Do yOu cut yoru own hair?

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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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