You've been watching this for a long time type og in the chat. If you haven't watched Ben Brown before type new in the chat as well Let us know where you're watching from Super excited to have a good friend of mine on here today all the way from the UK You could be in the UK too. I don't know but we're excited. He's gonna be cutting a shag for you guys Here is my good pal and brown What's up, buddy? Hey, man, how's it going brother? It's going good super excited to have you on here we've definitely been You know just talking a lot more so it's it's exciting to you inspire me to become better at haircutting and it's just You know, it's fun talking to you and always have anyone here.  I'm gonna be watching the chat guys Please ask questions if you have a question type cue put in your question that way I can see it in the chat Otherwise just have fun talking to each other listening to Ben, you know in learning He's gonna he's gonna be sharing is sharing some cool stuff with you So I'll just let you take it away pal and you just do your thing. I'll jump in every once in a while But I have some fun. All right Absolutely thirsty. Thank you so much to Matt for having me. Sorry. We're late. It's just a technical issue then I had to We were struggling to get my webcam to work So I'm actually using the camera on my laptop. So sorry for the view of me Which is probably scaring a lot of you But hello to everybody from all over the world who are here today with free sound education My name is Ben Brown and I am here to take you through a shag haircut. Let's make a start Okay, so thank you pivot point and free sound education for supplying me with a great mannequin head I've managed to dress my mannequin just very simply into a middle parting for now But if the my client wore it on the side, wherever they wore it or whichever hair growth pattern was dictating where it should be I will tend to work my shag on where it wanted to sit natural I'm not about trying to wrestle with hair growth patterns. It's all about Putting them in where it's going to be easiest for the client to start. So we went central here So if I just spin my beautiful model round, isn't she great? one of the great things about using a mannequin as model is no makeup artist is needed as well. It's always good I Outline of us the length we're only focusing on the natural fall of our outline as it falls towards the face We're going to focus and position all our energies on Our internal shape and then we're going to come to the outline at the end So let's make a start The fitness of your section is quite important. I tend to start with just under an inch in my thickness This just means that the recession of the hairline isn't a problem when my section comes around Can everyone see me okay? It's not going staticky. I think I think it's good Ben It just got a little stuttery for me on this end, but I think you're good now Okay, guys. I'm so sorry Lots of false starts today equal moisture. I mean I if I'm working with hair that is below Let's say a 2c and it's kelpan. I tend to keep the moisture levels really high So I keep the tension levels really really high the anytime I really vary the tension on the moisture levels is when I'm working around a difficult hairline or a crown The main reason for this guys is the one you're working with an area like a crown or a hairline And it's jumping around everywhere I kind of want to see what it's going to do and I want it to do what it wants to do So if I'm pulling the section here Making sure we catch up is it gone fuzzy again? No, I think you're good. Oh Come on technology be my friend today Have I got you all or have I lost you all? I See you Yeah, let me see this Coming back in You knew he was going before you guys did so I'm still on here. I Let me see if I can get him back We'll have him call back in Um Hang in with us guys. This is definitely, you know weird technical issues today. Yes, it is freezing. That happened sometimes is true Thank you very much Peggy. Appreciate that. All right. I'm gonna put some Sup Carly good to see you. All right. He's calling back in see what we got What's up? So jumpy.  It's gonna sound crazy sometimes the phone works even better so Why don't you click that link through Instagram on your phone and then put that up on a tripod. Let's see We'll give that a shot. I'm Shelley. Good to see you Thank You Lucy appreciate it. This is brilliant. Thanks. I'd appreciate that it is this is real life stuff Honestly, we've been doing this since one o'clock. So We've been going back and forth Trying to get this to work Little tip for you guys Wi-Fi doesn't work that well if you want to be live doesn't work and You need a little capture card It's just a little technology tip if you want to do lives You got to have a little capture card because then it reads in certain software. So these are things that You know, I've been doing these live videos for a long time and you just got to keep collecting technology stuff But he'll call in soon. I think his phone will work better Honestly, if you're gonna go live phones work better than computers. So That's right Anthony. He is you are right John a first time watching just so you know, these aren't always the case. This isn't always the case We don't always have technical difficulties. Sometimes we do them and not always Thanks, Mandy. Appreciate it. It was different in a Bob and a Shag great question But a Bob is short Shorter length Not usually layered you can do a layered Bob and not usually layered and a Shag is very layered and Multiple different lengths. You got medium to you have short medium long lengths as well, but lots of layers Picture and sound is perfect. So Paula it is on my end, but Ben is coming through my software. So So that's that's the challenge Is that a pigeon hat? Yes, it is Doris, thank you so much Diane thank you for joining us. All right. He's calling me back. What's up? Is this way? Oh, is this way better? Is this way okay or is it the other way? So let me show you what you're gonna look like. So if you turn it horizontal now, you got it I literally think the world builds Tech now to just work better over your phone than a computer. So Yeah, but you know what it's it's fine because We've managed to find a way around it.  Yeah, Matt's loose. Matt's loose and tens of thousands of followers. Thanks to having Ben Brown on his show Okay, all right, we're good So that's great. Okay, so I'm ready to go. Thank you first. He's thank you so much for your patience guys We're gonna get started So this is a recap when we're looking at positioning us a mapping process. It's really simple with a shag hacker We're gonna start with a diagonal back section It's because we're focusing all our attention right now on creating the shape and it's gonna influence the overall haircut most the front The first thing we're gonna do is to start in the middle I want you to take a really small section roughly half an inch in its width Okay, only a small amount at the moment. Okay This is the section. We're gonna decide on how long or how short we're gonna go We're gonna work with a soft amount of tension. I'm against position this roughly to the bridge of the nose Okay I'm using a point cut distribution, which means my cutting line whilst it's horizontal. I'm just cutting straight across I'm utilising a Point cut so it's slightly softer One of the mistakes I used to make guys is I'll take this whole section and try and cut it in one We're not going to do that. We're going to work down to the recession of the hairline We're going to bring this section straight down with no over direction And we're going to position our fingers parallel to the eye socket And we're going to again work with some point cutting This is creating a slight curve to try and get a line Okay Now when we get to the this side here, this is where it gets interesting for me because We kind of just put a fringe in but we've got this whole section here to cut and we've got to somehow keep the length So what I do is I will pull the section over now your body position needs to be on the opposite side That's really that's pretty much key Why because your body position needs to still be open if I'm over here I'm all closed my elbow is locked into my body My range of movement is limited but if I step over here Wow straight away With that and I'm going to start With cutting and moving cutting and moving. Okay So let me just move my mannequin a bit more central to you guys so like I'm hiding I felt like hiding when we lost connection a minute ago So again, we're utilizing a mechanic over direction. Okay, and I'm just utilizing a point cut distribution And I'm over directing my section each time Now this is giving me A more rapid short to long distribution Okay, so this means we're blending in from our fringe section Giving us a guideline to commit to that really disheveled shag haircut Now where do I need to stand now? Because remember what I just said I have to stand on the opposite side. So you've got to move You've got to move got to move So now what we're going to do is remember we said we're going to take the section to the recession of the hairline We don't want the shorter part to travel any further because then we're too committed To getting this cut off too short So when I'm doing a shag on the sound floor Which in england sounds totally different taggers in the united states anyone from england is watching that I always find it really funny when someone someone commented on a video. I did they said I really want a good shag And in the united kingdom That's that's quite a amusing statement, but in obviously everywhere else in the world. It means a haircut like this So as our initial section is curved Okay, then we're going to take our section over Pulling it over over directing it is helping me to constantly move the hair And if you like elaborate my shorts on cut line But once you sit on one side when you get to the other You're almost in the wrong position because your scissors can't do what you want it to do because of the way you are so We go around the opposite side I come over the shoulder of my client I secure my section And I'm going to go slightly behind my fingers. This is a little bit like slicing I just feel that when you slice you get quite a solid line So if I just went through And I forgot you guys don't something's frozen again Well, it looks okay on your side guys. I'm just going to continue maybe just frozen my side But essentially what I'm going to do if I was to pull this down and if I was just to slice this It would be quite solid on the length But by pulling it down in this way And using my shipping technique The line is going to fall ultimately a lot more softer Okay I'm hoping it's still okay in it because my screen's frozen It's not frozen over here. I never caught me saying this before but anything below like a two c Oh Good times So one thing I want to talk about Um, until we get ben back. We actually he's coming back now. Um, we did We're going through this together pal. Um The one thing he's doing which I think is super cool is he slides that technique through So you can see him chipping away at it and pulling Away as he goes we talked about that in the virtual cutting club this morning as we cut our shag So it's just a way a technique of just, you know, kind of Allowing length to happen. All right, let me get you back up here.  