Sunday, March 26, 2017

A Great Haircut for Guys Is Not All That Easy

There are still many of us who think that getting a haircut is just a matter of walking into the first shop we come across and telling them to tidy your hair up, right? Wrong! Guy's hair fashion is today big business with many of us males trying to compete with the females in having the best and latest fashion on top of our heads. No matter how ridiculous they may appear to some of us, the wearers believe they look great; sad but true!(Taper barbershop)


Now a true hairdressing artist will design the cut around the face and head of their clients, to ensure it is a style that enhances the overall image of the person. This isn't just about cutting hair; it involves communicating with the person who is cutting your hair. It's important to choose the right type of shop for your style.

In some places the staff may be proficient in cutting and styling longer hair, the stylist may not have expertise in working with extra short hair. Another aspect is that while a stylist in a salon will likely have more knowledge in color and styling products, an experienced barber, or hairdresser will have a volume of knowledge about cutting a wide variety of shorter and other styles.

While these may be general observations there are, in fact, some great barbers capable of cutting longer hair and there are some amazing stylists who can craft tight haircuts. The location where you have a haircut can influence the quality and price is also a consideration, with salons often charging more than Taper barbershops.

It's stating the obvious to say that one hairstyle does not suit every guy. As you are walking around, have a cursory glance at some of the styles being worn by guys of various ages and see if you agree that it does seem they are chosen because of their fashionable popularity and not to enhance the wearer. This is something of a tragic comedy because we all want to look our best and we rely to a great extent on our headgear, including hair, to help us along.

At a top notch men's Taperbarber shop, their specialists will advise you on the best style to suit the shape of your face and help prevent you looking funnily, different. It does not matter whether your face is round, square, diamond, triangular, oblong, or any other shape you can think of.

Now some of you could be wondering what all this talk about shaped heads has to do with you, as primarily, the short, tapered and longer on top modern styles are basically a suit one suit all, type of fashion. However, it doesn't mean that just because everyone else is wearing them, its right for you. A guy's haircut involves your hair in a different and more personal experience and a fashion cut will be designed around the shape of your face, for the maximum advantage.

In effect, it's simple and an example of this styling factor is that if you have a rounder, wider face, then your haircut should be closer on the sides. It will provide the whole face with more length and balance out it out proportionately. Furthermore, a men's barber will advise a longer length on the sides and the temples, should your face be longer and squarer. In other words, there is a hairstyle to suit all faces, to make you look and feel great!

You Just Lost Another Sale - The Tale of Barber Shop Website Success

1. You must have a website. Why? Every Day customers are looking for your type of business in your area. Trust me I track websites I publish daily, and they are getting results. I was at my barbershop last week and the guy next to me said he used the website I built to check what time this barbershop was open. So, barbershops need websites to inform customers and save phone calls. This saves you time, money and distractions during your day by allowing customers to go to the website instead of calling you.Taper Barbershop

2. You must market your website and trust good website developers to help. I have both types of customers, those that market and those who don't. Marketing means you tell people about the website. You might hand out your business card that includes your website. You can submit your website link on the Internet to other websites and use it in forum posts and e-mails. Trust me, Barbershops need to market their website. It is just a matter or two laser specific things that need to be done every once and a while to get big results. How about 300 customers a month being served and learning about you for the first time. These results happen in the smallest of towns. Let me tell you how.

3. You must sell a great product. Barbershops have a great product that is always needed. It is important to be found on the Internet, because these days many people go there for information first. You may be invisible to many customers if you do not have a website. If your town is like mine, you probably have to be looking to find a barber shop. They are getting harder to find. It is much easier to find a barber shop on the Internet. Most people are using the Internet by phone, computer, and at colleges to find what they need. They need a barber, so why not spend 17 - 50 dollars per month to get found? Can you find a reason a classic barber should not be able to make great use of a website?(Taper Barbershop) So, do it today. Spend less than a buck a day to get and keep your valued customers.

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A Few Barbershop Thoughts on Customer Service

One of my favorite places in the world is the taper barbershop. While that wasn't always the case during my long haired mid teen years, as a little kid I loved my barber. Bill was a great guy. He had enough sense around the time I turned 10 to listen to what I asked for in the way of a haircut, and what my mother told him to do. And for the most part both of us were happy with the results, although my mother had some abnormal obsession in me not having any bangs, but that is beside the point. It also didn't hurt that he had one of those old fashioned coke machines and I got a dime to get a bottle of soda after my hair cut was done. Of course this was in the days when the family-run gas station still ruled the countryside. And quickie marts and corporate monolith gas and grocery marts hadn't moved too far from the cities.


Over time, my childhood barber cut back his hours. He had had a long and successful career and it was a one chair kind of shop in a small South Western Pennsylvania town. Eventually, I went away to school and by the time I came back he had retired completely. I had to go to find someone else to cut my hair.

Since I had a few extra bucks in my pocket, I tried some of the fancy salons. Sure they had these wonderful couches, candles, and all these other luxurious services. All of which were nice, all of which were adding income and margin to their businesses but it wasn't why I showed up there in the first place. Not unlike a lot of customers in the world, I knew what I wanted. I'd listen to new ideas but at the end of the day I had a darn good idea of what my problem was. In this case my hair was getting long and shaggy and I have about three wicked cowlicks on the front of my head alone. Because of that, I'm the type of guy who knows how he wants his hair cut. I'm not looking for a new style and color. I don't care if I'm trendy or cool. I knew what I wanted, tried to communicate it clearly and it never once translated in to a repeatable output. They'd be too worried about the art of their profession. It wasn't like I got a bad haircut; I just didn't get what I wanted. After a few years at places like this I went the chain haircut strip mall route.

