Which design line is described as a traveling guide?

• A. Stationary Design Line
• B. Mobile Design Line
• C. Design Line
• D. Reference Line

Answer: (B)

In haircutting, a design line guides how length and shape are built as you work around the head. The traveling guide is a line that moves with the cut, effectively a moving reference that travels as you cut. This allows the stylist to maintain the intended shape and length around curved surfaces and as you pass from one section to another, giving you a consistent result while creating graduation or layers. A stationary design line stays fixed at a point and doesn’t advance with the cut, which anchors length in one place rather than guiding the entire head around as you work. A reference line serves as a baseline for measurements or symmetry but isn’t the live guide that travels with the cutting. So the line described as a traveling guide is the mobile design line, the one that moves with the cut to shape the hairstyle.