So Thank you so much for humoring me there matt. So again, that technique is all about Instead of using a razor or a blade it's about using your scissors The benefit of the chipping technique is that opposed to slicing. I was saying before When we slice we got a really solid curved line Which is the whole point of it, but the chipping technique is really breaking up the line So it's offering us a little more texture straight away take section two And I bring this straight now So, yeah, you know what I do quite a lot of live zoom classes and things from home And I very rarely have a problem because I have like the fastest internet apparently you can have well, I'm not sure about that but Maybe it's because of the time of day in the united kingdom We just found out when we can go back to working things today So we've just heard from the prime minister when the sands will reopen when When he's targeting them to reopen So maybe like everyone now is online going crazy. I don't know So again, what I was saying before I think every time I say this it goes up But when the kill when it's below a 2c kill pattern I tend to ensure that I keep a heavy level of moisture in the hair To control if I'm cutting one part of the hair when it's dry and the other part when it's wet They're going to be slightly different So now we turn our attention to the middle again As we take our middle section we now have section two and section one if we cut it again on the same elevation Which was a fingers depth elevation We're going to be keeping 100% of the hair in this section in one area. We don't want that. We want it to be softer and looser So we're going to be elevating the section 9th degree of its own base Grooming the hair above to this section And I'm going to be point cutting this off Okay So as I point cut that away If I was to have brought that straight down there would have been more length. So by lifting it up slightly It means that as this falls It's falling with a more shattered effect Okay So now when I take my section to the eyes here remember Keep all my sections nice and clean It's a big part of any any education. I think myself and Matt always do Is the mapping process and the sectioning is really really key. So remember look at the elevation here guys What's that going to give me the elevations moving the hair up and down It's controlling the rate in which we remove or build length and weight traveling vertically So by lifting it in this way We're basically creating a more softer outline So you see I'm pulling this now flat the wall behind me My finger angle is changing almost every single time I do it And this is starting to give us a really nice shattered effect. So again, I've got a change body position I've got to change sides now This is this is the haircut that you get these steps in so if you're Trying to get the weight off a bit The lockdown weight off. This is the haircut which you seem to walk around loads more elevate It's controlling what it's controlling our vertical shape That's controlling the shape going from top to bottom As I come around now, I'm going to once again go behind the climb I'm going to go behind them elevating the section like so Pulling over Look at that straight through giving us Really nice soft shag shape Try and sit out fast So let's just take a little review And if you have any questions Shout them out So you can start to see the effects of having a bit more length here We can control how it falls in the face. I suppose One thing I love about the shag is how you automatically start getting a lot of nice texture and movement out of the hair Especially on a quality mannequin like the pivot point ones Which is giving us this curl that almost is inspiring us to style it in a certain way I'm going to style it reasonably smooth and straight today because I want you guys to see the end result because if you're going to trust what I'm doing Especially if you haven't seen it done like this before You really need to see how it looks more straighter before you start committing to do it On a climb So I'm going to take section three You see how we're going further up the head here guys Really simple mapping process at the moment literally um A while ago matt and I were doing oh no, it's froze again. Oh don't do this to me It's not froze But he thinks he's froze and there he goes This isn't too bad though, you know, it could be worse He is get he's clear until he's not right. So we do have that going for us Um, he'll call back him. So let me look at what's going on in the comments They're good. We could see you. Yeah You could see him until you couldn't Um, let's see This man has natural instincts and a gift. This is how you call here a great job. Love your videos. That's great Elena You are correct Thanks, brian appreciate it I'll use this moment since brian's on here is this brian or daniel right here. I can't tell it's too small. That's daniel. That's not brian Here he is We got brian's classes coming up wednesday at 10 a.m My class is tomorrow. So if you guys are looking for more education, that'll be in studio So this signal will be great and clear and nice Um, we'll work this out. I got to get ben some different uh different stuff here. Alrighty. He's back Let's see Hello Hey guys, so sorry You know, it's cool then Is that when you when your thing messes up? I just use it as a commercial break and I just tease other things So it's fine. Oh, you're very good Well, listen, thank you everybody for your patience. Honestly goodness. I do lives a lot And I'm not sure what's happening. Um I've set full blame. I will be um Sitting in a dark room by myself after this. So there we go Um, so what I was basically saying was guys that each time you take a section the elevation is a tiny bit higher Our vertical shape is essentially following the head shape now when we say vertical we mean the shape that travels from top to bottom So when I take essentially what is section three? If I start to try to take all the hair at once, I suddenly got too many guides. So I'm going to take My my column, which is what I went with first I'm going to go ahead And remove section one. Okay. So now I've got section two and section three And this is going to give me a much clearer idea On where my guide's going to go Thank you So as I elevate the section now I go straight off base here, you see So what you'll see here guys is that section three Is having to travel further. So although we are essentially almost working around It's still getting a little bit longer As we go towards the top of the head So that section three now if we were going to do a little bit of cross checking here, which is always a good idea You can see that we're almost our cut line is almost curved Okay, so we're almost like following the head Slightly expanding each time. So let's go ahead and take our next column As we pull the section up we remove section one. Okay Just only working with two sections at once as I lift off My fingers Are not quite horizontal. I'm slightly elevating here because we're expanding away from the front now The head shape is different. Remember here the head shape is coming in So we have to be really different with our angles to suit the face shape Now we're running on the apex zone. We're running straight out of the temple bend, which is the widest part of the head We have to be very conscientious Of the effects we're doing now I'm going to have on the length as it falls down So it's important that your cut at your cut line of distribution is lifted So let me just drop her down a little So you'll see My fingers are kind of pointing at 10 o'clock So not nine 10 o'clock and that's giving me this distribution of short Into long. So this is essentially helping me To maintain the integrity the thickness in the length, but we're still getting getting a shag effect So it's very important. I think sometimes people think Like the length has to be the same everywhere. It doesn't then it'd be like a mullet shape, which Is very different to doing a shag haircut You know, like sometimes when I finish a class with Matt or something Matt will always ring me and we'll have a little chat He won't ring me today. He'd be like, there's no way I'm ringing him today now The first I was actually about to tell you a story about that's one of the first times I did a class with Matt and for free sound education and If you remember about I got the time difference wrong Yes, and you like said so how are you know, yeah, I'm fine.  It's what we had stay didn't we Matt where we had to improvise Yeah, we did it was uh I think we're better on the fly. I'm gonna be honest We we do tend to get done see you see guys We're going short and so long. Okay short and so on pulling section four onto the basis section three that were over directing the cut line number We haven't even put in a guideline for that yet because our guideline Started here, but now our section is working back here So you have to be conscientious about that especially effects it has as we move through the zones But if we just sort of take a breather And have a little look at I don't mean literally I mean Oh nice phrase don't Oh Can you hear me? I love his deep breath He's so stressed and I don't I don't want him to be stressed because things happen um, but I'm like I feel so bad for you mister Oh It's not your fault I'll somehow blame my wife for it So if I just move move for a little bit closer here And just start to show you the shape essentially what we have Is almost as face framing effects, but what is different to this face frame? Then let's see if we brought everything forward is It's almost got a layer and a line in one. So we've decided we've put the shape in here But we've also started to create a layer as well So What are the rules so far guys? Does this thing is a fly curse words? Brian can you imagine that? If I started to really drop some big bombs Thanks christian Do you know what it is? I I am I'm a big consumer of education And I love education. I Max channel has helped me a lot on my own journey of learning and So whenever I'm asked to do something based on education, I consider it a huge compliment So I always want to work very hard when I get the opportunity to because like most of us in education We all sort of drag to doing this So when you get the chance you just want to Deliver something that someone's going to go. Oh, yeah get it now, you know But then we're still doing that so it's good fun um So I'm taking