How to Coordinate Your Hands When Giving a Haircut

If you are totally new to cutting hair, it can be difficult to get your hands in synch with what you want them to do. When giving a haircut, you need to use both hands. They both have different but important jobs to do. Since only 15% of people are left-handed, we will look at the jobs your hands do assuming you are right-handed (for sake of illustration). Your right hand is your cutting hand and your left hand is your holding hand. Your left hand is very important with your pinkie and ring fingers being your spacer fingers with your middle and pointer fingers being your holding fingers.
Jobs of Your Holding Hand Your holding hand (for illustration, it's your left or less dominant hand) has 3 important jobs to do: * Holds the hai View the rest of this article