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THE FADE HAIRCUT
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From Al the Senior Barber
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The most popular haircut amongst men of all ages around the world today is the "fade".

In previous years the fade haircut was worn mostly by military men, and was called the high and tight. Today this haircut is extremely popular and has evolved into a much trendier look. It is now very popular amongst men of all ages within the United States and the rest of the world.  

Many barbering quarters, barbershops and hair salons offer these types of haircuts and services today. It is best to bring a picture of the haircut you desire when going to the barbershop, and show it to your barber. Barbershops are much more familiar with giving the fade haircut, but a few hair salons might not be as familiar, so it is best to bring a picture of the haircut you want and show it to your stylist before beginning the fade. 

There are a few variations of the fade haircuts. The skin fades or bald fades, low fade, half fade, and also fade haircuts using much larger clipper cutting guides such a number two or three, sometimes even a number four guard is used on the sides. Various clipper cutting techniques can also be used to achieve these results. 

There are free hand blending techniques, scissor over comb, clipper over comb, and techniques using the clipper guards, which today are the most popular techniques used by barbers to fade hair. The fade haircut is a very trendy haircut, but can also be worn in a more conservative manner. This haircut can also be worn with a business suit, but for a more professional look, is best to square off the back of this haircut. This gives the fade haircut more professional look, and works well when wearing a suit. 

There are many ways to shape the back section of the fade haircut. You can blend out the neckline, this is great for people whose neckline is sensitive and irritates easily, and it gives the haircut a trendier look. You can also round off the back of the neckline, this is also very popular, or you can square the back of the neckline for that more professional look. Today the fade techniques are used to create various types of haircuts. 

Using this technique you can also create the very popular blowout haircut, also known as the brook or taper haircut. You can also use the fade techniques to create three dimensional designs and various shading within a haircut today. When you master the fade or the techniques used to perfect this technique, you can do almost anything with the hair clippers. 

Most men's hairstyles today include some sort of clipper cutting technique. Barbering is a booming business today, so keeping up with the latest trends and techniques is a must for barbers and stylists in order to stay on the cutting edge of this growing men's hair industry. 

There are all kinds of continuing education for the professional barbers and stylists in order to keep up with these new trends and techniques. Hair Expos and beauty trade shows is a great way for the stylist and barbers to be current with today's styles. 

Most beauty expos offer classrooms for the stylist to enroll and learn new techniques. There are also educational DVD's and how to manuals available on the market.

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A History of Barbers & Barbershops –Part 2

Dana Point CA, San Clemente CA, Talega CA, Capo Beach CA, San Juan Capistrano

By Al | The Senor Barber

Keeping The Barber Tradition Alive!

Barbers and Surgeons

Historically, barbers were also dentists and surgeons, versatile performers of tooth extraction and enemas, bloodletting and wound surgery.

These barber-surgeons formed their first official organization in France in the year 1096, after the archbishop of Rouen prohibited the wearing of a beard.

Later, as medicine became more defined as a field of its own, efforts were made to separate the academic surgeons from these barber-surgeons.

 In Paris, about 1210 A.D., identification of the academic "surgeons as surgeons of the long robe" and the barber-surgeons as "surgeons of the short robe" was established.

In 1308, the world’s oldest barber organisation, still known in London as the “Worshipful Company of Barbers” was founded.

In an effort to systematically instruct barbers in surgery, a school was set up in France in the middle of the 13th century by the Brotherhoods of St. Cosmos and St. Domains.

The guild of French barbers and surgeons was established in 1391, and by 1505, barbers were allowed entrance to the University of Paris.

The father of modern surgery, Ambroise Pare (1510-1590), was himself a common barber-surgeon before he embraced medicine and became the most famous surgeon of the Renaissance Period.

Pare was a surgeon in the French army and was the chief surgeon to both Charles IX and Henri III.

In England, barbers were chartered as a guild called the Company of Barbers in 1462 by Edward IV.

The surgeons established their own guild 30 years later.

Although these two guilds were merged as one by statute of Henry VIII in 1540 under the name of United Barber-Surgeons Company in England, they were still separated: barbers displayed blue and white poles, and were forbidden to carry out surgery except for teeth-pulling and bloodletting; surgeons displayed red and white-striped poles, and were not allowed to shave people or cut their hair.

