Cut your own hair?

[dstranathan]

I am tired of cheap-o hair cut joints like Great Clips. They suck. Problem is, I'm either too masculine or too cheap to go to a real "stylist". I can't seem to find a good old fashioned barber anymore either.


I like the Ceasar hair style. Short, squared bangs, simple. A classic. Sometimes spelled Caesar, or Cesar. Whatever. Pronounced "See-Zar". You know, like the Roman dude. Or the guy who played the Joker on the old Batman TV series. Wasn't Batgirl hot? OK, that's another topic. Let's worry about my hair first.

So, I'm thinking "Hey, why don't I buy a pair of good clippers and decent sissors and do it myself (or have my girlfriend help). Maybe get a pair of thining shears to make it kinda messy and fun.

So, is it possible for me or my GF (neither have any experience) to cut my hair into a simple Ceasar?

I mean really, the back and sides would be done with clippers using a number 4 or 5 blade attachment. Easy. It's the Bangs I can't figure out. If I mow over the front bangs with the clippers/trimmer, I'm sure to end up with a military cut!

So how do I cut the bangs properly? It cant be THAT hard. Right? Fellas? Hello?

I can't find any good sites on how to cut hair. Maybe I will just shave it bald. I can't go back to Great Clips! I won't go! Never! You can't make me!

[groverat]

My mother used to run a beauty salon. I don't usually have to pay for haircuts.

And you can definitely train the girlfriend to cut your hair. She will think it is fun.

[Scott]

You mean like this?

[dstranathan]

Originally posted by Scott
You mean like this?

Em. Well. Sorta. Yes. I suppose so.


I was thinking more like old-school George Clooney. But thanks for that image.


Maybe I will shave my head...

[shetline]

Just brush in, sprinkle on a little freshly-grated Parmesan, and you're all set.

[torifile]

I cut my own hair most of the time. Of course, it's really easy for me because I just use the clippers all around. The back is the problem but I'm getting pretty good at doing it with 2 mirrors. I find that the cheap places suck and more often than not, I have to come home and clean up their messes or they do something STUPID like decide they want to shorten my sideburns. And then they do it unevenly. AGGHHH! It pisses me off to no end.... My fiancee has done it for me in the past and will when we move back to the same city. Til then, it's all me and my 2 mirrors.

[Aquafire]

Started cutting my own hair about 5 years ago.Got Pissed off with the cost of going to a Barber./ gent's hairdresser. $10.00 per throw every 3 weeks..
My clippers I bought second hand ( unused ) unit ( $5 ) complete with video tape and five clip grade blades for varying hair length.
I've never looked back..
Re the sides etc..easy use small scissors.

[BR]

Originally posted by aquafire
Started cutting my own hair about 5 years ago.Got Pissed off with the cost of going to a Barber./ gent's hairdresser. $10.00 per throw every 3 weeks..
My clippers I bought second hand ( unused ) unit ( $5 ) complete with video tape and five clip grade blades for varying hair length.
I've never looked back..
Re the sides etc..easy use small scissors.

Bah. 15 bucks every 3 1/2 months isn't so bad.

[Aquafire]

Originally posted by BR
Bah. 15 bucks every 3 1/2 months isn't so bad.

Bah Humbug !
Every penny counts..
Scrooge !

[Giaguara]

i've cut my hair ... it's easier when it's 20" long or longer though ...

[Scott]

I work with a guy that gets buzzed twice a year. Even he doesn't cut his own.

[badtz]

The hardest part when I cut my hair, is the back left side !

other than that, cutting your own hair isn't THAT hard .... [esp. for a guy] .... depending on hair style ...


as long as you are okay with shaving your head if you f*ck up, then give it a go!

that's what I did 4 years ago! And I've yet to f*ck up my hair enough to where I'd shave it

*crosses fingers*

[burningwheel]

i used to cut my hair much to my Mom's dismay lately i've been having my wife cut it. it's simple really since it's all one length (longish)

[snoopy]

Start small and do more as you get braver. I had been cutting my sons hair, so I bought good electric clippers for the job. One day I notice it was getting long around my ears and I figured I could handle that. I started doing more and haven't been to a barber in over five years. For bangs, I comb the hair down and use scissors. I never use a mirror for the back, but rely on the clipper guides. For what its worth, my wife says I do a good job. If ten thumbs me can do it, you can too.

[Aquafire]

Ps regards cutting my own hair..

With the money I saved I bought a S/Hand iMac 600 mhz with cd-r & stacks of ram...

[EmAn]

Originally posted by torifile
I cut my own hair most of the time. Of course, it's really easy for me because I just use the clippers all around. The back is the problem but I'm getting pretty good at doing it with 2 mirrors. I find that the cheap places suck and more often than not, I have to come home and clean up their messes or they do something STUPID like decide they want to shorten my sideburns. And then they do it unevenly. AGGHHH! It pisses me off to no end.... My fiancee has done it for me in the past and will when we move back to the same city. Til then, it's all me and my 2 mirrors.

I know what you mean about the cheap places. I used to go to the places in the 2 local malls around here and my haircuts always sucked. And like you said, the sideburns were always uneven and too short. I started going to this guy whose daugther goes to my school. The place is like an old-school barber shop. He seems to give good haircuts, but I've only been there once.

[drewprops]

How do they do that???

[midwinter]

Since Feb. 2000, I have shaved my head myself about once a week.

Prior to Feb. 2000, I hadn't had it cut in a decade.

Cheers
Scott

[Mac Man 020581]

I go to some barber, who only charges $9.00. I only go once a month or at the most twice. I consider those $9.00 payments a worthy investment, since my hands shake so much I couldn't imagine cutting my own hair.

