But there’s also the factor of damage visibility. “If you’re someone with damaged hair, most stylists will want to cut the hair dry so that they can really see where the damage is,” explains Michelle Hong, the owner and founder of NYC The Team hair salon. Pasi cosigns. “Wet hair hides a lot,” she explains. “So when I dry cut someone’s hair, I notice things that I might have missed if it was a wet haircut. Like, maybe someone has thinning or breakage in certain sections, which is super common if they burned their hair with a curling iron or something — even if it happened years ago, I can tell when their hair is dry how certain sections of hair lay differently.”
