Bad Haircut

Hitchens

Did you ever get one?

And when the 'stylist' shows you the back of your noggin in the mirror and says "is that ok?", your teeth are clenched in rage as you mutter "yeah, grand"!

I mean you'd love to say something scathing but it won't put the hair back.

So you meekly pay at the till and swear to yourself that you'll never be caught in that salon again.

It's probably a lot worse for the women I suppose?

orangesoda

I had long hair and wanted it shorter and the result was a mullet, a short front and long back, i had to cut the back of it myself

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

No!

we'llallhavetea

you should have said it was awful and got them to fix it!

geckovision

orangesoda wrote: »

I had long hair and wanted it shorter and the result was a mullet, a short front and long back, i had to cut the back of it myself

Why did you leave and walk out in public sporting a mullet?

mikom

Hitchens wrote: »

Did you ever get one?

And when the 'stylist' shows you the back of your noggin in the mirror and says "is that ok?", your teeth are clenched in rage as you mutter "yeah, grand"!

I mean you'd love to say something scathing but it won't put the hair back.

So you meekly pay at the till and swear to yourself that you'll never be caught in that salon again.

It's probably a lot worse for the women I suppose?

Watched any adverts for insurance lately?

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

You saw that Chill Insurance ad with Jennifer Maguire in it, didn't you?

Edit: beat me to it mikom

Hitchens

must have been subliminal

orangesoda

geckovision wrote: »

Why did you leave and walk out in public sporting a mullet?

My salon is on a rural road. there is noone about

mikom

Hitchens wrote: »

must have been subliminal

She's very subliminal all right that Jennifer getyourtitsoutandsitonmyface Maguire.

Charlie19

Ah you know what I changed my mind, give me a number 3 all over.

The Backwards Man

Every time, I cut my own hair.

Real Life

Theres a lot of cheap barbers out there that people seem to settle for. On the other hand there is some great barbers who will make a masterpiece on your head if youre willing to pay. I get my hair cut every 2 or 3 weeks and pay my barber 20 euro. sounds a lot for a barber maybe but he gets it spot on everytime and knows what hes doing.

It can be hard to find good barbers in small towns but if you live in dublin or other cities and are willing to pay 20 euro you will get a good cut.

SEPT 23 1989

Barber:The Usual?

Me: Yes

No bad haircuts

Sir Arthur Daley

There is only one solution to a bad haircut and that is to shave it all off.

Corvo

Stick with the Turkish barbers, you won't go wrong

GenieOz

Chinese barbers are the best, they really do a great job. Any Tian Du, telling ya, can't go wrong.

Sir Arthur Daley

Corvo wrote: »

Stick with the Turkish barbers, you won't go wrong

Very good barbers and they do a good kebab too

Hitchens

best barber ever cut my hair was a German, Herr Kutz

Tin Foil Hat

Hitchens wrote: »

Did you ever get one?

And when the 'stylist' shows you the back of your noggin in the mirror and says "is that ok?", your teeth are clenched in rage as you mutter "yeah, grand"!

I mean you'd love to say something scathing but it won't put the hair back.

So you meekly pay at the till and swear to yourself that you'll never be caught in that salon again.

It's probably a lot worse for the women I suppose?

' Stylist','Salon'?

*shakes head*

Pumpkinseeds

Years ago I went to get red some red highlights put in, when she took the foil or whatever, off my hair it was atrocious. Instead of being red it was a weird brassy blonde colour. I just calmly and menacingly said 'Fix it', she did and I never went back again.

Pug160

If it's a place where there are 2-3 barbers or hairdressers and one of them has a reputation for being rubbish, just say you'd like to wait until one of the others is finished. It sounds cruel but those people should choose another profession or retrain.

the_monkey

When I was 14 I let my brother give me a raw blade with a SCISSORS ...

Nightmare couple of weeks in school ....

And he laughed his ass off ... 20 years ago and he's still laughing ...

Jesus, I remember it the next morning, him in the next room in his bed - in stitches laughing, my Mam goes in to him to see whats up, he just said go into the monkeys room ....

