Getting a barber's cut Filipino style follows the “2 x 3” rule, or the practice of taking off two fingers' worth of hair on the sides and three fingers' worth on the back. The top section of your hair allows for styling flexibility because it's longer.

As we briefly mentioned above, the traditional domain of the barbershop is shorter cuts, typically performed with clippers and straight razors: think buzzcuts, crewcuts, fades, short side parts, and other hair styles in that neighborhood.