18 Graduated Technique

Graduated Cutting Procedure

✔️Section hair into 6 basic sections.

✔️If client always wears a side part, angle part from front hairline to center crown. This side part connects with the back center part.

✔️Check clients body position & raise chair so perimeter is at your chest level.

✔️Cut/Establish guideline: Cut Sections 1 & 2 as done in one-length technique

Cut Sections 3 and 4

✔️Position the client’s head upright.

✔️Drop section 3, make subsection approximately 1" parallel to perimeter.

✔️Repeat for section 4

✔️Place end of comb in parting of subsection,hold in place w/thumb.

✔The degree comb lifts from head is the correct elevation for cutting

✔️Pick up portion of subsection @ center of back+sm portion of guide

✔️Bring hair to comb elevation & hold T to subsection parting.

✔️Recheck elevation

✔️Using primary scissors position, cut hair to guideline.

✔️Work from center-right,then center-left, repeat finding correct elevation & cutting to guide for remainder of sections 3 and 4.

✔️There's no guideline @ ear. Continue back perimeter through to front hairline. Hold hair w/light tension in wide teeth of comb. Elevation right over ears=0°.

✔️Check for balance.

Cut Sections 5 and 6

✔️Drop sections 5 and 6.

✔️Use wide teeth of comb, distribute hair evenly over crown.

✔️W/head upright, continue using comb elevation to graduate the hair.