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PSA: the old barber on Grand who called my fade 'too fast' was right
Six weeks back a guy in his 70s sat in my chair at the shop on Grand in St. Paul and said my fade moved up too quick, that the taper should climb like a slow staircase, not a ramp. I brushed it off at the time, but I watched him point out the line with his finger and he named the exact guard I skipped, and my next four cuts looked better because of it. Curious what little correction from an old head actually changed how you cut after you finally tried it?
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kellyjones4d ago
The thing nobody talks about is how those old barbers learned by watching hair fall, not by looking at a chart. They didn't have guard numbers in their head, they had weight and movement, so when he says the taper should climb slow he's really talking about where the eye lands on the head. I started checking my fades in a hand mirror under the shop's warm light instead of the bright white one by the chair, and the ramp effect shows up way sooner. The skipped guard thing is real but half of it is just standing back and looking from three feet away.
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