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Eight photographs of barbershop chairs, clippers, combs and razors, licensed for commercial use and credited on the privacy page. None is presented as work carried out by this business.

  • A green leather barber chair with a chrome footrest on a wooden floor, beside a white wall-mounted basin.
    01 A barber chair of the old pattern, with a hydraulic base, a headrest and a footrest. The chair is pumped to the height that puts the client's head level with the barber's hands, which matters more to the cut than anything else about it.
  • A barber's hand running an electric clipper up the back of a client's head, close to the skin.
    02 A clipper taken up the back of the head without a guard. Working against the direction of growth lifts each hair into the blade, which is why the base of a fade is cut upward and the blend above it is worked in short flicks.
  • A barber draws a wooden comb back through a client's slicked dark hair, seen from the side with the face turned away.
    03 A comb drawn back through slicked hair. The comb sets the direction the hair will fall before any length comes off, and a style worn back is cut with the hair combed back rather than flat to the head.
  • Antique hand-operated hair clippers and spare toothed blades laid out on a pale cloth.
    04 Hand clippers and spare blades from before electric tools. The principle has barely changed: two toothed plates sliding across each other, which is still how a modern clipper cuts.
  • A straight razor drawn across a lathered cheek while the fingers of the other hand stretch the skin.
    05 A straight razor on lather, with the free hand stretching the skin flat. A taut surface is what lets the blade take the hair without catching, and it is why a proper shave is slower than it looks.
  • A row of red leather barber chairs facing white basins along a narrow shop with a wooden floor.
    06 A row of chairs facing their basins. Each station keeps its own clippers, combs and towels, so nothing in use at one chair is passed to the next client until it has been cleaned.
  • Several pairs of professional haircutting scissors and thinning shears hanging from a magnetic strip.
    07 Cutting scissors and thinning shears. Straight blades take length and set lines; the toothed thinning blade removes bulk without shortening, which is how a thick crown is made to sit flat.
  • A close view of an antique metal hand clipper with a toothed cutting head, on a white surface.
    08 The cutting head of an early hand clipper. Its teeth cut at one fixed depth, and every guard fitted to a modern clipper exists to change that depth by a known number of millimetres.

Before, at the chair, finished

The three stages a haircut passes through, shown with three of the same licensed photographs used above. They illustrate the stages of the work. None of them is a photograph of a cut given by this business.

  1. Before
    A comb drawn back through a client's dark hair to read how it falls before any length is taken.

    The hair is read first. It is combed out in the direction it will be worn, the length is agreed in words, and the fade line is shown with the comb rather than taken from a photograph.

  2. At the chair
    A clipper taken up the back of a client's head, close to the skin, at the base of the cut.

    The base is taken down, the guards are worked upward and the blend is refined with scissors over comb. The client is turned to the mirror whenever the shape changes.

  3. Finished
    A straight razor finishing a clean line through lather on a client's cheek.

    The neckline and edges are finished with a razor, the hair is styled, and the hand mirror goes round the back so anything uneven is corrected while the client is still in the chair.

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