Good morning, welcome to CMC markets on Friday the 11th of November and this quick look at the week ahead beginning the 14th of November with me, Michael Euston. The last few days have seen a significant change in sentiment. It sort of started towards the end of last week actually, a big China induced rally on reports that the Chinese government was looking at potentially looking at a roadmap for an unlocking of the economy and while I think it's entirely reasonable to be slightly skeptical about the imminent reopening of the Chinese economy, markets are certainly latched on to that with a big rally in the likes of the Hang Seng and the Hong Kong H shares index. So certainly I think it makes sense for the Chinese government to be wargaming a scenario where you're going to see an unlocking but I still think it's highly unlikely that we'll see a significant reopening much before the end of first quarter of next year. And why do I think that? Well, it's fairly simple really, I think if you're running a zero COVID policy and infection rates are continuing to rise across China, you've got rising infections in places like Hong Kong, Guangdong, Shenzhou. Then the scope for an imminent relaxation is fairly limited, nonetheless markets are running with it. And ultimately earlier today, we've seen reports that the Chinese government is looking at relaxing quarantine rules modestly, I would say very modestly indeed. Certainly I think given by the market reaction, you'd think that there'd be an imminent, there'd be a significant relaxation over the course of the next two or three months. That's not going to happen. And I think once markets come to terms with that and the fact that we're probably not going to get a significant pickup in economic activity in China much before the end of Q1, things will settle down a bit. But that's not the only thing that markets have latched onto this week. Now that the mid-term elections are out of the way, the likelihood is that the Republicans will at least gain control of one house, which will effectively block any further legislation from the Democrats, essentially making Joe Biden a lame duck president, well, slightly more of a lame duck president than he already is. So from that point of view, that's potentially dollar negative, it's certainly less inflationary if the Democrats can't embark on significant stimulus spending over the course of the rest of his term. But I think the real catalyst for the rally, well, I think we all know what the real catalyst for the rally over the last 24 hours has been. There's that US CPI number for October, which rose by 7.7%. It's lowest level since January, prompting a huge relief rally in stocks, bonds, as well as a sharp sell-off in the US dollar. And I think that more than anything is the significant factor that could well drive equity markets through the rest of this year. The rally was also given added by at least three Fed speakers, Dallas Fed President Laurie Logan, Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker, and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daley, who all indicated that a slower pace of rate hikes might be appropriate. So essentially what they're saying is that there's going to be no more 75 basis points rate hikes going forward, at least will at least get a 50 basis point rate hike in December. And certainly I think if inflation numbers continue to come on the softer side of expectations, we could see a ratchet down to 25 basis points as we head into next year. And I think while these Fed speakers were at pains to point out that 50 basis points is still a sizable rate increase, it is. So I think the fact that US inflation has been falling and the headline rate has been falling since June. I think if you look at a cursory look at the data, we'll tell you that. The fact that core prices also dropped quite sharply was a huge relief, I think, to an awful lot of people. And you can certainly see that borne out in the way that US bond markets reacted yesterday. And I think from a technical point of view, this move lower was quite significant in the context of the price action last few weeks. The break below these reaction lows here on the 10-year yield was, I think, very significant indeed. The fact that we broke below 389, 390 by 10 basis points suggests that this move lower in yields could have legs. If we look at the two-year, the move is similarly sharp in terms of the move lower. Let's just look at six months because I think that gives us a better indication of where we are. Having said that, what we haven't done is taken out the reaction low from October. What was quite interesting, though, is if we look at a one-year chart, that's a bearish reversal, a key day or a key week reversal. So that gives us hope that we've potentially seen a short-term top in US yields. Essentially, that would then potentially argue for further dollar declines. And if we look at the dollar index, we can see that. I showed you this chart last week that we are trending lower. Could we see a potential peak in the dollar? Certainly that does appear to be playing out in the way the dollar index has been trading. And what was particularly notable was how Dollar Yen reacted this week. We broke below 145, which was the initial low on the second bout of intervention from the 21st of October. The second bout of intervention drove the dollar down to 145.10. We've rallied back, weren't able to break back above 150. We've since broken below the 50-day moving average, which was also the 145 level and retested 140. So that's significant. That's significant for a number of reasons. The fact that we've broken below the 50-day moving average, the fact that we've broken below the 27th of October lows suggests momentum is now shifting away from the dollar. And if it's shifting away from the dollar, that suggests yields are going to come down, should be positive for risk over the course of the rest of this year. The only thing that would negate that is if Dollar Yen rallies back towards 145 and breaks above it. But the fact that we've seen these technical breaks on the Dollar Yen, but also the dollar index has started to ratchet lower, suggests that we could be in for a period of dollar weakness as we head in to year end. And that's potentially a good thing when it comes to inflation here in the UK, but also in Europe as well, which is still rising. I think we look at inflation and we obsess a little bit about the US, and US inflation has been falling. And a part of the reason for that could be the rise in the dollar. Now the dollar is going to start to weaken. We could start to see a slowdown in the pace of inflation here in Europe and the UK, which is continuing to rise next week. UK inflation is predicted to rise from 10.1% to 10.5%. And I think that's going to be one of the key indicators in terms of inflation for the UK that's likely to drag on the UK economy in the fourth quarter. Because today the latest third quarter GDP numbers out of the UK showed a contraction of minus 0.2%. Slightly better than expected, but it's really, I think, a small victory when you consider that we were expecting a contraction of minus 0.5%. Some of the data for September was slightly better than expected. That's a positive, but if you think that things aren't going to get any worse between now and the end of the fourth quarter, then I think you're going to be largely disappointed. That being said, that the main focus as we look ahead to next week, and away from the big jump that we've seen as a consequence of US CPI, is going to be very much on the UK economy, the UK mini-budget on the 17th of November, UK CPI on the 16th of November, and obviously wages and unemployment on the 15th of November. We've also got Chinese retail sales, US retail sales, and UK retail sales as well. So an awful lot of UK data coming out, how that affects the Chancellor's mini-budget on Thursday is probably not going to make too much of a difference. We all know the data is going to be pretty poor when it comes to the UK consumer. Consequently, the budget is really, I think, going to make any attempted recovery in the UK economy that much more difficult. So let's look at the technicals because we've looked at the dollar index. Let's look at Euro dollar. Euro dollar continued in this uptrend. It's broken above the September highs of 102, which suggests that potentially we could be heading back to 10340. Now that 10340 level is a fairly decent resistance level because it acted as support on the way down on this move down through here, and it's also acted as decent resistance on the move back down to the lows that we saw at 9540. So the wider question is, are we going to test the 200-day moving average? Well, certainly I think if you look at it on the basis of the way the dollar index is traded, there's a fairly decent chance that we could retest this 10340 level. The big question is, have we seen the lows in Euro dollar? And I think the only way to answer that question is to see how the Euro reacts around about 10340. So certainly think we'll see a test of that. The big question is how we react around that, if and when we get there. Similar sort of story for Cable. We pretty much know that the data next week is not going to be positive, but it's not really about that. It's really about what US yields do, how US data performs, and we do have US retail sales next week. Weekly jobless claims are still averaging around about 220,000. So there's certainly nothing in the US labor market at the moment to concern anyone about where the US economy is going. But what we have seen is a breakout in Cable. Now, we want to see a break above 117.40.50. We could well be seeing that. Certainly I think there is potential for Cable to move higher now, certainly towards the 200-day moving average. Maybe we won't get that far. I think the big level is really around about 119.80. I think that round number, it was a fairly decent support on the way down. Yeah, we did sort of mess around a little bit around it in and around July and August, but ultimately on previous tests lower, the 119.51.20 area has generally tended to be a fairly decent area of support or resistance in equal measure, which is essentially what I've left in there. Yeah, it's a bit messy around there, but if you take it all the way back to 2019, it was a decent support area. It was a fairly decent support area there. Obviously, that was the COVID crash that we saw back in 2020. And then we saw a decent rebound from here before we started to miss about between 119.50 and 117.50 through here. So that's going to be a fairly significant barrier in the short to medium term, but I still think there's a fairly decent chance we can test it just on the basis of the fact that the Bank of England is probably going to have to do 50 basis points in December anyway, just to match the Fed. So we've certainly got at least another 50 to 100 basis points baked in. The big question is, have we got any more rate hikes over and above beyond that? Euro sterling, still boring, found a fairly decent resistance above 88.20. I still think we're in a range here. Potential bias towards the downside, certainly the ECB has started to sound a little bit more hawkish, but overall there's nothing in this chart to suggest that we won't continue to range trade in the way we've been range trading over the course of the past few weeks and months. Interesting dynamic, however, on gold, which suggests and supports my hypothesis of a weaker dollar. This break above these peaks at 1730 suggests that we put in a double bottom or a triple bottom on gold. Now, if that's the case, then we're likely to see a test of the 200-day moving average on gold and potentially higher. Looking at 1617 to 1729, that's 110. So we can then extrapolate that up from 1730 to 1840. So certainly a minimum price objective