There are chain hair cutting places all over. They cost a lot less than the fancy salons. Instead of overstuffed couches, there are plastic chairs in the waiting area. The list of additional services was limited, but then again all I wanted was a good haircut done my way. Sadly, despite being easy to find, plentiful and well priced, the quality of their work was hit or miss. As a customer, not knowing what outcome to expect is simply frustrating and it doesn't make for good customer service. I could never get the same person twice in a row. There was no consistency. The poor kids cutting hair there were new. New isn't exactly bad. But while they had a license to hang on the wall, most had just finished school in the past few years. There's nothing wrong with being new, we all have been at one point or another. Like a lot of people who have just finished school, they had the basic idea of what to do but they were missing the experience of how to refine things. There was not a mentor there to help them along the way. No one truly skilled, that could offer insight and an experienced perspective.

Eventually, I ended up in a little old Taper barbershop with 3 guys cutting hair in it. Two old guys and the "new guy". In this case, the new guy was one of the other guy's sons and he had been cutting hair for 22 years. Sure I wasn't out in the country anymore. And by the standards of my childhood barber shop it was huge. After all, there were three barber's chairs. Even the new guy had experience and had over time come into his own. Not that his original mentors didn't still tell him what he was doing wrong. In time he had developed his own perspective and was the one I waited for over and over.
So what does any of this have to do with business and selling? Everything, if you look at it right. Was the $60.00 hair cut six times better than the $10.00 one? No! Price alone didn't make it better, because it wasn't what I wanted. Had any of the people along the way given me what I wanted and not what they thought I needed, I'd still be paying a premium for their service. I also probably would have bought into the other high margin things from time to time along the way. Were the strip mall $10.00 haircuts equal to the $10.00 barber shop cuts? No! Even though the price was the same, the customer experience and the quality varied greatly.

Instead, I found someone who listened and did what I asked. Even if you ask what your customers want are you really hearing what they are saying? Or are you hearing it from your perspective and failing to meet their needs? Odds are there are a lot of corporate buyers and business owners saying what they want and if you'd only listen to them and truly work to meet their needs and solve their problems then there is more business to be had than you would have ever imagined. This isn't about fancy questions or dazzling sales moves. It's about asking a few questions, understanding the person you're talking to and their real needs. Only after taking all that in can you apply your knowledge, expertise and perspective to create a good outcome for them.

So when I moved 5 states over a few years back and had to give up my barber yet again, I went about things differently. I drove past the half a dozen newly sprouted chain places, past the ornate and glamorous ode's to beauty that were all the rage and found a simple little old shop in the middle of town with three old chairs and three barbers. In the past, it fit my needs and this one did too. Your customers are no different. Sure along the way there will always be the temptation to try something different, but most people won't do that unless what they have isn't really what they want and need.

Back in the Taper barbershop I was the only guy under 50 in the place the first few times, but that didn't matter because they cut my hair right and delivered that same predictable result time after time. Ultimately as more new people moved to my town the average customer age came down, so now they have guys like me who will hopefully still be needing haircuts long after the youngest barber retires. Recently they raised the price from $11.00 to $13.00, but as far I'm concerned it could have gone to $20 and I wouldn't have flinched. They are giving the same great service and the same predictable quality every time I'm there. As a matter of fact, I've sent at least six guys there who are now regulars. Even if you're not obviously in sales there is nothing quite like referrals.

And if you're not listening you'd better start before they find someone else who does.

Gooseneck Lighting Provides More Than Lumination in Barbershops

Customers will continue to do business with people they know, like and trust - especially if they are happy with the products and services that they pay for...


People in many ways engage in different activities everyday. In spite of all these hectic and challenging schedules, people do not forget to groom themselves. It is very convenient to talk to people and do business with each other if you are comfortable with how you look and how you present yourself. This is also true and is likely happening to every business establishments.

Taper Barbershop in some ways help everyone to look neat and well-groomed. Today this industry is very silent and not very known compared to other businesses but surprisingly this is already considered as a necessity to human needs. If you plan to put up this kind of business, consider what people likes - better and over all experience and give your customer a reason to come back to you over and over again.

The better the experience, the quicker the buyer becomes a regular customer. Reality check! But how will you do that?

1. Make your store presentation as exciting as it looks.

Putting curb appeal and distinct presentation to your store can help you boost your customer's overall experience. Installing sign bracket with artistic and catchy sign brackets with hanging signs will really help your store looks perfect outside the shop. This will also help to draw customer's attention informing them that you have an exciting shop to make them beautiful.( Taper Barbershop)

With the help of your gooseneck lights as a sign lighting, your signage will be more appealing as it looks. That is why many business establishments use gooseneck outdoor lighting to make their business stand out from the rest. It will directly inform the customers that there is a shop or store beside their premise. Moreover this will fixture help you advertise your shop day and night.

2. Provide them the customer service that they need.

We all know that barbers or hairdressers cut any type of hair, shave and trim to change or maintain a person's image. These are achieved using a combination of hair-cutting, hair colouring and hair texture techniques. Everyone, hairdressers, hairstylist or barbers already have these styles but what you need is a distinct experience for your customer.

