Hot take: my cosmetology instructor was wrong about sectioning patterns

Tbh, my teacher Mrs. Davies back at the Paul Mitchell school in Austin swore we had to use perfect diamond sections for every haircut. I argued with her for months saying it wastes time and doesn't matter for simple layered cuts. Well, after 3 years doing hair, I finally tried her way on a fussy client last month and the layers blended way better. Has anyone else found that old-school techniques actually beat the shortcuts we learn online?

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ryan_hart384d ago

Oh man, same here with my old instructor's sectioning rules actually saving me on tricky cuts!

kim_mason554d agoTop Commenter

That sectioning trick is gold, @ryan_hart38. I had a shop teacher who drilled it into us and it saved me on a compound miter for crown molding last month. Breaking it down into smaller wedges kept the angles straight and stopped me from wasting a full board.

fisher.jessica3d ago

Remember getting that tip about cutting crown molding flat on the saw with the bevel and miter set right instead of tilting it up against the fence, that was a total game changer for me. Had a real bad moment on a vaulted ceiling job where nothing was square, but my old instructor's sectioning method kept me from turning a whole stack of trim into firewood. Just breaking those weird angles into smaller pieces and labeling everything made the whole thing click together perfectly.