How to choose a hair clipper

19-05-2018

Hair

For lovers of haircut at home, haircut machines are invented. They allow you to quickly put your hair in order, even with a minimum of experience, and also, importantly, save money on going to the hairdresser. Let's figure out how to choose a hair clipper and what types of these devices are.

Having come to a specialized store, their eyes diverge from the variety of choice of these devices. Some surprise their appearance, others at the cost. To get lost here to an unknowing person is not surprising. We find out what is a hair clipper, which is better in home use.

Kinds

By type of built-in engine cars are divided into:

• vibrating. In them the electromagnetic coil drives the blades. This design is simple and does not require expensive materials for production. This technology makes all cheap hair clippers. However, for a low price you have to pay serious disadvantages: low power, noise, vibrations, overheating and low continuous operation time (not more than 20 minutes); • rotary. They use an electric motor. Rotary hair clipper with an electric motor is more expensive vibration, but it can work for a long time without interruption. The advantages still include high reliability, long service life, modest levels of noise and vibrations. But there is one drawback besides the price - it is a lot of weight. It is rotary hair clippers most often used by professional hairdressers.

The difference between household and professional hair clippers

Home appliances are different from professional:

• low power; • short time without interruption; • less sharp knives; • the inability to quickly replace blades; • short service life.

Professional hair clippers are much more expensive and are designed for long continuous operation. Therefore, before buying, you need to decide how often a hair clipper and beard will be used. If not often, a simple budget model of small capacity would be a good choice.

Hair clippers

Nozzles are used to adjust the length of the hair during trimming. In addition, the nozzle is necessary for safe use of the device. It protects the skin from direct contact with the blades. So getting hurt with a clipper is quite difficult. Usually a set of nozzles up to 8 pieces. More expensive devices have more attachments. When using nozzles, hair length can vary from 0.3 mm to 7 cm. In short, hair can only be obtained by shaving. Professional or household hair clippers are completed with fixed and adjustable nozzles. Adjustable head can have 4-12 hair lengths. There are more advanced models with several dozen lengths.

Device power

A hair clipper can have one of the following types of food:

• battery; • mains powered; • combined (battery + network).

In models with a battery, the charge usually lasts about 50 minutes. These devices are almost no noise and have low power. These machines are convenient lack of cord, which can interfere with the hairdresser.

Network-powered devices are the cheapest. True, an electric hair clipper does not always have a long enough cord.

Devices with a combined power supply are the most convenient, but also the most expensive. When the battery is low, such a machine can be connected to the network to continue work.

Knives for hair clippers

Quality of a hairstyle directly depends on knives. In order not to care about their sharpness, buy a device with self-sharpening knives. They are made of three materials:

• stainless steel; • ceramics; • titanium alloy.

Usually steel knives are coated with carbon or titanium in order to prolong their service life. Such knives are not designed for long continuous work. They overheat. For long-term work, ceramic or titanium knives are needed. But they have their drawbacks. Ceramic knives are very fragile and can fall when a machine falls. Titanium knives can adversely affect smoothness.

Power

The quality of the haircut depends on the speed of movement of the knives. And the greater the power of the hair clipper, the faster the knives move and the more efficient the hair cut.Power from 20 W. Such devices have a high speed of movement of knives and cope with even the thickest hair. Not recommended for beginner hairdressers. They are quite expensive.Power up to 12 W. These machines are perfect for people with no experience. They run a little slower than the more powerful ones, but they allow you to avoid mistakes. However, their power may not be enough to work with hard hair and individual strands may be pulled during trimming. Such devices are not very expensive.

Additional functions

Speed adjustment. Most of the hair can be clipped at high speed, but in critical places it is worth reducing the speed.Shaving head. A very useful addition that will appeal to many men.Turbo. This feature allows you to increase the power of the machine to the maximum. This will reduce the time spent on a haircut.Wet cleaning. This function has some battery cars. In such devices, the working part can be simply washed under running water.Battery charge indication. Allows you to avoid unexpected disconnection of the machine during the haircut.Charging stand. It is very convenient if the device is constantly used and it needs to be charged all the time.Rubber inserts. Allows you to avoid slipping cars in the hands during operation.Hair collection. In some models, special containers are used where the cut hair is collected. Works like a vacuum cleaner. Not very convenient due to increased noise and increased weight.Price. Prices start at about 500 rubles. For this price you can buy the most simple Chinese models with 2-3 attachments and steel knives. The most expensive and best clippers cost up to 15,000 rubles and have a lot of additional functions. For home use, a model for 1-3 thousand rubles will be enough.

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Now you know how to choose a hair clipper. Buy and experiment at home.