section five, but what what's different now about section five. Have you noticed it's almost pivoting From a point behind the ear What what's that? Why why am I doing that? Well? my sections like this initially Then like this Then like this and now that and then like this is all to do with Not losing the integrity of your length on the outline because I teach there are three main zones working from the corner of the hairline or the mastoid process to the crown Working into the apex into the front There's a huge difference in the amount of hair here to there. That's the basic reason So when I come to cut these sections, I take that into consideration with my section in my cutting section So I work to pivot these areas to help prevent getting a hole behind the ear I think if you check it twice you cut it once, you know So we've got our section through here All I liked was when you got back on you saw me having a quick drink of my Pepsi max Getting getting that down me. Okay guys. I'm ready. I'm ready. So I've got my section What do I need to do first as I'm working with the middle column? And I know I'm going to use my guide like one of the previous What do I need to do? I need to remove because right now I've got five sections here So I need to go through and remove some of the previous which is what I'm doing So as I then pull my guideline Up off its own base. I then comb and groom the cutting section Can I lift up a tiny bit? Sorry about my face getting close to the screen there guys. Oh my god. What's that? I Make a joke that when I was younger And I was hotter So they used to call me boy band Ben Because I look like I was out of a boy band with my little Nick Carter curtains and But my friends call me gastric band Ben nowadays, which is really cruel, but but to be fair still really quite funny So we'll get into the groove it now guys. I'm taking my section. I'm lifting it remember By removing the previous I'm maintaining a control in where my guideline is So as I spin this round, I really want to explain a bit more about that short to long So as I pull this through My fingers now point up remember said like let's say this is three o'clock two o'clock whatever or nine o'clock whatever Whichever angle you're watching me from Essentially it's lifting off the horizontal This is so that as this falls It's constantly spreading the weight onto the section like that dominoes There's not building in one area a weight line occurs when more than one section is cooked the same area So by elevating the section Would distribute in that way to travel towards the base the length of your client so as I lift this section again pair that off the Behind the ear anyone who gets that joke Congratulations. Can you explain that joke to me? So it's not friends. I mean, you know like, um, Ross from friends. Yeah, but I I didn't watch friends enough Right. Well, there's this there's this point where Ross is is getting a few of his friends to help a few of his friends chanla and somebody else forget who to help him lift the sofa upstairs And it can't get up. She keeps shouting pivot Two of them. Yeah, if you've seen it it is like funny. You haven't seen it. You'll just assume that the pepsi max has got to me, but So again, I'm working in columns real quick one thing I want to bring up with you um, because I always love looking at the Not only the vertical aspect, which I think or the I I would guess I would say this is the horizontal Like when you were talking about that short to long, right? Yeah, that's horizontal Yeah, that's horizontal. But if you look at the pinch on the vertical and how that's basically a condensed section You could see the over direction that's happening on the horizontal too. So understanding that understanding haircutting in in a way of Not only understanding what you're creating Vertically, but also what you're creating horizontally as well. So I think that that's You know, cool that you're doing it this all about It's all about where we choose to move the hair from the roots So we choose to move the hair side to side. That's over direction. So when I'm pulling the hair To me if you like side to side, that's over direction when I'm pulling it up and down That's elevation then depending on your cutting section You can work on diagonals and things and still utilize those mechanics To control your section. So I'm I'm using elevation which is moving it up and down To pull that section to the previous which is a bit like over direction because on the top of the head As it as it meets this section and cutting it and it's going to be slightly longer. So each time we've gone It's getting slightly slightly longer, which is giving us a softer guideline to prevent this into the haircut But as we work around the curve of the head because when we first started this it was almost all On the frown part of the head of the hairline. So it was almost all coming below the round of the head or the apex Well now we're right on the apex, which means if we start to try to do that here We're going to it's going to look shorter here than it is at the front. So it's been important to slowly Get the guideline longer To enable me to work this into the back layer without giving the mullet to our client'll get So I've used The movement of the hair up and down to control that I've used over direction to control the the if you like how much length Is expanding to the sides, but I've used my cut line to preserve the length of the bottom So I said there's five main mechanics to cutting hair Elevation over direction, which we've already discussed and cut line But then you also have to look at tension Tension is the stress we're placing on the hair and skin remember because If your section is so tight I could match teaching you and you're like really pulling the hair Putting your knee on the hair and then cutting it that much tension won't give you precision It's kind of like equal tension gives you precision And knowing when to vary your attention to control how your hair reacts to difficult hair growth patterns difficult hairlines difficult hair textures So as I work before I tell you the last mechanic I will tell you I'm now taking a radial section working just in front of what I just cut This is going to work as a guideline now for my back layer. So now I totally abandoned what I was just doing because I've worked to a point Where I need to do more to the hair now because if I keep on bringing this forward Where is the most amount of hair on the head? Oh, no, what are you doing? Okay No big deal He'll be back Here he comes More reactive with it now though. So what sorry guys, let me just recap from what I just said I'm now taking your guideline, which is basically Send to me a thick section Running from the back part of what we've just been cutting Okay So all the hair that is isolated is still isolated at the back Okay But now I'm making a decision to change my approach to this haircut due to the fact The back zone has a lot more hair than the front zone If we didn't take a different approach at this point and we just kept on over directing our sections It'd become more and more subtle as we got towards the back. And why is the point in that? We've established that the back is an area that has the most amount of hair And we're going to take the most subtle approach to that doesn't seem to make any sense So we don't know What I'm going to do Is to give this a really really good layer To synchronize If you like or to balance visually everything we're doing So the section we just took Was essentially essentially Is the section we're going to use a guideline start when it works central vertical. Okay Why why would I start in the middle? Well, that is the area of the highest density within that section That's that's to in my opinion means the amount of hair in one area So there's a lot more hair in the middle of this section than there is behind the ear behind the ear the hairline has changed So I start vertical so I can change the effects we're going to have on the weaker areas Utilizing over direction I'm going to come to the last mechanic. Don't worry at the moment We did a great class Matt and I did for his team to the day And we went through all of our cutting therapy education. It was a long class but a good class Hopefully is that no one dropped out since Yeah, if you guys get a chance it should be up soon, but um, it was definitely a great theory theory class The virtual cutting club people they're on the in the room right now So as I take my section, okay, we have some choices to make Firstly, we have a choice of elevation I could lift my elevation to work parallel to the ceiling pulling straight to the top Which is going to mean I'm going to be more impactful at the top than I am at the bottom I can do it where I pull it straight to the walls Okay, and again, that's going to build a corner. I've got all these options My preference is actually going to be to follow the head shape So as I do this I get my section and I lift straight up now my first section here I've got my guideline coming from the back Now I'm going to cut my first section Just following the head shape Do you see that I'm then going to take away half that section Keep this section nice and isolated And bring up some more hair And sure enough, we're following the head shape again Now, so the first two sections, just before we hit the absinthe bone Our shape is following the head shape utilising the guideline From the front section Okay, so then what I'm going to do is I'm going to now take this section from here And I'm going to lift this section to meet it So you see what's happening here now the cut line is being changed From round into triangle Do you see that? So now my cut line has gone into short to long so we'll like this at the minute Our expanded shape is working up to here, here, here, nice and round and then it goes off and keeps the length So that is my section one Section two We're going to work round horizontally, which I'm going to come to that in a moment So the final mechanic is body position So where are your feet? Where are your feet? Where are you stood? How, you know, I refer to an open body or clothes So I gave you a little snubs on that earlier when I was cutting the front Let's look at it as this So when I take this section from here Firstly, I've got a little bit too much hair, so I'm just going to let some drop down Before I put this, I'm just going to tell you now because I want this to be round horizontal My over direction is going to be meeting section one and section two in the middle I'm not going to be over directing two onto one because I'll be increasing length, traveling side to side If I over direct to one onto two, I'm going to be decreasing the length of two Are we froze? Frozen we are He will be back Let's do it this way. He will be back in just a moment Here he is Um, I think my map is using a ball of power so I'm over directing