Welcoming them when they come into the store is a gesture that you are ready and more than willing to provide the service to your customers. Having a good manly and feminine magazines at the lobby or waiting area is also important. Do not forget to provide adequate illumination inside the shop coming from your gooseneck lighting. Provide them with comfortable couches and barber's chair will give them comfort and convenience. Moreover engaging in good conversation with the customer is very important.

It's clear that customers always go back to the same taperbarbershop because the hair cut and experience were much better than any other shop. They keep coming back because they feel comfortable and the whole experience makes the difference.

Barbershop VS Unisex Hair Salon

Traditionally, men have had their hair cut and their beards trimmed at the Taper barber shop, and women have had their hair done at fancy hair salons, (or historically, for those rich enough, by their personal stylists and ladies-in-waiting), but since the beginning of the twentieth century, stereotypical gender roles have become less defined and people are now allowed far more freedom to express themselves and to assert their own personal identities. This has led to the rise and rise of the unisex hair salon. Unisex hair salons are salons which are frequented by both men and women, because they have the training and expertise to cut and style both men and women's hair. The skills which a men's hair stylist offer are very different, from those possessed by a traditional men's barber, but both are highly talented professionals. However, despite age-old presumptions about traditional gender roles, the choice to use a hair salon or a Taper barbershop does not make one any more or less masculine or feminine, and is now largely based on a personal preference for the services they offer.

Barbers, (which is derived from the Latin for beard) have been around for centuries, with their roles traditionally encompassing dentistry and surgery techniques, as well as beards and facial hair. Some of the earliest archaeological finds which prove the existence of barbers date back to 3500 BC, and come from ancient Egypt, where it was thought that barbers were highly respected members of the community and that they were also often priests and holy men as well. Although being a barber is still a common profession, the provenance of barbershops in the community had decreased thanks to improvements in modern medicine and dentistry, and the invention of the safety razor and the electric beard trimmer. Barbers shops in the Western world are no longer allowed to perform medical procedures, and now they now mainly concentrate on cutting men's head hair, although some older men will still visit the a barber for facial hair care, preferring the clean shaven feel that is offered by a professional with a straight razor over the effect they could achieve by themselves with disposable razor. However, despite this, the barber industry in America is still seeing positive growth.

Hair stylists who work in hair salons which cater for men are not as steeped in historical tradition as barbers, and their roles have been very different in recent history. In some places, hair stylists are not able to get the licenses necessary to use a straight razor, so are not allowed to give men traditional shaves, similar to the ones which barbers give. However hair stylists have more training in non-traditional male hair care techniques, and can provide services including (but not limited to) cuts, styling, straightening and hair colouration. Because hair stylists provide different types of services to those provided by a Taper barbershop, a visit to a unisex hair salon will often be a lot longer in length of time than a visit to the barbers.

Sunday, March 19, 2017

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While posting hiring ads in the newspaper or online can be helpful, a brainstorm I had at the barbershop has given me a new idea about how to let people know about new job openings.

I am in the process of opening a new warehouse in Guelph, Ontario, and require 250 plus employees. Because of the magnitude of this hire, it is at the top of my mind: I tell everyone that I meet that I am looking to hire full and part-time shippers, receivers, dock hands, and other positions.

I was at the barber's getting my hair cut and mentioned this to my barber who instantly said that he likely knew 25 or 30 people who would be interested in the job.

Most people develop a rapport with their barber or hairstylist over a number of years. Most people repeatedly visit the same stylist. During that time they tend to talk about the weather, politics, and life in general. They develop a rapport. Their conversation often includes their job prospects, or how their current job is going. The realization of how many people frequent the barber or hairstylist and what they discuss inspired me to come up with barber/hairstylist marketing for hiring my new warehouse employees.

We are going to the yellow pages and listing the barber shops and hairstylists in the area. We then go to our staff and find out where they get their hair done and try to cross off to make sure we have all basis covered.

I believe that the hairstylist or barber will be more open to ideas that come from someone who they already know. Because our warehouse move is not until July 1st (and it is now still February), everyone will have lots of time to get into the barber or hairstylist between now and then.

I also think that barbers and hairstylists will tend to refer people they like. The people referred will likely be good people. As professionals and as individuals, barbers and hairstylists would not want to be seen as referring people who are not good.

We are not putting in place any financial incentive for the barbers or hairstylists, although we will invite them to an open house. My experience is that most of them tend to freely share information that they have and like to be, "in the know". Most of them want to add value to their clients.

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The Barbershop

If a girl wants to have her hair cut, she goes to a beauty or hair salon and so does the rest of the female populace. But what if it's a man who needs a haircut, where could he probably go? Younger men and teenage boys will perhaps go to a hair salon just like women, but men can also visit the barber shop for his necessities. It is true that a man's haircut may be obtained from both a hair salon and a barbershop, but for men who may feel too feminine having their hair cut in a hair salon can seek the services of a barber.

On this modern period, most men are not fans of a barbershop. But in 1880s up to the 1940s, barbershops were a hit. During those days, men visit a barbershop once in a week or even once in a day. This is because a barbershop is not only a place where they could have a haircut and a shave, but also a one place for friendly hangout and a chat. This golden age is when barbers work in a classy and stunning workplaces. The barbershop then had marble counters on which colorful glass bottles are lined up. The barber chairs are even ornately made with oak and walnut upholstered in fine leathers. Some barbershops even had crystal chandeliers and fresco painted ceilings. But even with such high-end fixtures, barbershops were still a homey and inviting place to be. Everywhere in the shop, a manly aroma could be smelled. As soon as the man enters the barbershop, he knows he is in a manly territory.

