Proper Hair Grooming: Basic Essentials
For thousands of years, man has been fighting a battle with facial hair. The Egyptians shaved their beards and heads, a custom adopted from the Greeks and Romans about 330 B.C. during the reign of Alexander the Great. And for another hundreds of years, razors maintained a knife-like design and needed to be sharpened with the aid of a honing stone or leather strop. The shaving gear required considerable skill if the user was to avoid cutting themselves. However, due to advancements in engineering and technology, the modern shaving gear is much more advanced and safer to use.
The Necessity of Personal Hair Grooming
Beginning your grooming regimen is the first start in looking better and looking younger, which is always a big step in feeling good about yourself. Making that commitment and keeping it helps keep you at your best.
Hair is an important expression of people’s personalities. Understanding hair from the engineering/scientific standpoint helps hair care professionals to accurately predict what will happen to different types of hair under different conditions. Hair that is too short, thin or dull color can be a dilemma, even to the most experienced hair stylist.
It is a proven fact that your grooming (looks or appearance) does affect your career or profession. You might argue that it is the knowledge and experience that matters and that is the way it should be; unfortunately it is not.
You need to explore the nature of your hair, its care and maintenance and the cosmetic and medical problems that can affect it. Also examine the ways in which the hair care industry and the hair stylist can work together to create and preserve effective hair grooming.
Why Grooming Is Not a Choice but a Culture
The common misconception is that hair shaving or removal has been around for a short amount of time. The actual fact is that hair removal has been around for thousands of years, dating back to the cavemen. Throughout the years many things have changed, from the place from where we remove the hair to what sort of techniques that have been used.
Like the skin, your hair is already working with the tools you were born with. But stripping your hair with chemicals found in the cheap stuff only robs your hair and scalp of those very same agents.
Gone are the days when a hair stylist or a barber is limited to the traditional pair of scissors when it comes to tools for cutting hair. Now, there are literally hundreds of tools to choose from when you think of styling hair, be it for men or women. Along with modern styling techniques, manufacturers of hair styling products have developed state-of-the-art equipment to help barbers and stylists make their jobs easier.
Modern Hair Grooming Tools
Unwanted hairs on other parts of the body are an apparent problem to both men and women. They create an unsightly look and many people want them removed. Can you imagine what it would be if you were to use the conventional razor to trim down excess hairs in the ears and nostrils? Disaster!
The modern day hair stylists or barbers can now enjoy using hair clipper to essentially trim down hairs, thanks to engineering and technology. The hairs are guided into the cutting zone and trimmed off safely. Several clippers put into use a set of tiny rotating blades guarded by stainless steel or plastic combs. A battery-generated electric motor is employed to rotate the blades and safeguard one’s skin from making contact with blades.
On the other hand, one should not aim for nasal baldness because some nasal hairs are necessary for protecting against germs and dust. The most ugly nose hairs stick out from nostrils or sometimes may combine together into mustache part. While a mustache and beard trimmer can help maintain the ‘mustache line,’ the nose hair trimmer has been designed to conveniently trim any protruding hairs which can also be used for the ear. These little gadgets are designed to specifically get rid of nose and ear hair. A good nose hair trimmer is one that collects the hairs as it cuts. You don’t want the hair plucked from your nose. Given that the blades on the trimmer are hypoallergenic, it reduces any likely allergic reactions.
Good grooming also requires that you have your beard shaved. The early shaving razors had one weakness of getting dull easily and were either to be disposed off or sharpened very often. The breakthrough in electric shavers, which come with either foil or rotary cutting razor blades, has been such a relief. Men can now shave their beards and heads conveniently with this electric shaver.
Conclusion
When it comes to personal grooming and hygiene, most people spend more time thinking about how they can get rid of disturbing and unwanted hair. Such thought would arise on the minds of people especially if they use methods like shaving and plucking which only allows the hair to quickly grow again. Because of this, we can say that engineering and technology have had a great impact on effective hair grooming.
The Necessity of Personal Hair Grooming
Beginning your grooming regimen is the first start in looking better and looking younger, which is always a big step in feeling good about yourself. Making that commitment and keeping it helps keep you at your best.
Hair is an important expression of people’s personalities. Understanding hair from the engineering/scientific standpoint helps hair care professionals to accurately predict what will happen to different types of hair under different conditions. Hair that is too short, thin or dull color can be a dilemma, even to the most experienced hair stylist.
It is a proven fact that your grooming (looks or appearance) does affect your career or profession. You might argue that it is the knowledge and experience that matters and that is the way it should be; unfortunately it is not.
You need to explore the nature of your hair, its care and maintenance and the cosmetic and medical problems that can affect it. Also examine the ways in which the hair care industry and the hair stylist can work together to create and preserve effective hair grooming.
Why Grooming Is Not a Choice but a Culture
The common misconception is that hair shaving or removal has been around for a short amount of time. The actual fact is that hair removal has been around for thousands of years, dating back to the cavemen. Throughout the years many things have changed, from the place from where we remove the hair to what sort of techniques that have been used.
Like the skin, your hair is already working with the tools you were born with. But stripping your hair with chemicals found in the cheap stuff only robs your hair and scalp of those very same agents.
Gone are the days when a hair stylist or a barber is limited to the traditional pair of scissors when it comes to tools for cutting hair. Now, there are literally hundreds of tools to choose from when you think of styling hair, be it for men or women. Along with modern styling techniques, manufacturers of hair styling products have developed state-of-the-art equipment to help barbers and stylists make their jobs easier.
Modern Hair Grooming Tools
Unwanted hairs on other parts of the body are an apparent problem to both men and women. They create an unsightly look and many people want them removed. Can you imagine what it would be if you were to use the conventional razor to trim down excess hairs in the ears and nostrils? Disaster!
The modern day hair stylists or barbers can now enjoy using hair clipper to essentially trim down hairs, thanks to engineering and technology. The hairs are guided into the cutting zone and trimmed off safely. Several clippers put into use a set of tiny rotating blades guarded by stainless steel or plastic combs. A battery-generated electric motor is employed to rotate the blades and safeguard one’s skin from making contact with blades.
On the other hand, one should not aim for nasal baldness because some nasal hairs are necessary for protecting against germs and dust. The most ugly nose hairs stick out from nostrils or sometimes may combine together into mustache part. While a mustache and beard trimmer can help maintain the ‘mustache line,’ the nose hair trimmer has been designed to conveniently trim any protruding hairs which can also be used for the ear. These little gadgets are designed to specifically get rid of nose and ear hair. A good nose hair trimmer is one that collects the hairs as it cuts. You don’t want the hair plucked from your nose. Given that the blades on the trimmer are hypoallergenic, it reduces any likely allergic reactions.
Good grooming also requires that you have your beard shaved. The early shaving razors had one weakness of getting dull easily and were either to be disposed off or sharpened very often. The breakthrough in electric shavers, which come with either foil or rotary cutting razor blades, has been such a relief. Men can now shave their beards and heads conveniently with this electric shaver.
Conclusion
When it comes to personal grooming and hygiene, most people spend more time thinking about how they can get rid of disturbing and unwanted hair. Such thought would arise on the minds of people especially if they use methods like shaving and plucking which only allows the hair to quickly grow again. Because of this, we can say that engineering and technology have had a great impact on effective hair grooming.