section one and two into the middle of one another, but if look at my body position I'm square to my section, which means when I'm square straight onto the section I can assess the effects of elevation When I'm square to the head, like I'm cutting like this one square to the head I assess the over direction more so depends Which shape which mechanic I need the most control of? When we refer to your body as closed or open, let's say right now this section is kind of in the middle of me But let's say I let it go closer to this my my hand here holding the section This hand now is fairly limited and it's fairly close to my body Let's say I go over here and do the same immediately this hand now Is I've got to come quite close to me to cut the hair That's a closed body open body is when I've got my my arms away from my body not locked in And I'm able to control my shape without being distorted So remember what do I do? to get my shape Round horizontal So I if you remember I over direct So the sections meet in the middle of each other's bases So if I'm cutting section one and two Let's call it one point five I want two one To go ahead and meet the middle I want three and two To meet in the middle Yeah, that's what I want Now I'm only going to adopt that until we hit the mastodoid process When we go past the mastodoid process, which is also basically the corner of your hairline So this is the final section where I'm working with the over direction pattern. I've just described Once we change once we get into this area. There's suddenly A lot less hair. So if I just get this section out of the way You'll see underneath here That there's a lot less hair here than that is on this section So if I carried on with a round horizontal shape What do you think will happen here? It'll be inconsistent to the shape behind it due to the fact That there's less hair here. So the round shapes are going to have a greater effect So I'm very conscientious of Keeping the outline of my hair because looking equal looking balanced and not looking fit it in one area and on the other Whenever I ask a client Let's say a client's got long hair Well, don't you see it froze again? No, it's not froze. We're okay We're okay. I'm about to throw it froze Hello, are you still there? You're still there Sorry, um Yeah, so whenever I get a guest in the chair And he or she has got long hair and they want to have Along the style. I always think they're never really bored of it being long and they don't want it to feel thin You know, they might say My hair is really really thick But they probably don't want their hair to feel thin They might want me to remove some density make the hair more manageable make it maybe even Take less time to blow dry But they don't want me to get like to go really crazy and take too much hair away because All a haircut really is Is how and where we leave the shape? Okay, so how and where we leave the shape at how and where we leave the weight Excuse me. So if I suddenly remove all the weight Now I kind of remove the big part of what makes the shape Okay So I've been really conscious of that fact now We've got our section here Okay, we're just going to take away the previous section move it out of the way This section here is now going to be our guideline. So as we come To on the area here, which as we discussed the density levels on lower I'm going to be working back to previous So I hope that kind of makes sense to you all that I'm now doing something with my mechanics to control the rates in which the length and weight Is basically improve The length and weight if you like get longer and heavier as we travel side to side So as it increases it's me moving it back that is going to do that But if I didn't do that, we'd have an issue A big issue With a hole behind the ear So I'm over directing this now Onto the previous section Remember why am I doing that Is to increase the length I couldn't think of the word increase earlier increase the length traveling side to side So as we over direct this yes quite exciting at the moment anyone who's from the uk. Are we okay? Are we okay? You're good Nope, you're not You're good until you're not Yep Um, he'll be back. He's coming back What's going on in the uk? Let me know in the chat. Did you guys get uh Is quarantine over Not sure. All right. He's back. Oh my god It seems to give me like five minutes before it just boots me out Um, so as it comes to my last section essentially we've discussed the outline So I'm just going to get on with it. We're still over directing now back to the previous You see there's nothing coming off here and there shouldn't be that much coming off because This was one of the final sections. Yeah, look brilliant. There's nothing coming off And that's exactly what we want because we should have already cut this in our top section So There's one zone left to do As we pull all this round now, I'm just going to move this back out of the way so I can get back to section one Now I'm going to do this in the same body position I have I always advise that if you're cutting Short into long or I always advise that you maintain that so you don't suddenly switch sides and work across this way once I You'll be pulling your head the head's gone to previous and the next side to be pushing This is so that we maintain our starting point If if you try to cut long into short, it's a lot less accurate than it is trying to cut short until long when we refer to Longing to short or anything like that. We basically refer to the cut line The shape we're choosing to cut And there's really three choices three basic choices. There's working round Which means we're deciding our shape is going to follow the head shape It's not going to increase in length or weight Or we can use square which means it's going to slowly increase in length and weight Due to the fact that it increases in length as the head rounds away We can work triangular Which means we direct length and weight into certain areas So we have a choice of three cut lines I've worked with round into triangle vertically And I've worked round into square horizontally I've done this To compensate for areas that've got a low density And I've done it to ensure that we control If you like the outline of the haircut even though we haven't cut the outline in yet We don't want to be over thinning out any areas So we come towards one of our final sections Right now our over direction is going back onto previous So my vertical shape is rounded to this point Following the head shape then as we lift the hair up to meet that cut line We then flatten the cut line Which transforms the round shape which was following the head shape Into a short and so on Any questions coming through matt So so far, um, I haven't seen a lot of questions if you guys do Have questions just a lot of people chatting chatting together, which is really nice to see There was one about a side parting ed combs asked Well, that's a really good question because it actually does throw a bit of spanner in the works because You have to cut the first few sections. Maybe sections one three on the side parting And then you almost have to start again by taking a new guideline And starting it more central as you work back because of course if you're working it off the back here to this part On a side parting you're going to have an issue because you're going to be an off balance with the crown So it'd be like your crown will be longer on one side of the other which is fine because that's what we want On the apex as we get past the apex we need to at least change that So what I intend to do is I cut the first maybe three sections How I showed you But on the side parting And then from there I get I jumped straight into changing going more central Nice, and uh, Vinny's asking, uh, why do you keep changing your scissor technique? So you kind of shift your hand Yeah, so you have um You've got the easting grip, which is uh, you've got standard grip Okay, which is everyone knows and kevin the easting grip is where I reverse my grip Uh, cut so I just change the grip when I feel tension or pressure I'm the tendon in my thumb or on my wrist. So like let's say I'm doing this bit now here Cutting like that feels quite awkward. Okay. Look, I've got to put a lot of strain on my wrist My thumb is almost traveling in a strange way. So when I change it to this There's no strain So I flip between the two different scissor grips to offer me more comfort when I'm cutting the hair So he's also he's he's yelling at us. So um explain so club cutting and intermixing with point cutting Why do you do those two things? Sorry Vinny So the club cutting and intermixing is where I when I get closer to the outline. Oh, it's frozen looking pretty unfortunate there Am I there? Yes, but you don't know this There he goes um This is what happens when we yell Vinny just so you know shuts everything down. I'm just kidding. Here he is Sorry about that Vinny. So yeah, Vinny called me out really and I had to bail So I'm extremely to to be honest to you when I feel I don't need to implement much texture Like at the very start I needed the texture because I don't want to have to thin the hair a lot when the hair's dry But in here I just need to get balanced I don't really need to point cut this excessively But the front that's really where I house all the texture to this shape So of course when I got when I got the front when I was currently front I was point cutting and then when I get to the back You'll notice I flipped into just cutting it straight and that's again Just because the shape it doesn't really need me to try to thin out the outline. I prefer it quite strong So let's have a little look at her So I'm going to blow dry now I I'm going to prefer to dry this a little bit more smoother because There's a bit more pressure on me then. I think it's got to look right, you know And if you're going to trust what I'm showing you you really need to see it more straighter So I'm going to work with the wrap drying technique and from the wrap dry I'm going to then be working with a round ceramic brush To get the hair really really smooth I'm working with a Dyson hair dryer today Um, if it's if it's quite short hair I probably wouldn't be using a nozzle because it will dry too quickly But because there is quite a bit of hair. I'm going to use a nozzle So I'm going to use our medium speed and a fast key So wrap drying Is me wrapping the hair Around the cute around the contours of the head shape To get an equal bend On the room and just stretch out anything on the mid legs So I go from let's say in this case this side to that side and I'll do the opposite Yes, everyone in the united kingdom has just found out They can go back to work two weeks into april So that's we've been in lockdown now for a long time here. So It's pretty exciting news But I've been asked to um, I've been asked to work overseas quite a lot in march in the middle east I'm going out to Dubai in Qatar and um Obviously like they wanted to go march and I was saying but I don't think I can So I put on facebook like oh anyone know, you know, I need to get loads of views From people say you can't you just think you are I'm like Nobody I just Ask the question I think there's a lot of frustration which is understandable, but I'm I'm I'm kind of in no rush to travel Um, you know, I'm not like they'll rush it. I go to mexico in june for a big show out there. I'm doing um About six days out there in mexico. It'd be my second time going to that Um, I'm never in a rush to travel. I don't I don't want to force opportunities. You know, if they're there they're there So you see I'm focusing not on the ends right now focusing on the roots still getting some volume Okay, we're not I don't want to have too flat If I then just like skip a few steps, you know, I'm like log in the side for a moment I'm going to use a round brush Okay I really like the round brush give me a little bit of bend On the ends of the hair not the midlands. I want to get control of that Otherwise there would be no point in rat-drying Anybody else think it's like amazing that the iphone's cutting out his blow-dryer That's right. We don't allow negativity in these rooms. That's for sure booted right out Oh, I guess he froze He'll be back. He'll be back Oh, all right.  