I under-estimated comb size 21 on my Braun trimmer (still can’t figure out if it’s millimeters or freedom units), and used it to trim my head. I was also under the assumption that using size 13 on the sides would give a fade.
Well, turns out that there’s really not a lot of difference between 21 and 13, at least to the visible eye - so there’s no ‘fade’, and me being at at Norwood scale 3 makes it even more worse, almost like a Tonsure Mini Pro ™.
Now I look like Jason Statham if he was a pedophile monk. Kids will look at my franken-hair fuckery and piss off their pants.
It takes a professional with a steady hand to get a good fade. They have to use a progression of combs and a scooping hand motion to get the effect