• A purchase of a CoolPiece does not include a cut or style. Many clients take care of this all by themselves, but there is nothing quite like the services of a great stylist to make you look your best. Haircut tips are listed here.

• (If you want to purchase a basic mail-order pre-cut style, see the Billy the Barber menu item under Customer Service).

• In general you do not have to expose yourself by removing your unit in public. You usually go to a stylist with the unit firmly attached and it’s still on when you get home. So don't fear sitting in a glass fronted public salon and being embarrassed in front of the other clients. You just have to face the consultation with your stylist and be confident that they understand the sensitive nature of your situation.

• Due to the personal nature of hair-loss, many clients self-cut at home with vacuum haircutters such as the Robo-Cut or the Flowbee, or learn how to self-cut with clippers, guides and mirrors. We highly recommend you spend a couple of hours researching on YouTube to see how you can avoid going out for that haircut altogether. Nothing beats the satisfaction and savings of ordering online and cutting your own hair! 

• If using a regular stylist or barber, ensure that the edge hair is left longer for the blend. This is the main issue with going to a regular stylist. The most common disaster is the edge hairs get cut too short during tapering, blending, or fading. But if the stylist is made aware that the unit's edge hairs must remain longer, they should have the ability to avoid making this mistake.

• Cutting a hairpiece or wig is not the same as cutting growing hair. Straight-razor haircuts, which can be nice on growing hair, look lousy on hairpieces and you end up with something that looks like feathery split ends. Point cutting each elevation with shears or clippers works better, so politely tell your stylist you don't approve the use of a razor during your haircut.

• Scissors over comb and clippers over comb are recommended, but again, for side and back blending, these techniques have a high risk of making the unit's edge hairs too short, so be aware and make sure that such blending and graduation does not cause the hairs at the edge of the unit be cut too short. You need this edge hair for a natural transition from unit to real hair.

• Try to leave an extra couple of millimeters length because you can revive the texture and feel of an older unit by giving it a new haircut after a couple of months of wear. This tip alone can stretch the lifespan of an old piece by months.

• To reduce density, consider sending the unit in for a factory repair because if thinning shears are used, you'll still have the original knot density at the root and it will look awful and move terribly.

• If you want to try going it alone, some things that are good to have at home include:
  • a very powerful vacuum cleaner, 
  • the best clippers you can afford, for example Oster 76, or Andis Masters, and a full set of guard combs. (With a salon cut-in costing up to $250 every time, you can afford to buy the best clippers once).
  • a flat-top comb, and a blending/fading comb, brightly colored plastic if your hair is dark, and black if you are blond or gray.
  • a three-way mirror,
  • a Robo-Cut or Flowbee, (many find these easier to learn to use than clippers)
  • a man-size Styrofoam mannequin head and a clamp stand, plus wig T pins, for comfortably cutting a unit you don't have on your head.

After ten years, we have a very short list of hair stylists that our clients have recommended. We list them here without having traveled around to test them, and we moderate the list when we hear of a disappointment, but if you call the recommended stylists below, make your own carefully considered decision and don't forget to get the price up front.

• The Billy the Barber mail-order service available from CoolPiece.com Click here for Billy the Barber
• New York City: Didi  646-932-1108
• Beverly Hills, Jasmina at Kabuki Hair Salon, 313 N Crescent Drive, Beverly Hills CA 90210  818-398-8604 Mention CoolPiece for 10% off your price quote.
• West Los Angeles, Connie at Imaging International. 310-575-4247. 
• Los Angeles / Beverly Hills, Gosia (private home salon) 310-617-0680 
• Los Angeles / Burbank, Carole at Integrity Hair Loss Concepts 818-468-2109
• Chicago: Dina 847-271-1795 
• Chicagoland: Madi  815-206-5923 MadsManeMagic@hotmail.com
• Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Georgina Avila 514-475-2510  georginaavila @ yahoo .com .mx 
• San Diego, Louis at Hair is Power on 4th Ave. (619) 993-3661. 
• New York City: Blanca, Private room upstairs above salon at 347 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016 (212) 213-0351
• Port Huron, Michigan: Mary Davis at the Mary Ann Hair Center at 929 Division Street. 810-982-0775. Private suite.
• London, England: Heather Morris at The Hair Clinic   the-hair-clinic.co.uk
• Phoenix/Tempe area (Arizona), Brad at Grooming Humans II. 480-968-5946
• Orlando, Florida area: Tony or April at New Beginnings, 933 Lee Rd. ste 303, Winter Park FL 32810 (407) 332 8400.
• Ireland, Dublin. Jamie at Montana Hair. Email: montanahair@yahoo.ie