 Also, Louis XV of France decreed in 1743 that barbers were not to practice surgery.

In 1745, George II passed several acts to separate surgeons from barbers.

The surgeons went on to form a corporation with the title of “Masters, Governors and Commonalty of the Honourable Society of the Surgeons in London”, which was eventually dissolved in 1800 during the reign of George III and replaced by the Royal College of Surgeons.

Barbers and the practice of blood-letting to cure diseases

To understand this practice, we must first go back further in time to the golden age of the Greeks.

Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, is given credit for being the first to conceive the notion that disease had a rational cause and therefore a rational cure.

From borrowed knowledge apparently from China and India, he brought together the concept that bodies had four types of humours: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.

From this knowledge, his theory that disease caused imbalance in these fluids; others thought that it was the imbalance of these humors that caused disease.

Hippocrates concluded that it was bad diet, absence of exercise, poor air, and injuries that were responsible for illnesses.

Hippocrates, although a Greek, has been a hero of the Western medical world.

Spurred by his teachings, the Roman Empire built intricate aqueducts that supplied fresh water, bath houses and efficient sewage removal systems to almost every major Roman city; a course of action that has surely saved hundreds of thousands of lives from water-borne infectious diseases.

Unfortunately, he also had a shortcoming in that he was wrong about the four humors, Hippocrates also had the mistaken notion that bloodletting could eliminate an “overbalance” of blood.

From the theory of relating diseases with the imbalances of the four humors, came the theories that diseases could be cured if a balance could be restored.

The four humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile) were compared to the basic elements of air, water, fire, and earth; and bodily fluids were thought to consist of various combinations of these elements.

 The grisly art of bloodletting flourished during the Dark Ages, when medicine degenerated, people were mostly illiterate and the physicians of the time were monks and priests, whose thinking was deeply ingrained in religion. Barbers were first appointed assistants to the physician-clergy.

Later, in 1163 at the council of Tours, it was declared sacrilegious for the clergy to draw blood from the human body, and these ministers of God were then banned from medical practices.

The Decline of Barbering and Bloodletting

It was barbers, who were after all, masters of the razor, who continued this bloodletting tradition.

For awhile they were given free rein in the business; until people started complaining that they were getting sicker instead of better.

Although barbers were becoming handicapped with the rise of medicine and developments in surgery, they still pursued their bloodletting practices.

Finally in London, in 1745, after a series of investigations, a bill was passed to separate barbers and surgeons for good.

This marked the decline of barbers as practitioners of medicine and by the end of the 18th century, most barbers had given up their rights to perform surgery; except in small towns where surgeons were still not available.

Today’s barbers consist of both males and females, again occupying an important niche in society just as the barbers of old had, cutting and styling hair to meet the demands of the public. Only today’s barbers no longer carry out bloodletting practices.

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Welcome to our new website and blog.  We hope to be connecting with many of our friends, old and new via the Internet.  What can I say? - Senor Barbers has entered the 21^st century, but our shop will always be an old-fashioned tonsorial parlor!

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Of Necklines and Men -

Every time I cut a client's hair, I always ask, "Would you like the neckline blocked, rounded, or tapered?" It amazes me how few men actually know the difference and how few even care.

This part of the haircut is important. You don't see it, but everyone standing in line behind you at the bar, on the train, or in the supermarket does. The finishing at your nape can have a big impact on how your haircut looks, grows out, and balances your neckline. You should know the difference.

Of course, barbers and stylists have done a terrible job of educating clients on the differences in neckline finishes. Many barbers and stylists will simply block every haircut without asking because it's easier than tapering a neckline. If your haircutter doesn't ask, make sure to tell him what you want.

Choosing the right neckline finish can make a huge difference in the appearance of your haircut. We'll show you blocked, rounded, and tapered necklines and highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each.

The neckline shape is the outline of the haircut at the nape. There are three basic shapes: Blocked, Rounded, or Tapered. The neckline shape can have a dramatic impact on how your style compliments your neck shape and how your style looks as it grows out.

Stay tuned, more to follow… and visit us again soon.

  -- AL | The Senor Barber

    "Keeping The Barber Tradition Alive!"