[Closed] Hair cut? Ever regretted one?

Zero all over.

I don't have your gazelle like athleticism.
I'd look like Uncle Fester.

Technically not a scalping, but in my youth I decided to dye my hair "corvette red" after an afternoon in the pub. That bit was fine.

A couple of months later I went for a hair cut and decided I wanted my hair dyed peroxide blonde. 🙄

The hairdresser cuts my hair then applies the peroxide and leaves me alone for an hour. She gets me into the chair to rinse the peroxide off. As she's doing that she asks "err, have you had anything in your hair recently?" I explain I dyed it myself months ago but it should have grown out by now.

Apparently not. Instead of peroxide blonde, my hair was now baby pink as the previous red dye interacted with the peroxide 😆

You don't realise what a pain in the hoop the inconvenience of having hair is until you don't have it and you're free

Shave it off and buy a hat for days when it's cold.

I did once. But it grew on me.......

It's half way down my back, not quite reached the hoop yet.

But yeah, I'm fed up with it getting in the way.

You don’t realise what a pain in the hoop the inconvenience of having hair is until you don’t have it and you’re free

This is so true!

90 seconds with the clippers every two weeks. Job done.

Not a cut but when I was 15, I bought a bottle of Summer Blonde thinking I could go from dark brown to platinum in twenty minutes.

I burnt my scalp and ended up looking like Damien Lewis.

Never really regretted anything I have done with my hair from long 'heavy metal' hair through to highlights, mullets, dies, short cuts, curtains, new romantics styles, back-combed etc etc etc.

It's hair. If you don't like what you do, it'll grow again.

Are you planning on keeping the beard?

Le numéro deux, sur tout, s'il vous plaît Jean-Pierre.

Eeeeeeeeeeek!

Mais vous avez dit "deux millimètres" monsieur .....

Je ne regrette rien!

Are you planning on keeping the beard?

Oh yes.

But probably a bit shorter and tidier. 🙂

Long time ago now, but I went from long hair down my back to a short(ish) cut with a longer spikier bit at the front. My niece called me Dale Winton and since then it's been a no.3 all over (when I can be bothered).

I went directly from hair half way down my back to a number one all over, at the first sign of slapheadedness.

Pop round to ours at the weekend Pete and we’ll get the clippers out and livestream the scalping 😂

Yeah, right!

No way am I letting you anywhere near me with a blade, sunshine. 🙂

I'm off to t'barbers this afternoon.
Wish me luck.

Not bothered a toss what my hair looks like as i had my previous hair cut around xmas time last year, i'll prob get it cut in the next couple weeks as i keep having to snip bits off, not fussed who does it or where i go so the first place that has an appointment will do me fine

Never regretted cutting the hair on my head...  #thatsallImsaying

amazing in this day and age there is no tonic to stunt hair growth. be amazing if you could go and get a really nice cut at a decent barbers, then just pause it there so it stays just right until you decide to change it!

you cant get your hair chopped for less than £20 in London, but i dont really begrudge them because they put so much time and effort into it - even though it ultimately looks no different to a mad mick's 5 minute special with a fag in his gob!

You don’t realise what a pain in the hoop the inconvenience of having hair is until you don’t have it and you’re free

Shave it off and buy a hat for days when it’s cold.

This.

I chopped off my ponytail on a kayak trip in France and then shaved it to number two.
On my return I greeted the wife wearing a hat with the ponytail wedged underneath. Then when she turned away I took hat and tail off and chucked them away
She got a mighty shock.

Long hair is a pain. Get rid

i dont really begrudge them because they put so much time and effort into it

We had a client many moons ago that was a hairdresser to the posh womenfolk of Harrogate and he freely admitted that they took a long time over all the pampering etc so they felt like they were getting good value but they could do it all so much quicker if they wanted to.

Every month for me, two back and sides with a chop off the top. My usual barber is so busy as she is so good, only a tenner and you get a good chat. If can't get her i then go for the two all over, quite extreme at this time of the year but quickly grows but head feels like action man

I'm facing a similar dilemma.

I came to terms with the fact I've got more than a bit of the old male pattern balding fairly quickly, I'm 42. Thankfully I've got an M head and not a sunroof, so to speak (so far anyway).

I've never liked the idea of just giving myself a 'zero all over' - for a few reasons

1) I'm as pale as a Ginger's arse, so I look like a cross between a concentration camp victim and Uncle Fester.

2) It's right up there with People Carriers and wearing slippers in the whole "I no longer care, I've given up" look in my book.

So far I've stuck to a 'short back and sides' side parting, but I'm mindful of the 'fringe' or as the girl who cuts my hair says "the bit at the front" It's starting to look like I've trying to cover it. That's the worst thing for me, I don't my the receeding hairline, I've been grey for 15 years so that's not a problem, I don't want to spend the next 5 years sleepwalking into a comb-over, if I ever catch myself in the mirror and think "**** a duck, the last 15 hairs on my head at 15cm long and I've gluing them to my dome, fooling no one" I think the shame might kill me.

