Reference Points
Widest area of the head, starting at the temples and ending at the bottom of the crown.
What is the parietal ridge?
Continuous mark used as a guide.
What is a line?
Comb mainly used to detangle hair.
What is a wide-tooth comb?
All the hair is elevated to 90 degrees from the scalp and cut at the same length.
What are uniform layers?
Another version of point cutting; more aggressive and creates a chunkier effect.
What is notching?
Highest point on the top of the head.
What is the apex?
Described in terms of up and down and are perpendicular to the horizon.
What are vertical lines?
Comb mainly used for close tapers on the nape and sides when using the scissor-over-comb technique.
What is a barber comb?
All the hair comes to a single hanging level, forming a weight line.
What is a blunt haircut?
Technique that removes weight and adds movement through the lengths of the hair.
What is slicing?
Bone that protrudes at the base of the skull.
What is the occipital bone?
Using diagonal lines to create angles by cutting the ends of the hair with a slight increase or decrease in length.
What is beveling?
Mainly used to cut blunt or straight lines in hair.
What are haircutting shears?
Hair is cut at a 90-degree elevation and then over directed to maintain length and weight at the perimeter.
What is a long-layered haircut?
Technique performed on the ends of the hair using the tips, or points, of the shears to create a broken edge.
What is point cutting?
Head mark where the surface of the head changes, such as the ears, jawline, occipital bone, or apex.
What are reference points?
Created when the space between two lines or surfaces intersects at a given point.
What is an angle?
Designed to remove more hair, with larger teeth set farther apart.
What are notching shears?
Effect achieved by cutting the hair with elevation or over direction.
What is a layered haircut?
Uses the tips of the shears to snip out pieces of hair at random intervals.
What is free-hand notching?
Signals a change is the shape of the head from flat to round and vise versa.
What are the four corners?
Line dividing the hair at the scalp, separating one section of hair from another, creating subsections.
What is a part or parting?
Mainly used to remove bulk from the hair.
What are texturizing shears?
Slow or immediate build up of weight; this is caused by cutting the hair with tension, low to medium elevation, or over direction.
What is a graduated haircut?
Process of thinning the hair to graduated lengths with shears.
What is effilating?