on this move higher in gold suggests we could see a test and a modest break of the 200-day moving average on gold. If you believe as I do that this is a break of a potential double or triple base, which suggests that on a minimum price objective, if you measure this on a measured move basis, then we should see a similar move up towards 1810-1820, which suggests very much a weaker dollar over the course of the next few months, which would support then potentially lower dollar yen, break of 140 would target 135-130, euro dollar back towards 104-105, cable back towards 120. We'll see whether or not that plays out. Of course, with all this chatter about a reopening of the Chinese economy, that is pushing oil prices and commodity prices up. So inflation is likely to remain sticky for quite some time. One thing I would say about this particular Brent crude chart is that it continues to find the air a little bit thin above $100 a barrel. So it'll be interesting to see whether or not the current move that we've seen over the past couple of days is sustainable. There is a big barrier at around about $100 a barrel. We certainly won't want to see it much above that, but that would suggest that while inflation is starting to come down, it's not going to come down quickly, certainly not in the context of where energy prices are, even though natural gas prices are continuing to fall back as a consequence of the recent warm weather. If we look at UK natural gas prices, we are still falling, which is a very, very good thing when it comes to potential another energy price cap in March next year. So let's shift our focus back to the mini-budget. We already know that UK wages are trending at a much lower rate than inflation around about 5%. So the income squeeze is likely to continue for quite some time to come. Average weekly earnings in August rose to 6%, excluding bonuses 5.4%. Inflation, CPI inflation is expected to rise from 10.1% to 10.5%. That's just eye-wateringly high. That's in real terms a 5% decline in real wages. That will keep the pressure on the Bank of England to hike aggressively in December. Food prices are likely to be the key driver behind that. Certainly, grocery price inflation is already around about 14% year on year. So the squeezing incomes is very, very real, which begs the question, what to expect from this week's mini-budget? We expect to get the final details of that on Thursday. The various spending cuts and tax rises. The new government is set to remark when it comes to addressing the so-called 40 billion pounds black hole in the public finances. Right. Okay. I'm going to get my soapbox here. Apparently, there's a black hole in the public finances because of the big jump that we've seen in bond yields rising interest rate costs as a result of the mini-budget at the end of September. Well, sorry, but I mean interest rate costs are now back down to where they were at the beginning of September, certainly in the case of the 10-year, the UK 10-year yield. The pound is higher than when it was prior to that mini-budget. So, you know, what fiscal emergency are we looking to address here? Since the change of leadership at the top of government, these concerns have abated about the sustainability of the UK's public finances. If you look at our debt-to-GDP ratio, compared to, say, for example, France, it's way lower, significantly lower. Germany is spending probably three times as much as we are on bailing out its households and its energy sector over the course of the next few months. So, I think the concern is that the framing of the discussion about sustainability of public finances hasn't shifted at all in terms of convincing the markets that future spending plans will be properly scrutinised. You then have to offset with the damage that any measures will do to the economy in the round. So, you can talk about a black hole in the public finances, but what is it premised on? Is it premised on a host of forced assumptions that aren't likely to take place? The market didn't care when the market was, you know, the market didn't care when the government was spending 350 billion quid on various COVID support measures in the previous fiscal year, yet we're supposed to believe that suddenly a huge concern about a 40 billion black hole, the government suddenly needs to peg. Yes, interest rates are higher, but they're higher pretty much across the board. They're higher in the US, they're higher in Germany. I'm not saying that the government shouldn't be responsible about the public finance, but it doesn't need to embark on a host of spending cuts on big infrastructure projects which is sorely needed if they are serious about levelling up. They simply have to convince the markets that they have a credible long-term economic plan that they can implement over a five or 10-year period that rather than impose a plan that no other country in Europe is pursuing. You know, it just makes no sense whatsoever. All they will succeed in doing is making any recession more prolonged and more entrenched. So, you know, the hope is that the economics, Trump's, the politics, ultimately this government isn't going to win the next election. So really, it's about you might as well try and do what's best for the country rather than basically look at a self-serving budget that's probably not going to achieve anything anyway, ran over. Let's just move that out of the way and let's move on. UK retail sales for October, well, we've already seen two months of declines, minus 1.7 in August, 1.4% in September. Could we see an improvement in October? Possibly, but with the new energy price cap kicking in in October, it's not hard to see that consumers will continue to rain back spending going forward. The September numbers were weighed down by the extra bank holiday due to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. This week's October numbers could see an improvement, but with consumer confidence already low and this close to Christmas, I would imagine that consumers will probably hold back until November, December when they'll start to cautiously unlock their purse strings as we head towards the end of the year. US retail sales been much more resilient than UK ones. The spike seen in natural gas prices in the US has been nothing compared to those being seen in the UK and Europe, so that basically means the US consumer hasn't been anywhere near as squeezed as here in the UK. What has been notable about the rallies that we've seen this week in equity markets is thus far we haven't actually taken out this resistance level on the Nasdaq. So what we've seen strong rallies in the likes of DAX, the FTSE 100, back to close to recent range highs, we've seen a rally off the lows in the Nasdaq. So while people talk about the best rebound since April 2020 for the Nasdaq, it needs to be said in the context of where markets are right now and there's still just above the lows that we saw earlier this year, that 10,500 level on the Nasdaq. So I think for the rebound to be sustainable, we really need to see a move through 12,000 and a test of this trend line resistance from the highs this year. Similarly, S&P 500, we have broken higher, but again, we're below the 50 day moving average and we're below the trend line resistance from the peaks this year. So you need to put the rally that we've seen in US markets in context of how close we are to the recent lows. Whereas if you look at the DAX, we could well retest 15,000 very easily and these previous peaks all the way back in June, 14,700 and obviously this 15,000 area here, which I drawn in, which was previous support through 2021. So certainly, I think given the way we've broken above the 200 day moving average on the DAX, there is scope for further gains in the DAX. Similarly, FTSE 100, we've broken above the 200 day moving average as well. Now, that's not as significant as say, for example, the move in the DAX, but it is significant, nonetheless. We've retested, could well retest the highs back in September, 7,500. In the round, the FTSE 100 year to date has probably performed better than every other major index. It hasn't lost any ground at all on one of the main reasons for that is obviously performance of oil and gas stocks, but I digress and the more defensive areas of the market. What has been particularly interesting though, if you look at the Hong Kong, the Hang Seng, we've seen a bullish weekly reversal in the NASDAQ right there. Now, yes, we did see one here all the way back here, and it didn't last very long. But if you look at how low the NASDAQ has come from, there's certainly potential for a fairly decent rebound, and we are down significantly year to date. So, there's certainly scope for a retest of 18,000, these peaks back in October, and even then, we'd still be well down on the year. The eight shares index, similarly, seen some really strong gains over the course of the past few days, and similarly, posted weekly reversals. As I say, you can't read too much into that because, again, here, we saw a very strong reversal, and it barely lasted two or three weeks. We're back down here again. Hopefully, this time is different. One of the more positive factors at play here is that if we do break above 6,000, we could see a decent rally in the eight shares index as well. On the earnings front, not really too much to report. We've got Walmart and Target, Walmart on the 15th of November with their Q3 numbers, Target with their Q3 numbers. They have warned on higher costs for Q3. Walmart said it expects to see revenues of $147.55 billion and profits of $1.31 a share on slightly lower operating margins of 3.6%. Also did also announce that it was making Paramount Plus available to its Walmart Plus subscribers from September to further take the flight to Amazon in the battle for annual monthly subscription services. You could see a little bit of a boost there. $147.55 billion, that's down from $152.86 billion in Q2. If we look at the Walmart share price, we look at US retail sales, you can see that Walmart has continued to punch above its weight when it comes to retail and has been slowly edging higher from the lows that we saw back in May. Target similarly says it still sees full revenue growth in the loads of mid-single digits. So again, they've been performing fairly well. Another one to keep an eye out for is NVIDIA, ChipMaker, which even though we've seen a fairly decent rebound in the NASDAQ, is still very much in the downtrend that it's been in pretty much for most of this year. So there's certainly potential for further gains and move back to the 200-day moving average. And this series of peaks all the way through here in July of $195. We've certainly seen a fairly decent rebound over the course of the past few days and we can see that played out in this chart here. In the UK, we've got numbers from Vodafone, we've got numbers from Burberry. Optimistic on Burberry, given some of the numbers that we've seen out from its peers, Louis Vuitton, Richemont and what have you, luxury has been a fairly resilient sector when it comes to earnings numbers, first-half earnings numbers from Burberry, first-half earnings numbers from Vodafone. There does appear to be some evidence of a bit of a rebound in the Vodafone share price, but ultimately it's still very much a story of how is it able to get its debt levels down while improving its margins in what is a very, very competitive telecoms market. Okay, so that's pretty much it for this week, ladies and gentlemen. As I say, the key thing to keep an eye out for next week is going to be the mini-budget and how much pain the Chancellor of Exchequer decides to impose by way of stealth taxes on not only us as taxpayers, but also businesses as well. So that's it for this week. Thank you very much for listening. This is Michael Hueson talking to you from CMC Marcus.


