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Pro tip: a 78 year old barber in Yonkers taught me to stop chasing the mirror
Back in 2009 I was cutting at a spot on Central Ave in Yonkers, maybe 40 heads a day, and I was always fighting the mirror. Leaning in, checking every line twice, redoing stuff that was already fine. Then this old guy named Sal who had been cutting since the 50s watched me for a bit and said, 'You're cutting for the mirror, not the head.' He meant I was so busy checking my own work in the glass that I stopped feeling the hair between my fingers and stopped watching how the client held their neck. That week I started doing my taper by feel more, stepping back only once at the end instead of staring the whole time. My cuts got faster, and honestly cleaner, because I was reading the head instead of the reflection. Still do it that way 15 years later. Any of you older guys get taught something like that early on, or did you have to figure it out on your own?
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