HG haircut - just a new trend or alternative to S&D?

[tigress86]

There is a new service that many salons here where I live are introducing and promoting. It is called "HG haircut" and it is done with a special hair clipper. The method is supposed to eliminate up to 90% of split ends without losing any length. Here are some before and after photos I found (sorry if they are huge)




What do you guys think? Is it just another trendy service that the salons are offering to make more money or could this be an alternative to spending hours and hours on search and destroy? It is hard to tell from the pictures if the amount of splits has really been reduced dramatically or if the hair has just been straightened and polished more in the after photos.

[parkmikii]

Hmm..I never heard about this method before but to me the after pictures look like 'after keratin treatment' results..
The angle seems a bit different as well in the after pictures, so I don't know what to say about it. I'd like to know different inputs as well

[StellaKatherine]

I think something like that was sold on the tv a couple of years ago? I wonder if it really cuts the damaged ends or does it just cuts all the flyaways ? I have lots of flyaways naturally because of the wavy hair texture ( I guess ), not all of them damaged or having a split ends. So to me, this would be cutting new growth? I don't know really... I hope there is someone smarter than me who can tell if this is good or bad

[Theobroma]

I've never heard of this method and I can't comment on it one way or the other, but the before-and-after photos strike me as pretty worthless. The angle and lighting is different and that's all it takes to show or mask flyaways -- my hair can look both ways on the same day, in the same updo, just depending on how the light is hitting it when I'm taking the picture.

You know those hair regrowth ads where the "before" pic shows a guy looking almost completely bald on top and the "after" pic seems to indicate that his hairline is much close to his forehead, but when you look closely you see that the "after" pic was shot from much higer up so it shows more hair? That's what these pics remind me of!

[tigress86]

Found a pic of the clippers too:


And a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-DuZVY-A3k

But I would also be worried that it will also trim new growth and flyaways instead of just splits.

[missblueeyes]

I saw an ad for that thing and honestly? How could the machine tell if the hair is actually split? That's basically like the hairdresser technique of taking a strand, twisting it and cutting of EVERY hair that pokes out of the twist, no matter whether it's split or not.

[Zindell]

Uh... no thanks! (Runs away in fear after watching video)

[KittyBird]

I think something like that was sold on the tv a couple of years ago? I wonder if it really cuts the damaged ends or does it just cuts all the flyaways ? I have lots of flyaways naturally because of the wavy hair texture ( I guess ), not all of them damaged or having a split ends. So to me, this would be cutting new growth? I don't know really... I hope there is someone smarter than me who can tell if this is good or bad

That's what it looks like to me. I have tons of flyaways too, and not many split ends, so for me it would just cut off mostly healthy ends. Not that I would ever let anything like that near my hair, it looks scary!
I also think the 'after' pictures look like they have been straightened and smoothed down with lots of products. It's like those before and after haircut pictures, where the first photo shows the longhaired woman looking sad and frizzy in bad lighting, and the after picture with the short, stylish hair is taken after lots of styling, a professional make-up job and in excellent lighting conditions - look how much healthier and happier she is after she got rid of her unstylish and age-inappropriate long hair!

[lapushka]

I saw an ad for that thing and honestly? How could the machine tell if the hair is actually split? That's basically like the hairdresser technique of taking a strand, twisting it and cutting of EVERY hair that pokes out of the twist, no matter whether it's split or not.

Yes, it's much like the "split ender". Every strand gets cut, split or not, and if the split is further up the hairshaft, it doesn't touch it. Manual S&D is still much much better!

[Anje]

At least this uses (hopefully) sharp clippers to cut every flyaway hair, as opposed to the split ender! Maybe it doesn't result in every hair splitting after a few weeks from last use?