Hair cutting techniques for good health

The cutting of hair is one of the most important of all the hair dressing skills. A good hair cut, skillfully executed can transform the most mediocre head of hair into something special. To cut hair proficiently, the hair dresser must be aware of where and how the length and bulk need to be removed from the hair in order to create a fascinating shape with good line and balance. Each head of hair differs in some way and each haircut should be carefully cut to emphasize good points and minimize defects. A good haircut is the basis for all good hair dressing and for good health.
These can be employed to produce particular effects on the various types of hair. Blow-drying and the movement towards natural and healthy looking hair has helped to encourage a greater obligation on the part of the hairdresser to produce better haircutting. To this end, it is necessary to become skilled in the different methods of cutting to enable the hairdresser to adapt these methods to any fashion changes.
The basic techniques are tapering, thinning and clubbing. Tapering is the method of removing bulk and length from the hair. Specifically, it will thin the hair at the same time as removing the length. By thinning the hair, a lot of the hair bulk is also removed, thus it will allow the hair to curl more easily. Obviously, this type of cutting will not make straight hair curly although it can influence any natural curl or wave movement already present in the hair. The hair can be tapered either dry or wet. The scissors are used in the slithering movement to taper dry hair. Taper cutting wet hair with the scissors can shred the hair and may also cause steps because of the hair’s tendency to stick together when wet. The excess of tapering is to remove excess length and bulk(thickness) from thick hair. To encourage natural and wave movement is by removing the weight from the points of the hair. Before a basic permanent wave, to aid winding hair which has finer, tape points will bend much more easily around a perm curler than thicker, clubbed hair. It produces a lighter, feathered effect to the hair style.
Thinning removes unwanted bulk but not length from the hair. It may be done with the razor or scissors although it must be called to mind that the scissors should only be used to thin out dry hair and the razor to thin out wet hair. Check the hair carefully to decide where on the head the bulk needs to be reduced, as it is not mandatory to thin out the whole head. Thinning removes excess bulk from the hair to give a finer, feathered effect to certain areas of the hair style and remove the weight from over-clubbed hair.
Club-cutting is a technique of cutting the hair straight across, by that removing the length from the hair although retaining the bulk. Since the weight is left on the points of the hair, it tends to depress any natural predisposition of the hair to curl. Hair can be club cut or dry either using the scissors or a razor. Though, club cutting with a razor demands enough practice and should only be tried when the operator is fully skilled in razor cutting. Club cutting allows the hair to be cut very precisely but it must always be called to mind that the head is a curved object and despite the fact that the hair may be cut in a linear manner, the slant at which the head is held away from the scalp is very important to produce the exact shape for the completed hair cut. Club cutting on fine hair is to retain as much bulk and weight in the hair that promote good or healthy hair. It discourages curl on over-curly hair for fashion cutting, where bulk needs to be retained.