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Giving one's self a haircut (vanity)
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Posted on 10/03/2011 7:57:09 PM PDT by Celtic Cross

Hello FRiends. Lately I've noticed that whenever I have a question about something, my first impulse is to look it up on FR. Anyway, that explains this vanity.

Do any FReepers (guys) have experience giving themselves a haircut? My hair grows faster'n a weed and I don't care to waste time and money constantly running to the barber. Plus my hair is thick, coarse, and wavy, so once it gets even moderately long I end up looking either like the 'Hall' in Hall and Oates, or else a 1950's greaser. Not pretty.

I have an electric clipper with a few attachments. I'm not shooting for anything spectacular, just looking for tips on how to get the back, avoid gouging clumps out, etc.

Thanks in advance.


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KEYWORDS: grooming; haircut; haircuts; selfhaircut
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To: Celtic Cross

I have hair having the same thickness and characteristics. Check out your local beauty/barber college and you’ll pay about half to 2/3 what you pay in a normal haircut shop. Students are monitored by instructors who do any clean-up or finish work when it’s not 100% correct.


61 posted on 10/04/2011 12:00:55 AM PDT by Skybird
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To: Celtic Cross
For a variety of reasons, I have a lot of experience in this arena of "giving one's self a haircut," beyond the financial management metaphor. I don't recommend it.

The rare success I've enjoyed has come only by devoting patience and much more time than the process would take in a social setting. Specifically, it took four hours, and nothing better to do, and the result was mediocre at best.

The problem, unless a person has no social concerns with cutting one's hair and the motivation is strictly utilitarian of course, is the process is a bit like writing in cursive with the left hand (if right-handed, and vice versa).

If one has any social motivation whatsoever for getting a haircut, even for the sake as minimal as the sensitivities of a wife for example, then it's best to find a barber.

It's a cleansing ritual of renewal that's much more quickly done than undone, and it will always grow back, or almost always.

62 posted on 10/04/2011 7:35:09 AM PDT by Prospero
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To: Celtic Cross

How you look in a buzz cut? (I shave my dome, there is very little to shave)

Vanity is your only obstacle

TT


63 posted on 10/04/2011 6:05:57 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
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Everybody I know tells me I look better with long hair, but I myself prefer short and squared away.

With a buzz, I look like a little kid. Still, neat is best in my book, and if its easy to do...

64 posted on 10/04/2011 7:15:34 PM PDT by Celtic Cross (The brain is the weapon; everything else is just accessories. --FReeper Joe Brower)
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To: Celtic Cross; All

Anyone remember this classic?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1122129/posts


65 posted on 10/04/2011 7:48:01 PM PDT by Ladysmith (The evil that's happening in this country is the cancer of socialism...It kills the human spirit.)
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To: Celtic Cross

Toss this around ... “Neat” or “So easy I can do it myself”

(Actually with me it started out with a Burr, then I shaved my head... then if I get Lazy it’s a Burr again until I save it all off again)

I have had positive reviews on both ... so it works for me

TT


66 posted on 10/05/2011 12:32:37 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is real islam. Moderate islam is the trojan horse.)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

Yes, I just now saw your post. Great minds think a like! Used my Flowbee this weekend.

Got two compliments on my cut today, one from a GI on a nearby Army base this morning. He’d just left the military barber. I don’t think he liked his “high and tight” too much.


67 posted on 10/11/2011 11:39:53 PM PDT by miele man
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