So, Like, How Does One Go About Getting a Haircut?

[Mumbles274]

How do you want your hair cut the barber asks me...

In silence I say

 

[ringo]

What do you call it where instead of 70's haircuts cut to a single point (like the collar) that look minging the hair is cut to the same length and doesn't have that nasty wavy greasy look? Does that have a name?

 

[ringo]

Oh yes, layering, what's that then? I can't even tell from the pictures.

 

[rubbershoes]

The barber I see never asks anyone what they want done.

We just want out hair how it is, but shorter

His "salon" is the snug bar at my local

 

[gentlegreen]

Only two rational haircuts IMHO - gathered together in a ponytail or all over with the clippers.
Both DIY
((((hairdressers / barbers))))

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Step 1: Get a sixpack of beer
Step 2: Get out the barber scissors and assorted clips.
Step 3: wet hair down
Step 4: drink three beers
Step 5: looking in the mirror, cut hair.
Step 6: drink the rest of the beer.

It works about as well as if I'd paid someone.

 

[iona]

I just gesture vaguely towards my head and say "sort this out :despairface:" when my barber asks what I want done.

 

[izz]

Step 1: Get a sixpack of beer
Step 2: Get out the barber scissors and assorted clips.
Step 3: wet hair down
Step 4: drink three beers
Step 5: looking in the mirror, cut hair.
Step 6: drink the rest of the beer.

It works about as well as if I'd paid someone.

I do this:-
1) Wash hair and condition, rinse clean
2) comb
3) bend forward from waist, comb hair vertically down. gravity is your friend.
4) put hair in scrunchie at crown of head
5) cut end off resultant ponytail.

I got complimented on my layers on Friday

 

[campanula]

I do sweethearts and he does mine (with the bacon scissors last time) although I do my fringe.

 

[The Boy]

Update:

Still not plucked up the courage to get a haircut and, with a wedding to attend at the weekend, things have been getting a bit out of hand (tying one's hair back in order that it doens't get in one's mout when eating isn't a great look).

SO, I *was* going to go to the horribly expensive hipster hairdressers and hand them the keys to my flat in exchange for letting them do what they wanted with my hair. A compromise has been reached though, and instead an appointment has been made with the less eye-wateringly expensive trendy hairdresser along the road for similar. The lend of a pair of clippers has been arranged as a backup plan.

There will probably be before/after pictures.

 

[The Boy]

before (and apparently channelling jay from jay and silent bob):


After:

 

[friedaweed]

I hope you kept the hair so you can glue it to the inside of the wholly hat for the lols

 

[The Boy]

I hope you kept the hair so you can glue it to the inside of the wholly hat for the lols

the missus was trying to get me to do that, see-you-Jimmy hat style.

 

[friedaweed]

I was going to get my barnet done today but the queue was fooking massive.


Anyway The Boy . I'm sorry for your loss bro

 

[Hocus Eye.]

When I used to go to hairdressers I always found it difficult dealing with the standard conversations they have. I am not interested in football and have no idea how the local team is doing. Then I would worry that the hairdresser was football mad and hate me for not being the same, leading to him not doing the job well.

Now I trim it myself with proper hairdressing scissors. I started doing that when I first grew a beard. Having to trim the beard, led naturally on to starting on the hair next to it and gradually working from there.

 

[weltweit]

before (and apparently channelling jay from jay and silent bob):
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After:

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Before you look like quite a bit of a hippy
After, welcome to the human race

 

[weltweit]

I was looking at an old photo of me from about 10 years ago and it seems I was starting to lose my hair back then but I didn't cut it short instead I persevered with longer on top despite that it must have looked more and more like a comb over .. a couple of years ago I made the change to a no2 back and sides and no3 on top, my barber complimented me and said it looked much better - damn her she never told me I looked wrong before.

But I love having very short hair. I get up in the morning and it is just THERE .. ready doesn't need pampering it just IS !!

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Before you look like quite a bit of a hippy
After, welcome to the human race

Racist

 

[Sapphireblue]

that is quite a transformation. well done on moving out of your mother's basement!

 

[Johnny Doe]

Missed a trick. This is the hip look now:

 

[danny la rouge]

But how do you decide what you want your hair to look like

You don't. You let the barber decide.

I've never told my barber what I want. I just sit down, and talk about whatever is the topic of the day. Whether anyone at the local butcher went to Oxford, that sort of thing.

 

[Bonfirelight]

Where I live most men of my age have very short hair or completely shaved. Mine's about a centimetre long now and I'm starting to feel a bit of a hippy.

Prison?

 

[Supine]

I had my hair cut for the first time in about twenty years last week.

In Malaysia I paid a Pakistani man to cut my hair (grade zero clipper) and give me a shave. It cost £1.60 and included a five minute head, neck and shoulder massage. I only mentioned he was Pakistani because I think his massage skills were not the regular Malay way of doing things.

It felt feckin amazing