Disasterous do-it-yourself book
Wow, what a big laugh hair stylists must get when they get the people in their salons fixing these do it at home haircuts! Spend the $8 and go to supercuts...

It's just not the same as at the salon
As a cosmetologist, honestly I should thank the author of this book for sending us so much business. Every single day we get clients in for for a fix-it from an at-home job. I'm not joking.
This book teaches many of the techniques we're warned against in beauty school. The haircuts shown are dated and not attractive. The tools it recommends are NOT what a real hairstylist would be caught using, but cheap Walmart alternatives. (Example: my shears cost $200, and I pay about $100/year to have them maintained.)
There's a lot they teach you in beauty school, in my state, the learning process is 12 months long, full time. A good hairstylist is an artisan, they have mastered a skill. They understand different hair types and can anticipate what that type of hair will do when it's cut in a certain way. And ask any hairstylist, they will tell you that it's what you learn *after* beauty school and on the salon floor that really counts. I've done 6,000 haircuts in the past 3 years. The skill I have doesn't come from a book, it comes from the experience I have as a stylist.
Also, in beauty school we learn safety and sanitation techniques that cannot be learned from a simple book.

Do your family a real favor, save your money from buying this book and take them to a salon. When your kids are grown and see their old elementary school pictures they'll thank you.

Bought to save money cutting my family's hair...
Talk about pictures; it has lots of it in every page. For every style, it shows you 2 -3 full pages of pictures.
It gives you recipes for do-it-yourself shampoos and conditioners. Might be interesting at first to try it. (Will you do it if a bottle of shampoo in stores cost only a few bucks? With all the hustle and mess of making it and still not sure how will it smell or feel on your hair?).
The book discussed some of the basics, like what things you need, scissors, combs, etc. How to hold the scissors,...then it stopped short. It continued with the styles picture book like assuming you already know how to cut hairs. It seems something it the middle of the tutorial is missing.
Not a lot of discussion about how to use a shaver which what I imagine I would need to use most of the time.

But then with some of the positive reviews. It might just be me. So, check it out first at your local book store before buying it.

Great book.
Basic hair cuts for kids, men and women. Awesome step by step photography which is invaluable for the visual learner like myself. I bought this book to cut my family's, my sister's and her kids hair and it it really delivers. If you want to learn trendy fashion cuts then you should probably consider going to college. This book demonstrates classic cuts and is great for no-college home use. Good Value.

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I was looking for a book with some pictures to help my wife give me haircuts. The only methods used were funky, didn't have the standard male haircut in it