It was in 1904 when barbershops began to feel a great impact of decline when portable and disposable razors were marketed. An advertisement from a known razor company entails that using their razor product is more economical and convenient than paying a barber to do the shaving. The rest is then a history for the existence of barbershops. But even though only a few barbershops exit today, some men still believe that a barbershop is the right place where a man should go for his hair or shaving needs. They perceive that a barbershop is specifically tailored to provide masculine haircut and male services from a manly barber. A barber uses clippers to cut a man's hair, a unisex salon hairdresser or cosmetologist uses a scissors.

If you were a man and went inside a unisex hair salon for a haircut, chances are you will keep all words to yourself. A man would feel awkward to talk to a woman hairdresser or to a group of women inside a hair salon. But if you go to a barbershop, talking to or chatting with the barber is not a problem. There might even be some new male colleagues to meet and get acquainted with. In a barbershop, a man feels like he really belongs and would not feel alienated as the people inside the barbershop are basically from the masculine gender.

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How to Make a Great First Impression in Your Salon or Barbershop

Creating the right impression is vital in the beauty industry. It only takes seconds to make a first impression. To have a successful salon or barbershop you should keep this in mind. Here are some ideas to impress your customers and have them enjoy their experience. They will talking about your shop to all of their friends.

First make sure your reception area is warm and inviting. Your staff should immediately greet everyone with a smile. It is a good idea for them to verify their appointment and stylist. This will help assure the customer that your team cares about them and wants them to look and feel great. The waiting chairs or benches should be cozy. Provide reading material of some sort to look at while they are there.

Second you want to have an inviting atmosphere. The color scheme of your shop and type of music you play will instantly set the mood. Make sure your styling and barber chairs are stylish and comfortable. This will allow your customers to enjoy the time spent in them. Have your Styling stations be attractive and provide good lighting so they can see the excellent work you have done. Along with atmosphere you can offer refreshments. Coffee,tea. and water with lemon are popular options. Not everyone will want something but they will still love that you offered.

Third you will want to provide prompt service. Customers make appointments in their busy schedules. They will be impressed when you are ready to serve them right on time. They will appreciate that they can get their beauty needs met during lunch or before or after work. Always inform customers if stylist is running behind. All of this will let the customer know that you want to accommodate them.

Last but not least you will want your salon or barbershop to be clean and fresh smelling. Floors should regularly be swept. All salon equipment should be well cleaned and maintained. To help with the smell of chemical fumes you can use an air purifier. Your staff should not wear strong perfume that some customers would be sensitive to. Your customers will come in contact with many different items in your salon or barbershop. For example products, drapes,magazines,and towels.You will want to have all items well organized and clean. This will give the impression of a high standard of care.

Ultimately you want to give your customers a wonderful and memorable experience. Using these ideas will help you do that.

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Benefits Of Sight Singing For Barbershop Singers

Most barbershop singers think that they don't need to have any skill in sight singing. In a sense, they're right. They can survive without it. But they end up losing a lot of time, a lot of confidence, and learning less accurately than they might.


In the beginning, barbershop singing consisted of four vocalists, typically men, improvising harmonies by ear to popular songs. There was no printed music to use, so sight-singing was a non-issue. As it became more organized, and local chapters and choruses began to form, the use of arrangements and sheet music expanded. Today, almost every song that is sung by a barbershop quartet or chorus is provided on sheet music. The importance of being able to read that sheet music has grown correspondingly.

Typically a barbershop organization assumes that its members cannot read music, and provides them with audio tracks to listen to. For many members, perhaps most, this assessment is correct. They learn the music from listening to the track, and the only thing they use the sheet music for is to read the words. Those who do this are missing out on some great opportunities. There are a number of advantages to the barbershop singer in being able to sing the part by looking at the sheet music, that is, to sight-sing.

Perhaps the biggest advantage is the time that is saved when sight singing is added to the memorization process. It is well-known that most people remember what they see far more effectively than what they hear. A skilled learner can look at a phrase on the page, sing it through, and then sing it with the track in order to memorize it. Since he learned it visually, he remembers it much sooner and more thoroughly.

Another big advantage is the confidence with which a sight-singer can learn the part. He knows that he is singing the correct part. Often the track is ambiguous; the listener can't tell exactly which notes are to be sung. If he can identify the notes on the page, he knows exactly what should be sung. There is no uncertainty whether or not he learned the correct notes.

A third big advantage is the greater accuracy possible in learning a part when you can read the music. Many singers learn the part by listening repeatedly to the track, without benefit of the sheet music. In this situation, the chances of learning the music incorrectly are great. The error is never discovered until the singer is recording himself for his section leader. Then he finds out that he's been singing the wrong thing. And it's so ingrained that it's almost impossible to correct. This doesn't happen to those with sight singing skill. They know that they're learning what's on the paper the first time. And they can record themselves with the knowledge that they've learned it correctly. Unless they experience a performance error, they are going to get glowing reviews of their recording.

Many barber shoppers recognize these advantages, but can't imagine that they could ever have the skill to sight-sing. It's unfortunate that such an easy skill to learn can seem so daunting. But those that go ahead and make the effort to learn this technique will find that the rewards are greater than they've ever imagined.

