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| I Am The Walrus |
Yep. I give myself a 0 cut every week. I like keeping it short and simple, cheap and easy to maintain. Been doing this for the past 10 years and have saved myself quite a bit of money. _____________ | |||
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| drop and give me 20 pushups |
my age 71yrs old. up until 1 1/2 years ago long white ponytail half way down shoulder blades. went to a shop and got a full haircut but not a high and tight. since then nothing . have been letting it grow and now past collar line and possibly going ponytail again. wife is a beautican but she has not been allowed to touch it in the last 30 yrs.several times have donated hair to charities to be used for kids needing wigs. | |||
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Truth Wins |
I do. Did it yesterday. Easiest if you have really short hair, like me. I have Wahls professional clippers and a trimmer from Amazon. Cost about $75. It comes with spacers. Paid for itself with three haircuts. I use a #3 on top. Then I attach the #2 spacer and extend the blade using the lever which make it a #2.5. Then I do just below where I cut with a #3. Then I retract the blades going back to a true #2 and do just below what I did at #2.5. Then go to a #1 spacer, extend the blade, and do below that. Then retract the blade and do below that. Do my neck line with no spacer. Do around my ears with the trimmer. I do it all by feel and don't even use a mirror until I check to see if I missed anything. Do it once or twice and you won't pay $20 for a haircut again. _____________ "I enter a swamp as a sacred place—a sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength—the marrow of Nature." - Henry David Thoreau | |||
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Not a chance in Hell. The same gal has been styling my hair for 36 years. I saw her 4 weeks ago, and was supposed to get it cut last Thursday, no deal. Heck, last trip I let her trim up my ratty beard with much angst, she did great! If I was desperate, she would take me at her house as she has kindly done before. _________________________________________________ "Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God." --- G.K. Chesterton | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Yeah, but I couldn’t do it if I wore it long-ish. 4 1/2 faded to a 2 on the sides and a 1 1/2 around the edges. Not too difficult. I had a barber that I really liked, but he didn’t control his diabetes and he died. Every barber after, I found myself fixing their mistakes. After a short while I thought, “Well this is stupid.” Cutting it ever since. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Used to joke that since I only presented barbers with half a head at best to cut they could give me a price break or better yet polish my dome with some caranuba wax!  None of them laughed.... So I moved on to DIY. I have both a Wahl #MC hair trimmer as well as a pair of Wahl #9879 beard trimmers. For the hair trimmer I have #1,#1.5,#2,#4,and #6 guides. I normally use the #4 on my beard with the #9879's adjustable comb guide handling detail work. For my bald head the #2 and #1.5 work well for the hair left above the ears and around to the back of the neck. Old fashioned brush, shaving cream, and injector razor are used to clean up the edges around the ears, neck, check, and throat areas. Been doing this now for as long as I can remember.  Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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This is pretty much what I do except I got my Wahl set at Costco. Reading what you are doing, it seems like it must be the exact same set. As short as I keep it, I would have quit going to 'my girlfriend', as my wife referred to her, long before I did. Except she announced she was moving to Hawaii and I didn't want to jump ship on her right when she probably had others do exactly that. So I haven't had a haircut from someone else since she left in 2016 or so. | |||
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Did it once with the sissors on a Swiss Army Knive. My secretary wasn't pleased.  | |||
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Yesterday. #1 for the beard, #2 on the side, and #3 on top (what there is). | |||
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Conductor in Residence |
Yep. Wahl balding clippers, every 2-3 weeks. Easy and fast. | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
Been doing it myself for about 20 years. #1 fade with about 3" length up top. A bit more involved than just shaving it all with the same size guard. IMO, it is a must to have 2 mirrors. One in front and one that swings out like from the cabinet door so you can see the side profile. | |||
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| The cake is a lie! |
That's pretty much how I started doing my own. I used to go out and get my hair cut, then having to go come home and fix the parts that they missed or even it out. I just ended up doing it all myself after a few years of that. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Been shaving my head since 2006. Every other day or so, in the shower. | |||
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts |
Deemed essential at 76 years old (part time gig just to stay busy); I haven't been able to get my hair or beard trimmed for about 2 months now, since my barber closed up shop. My 30 something year old supervisor made a statement that I was looking a little shaggy last week. Told him I'll have a fresh hair cut and beard trim within two weeks of my barbers shop reopening---if that isn't good enough for him he can tell me not to return to work until I have fresh hair cut or that I'm fired. I could care less what he comes up with. If told to walk no problem as I have a couple of other part time offers with companies that don't care if I come in to work looking like big foot. They only care about my job performance and know that I'm over qualified for the supervisors job which I've been offered and turned down on more than one occasion. | |||
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| Banned |
Who knows what extra stress he has or how his family life was that morning. I bet he felt guilty about it later or just forgot about it after deriding himself. Have fun, no matter which scenario plays out. Happy Easter. | |||
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Me and Boris Johnson. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| and this little pig said: |
We have a regulation that your hair cannot touch your collar... I'm cutting the collars off of the shirts!!!! Seriously, I'm gonna hafta figure something out.....how much do I trust my wife...... now I have to get some clippers! | |||
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| sick puppy |
Ive not cut my hair but a few times in the last five years. I do cut my wifes hair though. Mine is due for a trim but the apocalypse put that on hold for the time being ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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For almost 10 years. Clippers, half inch guard, bzzzzzt done. | |||
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