Em and Kort's Haircutting Vocabulary Quiz

A Space Between two lines or surfaces that intersect (cross) at a given point.

• Headform

• Line

• Angle

Weightline

• A guideline that does not move

• A thin continuous mark used as a guide.

• Visual line in the haircut where the ends of the hair hang together

Apex

• Hair that grows on the outermost perimeter (outside edge) along the face, around ears and on the neck

• highest point on top of the head

• Space between two lines or surfaces that intersect (cross) at some point

Parting the hair in the opposite way from which you cut in order to check for precision (exactness)

• Elevation

• Sections

• Cross-Checking

Guide that moves as the haircutting progresses. It is used often for creating layers or graduation.

• Sections

• Nape

• Traveling Guideline

Creates movement and volume in the hair by releasing weight.

• Interior

• Hairline

• Layers

Also known as head shape, which greatly affects the way the hair falls and behaves

• crown

• elevation

• head form

Crown

• area of the head between the apex and back of the partial ridge

• direction in which the hair grows from the scalp

• highest point on the top of the head

Four Corners

• Points on the head that signal a change in the shape of the head (from flat to round or round to flat). They are located at the ends of the partial ridges.

• Direction in which the hair grows from the scalp

• Inner or internal part of a haircut

Also known as projection or lifting. The angle or degree at which a subsection of hair is held, or lifted from the head when cutting.

• Elevation

• Hairline

• Layered Haircut