http://www.andis.com/USA/blog/ Andis Company hair clipping expert Ivan Zoot's blog. World-record holder for the fastest professional haircut. en-us Copyright 2008, Andis Company Fri, 20 Nov 2009 7:03:23 AM EST Fri, 20 Nov 2009 7:03:23 AM EST Andis Company blog In house http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss/ Welcome to week 46, 2009. The Andis / Ivan Zoot business building tip of the week is: Charge for everything you do - Do not fall into the trap of giving away your time, talent and energy. There is a time and a place for sampling of services to grow your business. Beard trims, bang trims, edge clean-ups all take time and are very good reasons to patronize your business. Giving them away devalues you as a professional. Family members should pay for services during regular business hours. Barter arrangements can be made as long as the trade is fair. Make sure you are asking for and taking all the $ you are entitled to. be sure to have a full price list posted for all to see. That way there are no surprises. Charge the same prices for all patrons. No one gets left behind when there is a price increase. 20 Nov, 2009 Week 46 of 2009 brings us Andis / Ivan Zoot vocabulary word of the week in the world of clipper cutting featuring the letter U. This weeks word is - Underhand Cutting - A clipper cutting technique in which the clipper is held with the hand positioned under the clipper. This technique is preferred for cutting over the crestline in the interior of a haircut. It is the direct opposite of Overhand cutting. This underhand technique is very important for clipper cutter comfort as well as for accurate short interior layering with a clipper. Any time the hair on the top of the head is too short to hold in your fingers it it time to go with underhand clipper position. 19 Nov, 2009 Success school, Chicago ClipperGuy, Ivan Zoot paid an Andis visit to a piece of barber history and future last week. Success Barber School, the great guys from Merrilville, IN are about to open the clinic of their new barber school on Wabash, in the loop in downtown Chicago. From back in the Moler days... barbering education begins in Chicago and it is great to have it back. Under the L tracks. Like it was for many, many years. Classic barbering, classic cuts. This is a milestone in barber history. I am looking forward to visiting again soon and presenting programming to the students. I met the 1st class of students. There are many more to come. Congrats Nancy, Joe, Joe, Jr. and all the Success team! 18 Nov, 2009 ClipperGuy says... be aware, the 1980's of hair is on the way back. Living the 1980's I missed the 1980's in the hair business. I was finishing high school, in college and working in another industry. I did have the hair cut of the day. I do remember and appreciate the styles. I am to get to live them first hand in the coming months and next few years. The 1980's are back in a big way. Specifically, geometric styles, strong shapes, clippered perimeters and bold texture, asymmetry and disconnection. In the coming weeks and months I will post pictures of looks I see and looks to be seen cutting on your clients. Dig out the old cassette tapes, even an 8 track or two... the 80's are back! 17 Nov, 2009 Ivan Zoot ClipperGuy Andis clipper cutting tip of the week, week 46, 2009, Tip 46 - Wide and Square - Use a wide blade trimmer when blocking necklines. Fewer bites create straighter lines. Narrower blades are easier to use in tight spaces like around ears. if you want stronger, longer, bolder lines, use longer blades. A T-Outliner blade is wider than a T-Ejer blade, as an example. both cut super close, but one makes stronger lines. The Outliner blade in the BG detachable series is the biggest/widest available. try that one for big jobs. 16 Nov, 2009 The Andis/Ivan Zoot word of the week, letter T, for week 46, 2009 is Taper. ...And an important word this is. A taper is a progression of length in a graduated haircut where length increases from the perimeter towards the interior. The entire barber business is founded on this class haircut structure. If you can taper, you have a career. Different from a fade, a taper is Longer, lower and darker in overall finish than a fade. More on this important word. Since taper is so important I will devote the next few days to expanding on the tpaer topic. Stay tuned. 12 Nov, 2009 Hair fashion 2010 from, salon International, London, UK 2009 I wrote this a few weeks ago and did not post it. No matter. it is still rlelvant. Several big trends were to be seen at Salon International this past week. They will be seen here in the U.K. in the spring and to follow in the fall of 2010. Bottom line, welcome back to the mid 1980's. I commented earlier this week on the return of parachute pants... just like the old ones. I saw wide shoulders with shoulder pads as well... on both models as well as attendees. The big hair trends to look forward to and to be sure you have both the skills as well as the tools to execute are... Clippered disconnection, asymmetry big hair on men and women and . Clippered disconnection, that is to say, clipper cut perimeters with interior hair hanging over to obscure a portion of the clippering... not so much the skater cuts of the early 1990's but more like the geometric shapes of 1985. Asymetry is back in a big way too. Radically short on one side and mid length on the other... Long, smooth and straight is going away. Sure we will still be using out flat irons, but now we will use them for bumping in volume and smoothing out medium lengths. Smaller flat irons will be popular... 3/8" flat irons and - 1/2 " irons will be everywhere. 