Basic Hair cuts
Also known as a one length cut, the hair is cut at O degree elevation.
What is the blunt cut?
A technique where curly hair is wrapped around the head to give a smooth, rounded contour.
What is hair wrapping?
The stationary foundation of the curl on which the barrel or roller is placed.
What is the base?
The amount of pressure applied while combing and holding a section of hair for cutting.
What is tension?
The cleansing of implements with soap and water.
What is cleaning or sanitizing?
This cut has a wedge or stacked shape that is most often cut at 45 degrees.
What is a graduated cut?
Using heat to produce curls, waves or straightened hair.
What is thermal styling?
Forms the curl as hair is wrapped around the barrel or rod.
What is the circle?
The removal of excess bulk, add volume, create movement, or create wispy spiky effects.
What is Texturizing?
A fungal infection of the beard.
What is Tinea Barbae?
Hair strands are cut to the same length at a 90 degree elevation, straight out from where the hair grows.
What are uniform layers?
This form of styling takes wet hair and allows it to dry at room temperature.
What is natural dry styling?
Cutting curly hair after this point may cause it to flip out from the head form.
What is the trough of a wave?
This guide moves along the head with each cut that is made.
What is a traveling guide?
Single celled microorganisms that have both animal and plant characteristics.
What are bacteria?
Consist of increased layering that is achieved by cutting the hair at a 180 degree elevation.
What are long layers?
Hair straightening that removes 60 to 75 percent of the curl.
What is a medium press?
The hair between the scalp and the first arc of the curl.
What is the stem?
Occurs when hair is combed away from its natural fall position resulting in an increase in length.
What is over direction?
The technical name for 5.25% Bleach.
What is sodium hypochlorite?
The process of checking your work by parting off subsections opposite to the direction at which they grow.
What is cross-checking?
Is the process of combing the hair down over the clients head, followed by drying, and finishing with thermal irons.
What is hair molding?
Cutting the hair at this point in a curl will encourage it to fall inward toward the head form.
What is the crest of a wave?
This texturizing technique creates a chunkier effect and is produced by positioning the shears at a flatter angle to the ends of the hair.
What is notching?
Colonies of microorganisms that adhere to environmental surfaces. They grow in a sticky matrix that makes them very hard to kill.
What is a Biofilm?