Most bad haircuts are not bad cuts - they are cuts that needed twenty minutes a day from someone who had four. This advisor asks about texture, density, growth pattern and face shape, and then about your actual routine, before naming cuts you can keep looking the way they looked when you left the salon.
Fine hair cannot hold weight, so heavy blunt lines collapse on it by lunchtime. Coarse hair needs internal removal or it grows out instead of down. A cowlick at the front will fight any fringe you cut into it, permanently. These facts outrank almost everything else, which is why the conversation starts there.
A blunt bob is a six-week cut and a five-minute blowdry. A long shag hides growth for four months and air-dries. A tapered short cut looks best for eleven days. Knowing which of these you are signing up for before you sit down is the difference between loving a cut and regretting it.
Vague briefs produce vague cuts. The advisor gives you a sentence to actually say - the length to leave at the front, where the shortest point sits, whether to remove weight internally or off the ends, and what not to touch - so you and the stylist are describing the same haircut.
Will bangs suit me?
It depends far more on your hairline, cowlicks and forehead height than on your face shape. The advisor asks about all three before answering, and will tell you plainly when the answer is no.
Can it suggest cuts for curly hair?
Yes, including which cuts need to be cut dry, and why a curly cut priced the same as a straight one is usually a warning sign.
Does it work for men's cuts?
Yes - fades, tapers, crops, grow-outs and the specific numbers to ask for on the clippers.
Is it free?
Yes, and there is no signup.