QuoteReplyTopic: Blunt Cut Posted: October 19 2005 at 9:31pm
Hi all, I was in my hairdressers last Saturday getting a updo done for homecoming and mentioned how fizzy my ends are. She asked if I had ever had a razor cut, which I had about 2 years ago (I am trying to grow my hair back out, including layers) and she suggested that I needed a "blunt cut" I guess that would mean chopping off the end of my layers making them choppy. Does this sound right? Or shoudl I just keep away from the scissors and my layers won't be so fizzy when they grown out? Thanks!
Well I think this is an issue that is to do with the appearance of your ends. Blunt cutting them will make them appear thicker. Do you have curly or straight hair? If it is straight, then your hair may appear healthier looking if you have the ends blunt cut. If your hair is curly, then more tapered (or frizzy ends) will not be so noticeable. I guess it's really up to whether you like the appearance of thicker hair. Your ends will still look the same, no matter how long your hair grows.
If you DO decide to get the ends blunt cut, then ask for the absolute minimum to be taken off so that you don't lose too much length.
Razoring cuts hairs at an angle, instead of straight across. They
are more prone to damage (fraying) if they are cut at an angle than if
straight across. A blunt cut is just straight across all the hair at
the bottom, it won't do anything "choppy" because it doesn't touch
the upper layers. I wouldn't get too much chopped off all
at once in a blunt cut either - you can do it a little at a time like
missrini said, that way you don't have to deal with losing too much
length at once.
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Hey, I have straight medium-thin hair. My hair is in pretty good shape besides my frizzy ends. And yeah I would love to have hair that appeared thicker. I will also ask for the VERY minimum to get cut off since it has taken my awhile to get to the length that I am at now.
Susan, it is my layers that are frizzy, my longer hair underneath is fine, it isnt firzzy at all. I need the ends of my layers cut, not my underneath hair.
I made the mistake in Aug. of having my hair layer with a razor cut!!! It has taken this long for it to grow out! She really "butchered" it! I wouldn't recommend a razor cut to anyone. I also have med.-thin straight hair and she told me it would give me some "volume"! Needless to say, I haven't gone back to her. My ends are slightly frizzy and I live in a hot, humid climate so I seem to have to control right now!! I'm also trying to grow it out to maybe shoulder length and I don't know what to do with it now. I hate to have it cut again....even a blunt cut. I don't want to take the length that I've started to get back. Again...I wouldn't recommend razor cutting!
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I know exactly how you feel Baker46, I am getting the blunt cut tomorrow with a totally new hairdresser...I will tell you if it works and how much hair gets cut off My hair is about 16 inches long, hopefully it is at least 15 acfter this cut...
Chelsea, you could tell the stylist to take less off the sides then
from the back. Or less from the shorter layers than the longer ones.
You can get 1 inch off the longer part and then get just 1/2 inch off the shorter pieces. Unless you want more cut.
I had long layers cut in a long time ago and I have spent a few yrs trying to get back to a one-length healthy hairstyle. I had some razor cutting done and it just left me with some thin layers that got damaged, and now the layers on one side of my head are ten times shorter than the layers on the other side
I would never want layers again unless I was able to get a little bit trimmed every month and was able to totally pamper my hair.
I hate layers esp when it gets humid out
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Well I have to say, layers work really well with my curly hair....it's just all in the way they are cut. I agree, razor cutting is BAD...very bad. But live and learn right?
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Hey, so I went to the hairdressers today and my stylists cut about 1/4 of the dead frizzy ends off. Which was most of it but their is a about 1/4 left. So I am going to go in next month after my hair grows out a little and get the rest cut off, so it won't be so dramatic and all that length gone at once. My hair feels pretty great right now (but doesn't hair always after a trip to the salon), and can't wait to get the rest cut off so I will have only totally healthy hair to great out. I am also considering getting a staightner to get the frizz down, when I had no layers my hair was stick straigh. So straightners are a whole new world to me.
That's great chelsea! Does your hair appear thicker now? I wouldn't use a straightener if I were you....can be pretty damaging. If you want to grow your hair long, then the less heat you subject it to, the better.
Good luck!
Btw....my hair doesn't always feel great after a trip to the salon I usually leave feeling frustrated and depressed (after my curls are insulted and they cut way too much length off). Oh well. That's probably why I'm not going to a salon ever again
That's great that you had a good trip Chelsea. I'm glad you had someone
who only did a little bit so you can decide to come back later.
Rini, you have some of the prettiest hair I've seen. If a stylist can't
see that then they should never use a roller, perm rod, or curling iron
ever again to make curls on anyone if it was their idea to make curls.
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Aaaawww.....PurpleBubba, thank you That's a lovely thing to say! I was just posting in the "compliments" topic and was saying how compliments make me feel good. Well.....I feel good Thank you.
I think that they insult my hair, because the first thing they do is brush it out, and then of course it turns into frizzy, sheep hair. And they look quite horrified (but then, so do I!! lol)
I think part of the problem is that some stylists just do not have the
patience to be gentle with people. I mean regardless of the client's
hair type.
I've had some that even though they were starting the detangling from
the bottom and going up they still yanked a bit too much. Sometimes I'd
have the urge to tell them to just cut the knots instead of yanking
them. I never did though.
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I know that staightning can be damaging but I wouldn't do it every day, and I want a CHI Iron. It acutal seals in mositure then take it away, which waht the damaging part about straighting is. And that they pull break out, but this straightner doesnt do that either. Which it shouldn't for its price!
Both of you have beautiful hair in their own way! Purplebubba you have beautiful long locks, and Rini has gorgeous red curls!
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My hair is about 16 inches long, hopefully it is at least 15 acfter this cut...
I usually leave feeling frustrated and depressed (after my curls are insulted and they cut way too much length off). Oh well. That's probably why I'm not going to a salon ever again 
That's a lovely thing to say! I was just posting in the "compliments" topic and was saying how compliments make me feel good. Well.....I feel good 