Wood Smith agrees about the battery life, and notes that the Magic Clip is “light enough to be able to maneuver around easily by hand.”Īlejandro “AJ” Albano, creative director and barber at Tuft NYC, has been using the cordless Magic Clip since 2015 and agrees that it is the “lightest, easiest-on-the-wrist clipper” he’s used in his two decades of cutting hair. Lester Rivera, of Florida barbershop the Spot, adds that the Magic Clip can manage every hair type, telling us it’s “strong enough to cut through the coarsest of hair yet still able to deliver precision blending.”Īnother “huge plus” of the cordless clipper, according to Rivera, is its lithium battery, which gives it “almost two hours of battery life” on a single charge. According to Mark Miguez, co-owner and barber at New York City’s Friend of a Barber, the device is not only multifunctional - it’s also a best-in-class beard trimmer - but comes with eight different guard sizes (ranging from 1/16-inch to one-inch) that cater to pretty much any length a home cutter may want. They all say it’s the clipper they use at work and the first they’d recommend for an at-home haircut. The most recommended product by our barbers is Wahl’s Magic Clip. the Velo Barber), who has seen guys of all races with beards of all hair types, says that trimmers and clippers from brands like Wahl, Andis, Philips Norelco, and Oster typically have motors (and blades) strong enough to handle the coarsest of hair (or any that’s finer, too).Ĭordless | Motor: Rotary | Battery life: 100 minutes | Guards and attachments: 8 guard attachments Miles Wood Smith, the head barber at Murdock London, told us that it’s important to use a clipper with enough power to cut your hair consistently. The best place to look is often product reviews, where people will candidly share their experiences, sometimes at great length. It’s a little tricky to figure out how powerful the motor is on any given clipper or trimmer. Magnetic clippers can usually give you a smoother, more detailed cut than pivot clippers. Magnetic and pivot motors work in a similar way, using springs and magnets to push the clipper blades from side to side. Rotary motors tend to be the most powerful, using a combination of a circular and back-and-forth motion. Generally, clippers have three types of motors: rotary, pivot, and magnetic. In fact, in talking to Sposito and 13 other experts - including 11 more barbers, a Strategist writer turned pandemic barber, and one food writer who is known to buzz his head himself - they recommended multiple hair clippers that other experts have told us are just as good at trimming beards. If you want one that does it all, look for devices with guards that are long enough to ensure your first pass at haircutting won’t leave your tresses shorter than you’d like. That doesn’t mean you can’t use the same tool to clip hair and trim a beard, though.
“The rule of thumb in our industry is you can always go shorter,” says barber Mike Sposito, who explains that most beard trimmers, even used with their longest guards, will still cut too close to the head, leaving little room to “go shorter.” But before you proceed, take heed: Trimmers for your beard and clippers for the hair on your head can’t always be used interchangeably, according to the barbers we spoke with. Your first impulse might be to grab the trimmer you already have for your beard (which you may or may not have repurposed for a DIY pandemic haircut - remember those?). Barbers have told us that the onset of spring - no matter how far away it feels - often inspires men to shed their winter manes and neaten up.
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