Haircuts

[ishmael]

I'm overdue. I hate it now when my hair turns into a mop. Much prefer short, though I used to have a ponytail.

A friend, a nappy-headed fellow with some negro blood, once told me that he just goes to the barber and says I want it cut with a particular setting on the clipper, and the guy runs the clipper over my head at say a half inch and all is well. I got to thinking, why couldn't one do that for oneself? I've got a pair clippers I bought for the dog years back that has a variety of heads. Would it work on my Saxon hair?

Anyone cut their own hair? All is vanity.

[uncas]

Ish.. oops my mistake.. thought you were getting one for your passport picture..
So.. carry on...

[TomF]

...Anyone cut their own hair? ...Prolly Joe CSOH. A warning to us all.

[ishmael]

I think Joe is secretly nursing a balding pate.

[uncas]

Naw.. I have seen Joe in the scruffy look.. He has plenty there.. perhaps not on top but the sides would need cutting :)

[Gonzalo]

I cut my own hair. Occasionally get compliments on it, too. About as often as when I was paying outrageous sums to a barber.

It started out when I was thinking my haircuts grew out too fast so I had to get haircuts too often. I started giving myself a little trim to stretch the time between haircuts. Before too long, I stopped going to a barber altogether. That was about 6 years ago.

Sometimes I make mistakes and it looks like &^%**. But most of the time it's pretty decent. I go slow and check it out with a hand mirror often. If I'm doing a little trim it takes 15 to 20 minutes. A major job might take 45 minutes to an hour. Then I trim around my ears with scissors to finish it off. Sometimes I'll do a trim on Saturday, sleep on it, wash it, and see what else needs to be done on Sunday.

[uncas]

My guy charges me $14.00 a hit including the beard, the eyebrows etc.. so.. one visit every month.. No big deal...I probably spend more on gas getting to the shop...

and.. who am I trying to impress anyway.. so on occasion, I miss a month.. Not likle I'm looking for a date...

[Norman Bernstein]

Being nearly (but not quite) as bald as Joe CSOH, I thankfully don't spend a lot on haircuts.

In fact, for over 30 years, I never saw the inside of a barber shop; my wife developed the skill and did the job. However, a few years ago, she was too busy and I had to actually visit a 'real' barber.... since then, I've been doing the barber thing.

It's humiliating... they always volunteer to give me a discount because there's so little to cut :p

[uncas]

He uses sheep shears....just has to hone the edges after use.. :)

[jack grebe]

CUT MY HAIR?????? ARE YOU NUTS:eek:
actually I do have a ponytail about 1/2 way down my back, and yes, I do get it "trimmed" about twice a year @ $25.00 a pop. Soon however, it will be leaving me. I have to grow about 2 more inches before it gets donated;)
http://www.locksoflove.org/index.php

[TomF]

I think Joe is secretly nursing a balding pate.Sure, but how'd he get to where he is? To total, maniacal smoothness? Mark my words, it started with self-administered haircuts.

The scalp started to show, giving a gentle shine where it didn't used to. And, with manly bravery, you decide not to hide. No comb-over, no paint; crop the hair close, and suck it up.

Then you get to thinking, why's this hair going anyway? Linked to testosterone they say ... and you ponder, while shaving one morning. And find yourself inching towards the hairline.

Oh, it's seductive. You think of the freedom - the autonomy of it all. No more barbering, no greying. No catering to fashion. But manliness so profound that your hair leaps shrieking from your very scalp. And in a surge of testosterone, bravado and suds, off it comes.

At first, you tell yourself you can go back. That this could be a fling, and your close-cropped head could be back on view within a few weeks, should you so desire. But each morning as the suds caress your scalp, and you thrill to the keen blade leaving its' track of slick pink, you fall deeper and deeper into the net.

Worrying about 5 o'clock shadow, you find yourself frequenting strange bathrooms before dinner meetings, secreting Bics away in the glove compartment of your car in case you get delayed. Soon, you search out badger hair shaving brushes on eBay, and start bidding on barber memorabilia.

In short, you've become a problem shaver.

Ish, for the love of God, don't go down this road. It all starts with that one pair of scissors, self-administered. The tragedy of problem shaving is becoming epidemic ... and here on the WBF, Joe stands as a warning to us all ...

