GMM 2215: We Give Haircuts To Strangers

Beware! Today we cut some mythical beasts’ hair. – Let’s talk about that. (lively music) Good mythical summer. – In the “Book of Mythicality”, remember that? – Yeah, right here, look. It’s a book. – We devoted an entire chapter to empowering you to make a bold hair choice. – Yeah, we did. – To express yourself on your head, that’s what we said. And that’s something that we have tried to do personally throughout the years. – It is. But today, we have found two mythical beasts who are willing to make the boldest of hairstyle choices, arguably much more bolder than the choices that we’ve made on our own heads, – Yep. – because they are going to let us cut their hair and create entirely new looks, completely at our own discretion. That is very bold. I mean, do you think they’re gonna walk away feeling good about this decision? – Oh, sure. – Yes, of course. I mean, it can’t be as hard as shoeing a horse, right? – Is Butch here? – No. He’s not helping with this. – Oh, dang. – But we’d better get to wiling and hairstyling before they change their minds. It’s time for war. The beasts are trusting us to reimagine their hair. If we mess up real bad, please promise not to stare. – Welcome to the Mane Stage, get it, Zone. – Yeah, like the mane of a lion. – Yeah. – Ha ha, yeah. And let’s go ahead and bring out our victims, I mean special guests, – Guests. – Brittney and Lenny. Come on out. – Hello. (crew clapping) – Welcome to the show. – Hey, Brittney. – Nice to meet you. – Hey, Lenny. – Hello. – We only greet one. – I’m fine. (laughing nervously) – Okay. So, Brittney, we’ll start with you. Do you know what’s about to happen? – No. Should I? – Well, you’re gonna get your hair cut. – You know where you’re at, right? – Maybe. – [Rhett] You signed up for this. – My understanding is we put out a call to Mythical Beast. You both responded and said, “Yes, I would love for Rhett or Link to cut my hair.” – Pretty much. That’s exactly what happened. – Why did you agree to that? – Because the hair grows back, and I’m tired of it. And you guys have great hair, so I think you know what you’re doing. – Well, we don’t cut our own hair. – Okay. You style it, don’t you? – Yep, we style it. – Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. – What about you, Lenny? Are you eager or trepidated? – Pretty eager. I’ve actually been cutting my own hair for the last six years, so it’s actually been a little while. – Not bad, but we can definitely improve on both of you. No offense. I love what you’re doing, but, I don’t know. Is there a compliment in there? I love you guys. (crew laughing) – Thank you, thank you. – Do we have your enthusiastic consent to do whatever our muses tell us to do to your heads? – Yes. – Yep, for sure. – All right, sit down before you change your mind. Sit down. – All right. – All right, so we’re not just gonna get started. We are gonna get some level of formal training. – Yes. We have a professional hair stylist, a real life hair stylist. Please welcome Jaime. (crew clapping) – [Link] Oh, lots of clapping this morning. – Hey, Jaime. – Hi. – How you doing? – Hey, Jaime. I’m Link. – Good. How are you guys doing? – Come on over. Don’t be shy. – We’re not nervous at all about, you know, having our way with these heads. – With these two. – So, can you teach us everything we need to know about cutting and styling hair in, like, less than two minutes? – I will do my best. – Have you ever taught anyone how to cut hair? – I… Yeah, I have. Yeah. – That sounds like, “Maybe.” – Not in this short amount of time, but we can do it. – All right, let’s get to it. (whooshing) – Okay, Jaime, is this a young lady who donated her head to cosmetology? – Yes, she did. She’s ready for her haircut. – All right, so what should we know first? – Does she have a name? – Okay, so what’s her name? – Oh. – Judy. – Judy. – Judy Mendes. This is Shawn’s older sister. (Jaime laughing) – I don’t think you have to give last names to mannequins, but… – How’s Shawn? – Okay. Tell us what to do because we– (mannequin’s head snapping) – Oh, whop, whop. – Okay. – All right. – Was that right? – Yes. A little more gentle, maybe. – Step one as a hair stylist, because I am a aspiring hair stylist, and I already know