How To Section The Top Of A Haircut | How To Use The Head Map To Guide Your Sections

Hello, everyone and welcome to another video from ROM barber. I wanted to make a video to try and answer a couple of questions we get asked quite frequently. How do you section the top, or where do you start your sections from, and why, unfortunately, there's no direct answer for how do you section the top, as there are various different section patterns that relate to different styles? But what I can do is show you how to use something. You already know that will be exception in the top of planning. Your sections easier. This is a head map, something you hopefully used or learned, while training or at barber school. The problem is many of us forget this: when we're starting work in a shop it can be filed away under boring, thievery work I learned at school. What purpose will it serve me in the real world? Well, you'd be amazed at just how useful and relevant this diagram can be. It isolates the head into several zones, starting at the back. We of the need the occipital area, the crowd, the topper apex, the front, the temple area and the site. The reason these areas are important is they're key to deciding where to start or place your sections. Let'S take the question: how dissection the top is daunting, knowing where to start as the top is quite a large area. Now I like to make things easy for myself. So, rather than see, the top is one large section. I see it as five smaller, more manageable areas. The top will consist of the e pecks, the crown front and the two areas above beach, parietal Ridge, with the top split up this way, I can decide how I want to work on each of these zones individually. For example, let's take a look at the sectioning of a crop before cutting I'm, usually dividing the hair into four areas or sections one at the top to either side and one at the back. You can see that these sections are guided by the areas of the head. The e pecks two sections above each parietal Ridge and the crane area. Isolating these areas mean that I can break down the cut and work on each of these sections individually, and this is how I would work through each individual area. I would leave the fringe area to the end and again using the head map as reference. I will section off the frontal area. We have a couple of in depth, videos that cover how to section and cut a crop and more detail. I will link them in the description below if you want to check them out when it comes to sectioning the top. I'M always predominantly using these zones as the outline guide for the sections I take. When the top is divided into these areas, I can take subsections within each one, either vertically, horizontally or diagonally, depending on the shape that I want to create. Obviously the direction you take. The hair or type of elevation you use within these areas will deference tile to style, but the overall format of these zones makes planning your haircut far easier. I hope this gives you a little more insight into mapping out the top prior to a haircut. The next time you approach a haircut, try isolating the top into these areas first and work on each individual zone at a time and see if it helps you gain more control over the end result. As always, thanks very much for watching see you next time.