Thread: Haircuts

I have been cutting my own hair for years. I do it every 2 weeks.
I use an Oster Classic 76 clipper. The clipper heads I use are 1 1/2 on top, 1A, 1 and 000 on the sides.
I go over the areas a few times till the clipper head stops cutting hair.
Does a great job. Very short...high and tight.
The clippers and heads have paid for themselves many times over time considering you can't get the same haircut around here for under $10.00.
$20.00 a month adds up fast.

Pete <:-}

Starting to look like this actor.

https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.ne...jpg?1508675839

Bob

I shaved my head myself for a good 15 years, maybe more. I only grew it out and started going to a barbershop about 5 years ago. But with all the barbershops closed because of the pandemic, I've been shaving my head again. I have to say that even though I've always disliked spending money on things I can do myself, I'd really started to enjoy getting a good haircut and I'm sorry that I've had to give it up again.

All my attempts over the years at styling my own hair have been disastrous, so I now just do a #2 shave everywhere. Sometimes I get my girlfriend to clean up around my ears.

Originally Posted by BobH

Starting to look like this actor.

https://d26horl2n8pviu.cloudfront.ne...jpg?1508675839

Bob

Blimey, he's aged a lot since Back to the Future

I gave up hair cuts. No more this year. I used to be a longhair, so Im going to see if I can be again. What the hell.

Originally Posted by STF

Blimey, he's aged a lot since Back to the Future

That's OK, so have I.

Bob

Originally Posted by Grazor

Have had wahl hair trimmers for 30 odd years now and have collected various others.
No. 4 comb, can't go wrong.
When the boys and all their cousins were young and needed a trim out they came.
Saved us a small fortune..

Around here we use the blue comb of a dog clippers. I don't know what that equates to in #2 or #4.

To myself the reason to go to a barber is to be pampered. One time I walked out in the middle of a haircut because the clippers stank of burning electrical. From what I understand the brushes were bad/worn out. The barber said if I didn't like it I could leave!

Originally Posted by Gasman

I gave up hair cuts. No more this year. I used to be a longhair, so Im going to see if I can be again. What the hell.

Long hair on a man looks good to me if they take care of it. So many end up with greasy mop heads.

I wear a flat top and I've been cutting my own for over 20 years......maybe over 25. I always had to fix it so I said well if I'm going to have to fix it I might as well learn to cut it. Anyway, it's not that hard. It's like anything else: you just have to have courage and learn how. It's only hair. It'll grow back.

In fact I just cut it Saturday.



It's harder to take pictures of it myself than to cut it myself.

I go to the barber every 2 weeks, I just have to have it. Our barber shop was only shut down in may-July, during that time my wife cut my hair, not tough to do a high and tight, BUTTTTTTT, I’m have to grow a ponytail, and look the part of the roughneck biker hippy, old dude. I have not trimmed my beard in a month so it is pretty long, usually about a 1/2” on my chin. 3 weeks ago I got a whole bunch of them pre cancer thingys zapped on my face and head, so I stopped shaving anything but my upper face and neck.

I haven't been to a haircut place in a very long time, probably 20 years or more. I do it myself and where I can't get to the wife does. I have an old Wahl kit I use on my son (who hasn't been to a haircut place in years also) and I have a small Norelco I use for trimming myself.

I keep telling my wife I'll do hers. She doesn't need to go to some fancy beauty parlor. She doesn't like that suggestion. I just don't know why.

Har har.