Who Cuts Your Hair?

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I cut my own. Just shave it down to the skin. I can't stand my hair being short. I think it reminds me of all the times as a child when I was forced to have it cut against my will because I couldn't "take care of it". Uh, I was five. I never knew NT five year olds who could take care of their hair by themselves. Their parents put it up in ponytails, pigtails, braids or afro puffs for them.

I had this condition where my head would get itchy for no reason all of a sudden. Cutting my hair seemed to relive the itch but my mom didn't believe me. I got it a few times as an adult, shaved my head down to the skin, went to the doctor and they told me what it was. Folliculitis. And that it was easily treated.

If my mom would have just taken me to the doctor and told that wench to look at my head, maybe even took me to a dermatologist. But I noticed I really liked how I looked bald. I was expecting to look like Sinéad O'Connor (who I always thought was pretty) but came out looking like someone different but equally as beautiful. Like me. Due to issues with having it cut against my will as a child, I have to be the one to shave most of it. I always have to be the one to make the first cut. I never got ONE negative comment about being a bald woman. I got more compliments than I ever did as a woman with hair. But I want to dye it pink again. That's my thing, it either has to be pink or not there. If I ever do become a veterinarian, people will probably recomend me by saying, "Oh you know that bald lady or pink haired lady at such and such animal hospital?"

I go to random barbers. I keep my hair short, but only cut it every 3 months or so when it gets a couple finger lengths long. If I need to put a comb to it then it's time for a haircut.

I have a think head of hair, which I'm thankful for, but I've never had any interest in being stylish with my hair. It's purely practical.

I don't do regular haircuts.
I don't have a regular stylist or barber to go to.

I don't have any sensory issues particularly around my hair, except, like wearing jewelry, I don't like anything heavy hanging around.

I don't dislike long hair like some who do for sensory reasons.

I don't need anything particular with my hair.
As long as it's not utterly ruined by reckless cutting (as if some clumsy child used a scissor) or put something non-temporary sticky in it.

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I finally found a good hair dresser in my early thirties. I gave her free reign the first time, & was thrilled with the results. I could not do the cutting/trimming, layering, & feathering myself. I see her about twice a year, nowadays. Before Covid, I was going four times a year. She only has a handful of clients left, & works out of her home using a regular kitchen chair.

My mom & dad have been going to their stylists for forty-ish years. Mom goes to a woman specializing more in straight hair. She's always worked in regular salon but in her own room. My dad's specializes more in curly hair. She remodeled part of her garage into her own salon, & even got the city to put a designated handicap parking space in front of her house for her many elderly clients.

My husband varies between two Sports Clips locations. He prefers to not converse during the process, so the TVs with sports are a useful distraction.

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I used to go to the barber for a short back and sides. Then in the early 2000’s I shaved my head and kept it that way until a year ago. Now I haven’t cut it for 6 months, and the more I think about shaving it, the less I feel like doing it. I might end up looking like Grizzly Adams if the trend keeps going.

I cut my own.
I have shoulder-long hair. I make a ponytail at my forehead and cut the tip of it. The effect is satisfying while time, money and social energy consumed - negligible.

I also cut my daughters' hair, that takes more time.

cost cutters...idk I probably could treat myself to a more specialized hair place maybe, but thats like 50 dolllars oppsed to 30$ and I am for some reason feel like a more expensive place would feel weird...then again it is hard to actually get a good haircut with advice for how to handle the hair after for 30 bucks so maybe I should suck it up and just go to a more professional place...50 bucks is not that much more than 30 I suppose.

So many people cut their own hair...how?

like I don't think I could ever cut my own hair, like how would you get your arms to bend that way and get it right...no offence but like I just cannot even picture how to cut my own hair. Not to say I have never tried but it always came out horrible when I did.

I took inspiration from this:

and then tuned it to my own preferences with practice.

Definitely, self-cutting is good only for some styles, mainly long or very short.

I was able to give myself decent medium-short hair with the ponytail-tip-cutting technique but I was too lazy to keep it. Longer hair is okay with cutting it like twice a year.

My mom cut my hair, too, but she was good at it. Actually, I found only one hairdresser except for her, who could give me short hair that looked good with my face. I have a skull shape unusual for my ethnicity and the standard short hair makes me look like Alien.

Mum says, she learned the basics from some German newspapers for housewifes - but probably some taste of her own was also important.

I cut my own hair. Well... cut... hah! I got an undercut; long hair on one side, shaved for most on the other side. But I also dye my own hair. I haven't been at a barber for probably 2 decades.

Myself, these days. I didn't get it done that regularly, and I got sick of how barbers / hairdressers would both sneer at me and do it wrong. Seriously, about the last 5 times I went to one, I expressly said "Do NOT leave me with a huge fringe that needs lots of styling." And what did they do?

....so now I just use clippers about twice a year.

Myself or my partner and I rarely cut my hair.

I can't stand going to the hairdresser or beautician.
While I can be a bit dressed up at times, it's not my thing to spend money on it.