What is hair design?

 

Designing haircuts to fit each individual client is based on the information hairdressers collect from clients, by getting the answers to the following questions:

    1. How much shorter do they want their hair?

    2. How many inches do they want the length to be cut?

    3. Are they happy with their previous haircut? When was the last time they had their last haircut? What do they like or dislike about it?

    4. Do they want the same haircut, a trim to clean up the dead ends, or something different?

    5. If they want to change, what kind of change and how much change do they want?

    6. Do they want to grow their hair longer, maintain the same length or cut it (much) shorter?

    7. Which part(s) of their existing haircut do they dislike the most, if any?

    8. What is the main reason they want a haircut? Is it because their hair starts to become too long and too flat ?

    9. Do they know how to style their own hair? Are they handy with styling tools? Do they use any hair products on their hair to style?

    10.  Are they fashionable, wild and stylish? Or are they simple, classy and conservative?

    11. How many dead ends or how damaged is their hair?

    12. Do they have a long-term goal for their haircuts, and if they do, what is it?

    13. How much layer do they want? Long, medium, short, or anything in between?

    14. Will their hair texture allow them to have a lot of  layering?

    15. Do they like volume or do they prefer their hair to lie flat?

    16. If they want graduation, what kind of graduation will make them happy?

    17. 1. If they want one length, a bunt cut or a bob, do they want the front longer, the same or shorter?

    18. 2. What do they like and dislike, fear and desire about their haircuts?

    19. 3. What kind of facial features, head shape, bone structure, neck shape, shoulder size, body height and shape do they have?

    20. 4. What kind of hair do they have? What are their hair texture (natural or chemically altered), hair distribution, growth pattern, cowlick, hairline, thickness and density?

    21. 5. What kind of job, profession or lifestyle do they have? Do they want function, style or both? What image do they want to project?

    Hairdressers need to extract information from clients through observation, analysis and consultation, and decide what should and should not be done to the haircuts, and make sure both parties agree before cutting. All of the answers hairdressers get from these questions, will give them the data they need to process in their head, to create a criteria or creative boundary, so that they can come up with an idea to custom design and select a suitable or creative haircutting system to deliver the haircut that both clients and they themselves love. Hairdressers can stretch the boundary in order to be creative and have fun, but they have to stay within the boundary in order to stay out of trouble!

    The collected data helps hairdressers to determine what shape, form, texture and balance of the haircuts will best suit the clients. They have to make sure the haircuts will work together, compliment each other and are proportional with the rest of the clients’ facial feature, head and body. People have their own personal style, taste, lifestyle and preferences, so hairdressers cannot do whatever they want to clients’ hair, but need to work with clients to design haircuts that they would like.

     

    The primary decisions have to be made in designing haircuts are as follows:

    1. The length (long, medium and short)

    2. The shape (triangular, square, round and oval)

    3. The form (layer, graduation and one length)

    4. The layer (long, medium and short)

    5. The graduation (high, medium and low)

    6. The size or volume (big, medium and small)

    7. The texture (maximum, medium and minimum)

    8. The balance (longer, the same and shorter)

     

     

    There are two major haircutting concepts in delivering haircuts: sculpting and tailoring. However, haircutting is only half of their entire process of delivering a haircut successfully, and hairdressers only have one hour to do the magic. That one-hour will be spent mostly on the followings:

    1. Consultation

    2. Shampoo, condition and head massage

    3. Education

    4. Haircutting

    5. Conversation to bond with clients

    6. Drying and styling

    7. Training

    8. Retailing

     

     

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