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Barbershop Talk: What Men Really Think

An anonymous writer once exclaimed, "Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like." This observation pretty much sums up the dynamic that exists between a barber and his clients. The relationship is often compared to that of a psychiatrist and his patient in part because it offers boundless territory for both discussion and confession. Nowhere is a relationship more animated, informative, humorous or contentious than in the confines of the barbershop.

Search any street corner, inner city, or rural destination and you will find a barbershop that not only meets styling needs of the populous but also one that caters to the varying dialogue appetites and leanings of its clientele.

What has always fascinated me about the inner workings of the barbershop is that it is truly one of the very few places where there is what Miami Herald columnist Greg Cote calls, "random evidence of cluttered minds." Quite frankly, men have accrued endless tons of invaluable insights and priceless perspectives stored up but have only been able to express them in limited fashion and venues. Truth be told, we have a bunch of things to say but for years have been precluded from saying them.

My personal barber, Atlanta's own, 'Master Dee' is probably best described as an interesting mixture between rap mogul, Snoop Dogg because of his slender physique and the sultry R&B crooner, Barry White because his commanding baritone vocals. A married man with no crumb snatchers as he puts it, Dee always seems to be at ease with the state of the world and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by the "craziness" we often refer to as life and living. Dee has always been as deliberate in his pre-haircut ritual of carefully placing his clippers and work tools in a nice and neat row as he is in cautiously offering his outlook on life, politics, conspiracy theories, soap operas, the weather, sports, who killed JFK, relationships and any other subject matter that catches his fancy.Just recently while reclining in "the chair" waiting for a cut, I asked Dee a probing question. I was curious as to what was the barbershop's secret in compelling men to spill their proverbial guts when it came to the array conversation pieces that have echoed throughout shops all over the country. He thought for a moment with a distant gaze on his face as if he were channeling the responses from the thousands of barbers who had come before him. After his silent and seemingly lengthy personal deliberation, he calmly stroked his ample and disorganized goatee, placed his right foot on the rear rotational bar of the chair and exclaimed "a brotha' always needs another brotha."

Almost instantly, I along with the other patrons scattered throughout this nondescript shop nodded in affirmation and knew exactly what Dee was alluding to. Reduced to its least common denominator, men desperately require other men to vent too and become validated by. What is so interesting about this dynamic is that it has less to do with conversation and quite a bit more to do with the relational and tangible bonding exercise that occurs in barbershops in every corner of the nation.

The validation a man gets from another man through dialogue, storytelling, humor and even the exchange of personal instances of pain and despair not only let him know that he is not alone in his constant pursuit of the prize of manhood but it also connects to him to a fraternity of "brotha's" as Dee so affectionately expressed who can help him "stay up" when the tangible circumstances of time and dictate and often insist that he should instead lay down and die.

It would be careless to imply that the history of flawed male to male and male to female interactions at their core can simply be healed by getting a fade and an accompanying shave. It should however be noted that a good "tape" may be the best means to adequately measure the distance between a man's words and his heart.

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Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Barber Training Programs(Taper Barbershop)


Regardless of how troublesome circumstances are, individuals will even now need to deal with their own appearance; subsequently there will dependably be a requirement for hair stylists. A hairdresser is an individual appearance laborer who trims or trims hair for predominantly male demographic, and additionally giving administrations, for example, fitting hairpieces like wigs and toupees and facial shaving and scalp medicines. Contingent upon their capabilities, they may likewise color or dye hair, give changeless waves and offer skin and nail mind medications. Stylists are very much adjusted for their work; on the normal, a hairdresser can win $11.56 60 minutes, with those in the main 10% of their callings ready to charge near $20 60 minutes. While many hairdressers are utilized in salons or barbershops, half of them are independently employed, running their own particular practices. 


Hairdressers and other individual appearance laborers are required to secure a permit from the state before being permitted to work on; authorizing prerequisites fluctuate from state to state. At least, hairdressers who need to end up distinctly authorized must have no less than a secondary school confirmation or proportional capability, be no less than 16 years of age and have finished a state-authorized stylist preparing program. These are regularly found at open secondary schools and in addition private and open optional professional schools. A full-time barbering program usually takes nine months to two years to finish and may bring about the honor of a partner degree albeit many projects just give a testament. 

Upon fruitful consummation of the program, understudies must take a state licensure examination. The permitting test generally comprises of a composed part and a down to earth examination in which the understudy is required to exhibit their aptitudes, or on the other hand, an oral examination. On the off chance that the understudy has had some cosmetology preparing, this may likewise be credited towards a hairdresser's permit. Contingent upon the prerequisites of the state, once the hair stylist has gotten his permit, he may intermittently need to reestablish it. (Taper Barbershop)


While choosing a hair stylist preparing program, the understudy must ensure that the program is endorsed by the state to guarantee that they will get the capabilities they have to end up distinctly authorized. Since stylists should likewise have great relations with their clients, understudies who feel they may require all the more preparing in client relations aptitudes might need to search out projects that additionally offer courses in the brain science of human relations. On the off chance that they expect to begin their own particular hairstyling parlor subsequent to finishing the program, understudies ought to likewise consider taking extra courses in business administration and back. 


Aside from formal preparing, understudy hairdressers should likewise embrace an apprenticeship program that will give them at work involvement. The program ought to give the understudy preparing in the full scope of administrations stylists nowadays offer, which may incorporate nail trims and pedicures, facial medications and hair shading administrations. Understudies may agree to accept apprenticeship programs at the school in which they are getting their preparation or through exchange unions that might offer such projects. Contingent upon the program, they may need to pay insignificant charges for investment, and obviously, give their own hardware.

