I was cutting wet hair for a decade before a client's comment made me stop

I always cut hair wet because that's how I was taught in beauty school. Last month, a client with really curly hair asked me to cut it dry. I was annoyed but agreed. The difference was huge. I could see the real shape and how the curls fell, which was impossible when it was wet and stretched out. I've been cutting all my curly clients dry for the past three weeks and the results are so much better. Why don't they teach this as the standard for textured hair?

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patricia_carter19d ago

You mentioned they taught you to cut wet in beauty school. What else did they get wrong about curly or textured hair? Like, were you taught to brush it out wet or use thinning shears? I'm curious what other basic training is just not working for real hair types.

valp3219d ago

Oh man, the wet brushing thing was huge. They made us drench curls and yank a brush through to force it straight for a cut, which just destroys the curl pattern. Also got told to use thinning shears to "remove bulk" on textured hair, which just makes it frizzy and weird. The whole system was built for one hair type, and we had to unlearn almost everything once real clients with real curls came in.

paul8719d ago

The whole "comb it straight to cut" thing was a big one... they treated every head like it was bone straight. Thinning shears on curls should be a crime.