that first you wanna build rapport. – Yes. – You have a beautiful– – You wanna take their head and press it down as hard as you can. – You have a beautiful head of hair– – Lots of compliments. – Lots of cervical damage. – Miss Mendes. – Okay, so step one, we’re gonna wanna section out the hair. So I think what we should start with is a basic one-length haircut. Make sure you’re holding the scissors the right way. – Like this? – Yes, like this. So this pointy thing is up. – Pointy thing up. – You’re gonna comb the hair down. – [Rhett] Go all the way down. – [Jaime] All the way down. And then you cut straight across, as so. And then you have a line. – [Rhett] You go all the way down. – So you wanna, all the way straight down, because if you lift the hair up, you’re gonna get layers with elevation. Oh! – [Rhett] Whoa, whoa! Okay, that felt wrong. – So this is going more into layers, but that’s okay. – You did two things that she said not to do. – I want it all to be this length. – But she said if you lift it up and cut it, you create layers. And that’s what you just did. Do you want layers, Brittney? – I mean, it’s ultimately up to you. – [Rhett] Okay. – Next, I’ll show you a basic layering technique. So we’re gonna pull a section, and you lift the hair up. – [Rhett] Whoa. – All the way, and you cut off the corners. So you blend– – You’re feathering the edge. – Exactly. So this is point cutting. So there’s no hard lines in the haircut. And you connect the longer, the piece that you’re cutting to the piece that falls down. And so that’s how you get a blended, layered haircut. – Okay. We might need to let you cut Brittney’s hair, and I cut Lenny’s hair, just because– – I will be honored. – You’ve got more experience with the technique and the longer hair kinda thing. And Lenny is more, I think, you know, I think some of the things that will be touching Lenny’s head will be making noise, like zzzz, buzzing noises. You know what I’m saying? That probably won’t happen with Brittney. I’m more familiar with machines, you’re more familiar with scissors. Does that sound like a good compromise? – Yeah. And I love having so much hair to work with, ’cause then when I mess up, I can just keep going shorter and shorter and shorter. – That’s one way to look at it. – That’s what I was thinking. – Is there anything else we absolutely have to know? ‘Cause I’m getting antsy. – I think those are the basics. (whooshing) – All right, they’re caped up and switched up, because, Brittney, I am going to be your stylist today. – Do you want me to do things like that to your hair? When I talk about you, do you, would you, do you want a massage? – [Link] I mean, you gotta get used to touching. – Are you paying for a cut, style and massage? – Yes, sir. – Okay, all right. (Jaime laughing) All right, just relax. – So should we start with a consult? – Yes. A consultation is great. – What’s your vibe? Like, what kinda music do you like? Like, death metal? – No. See, coming into this, I was thinking like, I wanna mullet, ’cause I just bought an Alabama vinyl. – What? – And they all had mullets, so I was like, “That’s kinda cool.” – Well, you know that bass over there was probably made in Alabama. The mother beast. – Mullets are trending. – That’s true. – You just told me that you want a mullet? – Yeah. – Say no more. (laughing) – Well, I mean you would have an epic mullet. Do you play an instrument? – No. – You’d better start. (laughing) – You play vinyls. – Yeah. – Now we’ve got this part up here, though. Like, typically, you want a parted mullet? Like, you want, I mean, I’m liking the idea, like, all of this, first of all, you got all of this length here, which you want to, I mean, I definitely wanna, I definitely like that back curtain staying there. – [Jaime] Yup. We wanna keep that length. – And then, now are you saying like, shaved on the sides? – I mean, I don’t know about shaving, but– – You’re pushing me, girl. What kind of work do you do? – I just work in a restaurant. Nothing too serious. – And they don’t have any stipulations? – No. I work at Outback, so. – Oh. No rules. – Perfect. Could you make the top of the mullet like a blooming onion? Because that could be interesting. Make people hungry, get more tips. So Lenny, what’s