Hey guys, welcome to FSE Live, here with all of my good friends and team and stuff. I like saying good friends. I don't know why. I appreciate it. Got Brian here. Hi. Drea Bowland. Hey, hey. Justin Scott. I'm back. Thad Bowland. Christina's off. Christina's off doing some amazing things, which we'll announce maybe next week. I'm not sure what's happening right now, but... We don't even know. Yeah, we don't even know yet. But good things happening. Thank you guys so much for tuning in. We got a really fun class lined up. And then also we have a lot of questions from you guys that we're going to get to. We're going to answer. So while I'm finishing prepping, just smoothing out the mannequin, we're going to be doing dry hair cutting tonight with a razor. So a lot of people are iffy about that. But I think after tonight you'll see the benefits of that as well. And we're going to be using the carving comb. We're going to do some scissor over skin fading in the back because we're going to do an undercut on the bob. So actually, I'll just show you guys real quick. This is the nice light. Thad, can you see this in the camera? Let's go.  Yeah, there we go. So nice light feel, medium length bob with a razor. We cut it dry. And then behind underneath, we did a really fun undercut. This is obviously on a mannequin. But the great thing about this removes a lot of weight from your bulkier haired clients, more density. You could take out that weight and create a really airy, choppy, fun graduation. And just a nice soft, flowy look. I think a lot of times back in the day when somebody wanted a one length haircut, it meant that it was going to get really big and triangular. And now we've been able to, with the undercut, becoming more popular and a lot of guests being willing to do that, now we're finding that we could take that bulk out and just let it lay nice and soft and sleek with a lot of texture as well. So I'm going to finish smoothing. Brian, if you want to take over the questions and stuff, and we can get started with that. All right. So first of all, I want to say we are armed with live chat.  Yeah, we'll try to go over them. And then obviously, if you're not watching this live, then please just put them down in the comments below. So everybody asks where these questions come from. Every Wednesday when we do the show on Free Salon Education's Instagram, Matt puts up something saying, you know, you could win a chance to win something. Windray is spinning the wheel, something having to do with that. Maybe a picture of the hair we're doing that day. Maybe a picture of the wheel. You put your question down in the comments below. We'll go through them and then randomly pick somebody at the end. And we spin the wheel for you. And then Drea gives you a prize from her own personal stash. Exactly. Exactly. That's exactly what I do. Are you the person who won twice in a row, you're just not telling us? Do you have a P.O. box somewhere? Yes. Yes. Yes, I do. And I think also just so people know, they can enter. Basically you can ask questions whenever you want. So as long as you use the hashtag free salon education, you don't have to wait for us to post every week. I mean, that's going to get you into the wheel competition. But you don't have to do, you don't have to post once we post it. Right, you don't have to wait for that. You can ask questions whenever. And the wheel thing, for some reason, that center piece of the wheel keeps turning. Oh, that's because we were moving it. Is it stuck again? Yes. So it's going to- I'll hold it really tight while Drea spins and we'll just hope for the piece. While Drea places it back on Ms. Atonio again. What happens is that's when it gets stuck and then it doesn't turn. Thank you, Wheels of New Jersey, for making this wheel that is very complicated and very expensive. Whoa. Why you got a first year's to handle a bus like that? I know. I usually love New Jersey. I don't know what's going on with them. I don't. Should we call them and be like, um, your wheel is busted? Yeah, we should. There's got to be a warranty on that thing. Since you're the wheel gal, I think that's a call you should be making. You can handle that. If I have the contact information, I will contact them. Fed, maybe when I start cutting hair and stuff, if you could, because you know how to fix that, because you're such a wheel man. Yeah. All right. Oh, we have a new hello firm tonight. We got Nicaragua. Nice. And lots of really great states. We actually have people in the states watching tonight. Cool. All right. We have Florida, Georgia, Utah, Montana. Utah. I can't hear that Utah without thinking Johnny Utah. What's that from? Point break. Point break. Oh, come on, bro. Yeah, come on. Okay. I'm sorry I didn't watch that since it came out. I haven't seen the new one. I just watched the old one religiously. All right. So. Ready for questions? Yeah, let's get ready to talk. Yeah. Okay. First question. K-former 1231, when lifting for a true silver or the new neon glow in the dark trend, what toner are you going to use after lightning? I guess we're going to have to see what you lift to, to get that to show up. I mean, if it's yellow, then obviously, you're going to have to tone out the yellow with violet.  So most often, you're going to be toning out yellow. Yeah. I agree. Unless it's you and all the yellow. Right. I know. I'm glad I did a really good job of toning out the yellow out of your hair. I know. And then I was like, man, let's just do all yellow. And then you throw some yellow on top of it. It did. Who's mad at it? Really appreciative. Fairly draped. Somebody has asked, we've got Crystal MC 72 situation, lifted client's hair from five to eight applied Provena fantasy colors. Now the client wants to go back to darker, a more natural color. What do you find is the best way to neutralize those vivid colors and fill for the adherence of the darker color? Honestly, I've had a lot of luck with the vivids and the joyco color. Just doing a light shampoo cap with a 10 volume just kind of really gently lifts and removes that out of the hair. Just a couple of minutes. Okay. Same thing with gone every color of the rainbow with like all those reds and purples and stuff. Same thing.  You sell off hair, you can tone it, go from there. There's a thing on Facebook that got me a little intrigued right now going on about I forget what company makes it. Maybe it's any company, but they were saying 10N is their new favorite way to get rid of it. Yeah, I did see that as well. I was reading it and they were talking about how it's, I think it may be a VEDA. It's like some new line that they've come out with using that level that company's 10N is supposed to lift as though you were using Bleach, but not damage like Bleach would, even though they were using like 30 and 40 volume. It helps to strip out the vivid colors while still leaving the blonde atoned color. Huh. I want to try it. I know, I do too. Also, because this happened when I was teaching at the Palmitra School, they decided to do a clear shine over top of freshly inked hair. Yeah. To hope that it would last. I've seen that too, but I haven't tried it since because that was old school. That's true. Sucked anyway. I just ripped it right out. Oxygen made that fall out. Yeah. Yeah.  Or if you use the blow dryer. Hey Matt. Yep. Jose, can you see, is asking, hey Matt, how do you know what shape the undercut should be depending on the haircut? I don't think all my clients are going to be cool with having their head shaved down to the skin, even if it will be hidden when they need an undercut. Yeah, I totally agree. I'm actually, so that's why I want to go over because with this haircut, I'm going to go to the skin, but I get that most people are not going to want to wear something that short. And it's, that's more of kind of a younger clientele for that. But with that being said, Christina, you know, she, she's been wearing it.  So she, and people love it, but I, we never took it to the skin. We took it, you know, more like, You buzzed it? Yeah, we buzzed it with a number one. We did kind of a nice fade. Justin did a fade on it, I believe once. So I think that it's based on your guest. What, what was that? What could have just broken downstairs? Something fell down in the basement. So what, what I want to go over in this class, and that's going to be the most important part of the haircut is deciding what type of undercut you want. I think that that's what's going to make this interesting. Then I'm going to show you guys some techniques on how to go to the skin with the scissor because I think that that's something that would be more difficult. So my thought process with this is I want to help you with the skin fade with the scissor, try something new, go for something that maybe you wouldn't go for normally. But there's got to be a reality check in there as well to how do we want to go about an undercut with every single guest. So we're actually pretty much at that point. So if you want to go one more question, I'm going to get this section off and then we'll get started with that part. I've got Tara and Max say in, What suggestions do you have when you have an employer who is consistently negative and talks about nothing but negative issues with clients and it begins affecting the atmosphere and other stylists? We've politely brought up being positive and negative but it doesn't get anywhere. We are at a loss. We need some suggestions. You guys had this happen before? I mean, obviously I'm super negative, but I have like what is so tell me about this environment because I've definitely never. Well, I used to have a boss who it used to kill me. I'd like I'll never forget the day I got so mad because I spend two hours sitting there with my guests with between cut and color and just having a good time and nice environment. And he was always that guy that just had to be so negative about everything. Like he walked over and in 15 seconds completely just crapped all over the mood that I had created. He'd come over and oh my God, did you hear so and so died?  