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A Posh Bob is cut in the following basic steps. See the photo gallery below. And we recommend watching the videos that are posted on page 3.
  1. If a Posh Bob is being created from long hair, it is best to cut the length off of the hair straight across one length at a point a bit longer than the length that you want the front of the hair to be when it is finished. This will make the following steps easier.
  2. Pin up the sides of the hair from the back, all the hair above the ears. It is as if you are making pigtails high up on the back of the hair, leaving the length on the back hanging down.
  3. The "part" on the back on the hair formed by pinning it up should run like an upside down V from ear to ear.
  4. Cut the length of the back to how short you want it to be. A suggestion would be to cut it as long as the point where the collar from a regular t-shirt would be on your neck.
  5. With the hair still pinned up pull sections of the length out, with your fingers pointing down at a 45 degree angle. The fingertips pointing inward.
  6. Slide your fingers out just to the point where the length on the bottom slides into your fingers. You don't want to cut the length on the very bottom any more so let it slide into your fingers just barely, so it "hides" the hair.
  7. Cut the 45 degree angle and work around the back of the hair in sections, using previously cut sections as references. Hair is remarkably forgiving and it doesn't have to be absolutely exactly cut,every single piece the same length.
  8. Now remove the pins and comb all of the hair straight down.
  9. You should know how long that you want the front of the hair to be at this point. Chin length? Longer? Just remember that hair stretches when wet and if it has any body to it will "bounce back" and become shorter when dry. For example hair cut to chin length when wet may wind up at cheekbone length when dry! It is always better to be conservative, you can always make it shorter, but you will have to wait for it to grow if you wind up with it shorter than you would like.
  10. For chin length plan on having the front of the hair when wet being about 2 inches longer than the chin. For semi shoulder length hair cut it at the shoulder length when wet.
  11. You will want to cut the length of the sides from the back towards the front at an angle so that it matches up to the length of the back that you have cut in step 4.
  12. Move forward cutting keeping in mind where you want the length of the front to wind up. Keep combing the hair down and check your progress. Measure twice and cut once!
  13. Do the other side the same way. This time you can pull down both sides of the hair and look at it from the front to make sure it is even. You can always fine tune by making a second pass matching this one side to the other side.
  14. Even isn't always even. Some people have cowlicks in the front of their hair. You can painstakingly cut the hair even and when it dries it can bounce back to a point where it looks uneven. You can compensate for this but, it can be tricky and require some post-cut fine tuning.
  15. Blend it in the back. Go around the back and blend in the hair where you have made the 45 degree cut into the rest of the hair. This is a bit like layering it by using point cutting. You can also use thinning shears here to blur the sharp lines that have been cut in. Thinning shears used on only the last half inch or so of the hair will do the trick.
  16. Strays. Look for those stray hairs that got missed. Ones that were tucked up behind the ears, were hiding under the cutting apron somehow or just got plain missed or cut uneven on the first pass.
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