your job? – I am a registered nurse. – Registered nurse. It’s better than an unregistered nurse. (crew members chuckling) What kind of patients do you work with? – I work with kids, actually. – Oh! Okay. So it’s like you bring some fun into the situation. You want a fun haircut, right? Is that what I’m hearing? – So fun. – (laughing) Okay. That didn’t seem too sincere. What’s the most extreme hairstyle you’ve ever had? – You know, I’ve actually played it pretty safe my whole life. – Oh, really? Okay, well, you feeling adventurous today? – I feel so adventurous. – Oh, so adventurous. How do you feel about animals? – Animals? – Which animal are you thinking of? – Where’s this going? – How do you feel about iguanas? – I love reptiles. – You love reptiles? – Yeah. They’re pretty cool. – Okay, how would you like it does seem like you had an iguana on top of your head? – If you could do it, I would let you. – Okay, well, I have a plan. I just wanna make it look like some sort of four-legged animal has decided to perch itself on top of your head. (Link laughing) We’re not doing any sort of coloring here, ’cause we’re just doing style, but you could always then, you know, for the kids, you could color this anything you wanted to. – Let’s start cutting. Yeah! (laughing) Skip, skip, skip, skip. Oh, my gosh, what happened? Look at that. I’ll lay that right there. – Thank you for the reminder. – It’s kinda like this is a sacrifice to the hairstyle gods. – Got it. – And I’m gonna do a great job. – [Rhett] How you feeling, Lenny? – Like an iguana. (all laughing) – No, no, you’re supposed to say, “Like a man who has an iguana on his head.” – I really haven’t done anything else. I’ve just kinda clarified my… – Okay. – This is happening now. – All right. – [Jaime] We’re gonna take a look at what we have so far. – Trying to figure out, ’cause we’re basically, we wanna make a triangle here. – [Jaime] Cut some of this in there as well, so it’s more, you know what I mean? So it kind of blends in. – [Rhett] Do you have a significant other? – I do. – [Link] So we want this to be shorter. – Engaged, actually. – Oh, you’re engaged. – Yep. – [Jaime] We can also cut short. – But not married. – Not yet. – When’s the wedding? – November. So it’ll grow back. (Rhett laughing) – Hold on. Newsflash. Lenny’s getting married in November. – What? – Okay, so he has a wedding in November. – I got time. It’ll grow back. – Yeah, man. – Where is your fiance right now? – Hanging out. (crew laughing) – Do they know that? – Yes, she knows. – She knows that– – Does she know that it’s gonna be an iguana? – No, I didn’t know it was gonna be in an iguana. (all laughing) – I mean, I think, first of all, I think you’re gonna like this so much that you’re probably gonna wear this iguana… You know what? She’s probably gonna get one too. Y’all probably gonna be two iguanas walking down the aisle. But if not, I do believe that you can just have just a cool, significantly shorter than you were planning on, haircut for your wedding. – I think that’s a good sign for your marriage. She’s letting you do your thing. You know, you gotta express yourself. But that goes both ways. You gotta let her express herself. – Oh, I do. – You don’t know anything about this relationship, Link. (crew laughing) I do know that I have potentially complicated the relationship a little bit today. – You’re definitely testing it. – Yeah, right, yeah. November what? – Fourth. – Ooh, early November. I was hoping you were gonna say after Thanksgiving, but it’s okay. – I’m trying to figure, when you say fade it, like, this will be shorter. – Yep. – I forgot what this felt like. – See, ’cause all this under here is what we’re gonna wanna keep. – Yep, we’ll keep all of that. Let’s lift it up a little bit, so we’re layering while we’re cutting. – I like that. – [Rhett] That’s just a cool, – I like that. – [Rhett] short, side of your head. – I’m think I’m just gonna. – Jaime, you wanna check in? I feel like I’ve got this cut in a nice, – [Jaime] Great job. – Even. – Yup. ♪ We got to take this hair off because it’s in the way ♪ ♪ I’m just gonna hack it and pray that you don’t hate me. ♪ Okay. Yeah, this could be even shorter. ♪ Boop, boop, boop ♪ ♪ Boop, boop, bedoop ♪ ♪ Boop, boop, boop ♪ – All