I would like to share some tips on how to cut hair, especially if you are starting off new to hairdressing.

Lately I have noticed a few, new and up and coming stylist making a little mistake, and I would like to help you not to make the same mistake.

On the consultation it is ideal if you can picture the hairstyle a client is describing, and ask all the questions you need to make that picture as clear as possible.  Getting all the details as you can will help you assess exactly what a client is asking for, sometimes a client will actually bring in a picture, but make sure your understanding of it is the same as the clients, I have been amazed to hear the different views a client has on a picture.

I once made a big mistake, a client showed me a picture and said that they wanted their haircut just like the picture, no problem and off I began. After I had finished the haircut, the client said it was not really like the picture, confused, I looked at the picture and began talking her through the haircut, relating it to the picture. after a little while she stopped me and said, no not that picture, I was looking at the main picture on the page, she said it was this picture a smaller one on the same page she had not taken the time to point the picture out at it certainly was not the obvious picture, ah well, I did not do that again.

Another misinterpretation I have come across is, I have seen clients bring in a picture of a layer haircut and I will talk them through it and they will say, Yes, I want a Bob like this, and the picture clearly is not a Bob.

So my tip is have the same understanding of the haircut that your client wants you to do.  The junior stylist I have seen of late are still asking question part way through the haircut, and it is not very professional.  Ask you questions have a clear picture of the haircut, and then get on with it.

Good luck with your hairdressing.

John Mcloughlin.