ray_miller41•2d agoProlific Poster

Been cutting hair 22 years now and the fade game is completely different

Started back in 2002 at a shop in Columbus. Back then a fade meant clippers with no guard and a 1 guard blended together. Now these kids come in asking for a burst fade with a zero gap and skin lines. I had to learn all over again about 5 years ago when a younger barber showed me how to use my trimmers differently. The tools changed sure but the expectations changed way more. Anyone else feel like what we do now barely looks like what we did 15 years ago?

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bettywood2d agoMost Upvoted

My buddy down in Atlanta just went through the same rude awakening last summer.

rubyk862d ago

22 years is a long time but I gotta be real with you @bettywood and OP, is the fade game really "completely different" or are we just overthinking it. You still take hair off the head with clippers and blend it. That's the core thing. The burst fade stuff is just a new shape on the same old template. I watched a video last week of a barber from 1998 doing a taper and if you squint it looks the same as half the stuff on Instagram now. People act like learning to angle trimmers differently is some major career shift. It's not. It's five minutes of practice. I don't buy that the expectations changed that much either. Customers always wanted clean lines and good blending. They just have better vocabulary for it now. Let's not pretend this is rocket science.

paige862d ago

Have you tried watching those burst fade tutorials on slow motion? That's what saved me, I paused every two seconds to see exactly where they angled the trimmers.