Watched a new barber use a clipper guard backwards on a fade today

I was in Dallas last week getting a haircut at a shop I don't usually go to, and the guy next to me was trying to do a skin fade with the #2 guard on backwards. He had the open side facing up instead of down against the head. Hair was flying everywhere but it wasn't cutting anything. The customer just sat there looking confused. I had to lean over and tell him to flip it around before he went any higher. Has anyone else seen this happen or is it just the shops I go to?

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robert_ross956d ago

Saw a guy in Austin try to use a clipper guard that was way too small for the section he was working on, ended up with this weird patch of hair sticking up like a cowlick that wouldn't go away. The barber just kept buzzing over it thinking it'd fix itself. Meanwhile the customer was scrolling through his phone completely oblivious.

tessap736d ago

Right, so I used to be with @wright.leo on this, thought cowlicks were just a natural growth pattern thing you had to work around no matter what. But watching that barber just keep hitting the same spot with a smaller guard, digging in deeper each time, made me realize sometimes you're literally creating the problem with bad tool choices. You're not fixing a swirl, you're just making a choppy divot that stands up because the hair lengths are all wrong. That customer probably walked out thinking his head was just weird when really it was operator error from the start.

wright.leo6d ago

Idk, a cowlick usually just means the hair grows in a swirl, not a guard size issue.