I finally stopped rushing my fades after a 25 year vet in Newark made me sit and watch him for an hour
Last month a guy named Sal who has been cutting in Newark for 25 years let me hang around his chair on a slow Tuesday. He did a skin fade in 40 minutes and barely moved his clippers, just small wrist work and a lot of checking with a comb. I had been averaging 15 minutes a cut and wondering why my blends looked choppy at the top. He said 'the fade ain't in the blade, it's in the waiting' and went back to detailing, and that stuck with me. How long do you guys actually spend on a skin fade, and has slowing down ever cost you clients?