Five Tips That Will Improve Your Haircutting Skills

If you have tried cutting your child's hair at home,by now you realize that it's not as easy as it looks. Here are a few tips that will instantly help you improve your hair cutting skills.

• Make sure that you are positioned at eye level with the area of hair that you are cutting. An good example is when you are standing and trying to trim the ends on a girl with long hair. Either adjust your height by  bending your knees, sitting in a chair while you cut or putting the child in a taller chair. It's way easier to cut a straight line when you can see it.
• Keep your elbows up as you cut. There are some areas of the head where it's more accurate to drop your elbows, but in general keeping your elbows up makes it easier to cut a straight line.
• Only cut the hair that is held between the tip of your fingers and the knuckle. The hair that is held between your knuckle and your hand is not held with the same tension as the rest of the hair due to the larger gap between your fingers in that area. Sticking to the area between the fingertips and the knuckle will make your cutting more precise.

• Don't overstretch the hair as you hold it during the cut. Damp hair can stretch by as much as 60% of it's usual length. Using too much tension will result in hair that is shorter than you expected and it will not appear evenly cut as the hair dries and snaps back to it's original length.
• Make sure that the hair is evenly damp throughout the hair cutting process. This makes it easier to determine the accuracy of your hair cut since damp hair will hang to a longer point than dry hair.

If you put these five tips into practice I guarantee that your hair cuts will improve.

Thanks for reading, peace and hairpiness to all,
Larry

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I'm saving money and my kids look great! 
October 17, 2011 by Donna R. 

I complimented a friend of mine on how nice and neat her four children's hair always looked and wanted to know if her hairdreser was very expensive. When she told me that she cut her kids hair I didn't believe her.
she loaned me her copy of How to Cut Childrens Hair to try out and I was able to to cut my son and daughters myself. I'm usually not very good at following directions, but the pictures made it very easy to follow. I even cut my husbands hair now. I just bought my own copy to use. This book s excelent. The only drawback is that now my brother and sister want me to cut their kids hair too. Also, this is the funniest how to book I've ever read.  

Top Five Clues That This Salon May Not Be Your Best Choice If...

You take your kid in with your fingers crossed hoping that this time your son will get his hair cut and not come out looking like Billy Ray Cyrus. And guess what? It's "Achy-Breaky Heart" all over again.

So, next time you try a new salon for your kids, look for these five signs that this salon may not be your best choice.

 

 

 

Sign #1: There's a cigarette machine located next to the fire-engine shaped chair.

Sign #2: A gun rack is mounted behind the cash register.

Sign #3: There is a hand lettered sign that says, "Absolutely No Refunds".

Sign #4: The barber's first name is John-Wayne and he's wearing clown make-up.

Sign #5: All of the hair cutters are missing pieces of their ears.

 

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Hair Chalking "How-To"

 A Simple & Safe Way to Let Your Kids Play with Hair Color

This trick is fun for kids to do to each other and best of all, it will all be gone with one shampoo. Since the instructions in the photograph are minimal, let me add a few tips of my own:

• Hair chalking will only show up on hair that is light brown to blonde. The weak color intensity of chalk just won't show up on dark hair.

• Make sure the hair is dry when you apply the chalk.

• Apply a little hairspray to the ends of the hair and let it dry prior to chalking. It will help the chalk adhere to the hair. 

Peace & Hairpiness,
Larry

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Does Cutting Your Hair Really Make It Grow Faster?

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Everyone has heard that if you cut your hair it will grow faster. Seems counter-intuitive, so is it true?

Well, yes and no.

Hair doesn't grow from the ends outward like a plant does. Hair growth occurs at the scalp. That"s why you get "roots" when your hair color has grown out (why are there so many plant analogies related to hair anyway?). But, if you keep the ends trimmed regularly your hair does seem to grow faster. Here's why:

Over time even healthy hair will develop small splits at the ends. If these splits aren't trimmed off regularly, they will continue to split and re-split and extend further up the hair shaft. When your hair gets to this point, the abrasion that occurs with your hair moving across the fabric of your blouse, sweaters and coats is enough to break off small amounts of the ends. So, even though your hair is growing normally at the scalp (which is about a half inch per month), it's breaking off gradually at the ends.

