explains exactly how the main basic and most important haircuts are done step by step extensive use of photographs

A little off the top? Want to cut hair but think you don’t have the talent? If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a painter, a sculptor, or a home decorator, you can cut hair. If you love sewing, drawing, or craft projects, you can cut hair. This book is designed to help you discover your inner artist, easily enhancing your loved one’s hairstyles while trimming big bucks off your family budget. Haircutting For Dummies is for people who want to cut their family and friends' hair, as well as those who are entering the field of cosmetology. Cutting hair at home will allow you to save money, be creative, and do something nice for your loved ones. If you’re looking to become a licensed stylist, this book will show you how to do simple trims and styles while giving your own creativity room to roam. You’ll see how to: Prepare men’s and women’s hair for cutting Create short, mid-length, and long styles Choose and care for your cutting tools Apply advanced haircutting techniques Seek a career in cutting hair In this easy-to-follow guide, you’ll find step-by-step instructions for the latest short, medium, and long hairstyles as well as more involved techniques such as notching and texturing. You get plenty of expert advice in using your tools, following lengths and angles, and creating show-stopping styles, as well as proven guidance in how to: Cut and style straight, curly, or kinky hair Give the perfect shampoo Judge the texture, strength, and health of hair Handle bangs, layers, and sliced hair Use a blow dryer, curling iron, and flat iron Pump up the volume and fight the frizzies Win your family’s and friends’ haircutting trust Featuring detailed illustrations and model shots, tips on maintaining your own haircut between salon appointments, and special advice on cutting children’s hair, Haircutting For Dummies will have you achieving salon- or barbershop-quality results on all types of hair!

Milady Standard Razor Cutting is a resource for students who are interested in practicing this precision-based razor cutting method, recognized worldwide. Celebrity stylist, Nick Arrojo, takes students from the basic fundamentals of razoring to mastering three razor haircuts that give them the opportunity to implement the core skills of this effective and artistic cutting technique. This text will help give students the tools they need, including a level of comfort with this style of cutting, that will help them create fashionable, low-maintenance, modern hairstyles that their clients will love. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Milady Standard Updos teaches the essential steps necessary to design and create updos inspired by looks on the red carpet. Photo-driven, step-by-step instructions clearly demonstrate twenty-five different hairstyles, all of which are based on classic techniques and fashion-forward looks. Each procedure provides the opportunity to master a different set of skills that will increase confidence and the ability to provide future clients with wearable looks suitable for any occasion. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Since 1986, thousands of professional hairstylists have relied on The Haircutter's Handbook for authoritative guidance on training new and experienced hairdressers. The classic guide has now been updated and expanded by author David Kinigson, a renowned haircutter, salon owner, educator, and editorial/celebrity stylist whose clients have included Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Allure, Vanity Fair, Brooke Shields, Donna Karan, Faye Dunaway, and Cindy Crawford as well as numerous supermodels, international athletes, and other celebrities. The Haircutter's Handbook includes information on how to speak the language of professional stylists, perfect the basics of haircutting, use the apprentice manual and curriculum to create a training program, teach and inspire apprentices, new stylists, and trainers develop dry-cutting skills, and continue to improve your haircutting techniques and plan for success. New to this illustrated thirtieth anniversary edition are chapters titled "Developing Your Passion and Skills," "What is the Human Element?" and "Ten Things You Should Know about Dry Cutting." More than just a guide to the technical aspects of haircutting and apprentice training, The Haircutter's Handbook is designed to inspire professional hairdressers. It guides them to rethink the way they approach their jobs and grow their businesses, inspiring them to be passionate about their careers.

The Outstretched Shadow, the first book in The Obsidian Trilogy from Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory Kellen Tavadon, son of the Arch-Mage Lycaelon, thought he knew the way the world worked. His father, leading the wise and benevolent Council of Mages, protected and guided the citizens of the Golden City of the Bells. Young Mages in training--all men, for women were unfit to practice magic--memorized the intricate details of High Magic and aspired to seats on the council. Then he found the forbidden Books of Wild Magic--or did they find him? The three slim volumes woke Kellen to the wide world outside the City's isolating walls. Their Magic was not dead, strangled by rules and regulations. It felt like a living thing, guided by the hearts and minds of those who practiced it and benefited from it. Questioning everything he has known, Kellen discovers too many of the City's dark secrets. Banished, with the Outlaw Hunt on his heels, Kellen invokes Wild Magic--and finds himself running for his life with a unicorn at his side. Kellen's life changes almost faster than he can understand or accept. Rescued by a unicorn, healed by a female Wild Mage who knows more about Kellen than anyone outside the City should, meeting Elven royalty and Elven warriors, and plunged into a world where the magical beings he has learned about as abstract concepts are flesh and blood creatures-Kellen both revels in and fears his new freedom. Especially once he learns about Demons. He'd always thought they were another abstract concept-a stand-in for ultimate evil. But if centaurs and dryads are real, then Demons surely are as well. And the one thing all the Mages of the City agreed on was that practicing Wild Magic corrupted a Mage. Turned him into a Demon. Would that be Kellen's fate? Deep in Obsidian Mountain, the Demons are waiting. Since their defeat in the last great War, they've been biding their time, sowing the seeds of distrust and discontent between their human and Elven enemies. Very soon now, when the Demons rise to make war, there will be no alliance between High and Wild Magic to stand against them. And all the world will belong to the Endarkened. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.