Top Tips to Find the Best Cosmetology Barbering Schools(Taper BarberShop)


Individuals who are considering setting up a barbershop or notwithstanding going to fill in as a hair stylist for any of the barbering foundations one can look for some kind of employment in ought to first mull over going to barbering schools to get themselves appropriately prepared for such an attempt. While before, hairdressers were entrusted to trim hair, shave and trim facial hair and tune in to their clients discuss their lives, nowadays stylists really accomplish more. Hairdressers are presently entrusted to help men deal with their scalp and hair, offer counsel on trims and shading and even make wigs and toupes for some of their customers. To put it plainly, stylists are currently entrusted with work that can without much of a stretch adversary that of ladies' beauticians and hair mind experts. 


This is the reason a great deal of cosmetology barbering schools are currently being set up by various elements. There are various cosmetology barbering schools a man can select in. This can get to be distinctly sort of mistaking for a few people when time comes to choose which school to go to. Here are a few tips on the most proficient method to pick the best cosmetology barbering schools for you to go to: 

Attempt to search for barbering schools close you since you should go to classes every day to get the sort of preparing you requirement for such a profession. 

When you find the cosmetology barbering schools that are found close to your range, you ought to then verify whether these schools are authorize by the NACCAS or the National Accrediting Commission for Cosmetology Arts and Sciences. 

When attempting to locate the best barbering schools for you to go to, you ought to look at the rundown of courses these schools have for their understudies. Most barbering schools offer preparing for fundamental haircutting, froth shaving, trimming, trimming and shampooing whiskers, current razor styling strategies and even facial back rubs. 

In the event that you need to accomplish more than simply offer fundamental barbering administrations at your own particular barbershop or you need to have the capacity to land positions at hair salons and spas, you might need to get more than simply your essential barbering courses. You can incorporate courses in hair plan and expert hair care to your reviews to build your work possibilities. (Taper Barbershop)

Different courses you will discover being offered in the best barbering schools incorporate skincare fundamentals, shaving works on, trimming strategies, stylist guideline, hair shading hypothesis and business administration. 

You ought to know that before you can formally call yourself a hair stylist and begin acting as one, you should get an official hairdresser's permit. To get such a permit, you should pass a composed exam and an execution based test. 

You should check your state for the authorizing necessities it has for hair stylists and cosmetologists since rules vary starting with one state then onto the next. 

In the event that you are thinking on setting out on more than only a barbering vocation and need to add hairstyling to your rundown of capabilities, you should take an alternate permitting exam for you to have the capacity to call yourself both a stylist and a beautician. 

Factors to Consider When Choosing Barbering Schools(Taper barbershop)

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Many individuals put a major significance on their hair style and haircut. This is on the grounds that the correct hairdo or hair style extraordinarily enhances the presence of a man. Individuals go to their most loved salon or hairstyling parlor to have their hair style. They just trust their most loved beautician or hairdresser with regards to adjusting their hair. This is the motivation behind why being a hairdresser or a stylist is vital. You need to comprehend that nowadays, a few stylists likewise trim ladies and kids' hair, not simply men's, which makes their objective customer base more extensive and more changed.


Many individuals be a hair stylist since it is an extremely compensating work regarding pay as well as far as the fulfillment that they can get from helping their clients enhance their appearance. A normal hair stylist who works in a salon or his own barbershop can gain as much as $30,000 yearly. On the off chance that this is insufficient, you can simply carry out this occupation as a sideline or as an extra wellspring of pay.

In the event that you likewise need to be a hair stylist, you need to know how to pick barbering schools that will help you excel with your vocation. You need to view a few variables for you as ready to pick the correct one. Look at the rundown of contemplations beneath. (Taper Barbershop)

1) Barbering schools ought to help you learn and enhance your barbering abilities. They ought to show you the essentials of haircutting and styling. Try not to draw close to a couple of scissors on the off chance that you don't have enough information or abilities to be a stylist, unless you need a furious client with a terrible hair style. Ensure that the school you will pick can help you on this territory that will help you turn into a fruitful hairdresser.

2) Barbering schools ought to likewise help you breeze through barbering tests and get licenses. That is correct, hair stylists likewise need to pass exams and get a permit, in any event by and large. The correct school will help you audit before the licensure exam for you to have the capacity to trim and style hair lawfully. A few spots oblige hair stylists to have a permit in cosmetology however others require a barbering permit that is particularly allowed to proficient hairdressers. On the off chance that you want to simply set up your salon and be a stylist after effectively trimming your companion or kin's hair, reconsider. There is significantly more to being a hairdresser that knowing how to style hair with a couple of scissors.

3) Check the school's experience and ensure that it is certify by an expert association for hair stylists. You ought to likewise take a gander at the educational programs, regardless of whether they offer courses that fit your needs. It is likewise essential to check in the event that they have instructional classes that permit you to rehearse your aptitudes before you really begin your own salon or hair salon.

4) Other minor points of interest that you ought to consider when picking barbering schools are the value, area, et cetera. These are things that you have to consider. On the off chance that the barbering school is situated in Timbuktu and you need to pay a million dollars before you can enter, then perhaps you ought to discover another barbering school which is situated close to your zone and obliges you to pay a sensible educational cost expense.

