Cutting my own hair. You should too.

[u/Itchthatneedsscratch]

About 8 years ago one day I got sick of constantly having to make an appointment at my barbershop and actually going there and spending my time and money for a haircut, so I decided I'm gonna do it myself. I bought a simple 60 euro plug-in machine. On the beginning I was clumsy but after the 4th or 5th grooming I was getting used to it. I couldn't make my hair stylish, so I just cut it all to basic army style. Turns out I look even more masculine with that hair, and my friends and girlfriend liked it even more. 8 years in and I calculated that I saved about 3400 euros and 200 hours of my life just cutting my own hair. I also started cutting hairs of my friends after a while, earned me a lot of rounds of free beer.

[u/[deleted]]

Been cutting my hair for 15 years now (because I have never gotten the result I wanted from a hairdresser! Ugh!) and just as covid started, I bought clippers and started doing my husband’s haircuts too. His haircuts took a while to master but luckily there were youtube tutorials that helped because at the time, many countries had such service restricted during lockdown and tutorials were in high demand hehe. I still don’t like cutting his hair despite having bought also trimming scissors to help with cowlicks but it is money saved as well as time saved (small town, no barber, only female hairdresser smh) so I’m okay with it. The only time I really considered sending him back to a barber was when I was 9 months pregnant lol.

Edit: his haircut is not a simple buzz cut btw. It is an undercut on sides going into long hair on top of the head. So blended layered buzz cut and shaping and blending with scissors. So if you can get your SO on board, you can do even more complicated stuff at home than a simple buzz cut. :)