Do you cut your own hair? Also: great success!!!
I don't. I typically just go in for a little trim and that's it. I never fiddle with it myself... until tonight!
I was finishing off the bottle of white wine I had to buy for my Cuban Xmas dinner (this sounds worse than it really is - I was mostly drinking the inch at the bottom, don't want that $8 to go to waste...), and suddenly got the bright idea of cutting some bangs. Alcohol and scissors might not sound like the best idea, but I think I did fine considering the circumstances. :D
After stalking a couple of users on youtube briefly to see how others avoided butchering their hair, I found myself in the bathroom with a nice pair of fabric scissors hacking off hair. Maybe not hacking. Deliberate cutting, actually.
And success! Well, after a half hour of fiddling and trimming off a half inch at a time.
So do you cut your own hair? What do you use to do it? I'm curious whether DIYers are more likely to do this and not fail (possibly). Pictures? :D
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"Hair are your aerials man, they pick up vibrations from the cosmos and transmit them directly to your brain. This is why bald-men are up-tight" L
Or is it that us balding men are LESS uptight because we no longer get all that direct gov. propaganda streamed directly in to our brains ;-)
More of a counter suggestion then a view :-) Those guys n gals with the aluminum foil hats and such, didn't know they were not shielding themselves, but they were creating better antennae for themselves LOL
Since this topic has resurfaced... We have three local barbers, who variously charge £8, £9 or £15 for a #3 (the £15 chap does put a lot more effort in with general pampering and even a beer in hot weather). However, Kitewife found a set of clippers on sale for £7.99, and she now does my hair for me. OK, I have to pour my own beer, but the clippers have paid for themselves several times over now.
My wife won't LET me use my clippers.....not on my head anyways.....I have resigned them to being Beard trimmers *sigh*
Maybe I'm jumping in on this a little late but to answer your question, yes I do cut my own hair. I've been a DIY hair cutter for about 10 years after discovering that after paying for haircuts I would come home and find something that I didn't like or was not apparent when i was at the barber. Granted, I am a guy so it's pretty easy. However I cut my hair with a style, not a simple buzz with one length. I do like my hair short but I work a gradient from the nape to my crowns, with nice short sides too. I started doing it because I'm particular and like to do things my way, it only took about 2-3 haircuts to perfect and I actually get compliments on my hair (*gasp*).
I think I'm going to continue cutting mine on my own - I'm starting to find a lot of people like you that have been doing it for years, so I figure: why not start? It's easier, I don't have to worry about scheduling, and I know exactly what I want! Plus, I don't think I suck at it, and I'll probably get better with time!
Updated with new picture, because the other I posted was pretty awful. ;) The bangs have grown out a bit and I've stopped cutting them. I might go back to long hair now.
. Maybe it's just the lighting, but I don't think the Veronica Lake style looks as good on you as the shorter bangs. You have a pretty face, show it off.
Nice job! I wish I could do that... My mom would have a fit if I tried.
*gar nicht*
Twas you that listed it in the context of terms that were waggish. ;-)
Twas you that listed it in the context of terms that were waggish. ;-)
Already been used! Originality [www.youfail.org FAIL!]
Good..............er.........Good whatever. Goodhart then, just for the heck of it!
Although I sometimes thin it a bit, I rarely cut my own hair. BUT, I do trim my own beard, and I had to do so recently (I was asked if I was hiding behind a bush, it had gotten so scraggly). :-)
Jan 3, 2009. 11:00 AMguyfrom7up
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hey, were you at office depot yesterday? I saw someone that looked a lot like you, but I thought he had too much of a beard.
Nope, I didn't get out of the house yesterday until around 7:30 PM and that was to go see the band Detour, at the Symposium :-)
Jan 2, 2009. 2:50 PMguyfrom7up
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my mom cuts my hair, lol I'm actually getting on tonight, I'll post later
Haha Cool ! I used to have hair that length but is wasn't purple :P
Awww, but it's cute! And purple? College has turned you into a crazy man, sir! :P
I never colour my hair, but like I tell my mom and sister: "Brown, blonde, black- If you're gonna colour your hair, you might as well go green or purple. It's all the same." Sis took my advice!
My best friend when I was little has a cowlick, and when his hair got longer, it separated to either side. I liked that. So, I cut a triangle into my hair. It didn't turn out so well.
Awww, that's too bad. I think you might be one of the only people in the world that's ever liked a cowlick. :P
I know I have a cowslick, it's super annoying when it comes to styling
I have three, all very annoying. On in the front, and two in the back. :P
I'm sure this sounds stupid, but I didn't know girls could have cowlicks unless they had super dooper short hair.
Mine pop through anyway because I have super fine hair. Right now they're just little bumps, but if I cut my hair much shorter they start standing up. :(
Yea there much more noticeable when you have short hair :D
Well, and I can't part my hair on the right because the cowlick pushes it back over. That's the bigger problem, I suppose. Parting and cowlicks is not very compatible. :P
Jan 2, 2009. 2:02 PMcodongolev
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I thought cowlick was spelled differently. I looked it up on wikipedia; I was wrong, but I stumbled upon this: "In Chinese culture, cowlicks, called ding or xuan, are superstitiously said to be a sign of people's personality or fate. People with one cowlick are believed to be well-behaviored, to which two means the contrary; people with three cowlicks are believed to have bad luck and die at a young age." apparently, you will have bad luck and die at a young age. sorry.
I've had a cowlick since before I could remember, I'd get my hair cut, and as soon as it passes 2 in. There's a Cowlick, :/ Nice job cutting your hair! If I attempted that, I'd kill myself...
Jessy, are you sure you're from Kentucky? You look so much like my mom's side of the family it's not even funny! I'd noticed it before, but these pics look just like one of my aunts. BTW-Haircut looks good!
Yep, definitely from Kentucky. Today my proof is saying "tarred" instead of "tired" while me coworkers mocked me.
me coworkers mocked me hahahahaha Time for sleepings.
I gotcha. I was preaching at church a while back and actually described someone as being "afeared of God". When I'm really tarred, my roots begin to show! You can take the boy out of the hills.....
Mum does mine, though I prefer as long an interval between cuttings as possible... I'll post a pic of my hair soon... For a first try, your hair looks pretty good!
As promised: Please excuse the somewhat unusual stance taken in the photo...
FACE ! :D my dad used to cut mine but it was just a clippers job
Hey goose, are you going to go play volleyball with Maverick. :-) -Stands back to see how many old people catch that movie reference-
Not to you me and Nacho. But it's been what, nearly 20 years?
Oh, it doesn't seem like that long ago that I viewed it :-)
Time flies when you just trying to survive, doesn't it ? *sigh*
to get a good shot of me hair without hunching over, i had to kneel before my comp... it was weird..
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