Self Haircut
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The first step to getting a really good haircut is to reject, refuse, the electric clippers. Every barber and stylist has been trained to do a scissor cut down to an 8th of an inch. Yet, they use electric clippers out of laziness. Yeh, every time I let someone use those, my hair looks like shit. But, a barber or stylist with a good set of scissors and some skills, can give an awesome haircut. It gives them so much more control. You guys with lumpy heads are getting lumpy cuts because the barber is just following your head shape with a guard on, so no wonder you all look so silly. Ha ha.
A trained barber with a pair of scissors can out do anything that one with a set of electric shears can do.
Give myself a haircut? WHY!!! I mean, if you're dirt poor... but, I'll throw down a mere $40 every couple of weeks, not to look like a dufus. It's in the budget, like gas, tobacco, and the mortgage.
A trained barber with a pair of scissors can out do anything that one with a set of electric shears can do.
Give myself a haircut? WHY!!! I mean, if you're dirt poor... but, I'll throw down a mere $40 every couple of weeks, not to look like a dufus. It's in the budget, like gas, tobacco, and the mortgage.
My first step is to go to a salon for women. They give the best hair cuts and seem to like the change of pace.
You get a hair wash and scalp massage! Money well spent, I say.
I can't recommend it enough. It's just one of those little secrets...
I went to a ladies' salon so my friend who worked there could cut my hair. It was full of old ladies with perms who all glared at me because they couldn't talk smack about menfolk or something. Paid the $25, never went back.
I will readily admit that a good barber will give me a better haircut than my self-haircuts.
However, my self-haircuts are still quite good, much better than haircuts I've gotten from crappy barbers, far more convenient, and I reckon I save about $500 a year given that I cut my hair every two weeks or so since I keep it quite short on the sides (pay no mind to my profile pic, it's an old one before I got back into cutting my own hair)
However, my self-haircuts are still quite good, much better than haircuts I've gotten from crappy barbers, far more convenient, and I reckon I save about $500 a year given that I cut my hair every two weeks or so since I keep it quite short on the sides (pay no mind to my profile pic, it's an old one before I got back into cutting my own hair)
A good sign that you're in the wrong place!
The spot next to the retirement home maybe isn't going to be much fun...
My barber shop is a crapshoot with half the barbers being good but always booked, and one old barber who is always free and drinks his lunch and leaves tufts around my ears. When the pandemic hit Michigan none of them wore masks so I decided to bust out our 20-year-old Wahl clippers, haven't looked back. One haircut, hold the 'Rona.
Well, it was the salon my friend worked at, which was why I went, to throw her some business. But yeah it sucked.
I've been shaving my head every other day in the shower with regular face razors for so many years now I can't remember :p Of course that's much easier than giving oneself a proper haircut, but shaving my head _is_ my haircut, lol.
If you paid $40 for that person in your aviator,
You were robbed. Just saying bro. Of course,
you have to go with what you have to work with…lol!
Tradional cuts is what is in style and it takes
number one at some point.
Really? You’re going to crack on the hair not even seen in the picture under my hat? Ha ha. Okie dokie.
Barbers are like any profession. You’ve got ones that do excellent cuts and ones that do shitty cuts. It’s like finding your favorite restaurant. You find what you like and you continue to go back. I found one that is at the top of his game. His cuts are excellent and I pay him well for his skill. He knows his way around a straight razor like I do a Krispey Kreme shop. I’ve had a standing three week appointment with him for over ten years. Sure, I spend a lot of money on haircuts but I sure as hell don’t look like I cut my own hair. Plus, my 30 mins in the barber’s chair is the only time that I can close my eyes and not be bothered by another human. A great barber knows when to BS with you or when to stay quiet. It’s a lost art.
I'm curious if some men were hesitant to self shave back in the day? Now it is common of course. I think since learning to shave with a honed straight razor and using a mid '30's Schick injector to shave my neck has probably led to a self hair cut.
I don't shave my back. It is a status symbol.
I haven't ever really been a shaver, growing a goatee in my teens, and then a full beard in adulthood. But, my beard is the only thing I refuse to allow my stylist to cut. I take care of that myself.
Just a typical self-haircut. Not my very best, but not my worst effort either. I've since learned how to fade out the neckline.
I think that looks great, @lawdawg .
I might visit a proper barber occasionally, but from now on I’ll do touch ups at least occasionally since a hair cut is temporary at best.
Back in the day, not your back.I don't shave my back. It is a status symbol.
I haven't ever really been a shaver, growing a goatee in my teens, and then a full beard in adulthood. But, my beard is the only thing I refuse to allow my stylist to cut. I take care of that myself.
Once upon a time on here, the "
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