Uh, he's working through the blow-dryer right now Um, so we have classes coming up all week tomorrow. I'll be live cutting hair. Um at And I forget what I'm doing tomorrow, but I'll be doing a haircut live right here. Um At 12 o'clock eastern standard time and then we have brian hair wednesday 10 a.m. And then daniel downs is going to be doing a rainbow um A color melt on thursday at 12 30 and then we have ergo doing some styling at three o'clock on friday So tonsa education coming up this week There he is Looking good So let's get there guys Again, thank you to matt and to pivot point for supplying me with the mannequin. It's just beautiful to work with He can just thank me. They charge me for it What I'd describe it as, you know, like if you work with um, like before I had to work with mannequin heads And they've not been great. I mean, that's fine. You know, they're like Considerably less than a pivot point. So I get it but it's a little bit like Using a computer that's really really slow And then using a pivot point and that's like using a really fast computer. It's kind of like Such a difference in the way the hair is set on the mannequin It's such a difference in how it dries like it's drying so easily for me Whereas sometimes I've got to manipulate the hair with a lot of heat products It does make a difference, but like one of the things I always say to people is that I'm not by a lot of mannequin heads and I tend to try to at least three haircuts out of them So me and Matt will use this haircut at least one more time I mean, obviously the fringe is better to be short. So It'll obviously be a shorter style or something with with a fringe But I always try to use them. I would never grab a mannequin like this and just cut it off from long to short because obviously There's a lot of other opportunities in there Yeah, I always cut a bang in those and then you got to figure out what hair cut to do He can't hear me. I could say anything I wanted about him right now Sorry, Matt. Yep. Yep You know, he looks the hairdryer. I said I could say anything I want about him right now and he wouldn't That's awesome. Gary super cool. Love seeing that Kristen all the classes this week, you know, they'll be up for a replay and I'll re-edit them and everything. So Uh, there's condensed versions even Brian's class. I just reposted. I got Danielle's done That'll be coming out today condensed versions So like, you know, it was an hour class and then it gets cut down to 10 minutes. So you guys can consume it quicker Peggy, that's super nice Brian Literal, I don't know. I probably said something wrong Lovely shape That's the truth. I know the lives are way fun. I think Austria Will he go and cross check in the dry hair Are you gonna cross check Ben? Sorry, are you gonna cross check it? You think or yeah, yeah Like so at the very start we cross check this vertical because we pulled the sections this way Where is the back? We're going to check it horizontal. So We initially after the after the first three sections, we just cross checked it just to check And to make sure we work work, you know, we're elevating to the correct level because that's one of my one A bit of advice is that if you're not sure on the correct elevation your cross check will tell you So if you've done two sections and you elevate and you think ah that that's coming over more at the front for my shag hair You know that your elevation is probably too low So cross check it is a great way of Assessing that so I I will cross check everything over That's one reason why I try smoother too Uh, so So, uh, he froze again There we go so, uh angela Here's a good little uh I just want to address this because I I don't know if it's you but a couple people have asked about the virtual classes Um, I did make an announcement today. I'm not going to make that announcement yet But but you're probably noticing that you can't sign up for the virtual cutting club as of right now virtual cutting club is closed, but it will be um opening up in a different form In the next couple weeks a few weeks probably When we've launched the new version of the app So download the fse now app and you'll start to see different things and and um, you know You'll be able to access that stuff coming up pretty soon. So um, so just be on the lookout virtual cutting club Will be part of the fse now app if you don't know where to find that just fse now Type that into the app store and you'll be able to find our app all of these classes are on there And upcoming events will be on there everything. So just just go download that and you'll be good to go Okay, all right. Wow. Wow. Here we go. So I'm just going to use um a little Just the medium pair of straight edges to smooth over the very bottom of the hair not the fringe Uh, just because I'm going to cut the length Because I haven't cut the length yet. So we do need to place the length in Why wouldn't I cut the length then at the start? Surely that makes more sense, doesn't it? Well for me Especially if I'm taking a lot of hair off with a shag haircut I want to put the length in and what is aesthetically correct when I finish there Meaning that I could put the length when the hair was wet And it be too short or be too long like I could cut it and then layer it Uh-oh you going? We're almost there guys. We're so close So close I don't know I'm glad you guys are enjoying the class. I love seeing all the comments I know we're we're piecing through this and I'm gonna chop it up and it's not going to seem like this ever happened. So I am excited for that. There will be another version of it. Um, but ben's doing great Let's hang in there.  Here we go ben Take it away pal Sorry guys. So what I was saying before was that when I um decide to put the length afterwards Is when the make the most important thing I'm trying to achieve is the shag shape So for this demonstration I was working it in as that so again. I'm leaving the fringe alone. Just working through the shape But obviously the length now is quite wispy because we've taken a heck of a lot of hair away from it So we've got to do something with that But I could have put the length in when the hair was wet And and it could be could still need some more hair coming off, you know, so My advice is I especially if the client still wants long hair I wouldn't take a lot off if they do want like an a-line shape like more like a bob With with kind of like a you know a little bit of a shag feel to it Then obviously that's different because the bob is the most important thing The shag is just part of that But with this haircut Like one when Matt and I were talking about doing it. It was it was literally purely a shag haircut I was going to do and I've done a few of these just recently for my my site and They're really good fun to do. I think they're really fast on the silent floor That's one thing I noticed when I do them on a client is they're quite fast um Scissor over a razor I would say that this is one of the few haircuts where I think the razor is probably better Because the angle you're cutting at the short to long you get so much more control With a razor in my opinion, which as a cutting purist, um, obviously that's quite strange to say but it does work so We're almost there guys So it starts look really cool. Okay. I've got to do some work with the texture Looking great, but look at that Look at that needs coming off. So we're going to start Putting the hair straight down Taking your guideline from each side Again, like Mini was saying I was switching between My distribution and that was kind of where I needed it So if I felt like, you know, I'm going to be layering the back through a lot I don't want to thin it out too much So I check my balance Make sure it's okay And then I need to simply connecting the dots What could you have done with this haircut so that you could have kept all the length? Well, it's probably down to how short we went with the layer. That was probably one thing The other thing would be I would say the layer we put in we could have worked triangle straight away Do you know me like we could have gone off straight away and gone more triangular But it's mostly like because I'm doing something for Matt and you know, I know I love Matt's work and I wanted it to be less subtle because obviously I want to I want to impress you all He says So it's really simple what I'm doing. I'm just point cutting my length my external shape in really really simple For a little thing on this side Then one of the things that I like to say, um with doing the length later too is that So a lot of people can look weak at the bottom And yeah, tell you cut that internal shape the internal layers and do all of that stuff You can't really determine what that those ends are going to look like so being able to really stamp that line in later I that's why I really enjoy that Yeah, I would agree. I mean I I've done on bob sometimes When I feel like oh my goodness me this bob I'm doing, you know, it needs so much Like it's so heavy so weighty. I probably sometimes start. So there's my cross check Um nice and neat I mean my hands are almost shaking there because you're thinking if anything else is going to go wrong today There's going to be a second of mist in the middle of that So the next thing we're going to do is I'm just going to parallel point cut the top section Okay, so I'm just going to bring this haircut over And obviously we've got a nice neat cross check and we don't want that we want to just just shatter that slightly The more shallow I point cut the less impactful