:D:D:D:D

jester77

First time in Germany myself and another lad needed haircuts badly. It was the middle of 35+ summer and we practically had affros on our heads that were suffocating us in the heat. We picked a barber shop and struggled to explain what we wanted due to our lack of the local language. There were no pictures to reference and there were lots of hand gestures, pointing to razors and trying to explain stuff. It was a disaster, we both left with awful cuts after paying 50 or 60 DMs. I had a round clump of hair on top and a step at the back. We did the only thing we could do and bought a razor and shaved each others head.

SouthTippBass

I got sick of constantly getting **** haircuts so back in August/September I decided.... no more haircuts.

Lovin my new curls :cool:

Stavros Murphy

Pug160 wrote: »

If it's a place where there are 2-3 barbers or hairdressers and one of them has a reputation for being rubbish, just say you'd like to wait until one of the others is finished. It sounds cruel but those people should choose another profession or retrain.

That would require me to get a culture-transplant, bigger cahones and a harder neck. I go to a barbers where I know them all very well, neighbours etc. One of them is crap. Very crap. We all sit there praying one of the others will finish first so we can lash into their seat for a proper cut. It's like Russian Roulette tbh..

hfallada

I went to one of the €5 barbers in Dublin. I asked for 4 on the sides and 6 on top. I knew the barber was eastern european so I repeated it twice to her. Half way through the hair cut I looked in the mirror and seen it was ridiculously short. I asked her what the **** the blade number was and she said 1 like I asked. I was freaking the **** out. Like she had to ask me to calm down. She made it look decent in the end

My school at the time had a no less a 4 blade hair cut or suspension until it returns to a decent length. One of the guys said to a senior teacher "sir his hair is too short,Thats not allowed". The teacher no lie said "look at the ****ing state of it. That a enough of a punishment."

ScumLord

I pity all you hairy people with your hair problems.

BetterThanThou

Not too long ago I went to a barber, I explained to him what I wanted, essentially a slicked back undercut. He wet my hair, put it the way I asked, that was grand, but then when it came to the cutting, he quite literally cut it so short that I was unable to even spike it up properly, nevermind slick it back, during the same haircut, this barber also shaved my neck hair with a disposable safety razor that he had been using on other customers, not even washed other than a quick rinse under the tap. Pretty much every other haircut I get has something wrong with it, though never to this extent. Every time I say to myself "I'm going to a better barbers next time", but I've never done it. Living in Dublin there is good barbers in commuting distance, I have no problem with paying 20 euro for a good cut over a tenner for a bad one, But there's no good barbers that I know of around where I live, and I'd feel like a wanker going in to get my hair cut while in town with someone else. But it's definitely something I need to do eventually, as I can only think of 1 time I've ever been truly happy with a haircut.

J_E

This is why I just shave my own hair. Saves money and the awful "that's...grand" regret moment.

ScumLord

BetterThanThou wrote: »

he quite literally cut it so short that I was unable to even spike it up properly,

:eek:

Pug160

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

That would require me to get a culture-transplant, bigger cahones and a harder neck. I go to a barbers where I know them all very well, neighbours etc. One of them is crap. Very crap. We all sit there praying one of the others will finish first so we can lash into their seat for a proper cut. It's like Russian Roulette tbh..

That is a more difficult situation. But even so, life seems a bit too short to walk about with a dodgy haircut every so often. Could you not just go to the next nearest barbers?

Tabnabs

The difference between a bad haircut and a good haircut?

Two weeks.

Paddy Cow

When I was fifteen I decided I wanted a fringe and my mother said she would cut it. Big mistake. She took a big chunk of hair (which was wet) and pulled it down over my forehead. Then she cut it along my eyebrows. I have curly hair, so when it dries, it's always a lot shorter than when it's wet.

The next day I was walking to school and it was really windy. I was also a few minutes late and the teacher we had first class usually goes mental over things like that. I walked into class and she looked at me and burst out laughing and said "I see your new hairstyle doesn't agree with the weather". My "fringe" was sticking up in the air and I got called Elvis for quite a while after that.

Stavros Murphy

Pug160 wrote: »

That is a more difficult situation. But even so, life seems a bit too short to walk about with a dodgy haircut every so often. Could you not just go to the next nearest barbers?

Tabnabs wrote: »

The difference between a bad haircut and a good haircut?

Two weeks.

Pretty much.

"So Sir, what would you like?"

"Err, a haircut."

Cue silence..and haircutting..and lack of interest..unless it turns out skatzoid..