9 Nov, 2009 http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=167909087721&ref=share have a look here. FREE shaving seminar at a new barber school in Chicago, IL. I will be there, You? 6 Nov, 2009 Open a green salon. E how shows you how. http://www.ehow.com/how_4453166_open-green-beauty-salon.html have a look. 6 Nov, 2009 This is one to watch...The power, The Opportunity, the time to act... Makes you think. or better... makes you act... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXKI506w-E 5 Nov, 2009 A list of 200 green initiatives... and Green Salons made the list at... NUMBER 1! What doeas this tell you/me/us about the importance of green initiatives? http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/meredith-gossland/green-leanings/200-green-business-ideas 5 Nov, 2009 I did not know there was an international mohawk day. Well, there is... Nov 15. What are your plans? Will you be sporting one? Now is the time to plan for this BIG event. Check out the link. Who knew? http://www.mohawksrock.com/events/international-mohawk-day 4 Nov, 2009 More media coverage of the upcoming Hawks for Homeless event. Come out LA, CA to support this great event and get a mohawk, fauxhawk or lowhawk cut by me for a good cause... See you there. http://www.behindthechair.com/news/default.aspx?NID=261 3 Nov, 2009 Cutting it all off... Consider this option... http://www.squidoo.com/donateyourhair 3 Nov, 2009 I love these stories... classic barber shop experiences. http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2009/10/a_main_street_barber_shop_serv.html 2 Nov, 2009 Andis and I made the American salon blog today. lookie here. http://blog.americansalonmag.com/ 2 Nov, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAh8_h586IY&feature=rec-HM-r2 With the Bolt barbers mohawk event coming up... This is timely... 30 Oct, 2009 if it is not flat... It is NOT a flat top... Have a look here. http://www.theflattopcrew.com.au/ 30 Oct, 2009 http://www.howtodothings.com/fashion-and-personal-care/a2795-how-to-cut-your-own-hair.html This is just amazing. I have tried to draw hair and have found it to be a real challenge. The pencil drawing books that we used for style selection were always faves of mine in the shop. They were great for really seeing lengths, movement and sirection. They were a great tool for accurate consultation and creating very satiafied clients as they created realistic expectations. neat-O! 29 Oct, 2009 Interesting question here. I see hair all the time.. on celebs, on real people, o catalog models that I would like to have... problem is, since I am typically short... most all of them require patience and growth from whereever I am at... http://www.glamour.com/beauty/blogs/girls-in-the-beauty-department/2009/10/whats-the-last-hairstyle-you-r.html 28 Oct, 2009 http://www.squidoo.com/grow-a-beard Here is another interesting web site/page form the Squidoo collection related to the wide world of hair cutting. Enjoy! My site is here. Kinda neat-O. http://www.clipperguy.com Have a look at both. 28 Oct, 2009 Here is a fun little web site on home hair cutting for your kids. http://www.squidoo.com/ChildHairCut This is a site/lens on Squidoo. This is a fun web site where you can build your own web site for FREE. You should do it. I did. 27 Oct, 2009 Mark Woolley and his team Shared the stage with them at salon International. Great talent. Awesome hair styles. Hot models. Denman, our UK distributor and makers of the best brushes on the planet... the only ones I will use... commissioned them to do a video on classic blow drying. The video is called Esssential blow drying. I have not sat down to watch the entire thing yet, but have seen segments as they were running it on TVs at the booth during their presentation. The point of their program was essential foundations for success in styling. These guys do a lot of editorial work. They did 3 models each segment... in most cases re-using the same models so we got to see multiple looks. My fave was a short tapered style that I saw done 3 different ways. All 3 were great looking, salon marketable and real. Nice job team Electric. I look forward to watching the entire video. You can get it here: www.denmanpro.com sales@denmanbrush.com www.ownyourstyle.co.uk You can follow mark on Twitter as markwoolley1 23 Oct, 2009 Small Tragedy I was sharing the stage at Salon International with Mark Woolley and his team from Electric salon... More on them later this week... so I had to pack up my things and shove off for a bit 2X per day. No biggie there as I prefer to be a nice neighbor and share my space. First change over I put all my things into my green bag and put my green bag back stage. Did not notice that a brand spankin' new pink BCA can of Kenra Volume Spray was upside down. By the time I got back to my bag the can was empty and the bag was filled with a puddle of volume spray. This is a tragedy on several levels... Number 1... wasted a can of Volume Spray... and as good as that stuff it... shame to waste it. Number 2... puddle in bag is firm hold and sticky... so were all my tools and equipment. Number 3... bottom of bag is never going to come clean... Number 4, there was a package of frosted strawberry poptarts from the airport in Chicago in the bottom of a pocket... now ruined... and I am half a world away from more poptarts. I get home to Chicago and share this tragedy. My kid puts his head in the bag and says... "hey, well, at least the bag smells good". Nice. Love the Kenra Volume Spray #25... Got to get another one... at least it is the pink one for BCA so a donation is involved. 22 Oct, 2009 New Andis video on YouTube today. have a lookie! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_OzgZb930 21 Oct, 2009