it's going to be The deeper I point cut If you like the more impactful it's going to be but impactful on what exactly It's impactful on the amount of density within the hair. Now when I say density, I don't mean weight Density I refer to as the amount of hair we leave in one place So if we leave all the hair like a one leg bob in one place like here, there's a lot of density in one area Which is why there's a lot of weight on it on the outline So we're going to approach that in a moment But when I just do a little bit of point cutting like I want to do it's just not too impactful. It's just a gentle Introduction to what we want to do Okay He's just taking a break guys Just taking a quick break Hey guys, are you there? Yeah, we're back. So like I say, it's just a gentle introduction. Yeah, I literally just sort of had a quick drink on my Pepsi again But what we've got so far if I just lift her up to show you Is we've got a really nice Soft shape and I've just tried this down really smooth. Okay, but again, I can certainly Get this and make it all textured. But what we're going to do now is to focus on the fringe Okay, so the first thing I would do is to see I want to distribute my fringe Slightly out of the eyes. Okay. So the first thing we'll do is a little bit channel cutting I'm going to stop from fairly deep and I'm not going to late drop too low. Why? The lower it goes the more your impact and right now I just want to have Remove a little bit of bulk a little bit of the density out the section and review it So as I do that, I'm just taking away a really small amount of the head sitting on the ends Once I do that, then I'm going to start with my parallel point cutting But I'm going to cut the same section a couple of times And then move on.  You've had it, hopefully So let's go through that again I've got all this weight here. The first thing I did was I did a little bit of channel cutting But if I went all the way down, it becomes more impactful So because I don't know how much impact I really need in the minute I just do a small amount first to give myself a better canvas to assess The levels needed and to be honest with you because this is a shag haircut There's really not too much that means doing but the double tap Helps me to keep the ends defined Now the middle is still quite blunt.  So we uh me and my my wife Um fiance we've been engaged for 16 years. So we're married. Um, so We had a we used to live on a street that like it was like a pass-through street So people would fly down with their cars So one day she took the mannequins from our house and just put them along the side of the road And yeah, and then everybody just freaked out every time they would uh drive down, you know There's so many different things you can do with a mannequin head When you're done with it I mean, I I've got one of the ones from Pivot Point with the shoulders and I use that to put my baseball caps on in my wardrobe So you know because it was like so expensive to buy that mannequin as well So when I finished it I shaved it I used to use it to explain section I mean, I've got the idea from you Matt. Yeah, I got it from Sam Villa. Just so you know, oh, he's great, isn't he? Yeah I watched his interview with you and with Robert Cronins as well. I love Robert So sorry just to go back to the haircut you meant to watch with me as well So I'm just slicing in so it's I realized I go off of peace a lot I'm slicing through it to really shatter it so that it connects in better But I'm only worth doing that with the top section because as you can imagine if I did that with the bottom The length would become even more transparent, which we don't want or need So going through like this. I sort of found the hair out and I just start to slice deep deep into the hair And it's just giving me a nice shattered feel to my shag haircut So let's just make a little assessment of the shape so far So what we've got is we've got our shape where there's there's a nice layer running through the back as well Okay, we've got the outline which is cut to roughly the shoulder area We've got Let's get a little bit product So product wise, I mean Oh I love it. He said oh no before that happened this is By far one of my favorite live streams ever You're back I don't apply any product until I think it looks finished okay, so when I am Doing a client or a demonstration or model or anything like that at all I like the haircut to look how how it's meant to Before I apply product my thought here is that if it looks really great without product I know I finished if I've got to force it With some products. Maybe there's more I could explore to do to solve that You know So like with this if I was having to like really I was really struggling to get volume out of these layers You'd maybe think the client's really going to struggle You know, so It's my own take on that Love that it looks nice Looks really nice. What's up? What do you think Matt? I think it looks great.  No, I'm not psyched. It's over. I'm bummed. It's over I thought I had a good time. I think before before matt deletes my number and follows me No, thank you so much. I mean obviously you've got any questions at all Yeah, if you guys have questions type them in the chat real quick before we go Me and Ben could definitely talk forever. So We do often. Yeah, we do so Definitely post those in the chat if you have questions about anything.  I I think that the shag is relatively subjective because It's it's trend orientated, isn't it? Yeah, because like the method I've done a few days is actually it's a soon round layer that's the methodology of it is it's um Elevating section each time so that we follow around shape into triangle shape The differences I've adopted Were quite a few really one of them was I didn't work round the head shape here What you meant to I lifted it up because obviously you can see how much it affects the length even we're doing that And I prefer to layer the back through more on a shag hair Cool, I feel sometimes there's not that layered at the back and and like I was saying to you like that's the area Where it's the most hair. Yeah, it just makes sense that like If we turn her around slightly Like this area here is where it's going to be the most hair So I've gone ahead and put in a layer that is more balanced horizontally And Yes, we sacrifice some length for doing that but in most cases when you're layering you do have to take away A small amount alone, but the coolest part nice of this mannequin actually as well. I did them just a little purple shampoo on here and There we go. That's about that's about the maximum of my coloring ability actually purple shampoo And it's still patchy so Yeah, I I love it. Um, somebody's asking what mannequin it's it's a pivot point. It's the Gwen Uh, mannequin, I like the Gwen. I wish it was a little blonder to be honest, but um from from a Color and cut standpoint. I think getting a blonder mannequin not platinum because um, I really just feel like if you want to do highlights Or whatever you want to do When the the pigment's completely wiped out. It's just a different texture. Um, and what we've been doing Especially for like brian, um, and I'm sure with daniel's class is coming up We color them with a demi Down to like a level six a level four Demi and then we'll do highlights over top of that and then kind of bring it up So then the highlights actually showcase through it So the Gwen has been pretty good her price point's not that bad Um, you know, so So I would definitely that would be my choice. What do you want? Which is one of the shoulders But they actually comes with a fairly uniform layer effect to it. And it was like 160, you know, pound sterling So about $200 $220 So I mean that's quite unrealistic because you can't really style it either because the hair's not that long Ingrid is the one that they sell by 300 pound Which is where You know, like a lot of the um, the styling classes That's what they use is the is the ingrid but there's so fear I use For a few of my shapes, but I I use I mean, I look pivot point. I think they're the best going and I totally get why I might use it I think that sometimes what when I'm teaching a class It can be quite expensive for the saloner to have to buy it Yeah, I think it's good it's been to talk about this. I know that you're you're Lightly treading on this because you're not sure but pivot point didn't send us these for free like I did pay for them So it you can you cannot you can be honest, whatever mannequin because I know we do love pivot point But pivot point you use other mannequins too. I know Not froze again They can send us mannequins for free and we will talk about them but Um, I know ben ben's treading lightly because he's not sure if if we're supposed to say tons of great things about pivot point We love them. They are in my opinion the best quality mannequin But I know watching ben's videos that he uses Oops, I'm gonna pop you over to right. Um, you do use I I can't ever remember which one that is It's called exalto. I use so I use a couple of different ones. So exalto is why I did this tech on your damage And what does that come natural level like what is that? This is really quite light. It's a lot lighter than I've got a few But then this is the one that is the platinum one, but um, I did this cut a few weeks back and uh Would you follow that with is that for so much time? But that was white when it arrived and it's yak hair So when I like when I try to cut in here and blow dry it It was really difficult to get that to sit nice at the nape. It was just Jumping everywhere, but the natural level of Of the ones I use It's a french company. They are quite yellowy, but very very light So whenever give a purple shampoo that generally go quite a nice color and I said, I agree with you totally using a blonde one For cutting is great because like you can see every mistake when you're working with a blonde mannequin. So When I work with a dark mannequin, um It's better if you're working with a precision shape because you want the outlines look dense and strong And a dark colored mannequin, but then it's hard to get a really dark mannequin as well because often you get them with like a Almost it's like warm tone. You think but that's not really what I want. So yeah, I I uh, yeah But they are a pivot point are I'd say a hundred percent not just saying this because I might use them They are the best in the world But um, they are very very practical. So Um, but yeah, I mean like I said, thank you to Matt for supplying them because that was very gracious of him to be fair Um, but I hope I hope I did it justice for what Matt what Matt would have paid for it. Definitely. Um And so that so so when I say to Matt, I like to use it more than once. I'm basically you. Yes, you're better Yeah Yes, no, I I don't care. I'll get you fresh ones. But yeah, I'm I'm really excited because you are gonna be doing this