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Interesting Facts I Learned About Barbers and Barber Clippers Based on My Readings(Taper BarberShop)


Barber clippers are primarily used by barbers and hairdressers.

Barbers and hairdressers are licensed usually in other countries unlike here in the Philippines where barbers can be found anywhere and cut hair without having any license.

In previous times, barbers are also surgeons and don't just cut hair, they can also shave beard, trim hair, color hair, etc.. They previously act as dentists too. The red and white spiral color in the barber pole signifies their two crafts; red signifies surgery, and white signifies barbering.

It was during the war when the surgeons were paid more and given more emphasis than the barbers because of their importance for the health of those people in the ship.

Henry Martyn Leland invented the electric barber clippers, he also invented the Cadillac which is later bought by General Motors, and the Lincoln which is later bought by Ford Motor Company.

Nikola Bizumic is the one who invented the manual barber clippers in which is an alternative for scissors in cutting hair but is also operated by hand. The use of these manual clippers decreased significantly due to the emergence of electronic barber clippers. these manual clippers has not yet been phased out though for there are still users of these stuff throughout the world.

Matthew Andis built an electronic barber clipper that undergo a wide range of performance test, manufactured a large number of these electronic barber clippers, and he sold it to numerous barber shops throughout Wisconsin. Then after a year, he founded Andis Clipper Company that still operates as a family-owned business today. Andis became a famous brand for barber clippers even up to present.(Taper Barbershop)

There are a lot of brands that followed Andis and some has even improved Andis's design flaws like the Wahl Clippers by Leo J. Wahl and the Oster Clippers by John Oster who owns the famous Oster Classic 76 clippers which is regarded for its durability and interchangeable metal blades or different sizes.

Wahl introduced the Trim and Vac, a beard razor that can be used without a cape since it has a vacuum that automatically absorbs the cut hair giving ease of use for the user.

There are also clippers used for pet grooming particularly dog grooming that has different sizes of blades used for trimming. Different blade sizes determines the length of hair that will be cut from dog's body. You should not use a barber clipper (used for human) to a dog since pet clippers are custom designed for pets since they have thick fur to protect their body from hot or cold weather and other irritants. This is one reason why pet clippers use more powerful motors and torque than a regular barber clipper.

Barber clippers are widely used to cut human hair and it helps reduce a great amount of time in cutting hair. With faster results, it makes a barber shop businesses more profitable since you can serve more customers.

Professional hair clippers are more expensive than a regular one only because of its durability since it will be used extensively for commercial purposes compared to barber clippers intended only for personal use or home use only.

Barber clippers would usually cost about $25 to about $130 depending on the use of your clipper.

There has been a lot of innovations in the clippers from different companies and it has been really a slugfest between Andis, Wahl, and Oster for the hair clipper manufacturing crown. Sallybeauty.com has been a successful online store for beauty products including hair clippers and care kits for these clippers.

When a clipper is not functioning well, one reason could be that it has not been oiled properly or it has not been used for some time.

You can clean this by removing the screw and putting the blade into a bowl with isoprophyl alcohol.

Afterwards, clean and wipe off the rust or you can use a sharpening stone to sharpen the blade by scratching the blade to the stone going to one direction only.

If your barber clipper blade is cheap, professional sharpening is not advisable but if you have an expensive blade, you can go for professional sharpening for best results.

Tips to Be a Great Barber (Taper Barbershop)

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In this questionable money related atmosphere barbering offers a great, stable and exceptionally charming vocation. 

Pulling in individuals from all kinds of different backgrounds, many men and ladies of any age effectively go into this developing industry consistently, at first beginning as an apprentice and after that building up their own particular vocation with its boundless potential outcomes as their aptitude creates. 

One of the fundamental attractions of this energizing vocation alternative is that barbering is basically an extremely secure and flourishing industry regardless of what the money related atmosphere might be. Men dependably require hair styles and you can work safely throughout the entire year in whatever worldwide goal you may wish as the expertise of expert barbering is discovered around the world. That being the excellence of barbering such aptitudes are popular all around and to be sure many individuals go voyaging abroad and utilize the abilities to support their ventures, or if remaining nearer to home they regularly set up their own hairstyling salon locally. 

Regardless of what way you may wish to take upon graduation, on the off chance that you are searching for an expert quick track course into the business there are a couple key focuses a fresh start understudy must remember: 

1. The institute: examining in an expert instruction condition, free from the hurrying around of a mass of customers and clamor and gab of a working occupied hair parlor is very essential. 

The ascent in 'working hairstyling salon' courses tragically gives new learning understudies a conceivably nosier and additionally diverting condition, which can demonstrate a more nerve wracking knowledge for finish fledglings, not in a perfect world the best conditions for a region of study that requires extraordinary concentration and fixation. 

Numerous understudies are regularly told this sets them up for 'this present reality' however there is a lot of time to rehearse in that condition once you are completely prepared. It is essential to have a refined tranquil and expert instructive setting encompassing you in the underlying escalated learning period keeping in mind the end goal to have the capacity to impeccable, practice and focus on gaining brilliant employable abilities in a brief span outline. (Taper Barbershop)

In the event that enlisting upon an expert barbering quick track course one will be actually shown all the key abilities expected to work upon an everyday premise inside a hair salon to pick up business. At last bosses require top notch aptitudes, in this way the additional time and focus went through with an expert guide in taking in those abilities in a non loud diverting way eventually pays off. 

