Learn To Cut Hair - Hair Cutting Guide

Hair Cutting Instructions, Techniques and Tips

With tight budgets a concern these days not everyone is able to make it to hair salons as often.

A lot of people will buy some scissors and clippers and try to cut their own hair. But you must learn how to do it correctly, or…

According to Steve Woodham, who has owned The Haircut King, a Prescott Arizona barber salon, there are three basic methods to cutting hair and that all haircuts contain one of them or some combination.

These methods are: trimming hair, layering hair and using clippers.

“The trim is basically cutting length off or ‘outlining’ the hair,” Woodham said. “It’s sometimes all you need with bangs or even-length straight hair. You need really sharp scissors to make sure you can get an even cut.”

Woodham suggests trying to cut a hanging piece of thread, hanging limp, not taut, to see if the scissors are sharp enough for a good trim.

“The second method is layering cutting, where you pick up the hair in sections and cut pieces off,” Woodham said. “With the trim it’s cutting length but with layering, it’s cutting bulk. It’s also called ‘feathering’ because if you comb the hair back you can see feather lines.”

The final method Woodham talked about involved the use of electric clippers. He said that some haircuts involve only the clippers. “The secret to a good clipper cut is to go against the grain of the hair with the rake,” Woodham said, explaining that the rake is a name for the clipper attachment that helps channel the hair into the blades.

“The majority of haircuts require some combination of those methods,” Woodham reiterated.

He wrote a guide called ‘Cut Hair At Home Like A Pro’. The book is available at Woodham’s website, http://www.haircutkit.com.

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