with us, uh, you know Hopefully monthly, um To to just share yourself now I want to promote you a little bit because you got a ton of things going on. You do have an online, you know, uh Subscription based you put out a tutorial every week, right? Um, yeah And then your book which I was told in the virtual cutting club today That I need to get copies of your book and I need to sell them I've sent you a I've actually sent you a free copy. Actually, it's it's it's on its way now I posted it two days ago a year. Oh, that's very nice All right. Well, I got to order a bunch from you because people want me to sell it and uh, so Yeah, that they can get it I mean, what's interesting is everything organic is created because you you wish it was there like your tri-raiser Yeah, like if you look at how useful that is Instead of stopping and picking up a different tool and thinking you've got in your head But that came from you recognizing It wasn't there. So when when I I retrained it's not going to bore everybody here, but I I retrained myself after Maybe 12 13 years of cutting hair I retrained myself using books and online education because they were really efficient resources And I I didn't have the money all the time to really be able to commit To retraining by going to an academy or being trained face to face So what I did have was every day I had 10 or 15 clients in And you know, you know by having that many clients you've got time to not practice But you've got time to try things you've got time to hone your skills So I because I use books and online education That's why I've created both because as a consumer I knew what I was looking for and the exact product wasn't out there on on both fronts There was exceptional books and exceptional online education there But it wasn't necessarily exactly what I what I how I would teach or whatever I mean the closest thing to it of course is maths because that's how I first got in contact with in Exceptually, I love is a love of style of education No made up words just really good really good strong technology and But I'll spell out your website real quick for me And then yeah, the website is bb education uk dot co dot uk And on there you'll see my online education and the books are sell so My book is called the bb bible you can buy it on digital or like an android or iphone digital copy So I don't know made it 10 bucks and then you can get it um hard copy we post it globally so um But yeah, like the whole point of it was that It wasn't out there. So I wanted that to be this really efficient resource of them There he goes I'm telling you guys though. I he sent me the digital copy a while back. It's just Hair cutting is what it is like it's all um You know everybody has their way of doing it me and ben speak very similar in our ways of thinking about hair cutting Because we were we also have studied so many different people Everybody's always trying to reinvent the wheel what I think is great about ben's book is that he it's just super basic Um, and then the diagrams that go into it. It's not Like people try to reinvent haircutting and make it more complicated so that they can say that they Invented a certain way of haircutting. Um, what I love about ben and you know Is that he's he oversimplifies everything so that you can literally read his book And start to understand why every little detail from section size to Elevations to shape like all of it makes sense and even when you did the class with the virtual cutting club with me There was something that triggered in my mind, which was a vertical shape As opposed to just being horizontal shape like I always looked at shape as horizontal An elevation as removal of weight, but I never thought about how moving that weight and that in the shape It's happening. So This is why it's so important guys to hang out with people that push you to make you better Um, because you know, just the conversations that me and ben have Uh, the the little bit that we do get to kind of hang out online and and you know talk and just watching his content and And adapting it into mine like this is how people should work. I think is um To just grow each other. So Uh, I love having been here. I'm so happy that you know, he's part of it I hope you guys support everything that he's doing And hopefully he'll get to the us and do some in-person stuff You know, but I did put your website on there. So hopefully you guys took a pen and wrote it down or screen shot it That's a good way to do it too. And um, and then you can go check it out Your book's like 30 bucks too or something right 30 pounds or something.  It's not it's not the whole point was I suppose I wanted all of our things like To be a resource that you could use in between clients in between a guest Um half an hour before you teach your own team. You can have a little look to that bookmate some notes It's all about being a resource. That was the main thing to me was Helping people who were at my stage because I was behind the chair 14 clients today And you know, I just wanted to elevate my standards of work. I want I love what I do And I believe the way I cut her says that about me But I just wanted to see how far I can go if I commit to it and I did and then I produced some things That I felt, you know, I hadn't had within me to produce that would help others The online education is my favorite thing I do Um, I had to learn how to edit then that's a film that's helped me a lot with a lot of that Which has been really really helpful and we actually just posted five new videos in the last Nine days, which has been great. I mean just because it's been um, like break in the uk for school my daughter we don't have I'm gonna have to home school for a week so instead of Start arguments for no reason with my wife, um, which I seem to do For no reason Whenever you're just walking like it's a sport But it's immediately like pick up pick a fight for no reason But no all joking aside, um, thank you all so much for bearing with me and thank you matt for being so patient with Obviously been quite a quite a tricky evening Yeah, it's fun I had a blast and we got to work this out like from between now and next time like me and you we're going to do some like, uh Investigating I need to that was something I need to get I think that thing you said the card thing that yeah I'm gonna send it. I'll send it to you. What wait? I'll send you a link. Um, all right. Cool. So if you guys Oh, and that that shag that you just pulled up the peach looking one or pink one that's coming up, right? That's a tutorial on your thing. Yeah, this is on my site now. Um, so is the um, this one That is uh, that's online now. That's on my Tutorial list and then I literally did this heck yesterday And I edited it. It's all colored with Moroccan oil their masks and this was actually A halo section that I did at the top here And then I sliced it in vertical to connect in here But I sliced it at the front this way and brought everything up So I face framed it with like a vertical slice. So it's quite Quite funny because that's like Exactly how I did almost exactly how I did the one back here today So cool. It is great minds. Yeah, it's so cool because this shaggy you did today here is a little bit different I've cut it. I've cut it like that before But then when I went dry cutting I did more Um, I was actually talking about one of the guys that you were telling me about And I was watching some instagram stuff and it inspired me. Oh, he's gone But he'll be back in one second Now we're just chatting. This is what we do guys So you're just really you can leave if you want this is This is what we do. It just makes it easier. We don't have to hang up and then do this. All right, so um I lifted everything we went vertical and then um based on some of that inspiration from instagram It was uh, it was kind of a chipping technique and then sliding up To start short and work your way along which you kind of did in the front of this one But I did it in a clock around I took out the halo section did it in a clock around both sides all the way around And then the halo section we brought all the way forward over the fringe And point cut that dry Shattered that apart and then the fringe we brought out to the front and all of this stuff To the middle and point cut that in front of the face. So Very similar. That's great. Yeah, that's really great. Copychip. That's what I've done No, because I haven't put it out yet So whoever hits whoever hits upload first copied the other one We do we do work very similar which is I flatter myself for saying that so But I'll tell you I love as well is a friend to to free silent education with jacob khan Yeah, um, he's a great great cutter great a really great dry cut because Like I've always been I don't like dry cut because it's not something that I'm very good at I don't know a lot about how to dry cut that so um But I love watching yourself and like jacob work and I get a lot of I get a lot of useful tips and and understanding from those tutorials. So It's no surprise.  I don't even see how that could happen With me his right hand man is called Ben. Yeah, and we can say we're gonna have like a bend off of who's the best at the bends and Yeah, something I'd be quite fun, you know, it would be fun. We should do that I said, well, as long as you don't mind losing That's fine.  Well We're gonna let you guys go. Uh, make sure again Screenshot Ben's website. I'm about to take it away. Um, Ben. Thank you so much. Uh, always a pleasure. I'll talk to you soon for sure and And yeah, so I'll see you Take care guys. All right. See you All right guys. Thank you so much. Um You know, it's always a pleasure hanging with you guys And supporting freesline education all that if you guys want to check out any of the tools that you saw on this show Ben's using Mizutani, uh, you know combs clips everything for the most part. You can check out on our online store shop fse. So if you want to go on there also, um Download our app fse now you can rewatch all these classes and that's pretty much it. Thank you too. I think we're alive I'm a nerve of beauty today. Um, I like popping on there and uh big supporters of freesline education They've been sponsoring this, you know, all my classes for a very long time So go check out manurbabeauty.com if you're looking for new salon furniture salon equipment They're the best in the business. Uh, so go check them out as well. Um, all right The app wouldn't pop up for me. So lindsay all you have to do All right. Thank you Adele. Um The app wouldn't pop up so If you're having issues with the app popping up, just go to our website freesaloneducation.com And just click whatever device you have. So apple or android and it'll take you to the app store and it should be on there All right, you guys are awesome. I'll see you guys on the next one. Goodbye


