James Harden's Burst Fade Haircut Recreated by a Master Barber | GQ

Joey I'm hearing you know how does Barbara feeling man a little something like that I've been cutting here for 29 years my list of clients don't have service at over celebrities are the boots mr. Jay Pharoah he's a Tracy Morgan today we get my man Joey that James Harden got some pictures here Joey the evolution of James Harden's build up to his iconic stop Wow should we got like 2007 here little James are in high school like he's pouring like a number two and that was like the style like around 2007 people are starting to cut their brave look 2009 okay well the beer the year the beard is growing their smile look like the money coming the chipped tooth that's not gonna be there after that first check you know what and is interesting because like even like in 2009 like people wasn't even like trying to grow their beard I even have him that type of style okay Joey this is the beginning of the Mohawk as you can tell it's faded on the side his barbers allowing that you glow and it back on top this is James Hart none knew like when I first discovered him he had the Mohawk he was like kind of standout at this point 2014 you go who's coming the beard is like growing it to his highest point this crazy I never noticed after in 2011 always thought his beard was at the same length but going through these photos he's like he was actually growing and growing growing at the top like is kind of small kind of like wet and a little skinny you know top but that's cool that's pretty much like the pump bucket the most they went in skinnier to show that full effect Lana stop 2017 James Harden has met his tear grow out as you can see the Mohawk itself is wider it's not the clothes sheet just a football 2019 yeah I think this is probably my favorite lick out of all of them it's like a little lower on the side and just the way it goes in it's just like it grows in smoke and also it just fix all the objects on the face arborist our nose forehead the contour shakes then he has that his mama blessed me with so it looks great if I go to another Barbara what would I call this little specific so you want to tell them to give you like pretty much like a burst fate and leave your beer to its highest point so basically you starting from my take care point and it just exploding like right there we go so from here one ollie up to go to is popping exploding so that's a burst feed let me ask you this what is the easiest way to communicate with the barber pictures are great Joe you know make sure your phone is charged when you go into the barber shop so you can show the barber hey this is what I want between New York City and Philadelphia they say you know let me get a Caesar and Philadelphia to me the dark feed it's the same exact haircut it's just different terminology so basically I'm leaving the slang along and just showing the budget can't go wrong with that why you decide to grow your beard Joey because you know what when you don't have a beer when I had the five o'clock shadow like nobody really no one no one paid you don't mind but once I had the beer things I hope he sees this is this is rude I get that so the the problem that I'm having right now I'm starting to notice but one side that part of me was dating a little bit so I just have to like spread you're not trying to cover it up so what you here today Joey maybe have the disease like a little bit of lesion just to show you a template of how we can get that line back out to look natural it doesn't look like this procedure about the 50 calibers first order of operation here I'm going to remove the weight I'll take my 50 caliber McComb removing the weight is removing the thickness opening the hakka to the feed the next order operation here we want to fade this down to a nice length okay be like well like a 1 and I'm going downwards and for himself so this is called feeding it down thirdly I want to get that bling like that burst fie type feeling right here so we could knock all the dark spots out so James Harden's Mohawk is cool right here so I'm not gonna touch nothing right here at all because I wanted to grow why didn't explore the operation and I really liked gonna get some shears thinning shears so I want to just take just go like the first line and just trim just split ends on the hook once I got my right side done this is gonna be my template for my left side so now on my left side st. order operation here got my Bush clone I'm a 50 caliber clipper so let me ask you something well what inspired you to be a barber got me into barbering is late 80s early 90s there was a lot of you know gun violence and a lot of drugs you know negativity going on and the barber shop was a safe haven for a lot of us they taught us how to be you know good young men handle yourself in the streets my barber shop I played that role you know a mentor a big brother you know what father figure someone for somebody else to look up to in real time what I mean by real time every single day so my next step here I just want to add some moisture to his hair I got something special be right back I'll call this one here my portable shampoo boy see the fine mist to shoot out so I need some dampness here on the circular motion so I got a water and astringent mixed in one to clean his scalp and open up his pores I need to add some product to his hair so that's um locked and twist you you don't even need that much it's like a fingertip well I can get it all up in there the lock and twist gel helps give it body oh we looking good now I got my blow dryer so what I have here is just 30 especially caliber to get a nice crisp shape up so Joey is spinning out right here so I went over to grab some natural hair fibers and I'm going to just put the card right here get some misty misty beard so after the water and the stringent combination I want to grab some beard oil no need a lot just a few drops to put on the beer get that shiny coat like a brand new painted car you want to massage it into the hair to the surface of the Dee cheek swab my oil wanna grab my blow dryer and a comb attachment so let me ask you this why are you adding oil after you wet my hair the main reason is after the water or shampoo and astringent combination your pores are open so I apply the oil to the follicle and massage it into the solder face so it gets down to the cheek and why is he so important and dry and happened it's definitely important to add heat to the oil so you can make it silky smooth so we got the further raise of Julie that is pretty much to still then give you a natural fresh arch shape up that's pretty clean I'm talking about do it so Joey has some new growth going on here and I kind of like when I highlight that I'm gonna fill it in with some natural fibers doing this enough time trains the line and keep the line out to its furthest capacity the last step is what I truly truly like is sculpting so you know I grab my favorite racquet that I like it's plastic easy to maintain and take care of and the sanitary so twisting in a circular motion is locking the Mohawk it also has a pick that you can pick the hair out so Joey I think I'm done jewelry you know I got the shade is James Harden then I work very hard but first I give you some tips to maintain you we all know that enhancements and the fibers you know aren't real they're just there as an illusion you can do it yourself it's very very easy to do and get you a nice no curl bracket to curl your hair that and maybe you if you want you can tie it down tonight so it doesn't get my stuff alright let's see Oh oh wow Wow this is it wow this is yo this is it when we talking about greatness right now I'm stepping out tonight for sure like for real my hey man you doesn't save my life man appreciate you brought this you're the most likely man come from killing their brotherly love me you know show me a lot of love out here man I'm feeling good so we do you

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Length: 10min 2sec (602 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 15 2019