ABSTRACT
As hair styles have changed over the decades, many hair stylists have come to rely heavily on their equipment. Brushes are made with bristles. Stiff hair or feather, plastic or nylon, are all used to make various kinds of brushes. Boar bristles are hair from hog or wild boar. This is nylon that has been spun into microfilaments to create synthetic brushes. The most expensive of all badger-hair brushes, silvertip badger claims to hold lather well when mixed with water. Vent brushes are useful on set for quick touch-ups. Ball-tipped brushes have little nylon balls attached to the bristles. Cutting combs are used as a cutting guide with scissors. Texturizing shears are used to thin out hair and to put the final finishes on a haircut. Use the curling iron appropriate to the work being done, hair texture, and shooting environment. Another important piece of equipment is the blow dryer, says Yvette.
