Great barbering starts with understanding hair texture. This post explores why a proper consultation matters when cutting different hair types, from straight to coily. Learn what to expect from a multicultural barber consultation and how the right approach leads to better results at a Peterborough barber.
A premium haircut doesn’t start with clippers. It starts with a conversation.
Ritzy Barbers was created to raise the standard of barbering in Peterborough, and your About page makes a clear promise: the studio welcomes everyone, works across a wide range of hair types and cultural styles, and delivers professionalism without compromise. This post turns that promise into something concrete: what a real consultation looks like, how technique changes by texture, and how you maintain your cut properly afterward.
Hair texture changes everything:
That’s why trend-led “one cut fits all” thinking fails. A premium barber adapts the same principles, shape, balance, finish, to different textures.
When someone sits in the chair, we want to understand three things before we touch the hair:
What do you want your hair to do day-to-day?
Do you style it every morning or do you want it to fall into place? Are you wearing hats for work? Do you train most days?
What does your hair naturally do?
Does it wave, curl, coil, shrink, puff, sit flat, resist product?
How often do you realistically want to maintain it?
This matters because a skin fade needs a different upkeep rhythm than a taper or grow-out style.
With straighter hair, weight distribution matters. Too much bulk, and it looks boxy. Too little, and it collapses.
Premium approach:
Curly hair looks best when the cut respects the curl pattern. A fade creates contrast, but the top needs the right length to define curls rather than fuzzing out.
A “clean grow-out” trend in 2025 is partly about letting texture show naturally while keeping an intentional outline. Curly cuts benefit massively from this approach: keep the perimeter crisp, keep the crown shaped, let the curls do the work.
Afro hair has range: tight coils, looser curls, different densities across the head. The goal isn’t to force it into a Eurocentric silhouette, it’s to build a shape that suits the client and keeps hair healthy.
British GQ has called out a shift in how Afro hair is being worn and perceived, more men are embracing grown-out texture with clean outlines rather than feeling pressure to keep it short.
Dermatology guidance also reinforces that certain practices around Afro-textured hair—tight braids, heavy extensions, excessive manipulation, and combining multiple stressful practices, can increase breakage and traction risk.
Premium approach:
A barber who offers braids should understand not only the style, but the care standards around it. BAD guidance is clear: braids should not be painful, shouldn’t stay in too long, and edges should be protected from tension.
Premium maintenance is simple:
If you’ve ever had a cut that looked decent on day one and wrong by week two, you already know: hair type matters. Ritzy’s promise is that every client gets the same standard of care, because the technique is adapted properly.