Thanks. And now we just put that horrible taste in her mouth when she's getting ready to leave. And honestly, I mean, that was the boss. I had two options, deal with it or leave. Right. And I the way that I dealt with it was just to make sure that you create the kind of experience with your guests that if there is any negativity around you, it just makes them look like that's their their issue. That's not the whole environment that you're stewing in. That's that's them. And, you know, it eventually got to the point where that's not the kind of visit that my guests had with me. So if my boss or somebody else was negative around us, it was more just like, oh God, like I didn't even have to say anything.  Okay. Yeah. Anybody else have this problem, Justin? I've worked tons of negative people and that's that's pretty much it. You can only you can make a little bubble for you and your guests, whether I've been in shops where I've had my own room. I've been in salons where I've been side by side next to people like most people have.  If you're going to let someone else come over and dictate how your conversation, your whole thing is going to go. You kind of need to get a range on that anyway. Yeah.  Like I love, I was just talking to Christina today and she and I, you know, I came in here, there's some days that I come in here and I'm like, I might be really stressed out and even lately. It's almost like I, I never used to carry it around with me, but lately for some reason, I feel like I kind of do that. And so today she's like, Christina asked me how, how everybody was doing in here. And I said, I think everybody was great, but I also walked in giving everyone high fives and I felt like today was kind of like, you didn't say hi to me for 15 minutes. I did not get a high five. See Brian's pissed. Now that I know everyone else got a high five. Yeah, I am. I didn't get a high five. It was just the Bolans. I put my arm around you when I walked in, actually. Wow. You did. I did. And we discussed the tables. The tables. I finally had to say hi to Matt to make him notice that I was here. You were busy working. Okay. I also know when to hold back and wait for you. And sometimes you talk a lot and you were in the middle of talking. Brian, we actually have to talk. You always talk a lot. Sometimes. I talk a lot in my sleep. So here's the thing though. I think that you create the environment that you're in. I think if you, if you start acting positive around negative people, I think it rubs off on people. I'm not saying you can make everyone that's negative happy, but sometimes people need that extra push to be happy. And I think that, that can put you more into a leadership role. If you start kind of changing that environment instead of just getting upset about it. That would be my recommendation to try to shift the feeling, maybe do something nice for that negative person. Because sometimes people just really want to you to say hi to them within 15 minutes. Some people want, you know. I was fine. I know. I'm just saying like acknowledgement. Like you knew that I didn't say hi to you for 15 minutes. So. He was actually counting. Now that I know these things, you got to change it. And then I think it'll all come into place. I worked for a salon owner who got upset if you didn't, when you came into work, if you didn't come and say hi to her. Well, that stuff's weird.  I think it's something that, like I said, you make yourself happy and your guests happy and make your guests know that your salon owners just, that's how they are. Because if every time they come over and Brian said the best, right, they come over and they're miserable. Every other time when they're not there, you're happy, they just kind of realize that or you just need to kind of pick up and go. Yeah. I mean, that's really ultimately, if it's your boss, I guess I get that. But if it's not your boss, go back and fight him. Yeah. Matt, question on the haircut. How will the haircut end up on people who do not naturally have straight hair? Will you do this on curly peeps? Yes. I'm going to pretty much answer, so. I know. I'm just throwing it out there now to make sure we hit it. Yeah, yeah, because I'll forget. This is a question that comes up. Even the haircut that I just put out on video today, I specifically said right away, this is straight. I'm cutting it on straight hair, but it can absolutely be on curly hair. The only difference between cutting curly hair and straight hair is you're going to work with elevation a little bit differently because sometimes there would be too much weight buildup. So this haircut is perfect on curly hair for a lot of reasons. The biggest reason is you're taking out density and curly hair tends to expand like Brian's hair. That can we get a close up of that? And so curly hair tends to expand. So if you remove the bottom portion of the haircut, then you're going to see that you're allowing that curl to fall a little bit easier. This is a perfect haircut for curly hair. I think that I would go in and go pretty short with the baseline, just like we're going to do, and then allow those curls to fall over. And that's one way that instead of doing it the old school way where we used to take curly hair and cut it at 90 degrees and 180 degrees and try to just cut as short of layers as we could so that it wouldn't explode and expand out. Now we can go in take it from the underneath and allow longer layers to fall over so that we don't have to deal with the short spiky curly layers that are sticking out of your head. So that would be my answer there. Excellent. All right, so I'm really excited because Mizutani sent me one of the newest scissors which is the Mizutani Blacksmith Solid. See if we can get that to focus in that focus there, buddy. There we go. So this scissor is really cool. I got it at seven inches. So you can see that that's a nice big blade on the scissor. The thing I like about that is being able to scissor over comb. So when they asked me what size would I like to scissor, I wanted to get a bigger scissor because I don't in my collection. This is the longest one that I have at this point. It allows you to do a lot of work at once and get things done. The other thing that I love is how skinny the handle is on this scissor. So it fits really well in the hand and it allows that blade to just really open up nice and wide. So you guys will see it in action in one second. Let me turn the head. What I did with the sectioning, this is all based on density so I don't want anybody to think, okay, I have to section it right at the occipital bone. This is a little bit above occipital. This mannequin has barely any hair. It's like we just got a bunch of them in from pivot point. But if you take too far of a section up, then this hair is going to be too weak in the final result of the haircut. So you don't want to section too high. Basically what I would do is I would take this section of your guest hair, twist it up out of the way, let this hair fall over, and check to make sure that the density is the right density for you before going on with the haircut. And then you'll have more success with it. So we're going to start off just by getting the bulk of the hair out.  That if you can't see this, that's okay. Because I'm just getting the bulk out. There's no sense in. All right. So now, now that we've cut this bottom baseline, what I want to do is I'm going to go in scissor over comb and remove the weight. Now, if your guest doesn't want it shaved, what I would do is I would start at the base, just like any other haircut, and either do scissor over comb to work through. So I'll go through, take some of this bulk out, start nice and close here, and just work through scissor over comb. Can you see that sad? Yes. Yeah, it's okay. So I would work scissor over comb and work my way out. So I'm building up a little bit of weight right around the occipital bone. I want my weight line sitting right there. Because the beauty of doing an undercut is if you want to have a little bit of lift on the hair that's coming out, you could build that lift right in here. So it almost bumps the hair up. It's like kind of like a bump it. Is that what it's called? A bump it, yeah. Like in the day. The snooki bump it. It's like putting a bump it right here. So you're building up the weight, adding a little extra occipital bone. It's kind of like my head, I don't even have an occipital bone, I don't think. Feel it's flat. See what I'm saying? Yeah, I am. Yeah. I fell out of a high chair at McDonald's when I was one and it's just fair enough. It's all downhill from there. So you could. I like to do that. I like to build that weight line just because it pushes the haircut out. That's what I'm saying. And then it looks more like cartoon bob-ish, like way out there. Yeah. So depending on the density, you build that shape out and then this hair that falls over, it kicks the hair out and lets it sit kind of away from the neck a little bit instead of sitting so flat. So this is a great technique for that. And you could do that all scissor over comb or you could come in here and take your sections and hold it in your hand and work this way as well. It's really up to you. I'm not trying to make this look too fancy at this point, obviously you guys can see that. I'm just going through getting it a little bit shorter so we can do our scissor over skin here. I have a guest who has an undercut who wasn't comfortable with us taking it clip or length or even to skin.  