Me too. My wife and all my mates are under orders to let me know the moment they spot scalp.

No signs yet, but I am just not willing to risk it. 🙂

Not any more. Every shave is an improvement on yesterday.

I did once have an accidentally ethereal pseudo-sharkie (which is functionally like a comb-ever,yet more diaphenous and optimistic)

Road to enlightenment anecdote:

Cut my head open one day and gf shaved the crown to treat the cut. Realised at that point that may as well keep going as she politely informed me that the crown ‘didn’t seem to need shaving’ 🤣

It’s right up there with People Carriers and wearing slippers in the whole “I no longer care, I’ve given up” look in my book.

I'd actually dispute this. Unless you stay on top of it you start to resemble a grim roll-call of former Tory party leaders. So...

Hasn't been shaved for a week - William Hague
Hasn't been shaved for 2 weeks - Iain Duncan Smith
Hasn't been shaved for 3 weeks+ - Michael Howard

Nobody wants that. I do my bonce every few days so my head always resembles a bowling ball 😀

And surely nothing says “I no longer care, I’ve given up” than an obvious slaphead with a slapdash haircut and a slice of ham in the middle of it. NOTHING says I've given up more than a combover

bit of the old male pattern balding fairly quickly, I’m 42

#doublehumblebrag

Impressive

I suspect there are a few posting on this thread who keep their helmets on in the pub. You're fooling no one.

NOTHING says I’ve given up more than a combover

So wrong. The delusional tryhard is the definition of ‘NEVERAMGIVINGUP, NOTNEVER, NU-UH!’

What you see is not what they see.

And surely nothing says “I no longer care, I’ve given up” than an obvious slaphead with a slapdash haircut and a slice of ham in the middle of it. NOTHING says I’ve given up more than a combover

Oh I don't know, keeping a combover going is a full-time job of combined maintenance and denial. You can't work that hard and give up at the same time.

But, it's only a personal thing, I don't judge my fellow folically challenged man. I've 2 balding friends who favour a home cut with a pair of clippers. They seem to rock it, but I'd look a right state.

I suppose the major sticking points is the pale skin and greyness, oh and I've got a simply MASSIVE head, honestly if I try to wear a normal person beanie hat it looks like I'm on my way to Temple.

They seem to rock it, but I’d look a right state.

You just need to own it. It's a state of mind.

I think when I was about 8-ish I thought it would be a good idea to get rid of my somewhat girlish curls, and get a proper man's haircut, so got the Barber to give me a grade 2 all over, I was so shocked afterwards I couldn't look in a mirror for a few weeks!

Do my own now, so if it looks terrible, there's no-one else to blame.

Yep I hate having longer hair, it's made worse by the fact that my hair is quite thick. On the other hand The couple of times I've gone full Grade 0, I've looked like a Nazi scientist (Skinheads with glasses just look odd), but a grade 2 or 3 isn't really a 'proper' buzz cut there's still a little hair there to make you look normal-ish but it can't really lie wrong or get messy...

The acceptable compromise I've settled on is Grade 3 every 4-6 weeks, sometimes grade 2 in summer.
My missus would dearly love me to get a styled haircut of some sort, but I can't be doing with the maintenance...

Buy some clippers, buzz the top of your noggin grade 3, you can grade 0 your face for that rugged manly stubble look while you're there, Job Jobbed... Get on with your life for a few weeks.

I've been getting progressively shinier up top in recent years. I would quite happily shave the lot off and be done with it but the missus seems desperate for me to hold onto my youth.

She also tells me I have an Alien shaped head so will look ridiculous if I shave it off.

I did have no2 all over when I was young until my nan said I looked as though I was going to mug her.

It is done. 🙂

Short back and sides with the beard squared off, but still pretty long.

God, I feel better......

1985. Headington, Oxford.

Little old lady did whole cut (shortish) with a cut throat razor. Just wtf.

If so, what haircut for the 50 year old rotund gentleman in shorts and a fleece?

Anything else would be wrong.

*edit- too late. Now you’ll have to go full grey wigard!

Go to a good barber and get their opinion because the shape of your head and the growth pattern matters - with a beard, hair looks better with a proper cut IMO

That's what it looked like before.
The hair anyway. Longer if anything.
Slightly shorter beard.
Not quite as grey.
I'm serious......🙂

That's what I did Ed, just took their advice.

Very happy with the result.

Little old lady did whole cut (shortish) with a cut throat razor. Just wtf.

My mum ( a hairdresser) used to cut our hair with an open razor until I was a teenager.

You just need to own it. It’s a state of mind.

I think this applies either way to some extent.

Obviously there are hair styles which look a bit dicey when you've got a massive bald patch. But equally well, there are styles which work. E.g. Mark Bonnar (recently played Max in Guilt on the BBC, if you've watched it) is fairly thin on top but still looks good without having resorted to shaving it all off.

