The main advantages of the "hairdressing salon at home" are significant savings in money, time and the ability to get a haircut at any convenient time. But still, do not forget that a haircut at home is a painstaking and responsible business, requiring compliance with safety rules, and you should also remember about the aesthetics of your future hairstyle.
If you have the appropriate skills, you will always delight those around you with your well-groomed hairstyle. Moreover, a hair clipper will allow you to take care of your beard, giving it a trendy and neat look.
Main settings
First, decide how long you will cut your hair. The attachments come in a completely different range of 1 - 41mm. Perhaps the models that have a length setting for very short haircuts are suitable for you - from 0.5 - 2.5 mm, plus a pair of semi-built-in regulators for a 3 - 40 mm haircut are also included.
The quality of the steel from which the knives are made is a very important indicator when choosing this device. It is best when the blades are made of high quality stainless steel. They can be coated with special materials, for example, titanium or coated with diamond dust, and they can also be processed with special methods. All this prolongs the use of the device. The quality of the machine's blades directly affects the sharpness of the teeth, and, therefore, the ease of movement and smoothness of movement. At the same time, the machine will not move forward, leave uncut places behind it and slip in any hair of any stiffness.
Do not forget to lubricate the rubbing surfaces of the knife blades with special oil: as required in the instructions every 2 or 3 haircuts or when freezing. If you follow this important rule, the machine will last you longer. Lubricate with one drop of oil in the middle of the comb and along its edges, as well as one drop at the edges of the plastic plate and along the edges of the rear support surface of the movable blade. The knife is usually lubricated when the movement of the movable blade slows down or when it gets very hot. There are also self-lubricating blades. With the Teflon coated blades, grease falls off by itself. The convenience of cleaning the machine is an important criterion. Even the fact that the lower and upper blades are tightly pressed against each other, the machine is still clogged with hair. The clipper should be cleaned of hair after each haircut. Therefore, it is worth choosing a device in which the blades are freely separated from each other, which will allow cleaning the internal cavity. The machines deserve the lowest score for this parameter, for cleaning it was necessary to unscrew the screws that attach the blades to the machine.
Power and nutrition.
A haircut at home involves not spending a lot of effort and time. And this will require a considerable speed of advancement of the machine, depending on the frequency of movement of the blades. For those who consider themselves a master in this business, a model with a blade speed of about 10,000 rpm is suitable. Or pay attention to hair clippers with medium speed - these are somewhere from 9 to 12w motors. Low power can slip in coarse hair, pull hair and leave uncut spots. The machines may have Turbo and Turbo functions. The first increases power by 20%, while the second collects cut hairs.
All hair clippers are divided according to the charging method into the following types: powered by electricity only from the mains; operating on batteries and combining these two types - i.e. accumulator-network machines. The first type of models is quite reliable, but inconvenient, because the cord is always at hand. The second type is designed to work for a specific period of time - usually from 40 to 60 minutes. Then you have to put it on a charger, the duration of recharging is indicated in the instructions and lasts about 8-10 hours. And the last type is battery-powered machines. They are comfortable because you can put on recharge at any time and can be used for a long time from the mains.
Equipment
We all think it's good when a machine comes with a lot of attachments. But it turns out that the optimal number of required attachments is 4 or 5. The machine is just as good, in the kit of which there is only one attachment, the height can be freely adjusted by moving it away or closer to the blades. Also pay attention to the convenience of adjusting the attachments. According to this characteristic, the lowest score was awarded to those machines for which the adjustment of the nozzles consisted of removing the old nozzle and replacing it with a new one. For attachments that had to be changed, the number of different settings and the convenience of switching them were taken into account. Often they offer scissors, a comb, a hairdresser's cape to the machines, which are also included, but you need to take them when you like the machine itself. Or it is better to separately purchase scissors and a comb convenient for you.
Convenience
When choosing a typewriter in a store, be sure to take it in your hand and decide whether it is comfortable to hold it in your hand. This characteristic determines how comfortable it is for the hand to work with the typewriter, that is, how convenient it is to use switches and buttons. In case of uncomfortable holding, your hands will quickly get tired, and the haircut modeling procedure will bring only negative emotions. The optimal weight of the device is a rather difficult parameter to evaluate. A light clipper will twitch regularly, and the heavy weight will make your arm tire faster.
Well, now the choice is yours!