To approve the universes best and most acclaimed professinal hairdressing schools are quite recently that - proficient hairdressing schools, not genuine working hairstyling salons. In this way top notch instruction obviously comes from a fantastic expert instructive condition and not a retail domain. 

Likewise remember that if the working hairstyling parlor gives you paying customers to trim, you are basically working for them for nothing and winning them extra cash on top of the course charges you have officially paid. It is fitting to learn proficient barbering strategies in an expert preparing foundation particularly prepared in conveying superb instruction quick tracks to understudies not a retail shop. 

2. The understudy to educator proportion: most extreme time with your class mentor is prescribed as fledgling. Contingent on the bore of your guide the class proportion may fluctuate, more experienced coaches can professionally educate somewhat bigger classes, however a perfect proportion for an amateurs class is anyplace between 6 - 8 understudies for every class, so that every understudy figures out how to accomplish a lot of one on one mentoring and tutoring inside the gathering to augment their aptitudes learnt. 

3. The course confirmation: the key thing is that your course ought to give a recognition with a specific end goal to have an accreditation of your expert abilities picked up. In spite of the fact that there is nobody set legitimate recognition all hairdressers must hold in the UK, you should lawfully hold full protection cover keeping in mind the end goal to have the capacity to tons of the general population securely, in this way guarantee your course is completely insurable before enrolment. Without protection you can't legitimately work securely upon general society, in this manner this point, alongside chosing a course that shows all of you the key aptitudes required to function as a hair stylist everyday, are fundamental. 

4. The educational programs instructed: the part of a hairdresser is a differed and testing one, and you will be required to know an assortment of key abilities with a specific end goal to work professionally and securely. Should you wish to wander into maintaining your own business one day it is constantly great to guarantee your course contains an extensive variety of key abilities to empower you to work effectively inside the exchange either as a worker or as a business. 

Course educational programs change and many concentration exclusively upon the conventional scissors and scissor over brush work, however in an advanced mens barbering exchange, these abilities are not the only sufficiently one to have the capacity to manage each customer that strolls through the entryway. 

Scissors and scissor over look over strategies are perfect for customarily short/shorter mens styles, however in a more form centered cutting edge contemporary barbering condition, men are expanding turning out to be more style cognizant and getting to be distinctly enlivened by their most loved big name, film star, performer or footballer. Somewhat longer lengths are turning out to be more regular inside the hair and such styles are anything but difficult to conceive on the off chance that you think about your most loved male motion picture star, performer, television on-screen character or footballer, a number of those styles couldn't be made exclusively with scissors and scissor over brush systems. 

In this manner it is urgent to guarantee your course instructs the aptitudes of men's expert haircutting also, where you will figure out how to trim one length, graduation, layering and texturising, in mix to your standard scissor over brush, clippering and mixing. Present day men's hairdressing aptitudes educational cost will guarantee you will have the capacity to manage all lengths of men's hair and make a more extensive scope of cutting edge mens mold forward looks. 

The current effective stylist of today holds a full compliment of abilities and is then completely prepared to professionally manage any client whom goes into their barbershop. 

Albeit many courses show wet shaving, this is not a need the same number of present day men shave themselves and the dominant part of men will look to just getting a hair style as opposed to a wet shave. The tremendous publicizing spending plans of the men's prepping market have guaranteed as more extensive scope of home shaving items accessible available and the developing every day use among the normal male. 

However actually wet shaving methods will give an additional string to your bow as an expert hair stylist yet its is not a need when beginning as the larger part of bosses look atthe amazing barbering aptitudes in perspective of work. Holding wet shave aptitudes will basically just give you the edge at a prospective employee meeting if that specific hair salon offers the administration and not all hairstyling parlors do. 

In a perfect world numerous understudies may select upon a different wet shaving course at a later date to add to their barbering aptitudes effectively held and this is a helpful option. A decent apprentices essential barbering course ought to completely prepare you in facial trimming strategies, for example, whiskers, eyebrows, mustache and so on, and these procedures will be utilized on a regular consistent schedule inside the ordinary barbershop condition. 

5. Coach accreditations/past experience: there is the old expression, 'you must be in the same class as the educator that shows you' and this is valid. In a perfect world you need to search out the most noteworthy qualified instructor accessible to guarantee you have most ideal great aptitudes when looking for work or to offer to your customers if setting up a barbershop. 

Likewise with any method of expert instruction, educators are not quite recently those proficient at a holding aptitude, say like a hair stylist with 10 or 20 years encounter, they have in particular experienced particular instructor preparing. 

Why is that imperative? Since educator preparing is key to guarantee that they hold the correct proficient relational abilities and instructor systems to transfer to you the data they hold in the best way with the goal that you pick up the greatest information from your time of study. 

A long time of industry experience on the shop floor doesn't generally mean being an incredible communicator, it just implied they arre great at their commonsense work of being a stylist and trimming mens hair, not really instructing. Search out kindred understudies, read tributes from understudies who have done the course and take a gander at the past professions of the educators showing you or who prepared them. 

Odds are whether they hold extraordinary vocation qualifications and have worked inside an expert instruction showing office in hairdressing or barbering they will be awesome at showing you and will unquestionably lead you to barbering achievement! 

Barbering is an awesome exchange and offers incredible occupation fulfillment, and also a lucrative profession way. Appreciate and recollect, as experts you never quit adapting, so ceaselessly keep new, motivated and search out further preparing to improve your aptitudes as your vocation grows...Remember your best speculation is in yourself!