When did you last go to the barbers/hairdressers?

freshpopcorn

I used be brutal to go to the barbers up until about two years ago and would have only go every few months. I had brutal out of control curly hair.
I started getting it cut short when the grey started appear and I go every three or four weeks now.
Last time I went was the 21st Febuary.


When did you last go to the barbers/hairdressers?

Autosport

I last went to the hairdressers on the 7th of March, it's one of the little things I miss

fritzelly

Was planning to go the day after Leo literally shut the country down - what's that 3 weeks ago? Cannot even remember what day it is right now

Not looking great right now - birds nest is how the other half refers to it but not letting them anyway near it with scissors

pablo128

I bought a trimmer and let my 30 yr old nephew at it. 15 on top and 5 back and sides. I think he was more nervous than me, but he did a fairly good job.

It had to be done though. It was getting wild.

Cookie_Monster

6 weeks or so. I've cut my own hair once since the lockdown

James Bond Junior

Buzz cut for the win. Did a mach 3 all over, just to see how it would look, a great idea in a country where it hits 35c of blazing sunshine every day. Won't be bothering again, keeping it to a all over 2 blade until the barbers reopoens.

The Oort Cloud

I haven't been to the barbers since october 2018. I just gave up on it all and went all hippy which is unusual for me as I always had short hair. Now I just look like a stoned hippy as some people say.

It now looks like I will have super-long hair in the next few months from being in isolation like every-one else but it's super grey hair, the silvery kind and it does not look the best and it adds 30 years to my life. This new society we are now getting programmed into is pissing me off, but at least I have my hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuthVb1HMGo

PommieBast

Friday 20th March. Think I did well to get it done....

Podge201

Do you shower? ^

Panda Killa

About 15 years ago .... started using a Wahl trimer myself and graduated to a Mach 3 all over.

PommieBast

Podge201 wrote: »

Do you shower? ^

Actually had a bath before going..

DopeTech

Feb 20th, hair is beginning to get long now. Going to persevere with it though, don't want a buzz cut.

somesoldiers

Started DIY about 6 months ago and never looked back, starting to thin a bit so am conceding early rather than trying to hold on TIL the bitter end
Was tired of listening to the barber shop bants

Polar101

2005. Bought a €30 shaver from Roche's Stores, which still works fine. I just shave everything off every 2 months. Balding helps too, much less hair to "cut".

Two weeks before the lock down. I have a clipper so I'm going to give myself a buzz cut. I tried growing my hair long before and didn't like it.

Anesthetize

Over 5 years ago.
Been DIY shaved head ever since.

theteal

2003

As a broke student I realised how easy it was to do myself - with better results. I'm a slap head now so I'm definitely not shelling out for the privilege

freshpopcorn

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Two weeks before the lock down. I have a clipper so I'm going to give myself a buzz cut. I tried growing my hair long before and didn't like it.

I'm tempted to do this but it's hard to know where to start.

freshpopcorn

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Two weeks before the lock down. I have a clipper so I'm going to give myself a buzz cut. I tried growing my hair long before and didn't like it.

I'm tempted to do this but it's hard to know where to start. Just encase I mad a botch of it and I've a relative who'd never let it go.

pgj2015

theteal wrote: »

2003

As a broke student I realised how easy it was to do myself - with better results. I'm a slap head now so I'm definitely not shelling out for the privilege

I doubt that, how do you think you can give yourself a better haircut than a professional who does maybe 10-20 haircuts a day? also it is a lot easier for someone to cut your hair then for you to cut your own.

Dylan94

I used to go every 10 days, my barber also closed down around the same time as the schools and was due to go in the next day. So the first week of March.

Hooked

Well over 20 years ago...

I cut my own hair. And not a tight ‘one’ all over.
Proper cut. Scissors. 2 mirrors. 8 different blades.

I’m 42 now... and thank god I can cut it. Coz I haven’t the right shaped head for a tight shave. And the grey needs constant trimming! ;P

theteal

pgj2015 wrote: »

I doubt that, how do you think you can give yourself a better haircut than a professional who does maybe 10-20 haircuts a day? also it is a lot easier for someone to cut your hair then for you to cut your own.

In my experience, a visit to the barbers was a hair cut to last a month or so. I always hated a fresh barbers cut as it was too short. To have it exactly as I'd like it I would have had to visit weekly. When you've got your own clippers, you can do what you want when you want.

Its not difficult to cut your own hair (and I'm not talking buzz, I'm talking gradient short back and sides with a tidy up on top) so I cant say it's "a lot" easier for someone else to do it. The effort, time and money wasted visiting a barbers would outweigh the level of ease of the actual task for me.

pgj2015

theteal wrote: »

In my experience, a visit to the barbers was a hair cut to last a month or so. I always hated a fresh barbers cut as it was too short. To have it exactly as I'd like it I would have had to visit weekly. When you've got your own clippers, you can do what you want when you want.

Its not difficult to cut your own hair (and I'm not talking buzz, I'm talking gradient short back and sides with a tidy up on top) so I cant say it's "a lot" easier for someone else to do it. The effort, time and money wasted visiting a barbers would outweigh the level of ease of the actual task for me.

I dont buy it to b honest, mirrors or not I just cant see how you think you could do a better job than the barber. it may be handier to you but the job couldn't be better, unless the barber you used was very bad.

Still waters

Between 10 to 15 years at a guess, i remember paying 12 euro for a haircut in dalkey when i worked up there for a while, robbing bastards, must have been 04/05 i could get the same haircut at home for a fiver, i thought he was taking the piss when he asked me, oh to be an innocent country boy in the big smoke

nthclare

There's some fckin hilarious looking heads going around, seen two lads today they looked like they cut their own hair...

Like something out of Angela's ashes

paddythere

about 12 years ago

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About 8 weeks ago, getting bedraggled

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14th March. I go once a year so I’m good for another 11 months.

pgj2015

Still waters wrote: »

Between 10 to 15 years at a guess, i remember paying 12 euro for a haircut in dalkey when i worked up there for a while, robbing bastards, must have been 04/05 i could get the same haircut at home for a fiver, i thought he was taking the piss when he asked me, oh to be an innocent country boy in the big smoke

I pay 12 now. a friend of mine got charged 30 in dublin a couple of years ago.

you wont get one for 5 these days, unless the barber is a complete cowboy.

lucalux

Late 2014, been putting it off a wee bit