Where do you get your Hair Cut?

[GRIZZLYBEAR]

In '86 after wearing a uniform since '63, I decided that I was done shaving & sporting the "military" type haircuts.

I now get my hair cut twice a year, I like my hair a "little long" & go in for that "shaggy dog" look as I'm not trying to impress anyone.

When I retired for the second time in 2008, I started getting my beard shaved off twice a year when I get my semi-annual haircuts at one of two old school barbers I having been going to for over 25 years. They have the barber poles, use straight razors, and have an understanding of how to cut hair. Both barbers are in their early 80s.

 

[DeadAye]

The ONLY place I got my hair cut was on my head until just before the recent arterial catheter procedure

 

[The Highlander]

What is this "hair" of which you speak?

;-)

Tim

I like the haircut, mine is very similar and my wife does it for me when I need it. I enjoy paying her too...

Also like the shirt, and the cigar. What'cha smokin'?

 

[absolutevil]

When I was getting the standard flat-top at the barbershop I decided to let my wife try to re-flatten my head one day. I sat in a chair and she got behind me with the clippers and a comb and started trimming. All of a sudden I felt her slip with the clippers, which had no clipper guard, and she started laughing. I knew at that moment she had just gave me a reverse mohawk. She cut a strip of hair off right down the center of my head. That was the day I had to cut it all off for the first time. She never cut my hair again!

 

[feralmerril]

As a boy my dad would cut my hair with a old hand clipper. (Not electric). I hated it and I put a nail in the teeth and squeezed, broke off a tooth or two. Dad cured me by continueing to give me haircuts for awhile with it really pulling my hair!

 

[PatAz]

Wife does mine too.

 

[galleta loco]

The wife and a wahl,also does the back and chest,a true saint!

 

[DeadAye]

As a boy my dad would cut my hair with a old hand clipper. (Not electric). I hated it and I put a nail in the teeth and squeezed, broke off a tooth or two. Dad cured me by continueing to give me haircuts for awhile with it really pulling my hair!

That reminded me ---- My dad cut my hair when I was a kid too.
When he finished and I went upstairs my mom would look at me and cry.... NOT a good sign

 

[BE Mike]

I have a flat top. I get mine cut by a barber who is not all that talented. Sometimes mine looks ok, other times not so much. I got a coupon in the mail from "Great Clips" which is very close to my house. One day I was going to UPS. On the way I decided to stop by "Great Clips". I presented the coupon and asked for a haircut. The girl looked frantic and said, "I don't cut flat tops!" She then started asking every, I use the term loosely, "barber" in the shop and they said that they didn't cut flat tops. She said to come back after 3 p.m. and there would be a few girls who could cut a flat top. I made by business rounds and returned about 3:30 p.m. A different crew was at their chairs and guess what?...no body could give me a flat top! The girl at the front said that they were opening a new shop about 10 miles away and she knew that there was one girl who could give a flat top. To make a long story longer...I missed my chance to use my coupon and still go to my not so talented barber. At least he cuts my hair to somewhat resemble a flat top...most of the time. "Great Clips" ain't so great.

 

[moosedog]

A good barber is like a good auto mechanic, hard as all hell to find.
The only good one I know of is 25 miles away and always has a one to one and a half hour wait. Right now I am sporting a haircut by a new barber I tried.
It looks like he did it with a weed wacker.

 

[feralmerril]

I aint too fussey. After all, the difference between a good haircut and a bad haircut is only about 3 or 4 days.

 

[gamedic]

I get my haircut by a girl who works in the best old fashioned barber shop in town, but she cuts mine at her house in her basement. She has a booming side business. I make fun of her because she has her clippers hooked up to a regular old shopvac.

 

[perrazi]

get what little hair i have trimmed and beard trimmed every 3 wks. by a very nice lady. have been going to her for about 10yrs now. am going to have the beard grow longer for several weeks after next week. get to have a anterior cervical fusion with disc removal. can hardly wait.

 

[Pilgrim]

 

[thearborbarber]

Cut my own. Wahl clippers using no attachment.

Once a week while taking my morning constitution I also cut my hair.

Once a month for me with the 0 attachment. Best $20 I spent in a long time.

 

[michael thornton]

i shave my head in the bathtub

 

[zeke]

Been cutting my own for almost 20 years. The cute girls at the hair cutting school just wouldn't cut the top short enough, and after fixing that several times, figured it couldn't be too difficult. Also figured i should get a discount, as only really had hair on the sides.

About 5 years ago advanced from the one knuckle scissors method, went high tech and got cheap set of electric clippers. The only reason it takes 1/2 hour is the scissors trim on the beard.

 

[RonJ]

Lemme get this straight. Several of you say you cut your own hair. Literally? Not the wife or girlfriend? How about the back and neck?
If it's that easy I may try it myself.

 

[USAF385]

I cut mine myself as well. I started after basic training since I didn't feel like paying for one every week. Generally I'll use one length and buzz it. I've gotten to where I can give myself a high and tight (straight and symmetrical at that) in less than 10 minutes. This last time I got fancy and have three different lengths! I'm letting the top get long so I cropped the sides nice and short and blended it into the top. Right now the top is about 3/4 of an inch so I won't go much further... maybe an inch.

 

[Genetically Swiss]

The basement, in my wife's dog grooming shop. I get a zero maintenance haircut every couple of weeks. She uses the dog grooming shears on me. The same ones she uses on the dogs butts...


GS