of this? No? – Maybe leave that. – We’re gonna leave this, ’cause that’s the end of the– – Don’t start humming and cutting, okay? Don’t start singing and cutting. – Too early for that. You kinda look like a freaking rockstar. I love it. Yeah. See, the thing about a bold hair choice is that you really gotta have the attitude to back it up. And I think both of you guys do. It’s like, you know, it’s really confidence, confidence boosters. It’s not about what your hair looks like, it’s about what your face looks like underneath it. Like, the face you’re making. If you have a confident face and you’re walking down the street, they’re gonna be like, “Oh, that was intentional.” What’s the shortest your hair’s ever been, Brittney? – Not this short. Tell you that much. – Oh really? – No. There’s a first for everything. – You dating anyone? – No. – Okay. Well, you will be. (crew laughing) – And better give him lines over here. – It’ll be a different type of person than you’ve ever dated. – [Rhett] I’m really concentrating. – Okay? Right now you look kinda like one of those dolls that a toddler gets a hold of with scissors. That’s just my, that’s on me. – You are the toddler, so. – I’m the toddler. – We gotta make this thing into an iguana. We could get it a little bit shorter. – This is your masterpiece. – That’s gonna involve a little chuka, chuka, chuka, chuka, chuka. – Sure is. – A train? (Jaime laughing) – Yeah. We gotta take you to the train station to get that haircut. – I feel like I’ve entered a zone. – The danger zone. But it kinda looks like the Autozone. (crew laughing) And, Lenny, you’re looking good over there. – Oh, thank you. – It’s very satisfying cutting hair. I mean, the thing that I didn’t like about the idea of becoming hair stylist is having to talk to people. – There is a lotta talking. – I can’t do two things at once. I can’t talk and cut. I’m trying to do it right now, and I have no clue what I’m saying. Chipmunk nuts. You know, it’s like, I don’t know what’s going. – I gotta cut the legs in. Let me just think about what an iguana looks like. I think if an iguana were to perch on top of your head, – [Link] So this, we got the hair behind the ears. – [Rhett] It would be like, – [Jaime] I think it needs to be a little shorter. – [Link] This has gotta be shorter. – [Rhett] Front leg would be like this, and then reaching forward. – Yeah, good form. – I think this could be in my future. – I do too. – I’m gonna look at a picture of an iguana on the internet. – I mean, they don’t let me touch sharp objects here. So I think there’s something about the allure of constantly having something that could draw blood or remove an ear or the end of a nose (snapping fingers) just like that. – Okay. – Jaime, when you get done with that, I might need a consult, because I’m about to cut the first leg in, the right front leg, and I need to know if I go no guard. Obviously, if I go no guard, then I’ve really got something to work with here. I’ve got a lot of contrast. – Yes. I would say for detail work, you’re gonna want no guard. So this is it. This is your shot. – Now, it’s just gonna be the sides of your head that have, are basically completely bald, except for iguana legs. – All right. – How’s that feel? – Bald. – But the top is gonna be just an iguana body. – All right. ♪ Snippy, snip, snippy. ♪ (razor buzzing) – What am I trying to do here? I’ve lost the plot. What are we doing? – Well, it’s definitely looking like a mullet. – [Rhett] All right, Jaime, come take a look at that. So basically we have, you know, we’ve got the outlines of– – Great. (chuckling) It’s looking good. – [Rhett] I mean, it’s a cool design, isn’t it? – It is. So now the trick is to get that exactly on the opposite side. – Yeah, that’s, yeah. Do we have like a mold or anything that we can work with? (Jaime laughing) – I mean, Kenny Powers, eat your heart out. Right? – [Rhett] Lenny, I’m gonna try something. Right now, it’s a cool design, almost like lightning bolt kinda thing. We don’t really have any iguana toes, but maybe if I just put a couple of streaks in here, worst case scenario, it just looks stripes. It kinda looks like just more of a cool design. – Yeah, yeah, yeah. – Look down. I always like to do that. Look down. That makes