Taper Fade

Dont know the difference between a Fade or a Taper.

Taper fade. The taper fade is a mashup consisting of two similar barbering techniques. In contrast to a low fade the taper fade happens much lower down on your neck. The taper fade is the closest haircut you can receive to a fade without cutting most of your hair off.

Also as Veteran it allows me to provide a service to our Military First Responders and my Puerto Rican brethren that are looking for an opportunity to flourish in the barber industry. Hence all fades are tapers but not all tapers are fades. Like a taper with a fade your hair is at its longest toward the top of your head and gets progressively shorter toward the bottom.

A taper cut on the other hand is a cut whereby the length is reduced gradually and forms a gradient starting with longer hair on top. A taper fade has a longer graduated look with a clean fade around the bottom of your hairline around your neck. A taper fade usually starts out with hair that is about at eyebrow length or longer and leaves the individual with most of their hair when finished.

See our Complete Style Guide for Taper Fade Haircuts. A fade cut is essentially a normal taper haircut with a very short taper. First off a fade is a clipper technique used by barbers to blend short hair into even shorter hair.

It is essentially longer than a fade as it leaves more hair on the sides creating a less radical and more sophisticated look. Here it isSub to my Barber Channel. Classic tapered looks tend to have longer buzzed hair around the ears and down to the back.

-----In this video we will show how to cut A high taper fade-----FOR PROMO. A taper fade can go a long way to make what is considered a boring look into a trendy haircut. Never know how to ask for your haircuts.