“When it’s hot and swampy out, you don’t want to have to worry about your do. Question is, do you have the spine (and head) to pull off the buzz cut?”
GQ’s Adam Rapoport got me thinking…
Looking through the recent issue of GQ I ran across this article on taking it all off (your hair that is) and feel there are some great points that need to be shared. Whenever you take off a significant amount of hair you can have the feeling of relief like a weight taken off your shoulders.
“There’s something freeing about shaving your head. It’s as if you’re shearing off all the anxieties and other crap that have been weighing you down. It’s a clean start. A statement.” When anybody is going through a rocky point in their life that they just cant shake I always recommend a huge change with hair or grooming. Shaving may be your relief. On a lighter note… talk about a no fuss do. Shave your head and you literally have to do nothing to your hair, or lack thereof. No need for products or styling efforts.
If you are going to go for it… here are a few thing to keep in mind:
- Don’t do it yourself. Have it professionally done. While you may think you’ve followed the curvature of your skull, when you get in the sunlight, it will be obvious that ‘missed’ some spots. Nothing ruins a look like patchy hair.
- Fade it. Even with a shaved head, you want the top slightly longer than the sides and back.
- Speak in numbers. Ask for a 1 or 2 on the sides and back. Maybe a 3 or 4 on the top.
- Just clippers wont cut it. Unless you want a shaved head forever you will need the cut blended and finished with shears to ensure a nice grow-out.
- Wait till Friday. Buzz your head on the start of the weekend so you can get some sun on your fair scalp before returning to your daily grind.
- Use sunscreen. Very important, expecially the first week or so your scalp can then get adjusted. Swap the hair product for sunscreen and hand out by the pool.
A man with a usually full head of hair that shaves his head will always look stylish, fresh and clean. Like Adam Rapoport puts it, “it makes me feel a bit younger, a bit more in control, and who knows, maybe even a bit hipper.”
You can schedule a free consultation with me to see if you have a good head shape and face shape to pull off the buzzed look… and for the remainder of the year i will even offer shaves for $35 (as opposed to my normal men’s cut price of $45).
happy shaving!
Dry shampoo’s are making a comeback and in a big way. Various product lines are coming out with new, updated, and lets just be honest, better versions of this old favorite. The two to check out at Studio DNA are Oribe’s “Dry” and Sidlab’s “Magic”.
The two trends I am excited about for summer are balayage and pastel color. Balayage is a technique of painting lightener onto strands of hair that the sun would actually “kiss”. This sweeping technique, rather than foiling, allows for that almost child-like hair that looks natural and bright for summer. Foiling is still a great method of getting lightened pieces to pop in your base color, however, balayage is for someone who wants to have that Gisele Bündchen sort of gradual lightening from roots to ends.