So once we have this basic concept understood how the brain learns, we have this very big question that's in front of us. There are such a thing as ages, the age of a person, the chronological age, are you 1, 2, 50, 60 years old? The stages, these are cognitive stages of development that occur from a psychological perspective, and then there's prior experiences. So here's a big question for you. What plays a bigger role or what is more indicative of potential to learn?  It might surprise you to learn that prior experiences are definitely the most important indicator of your potential to learn something new. What you already know influences what you can know. And the least important of all of these things is actually your chronological age. This is why some people, some small kids, for example, who've been exposed, have had a lot of prior experience with reading materials, are really prepared and ready to go and able to learn to read maybe at three or four years old. Whereas other people might be seven, eight or nine, and just because of the lack of prior experiences are not able to do the same task. So we know the prior experiences definitely outweigh your chronological age when it comes down to being an indicator for what you're able to learn. This then begs the question, you know, how should learning be designed in our schools? Why do we divide kids by their ages, for example, rather than their prior experiences? A big question here. And the importance of prior experiences really comes into play when we talk about the concept of constructivism or what's really happening in your brain, neuroconstructivism. That is that we have neural networks in our brain for basic and core concepts and we build off of that. So what we know, our prior knowledge gives us a scaffolding upon which we can build and learn even more complex things in the future. And this brings us to basic premises. Number one is that, you know, learning occurs throughout the lifespan. You can and do learn until you die. But it's fundamentally incorrect to think about learning as development being in parallel with age. It's actually more in parallel with prior experiences. So the greatest determinant of learning outcomes in the future is what you already know, what you can scaffold upon to build this new or more complex knowledge. Now we want to turn to a connected idea that's considering growth mindsets. Many of you might have heard this idea, but I just want to put this into the context of mind, brain health and education. The concept of a growth mindset is related to one of six principles that we have about human learning. And a principle is something that is true across all cultures, age groups and independent of prior experience, which is very interesting, right?  Basically, it's highly plastic, it's neuroplastic throughout the lifespan and you can and do learn throughout the lifespan. So it's thanks to this plasticity that we can actually justify the concept of growth mindsets. And it's thanks to this principle that we understand that all kids can and do learn. They might not learn at the same pace, but they can and do learn. And that learning is fluid and not fixed. And it's this last point, the fluidity of learning that justifies the concept of a growth mindset. Somebody who has a growth mindset basically looks as failure as an opportunity to grow. I can learn anything I want to. Challenges help me grow. I like to try new things. This is very, very different. This is a mentality that says, you know what? I am not limited to my biology. I did not inherit genes that determine who I am. I can be more than my biology. This growth mindset is contrasted with somebody with a fixed mindset who thinks that, you know, failure is the limit of my abilities or I was just born this way. My dad's bad at math. I'm bad at math. Or the overall concept that my potential is predetermined by what I inherited. The main idea from Dweck's work is that students who believe that their intelligence could be developed, those who had a growth mindset, outperformed those who believe that intelligence was fixed. So just believing, just accepting, just buying into this idea of growth mindset, which we now can substantiate with neuroscience in the factual establishment of plasticity is pretty exciting. So these are some of the ideas we want to talk about in module two, looking forward to seeing you in class.


I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. We've got a special insertion here off the program. Jerry Chen, Greylock, 10 years with theCUBE coming on. 10 years will go when theCUBE first came here. Jerry, you were in the hallway. We didn't have any guest list. He was like, hey, you want to come up on theCUBE? So much. Now we've got three sets. We're going to do hundreds of interviews already. We're going to have probably over 200 streaming live. Shorts, Instagram reels, Data Lake. theCUBE's expanded. You've been there from the whole time. It's like the MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the Cube Cinematic Universe, you know? It's a whole franchise. Congratulations and happy early birthday, John. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. You know, I was described to be at high school when I first came to AWS. Look, I want to give you a thought. So we're going to do a quick segment here before AMD comes on. Got some great interviews with those guys. You've been here 10 years. You're out on the trenches. Just Andy Adams-Soleski just talked to the VCs. The investment thesis, economy. There's headwinds, tailwinds. Depending on which side you're on, you're going to have a tailwind or a headwind. What's the outlook? What's your take of re-invent this year? AWS, the ecosystem, and the investment market? You know, I think it's a great rebound. The energy's back when it wasn't pre-COVID, right? We're saying last year it was kind of half the size and, you know, be post-COVID, but I think the show, the energy's great. And Amazon is just amazing, right? It's in this economy what's going on right now in the world. They're still growing, still kicking butt. I think you're going to see a lot of both enterprise customers and start to worry about costs, right? Because I think Amazon's going to focus like, hey, how can they help the customers? But the economy for the next year, I think we're going to see some headwinds. So I think a lot of startups, a lot of customers are going to be worried about costs. You're on the board of a lot of startups that are in the cloud. Rockset's one we've covered. I think they're going to come on here too the tomorrow or today. What's your advice on the board level? Go to market, dial up, dial down. What's the strategy? What marketplace? I mean, how do you give the advice to startups? What's the north star? What's the advice as the investor? Two or three things. For most startups, hard ROI, like how can you save money? So all the kind of fluffy marketing value, you got to have hard dollar savings, right? Number one, if you save money, you'll do well. Number two, to your point, the marketplace is becoming the channel for startups. These are a lot of large customers have deals with Amazon through the marketplace. So startups can sell through the marketplace to customers because a lot of CFOs are doing no new vendors, right? It's getting hard, hard to get approved as a startup. So the marketplace become a bigger, bigger deal. What about existing ecosystem partners that have been around for the past 10 years? They're independent, they may have their toe in the marketplace, may not. Some of them not making their numbers, they're starting to hear things like maybe they'll be repivoting, people are tooling up, what's the advice for the existing ecosystem partners? Cause they're either going to be like the next date of breaks or kind of like maybe. Everyone's looking for the next date of breaks, right? Yeah, I think for existing partners, you're seeing what's happening, John. Deals are getting smaller, taking it longer to close, right? It's just the reality of what's happening right now. And so for those partners are saying, hey, focus in the heart or I be okay with a smaller land and just expand in 23, 24, just get kind of creative of how you're working with customers. And I, like you said, I think marketplace is kind of a go-to play vote. So today, Ruba, the new leader of the partner network, they merged APN with the marketplace. They have now one coherent organization, not fragmented. I was talking to them last night, they have more startups than ever before coming on board. So the velocity of new venture creation is up and up and to the right. Still, even in this economy, and as they always say, best time to invest is in the down market. That's like VC 101, Entrepreneurship 101. What's your advice right now for builders out there looking for that round, trying to get some traction? The agility with the cloud still is there. You can still get time to value. You can still get traction fast. That doesn't go away. What's your advice for the startups? Narrow, narrow wedge, right? So I think with the 5,000 startups every single year, there's so much noise, John. You look across the Escal floor, a lot of great companies, but a lot of noise. So I think the more focused wedge you have as a startup and how they can land deliver value, the better. Land with a very, very sharp wedge, expand over time, but just be very specific how you land. Awesome, Jerry, great to have you on. I know we want to make some room on, appreciate AMD for squeezing a couple of minutes out of their hour and the next hour we're going to spend with them for your sage advice. Final kind of new Insta challenge that Savannah put together, a new host. Insta challenge. Insta challenge is if you had to do an Instagram reel right now, about re-invent this year, what would that Instagram reel be right now? I would do the Expo scavenger hunt, right? We would have a race of different VCs. You give me a list of five companies. The VCs who find the first five companies on the list wins the race. I think that would be a great challenge. All right, what's the most important story this year at re-invent that you could share with the folks that you could share in terms of what's important, what they should pay attention to or what's not being told? Well, I think you talked about your interview with Adam Slapsky. It's the solutions and what you call the next-gen cloud. These high-level services, what AWS is doing around these services is super interesting. They kind of, don't say lead the way, but they're responding customers. So they lead the way by kind of following where the customer's going. And when Slapsky and AWS are doing these solutions, lie chain, et cetera, that tells you kind of where the market's headed. Next-gen cloud. Jerry Chen, thanks for coming on. You're watching theCUBE. The leader in high-tech coverage. I'm John Furrier. We'll be right back with more CUBE coverage. Day two. Day three here at re-invent at this short break.