Basic Principles of Haircutting
The two basic lines used in haircuts are these.
What are straight & curvy lines?
This tool is used to remove weight or bulk from the hair.
What are thinning shears?
Cutting position in which the palms of both hands are facing each other.
What is palm to palm?
This is the subsection that determines the length the hair will be cut.
What is a guideline?
What is the importance of holding the comb throughout the entire haircutting service?
Putting it down wastes a lot of time
This is another term for zero degree haircut
What is a blunt cut?
These are the two ways shears can be made.
What is cast and forged?
This is the hanging level where a blunt haircut falls.
What is weight line?
This is another name for a movable guideline.
What is a traveling guideline?
Widest area of the head usually starting at the temples and stopping at the bottom of the crown.
What is the parietal ridge?
All haircuts are composed of these 3 things.
What are lines, sections & angles?
This method of manufacturing shears is when hot molten steel is poured into a molding cooled.
What is Casting?
This haircutting technique is designed to remove bulk without shortening length. This technique can be achieved by using shears, thinning shears or a razor.
What is texturizing?
this guideline is located at the perimeter of the cut.
what is the outer line guideline?
When crosschecking a haircut always use this
Opposite partings than what were used to cut.
The angle in which the fingers are held when cutting the line that creates the end shape is known as this
What is the cutting line?
These are the 3 primary countries where shears are manufactured?
What is Japan, Germany and United States?
Layering creates movement and volume in the hair by doing what?
Removing or releasing weight
These are the two types of guidelines in haircutting.
What are stationary and traveling?
These are the 4 basic haircuts.
What are Blunt, layered, long layered, and graduated?
List the four common reference points
What are ears, occipital bone, jawline & apex
This cutting technique uses diagonal lines by cutting hair ends with a slight increase or decrease in length.
What is beveling?
Haircutting technique that removes weight and adds movement thru the length of the hair, shears aren't completely closed and only a portion of the shears near the pivot are used.
What is slicing?
This guideline is used when creating layered or graduated haircuts.
what is the traveling guide?
Name the five basic types of bangs.
What are side swept, versatile, square, asymmetric and short textured?