Asymmetrical

I did this on a classmate today:

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It took a long time… Because this is the first asymmetrical haircut like this I’ve ever done, and my third (I think?) ever cut with a razor.

I started cutting it one way, did the whole haircut, but it didn’t work as well as I wanted. So I redid everything and spent a lot of time going through and fixing things, balancing things, eyeballing things, etc…

But the next time I do a cut like this I’ll be able to do it in half the time! This was a huge learning experience, because I never get to do fun stuff like this. It definitely beats doing little old ladies’ uniform/graduation haircuts!

The first version of it I did, I ended up with gradation in the short side transitioning to layers on the long side. It looked funny, and I experimented with leaving a longer layer on top and undercutting the short side, but ultimately ended up taking out all the graduation and converting it to layers. (Remember kids, under 89 degrees is graduation, 90 degrees and up is layering! That’s why vertical partings remove weight so effectively, because you most often pull them out at 90 degrees!)

It was a nightmare to crosscheck, too. I must have looked at the cut from a million different angles, and eyeballed a lot of it until it felt right. It turned out great though, and I was very happy to have a classmate willing to sit through my experimenting and fiddling!

Finals = Kicked In The Teeth

I lived through my finals. Pretty intense couple days, thems were… This was the exam schedule:

Men’s Taper Cut – 30 mins

Women’s Color – 60 minutes (From application to shampooed and back at chair)

Women’s Cut – 30 minutes

Women’s Airform & Iron – 30 minutes

Perm – 90 minutes (From start to rinsed and back at chair)

Rollerset – 20 minutes

Fingerwaves (on mannequin) – 15 minutes

Combout – 15 minutes

Final written exam (200 questions) – 90 minutes

There was a lot of adrenaline pumping through everyone during the exams. It’s interesting watching how everyone copes with the pressure – a lot of people get nervous, stressed out, some people panic. I get excited and happy. I don’t understand why other people don’t get excited… I think I annoyed some people by being chipper and upbeat when everyone was all doom and gloom. Haha

In the end, I did a bit better than average, but not as good as I’d like to have done. 80% overall on my practicals (the cut, color, perm, etc were high…but I bombed the rollerset and combout.), and 82% on my written final. (Pretty good considering I didn’t study)

 

Tabby’s Scene Hair Cut

If y’all remember, I am fond of the little whippersnapper internet celebrity Tabby, who’s cuteness is of epic proportions.

Back when I first started school, I was trying to figure out how to do the Tabby hair cut. (As seen in my post with cartoon diagrams of Tabby & hair.)

A few days ago she posted a youtube video showing how she cuts her hair. That’s right! She cuts her own hair. WITH SAFETY SCISSORS. OH MY GOD.

Now, I can tell she’s had some practice by watching how she’s doing it… I bet when she started, it didn’t come out looking as smexy as she gets it looking now. But enough of my yapping, watch the video:

It’s solid in the exterior, and heavily textured and layered in the interior. I’d probably use the Asian kind of texturing, the way they pinch a strand of hair and then hack into it to turn it into a “hair spike”, and go through the hair spike by spike until it’s all nicely textured.

I want to do this hairstyle on someone!

Random Update

While another one of the many, many, many mind numbing rollersets I’ve been doing on mannequins (in between clients) was drying, I grabbed one of the beat up old mannequin heads we’re allowed to cut on. I never get to do anything funky on people, they always have very simple, unimaginative hair styles. (Someday I’ll be able to talk them into experimenting!)

Here’s my funky weird cut:

You can’t tell from the picture how fried and balding this mannequin is, which is a good thing! She was in poor, poor shape.

I’m not entirely sure how I cut it… in terms of techniques and things. I kind of just started hacking into it. I used vertical partings for the asymmetrical graduation in the back, and just kept eyeballing everything. It took me awhile to get the fringe right. It’s harder than it looks to cut precision lines! It looks like it’s not straight in the picture, but it’s just a hole from a bald spot.

Commercial value of cut: $0

Educational value of cut: Priceless! Well, maybe not priceless. But at least $30-$40.

Cool Youtube Video: Short Concave Cut

There’s a lot of good (and bad) hair videos on youtube, and I happened across this one and thought it was pretty good. I want to try it out on my mannequin!

Here’s another cool video, this one on technique:

A lot of people think that practicing technique like that is silly, and looking for perfection in everything is a waste of time. I think it’s impressive, and respectable.