Caring for long hair is quite difficult,it was especially difficult to do in those old times when there were no high-quality detergents yet. Therefore, from the beginning, people began to cut hair for hygienic purposes. In our time haircut hair is primarily due to aesthetic considerations. Haircut is needed to make hair look beautiful and neat. At the well-groomed person hair should be well trimmed and packed.

What is a haircut? In simple terms, haircut is shortening of hair. The entire appearance of the hairstyle depends largely on the quality of the haircut.

To shorten hair, that is, their haircuts hairdressers use the following tools:

  • hairdressing scissors - ordinary and for thin out;
  • comb-razor;
  • razors, including thinning;
  • hair clippers.

Recently, the so-called"Haircut", at which the ends of the hair are fired with an open flame, and a thermotrip, in which the hair is cut with hot scissors, the blades of which warm up to 180 * C.

Types of haircuts

All haircuts, depending on the resulting silhouette of the hairstyle, are divided into:

  • contrasting, which is characterized by sharp transitions in the length of the hair;
  • uniform (non-contrast), in which the difference in the length of individual strands is negligible.

In addition, asymmetric and symmetrical types of haircuts are distinguished.

Hairdressing operations

Each type of haircut, whether female or male, consists of individual hairdresser operations.

  • Reduction of hair "to no", which is a soft transition from long hair, located on the central part of the head, to very short hair on the temples and on the neck.
  • Milling - thinning out individual strands of hair at the ends, near the roots or along their entire length, which helps give them extra volume.
  • Haircut on the fingers. At this reception the master grasps between a pair of fingers a lock of hair, pulls it out and cuts off all the hair that has appeared above the fingers.
  • Graduating. In this operation, strands of hair are sheared at an angle, resulting in a hairstyle acquires a stepped silhouette.
  • Touches and smoky transition. As a result of these two operations, the transitions between the strands of different lengths are smoothed and softened.
  • Edging and polishing - the final operations, in which the cutting contours are finally worked out and the tips of the hairs sticking out of the hairstyle are removed.

Shapewear styles

The fashion of female and male haircuts existsa great many, every year hairdressers come up with more and more new models. The most famous styles of women's haircuts include "Kare" and "Cascade" of all kinds, "Bob", "Garson", "Pag" and "Sassoon". Of the men can be identified "Poluboks" and "Boxing", "Playground", "Polka" and "Bobrik."

For more information about haircuts, please visit our website in the Haircuts section.

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