To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.
When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.
When you own a pair of haircutting scissors, you cut your own hair constantly.
My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.
And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.
I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.
Being a barber is about taking care of the people.
I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
