who cuts their own hair?

[amazona]

I have weird hair, and for years even when I got it professionally cut, every time I would face the snippy hair cutter snidely asking if I did it myself. So I started doing just that. And I can't tell the difference. It isn't *better* or anything but it isn't worse either. Is this weird?

[Brucey]

1. I cut my own, and it looks okay, except

I can't see the back, so don't know how good it is.

[XanaDUer]

2. Make my boyfriend do it

looks the same. and it's free.

[Ellen Forradalom]

3. I cut my son's hair.

It looks fine. Years ago I went to the library and got a book on how to cut hair. I learned one style and have given a few males a trim.

[stevedeshazer]

4. No, but I know of a guy who has a 'Flowbee'

He worked in TV news...just fired it up every two weeks or so.

http://www.flowbee.com/info_testimonials.htm

As seen on TV!

[Ivory_Tower]

19. When I was a kid

there was a thing called (I think) "Cut'n'Trim" -- something like that. It was basically a comb with a razor blade stuck between the teeth. My mother tried it on me and my brother a few times. The reason I can't remember the name is that we always referred to it as the "Rip'n'Tear".

Nasty, nasty product.

Given that my hair is down well below my shoulders, and it hasn't been cut in almost three years, I don't know if I count as someone who "cuts his own hair". I shave and trim my beard, so does that count?

(I've thought about it cutting it myself, but I'm chicken.)

[Hogarth]

5. I've been doing that ...

... for about 37 years. It takes some time, and a shower afterward, but I usually get what I want.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. I pay $500 for a haircut

but I do dye my own hair. I use an old Austrian
blend of nightshade, steroids and henna.

[curse10]

15. LMAO

:-)

[ldf]

7. i do.

of course it is sort of easy.

i started with really long hair (almost to my waist), where i only trimed the ends in a blunt cut.

then when it started to thin and turn grey to match my van dyke (facial hair is almost always the first to turn), i went to extremely short, 1/4 inch, same length all over.

all i needed was a set of clippers with assorted attachments.

saved a LOT of money.

it looked good, and it looks good. i have always taken pride in my hair.

if they ever learned how to reverse the damage due to testosterone loss (thinner and finer hair), i would have it back to my waist again.

sigh.

[CarlBallard]

8. I do

But I just keep it short with a beard trimmer. I definately notice some clumps that I'll miss but I can just go over them. Then poof shower. Done.

[JitterbugPerfume]

10. My sister, the hair dresser said

many years ago that if I would not cut my own hair PLEASE

she would do it for free

and she does

[xJlM]

9. I did

Not the last time, but the time before that I had it close on the sides and long in back. But the long part developed into two nasty dredlocks, and when I tried to untangle them I started pulling bunches of hair out. So I just got a pair of scissors and cut them off (I'm losing a lot of hair anyway because of a kind of chemo I'm going through). It looked pretty funny, I guess, but it's grown back in to something I can live with.

[curse10]

11. I cut my boyfriend's hair

I do a pretty good job, but I wouldn't dare touch anyone else's head, or mine, for that matter.

[mlawson]

12. It's easy, I can touch it up whenever I want, and it's free.

And my hair is very thick, too, and the hairlines haven't receded at all (I am 53). I can't imagine paying someone to cut my hair.

[NaMeaHou]

13. I use the #7

on the Wahl cutter. Dang, I'm handsome! (#7 beard too)

[CarlBallard]

14. 7 on my Wahl

and 4 on the beard. But it's only a Van Dyke.

[jonnyblitz]

16. I always do and I have for the last 10 years.

its either shaved off, some version of a high and tight, or, if i can get away with it, a mohawk. Now it is a mowhawk with the once shaved-to-the-skin sides grown in a bit. (i needed to renew passport and driver's license). I wear a variety of hats/beanies and wrap bandanas around my head also.

[Maine Mary]

17. I haven't had mine professionally done since an unfortunate incident

that had something to do with a Dorothy Hamill haircut. (And it looks it :-)) Must be trauma induced amnesia that is making me forget the details. :crazy:

[IADEMO2004]

18. Jim Fagan KKAR AM Omaha, NE

http://1290kkar.com/personalities.asp

It isn't distracting on the radio.

[dofus]

20. I used to cut my sons' hair

until they went bald.

They both have alopecia areata, an auto-immune disorder which causes hair loss. Both kids have the extreme form, universalis, which means no body hair anywhere. I think they're handsome.

I have a photo of the two of them at the top of the Sydney Harbor Bridge I'd love to show you guys, but I can't figure out how to do that. I can't seem to just copy it from the desktop, where it is, and paste into this message, alas.

[Don_G]

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[dofus]

24. Thank you Don G

I call this picture, Just Visiting this Planet

[Don_G]

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[leftyandproud]

22. done my own for two years..

of course, I just buzz the whole thing, so its no big deal ;)

[jus_the_facts]

23. I keep my bangs trimmed myself....

....I've let the length grow untill it's down to my ass now...but let a friend of mine who's a hairdresser shape it up and layer it a bit...lucky for me he won't charge me...but he does think his expertise is worth 25 bucks :eyes:.... and having only the dead ends trimmed off isn't worth 5 if you ask me...no matter how good you think you are at it!! :D

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I still keep my stylist license, even though I have been out of it for

years. Everyone at Casa Grumpy gets professional free haircuts. That's about all the license is good for now, although in these scary financial times it pays to keep it active ($24 a year).