the 1.5. Why does this work? Again for those of you who use every single guard right now think about it the 1.5 closed it already covers the one open and that's why you guys use every single guard by the way right. You want every level to float perfectly into each other. I get it but listen the 1.5 closed covers the one open and then the half guard open that I'm using right now it covers what the one closed is. So in my opinion if you lock in on the NeverLateAgain framework and you start to practice your free hand motions you start to practice your guard skipping techniques I think you are more than capable like borrow my belief on this you are more than capable of skipping the one guard. You don't need to use every single guard in your arsenal. The less you use the more custom your haircuts are gonna be. We've built a whole community around this as well guys like you know I was looking at the community this morning it's so cool how you guys have been able to benefit from the NeverLateAgain framework. You guys are posting up I have somebody in there who he's only two months into barber school my guy Lionel shout out to Lionel if you're watching this video you would not believe how excellent his haircuts are only being two months into school. I'm literally telling him that haircut is better some haircuts I've seen leave barber shops that I've worked in. The amount of progress that he made from his first haircut to his like I don't know if it was his second haircut but the first post to his second post in the community it was incredible. A lot of people are joining the community because I have the tutorials organized in different classrooms right so you've got the straight hair classroom the wavy hair classroom the afro hair classroom you've got scissor cuts beard cut you know what I mean so it's organized and you can skip straight to what it is that you want from the community so it's really dope man. I'm gonna start going live with you guys too you know just kind of interact a little bit give haircut feedback if any of you guys want me to do your haircut my feedback leave it in the comments below but I'm only accepting submissions from within the community that's the easiest way to keep things organized so the link is in the description down below it's been fun we're almost at 200 members we may be past it by the time that we get but this video comes out um and then these machines too guys if you like this clipper set that I'm using the discount code is tito cuts t-i-t-o-c-u-t-s it saves a massive amount of money when it's but I mean you guys know how expensive clippers are these days so the 20% off the clipper is gonna make a big difference for you um and we're using the the gamma exceed clipper trimmer and shaver for this whole tutorial shout out to Stylecraft for sending me the box I got more coming too I even have the GZ trimmer that'll be coming pretty soon those videos I'm shooting clips with it as we speak now you remember we started with the clipper all the way closed the reason that I start with the clipper all the way closed is because it's a softer line to fade out if I start my my fade with a harsh sharp line from the trimmer that's going to be significantly more difficult to fade out then it will be a line that is created with the clipper so what I'm going to do is I start with the clipper closed I'm intentionally leaving all the bulk underneath it by the way you kind of see how I'm able just to focus my energy just on that transition from the bald to light to dark I think that's going to help you that's as we raise raise our way higher and higher into the fade we're going to start opening the lever more and more so you start all the way closed and you soften up that line a little bit it's time to go a little higher so it's time to go a little longer go one click open and push the line a little higher go another click open and push the line a little higher excuse me one benefit that they have six clicks on the lever instead of the traditional four or five so it helps you almost reach a little further you're going to notice by the time that we're all the way open like we are now we're fading our way up into that area that we did with our secondary guideline y'all see how blurry the fade's coming out it's pretty dope so boom I knock out that section now we're going to move on to the back section and then we're going to move on to the left section when I'm setting the guidelines in I really like to work my way all the way around the head you know the primary guideline the secondary guideline the debulking but when it comes time to really locking in on the details that part I'm totally okay with breaking up into three sections side back side let me know what how you work um some people they like to go ahead and fade out the whole left side right and then fade out the whole other side at the you know like two separate haircuts but that's the problem it's too easy to turn that into two separate haircuts you know you might have more of a dramatic drop on on one side and then the other side's a little more straight and now you got to figure out how to blend the back whereas if you're consistent I almost call it typewriter style let me know if that resonates with you where I'll put that primary guideline and all the way around the head you know while I'm turning the chair put the next guard on turning the chair while I'm cutting it you know my feet never really move when I'm cutting hair I really just I cut with my right hand while I'm turning the chair with my left hand if that makes sense to you but obviously now we're breaking down the blend we're knocking out that bottom line so that's why I kind of you know I got the brush in my hand at this point so I don't know it's it's a lot of small gems and honestly it's a lot to squeeze into a 20 minute video um but that's why I built the community for you guys get in there let's talk about this whatever problems it is that you're having challenges that you're having in the barbershop let's talk about it man let's hop on a zoom call you know um efficient haircutting truly unlocked my income potential guys like I never thought that I would be able to do the things that I do now with haircutting you know it's it's really really cool we can even get into content creation gamma sent me all these clippers because they love what I do on social media you know or are you doing anything currently to reach an audience to be able to share with the world what you know um I would love to dive more into that because that's something that I've really been exploring lately man these are cool too so this is the gamma exceed trimmer like I said we're using the whole set we got the clipper first then the trimmer then the shaver they're fire these are so fire um these actually I did bring them in a little bit closer than how they came out the box I think that um out the box they were fine but I wanted them to hit a little better I wanted them to really get down right so we can drop content I'll drop some content in the community for how how to set the blades and all those kind of you know little secrets like