Saturday, February 11, 2012

How hard is it to give yourself a haircut?

Im getting bored of just having to pay 15 dollars for a simple buzz cut I can probly do at home.





How hard would it be just to give yourself a buzzcut at home with a haircutting kit?


I usally cut it with a number one.How hard is it to give yourself a haircut?
The difficult part that makes the cut look professional is designing the edge and tapering it to the skin at the nape, which is not going to happen with a self cut home haircut. Most guys suit a short pomp style-crew cut, ivy league(long crew cut), flat top crew cut- more than a butch so if one goes to a barber and he charges the same regardless of style, it's a good idea to experiment with other short buzzed styles. A #1 butch can be difficult with home clippers because the scalp can gather between the widely set teeth of a clipper guard. This will leave the hair randomly longer or shorter and the haircut will look splotchy and uneven. A barber does not use clipper guards for a haircut this short but a #1A rotary blade. Blades have very closely set teeth and the scalp does not gather between the teeth. For a home butch cut it is safer not to go shorter than #4 on top and #2 on the back/sides. Here is the general technique. With a butch cut, the upper sides and top are cut the same length.


1)Start at the right sideburn with the #4 guard on the clipper. Guide the clipper up the side of the head till it runs off as the skull curves to the top. Continue to the mid back and then do the same starting at the left sideburn.


2) Place the #3 clipper guard on the clipper and again start at the right sideburn and work to the middle back. Guide the clipper up the side and back of the head to a point about and inch below where the side curves to the top. Arc the clipper out of the hair to achieve a taper between the two lengths. Do the same starting at the left sideburn and working around to the middle of the back.


3) Place the #2 clipper guard on the clipper and again start at the right sideburn and work to the middle back. Guide the clipper up the side and back of the head to a point a little above the top of the ear and start to arc it out of the hair to create a taper between the #3 cut hair and the #2 cut hair. Arc the clipper out of the hair to achieve a taper between the two lengths. Do the same starting at the left sideburn and working around to the middle of the back.


4)Put the #4 guard back on the clipper and working from the front hairline cut, to the back of the crown. Repeat till the entire top is cut.


5) Trim the sideburns off at the point where the ear cartilage attaches to the skull. Sideburns should be at this length:


http://a.imagehost.org/0334/butchclassic…


6) Wash and dry hair.


7) Barely dip fingertips in a jar of krew comb or a traditional butch wax like lucky tiger cru butch, or any of the wide variety of control waxes presently available.


8) Transfer wax to palms.


9) Smooth wax over the top of the hair.


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10)Use a boar's bristle military brush or a butch comb to brush hair back off the forehead.


http://a.imagehost.org/0615/Haircut_Char…


http://h.imagehost.org/0211/Barb4.jpg


http://i.imagehost.org/0186/ClipperComb.…


ivy league(long crew cut):


http://h.imagehost.org/0168/Kid_with_a_C…


short ivy league:


http://www.gstatic.com/hostedimg/3b4b3c0…


Some barbers describe an ivy league as a crew cut just long enough to be parted and combed to the side, if so desired. An ivy league can also be worn with the hair brushed up off the forehead to form the short pomp front, or with the short bangs brushed down on the forehead like a forward brush cut.


Basic short cuts:


http://i.imagehost.org/0254/fpssb1321332…


http://i.imagehost.org/0809/fpssb1341352…


http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues…


I would not recommend going shorter than #4 on top with a #3, #2 taper on the back/sides at first. In a few haircuts, as skill develops, go shorter if one wishes.


Good Luck!How hard is it to give yourself a haircut?
Here is the correct url for the last link:


http://www.yalealumnimagazine.…

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good answer!

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Why is this best answer? Jeez I know hundreds of guys who have cut their own buzz cuts for years, it's not hard or unsafe, nothing has ever gone wrong lol

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If you wanna make yourself look weird funny looking then sure go for it :)

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Invest in a Robocut and haircuts will be a thing of the past. I use it for my mullet.





http://robocut.com/

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not hard at all. I cut my medium long hair all the time.

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ZURIE OWNZ YOU!!

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rawr.

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I cut my hair for the first time (since I was 10 years old) and it was better than 90% of the cuts I usually get. I just started at the top, with the 1'; setting, I did the back and sides with the 1/2'; setting, then I blended with the 3/4'; at sort of a 45 degree angle.

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Honestly it going to be very difficult and u need to be an expect before you can have your hair cut all by yourself.Besides you can always go for the cheaper hair cut or go to a saloon where bills are reasonable

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Depends on how good you are with a pair of scissors. When I was 12 I gave myself a haircut that honestly didn't look too bad at all. It was when my mom insisted on ';fixing'; it that it went bad.

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If your going to do your own hair cut, check this out first:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

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whoaa dont give urself a harcut lol!

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Go to a community college with a cosmetology department... theyll practice on you for free

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For a TRUE buzz cut, don't use a #anything. Just use the clippers and actually shave your head. This is really ONLY haircut you can do correctly on yourself. My barber is my sister-in-law. She charges a few hours of keeping the kids out of her hair.

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I've straight hair.

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That's funny. I just gave myself a hair cut today for the same reason, paying $15-20 for a haircut is rediculous when I get a 2 on the sides and finger tip, maybe a 3 on the top... It was easy. The hard part was the detailing, around the ears and the neck, it's hard to guide your hand in the mirror

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Shave it all off, take out the machine and run it over your skull. :)

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i just gave myself a haircut a couple of days ago : )

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i dont think it is because my boyfriend gives hisself a haircut


all thaa time ; and gets compliments everytime!

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You can if you have clippers.

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Its easy

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If you have a spouse, cutting hair is easy. I'll start with the clippers and the #1 or #2 guard and shave my entire head. When I look in the mirror and everything looks pretty cleaned up, I'll have my wife do the final trim around the ears and back of neck to make sure it is cut evenly and cleanly

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difficulty 5 in the Johnson scale

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it's not that hard

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not hard *****!!

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lol thats kind of a long answer!!

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Too long to read! Good Gosh!


%26amp;%26amp; To put it in simple terms, it's not that hard.





:D

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My dad often does his own haircut, but once he's done, he asks me to double check the back and clean it up a little. He does it with clippers, by the way.

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it really depends if ur black its a breeze if ur not and have that flowing hair that every other race has then it wud be more difficult

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FOB

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well, having given myself haircuts occasionally, i can say first hand doing it decently is very difficult. The front might be a little easy, cause you can look in a mirror, and use both hands, etc. the back, you have to either go by feel (which is usually disaterous) or you need to stand in front of a mirror, holding another mirror, to get a reflection of your relection to see what you're doing.





using a clipper, which it sounds like you're going to do, is easier, BUT again, for the back you can go by feel, or mirror reflection of mirror reflection. Is it doable? yes, is it doable WELL, er, maybe. if you're really going to do your own, have somebody that can look it over and ';clean it up';
do u live in an area large enough to have a beauty school? they will wash, cut, color, whatever, to your hair for next to nothing (like 5 bucks) because they are learning. look in the phone book for beauty schools or schools of cosmetology.


More details you vist this site
I wouldn't do it.





if you know a beauty salon graduate personally,


ask them to do it for you. They know what their doing.
dont do it. you will cut it so it messes up and u wont like it.
dont do it. it'll suck
It's really easy if like u'r brother or friend does it for u! but if u do it... u'll prob mess it up!

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