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I've learned a fairly complicated trick that involves a number of fancy cuts & shuffles, but then I need to flip over the bottom 2 cards and it seems painfully obvious every time I do it in front of the mirror.

What's an inconspicuous way to flip the bottom card or cards in a deck?

Have them at the top (if that's an option), pinky break beneath them and in a move similar to the pass, reverse them onto the bottom.Instead of having the edge of the top cards "clear" the bottom, have them flip over.

FireAndThunder wrote:it seems painfully obvious every time I do it in front of the mirror.

It probably does, since your mirror can't be mis-directed.

There's a bit on the Born to Perform DVD where Oz literally just turns the bottom card over in front of the audience, with a little misdirection. I think it's in the Ultimate Transpo routine.

Grimshaw wrote:

FireAndThunder wrote:it seems painfully obvious every time I do it in front of the mirror.

It probably does, since your mirror can't be mis-directed.

So you tell one of them you like his hat, and when everybody looks you flip the cards?

FireAndThunder wrote:So you tell one of them you like his hat, and when everybody looks you flip the cards?

Watch this video very carefully: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlLZYCV-0E

Or better yet, buy the DVD, it really is excellent, imho.

Half-pass / Christ twist

FireAndThunder wrote:So you tell one of them you like his hat, and when everybody looks you flip the cards?

A greater move covers a smaller one

user24 wrote:Watch this video very carefully: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAlLZYCV-0E

Or better yet, buy the DVD, it really is excellent, imho.

He sets up the double-lift as he asks the guy his name or asks him to pick a color?

A greater move covers a smaller one

What sort of greater move can I use here?

FireAndThunder wrote:

A greater move covers a smaller one

What sort of greater move can I use here?

Would you like a spoon with your jam?

Tomo wrote:

FireAndThunder wrote:

A greater move covers a smaller one

What sort of greater move can I use here?

Would you like a spoon with your jam?

No, to be honest I'm just confused as to what sort of move I can make when my hands are busy flipping the cards.

Buckley Reverse (embedded in an in-the-hands riffle-shuffle)
Vernon Reverse (embedded in an on-the-table riffle-shuffle)
Leg Turnover.

Half pass with the bottom two cards. Done.

FireAndThunder wrote:No, to be honest I'm just confused as to what sort of move I can make when my hands are busy flipping the cards.

A big one

There's so much theory on how to do s*** like this.
But when it comes down to it the main answer is "when they're not looking"!
Then you only need to realise that people don't actually care about magicians and it's very easy to make them look at something else for 2 or 3 seconds.