I’ve been cutting my own hair since 1982. It helps that I went to cosmetology as a junior & senior in high school, although how good an education I got there I don’t know. There’s a reason that cosmetology schools in smalltown strip malls wedged between the KFC and the hardware store aren’t featured in Vogue.
I tried cutting my hair once and made a fast appointment at the salon. She asked me who cut my hair, said they did a terrible job. I blamed it on a salon in another city when I was out of town on business.
She said don’t ever go back there and I havn’t.
Some things are best left to professionals or as the saying goes, he who has himself as his own barber has a guy with a messed up head for a customer.
I’ve had trouble with barbers all my life. I’ve got mixed ancestry, so I’ve got a nice, but somewhat unusual grade of hair. Most barbers can’t seem to figure out what to do with it.
I was once in Phoenix on business, and had to run get a trim before my first appointment. I stopped at the first place with a barber pole outside the window. The barber was a Russian immigrant, and I thought, “oh boy, here we go...” Wouldn’t you know it, though? That guy did an absolutely perfect job.
Too bad I don’t live in Phoenix...
Flowbee! Sounds kind of goofy, but it really does work. I was tiring of paying “professionals” who could never seem to cut my hair the way I asked; the last straw, though, was the stylist who finished the job and then told me she needed to charge me the rate for a women’s haircut because I had so much hair (not long, just lots of it :-)
I ordered a Flowebee online for about $70 nearly 10 years ago and can manage a decent haircut that, by now, costs only pennies per use. Even better, I can cut it whenever I want, without having to make a trip or wait in line. Takes about 10 minutes to set it up, cut, and put it all away again. Even cut my daughter’s long hair for back-to-school :-)