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Haircutting Haircutting 2nd Edition by Jeryl E. Spear Haircutting For Dummies®, 2nd Edition Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, www.wiley.com Copyright © 2022 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2021950999 ISBN 978-1-119-79049-5 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-79051-8 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-79052-5 (ebk) Contents at a Glance Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part 1: Shopping, Talking, and Acting Like a Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CHAPTER 1: Setting Up Shop: Kitchen Beauticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER 2: Strapping On Your Tool Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 CHAPTER 3: Beauty Show and Tell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 CHAPTER 4: Typecasting Different Hair Personalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Part 2: Mastering Basic Techniques, Stat! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 CHAPTER 5: Understanding Head Shapes, Elevations, Angles, and Guides . . . . . . . . 47 CHAPTER 6: Parting Ways: Sectioning Hair for Successful Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 CHAPTER 7: Dressing Up the Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 CHAPTER 8: Cuddling Up to Clippers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Part 3: Maintaining Hair Moxie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 CHAPTER 9: Making Bangs and Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 CHAPTER 10: Cutting Your Crowning Glory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 CHAPTER 11: Perfecting Touch-Up Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Part 4: Getting Snippy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 CHAPTER 12: Getting Snippy and Clippy with Women’s Short Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 CHAPTER 13: Getting Snippy with Women’s Mid-Length Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 CHAPTER 14: Getting Snippy with Women’s Long Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 CHAPTER 15: Getting Snippy with Men’s Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 CHAPTER 16: Getting Snippy with Children’s Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Part 5: Making Your Haircuts Shine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231 CHAPTER 17: Setting the Stage for Cuts and Styles: Caring for the Hair and Scalp . . 233 CHAPTER 18: Handling the Sticky Stuff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 CHAPTER 19: Everything You Need to Know about Heat-Styling Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 261 CHAPTER 20: Styling Tips and Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 CHAPTER 21: Cleaning Up Your Act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Part 6: The Part of Tens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 CHAPTER 22: Ten Slices of Advice on Cutting Kids’ Hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 CHAPTER 23: Ten Hair Fails and Fixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 CHAPTER 24: Ten Bits of Advice for Thinning Hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Conventions Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Foolish Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Icons Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Beyond the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PART 1: SHOPPING, TALKING, AND ACTING LIKE A PRO . . . . 5 CHAPTER 1: Setting Up Shop: Kitchen Beauticians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Discovering Your Inner Artist: Do You Have What It Takes? . . . . . . . . . . 8 Setting the Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Cutting Up in Your Kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mane-taining your own hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chopping your children’s hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Clipping a companion’s hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 CHAPTER 2: Strapping On Your Tool Belt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Running with These Is a No-No . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Selecting scissors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Playing it straight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Making beveled eggs and blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Caving in to convex blades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Getting a handle on ergonomics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Seeking specialty scissors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Caring for your scissors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Calling All Trimmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Short List: Tools and Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Combing It Over . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Feeling Secure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Practicing with Doll Heads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 CHAPTER 3: Beauty Show and Tell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Getting Acquainted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Being mindful of the past . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Evaluating the present . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Getting personal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Figuring Out Face Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Playing Show and Tell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Table of Contents vii CHAPTER 4: Typecasting Different Hair Personalities . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Talking about Texture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Feeling fine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Striking a happy medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Cozying up to coarse hair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 What’s Your Type? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 In the Thick of It: Hair Density . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Calming Cowlicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 How to discover growth patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Working cowlicks to your advantage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 PART 2: MASTERING BASIC TECHNIQUES, STAT! . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Understanding Head Shapes, Elevations, CHAPTER 5: Angles, and Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Getting to Know the Four Pillars of Haircutting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Identifying Head Shapes and Points of Interest (a.k.a. Head Mapping) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 The four corners of the head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Elevating Your Haircuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Getting a Handle on Cutting Lines and Angles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Guiding the Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Horsing around: Using a stable guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 This hair is made for walking: Using a t raveling guide . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Parting Ways: Sectioning Hair for CHAPTER 6: Successful Cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Four-Section Parting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Four-Section Spherical Parting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Five-Section Parting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Seven-Section Parting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Seven-Section Parting with Hairline Sections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 CHAPTER 7: Dressing Up the Ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Graduating with Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Taking It Up a Notch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Point Cutting Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Any Way You Slide It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 CHAPTER 8: Cuddling Up to Clippers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 . 9 Getting the Best Clippers for Your Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Cutting the cord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Bells and whistles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 viii Haircutting For Dummies