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Haircutting is a mechanical process that guides your creativity. If you have a keen sense of balance, for instance, your work will stand apart from other people’s haircuts because of the precise symmetry of your cutting style. For someone else, a sharp eye for detail (or even a talent for decorating) may inspire the interesting finishing details you add to your haircuts.

Regardless of your unique cutting style, you should definitely become familiar with the following four pillars of haircutting and use them to guide all your hair designs.

 Head mapping: Pinpointing different shapes and key points found throughout the head

 Elevations: How high or low you hold the hair to create or prevent layering and control bulk

 Angles: Horizontal, vertical, diagonal, or curved cutting lines that control the shape and bulk, and create uniform or graduated layers

 Guides (also called guide lines): Templates that you create to maintain the desired length and shape of each haircutting section

The remaining sections in this chapter focus on each of these four pillars.

The most important takeaway from this chapter is the need to familiarize yourself with the mechanics of haircutting, which includes very basic geometry.

If you find yourself suddenly regretting that you slept through math class, please relax. While there’s a lot of technical information in this chapter, you can easily master the four pillars of haircutting that I share by engaging your mind and using your hands to play along.

This chapter contains information that you will use as part of every haircut included in the book, as well as all haircuts you will do in the future. In terms of the geometry involved in haircutting, please know that it’s tangible math that you create with your hands, as opposed to textbook, two-dimensional drawings. And, if it makes you feel any better, I confess that I have always struggled with math. If I can understand and use the four pillars of haircutting, you can too.