Right. That's what I do on Jensen now. It removes the weight. Do you really? Yeah. Wow. She's an undercut, not to the skin, but we do it so that it pushes her bob out a little bit further and looks nice and full. So I do on S, she has that super straight thick coarse hair. It's fantastic on her. So when you look at this length, like this length isn't a big deal, I don't think to most people. And when that hair falls over, it's definitely going to take out that density and give that separation. It's also good for guests that have that weird kind of flip duck tail thing that comes out. A lot of guests have that issue and they can never blow dry it. This is a challenge area for guests anyways because they can't get to it very well. So going in removing that completely makes it a lot easier for a blow dry as well. So that's what I always tell people when I try to sell them on any kind of undercut because those areas right behind the ears are where most of my guests have a hard time blow drying properly because the hair is short and it gets very difficult for them to get in there with the proper size brush. So I explain to them if you do an undercut, the hair that's actually where they need to use a round brush on, and you'll see as he starts to drop this down, is significantly longer and therefore much easier to get around a brush and get that bob look blown dry to their satisfaction. Exactly. And with Christina, when I cut her undercut, I would go really high up. Like we would go almost to this point and wrap the undercut around because what would happen is her hair was just so thick. She could have a full head of hair just up here, right? So, and a lot of our clients are like that as well. So you really have to determine how short or how much density you really want to take out because it's going to benefit them a lot more if they have a ton of hair, if you take out a ton of it. You've also seen, I'm not going to do any fancy designs on a mannequin, obviously, but a lot of people will take this nice and short and then cut real fun designs in there. It's another thing that you can do as well. My typical sectioning, if I'm not worried about density, we're working with the medium density of hair. I would go high occipital bone just down to the ear. So slight diagonal forward and just remove that bulk and I wouldn't worry about the rest of it. So now we're going to work scissor over skin and the great thing about this technique is you can actually do almost like a skin fade if you get good enough at it, but it takes some practice. I would definitely practice on a mannequin first, but if you come in here and I'm going to start with this scissor and I'm going to work my way out slightly towards the top. So you can see how we kind of fade it out just a little bit. I did try to zoom that in. What's the angle on that? So my blade, I want to get as tight as I, I'm going to go like that. I'm going to work this part. It's tight. Tight like a tight guy. Yeah, no room for mistakes here.  All right, so I'll slide the blade underneath, right? And what I'm going to do is I'm going to angle, depending on the angle of the blade, you want to angle it slightly out, but it doesn't have to be completely back because the further back you go, the longer it's going to be away from the head. So I'm going to start and you work the blade along the skin, right? So you have to get the one blade moving effect first. So get that motion down, maybe practice on yourself, right? You can't see that, but you can practice on your own skin. And if you're not afraid to do that, once you get to that point where you're not afraid, then you could try it on another human being or a coworker. Draya. Justin. So we'll work our way through. And then as I get towards the top, I'm going to back my scissor away, still slightly angled out. So we're going to work along the edge. What a cool trick this of it. I tried this once while at the house. You want to shed any blood here. Is you stretch the skin too. Yeah.  And it's just the skin's that much easier to work with. Right.  Yeah, the hot dog makes it a little tough.  So I started going to the gym. I felt like I was getting the hot dog neck. Yeah. Yeah. That was starting to start to scare me a little bit. I'd tell you. Oh, thanks. All right. Just cut it. And she'd be like, okay, I got it now. So that's see if we can see this turn it a little bit. So that's another reason why I'm kind of holding the head. Because that allows me to first off, keep control of the guest's head, which is important. Great scissor control, Matt. Thanks. That's zoomed in so tight. And I'm watching to see if your other fingers flap up and down. They're not. Good job. Just the thumb moving. That, ladies and gentlemen, is good scissor form. So that's really what it's all about, is just keeping the control of the scissor. The more you tilt into the head, obviously the shorter it's going to get, the flatter it's going to get, the blades going to get on there. But you don't want to go too flat because I'm also not trying to create any holes in there as well. So... Or can you grab the skin? Is that an issue? With the blade? You can definitely grab the skin with the blade. Yeah. So you have to be really careful. I mean, this is... Don't try this at home. Right? Can we get that somehow written? Yeah. Do not try this at home. This is not an at home thing. And if you try it at work, it's not my fault if you cut someone. Well, I mean, I want to say the biggest thing about this technique isn't how you're cutting the hair. It's the shears that you're using. Yeah. Because if your shears, like, you know how, like, just sometimes the tip of them, they kind of bend the hair? Yeah. Rather than cutting the hair. You want your shears to be on point, every aspect of cutting because, again, such like precise, tight work like that, you want to make sure you're cutting everything you want to cut. Right. And these puppies are sharp. But it's just like doing any other fade or haircut. Like some parts, when I get towards the occipital bone, I'm backing off. And then when I'm around the nape, I'm really tight in there and just working that blade flatter towards the skin. Want to try it, Brian? Tomorrow? Yep. Your five-hour gap. I mean, it's not too bad. It's mannequin. You know, I'm not gonna... I can't spend all day on it. So that's the undercut portion. Again, you could keep that longer. This is definitely not for everyone. But now you could see how it lightens up. I'll turn this. Do you want to zoom out again? Oh, yeah. That's a good idea. That's how much of a dad. I just did the Blues Clues song. Right, we'll turn it on. Wow, wow. That is not the Blues Clues song. That is not the Blues Clues song. What kind of childhood did you have? That was his second job. That was dad's home school. Yeah. Blues Clues right there. All right, so you can see how it's nice and light. You can almost see through the haircut at this point. So now this makes the haircut really easy. I did spend, again, because FSE Live is meant to be not a forever night show. I did spend quite a bit of time smoothing the hair to get it to lay nice. So then I could go through and cut it. This is not...  You can also cut this haircut wet. Not a big deal. I like cutting it dry because there's more separation in the hair. I'm going to use a razor on the hair, but I'm not afraid of that being dry because I have a nice brand new blade from Donald Scott. And just like slide cutting with a scissor, it's going to be just as sharp as that. So I'm not afraid to do that. All right, so we grab our carving comb. See if that will zoom in. Here we go. Boom. Nice. That's a good one. All right, so we got the carving comb. One of my favorite tools. Brian uses this a lot as well. I see. He do. He notices you. I do pay attention. All right, so now I'm going to take two inch sections. This one's going to be straight down center back. I will turn the mannequin so you guys can see it. You mean you don't want to grab like all the hair? No, do not grab it all at once. And instead of holding it in between my fingers. Let me see that. Yep. So you can see that undercut underneath. Instead of holding it in my fingers like this and going through and cutting it, I like to be able to get closer. So I'm going to pinch the hair right below where I want to start cutting. And then in order to cut a nice bob feel, I'm going to take larger strokes with the razor. Can you see that, Fad? Okay. Larger strokes with the razor. And because I'm pinching the hair, that does give me a slight little beveled edge. I'm going to go through. Now, did you prepare the hair then? Anything with that? Yes, I did use the brocado mousse, which I love for softening the hair. And we also used in the blow dry, I used the prepare spray for razor cutting. So it's like a tool glide. But I like that it does soften the hair and it's great and it kind of coats it with a nice conditioner. But I really love it on wet hair for the use of that tool. Now, pinched, over