Do yOu cut yoru own hair?

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I need to get my freaking hair cut, it's out of control. I used to do it myself, but usually after necking half a bottle of absinthe, which never had very good consequences. (You end up rocking the ironic mullet look by mistake because you can't reach round to trim the back.) If anyone can reccomend me a good and CHEAP hairdresser, I'd be mighty obliged.

(Then again, I should ask Gareth where he gets his legendary locks chopped. Though I suspect with him it's just naturally good, and nothing to do with the barber, the lucky sod.)

― kate, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like going to the barber. It makes me feel decadant.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Plus you often get to pay whatever you want. And sometimes they have nudie magazines.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

This is a proper questin, not exasperation or pissiness: for people who don't go, what's so scary about a hairdresser?

Absolutely nothing. However, my haircut of choice is so blindingly simple to do (attach #1 guard to clippers, cut all hair on head, wash) that it doesn't make sense to me to pay someone else to do it. Also, there's a tradition of cutting hair in my family.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm with Dan: I've probably had less than a dozen paid haircuts in my entire life. Except I'll be going bald before I'm 25, so none of this #1 guard stuff for me -- I just take it all off.

― Nitsuh, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I hate hairdressers nearly as much as I hate dentists. First, because they invariably make me look even more shit than usual, and never do what I want them to do to my hair. (With the exception of one very expensive salon in NYC). And second... because, well, they fucking terrify me. I don't have to come up with a reason why.

― kate, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

To me picking a hairdresser is like picking a doctor or therapist. important, fraught with danger, and something I avoid until it becomes unavoidable.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Damn tracer, New York is way cool.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I cut my own hair once, with big household scissors. The hair was flapping over my ears, very annoying, so, I cut it off, very badly. I need to get me hair cut soon, before I attempt such stupidity again.

― james, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ellie, I usually avoid them because I just have this head of naturally wavy but super finicky hair that just seems to have a mind of it's own - a few hairdressers just haven't *listened* when I told them that using a brush while blowdrying would be a tremendously embarassing faux pas for them as it would leave me looking like Diana Ross - but no, they're the "experts" and go ahead anyway so I still end up all "hello, I have a giant blonde fro here people" and of course instead of admitting that they fucked up, they whip out the flat iron and get all "hey, why don't we try a different look for you" as if that was their plan all along. Argaghhh... I can torture my own hair for cheap at home thanks.

― Kim, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i used to get the boyf to cut it for me. but i don't have no boyf now, so i dunno what i'm gonna do about my hair. let it grow i guess.

― di, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I go to the barbers and let the girls do it. They're very nice.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I once cut crazy hair in high ihgh scholl

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

No.

― Brittany Brooke Breitenmoser, Rich White Bitch., Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Cut?

No way man my hair is who I am. It wouldnt be scruffy if I used a razor and didnt go to shit barbers where when you ask them to just use the scissors they cut it all unevenly and it turns out funny.

― Ronan, Saturday, 8 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one month passes...

Yes, cut my own and my wifes. We invested in a really good pair of clippers several years ago and regularly buzz our hair with glee! Saving tons of money and ultra short is very "in" for both men and women.

― Bill, Thursday, 24 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm still amazed that this thread didn't mutate into something smutty.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I periodically crop my ex-partner's hair. I'm getting pretty good at it now.

― David Inglesfield, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I'm extremely clumsy just trying to cut paper w/scissors, no way am I going to attempt anything more complicated.

― Nicole, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't and neither would I want to. This was established at a very young age when my mother told me how difficult it would be to get it looking in any way decent. When I discovered that she couldn't cut it I had no doubt that it was pointless me trying to. It was also one of the first faltering steps on that difficult journey when you start to discover that yr parents aren't infallible after all (you know, the one that suddenly goes light-speed when you reach your teens).

I know I could give myself a no. 1 cut if I so wished, but I've always objected to this - I'm not in the army and I'm not in a far- right political party and it might all fall out completely one day so I might as well enjoy it while its there!

I must say that I'm dreading the closure of the hairdressers in Edmonton where I have been having my haircut since I was six years old. I have only had in cut at one other place and that was my Mum's hairdresser where I went previously...I had to be dragged kicking and screaming from infant school. I don't know which aspect of it scared me most (i)those clear plastic domes those old ladies sit under when they've had perms (ii) the fact it was about 90 deg. C in there or (iii) Money Money Money by ABBA blaring out of the hairdresser's crackly mono radio.

― MarkH, Friday, 25 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

one year passes...

MUAHAHHJD i wanna get spikes! :0 i wonder what it feels like to have short hair...*thinks* i also want dreads! :0 WHOA. yeah. *cough* and i want colorful hair. rainbow hair. uh huh. anyway. i usually cut my own hair. because it's annoying when the barber person gets it all wrong. o-o anyway. bai.

― Coffi-Mug, Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link

no I get my hair cut every two months or so (I'm lazy but its cheap).

but I do trim my beard.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

I cut my own hair.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:18 (twenty years ago) link

I do sometimes

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 23 November 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link

I do too - #1 with the clippers every few weeks.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 November 2003 20:20 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

should i do this or will it be a disaster? i haven't cut my own hair in at least 2 years. but i am too poor for hairdressers and they never listen anyway. I NEED ADVICES!

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Friday, 4 March 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

People goin round saying they know who shot the barber. I KNOW WHO SHOT THE BARBER. Tom, Tom the piper's son, he shot the barber, away he run. YEA.

― The Argunaut (sexyDancer), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Bring in a Playboy and say "I want it like THAT."

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Do it Caitlin. But do it sober. I'm also too broke to jusify hairdresser visits, so I've been cutting my own hair for about two years. It's scary, but you get used to it.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link

My wife is my barber. I've spent about $30 on haircuts in the last 15 years! Hooray miserly me!

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Friday, 4 March 2005 18:19 (nineteen years ago) link

i use a razor designed for cutting hair. it's great! and easy. i cut a lot of hair for friends.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 4 March 2005 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

yes, haven't been to a barber in years.

― eman (eman), Saturday, 5 March 2005 04:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I cut my friend's hair.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago) link

― S!monB!rch (Carey), Saturday, 5 March 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

i shaved my hair on new year's eve. that's the only time. growing back nicely now.

― g-kit (g-kit), Saturday, 5 March 2005 10:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Ever since I settled for a really short hair, I've had a buzzer to cut it. Since I don't need any fancy tricks done to my hair, this saves me a fortune in hairdresser bills. I cut my friends' hair with the buzzer too - mostly girls, for some reason - whenever they feel like sporting the Sigourney Weaver look (though I've done a mohawk for a lady friend as well).

Caitlin, couldn't you ask for a friend to help? Back hair can be quite tricky to cut by yourself.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 5 March 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link

You cut the hair on your back? It's that long?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 March 2005 13:19 (nineteen years ago) link

i cut my own hair--i've gotten more daring about it over time. once i even it out a bit, people say it looks fine--even my mother, who would tell the truth if it looked like shit. and i'm happy with it...

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Saturday, 5 March 2005 15:28 (nineteen years ago) link

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