[ishmael]

When I was moving last, separating from Rebecca, we ran across my ponytail, which I'd given her after I cut my hair. It was beautiful, chestnut locks, if I do say so myself. Now I'm getting gray.

Wish I would have thought to donate it!

[ishmael]

Tom,

One night, with a load on with a dear friend, I got it in my mind to chop off my hair. One thing led to another and I ended up going to the barber and confessing my sins. He, and the other patrons got a good belly laugh out of it, and I got a bald head.

I liked how it was about five weeks after. I remember it well because we buried my mom then. If I could figure a way to maintain that by myself...

[TomF]

A friend shaved his head as a gag when he was best man at a wedding - shaved the heads of the other groomsmen too. After the stag, the night before the big day.

Neither the bride nor the groom were heartily amused as they thought of the cost of wedding photos ...

[jack grebe]

you still can donate it if you have it:)

[ishmael]

Naw, it's long gone, Jack. Burned in the fires.

[Todd Bradshaw]

Here you go Ish,
http://www.flowbee.com/
I used to watch the infomercials for these. They were pretty funny, but the darned thing seems to work. Hook it up to a Fein shopvac and you're in business with style.

[jack grebe]

I got a friend in tx. that has one of those.....and uses it:rolleyes:

[John of Phoenix]

Didn't Jane and Judy Jetson have something like this FlowBee thing?

http://www.flowbee.com/images/webmombot2flat%20copy.jpg

[shark_ef]

i cut my own hair often, when i went really short i decided to spring for a professinoal cut (and my papercheck came in about 50 over what i had budgeted for) but it usually takes me about 2 hours to do it myself, but i also layer it, and that takes much time

[Bob Cleek]

The whole point of going to the barbershop used to be to catch up on reading Playboy! Now with the internet being wall to wall porn, going to the barber isn't the thrill it used to be.

[botebum]

I got sick and tired (and poorer) going to the barber every two to three weeks and paying ten bucks for a haircut so we bought a Wahl set for under $30 on sale. Tonya now shaves my head(¼" summer, ½" winter). The clippers have payed for themselves many times over now and tipping the barber is a lot more fun:D

Doug

[Bob Adams]

Hair?? What is this hair stuff?

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid45/p26a06293492a071bd45bef75dc173188/fcd282b7.jpg

I seem to still have lots, but it's shorter now.. and has grey in it.... and I don't think I could fit those pants either. :)

[johnw]

Me, I just go to the Happy Hair Salon, where a very nice Vietnamese woman cuts it short. Three or four months later she cuts it again. $12 a pop. And I find that if me and my barber don't have a common language, I get a more fashionable haircut than I would ask for.

[geeman]

Wife and I both go to my barbershop for haircuts.The same gal has been cutting my hair for 17 yrs now.Trims the hair in my ears,nose.Now days the girl says she cuts more hair out of my nose and ears then she does ma head,,,,.She charges $10.So wife and I both get out for 20 bucks.

[jack grebe]

And I find that if me and my barber don't have a common language, I get a more fashionable haircut than I would ask for.I had a hispanic cut my hair one time that did not speak very good english....chopped the shyte out of it. Layered it (not good for donating) it took 2 years for it to grow out again and get it in a ponytail:mad: .I now have a stylist (Margareta), yes she's hispanic too,that is great. cuts the very minimum off to clean it up and understands that it cannot be layered.She does a great job:D

[Ron Williamson]

I've cut my own for few years.
#3(3/8") on the clippers,a mirror and a garbage pail for the mess and you're in business.
R

[Mrleft8]

You really are a sick puppy Jack.

