Nathan Luszcz
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Deacon's mane is pretty thick (thicker than my big boy's, that's for sure). Any advice how to thin it out gracefully? I generally pull my qh's mane, but it looks great anyways, doesn't need much help. Thanks!
It is standard to undercut and unless you keep undercutting you do develop a lovely mowhawk during grow out.Hmm... I was hoping there was a trick to pulling it. I'm not touching clippers to his mane without someone who knows what they are doing standing next to me, lol. I just have a 2" bridle path now, I'll keep it simple until I need something else. My big guy's bridle path seems to grow every time I clip it, so its going "au natural" until it shrinks a little
When undercutting, why doesn't that new hair grow straight up? How do you get it to lay nicely? When you do it correctly, can you tell that the horse used to have a very thick mane or does it look completely natural? Thanks a bunch for the comments!
well here is what I do......I pull as much of the short stuff leaving the longer hair (I love long full manes).......then if that hasn't thinned it enough .....I attempt to not take any of the longest hairs and pull from the underside of the mane......as for the forelock it is just as easy to tidy that with the clippers when doing a bridle path ..yess you get the hair standing on end if you let it grow out but if you keep bridle paths up it's pretty simple to tidy around the forelock as well..............the other option is to pull all the softer "fluffy" hair in the forelock...............I've always pulled manes before, but with the goal to shorten rather than thin. Usually any thinning I do is undesired. Any tips on how to pull mane AND forelock with the aim of thinning and NOT shortening? Do you just try to take the shortest hairs? Do you aim for one side of the other, or the middle, or anything?
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