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Been seeing way too many guys using clipper guards wrong on tight fades
I was at a barber meetup in Columbus last month and watched three different dudes try to blend a fade using lever play with the wrong guard size. They kept chasing the line and making it worse. If you are doing a zero fade you don't need a #2 guard to knock down the bald line. That just pushes the line higher. Use your half guard open first then work down. Has anyone else noticed new barbers skipping the half guard step on fades?
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josephbutler2d ago
Half guard open is the unsung hero of a tight fade. @blakem37 I see ditching the half guard leaves a hard line you can't fix without going back down in size and starting over. I watched a guy in Detroit try to blend a bald fade with a #1 and a mirror, took him twenty minutes to realize his mistake. The half guard catches that transition zone before the clipper ever leaves the skin.
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