Finally learned why my fades kept looking muddy

For the longest time I was using a #1 guard to blend out the bottom and it always came out patchy. An old barber in Austin told me to check my clipper speed, turns out I was running it way too slow and it was pulling hairs instead of cutting clean. Dropped to a lighter touch and bumped the speed up, night and day difference. Anyone else dealt with this or is it just me taking forever to figure out the obvious?

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wyatt13528d ago

Back in barber school my instructor drilled it into me that clipper speed matters as much as blade depth, but I still ignored it for a year. Once I switched to a variable speed clipper and kept it cranked on the sides, muddy faded gone. The pull and snag was doing the damage, not my blending technique.

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