directed slightly back to that previously cut section. And working at about two inch cut, using the 100% cut side of the carving comb. And you can see how it's breaking it up nice. And just working across the head with two inch sections. Nothing crazy. And just straight back to that previous section. So you'll see it kind of takes a little bit of a dip forward, but nothing too extreme because I don't want... This isn't... I'm not trying to cut a longer front in this one. I just want to go through and square it off. So again, two inch section moving into the side of the head. Yeah. I was just going to say, do you want to address the question, do you think razors cause more split ends? I don't. Now, here's the deal. This is... Because I know I've been in classes with you before where the question gets asked and you always have a good answer. Yeah. So the thought behind a razor is that just like a scissor sliding across the hair. So even if I was going to take my scissor and go through and slide cut on the hair, there's really no difference. You're cutting a lot more hair at once. So that's why you kind of feel a little bit more resistance in the haircut. But a razor blade is very, very sharp. So it's going to cut the hair just as well as anything else. Now, I do think you should prepare the hair with some kind of protection a little bit. The prepare spray is great for that. Adding a little bit of protein to it. But honestly, we're looking for a shattered edge on the haircut. It's not going to create split ends more than anything else. Let's put it that way. Excellent. It will have broken ends because you know, that's the whole point of how we're cutting it. How frequently do you change the razor blade? I change... I need to change every haircut. I think that especially if you're going to do dry, you should change every haircut. Can you do the same technique with a straight razor with a fresh blade? Yes. Yeah. You could do it. Actually, I have a little toy. This isn't a straight razor. But this is... I got this... Another gift from Mizutani. Wait for it. Wait for it. It's coming. Oh, oh. Well, still... They're going for the head. All right. Anyways, here's the Mizutani razor that's coming out in March. So very exciting. And will be available on, I think, solely on freeselineeducation.com on the internet. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty sure. And so... You can. All you're doing is just taking larger strokes with the razor because that softens the edge. That's what it's all about. There's no comb on the end of this one, though. Do you need that? Can I use that tomorrow? Yes. Sweet. Can I use it tonight? Yes. For what? Don't worry about that. Yeah, that's... I'm not sure about that one. All right. Does anybody have any questions on there? Uh, no, we're pretty much asking them. Oh, okay. We're getting there. Usually I just work it in there so seamlessly. I know. That's really good. All right. So taking the parting. Now, this is going to be overdirected slightly back. It's a really easy haircut, guys. I'm not trying to pretend like this is a complicated thing. But what I love about it is you're seeing this haircut on a lot of people. And this is what will give you that kind of broken edge is you could do this wet as well. But it just...  And you get a, I think, a better broken result when it's dry. I think it's delicious. It's beautiful. I mean, I guess it's all right. All right. So I'm going to hit it with an iron a little bit. Just to smooth out those ends. And I haven't really seen any of these videos done yet, which is really... For an undercut? For an undercut with a razor this way. I've seen undercut videos every day until my face turns blue. Everybody does undercuts. Right. Whether it's male or female clientele, but nothing like this. So this is kind of cool. Well, I think the amount of texture and volume that you can get out of a razor cut is fantastic. Or decrease the volume depending on whatever you want. Yeah. I mean, it's really a look like Christina. She's got so much hair, like I said. And in order for her to really love her haircut, I have to cut it with a razor because it takes out all the lines. Like some people's haircuts, you just can't have lines in them because you're going to... It builds up weight anytime there's a line in it. So you really... This is a great haircut for somebody with thick hair. Let's see. Actives. So I think what takes the most time with this haircut is really just smoothing it and getting it prepped and ready to go. Then once you have it smooth, you fly through it. Someone asked, why didn't he do any sectioning first? I did sectioning, but I didn't need to do... Like not every haircut has to have triangular sections all over it and all that. Yeah, or the four quadrants or anything. What we did was everything was smoothed out and then we went two inch panels all the way through the haircut. So even though this doesn't seem too structured, this is actually pretty structured because we went straight in the back, worked two inch sections across, and brought everything to us. So we squared this line off in the back. Then I moved to the side and cut this side straight out as well. So I squared off this side. It pushes a little bit longer in the front because you're over directing from this point of the head back to here. So it swings and gets you a little bit of length in the front. But other than that, this is a square line. And then, which GoPro is that? That was the one next to that that's not plugged into anything. Oh cool, okay. Woo, we're good. And then I moved to this side. So let's break down really quick before we finalize this just so everyone's clear on what happened. When you're trying to create a shape in a haircut, if I move, if I'm moving with the haircut here, and I step into this corner and I work my way around and I'm over directing everything out, that's when I'm gonna get that soft rounded line.  We're working one length so we didn't need multiple sections in there. Now I wanted to cut it square so I bring everything back to me and cut a straight line in the back over directing it, which in turn pushes weight into these two corners right here, right? So everything comes back pushes weight here. Then when I move here, I bring everything back pushes weight here. So you get the weight in the corners of each part of the haircut. So that's really what I'm doing when I go in there and I create with those two inch panels this haircut. So it's really up to you guys how you want to, what shape you wanna create with this haircut. It's very versatile. You can use it on every guest in the salon but just use it in different ways. Depends on where you want to put the weight and how much weight you wanna remove. But it's a very easy haircut, not complicated at all. And that's why I wanted to show it to you guys so that everyone tomorrow can use it in their own way. Any questions? Eric has asked what's an easy way to get both sides even on the client. Shoulders and chair seems to get in the way. Yeah, I think that's another great part about the razor. So Eric, what I would do is, you know, as I'm going around here, I haven't even looked to see if this thing's even yet. So let's just do that. As a razor cut, when I go in and I take a look, let's go right here. Let me take a look at her head. I think a mirror works wonders. That's the reason we have it. But then I look at the mannequin from afar. So I'll turn her chair out away from the mirror and I'll take a step back or even have her stand up. And then once I determine if there's any longer pieces, I can go in there with the razor and kind of soften each edge. To go off of what you're doing right now, somebody's also asked about when they come back. Do you use the razor again? And I guess how? Yeah, I would possibly use the razor again. If they say, oh my gosh, I love that haircut. I need the exact same haircut again. I probably wouldn't go razor. I would probably go scissor. And what I would do is use probably my puffin scissor for dry cutting and I would go in, pinch the hair and work the tease cutting technique that we go over every week. Or just kind of soften the edges by, let's say we tilt their hair over. And I would even scoop up their hair into my comb. And then just soften the edges like that through. Just to clean it up. Then every couple visits, I would go through with the razor and actually cut it again, depending on their frequency of visit. So if they're coming in often, then I would be more, it's just maintaining the haircut. You don't have to do much to it. If they are putting it off every three months coming in, then I would go in with the razor and cut. Heck yeah. Heck yes. Heck yes. Anything else? Can you point cut for a similar effect? You can. You can point cut for a similar effect, but let's look at when we lift this up here. You can see the shattered bit of this and the shape, right? So the shape is basically if we held the hair like this and we did a ton of point cutting. This is very, very weak on the edges. It's wicked shattered. Yeah. So in order to shatter it that much, it's a lot of point cutting. So it depends on what you love doing and how much time you want to do it for. If you can get the same effect with a razor, I think my opinion is I go with the razor because it takes less time. You get the same result. It's kind of like I could hammer a nail in with the screwdriver, but it would not be as effective. You could mow the lawn with scissors. Yes. But a lawn mower would be faster. Right. Well, and I think an important thing to remember is when you cut with a razor, it cuts the hair at a diagonal so that the hair strand is not coming to a blunt end. So by doing that, it changes how the hair lays down flat. Good call, Dre. Boom. Mic drop. All right. One more on the hair. Yep. And then we just say one more from Instagram and then spin. Sure. All right. One more on the hair. How, what would you do to make this look, look more choppy? More choppy? Yeah. I think you wanted even more than this. I would go to just elevate it more. You could elevate it more. I would go through and go back in. And so we have a 100% carve side on the carving comb and we have a 50% carve. I would go through with a little bit of the 50% carve. So you know, you're not going to cut all the way through it. And that would start to give me even more of a choppy look. And I would do the same exact sectioning.  