[superkarate monkeydeathcar]

almost.......

happened just the other day

it was gettin' kind of long....

coulda said it was in my way

but i didn't and i wonder why

FEEL LIKE LETTIN' MY FREAK FLAG FLY!!!

[pscates]

I used to go to one of those funny "old man" barbershops in my early 20's, while still living here in Chattanooga. I like the old 1940's short-on-sides-and-back-and-longer-on-front-and-top look anyway, so it worked out...that's the only way those bastards knew how to cut hair!



Then when we moved to California, my wife cut it. We bought a clipper set and some decent shears and a cute little nylon cape to drape around me (I DESPERATELY searched for a red one with an "S", but that's neither here nor there). She did a wonderful job because she'd done it for years, just for friends and her brother and she had a knack for it, even with no training.

Anyway, we go our separate ways (legally only...still great friends) and move to different cities.

I stumbled across a girl named Amber in San Diego about 2 or so years ago and she (this is going to sound horrible) gave the best head (in the most innocent, haircutting way possible, of course) I'd EVER had (plus she was a cutie-pie AND a sweetheart...I've referred to her a number of times here as that "apple-butted vixen").

But now I'm back in the South and I've rolled the dice since being back and have done the Fantasic Sam's thing twice, both with - thank goodness - great results.

I'd go to that old man place, but I honestly thing they're all dead and it's closed.



Nah, I'd never cut my own hair. On some days, folks, it's the only damn thing I got goin' for me. I don't need to be ruining it!

[drewprops]

Heyyyy......
The best hair-cutting girl I know is named Amber. We packed her up for LA about two years ago and she finally moved back to Atlanta back in April. When she left for LA I had managed to get 5 people going to her, she's great. Probably not the same Amber but...

[pscates]

My Amber (ha!) was in San Diego, so probably not the one.



How I found/met her is kinda funny: I was leaving work one Friday evening in DESPERATE need of a haircut. I went to some Fantastic Sam's place and it had this HUGE wait.

Then I went to a SuperCuts about 2 miles away. Walked in, tons of people waiting. But I looked like Lon Chaney's nephew, so I HAD to do something. Anyway, I look around at all the girls/women cutting hair there. They ALL had that Britney/SoCal/bar girl/sorority chick/trendy/wannabe/"Blind Date" or "Joe Millionaire" look to them. Just carbon copies, with long hair, ultra-trendy clothes, bored, snotty looks on their faces, etc. In short, EVERYTHING I can't stand in a woman.

I scan around and there's this short girl standing there, cutting someone's hair. She had on these cool baggy pants, black/white two-toned creepers (like you'd see Brian Setzer wear or something), a sleeveless shirt with a tattoo on her right bicep and a big ring thing through her nose. Her hair was blonde, but had blue sections streaked through it. She was constantly smiling and laughing and talking to the person whose hair she was cutting. She just had this whole aura/vibe about her that struck me instantly. I kept looking at her, for all kinds of reasons.

Kinda like taking the best parts of Fairuza Balk, Joan Jett and Pink (the funky, hard-edged sexiness) and mixing them in with Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Cheri Oteri (giggling, cutie-pie, girl next door with a great personality and funny as can be).

A REALLY rare combination, I've come to learn.



I immediately said to myself "a chick dressed that funky in a place this straight and by-the-book HAS to know what she's doing and be good! And she seems like a nice person."



Sure enough, one of the girls came to me after a while and said "ready?". I just said "no...I think I'd like to wait for her, please" and gestured toward Amber.

The snotty girl just looked at me as if to say "you gotta be kidding...whatever...". It probably crushed her that I wasn't taken with her whole blonde-maned, cleavage-heavy package.



Anyway, nearly half-an-hour later Amber comes up to me and says I hear you kept waiting for me...are you ready?"

Halfway into it, she asks me why I waited. I just told her the truth (the shoes, the hair, the tat, the personality, the fact that seemed to enjoy what she was doing, etc. She just stopped and her eyes got all big and she was like "ohmigosh, that's the coolest thing I've ever heard. Thank you!"



We hit it off and she just did a perfect job, right out of the gate. Didn't rush or make me feel like I was on an assembly line. She kept measuring and checking. Got really close with the clipper and just did a really nice, attention-oriented job. AND she was funny as could be and a total sweetheart. If you looked at her on the street, you'd either a) get scared or b) assume she's just some screwed-up chick, trying to piss her parents off.

I learned that night, in a really cool way, that you can never judge a book by its cover (although it was her shoes and overall funkiness that made me want to choose her).

Being funny and sweet and a really good, take-as-much-time-as-she-needs cutter were just side benefits.

Anyway, after about 6 months I go in and as soon as I walk in door, she runs to me and goes "I'm SO glad you came today...ohmigosh!" She then proceeded to tell me that she'd gotten a new job down in downtown San Diego at a really cool hair place and that Sunday was her last day at SuperCuts (she was THRILLED because she felt the same toward all the Barbies in there as they obviously did about her) and that she would be gone (this was a Thursday or Friday, and I'd just gone by - on a whim - to see if she was working and could squeeze me in for a quick trim).

She told me that had I not come in, she wouldn't have known how to let me know and that the girls there wouldn't have helped me track her down.



So anyway, over the following year-and-a-half, I happily made the 30-mile-each-way drive to downtown San Diego to have Amber whack on my hair. She said I was the only customer who followed her down and that she always liked seeing my name in the appointment book because we always had fun and talked and shared the same sense of humor and stuff.

So anyway. That's my Amber. I miss her scissors and her laugh.

[satchmo]

I think this is what you need...although I'm surprised no one has been hurt yet!

http://www.youcansave.com/flowbee.html