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Master Barber Reviews “The Velasco Haircutting System”

barbaring barber reviews Dec 05, 2025

When I first created the Velasco Haircutting System, it never dawned on me that Barbers would be interested in taking my Online Haircutting Course, so you can imagine my surprise when a good friend of mine who has been a Master Barber for decades told me that he wanted to take my course.

Gus Barroso and I go back a very long way. Fact is we’ve known each other since our junior high school days. Gus became a Professional Barber about the same time that I became a Licensed Hairdresser.

Back in those days, Barber’s only worked on men and Hairdressers primarily worked on Women…But today those lines are blurred. Both Barbers and Cosmetologist work universally on both genders.

However, early in his career Gus knew that he wanted to work on females as well as his male clientele, so he took it upon himself to take some haircutting classes with the Sebastian Design Team… And as it turned out, Gus was even able to work as an assistant to the famous hairdressing duel of Geri Cusenza and Robert Lobetta on a few of their shows around the country… it didn’t get much better than that folk’s...

So knowing that, I questioned him as to why he was interested in taking my Haircutting Course and this is what he said:

”Back in those days when I was working with the Sebastian Team, layered haircutting was the big thing…So, I learned a lot about how to layer long hair, short hair and everything in between. But I never really felt totally confident cutting some of the other styles that women like to wear and doing some of the newer haircutting techniques that I see people doing.”

Gus was talking about things like: Increased Graduated Haircuts, Asymmetrical Haircuts, Point Cutting, Notching & Slicing, Razor Cutting and the many other techniques that have developed over the years…

So even though Gus has had decades of experience as a Master Barber working on both male and females, he still felt like there was something missing in his haircutting education… and he also felt like he just wanted to have a “refresher course” on some of the styles he was already doing…So he enrolled in my Online Haircutting Course.

When Gus was about halfway through the course, he reached out to me to let me know how impressed he was with the quality of the content in the course, the incredible video  close-up views, and my in-depth explanation of every detail of every haircut.

He felt that this was the “missing link” that he’s been looking for all these years.… As he explained to me: “It’s the subtle nuances that you explain with each haircut that makes a difference“…

You see, for each one of the 56 Haircuts that I teach in my Haircutting Course, I have broken them down into individual “Step-By-Step” mini haircutting lessons onto itself.

These are NOT just 10- or 15-minute haircutting videos like you see on YouTube, that only give you a vague idea of what they are doing and are more designed to impress you then to teach you…(I’m not an influencer, I’m an educator)

No, No, No…In my Haircutting Course nothing is left to chance. Even the Blow-dries are done in real time, showing you every detail of what I am doing. (I’ve also included a “fast version” of each blow-dry for those of you who are in a hurry).

So, if you are a Barber (or Barbering Student) looking to increase your female clientele, and feel that you have some gaps in your haircutting education that you would like to fill, I liked to encourage you to Download my Free Haircutting eBook at my website and let me know if you have any questions after reading it. It would be my pleasure to be your mentor into this new and exciting world of haircutting for you.

Cheers,

David