Hairline Design 101: The Rule of Thirds Explained by a Hair Surgeon
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Dr. Ken Anderson walks through the first principle of hairline design: the rule of thirds. When you look at a face, your eye already expects the hairline to land in a specific place, and that position can be estimated by dividing the face into three equal horizontal sections. Chin to under the nose is the first third, under the nose to between the eyebrows is the second, and between the eyebrows to the hairline is the third. Get that proportion right and the reconstruction reads as natural. The real secret, though, is what comes next: an organic, irregular frontal hairline that looks like it has always been there, not like something was put back.
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Hi, it’s Dr. Ken Anderson. I’m here at Anderson Center for Hair and what we’re going to do today is a little bit of hairline design. First is the rule of thirds. That’s where a hairline should go. When you look at someone, you’re expecting to see a hairline in a certain position and you can estimate that position using the rule of thirds. If we divide the face up into three equal horizontal bars of equal width, we’d end up with where a correct hairline should be. If we look at the bottom of the chin to under the nose, that’s 1/3. Just under the nose to between the eyebrows, that’s the second third. And the upper third, from between the eyebrows to the hairline and you can see here we’ve got 1 2 3 equal thirds. After we’re done reconstructing the hairline, the hair needs to look like it’s always been there and not like somebody put it back and the secret to that is kind of an organic irregular frontal hairline.
