The present invention relates generally to improvements in styling a hair salon patron's hair in which, more particularly, the styling imparts a desirable layered or tapered appearance.
It is already well known, as exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 2,225,454 for “Curler” issued to S. F. Kayn on Dec. 17, 1940 and U.S. Pat. No. 2,254,816 for “Hair Curler” issued to M. Bergmann on Sep. 2, 1941, to mention but a few, that imparted styling of hair can be achieved by having strands of the hair wound about and thus made to assume the circular shape of underlying so-called curlers, wherein the hair strands, when the curlers are removed, retain their circular shape as so-called “curls”. The styling or appearance provided by the curls is however limited in fulfilling fashion trends, particularly a current trend of a layered or tapered appearance in the free ends of the hair strands, and a hair style having a tapered appearance is thus left to the skill of the stylist in using, as this often is typically the case, only a comb and a scissors, and results in inconsistent patron satisfaction.
Broadly, it is an object of the present invention to overcome the foregoing and other shortcomings of the prior art.
More particularly, it is an object to enable the hair stylist to shape the hair strands with the comb in duplication of the functioning of curlers, but to better advantage in achieving the desired layered or tapered appearance, all as will be better understood as the description proceeds.
The description of the invention which follows, together with the accompanying drawings should not be construed as limiting the invention to the example shown and described, because those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains will be able to devise other forms thereof within the ambit of the appended claims.
The invention is a method of styling a hair salon patron's 10 hair 12, the nature or characterizing appearance of the hair style being best understood from the detailed description of singled-out hair strands 14, 16 and 18 which follow.
Each hair strand 14, 16 and 18 respectively extends from scalp follicles 14A, 16A and 18A to free ends 14B, 16B, 18B and measured from follicle to free end each is a selected first length 14C, a slightly greater length 16C and greatest length 18C, so that the three lengths and, more particularly, their overlapping relation provide a tapered appearance along the hair line, as noted by the dash line 20, which results from hair strands 14D adjacent the hair strand 14, hair strands 16D, adjacent the hair strand 16, and hair strands 18D adjacent the hair strand 18, being respectively of the same lengths 14C, 16C and 18C.
The tapered appearance 22 applied to the singled-out hair strands 14, 16 and 18 and hair strands 14D, 16D and 18D adjacent thereto, is shown in
To provide successively tapered appearance 22, and then the tapered appearances 30 and 32, use is made of a hair-cutting guide, generally designated 36, having a cylindrical body 38 provided with a slot 40 oriented lengthwise of the body 38. Disposed in a friction fit in slot 40 is a base 42 of a comb 44 having teeth, individually and collectively designated 46, extending from the base 42.
The salon hair stylist 48 places the hair-cutting guide 36 beneath a selected grouping of hair strands as exemplified by the hair strand group 50, with the comb teeth 46 in an initial position against the scalp of the patron 10, a scalp contacting position as noted at 52.
Next, the stylist 48, who has one hand gripped, as at 54, about an end 56 of the hair-cutting guide 36 urges the comb teeth 46 in a pivotal traverse 58 from the starting position 52 into a subsequent position of rotation 60 to an approximately subtended acute angle 62 which draws the hair strands between the clearance 64 between the teeth 46 into taut conditions extended from their scalp follicles 66 to their engagement, as at 68, to the teeth 46. The hair lengths, individually and collectively designated 70, extending beyond the comb teeth 46 constitute a line of demarcation 72 which is presented to the hair stylist 48 and serves as a cutting guide.
With the other hand 74, the stylist removes, by cutting either with a razor or scissors 76, the excess hair strand lengths 78 along the guide line 72.
The consequence of the subtended acute angle 62 provides a taper appearance 80 to the hair strand ends 82 in the angled plane 84 of the cutting stroke of razor or scissors.
The initial positioning and subsequent pivotal traverses 58 are repeated for the first tapered layer 88 along the head-encircling length 90, and then the hair-cutting guide 36 moved downwardly into engagement with the hair strands of what will constitute the second or intermediate tapered layer 92 and the initial positioning and subsequent pivotal traverses 58 repeated along the head-encircling length 94, and in a concluding step the hair-cutting guide is again moved downward into engagement with the hair strands of what will constitute the third or lowermost tapered layer 96 and the initial positioning and subsequent pivotal traverses 58 repeated along the head-encircling length 98.
What has been just described in applying the hair style using the hair-cutting guide 36 along the hair-encircling length 90 is repeated for the hair-encircling lengths 94 and 98 so that a contiguous hair style characterized by a tapered appearance 100 is provided along a head-encircling lower edge 102 of the entire head of hair of the patron 10.
Summarizing the aforesaid inventive hairstyling method and, as best understood from
While the cutting guide for practicing the within inventive method, as well as said method herein shown and disclosed in detail is fully capable of attaining the objects and providing the advantages hereinbefore stated, it is to be understood that it is merely illustrative of the presently preferred embodiment of the invention and that no limitations are intended to the detail of construction or design herein shown other than as defined in the appended claims.
Number | Name | Date | Kind |
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4471791 | DeRoche | Sep 1984 | A |