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Guy at my shop in Dayton told me to stop doing skin fades with a foil shaver, and I think he's wrong
I was finishing up a customer around 6pm on a Tuesday, and this older barber named Ray who rents the chair next to mine just watches me and shakes his head. I ask what. He goes, you're gonna tear that man's neck up with the foil, put it down. I've been using a foil for the final pass on skin fades for like 4 years now. Never had an issue. I told him that. He says well you will.
Here's my beef with that whole school of thought. If you keep the foil clean and don't press hard, it gets closer than any trimmer I've tried and it's faster. I do maybe 15 fades a day. If I slowed down every one to do it his way I'd lose an hour of chair time. That's real money.
But I keep thinking about it. He's been cutting 30 years, I've been cutting 7. So who's right here. Do you all still finish necks with a foil or am I the only one left doing it
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elizabetha9213d ago
Ray has been doing it one way for three decades and figures that's the only way. You see it everywhere, not just barber shops. My uncle still checks his tire pressure with a stick gauge because that's what his dad taught him, even though the one on the dash is dead on. The old guy at the hardware store swears you need real turpentine for a paint brush and acts like soap and water is a sin. Some of it's hard earned wisdom. Some of it's just habit wearing a nice suit. The trick is figuring out which one you're looking at.
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