And then you can see right there, it's already making it more choppy and see-through. Then once you hit this with a spray or something like that, even before you do the 50% carve, you're going to notice a lot of separation. It is pretty choppy already. But if you wanted it more choppy, you had somebody with really thick hair. Going through with that 50% carve works really well. If you don't have a carving comb, I would go get one. But if you don't want to go get one, what I would do is go in with either a scissor and point cut or keep with a razor. If you have a feather razor, grab your two inch section again and go through and just go through with the edge of the razor. So let's see. Let's get a zoom in. Thad. Whoa. So I would go in here, my two inch section, and I would take the tip of the razor. Just the tip. And just twist it a bit. It's not you this time, Brian. It's not you. I got to make up for a week I was gone. All right.  All right. Where to see the? Don't worry. I'll color her. So hey, can we get a good angle on this or what? It's turning. I know, but. Perfect. All right. So if I went in straight, obviously this doesn't really cut anything. So what I do is I just twist the razor a little bit. The more you twist it, the more you're going to cut. If you twist it too much, it's just going to drag, right?  Do it up by the scalp. You can get a nice point cut in there. So back out a little bit. This haircut makes it look like your hand is super hairy. And huge. So just going through adding that little edge with the razor. And there you go. So choppier effect on the haircut. So choppy. Love it. All right, dad. All right. Do you want to switch gears and do a color question? Sure.  You style it up. Yeah. To size seven says, I have a client who wants to grow out her natural hair, which is gray now. We've been coloring her base with a level four. I want to maintain the health of her hair, which can't handle lightener at this time. Any tips to make this transition easier for her? I love this transition. With no bleach? No bleach, yes. My media go to was painting in or foiling in the level four. Yeah. I would paint it rather than foil it though.  Well, that I think about that. But I also think about people that like think about blondes that just get foiled for years. Yeah. Eventually all of their ends are blonde, which is what we're trying to get away from. And I feel like if you're doing hand painting, you can just be a little bit more conscious of exactly where you're painting and where you're not. I think to blend out the harshness of the root, I would go in for the first time with foils. Yeah, because at that first time you'd probably be at like a half inch. A half inch or some people like I have guests who want to start growing other gray and they're only at a quarter of an inch up there. So to really get in there with hand painting is a little difficult. And the reason I say this is what I would do is because I don't let my clients go gray. No, it's not the smartest way. In a theoretical world. They're like, should I go gray? I'm like, no, you'll look old. I'll see you in six weeks. But it is one of those things you can also then, they can start to see how much natural they have. And when you get to the hand painting stage, it harshens the line for them. But you still have control of still adding in more color. So it's not as harsh as seeing 100% gray. Yes. So. You boys got anything? We have 80 people watching. Oh, we were at 108 earlier. Wow. All right. I was going to surprise you at the end, but you had to treat and look over my shoulder. Sorry. I would have been all nervous. I know that's why I didn't tell you I didn't want you to pee. Okay. So very, very super excited right now. Really? All right. This is working. You see it? I warned you.  All right. So guys, this is the end result. Thad, do you want to get a quick zoom in on it? End result. I think it's a really cool haircut. I know it's really simple. We're going to do more complicated hair cuts on our step by steps, right? We put out one today. So if you're looking for that, it was an hour long haircut that I broke down into 18 minutes. So this is, you know, something quick, something fun, very, very salon reality. So you guys can use this, like I said, on every guest. So if anybody has any questions on the finished style, let's give it a little rotation. Let me move so you can see. You can see how it's nice and full. It still has a lot of shape to it, but it's not fat. It's not a fat, but like medium length haircut, even though it's pretty much a one length. And that is the beauty of cutting the undercut. So have fun with the undercuts. I'd love to see your guys' interpretation of something like this. This is obviously not something we invented. It's something very popular right now. But I would love to see your interpretation, so make sure you tag us on Instagram and everything else. You could Snapchat me those pictures because for some reason, I only get Snapchat pictures of coffee mugs and birds. I don't know what it is. They're cats, what's their cat? And cats. So you asked for it. Follow us on everything. We're going to spin the wheel. Brian, did you pick someone? Is it a new person? All right, all right. Yeah, we got Tara and Mack. Tara and Mack. All right, Tara. Tiara. Tiara, you have the opportunity to win a pair of scissors because you're going to give me a pair of scissors from Mizutani, which is ridiculously awesome. We have Donald Scott carving comb, which we use tonight. We have Sunlight's Balayage, the Bali box. So if you're looking for that, that's fantastic. Jay Lace has some cool hairdresser clothes. Ola Plex, we all know and love. Parker Razer's Straight Blades. The Justin loves and uses Ergal brushes. Minerva Beauty. Minerva Beauty. We love those guys. Sunlight. Sunlight. We did Sunlight. Mainstream. Has 100% of the services for the month. Millennium is three months free of Mevo software. And what are we giving away? Freestyle education always gives away super silk because I still got to get super silk up there. And there was another thing that I wanted to talk about was the question about what do we like more? Ola Plex? Truthfully, what do we like more? Ola Plex or something else? BW whatever. I think you just answered that question. I guess we're going with Ola Plex on that one. Ola Plex and Sweet. Well, we do. But here's the deal. Like everybody keeps asking and I just want to clarify this. The more and more I dig kind of deeper into the beauty industry. I'm learning the other side of the world of the beauty industry. Ola Plex is the first product in a really, really, really long time to actually legit create something new and different, right? So all of these other companies, they all go through companies to create a new product. So somebody comes out with a really cool spray wax. Then everybody gets a spray wax because they just change the scent and they make it their spray wax. Ola Plex, the guy, Dean, actually developed. Well, he didn't, but somebody with him, right? This brilliant chemist came up with Ola Plex. Now everybody's trying to do it, but they, but this isn't the same type of product. So Ola Plex really works and it works because that's what it was invented to do. These other people are trying to recreate Ola Plex. And I think that's coming from not, it's not coming from the guy who created Ola Plex. It's coming from these other chemists that are trying to break it down and figure it out. So my answer to that can only be, like, it can only be 100% honest because Ola Plex is the only thing I think like Ola Plex. Does that make sense? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Basically, no matter what you put up against it, Ola Plex is the answer. Yeah. Tiara. Tiara. Tiara. Tiara. Tiara is going to win something awesome. Here we go, Padreah. What do we got? That was a good one. I know. I feel like the wheels are going to break. Or just never stop. I know. I'll see you guys tomorrow. All right, Tiara. What's it going to be? What's it going to be? Ergo. Nice. That's awesome. All right, cool. Can't lose with Ergo. And I have a meeting with them tomorrow. So make sure you send your information because I will pass it along to them. Super excited as well. I have a meeting. What's that? Send it to who? To contest. Contest. At freesaloneducation.com. Did you already say that? No. No. Well, there you go. It was a test to see if they watched past episodes. So send your email or send your address to contest at freesaloneducation.com.  