that uh little tips and tricks for the barbershop but this thing just blasts through the hair you know it's something about like how satisfying it is to have a matching set of three the clipper the trimmer the shaver nice style all the way through um this thing just blasts away the hair if you notice it like the reason why I leave this bulk for the end it's it's not about the aesthetics it's not about oh it looks cooler or barbers are lazy it's none of that what it is is that I need to just concentrate on the blend because there is such little effort required in removing this bulk and balding it out there's no skill in this I want to save all my energy for that transitionary band from bald to light to dark that way at the end I can come through and remove all the hair it's a much more stress way for a stress-free way for me to go through the haircut system and now that it's all taken care of the clipper blend the trimmer debulking now we can go ahead and just refine so leave a comment down below guys what do you think about this haircutting system so far do you think that this is something that can benefit you do you think that approaching a haircut any haircut with one hair cutting system is going to be able to alleviate some of that pressure that you may feel especially when you're new in the barbershop guys like you know if you're new in a shop or you're new to the career or you know honestly like that anxiety kind of never goes away when you have somebody new sit in your chair and you're how do I approach it but I promise you if you have one system locked in you're gonna get better spreading yourself too thin over too many tutorials too many systems switching back and forth that slowed me down for years I'm just trying to help you skip over that leverage my experience borrow my belief you can be an efficient barber we will help you get there so now we've got the the shaver right it's time to get this all the way down are you noticing how I'm going with the grain first another thing that really used to slow me down was I would start going up against the grain initially and then I would accidentally go too aggressive and I would put a new line in the fade and then I had to go back to my trimmer and I would try to fade that line out then I would push the trimmer line too high and oh my god now I got to go back to my clipper and then my guards and this and that it was a big mess and my low fades will become high fades every time using the shaver with the grain first you can graze it over the whole transition guys from that like medium light area down to the skin you can go with the grain first start with some light pressure you're gonna notice how much easier it is to transition that area first then it's so much more forgiving you can go up against the grain at the very bottom and again I'm just all about a smooth transition a really nice clean blend you know I don't necessarily push the bald line super super high typically I mean if somebody requests it okay it is what it is that's not my style I would much rather have somebody with a nice smooth blend coming down and they appreciate it too you know I've never had a client say bro my fade was too blurry last week I need you to go way more aggressive with it I've never heard that complaint in my life now if someone says go higher you know I want the balls a little higher then cool that just means that I start the never late again framework higher that clipper clothes line higher than I did before but the system never changes so now we're gonna go ahead and get into that lineup area now this is actually something that I like almost a mistake I made I should have taken care of the lineup when I had the trimmer in my hand when I was balding out you guys remember that that was actually something I should have done then the most efficient way to do any of these services is when you have a tool in your hand do everything you need to do while that tool is in your hand before you put it down so I actually probably could have saved myself maybe an extra 30 minutes worth of haircut time I'm not 30 minutes I'm tripping 30 seconds another minute right because of that back and forth from the one tool to another tool so I thought it was important to leave it in here because again none of us are perfect we are just all on a mission to be never late again that's what NLA that's what the never late again framework is all about the NLA community is all about that guys a group of of motivated individuals that are on that same mission community matters bro so here we go trimmer's in there cleaning up that c cup cleaning up his corner um I like how these hit I really really like how these hit it's fun having a magnetic clipper back in your hand and I think this one obviously you guys all know about the vector motors from the instincts and stuff this one has the IN2 the the the vector motor version number two um I don't know all the details of what that means but it hits that much I do know that thing hits um and we are further refining we are further refining I got a code for these guys too for the shears I'm using um I don't know what kind of shears you guys use leave it in the comments down below but fresh shears so their website is fresh pro tools they have a dope program where all their shears are basically 100 bucks like if you want to swivel you pay an extra five bucks if you want to double swivel you'll pay an extra 10 bucks but essentially it's 100 bucks a shear and then for the lifetime of the shear you get replacements for 50 bucks so if anything were to happen let's say if you're thinking you know what I've had these things for for four years now you know they're getting a little bit dull um you could call a sharpener who's going to charge you 40 bucks to sharpen them or you can just pay the extra 10 and get a brand new pair so yo fresh I need a replacement send it over and then with that new shear you get the envelope to return your other one so it's kind of it's pretty cool uh my code should work for them too it's tito cuts same code as stylecraft same code as gamma uh and yeah that'll save you a good bit of money on that but yeah man we're pretty much coming to the end here I think now we just got the razor yeah yeah just got the razor that's another fresh tool right there I think that one came with the with the sean cuts hair combo um that was dope man but yeah guys look at that man we are just refining this and again guys I appreciate y'all tuning in I appreciate those of you who are joining the community um I think we got some fun stuff going on there again any of the tools we used in today's video everything we have a discount code tito cuts that'll save you a ton of money on these products um if you do join the community I also have a gear guide in there so for those of you who want help creating content those of you who want to know what my current recommendations are for gear whether it's for filming whether it's for cutting whether it's for editing I got it all in there you know it's what's a as a thank you for joining so I'll catch you guys on the next tutorial I'll see you in the community