[jack grebe]

You really are a sick puppy Jack.
which one:rolleyes:

[geeman]

I think he means Ish is sicker then the rest of us LOL

[jack grebe]

good......I was going nuts trying to figure out what I said:D

[Mrleft8]

good......I was going nuts trying to figure out what I said:D
Oh....NO! I didn't mean YOU Jack! Yes yer a sick puppy too! But not in this instance!;) Yer a sick puppy in a much more.....subtle.....slick.....greasy southern bayou kinda way! ;)

[ishmael]

I told you bout living in the u.s. of a.
Dont you know that Im a gangster of love
Let me tell you people that I found a new way
And Im tired of all this talk about love
And the same old story with a new set of words
About the good and the bad and the poor
And the times keep on changin
So Im keepin on top
Of every fat cat who walks through my door

Im a space cowboy
Bet you werent ready for that
Im a space cowboy
Im sure you know where its at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I was born on this rock
And Ive been travelin through space
Since the moment I first realized
What all you fast talkin cats would do if you could
You know, Im ready for the final surprise
There aint no way around it
Aint nothing to say
Thats gonna satisfy my soul deep inside
All the prayers and surveyors
Keep the whole place uptight
While it keeps on gettin darker outside

Im a space cowboy
Bet you werent ready for that
Im a space cowboy
Im sure you know where its at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

I see the show downs, slow downs, lost and found, turn arounds
The boys in the military shirts
I keep my eyes on the prize, on the long fallen skies
And I dont let my friends get hurt
All you back room schemers, small trip dreamers
Better find something new to say
Cause youre the same old story
Its the same old crime
And you got some heavy dues to pay

Im a space cowboy
Bet you werent ready for that
Im a space cowboy
Im sure you know where its at
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Steve Miller

[Frederick Bolton]

I don't get network or cable TV. C-Band, limmited channels. Don't watch much tv anyway as it is pretty much a waste of time. But, the posting on the Flowbee made me belly laugh. I swear there are selling the same thing on late night tv infomercials to trim your dogs hair. Gotta love an Entrepreneur.

[cs]

#2 guard and the wife has my hair cut in under 5 minutes. Haven't paid for a hair cut in many a year. Spent $20 on a clipper set at Sam's and worth every penny.

Jack don't go for the dog clippers. You can get a set of hair clippers cheap enough.

http://www.conair-store.com/imagesEdp/p52188b.jpg

$20.99

Chad

[Milo Christensen]

...going to the barber isn't the thrill it used to be.

Well, see, you need to shop around the chain haircutting stores, you'll find someone who'll give you a mild thrill as she leans in very close.

Leave a really nice tip, give her a wink, ask for her by name next time. It gets interesting after a while. All for the price of a haircut.

[Tealsmith]

I've cut my own for several years. Its easy. I didn't like sitting in the chair for an hour or paying the $$ out and my barbershop is always open. #6 comb in winter #4 in summer and step down one comb number for the sides. Wife trims the neck in back. Ba da Bing, your done.

[jack grebe]

I wonder......do those things come in say 12 in. lengths;)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid220/p860e690873b5a951537c519dbead7ae7/ebb66346.jpg

[Mrleft8]

Didn't Jane and Judy Jetson have something like this FlowBee thing?

http://www.flowbee.com/images/webmombot2flat%20copy.jpg
Looks like it sucked her brains out...

[hansp77]

When I was a lad, I had hair that barbers and people used to comment on, ie that it was 'great hair.' I used to be a 'good hair person.':D
Then as a young teenager I shaved my head for about four years (sometimes with a razor).
after this I grew it out a bit again, and discovered that all of sudden I now had rather odd hair,
straight on the top (as it used to be) and curly on the sides:eek:
After this I experienced way too many BAD haircuts that cost a fortune.
It just seemed that no-one knew what to do with it, pretended they did, and butchered me in the process.
I came to dread the barber almost as much as the dentist.
Years later, being fed up with this, me and my friend began cutting each others hair, and occasionally our own. Often we would just have a hack on our own and then get someone else to do a little fix up job. Sometimes it was bad, but funny at least.

If a barber trims, layers, combs, sprays, trims, etc, etc, my head, then no doubt it will look absolutely awefull. Very rarely I got a good haircut, but as my hair grows so fast this was voided in about a month or two anyway.
For some reason my hair seems to look best when hacked.
So this is what I now do.
Twenty minutes or less every couple of months in the bathtub with a pair of scissors and a glance or two at the mirror does me just fine;) . I can pretty much just do it by feel now.
Haven't been to a hairdresser in over six years. Thus it is not only due to personality reasons that I have been called many a independent time "the mad professor".
And due to one of my least favourite inheritances, thinning hair, one day in the future, just like JCSOH I will be returning to the clippers and or the razor for good.:o

Good bye Barbers.
Good riddance (Sob!):D