Toying with the idea of cutting own hair

fee fi fo fum

Curious if any of you have ever successfully given yourselves the chop.

Maybe it's idleness but have been wanting to crop my hair up for ages, it's currently quite long and thick, well past my bra down my back.

Would quite like a similar cut to what Daniella Moyles had on that Xpose programme thingy a year or so back.

There's nobody i trust enough in my regular salon to do it, even for a normal cut, they only seem to do what they want, never what you ask for.

Any success stories out there?

fillefatale

Hm, I wouldn't dare personally, maybe ask a friend to do it? If it went wrong when you were cutting it (especially risky if its quite long) you might have to end up going to the salon anyway.

I only trim my fringe between cuts and go to the hairdressers maybe twice a year.

Tayla

I've been cutting my own hair for years, I don't trust salons at all, do u have a link you could put up of the style you want?

fee fi fo fum

Kinda like this Tayla, my hair is a lot thicker i'd say




It's not the best picture , something similar to what Frankie from The Saturdays has i suppose.

I'm after buying a proper scissors

Teyla Emmagan

Maybe you should just find a better salon? My hairdressers always do exactly what I want (perhaps because they know I will ask for it to be fixed if I'm not happy ).

Have looked up this person called Daniella Moyles and found a girl with a kinda long pixie crop. It must be pretty complicated around the back. Have no idea how you could manage to do this to yourself unless you're a trained hairdresser anyway. If you've very long hair now and manage to butcher yourself you'll be devastated.

Don't do it OP!!

Lorrrrraine

Maybe get them to put the shape in and hack at it yourself after if it isn't perfect. It's a very dramatic cut for your first attempt.

fillefatale

Lorrrrraine wrote: »

Maybe get them to put the shape in and hack at it yourself after if it isn't perfect. It's a very dramatic cut for your first attempt.

This is what I was thinking.

Kiva.D

You've wanted to crop your hair for awhile - so at some point you'll probably get out the scissors and try it. (I say try it)... In my experience, it's better to trim your long hair, so that in case it doesn't turn out the way you planned, there's plenty of hair for the salon to even out.

That said, I've cut my own hair twice. The first was an attempt to layer my sides, which was a disaster and the salon had to cut it quite short to fix it. The last time was a success. After my hair had grown fairly long, I cut it to shoulder length, straight across then lifted the outside layer and undercut the underneath layer so the top would curve under rather than flip up. I had my roommate check the back and trim any slightly uneven strands.

theg81der

I use to do my own and friends regularly, its trial and error. That cut is quite ambitious thou for a first go! Well how bad could it go......

Michellenman

theg81der wrote: »

Well how bad could it go......

Really really badly if the OP attempts it.

I cut my friends hair and I'm always cuting layers and fringes in to my own hair but I would never in a million years attempt to do what you want to do. Especially if you cut it too short for it to be fixed. I'd go to a salon first and then continue the upkeep yourself but there's no way in hell that I would try it all by myself, especially having never cut hair before.

boomkatalog

If your hair really is thick, and you cut it up that short, they'll need to thin it out a little. Plus, if anything did go wrong, there isn't much left to play around with to salvage a decent cut. I'd definitely say go to a salon, just to be sure. Maybe even throw up a thread for suggestions of really good salons in your region.

Reeni

I cut my own hair or the first time and was really happy with it. BUT I don't have this fear of bad hair and figured worst that could happen is I'd have to go to the hairdresser.

I say sure give it a go, but keep money aside so that if it does go wrong you can throw a hat on and head to the hairdressers (which you'd normally do anyway) and have them tidy it up.

Aoifums

I wouldn't cut my hair that drastically. I cut my own hair (I'm a cheapskate ) and I cut it today. I was freaking because I took too much off the first part of it and had to cut a little bit more than I wanted to even it out. And that was only a trim. I wouldn't dare style my hair. Just think of how badly it could go wrong,

mood

Don't do it! Just find a good hairdresser. Ask friends etc.

gillapino

my friend cut my hair when i was about fifteen or sixteen from shoulder length into a bob thing it was all uneven and i just tryed to tie it up as much as possible to disguise the bad cut ! it was awful ! my mum raged at me then i got it fixed in the hair dressers now i'm trying really bad to grow it long , stupid mistake ! 4 years later its now a lil longer then shoulder length ! your hair its up to you ! she cut with a kitchen scissos might i add !!

ilovejames

I have the frankie sandford hairstyle done at the moment and id say it would be near impossible to cut it yourself, you could try colleges that might do it for free or something...

When i was younger i had really long hair and my mam would not let me get it cut so i enlisted my sister to cut it with a paper scissors and the more she cut the thicker it got and the thicker it got the more uneven it became so she had to keep cutting. I looked like Edward scissor hands had got hold of me, me mam went mental!!