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What is the most requested service in the salon and the foundation of other salon services?
Haircutting
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The artistic carving or removing of hair lengths with shears, taper shears, razors and/or clippers to create various forms or shapes.
Haircutting
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What is often the relationship between haircuts and an individual's personal style?
haircuts reflect personality and individual sense of style.
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What is the foundation of every haircut?
Form
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What is the relationship between form and shape?
Form is the 3 dimensional representation of shape.
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How is a haircut form created?
through length arrangement.
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What is a point?
a dot or mark.
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What is a line?
a series of connected points.
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What is an angle?
where two lines intersect.
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What are the three basic straight lines and define each.
- Horizontal: parallel to the horizon.
- Vertical: go straight up and down.
- Diagonal: fall between horizontal & vertical.
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What are the 2 basic curved lines, how are they created, and which way does each line curve?
- Created with combinations of diagonal lines.
- Concave: curve inward
- Convex: curve outward
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What do angles create in a haircut?
The shape and form of a haircut.
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What are the three most common angles used in haircutting?
0, 45 & 90 degrees
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What does a haircut's structure consist of?
the arrangements of lengths across various curves of the head.
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The hair's natural fall over the curves of the head is?
Natural Fall.
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What views the hair abstractly as if projected 90 degrees from the curves of the head?
Normal Projection
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What is the widest area of the head refered to as?
Crest
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The area above the crest is called?
Interior
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The area below the crest is called?
Exterior
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In haircutting, what is the surface appearance of the hair refered to as?
Texture
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How is texture achieved in haircutting?
by the cutting technique used: activated or unactivated.
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What type of texture is smooth, the ends of the hair are not visible?
unactivated
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What type of texture is rough and the ends of the hair are visible?
activated.
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Which type of basic haircut is one length, 0 degree cut, rectangle shape with unactivated texture?
Solid Form
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Which type of basic haircut is 1-89 degree angle cut (most commonly 45 degree) known to be wedged or stacked, triangular shaped and can have unactivated or activated texture?
Graduated Form
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Which type of basic haircut is known as a shag, 180 degree angle cut, oval shaped with activated texture?
Increase-Layered form
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Which type of basic haircut is the same length throughout, circular shaped, layered 90 degree angle cut with activated texture?
Uniformly Layered Form
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What is a combination form haircut?
two or more forms in any combination
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What are hand held tools used to cut hair?
haircutting implements
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What are furnishings needed for a professional cutting service?
haircutting equipment
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What implement creates a clean, blunt edge effect?
Shears
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What implement creates distinct and regular alternation of shorter and longer lengths?
Taper Shears
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What controls the moving blade of shears?
The thumb
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What finger goes in the finger grip of the shear?
ring finger
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What implement creates tapering or an angle effect on the end of each strand and has a softer, somewhat diffused line?
Razor
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Which cutting implement removes the hair most quickly?
Clippers
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What is the purpose of the comb and how do you know when to use a wide tooth comb or when to use a fine tooth comb?
- Combs distribute and control the hair before and at times during a cut.
- Wide-tooth: best for controlling a large amount of hair.
- Fine-tooth: best for fine hair, cutting smaller sections, shorter hair and cut checking.
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What is "palming" the shear?
the safety position that keeps the shears closed.
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Which cutting position is when the palm of the cutting hand is upward?
Palm Up
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Which cutting position is used when the palm of the cutting hand is downward?
Palm Down
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Which cutting position is used when the palm of the cutting hand faces the palm of the other hand?
Palm to Palm
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Which cutting position is used when cutting hair on top of the fingers? (most commonly used on top of head lengths)
On Top of Fingers
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Which using a taper shear, which hair is cut?
only the hair in the notches.
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What is a channeling shear?
similar to a taper shear but with wider notches that produce dramatic chunky effects.
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How is the razor held when combing hair during a haircut?
When combing hair, palm the razor so the back of the blade faces the client.
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What are trimmers typically used for?
to outline the hairline, trim the beard, moustache and side burns
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What part of the clipper moves side-to-side?
moveable blade
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How can "half" lengths be achieved when using a clipper?
adjustable blade lever
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What are the two ways to hold a clipper?
- -Palm over the clipper and thumb on the side.
- -Position thumb on the top and fingers underneath the clipper body.
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