The primary day I went to barber college in 1980’s, my Dad, who was a classically skilled barber born within the 1950’s, gave me these phrases of haircutting knowledge: All the time keep in mind – once you minimize hair evenly it’s going to lay like shingles on a roof. His greatest recommendation utilized to the shorter, clipper-cut kinds fashionable throughout his time, nonetheless, it produces the absolute best outcomes with the longer, scissor minimize hairstyles frequent right now.
To painting this shingles notion, we’ll assume you are giving a haircut to somebody with straight or wavy hair. As soon as a handful of 1,000 hairs (give or take just a few hundred) are minimize, and the holding hand releases them, the minimize hairs bend again right into a mendacity place.
A lengthy, layered minimize has steadily rising size across the sides and again. The shingles precept nonetheless holds, however the hair ends lie farther from one another than they do with the equal-length minimize.
When hair is minimize to lie like shingles, these hairs are capable of lie in any course and so they nonetheless have their shingles nature. (The exception to this rule happens when straight hair is bent towards the hair grain: then the hairs stand out as a substitute of lie down, however on the first alternative they may return to a extra snug lie down place.) The truth that these hair ends all the time mix in with their neighbors is the factor that makes these haircuts so carefree–be it windblown, handcombed, or no matter, it nonetheless goes again to mendacity like shingles on a roof.