Do yOu cut yoru own hair?

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I just bought the buzzer. My locks are gone. No more paying the barber! no more salad!

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

You ask this of long-haired me?

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

for the past three years, and i can't think of a good reason to ever not.

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

How many more posts before this thread mutates into something really smutty?

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

Yes I do (says she of the sometime Farrah Fawcett trumping hairdo) I'm ascared that the salon will mess it up.

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

Did you buy a Flowbee? I let some Italian guys cut my hair. Mainly because they call me "buddy."

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

I bought the little buzzer and my girlfreind did it. I feel liek fuzzyhead. But it was only 15$, the price of a haircut! teacha man to fish...

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

Trying to move my hands while looking in a mirror causes cranial short circuiting. So no.

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

My mother does. Not much chances of her messing it up (????) cause it's very long. It's cheap. Might have a perm this month,don't know yet.

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

I cut my hair, grade 1 (3mm) every two weeks. Sometimes my mate Christian does it, and I do his. It's a bonding thing. Neither my girlfriend nor my flatmate can do it properly.

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

I do mine own too, not grade one like Mark though, more a respectable grade 3, I do have trouble with the back occasionally, famously I let my flatmate do it earlier this year and I looked like a mental patient for a while.

It must look reasonably ok though cos the last time I went home my Mum said that she liked it!

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

My mum cuts my dad's hair but then he doesn't have very much to screw up. She used to cut my fringe when I was little giving me that oh-so- flattering too-short and wonky fringe look. The result of this childhood torture is that I now think it is something best left to the professionals and so is hair colouring unless you are a goth or a student.

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

No, I leave it to the experts. It is a horrible thought the idea of letting my mother cut my hair. She was the one who a- made me get a perm, and b - kept cutting my fringe lopsided while I tried to grow it out. I need a haircut come to think of it, if my tresses get much longer I will morph into a long haired tree hugging hippie like Ned :)

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

I coerce my friends into cutting it. I am apprehensive of hairdressers. I think I lack the relevant schema for dealing with the experience. You have to kept talking for as long as it takes. Not so good. I do need a trim, so if anyone I know wants to do the honours you're more than welcome. Even Mark C, but please, no whisky beforehand this time. Thems sharp implements, them scissors.

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

I wrap the bottoms of my dreads all by myself.

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

I trim the barber

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

Did I cut you last time, Alix? I know it wasn't the best job, but I didn't think there'd be casualties.

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

No, my current one is by Alice.

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

Oh! I can't read. I thought you'd writ 'yours', not 'you'. No, you didn't cut me. Scissors make me nervous round my head, is all.

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

yay, hanle y punk e!!!!

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

I'm going to cut lots off the bottom tonight. I can act like a CRAZY PSYCHO WOMANG ace. I look a MESS today it is sad to say.

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

If your buzzer technique is anything like your typing Hanle y you should consider being very nice to this girlfriend of yours for the next 40-50 years.

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

The last time I paid for a haircut was right before my wedding. It was the first professional cut I'd had in two years. Actually, since 1992 I think I've only paid for 10 haircuts.

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

if my tresses get much longer I will morph into a long haired tree hugging hippie like Ned :)

Goddamn! This is the response I get! *grousegripe* ;-)

― Ned Raggett, 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? I'm guessing one of three things: 1) aesthetic - will they ruin the self-presentation that I'm already self-conscious about? 2) judgemental - they will get RIGHT UP CLOSE to my face and find it wanting (I will die if they snigger at my spots); 3) social - I can't make the required small talk and find the whole thing excruciating.

'Sweird, because in theory 1) and 2) both hold horrors for me, but both are cancelled out by the simple knowledge that they can probably do more to make me look passable than I could either do on my own or achieve without their intervention. So I put aside worry 1), and manage worry 2), in the name of a greater good. (I don't have worry 3) because despite being a grower not a shower I have no problems with making small talk. BEcause I am superficial and scatty. ANd I have a very nice hairdresser who is also a sort of friend).

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

I finally have stopped going to my hipster salon where I end up paying $60.00 with tip... the haircuts are fine (as in not fabulous, just fine) and even though it's a fun atmosphere, my stylist knows my personal life and asks me about recent developments, and let's not forget I feel like a hipster going there, it's just way too much money. My last haircut was at some new joint where it was only $20.00 (plus tip). I felt weird, like I was cheating on a lover or something, but it's a big difference in price. And my hair looks fine.

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

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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