Read my story, it's one we can all relate to:

Dear soon-to-be a professional haircutter,

My name is Julia Dean and I've been cutting my own hair and the hair of my family members for over 4 years now. If I was to count the money I've saved from not having to go to the hairdresser's I would probably be looking at thousands by now.

Nowadays, I have a part time business cutting the hair of my friends, and neighbours. They all started asking me where I got my hair cut - and I just told them I did it myself... and things kind of took off from there. [Now it's your turn]

It wasn't always like this though. Several years ago I was a struggling stay-at-home mom having to take care of 2 beautiful children. My husband's income hardly covered the bills.... well I don't want to drag you into the whole story here, but to make a long story short:

We DEFINITELY couldn't afford to go to the hair salon, in fact we couldn't afford much at all

Our Hair started getting longer... on all of us. Someone had to cut it, with the way that the economy was and with our bills mounting the hair dressers was at the back of our minds (and further away from our pockets).

One day, I was talking to one of my old friends about our troubles, and she told me I should go and see a 62-year-old friend of hers who cuts hair (Mary). She told me of Mary's almost *magic* abilities to cut people's hair. The reason she told me about her was that she had some serious issue against professional hairdressers - so she always cut hair for free.

Great! I thought - I got Mary's phone number from my friend and called her and managed to book an appointment the next week.

Fast forward one week... when I went to see Mary, the first thing I noticed was her amazing haircut. I silently said "Wow!" to myself...

We spoke for a few minutes... and when I asked if she could cut my own and my kids' hair - she flatly refused!

I was really upset and couldn't understand why she would be this way with me... I was broke, had no knowledge of how to cut hair, but for placing a bowl on the top of our heads and cutting around it. As my sadness quickly turned to anger..

She said, "Let Me Teach You Instead",

I Just Laughed at Her

"ME?! Cut hair? I've hardly ever held a pair of scissors in my life!"

"So? Don't worry about it," she said.

I was shocked. I really had nothing else to say so I just stood there with my mouth half open.

Well... the next couple of weeks were truly a journey.

She taught me everything... how to cut long hair, short hair, thick, fine, curly hair, straight hair, wavy hair and every other type of hair you could imagine, in fact I spent almost all my free time cutting her clients hair.

"Wow!"

What I learned over that period was nothing short of amazing.

And now, I'd like to share what I've learned with you.

Now you might be thinking that if you try cutting your own hair you would end up failing miserably. But it's not true...

I Can Change That For You

Are you tired of paying top dollar to the hairdresser for a mediocre haircut that looks just like everyone else's?

Are you sick of not being able to cut the hair yourself - and get it JUST the way you like it?

Now I know what you might be thinking...

"But Julia, I've tried cutting my own hair before - and I wouldn't show it to my blind grandmother!"

So... maybe you've tried to cut your own hair before - but it didn't work out the way you liked?

Don't worry, because that's why I'm writing you today.

The Secrets Mary Taught Me I Refined and Now Offer To You!

After Mary had finished teaching me all the basics of cutting hair she started to teach me how to combined the basics in order to create stunning designs. But like I said, fist I mastered the basics.

If you want to learn how to cut hair the right way then you need to memorise this diagram, it is the foundation and the starting point of my book. Knowledge really is power when it comes to cutting hair.