me feel like a real beautician. Look down. (whooshing) I feel like we’re in like style mode now. – I’m actually moving to style mode. – What do you think? So how do we do that? Do we need to go to the– – So we can spray the hair down. – Do we need to merge her– – We don’t have to do that. We can spray it. – [Rhett] Part in the front. I’m gonna spike up the rest. – Just gonna wet it down. We’re just wetting it down. – Jaime, what do you suggest for this, for the spiky in the middle? I mean, we’ve got our– – What kind of products do we have here? – So we’ve got a clay pomade, and we have a beard balm. We don’t need that. – Say, let’s start with the pomade, and you can work it in to the hair. – We need to go pretty heavy on this stuff. – Yes. So you’re gonna wanna fully saturate it, and then pull it up. – So what am I trying to do here? All I’ve done is wet it and then mess with it. – Okay, so we’re gonna put some product in her hair too. So we can grab some pomade. (razor buzzing) So you’re gonna wanna shape the mullet where you want it to go. – I feel like just like if I had something that was even a little bit, maybe I could just blow dry that? – [Jaime] Yeah. – All right. Now, before I give her a complete blowout and you finish your styling, I wanna tell you guys about our newest addition to SiKE! our summer collection. We’re both wearing shirts from our SiKE! collection. As you know, everything at SIKE.LA changes right before your eyes using either heat, light, could be sweat, could be water. It’s light with these. – [Rhett] If the two of us walk out into the sun, these shirts will completely change their meaning. And we’re showing you that right now. Also, we’re not just stopping with shirts. We got a hat. – We got a hat, and I think you might want one of these. – [Rhett] If you need to wear this in front of the children. In case you think the children might be scared of your new haircut, you can wear the hat. – I like it. – And these may look like just tasteful swim trunks, – [Link] But they’re not. They change when they get wet, and they reveal a nice little design, which is open to your interpretation. – [Rhett] But we didn’t stop there, ’cause if you’re gonna get wet, you gotta get dry. – It could be a sun, or it can be a burger. It could be both. Shop the whole collection now at SIKE.LA. – Transform your summer! I just came up with that. – Transform your summer. – I just came up with that. Transform your summer, SIKE.LA. – All right, Brittney, I’m about to give you a blow up. (hairdrier blowing) Oh, this is a workout, Jaime. – It is. (whooshing) – All right, Brittney. I think I’m done over here. – Yeah. Well, I wanna show you, I’m gonna reveal the back to you guys, since you’ve been seeing the front. And I’ve got another idea, but yeah, go ahead and reveal Brittney. – Let’s let’s reveal Brittney. Let me get this off of you here. (dramatic music) Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you, business in the front, party in the outback. (all laughing) (all clapping) Now, would you like to see yourself here? – I guess. – Take it. Take a hold of it. – Oh! You know? Yeah. – It’s a mullet. (all laughing) I mean, it’s definitely a mullet. – Yeah. – You know? Pull this around. That’s nice. And then it really, I really think it looks cool. – It’s not the worst. I was expecting a lot worse. – Oh, really? – Yeah. – I think it looks good. – And I left you some hair, some length to play with up here. So right now I’ve got it in like, you know, you’re going for a night out on the town, you’re slicked back. But then there’s also more of a tussled, kinda like stick-your-head-out-the-window, or just you’re taking your motorcycle to Vegas, type of a thing. So there’s different looks. You can bring this hair down, you can have more of a bang situation. – It’s very versatile. – It is very versatile. – I like it. I honestly really do. – You’ll get used to it. (all laughing) I mean, it’s a drastic difference. – Yeah. That is very true. – All right, Lenny. You ready to show your yourself to the world, and to show what I did to you to yourself? – Yeah. (crew laughing) – Let me, let me. Oh, my goodness. – Don’t use a brush on his– – Yeah, yeah. Okay. (dramatic music) (crew laughing) You see that iguana that’s