Haircutting For Dummies

A little off the top?

Want to cut hair but think you don't have the talent? If you've ever dreamed of becoming a painter, a sculptor, or a home decorator, you can cut hair. If you love sewing, drawing, or craft projects, you can cut hair. This book is designed to help you discover your inner artist, easily enhancing your loved one's hairstyles while trimming big bucks off your family budget.

Haircutting For Dummies is for people who want to cut their family and friends' hair, as well as those who are entering the field of cosmetology. Cutting hair at home will allow you to save money, be creative, and do something nice for your loved ones. If you're looking to become a licensed stylist, this book will show you how to do simple trims and styles while giving your own creativity room to roam. You'll see how to:

• Prepare men's and women's hair for cutting

• Create short, mid-length, and long styles

• Choose and care for your cutting tools

• Apply advanced haircutting techniques

• Seek a career in cutting hair

In this easy-to-follow guide, you'll find step-by-step instructions for the latest short, medium, and long hairstyles as well as more involved techniques such as notching and texturing. You get plenty of expert advice in using your tools, following lengths and angles, and creating show-stopping styles, as well as proven guidance in how to:

• Cut and style straight, curly, or kinky hair

• Give the perfect shampoo

• Judge the texture, strength, and health of hair

• Handle bangs, layers, and sliced hair

• Use a blow dryer, curling iron, and flat iron

• Pump up the volume and fight the frizzies

• Win your family's and friends' haircutting trust

Featuring detailed illustrations and model shots, tips on maintaining your own haircut between salon appointments, and special advice on cutting children's hair, Haircutting For Dummies will have you achieving salon- or barbershop-quality results on all types of hair!

Auteur
J. Elaine Spear is a Contributing Editor for the magazines DaySpa, Today's Image, Beauty Store Business, and Salon News. She owned and operated a multimillion-dollar salon and day spa for 15 years.

Résumé
A little off the top?

Want to cut hair but think you don't have the talent? If you've ever dreamed of becoming a painter, a sculptor, or a home decorator, you can cut hair. If you love sewing, drawing, or craft projects, you can cut hair. This book is designed to help you discover your inner artist, easily enhancing your loved one's hairstyles while trimming big bucks off your family budget. Haircutting For Dummies is for people who want to cut their family and friends' hair, as well as those who are entering the field of cosmetology. Cutting hair at home will allow you to save money, be creative, and do something nice for your loved ones. If you're looking to become a licensed stylist, this book will show you how to do simple trims and styles while giving your own creativity room to roam. You'll see how to:

• Prepare men's and women's hair for cutting
• Create short, mid-length, and long styles
• Choose and care for your cutting tools
• Apply advanced haircutting techniques

• Seek a career in cutting hair
  In this easy-to-follow guide, you'll find step-by-step instructions for the latest short, medium, and long hairstyles as well as more involved techniques such as notching and texturing. You get plenty of expert advice in using your tools, following lengths and angles, and creating show-stopping styles, as well as proven guidance in how to:

• Cut and style straight, curly, or kinky hair
• Give the perfect shampoo
• Judge the texture, strength, and health of hair
• Handle bangs, layers, and sliced hair
• Use a blow dryer, curling iron, and flat iron
• Pump up the volume and fight the frizzies
• Win your family's and friends' haircutting trust
  Featuring detailed illustrations and model shots, tips on maintaining your own haircut between salon appointments, and special advice on cutting children's hair, Haircutting For Dummies will have you achieving salon- or barbershop-quality results on all types of hair!

Contenu

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Conventions Used in This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 2

How This Book is Organized 3

Part I: Spreading Your Farrah Fawcett-Like Wings 3

Part II: Cutting to the Chase 3

Part III: Getting Snippy 4

Part IV: Letting the Scissors Fly with Advanced Haircutting Techniques 4

Part V: Keeping the Cooties Away 4

Part VI: The Part of Tens 4

Icons Used in This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 5

Part I: Spreading Your Farrah Fawcett-Like Wings 7

Chapter 1: Setting Up Shop: Career Stylists and Kitchen Beauticians 9

Discovering Your Inner Artist: Do You Have What It Takes? 10

Getting Your Goods Together 10

Cutting Up in Your Kitchen 11

Contorting to cut your own hair 12

Chopping your children's hair 12

Clipping a companion's hair 13

Making Someone Else's Hair Your Business 13

Getting licensed 13

Being bitten by the beauty-school bug 14

Chapter 2: Strapping On Your Tool Belt 17

Running with These is a No-No 18

Playing it straight 20

Making beveled eggs and blades 21

Caving into convex blades 21

Finding a special blade 22

Caring for your scissors 23

Combing It Over 24

Styling comb 25

Wide-tooth comb 25

Detangling comb 26

Rattail comb 26

Pintail comb 26

Countless other combs 26

Brushing It Off 27

Bristling at all the patterns 27

Adding some style 28

Calling All Trimmers 30

Assessing an Assortment of Other Items 30

Chapter 3: Brushing Up Before You Begin 33

Getting Acquainted 33

Dwelling on the past 34

Evaluating the present 34

Getting personal 35

Figuring out face shapes 35

Playing show and tell 37

Doing Some Prep Work 37

Preparing your hair 38

Giving the perfect shampoo 38

Detangling like a pro 40

Choosing a wet or dry medium 40

Cutting to the Basics 41

Earning your degrees 41

Checking with reference points 43

Guiding the cut 45

Putting the Basics to Work 49

Making a bang 49

Being blunt 55

Sweeping through beveled cuts 56

Commencing to graduated ends 59

Loosening up with long-layered cuts 61

Sticking with short-layered cuts 64

Figuring Out What's Next 66

Part II: Cutting to the Chase 67

Chapter 4: Talking About Texture 69

Mistaking a Hair's Identity 69

Going with the Flow 70

Feeling fine 70

Coaxing the coarse 71

Playing Texture Detective 72

Joining the Hair Movement 73

Taming the Cowlick 75

Chapter 5: Tipping the Stylist: You 77

Blowing Them Away with Your Drying Technique 78

Sectioning the hair 79

Releasing water 79

Working with tension 80

Revving Up the Va-va-va Volume 80

Taking it up a notch 81

Taking it down a notch 82

Curling (It's More than a Winter Olympics Sport) 83

Being thrifty 84

Harnessing the heat 84

Keeping your directions straight 85

Ironing It Out 88

Handling Styling Conundrums 90

Chapter 6: Ending is Just the Beginning 93

Starting at the Bottom 94

Exterminating the rats 94

Avoiding a single snip 94

Embracing the end; curbing the yen for speed 95

Pointing the way 96

Taking Part 96

Five-part sectioning 97

Four-part sectioning 98

Custom sectioning 100 ...