When you’re starting out as a hairstylist, it’s important to follow the rules. Keep your sections consistent, your partings clean, your weave sections neat and your foils folded impeccably. Go by the book, don’t color outside the lines. Mastering the basics is essential for every artist, but as you evolve, the goal is to expand upon those basics and develop the approaches and methods that express your own creative vision. Coincidentally, now is truly one of the most rule-bending moments in hairdressing, because there is a handcrafted movement taking hold in cutting and coloring. Talented stylists are using…