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The Power of Designlines Oct 04, 2025

The Power of Designlines

Designlines is the term that I use for Guidelines in my Haircutting Course at: VelascoHaircuttingSystem.com

So the first thought that might pop into your mind when you hear that is “What’s the big deal about Designlines, I learned how to cut Guidelines when I was in Beauty...

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What Does a Beach Ball, an Onion and a Dogs-Hind-Leg have to do with Haircutting...EVERYTHING! Sep 29, 2025

When I was in seventh grade (my first year in junior high school) I was told that I had to choose an elective class to take. My choices were Mechanical Drawing (drafting class) Shop Class (woodworking) or R.O.T.C. (something to do with the military)…So I chose Mechanical Drawing…

At the time I knew...

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See what Seasoned, Professional Hairdressers are saying about The Velasco Haircutting System Sep 29, 2025

The Other Day I Woke Up to this Wonderful Testimonial about my New Haircutting Course: The Velasco Haircutting System.

Sandra is a seasoned professional hairdresser and she purchased my haircutting course mainly to use as a training tool at her salon for her new staff members.…

As a seasoned profe...

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The Importance of Moisturizing Coily-Textured Hair for Cutting … coily-textured hair moisturizing Sep 20, 2025

The Importance of Moisturizing Coily-Textured Hair for Cutting …

I’d like to give a Shout Out and a Big THANK YOU to my good friend and fellow educator, Tay… (Tamar Slaughter).

Tay is an Internationally Renowned Hairstylist and Educator. Her work has been seen on TV, Film, Fashion Shows & many Liv...

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Why I Don’t "Name" Haircuts… haircutting theory Sep 17, 2025

Why I Don’t "Name "Haircuts…

The other day one of the students taking my haircutting course asked me why I didn’t “Name” the 56 Haircuts that I teach in the course at: VelascoHaircuttingSystem.com … Here’s my answer.

Throughout my haircutting program, I refer to each of the 56 Haircuts as simply t...

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Understanding Graduated Haircuts graduated haircuts Sep 13, 2025

Understanding Graduated Haircuts

Of the 3 Haircut Categories (One-Length Haircuts, Graduated Haircuts & Layered Haircuts) the Graduated Haircut could be the most confusing category of all.

What I mean is this, a One-Length Haircut is very easy to define, it’s either One-Length or it’s not… It coul...

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Razor Haircutting Techniques Explained haircutting theory razor haircutting Sep 06, 2025

Razor Cutting Techniques Explained

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When it comes to haircutting, like anything else, especially when it comes to razor cutting, every instructor has different terminology and different techniques that they use. So, during this course, I'm going to be using a few different t...

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Haircutting Design Elements Cheat Sheets design elements cheat sheets haircutting theory Sep 02, 2025

So, the other day someone was on my website and asked me what I meant by Design Element Cheat Sheets that I include in my new Haircutting e-Course.

And after explaining what they were to her, I thought it would be a good idea to share this information with all my hairdresser friends out there who m...

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How to Visualize a Haircut haircutting theory Sep 01, 2025

In this video clip, I teach you how to visualize a haircut. Like when you see someone walking down the street or in a shopping mall and you notice that they have a great haircut, there are certain key elements that makeup that haircut. And if you could remember those key elements, you can reprodu...

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