I use my phone to see the back of my head and it does a decent job. Takes about 10 mins, then another few minutes to get the bit you missed when you catch your reflection in a different light....!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:57 pm
by Zonda_
If I manage to do a decent job on mine I might stick with it rather than paying £15 a time at the barbers!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:36 pm
by Pete_
My facial hair is as pathetic as a young teenagers, so I've never let it grow before. Seeing as I don't need to look presentable for a while I've decided to let it grow to see how awful it becomes!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 6:41 pm
by Brannen
Thought I might grow my hair, see what happens. It was cut fairly short a couple of weeks a go, but it doesn't last very long for me. I've got some clippers, but I'm not willing to try cutting my own hair. That opinion may change, but I'll see how I cope.
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 7:29 pm
by jamcg
Wife did mine a week ago, not too bad a job, just an £11 set of wahl clippers from Tesco, nothing flash
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 7:34 pm
by Rich B
Zonda_ wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 5:57 pm
If I manage to do a decent job on mine I might stick with it rather than paying £15 a time at the barbers!
i do my beard at the same time, though I have had a beard for about 12 years!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 7:58 pm
by McSwede
I wet shave my head every other day and trim my beard back to 18mm every 2-3 weeks. At the moment though a colleague and I are just letting ours grow until lock down ends.
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:18 pm
by Beany
With this and the chocolate/fridge thread, I think the cabin fever has proper kicked in on the forum.
Also, just buy a cheap trimmer and shave it down to about half a centimetre.
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:36 pm
by Zonda_
Beany wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:18 pm
With this and the chocolate/fridge thread, I think the cabin fever has proper kicked in on the forum.
Also, just buy a cheap trimmer and shave it down to about half a centimetre.
Half a centimetre? Fucking hippy!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:37 pm
by mik
Beany wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:18 pm
With this and the chocolate/fridge thread, I think the cabin fever has proper kicked in on the forum.
Also, just buy a cheap trimmer and shave it down to about half a centimetre.
Beany wrote: Wed Apr 08, 2020 8:18 pm
With this and the chocolate/fridge thread, I think the cabin fever has proper kicked in on the forum.
Also, just buy a cheap trimmer and shave it down to about half a centimetre.
Half a centimetre? Fucking hippy!
I've not managed go much further than that, I don't think I can pull off a proper skinhead look, and I'd be waaay too lazy to maintain it.
Mik - you don't?
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 9:55 pm
by Mito Man
I tried to do my crack but it’s hard spreading and shaving at the same time, a 3 hand job if I’ve ever seen one, then I went too low and nicked the old scrotum. Bloody mess.
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2020 10:32 pm
by Peterlplp
You're all doing it wrong:
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:33 am
by V8Granite
Mine was cut about a week before the lockdown, it doesn’t grow that fast and I just trim my beard when it gets a bit scraggly.
I had it properly shaped once at a barbers and looked like a tart so do it myself now.
I expect a weird 70s hair revival from everyone in a month or two.
Dave!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:51 am
by Nefarious
Top, top tip using clippers - you can use the guides down as well as up (i.e. with the direction of hair growth, as well as against it). Seems obvious, but I didn't cotton onto this for years. It gives a much less aggressive "tidy up". On my beard I use a No.6 downwards for the middle, a no.3 upwards for the sides, and the bare blade to do the edges/undercut. 90% of a pro cut (just can't do the tapering of the 'tashe the same as they do with scissors(
Also, when using scissors, the simple technique is - wet the hair, comb it straight, use the width of the comb as a guide, move round temple to temple (round the back), taking off 1 comb's width at a time.
I'm quite smug about my snipping skills - I've done both of the girls' hair since we've been indoors, and my daughter has asked if I can carry on doing it after we're allowed out again instead of her usual £50 Charlie Miller job. High praise indeed
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:12 am
by V8Granite
Nefarious wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 9:51 am
Top, top tip using clippers - you can use the guides down as well as up (i.e. with the direction of hair growth, as well as against it). Seems obvious, but I didn't cotton onto this for years. It gives a much less aggressive "tidy up". On my beard I use a No.6 downwards for the middle, a no.3 upwards for the sides, and the bare blade to do the edges/undercut. 90% of a pro cut (just can't do the tapering of the 'tashe the same as they do with scissors(
Also, when using scissors, the simple technique is - wet the hair, comb it straight, use the width of the comb as a guide, move round temple to temple (round the back), taking off 1 comb's width at a time.
I'm quite smug about my snipping skills - I've done both of the girls' hair since we've been indoors, and my daughter has asked if I can carry on doing it after we're allowed out again instead of her usual £50 Charlie Miller job. High praise indeed
Please tell me you do a pre ship air snip just like a real hair dresser ?
Dave!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:31 am
by Nefarious
V8Granite wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:12 am
Please tell me you do a pre ship air snip just like a real hair dresser ?
No, but I do affect an effeminate lisp and ask a lot about holidays
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:34 am
by V8Granite
Gok Wan will insist you go on his team once this all blows over
Dave!
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:18 am
by Gavin
I have clippers and used to cut quite a few mates hair to save beer money. My wife, son and daughter all have flowing locks and no cutting experience.
My daughter wants to cut my hair and dye it blue...
My hair essentially grows in to an afro as it is incredibly thick but it has receded somewhat so I swither between the Hobo look and getting it just down to the wood which I did for years quite happily...
I do hope we all plan to put any pictures of trims up? (Apart from Mito)
Re: Home haircuts
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2020 11:38 am
by KiwiDave
Finally. This is my time. Having hair down between my shoulder blades is coming into its own! I do not give a fuck about haircuts during lockdown!