Simply making sure that you get the ends trimmed every 6-8 weeks will keep the ends of your hair healthy and allow it to grow longer.

By the way, no vitamin or supplement or anything that you apply to your scalp will have even the slightest impact on your hair growth. So save your money and spend it on a good haircut, because that really will help it grow..

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Simple Do-It-Yourself Up-Do For Teens

To do this hairstyle you will need:

• light hold hairspray
• natural bristle hair brush
• bobby pins that match your hair color

I love this up-do. Just about any girl with long hair could do this at home. In the second photo she's using a natural bristle brush to back comb her hair ("teasing" for those of you born before 1980) . Don't skip this important step as it creates the fullness and gives you something to help hold the bobby pins.

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Peace love & hair-piness,
 Larry

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A Cute and Easy Braided Hairstyle for Young Girls or Teens

I know, technically the model in the picture isn't a teenager. But this hairstyle is a simple, easy way for anyone to create a cute hairstyle for their young girl or teenager. Even Dads can do this one.

It's perfect for school days or it can be "fancied up" for weddings or parties by adding in some inexpensive (fake) rhinestone or pearl pins.

Enjoy!

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Fighting with Your Child or Teenager About Their Hair: When to Give In and When to Put Your Foot Down.

 Raising a child in the 21st century is a day to day challenge. Being a child of the sixties myself, I thought that the issue of how kids wear their hair would have been laid to rest long ago. Wrong! Now that I have a fourteen year old daughter that has just started high school (no more middle school, thank you Jesus!) I realize that conflicts about hair are here to stay.

The fact that I am an award winning hairstylist with years of experience makes absolutely no difference to my child. I can't count the number of times she's said, "No way you're touching my hair. You don't know what you're doing!". My wife says to ignore her because she's just trying to yank my chain.

"AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!"

Let's just say that, I know that physical abuse is wrong, but I understand the motivation.

So, if your kid is insisting on wearing their hair longer, shorter, wilder, crazier or just plain uglier than you'd like, you need to just let it go and save your energy for something more important. A question like, "Mom, should I drop out of school now or wait until after I have the baby?" will make you forget all about the time she shaved the hair off of one side of her head.

Now here are a few things you will want to get all up in their grill about (forgive me, I talk to a fourteen year old every day / ask your own kid to interpret):

• Changing their hair color as frequently as they change their socks. Yes, Lady Gaga does it, but she has a team of pros that take care of that for her. Plus, it's really a wig anyway. Hair color is not like paint and it works in a very different way. At a certain point the hair is going to turn jet black or some weird mix of colors and probably break off. If it can be fixed by a professional it's going to cost a lot of money. I mean hundreds of dollars. Probably your dollars.
  
• Using "at home" chemical hair relaxers. It's not easy like it says on the box, it'll stink up your house and it can give you severe chemical burns! Even if it turns out okay, the residue stays in your hair until you cut it out, which can cause future chemical treatments to react and melt off their hair! I'm not exaggerating on that one.
  
• The rules are the rules. Most schools have some sort of guidelines regarding hair. Make sure that your son knows that sporting a yard long hot pink Mohawk is not worth repeating eight grade over. He can't impress the babes if they won't let him through the front door.
  
• If it takes an impossibly long time to maintain every day. My daughter was late for school every day for at least two weeks because of the time it took to flat iron her beautiful, naturally wavy hair. My solution was to take her to my salon and perform a "Japanese" straightener for her, which left it silky and pin straight. A week later she asked me for a waving wand for Christmas so she could have soft wavy hair like the other girls were now wearing. She's now late for school because of the time it takes to put wave back into her beautiful pin straight hair. So really, what do I know?

I'm starting to rethink that whole physical abuse thing. Good luck!

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