And I'm really excited. I have an awesome meeting with Demand Force tomorrow. So we've got some new stuff coming up. I really love working with them. So I'm excited to learn the new features with the company this year. So I'll pass those along to you guys as well. Anybody else have anything? Feel good? Feel great. All right. This is where you guys need to share. Yeah. We've got just real quick. Since I know you're in good with Dina Nolaplex. Is it true? Has anybody actually bought the technology from Nolaplex or are people just claiming it? No. There are companies that say they've purchased the technology from Nolaplex, so they're legit to you. As far as I know, last time I spoke to Dean on the phone, he was never selling that. I mean, I can't imagine he did. But I mean, if he did, good for him. I mean, that's a pretty good day. But I don't know that for a fact. But you know what? Check with Dean and we'll get back to you guys on that for sure. So make sure you tune in next week. What are we doing next week? Next week, Brian will be doing, I think, color. Then I want to get Justin doing some men's cutting. So a couple weeks of some different stuff. And then I'll probably be back hair cutting. And then Drea, we're lining up some stuff as well. Thad wants to go. He's got a pixie cut, I think. We're going to do, right? So we've got to come up with that date. So we've got a lot of fun stuff. I'm doing fantasy color. I'm finally not doing balayage. Yeah. Actually, that's not true. I'm painting it on. Well, it's a step, you know, one step. It's not bleach.  Yeah, that's OK. It rips. So last thing, need you guys. We need your feedback. So post below. If you love the show, post about it. If you love the show, share it with your friends. If you love the show, go follow everybody on the show.  And Drea's got a new professional Instagram page. She's going to be launching. So I'm excited about that. That was top secret. And so we can get more work out there. And that's pretty much it. So if you guys have any questions or anything like that, post them in the comments below. Thank you so much for watching all of you. Super excited about the amount of people that watch live today. That's like record breaking. Let's keep that going. Make sure you tie in. Bring at least one friend with you for the next show, but they have to be on a separate computer. Yeah, bring your laptop. Yeah. Have a party. The viewing party. Let's do that. Let's log in to your friends' computers as well so we can get even more people watching. How about this? If we get over 150 viewers next week, can somebody live spin the wheel? Yep. There we go. BYOLP. So if we have over 150 people, FSE will give away something really awesome and somebody that's live on the show will spin this time. 150 though. So all right, we need 150 live. Thank you guys so much for watching. Dad, are we ready to roll? Ready to roll. All right. Follow Justin. To my car in the middle of the night. All right. I am Justin Scott. Dreia. Dreia day 2289. For now, Dreia day 2289. Brian. Hairstyle. H-A-I-R-E. Thad. Bad boldness. And follow us everything at Free Salon Education. Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll see you next week. Woo!


So you want to use the mouse but you don't know the code, not a problem. Any time that you want to see what the mouse is doing, make a Vector2 variable. And in the update say, x equals input dot get axis mouse x, and y equals input dot get axis mouse y. If you run the game now, you'll notice that every time you move the mouse left, x becomes negative. If you move the mouse right, x becomes positive. If you move it down, y becomes negative, and if you move it up, y becomes positive. So all we got to do is translate these variables into a rotation to turn our object. Now the easiest way I know to do that is transform that local rotation equals quaternion dot euler negative turn y, turn x, and change these to plus equals. And all this means is that any time the mouse moves, we want to add those values to its current rotation. Now you might have noticed that the mouse is kind of in the way. If you want to make it invisible and lock it to the middle of the screen, go into the start method and type corsa lock state equals corsa lock mode dot locked. And now you'll see that it is no longer in the way. Something you may want to add is a variable to control the mouse sensitivity. So if you make a float called sensitivity, you can multiply it by your mouse to turn slower or faster. If you add the movement control code from our last tutorials, you'll pretty much have the foundation laid for a basic first person debug camera. Anyway, hope that helps. And as always, I hope you have a fantastic day. And I'll see you around.


Hello and thank you for reading my article in this month's Envision Magazine. Now many opticians have been placed into their opticianary role without being given the tools to become fully confident in our full set of optical duties that we have as opticians. Now some of you as opticians are technically genius algebraic ninjas that know literally everything about optical and glasses and cutting and edging, but have not been given the opportunity to learn the techniques of being able to confidently sell products to patients without feeling like a snake oil salesman. There are also some opticians out there who have kind of you know scooted into their role, right? They've been trained on the job and and learned to do things the way that the opticians before you did things. And this is great and all, but really this leaves the opticians in a role that they're secretly wishing they had the foundational technical training that the other group has. But both of these leave an optical world of opticians that are desiring more that maybe want to learn more but don't want to look like a fool to ask for more or or maybe don't know even where to start. But I got you. I'm going to lay out a few different resources including my own so that you have access to learning that suits you. Now start by cautioning you with this. If your current learning taps out at sponsored lunch and learns by the labs or companies that are trying to sell their own brand and what they are teaching you, you need to reflect. Lunch and learns are necessary and great for what they are, but if you're not offering your team more, you have greatly fallen behind. Now there are also online learning resources available by these big corporate company monsters in our industry that are teaching you how to basically regurgitate their marketing BS and real learning will come from understanding this industry and the techniques and the products that make it great without the branded BS teaching your team to understand the functionality of different progressives and how they benefit certain prescriptions is much more powerful than having a team that only pushes one brand name for the sake of the brand name and maybe it's a certain type of progressive and that's all great and good because the marketing says it's the best but look for teaching that is foundationally sound and opticianry not teaching that needs to be relearn once that branded name is discontinued. You get what I'm saying? Now I'm going to discuss three resources for learning that are rather popular and fabulous resources in our industry. Now the first is Kerry Wilson's Optigal Consulting. Now Kerry has created a resource for opticians that helps guide opticians through the licensing process and masterfully teaches them on the topics that must be learned in order to you know properly complete the testing. Her services range anywhere from a testing study study guide that's a downloadable PDF that's absolutely beautiful by the way up to classes with personalized coaching with Kerry Wilson herself. Kerry is an amazing resource and has helped so many people in our industry gain confidence in fully understanding the technical part of our trade. She's downright brilliant. Now you can't go far with talking about online optical learning without talking about Laramie Kay. Laramie Kay has resources as part of their program but also has quite a bit available for free on YouTube. They go very deep into explaining the concepts to really get you to understand all of the points and and all the different ways that they work. Now Laramie Kay certainly has a style that kind of laid back chill goofy but smart approach to their things but they certainly know their stuff. The third resource that for those of you who don't know is my company Spexy. Spexy is a darn near free optical online resource for your entire team to have access to an online learning video library that is beneficial for every position of the optical. Now where the other resources that I listed really focus on the technical component of opticianry a very necessary part of our trade. The Spexy trainings are for every part of the team from those who know nothing about optical to those that have been doing this optical thing for a bit. The 101 foundational training can take a new hire coming into any position in your office with absolutely no understanding of optical and give them the tools and confidence to become an active contributor as quickly as possible in the office. And for the more tenured on your team there are leadership training sales courses billing and coding lessons and even entire courses to help your whole team learn how they play a role in preventing walkouts and teaching them how to prevent them.  Alrighty there are your resources as promised please feel free to reach out with any questions that you have. I hope you have a fabulous month and I will see you in May's Envision Magazine. Bye.