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Editorial Review: No more bad hair days ever again! Give those you love the cut they want--plus remedies to keep those tresses healthy and shining. Close-up photos and detailed instructions teach you how to hold the scissors and comb, the angles at which to snip, and how to establish guides to the correct lengths. Then comes an array of cuts, with and without bangs, shown from start to finish: easy-to-care-for trims for children; blunt-cut, wispy, and layered styles in all lengths for women; and basic short versions for men. As a bonus there are recipes for natural, homemade hair-care products.
Customer Reviews:
0 of 1 found this review helpful:
It's just not the same as at the salon, 2008-06-09
As a cosmetologist, honestly I should thank the author of this book for sending us so much business. Every single day we get clients in for for a fix-it from an at-home job. I'm not joking.
This book teaches many of the techniques we're warned against in beauty school. The haircuts shown are dated and not attractive. The tools it recommends are NOT what a real hairstylist would be caught using, but cheap Walmart alternatives. (Example: my shears cost $200, and I pay about $100/year to have them maintained.)
There's a lot they teach you in beauty school, in my state, the learning process is 12 months long, full time. A good hairstylist is an artisan, they have mastered a skill. They understand different hair types and can anticipate what that type of hair will do when it's cut in a certain way. And ask any hairstylist, they will tell you that it's what you learn *after* beauty school and on the salon floor that really counts. I've done 6,000 haircuts in the past 3 years. The skill I have doesn't come from a book, it comes from the experience I have as a stylist.
Also, in beauty school we learn safety and sanitation techniques that cannot be learned from a simple book.
Do your family a real favor, save your money from buying this book and take them to a salon. When your kids are grown and see their old elementary school pictures they'll thank you.
1 of 2 found this review helpful:
Bought to save money cutting my family's hair..., 2008-02-17
Talk about pictures; it has lots of it in every page. For every style, it shows you 2 -3 full pages of pictures.
It gives you recipes for do-it-yourself shampoos and conditioners. Might be interesting at first to try it. (Will you do it if a bottle of shampoo in stores cost only a few bucks? With all the hustle and mess of making it and still not sure how will it smell or feel on your hair?).
The book discussed some of the basics, like what things you need, scissors, combs, etc. How to hold the scissors,...then it stopped short. It continued with the styles picture book like assuming you already know how to cut hairs. It seems something it the middle of the tutorial is missing.
Not a lot of discussion about how to use a shaver which what I imagine I would need to use most of the time.
But then with some of the positive reviews. It might just be me. So, check it out first at your local book store before buying it.
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
Great book., 2008-01-09
Basic hair cuts for kids, men and women. Awesome step by step photography which is invaluable for the visual learner like myself. I bought this book to cut my family's, my sister's and her kids hair and it it really delivers. If you want to learn trendy fashion cuts then you should probably consider going to college. This book demonstrates classic cuts and is great for no-college home use. Good Value.
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
Not helpful, 2007-10-12
I was looking for a book with some pictures to help my wife give me haircuts. The only methods used were funky, didn't have the standard male haircut in it
3 of 4 found this review helpful:
Will I be working at Vidal Sasoon anytime soon?, 2007-07-20
I'm not sure if anyone can learn to master a skill from a book; could you really learn a language or how to cook by reading about it, especially if you're a beginner? But you can get some basic skills and I found this book to be a good beginning. The photos are clear as are the directions. I cut my own hair from this book (not the easiest or the brightest accomplishment) and it wasn't the worst haircut I ever had; it was pretty decent. I actually got a couple of compliments on it. But it was a very basic cut and there are only pictures for a few styles. I have fine, medium-length curly hair and there was no picture for that cut. The author does suggest variations on the basic styles she does give, but without the pictures and the step-by step instructions, I felt it was a little too complicated to chance. Also, the styles are really basic and somewhat dated. I could have followed the style for long, curly hair, although it was for thick hair, but the style was awful even for the 1970s, when it was in fashion.
But you can easily learn to give a basic cut or trim friends and family members' hair in between visits to the salon, save a bit of money and feel proud that you can do something for yourself. And if you really love it then you can go and enroll in beauty school. As for me, I am going to buy a French language CD.
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