Taper Fade

Like a taper with a fade your hair is at its longest toward the top of your head and gets progressively shorter toward the bottom.

Taper fade. A taper cut on the other hand is a cut whereby the length is reduced gradually and forms a gradient starting with longer hair on top. Basically a fade is a really short taper. The taper fade is a mashup consisting of two similar barbering techniques.

-----In this video we will show how to cut A high taper fade-----FOR PROMO. First off a fade is a clipper technique used by barbers to blend short hair into even shorter hair. The low taper fade is a classic haircut that gradually gets shorter down the sides for a subtle and elegant cut.

A taper fade usually starts out with hair that is about at eyebrow length or longer and leaves the individual with most of their hair when finished. See our Complete Style Guide for Taper Fade Haircuts. Also as Veteran it allows me to provide a service to our Military First Responders and my Puerto Rican brethren that are looking for an opportunity to flourish in the barber industry.

The best way to explain how it works is to look at each of these two elements individually. The taper fade is the closest haircut you can receive to a fade without cutting most of your hair off. But fades go really short often revealing the skin on the side of your head.

A fade cut is essentially a normal taper haircut with a very short taper. In this example the trim is short and neat on the top and the taper starts out on the sides towards the edge of the hairline ending close to the hairline in a bald skin fade. Never know how to ask for your haircuts.

Here it isSub to my Barber Channel. Classic tapered looks tend to have longer buzzed hair around the ears and down to the back. A fade is a taper that gradually takes the hair down to the skin so that it looks like the hairline on the sides and back of your head fades away before it reaches the natural hairline.