The ClipperGuy books are here!

The full 7 titles in the ClipperGuy book series are in stock and shipping from Marianna.  watch me tear into my box that I ordered for sale on my web site.  Get with your Marianna rep to order for you and your school and your co-workers and your students!  LINK HERE to video.

Let me level with ya!

The NEW Marianna level comb is a great tool for new haircutters to learn lines and angles on the head to master haircutting.  Has not 1 but 3 bubble levels built right in... horizontal, vertical and 45 deg angles...  Watch the video LINK HERE to learn more.

The Military Rockabilly

Post on my blog at modernsalon.com... have a look.  This spring's BIG guy haircut.  LINK to blog HERE. Thank you to Dave Alexander form American Haircuts in Midtown, ATL for the haircut image.  Nice work Dave.

Barbicide Certified

I went on line and took the FREE Barbicide Certified course today.  It was fast and easy and FREE.  And this IS important stuff.  REALLY important.  LINK HERE for the web site.  Go NOW and do it.  All licensed barbers and cosmetologists should do this.

Leila's Hair Museum

Must see this hair museum to believe it.  Victorian hair art and so much more.  Short video HERE.  Independance, MO.  Leila's is associated with Independance Cosmetology school.  This place is a one-of-a-kind national treasure.

The Chop Haircut, a how-to

In this video Ivan Zoot shares the how-to for the Chop haircut.  It is a popular mid-length style.  Easy to cut.  Fun to wear.  Quite versatile.  LINK HERE for the video.

Snake bit!

Snake bit!

The Arizona desert is well known to be home to a rattlesnake or two.  My recent trip to Phoenix had me come face to face with a mean Viper.

Quite unexpectedly, my NEW Marianna Viper barber shears, 6.5” got a piece of me.  I was working with a student to capture a youtube video (LINK HERE to the video) when in between takes I was cleaning up some stray hairs along the bottom of a bob.  My fault.  I was working fast (not the first time) and my ring finger on my left hand got too close to the front end of the snake.  That shear jumped out and bit me!

Good thing I have quick reflexes as I did not close the tool fully.  6’5” carries with it a lot of leverage.  It could have been a lot worse.  I spent a few hours in the emergency room at Phoenix memorial.  Thank you to the doctor and nurses there.  The offending Viper is pictured here, so is my hospital wrist band and my bandages finger.

That shear is super sharp.  Actually that was a good thing.  I cut myself just before the beginning of a two hour class.  I instantly applied pressure and a half dozed bandaids.  I did my class and then went off in search of the closest hospital.  The combination of pressure, time and the surgical precision of the two cuts 9 from each of the blades made it so that when they cut off the bandaids at the hospital it was already sealing well and did not need to be stitched.  Some surgical glue and more pressure and bandaging was all that was needed.

Bottom line… GREAT shears.  Great medical attention… and they students STILL got a GREAT class.