Foundations
The art of precise designing, cutting and shaping of the clients hair.
What is haircutting?
Good haircuts begin with an understanding of the shape of the head.
What is the head form/ head shape?
These are parallel from the floor and relative to the horizon.
What is a horizontal line?
The space between two lines or surfaces that intersect at a given point.
What is an angle?
Frequently used in men's haircutting to cut and blend layers in the top, crown and horseshoe areas.
What is cutting above the fingers?
A conversation between you and the client about the clients desires and expectations of the service you will perform.
What is a client consultation?
This is the widest area of the head, starting at the temples and ending at the bottom of the crown.
What is the parietal ridge?
For control during haircutting, the hair is parted into these working areas.
What are sections?
Cutting the hair in the opposite direction from which it grows.
What is against the grain?
This technique is used to cut the ends of the hair and is an important method used in tapering.
What is shear over comb?
The art of arranging the hair in a particular style that is appropriately suited to the cut and that best fits the clients' physical characteristics and personality.
The area at the back part of the neck and consists of the hair below the occipital bone.
What is the nape?
Rotates from a central point and used in layering and graduation.
What is a pivoting section?
Refers to the heaviest perimeter area of a 0-elevation or 45- degree cut.
What is a weight line?
Care must be taken not to bend the hair or to project it higher than intended from the head form when using this technique.
What is cutting palm-to-palm?
This is critical to being able to perform balanced and proportionate haircuts and styles for clients.
What is practicing skills and techniques?
The triangular section that begins at the apex and end at the front corners.
What is the bang area?
The angle at which the fingers are held when cutting the line that creates the end shape.
What is the cutting line?
This creates a length increase in the design and occurs when the hair is combed away from its natural fall position rather than straight out from the head toward a guide.
What is overdirection?
This technique is used to thin out or customize difficult areas caused by, hollows, wrinkles, whorls, or creases in the scalp.
What is shear-point-tapering?
This will allow you to understand advanced haircutting techniques.
What is studying the fundamentals?
The head mark where the surface of the head changes, such as ears and jawline.
What are reference points?
To create consitent and successful results in haircutting, it is neccessary to understand this.
What is the shape of the head?
This moves along a section of hair as each cut is made.
What is a travelling guide?
This technique is used with the teeth of the comb pointing upward, comb into the section of hair at the hairline, rolling the comb out toward you.
What is rolling the comb out?