Perfect Hairline: Should I Create A Perfect Hairline?

Perfect Hairline: Should I Create A Perfect Hairline?

A perfect hairline is the focus of today’s Ask the Pro Stylist’s Q&A. A client wanted to know if she should wax the little imperfections around the hairline to help with certain hairstyles.

Whoop, whoop, happy Hump Day Hotties and happy New Year’s Eve! I hope you have wonderful plans, whether home alone with a loved one or at a spectacular gala (wearing one of my recommended hairstyles of course). I am having friends from the neighborhood over, and it’s always a good time. But, I will be missing my bestie who recently moved to another state. (Insert sad face here) Cheers to an amazing beginning to 2015.

This week’s query comes from a new client, a teenager who had a question about creating a perfect hairline. She has pieces that surround her face that are bothersome, and asked if she could wax the hair off. Although, life would be simple if we could just delete all that annoys us, like the unfriend button, this isn’t always the case with hair.

Let’s begin with, there is no such thing as a perfect hairline. The picture attached is close, but upon careful inspection, you can see indents and sparseness. However, the model is still pleasing to look at. That’s because nature creates imperfections that make us unique and appealing. Photos of hairlines that have been manipulated, either of men that have had a shape-up or women with a wig, look artificial and unnatural.

Barbers shave into the hairline to create picture perfect cuts, which often times look worse than if you left the natural hairline. But women shouldn’t wax to create a perfect hairline.

As we age our hairlines naturally recede and the hair thins without the help of hair removal techniques, while hair grows in places we don’t want. We don’t need to help Mother Nature and speed the hair thinning process.

If you have a question for me similar to this Wednesday’s query about a perfect hairline, please email me at DeirdreAHaggerty@gmail.com. Until then happy styling and a Happy New Year!