perched on his head? You see that? Can you see? And he growing that rat tail forever and ever, and ever and ever. Now, I have an idea for something, because– – You’re not done? – Just one more little touch here. I believe that this is perfect. (crew laughing) It could be a little bit bigger. You can get it bigger head. (Jaime laughing) Right. You ready to see this? – Oh yeah. Yo! (all laughing) What? – Oh, oh, oh! – We lost the head. – [Rhett] Let’s get it in there. – Let’s get it in there. – [Rhett] There he is. Nice and nestled. Nice and nestled. – I’ll name him Rhett. – Aw! – Oh man. – There’s a snake head living in your iguana here. – Can you see the side? Like, you really gotta get that side view, ’cause you see his back legs, ’cause the way the legs work on the anatomy of an iguana. – Oh yeah. He’s got little toes too. – [Rhett] He’s just kinda, he’s perched on you like that. – A snake-headed iguana is mating with the top of your head. – You can probably get a real taxidermized iguana head on Amazon, I’m sure, or at least Etsy. – I probably won’t do that. – (laughing loudly) No, when you show this to your future wife and your in-laws, I think maybe you need to have the iguana head on there, just so they understand the full concept. – Right, okay, okay. I’ll look into it. – [Rhett] So you feeling good? – Feeling great. – Okay. That’s all that matters. – Yeah. He’s definitely thinking, “I’m shaving my head completely.” – (laughing) No! You look like a badass, man! – But the real question at this point is, Jaime, what is your assessment of who is the better hair stylist? – Wow. That is a tough question. (crew laughing) I think you’re both great hair stylists. I will have to say this is a bit more of an artistic masterpiece. – [Rhett] Thank you. – But. (crew laughing) – Yours is amazing too. I think it’s the little details that really– – Make his statement. – Yeah, it stands out. – Yeah, his is crazy, but it just doesn’t really work for an actual hairstyle. – He’s gonna walk into a children’s hospital with a snake in his hair! – Is he gonna, is he gonna get married with that? – I think that depends on his fiance. – We’ll see. – Are you gonna get a whole lot more dates of a totally different genre? Yes. – You will have to report back. But what you’re saying at this point– – So hold on. So you were building up that, yes, he did a great job, but the winner is? – (laughing loudly) Hey, I like you, Jaime. (laughing) But the winner is, yeah, no further discussion. – I have to go with this one. – Iguana hair. – Yeah, I realize that’s what’s happening. – [Jaime] I’ve never seen an iguana hair before. It’s the first time. – Is there a prize? – [Jaime] I’ve seen mullets. – She asked for a mullet. – Thank you, Lucas. (Jaime laughing) – Oh, look at that. – [Jaime] It’s amazing. You did a great job too. – I’m gonna put this on my desk. “Cut in style Kyle”. – Yes, just in case there’s any serious regrets, we are giving you a box of tissues that we have addressed to you and signed. – Yeah. Look, we signed it and everything. – Let’s give it up for Lenny and Brittney, (crew clapping) for submitting themselves to this today, and getting these very, very mythical hairstyles. – Yeah. You guys are great sports. Thank you. – And also thank you to Jaime for training us and making sure things didn’t go too wrong. And make sure you check her out on Instagram @JAIMEMALONEY, if you’re looking for a new do in the greater Los Angeles area. – Thanks, Jaime, I learned so much. And thank you for subscribing and clicking that bell. – Now you guys all say, “You know what time it is.” – You know what time it is. – You know what time it is. – My name is Adam. I’m from Boise, Idaho, and it has been one year since my last haircut. And it’s time to spend the Wheel of Mythicality. – I don’t think he can– – That wasn’t a haircut though. (crew laughing) – There was no– – That was still not a haircut. – There was no cut. – I thought there was gonna be an after photo of a haircut. – Click the top link to watch us match crazy wild hairstyles to even crazier occasions in Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality’s going. Go to SIKE.LA and check out our entire summer collection.

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