Haircutting Final 2024

Cutting with the points of the shears to create texture in the hair ends

• notching or point cutting

• layering

• slicing

• tension

This shape has a stacked area around the exterior and is cut at low-to-medium elevation

• blunt cut

• graduated

• elevation

• layers

Graduated effect achieved by cutting the hair with elevation or overdirection

• graduated hair cut

• blunt cut

• layering

• elevation

Section of hair that determines the length the hair will be cut

• perimeter

• cutting line

• guideline

• parting

Level at which a blunt cut falls; where the ends of the hair hang together

• natural fall

• weight line

• overdirection

• cross cheking

Line dividing the hair to create subsections

• horseshoe

• sections

• parting

• reference points

How tightly the hair is pulled before cutting

• growth pattern

• cross checking

• tension

• forged

Hair that grows at the outermost perimeter along the face, around the ears, and on the neck

• hairline

• perimeter

• crown

• parietal ridge

Cutting the hair to one length; all hair hangs to one level, forming a weight line

• layered

• free hand notching

• blunt cut

• graduation

Divisions of the hair made before cutting

• partings

• cross checking

• sections

• interior guideline