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. Dont know the difference between a Fade or a Taper. The taper fade is the closest haircut you can receive to a fade without cutting most of your hair off. First off a fade is a clipper technique used by barbers to blend short hair into even shorter hair.

That being said Taper Fade Barbershop was started. Basically a fade is a really short taper. A taper fade has a longer graduated look with a clean fade around the bottom of your hairline around your neck.

The taper fade is a mashup consisting of two similar barbering techniques. The best way to explain how it works is to look at each of these two elements individually. 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.

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. See our Complete Style Guide for Taper Fade Haircuts. 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.

A taper fade can go a long way to make what is considered a boring look into a trendy haircut. While the bald fade blends into the. Classic tapered looks tend to have longer buzzed hair around the ears and down to the back.

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. A fade cut is essentially a normal taper haircut with a very short taper. 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.