BARB 102: Advanced Barbering

Citrus College Course Outline of Record

Citrus College Course Outline of Record
Heading Value
Effective Term: Fall 2025
Credits: 8.5
Total Contact Hours: 240
Lecture Hours : 120
Lab Hours: 120
Hours Arranged: 0
Outside of Class Hours: 240
Total Student Learning Hours: 480
Prerequisite: BARB 101.
Strongly Recommended: ENGL C1000.
Transferable to CSU: No
Transferable to UC: No
Grading Method: Standard Letter

Catalog Course Description

This course is a continuation of BARB 101 and focuses on men’s haircutting techniques using shears, razors, clippers and trimmers. The course will include fades, tapers, clipper-cuts, clipper-over-comb, and scissor-over-comb techniques for wet and dry hair as well as hairstyling, skin analysis, and an introduction to basic facial and shaving techniques. 120 lecture hours, 120 lab hours.

Course Objectives

  • Perform short haircuts using shears, clippers, trimmers, and a razor.
  • Identify diseases and disorders of the skin.
  • Perform a basic facial.
  • Identify the 14 shaving areas of the face.
  • Demonstrate the positions and strokes of shaving.
  • Explain the options for hair replacement.

Major Course Content

  1. Men’s Haircutting and Styling
    1. Client consultation
    2. Principles of haircutting and styling
    3. Haircutting techniques
    4. Haircutting with shears
    5. Haircutting with a razor
    6. Haircutting with clippers
    7. Tapering
    8. Fading
    9. Haircut finishing
    10. Styling techniques
    11. Safety precautions for haircutting and styling
  2. Structure, Diseases and Disorders of the Skin
    1. Anatomy of the skin
    2. Identifying disorders and diseases of the skin
    3. Disorders of the sebaceous and sudoriferous glands
    4. Pigment disorders and hypertrophies of the skin
  3. Introduction to Facial Massage and Treatments
    1. Subdermal systems
    2. Massage
    3. Facial equipment
    4. Facial treatments
  4. Introduction to Shaving
    1. Fundamentals of shaving
    2. Infection control and safety precautions for shaving
  5. Men’s Hair Replacement
    1. Client consultation
    2. Hair replacement systems
    3. Alternative hair replacement methods
    4. Cleaning and styling hair replacement systems

Lab Content

  1. Men's Haircutting and Styling
    1. Advanced techniques with shears
    2. Haircutting with clippers, trimmers, and a razor
    3. Line up
    4. Fades
    5. Shadow fades
    6. Pompadour
    7. Flat top
    8. Crew cut
    9. Blow drying short hair
  2. Basic Facial
    1. Facial procedures
    2. Treatments and modalities
    3. Skin analysis
    4. Basic facial procedure
  3. Shaving
    1. Client protection and safety
    2. 14 Shave areas
    3. Movements of the razor

Suggested Reading Other Than Required Textbook

Barber Society Magazine, Modern Salon Magazine, Behind the Chair Magazine

Examples of Required Writing Assignments

Check in questions, workbook chapters

Examples of Outside Assignments

Chapter check in questions, complete all of the chapters in the workbook, vocabulary, before and after haircut transformation on a person, finished styled look on a completed haircut on a mannequin or person

Instruction Type(s)

Lab, Lecture