I think we should see a before and after!

Escaping the family home and parents rule was a revelation for my hair, grade zero every month or so has been far more comfy when doing sport for nearly 30 years!

Hopefully she did a better job as I had to get it cut again the next day.

OP: That’s what it looked like before.

Dude, there’s, like, you know, a time where you have to realise that talking to the homeless while drinking from a bottle of beer in one hand whilst the other hand pours beer into the gutter...

...there’s a time to STFU 😝

Ha, in ‘88 or ‘89 I lived in embra and was headed down to that there Landan to go see R***man/Dinosaur/Sonic Youth and decided I needed a quick trim before I went so of first I trotted to the barber. One of them, you don’t make appointments you just join the queue. Ended up with the one everybody else was avoiding... sat down. ‘Do you want a flattop?’. ‘No’...

Got home, ****ing flattop... washed my hair and before my very eyes I’d turned in to Soo Catwoman... I certainly regretted that one!

Started with a shiney spot on the back of the noggin early thirties so decided to get the #1 all over I’d always threatened to get. Oh man, it was bliss, liberation day! Never looked back since. Except now I no-guard it myself when I can be arse (every 3 or 4 weeks I guess).

Also ‘rocking’ The fifty something, over weight, big bushy white beard. Go me...

I have black hair but in the late 90s decided to bleach it. Luckily there are no photos but I imagine it looked a bit odd with my massive black eye brows!

Went to a random hairdresser once and she lopped my sideys off above my lugs, they had been level with the bottom of them. I felt absolutely gutted.

Now it's starting to thin a bit at the back, when I quizzed my hairdresser she told me it's "just finer" back there! A buzz/shaved head is in my future, the missus ain't keen but I really don't want to have a wee baldy spot.

Regret ?

Yes, I've had a few.. to many to mention...

Actually just one I really regret, and it wasn't my fault.

My finals finished the last event left was the Leavers Ball, Obvz. So we'd been preparing for it for like months.. I'd already left Uni, and was holed up in my Parents house just itching to get away for the summer.. My then GF was all excited, I was excited TBH... It seemed such a BIG event.

So I went and got my hair cut.

Being a rather boring sort, a traditional sort of chap I had a simple side parting slightly swept back floppy top and short into the neck... Nothing radical, nothing remotely "trendy" (because back then it was all curtains or long and shaggy)

I stepped into the Hairdressers (nope, not a Barbers... that was next door) and said "I like it as it is, but just need a trim and I tend to have it short at the back, thanks" and left the hairdresser to it... it wasn't someone i recognised... and this was BITD when people knew people..

Relaxed..

And time went on-and-on-and-on... and seemed like forever... a lot of movement at the back of my head and not a lot of cutting going on at my fringe....

And then a gasp! And it was'nt from me.

The very posh lady owner stumbled over quickly and said, very plainly to my face "I'm sorry, my trainee seems to have gone quite short at the back"

Erm...

And then the mirror of doom appeared..

She'd almost skinned the back of my hair to a Number 2 at the back and left the rest long and floppy.

I wasn't that distraught, but I did offer up a whelp as the mirror of doom reflected a very shaun head.

It was too late, obvz. To late to save, so I opted to shave the whole lot off at Number 2 and I looked like a Youth Convict on day release... I had a tan form sailing, yet an iluminus bonce...

And my mates gasped in laughter.

And the photos reflected the flash beam off my bonce.

It ended happily, I set off on a sailing trip for the summer without the worry of washing my hair...

Going back a few years, well, quite a few, I decided I’d had enough of getting my hair cut and just let it grow. Which it did, after a fashion, ending up pulled back in a ponytail.
Which was fine, but that was the problem, my hair is fairly fine, and going thin on top, so I decided to get it cut short again.
I’ve not gone the full buzz-cut yet, but it’s short enough that it doesn’t suffer being under a hat all day - especially in the summer, a peeling thin spot is extremely uncomfortable, I’ve found.

Newly opened hairdresser near me mams mid 90s.

Asked for a short back n sides thinking Noel Gallagher

Got a Bon yed (early Wigan term for chav)

After expressing my disappointment I Walked out without paying

chased by a Vicky pollard type telling me her meatball BF would pay me a visit.

The mrs nearly choked when I got home and promptly sorted it with a No4 skin.

I went 15 years without a haircut from age 15 to 30. Not a single trim.

Was proper long.

Then had a number 1 all over as started thinning on top.

Best thing ever. 2 minute showers, no buying shampoo. No pissing about.

Mid 50s now, and not much choice but regular number 1 😜

Every time I agree to let the barber have a go at the beard. They just make a mess.

The Turkish barber on the high street in Arbroath is the only place I've found that does a good job.

Other than that. Had whiteboy dreads at uni and prior to that mid back length hair, got rid of the lot when I started swimming three times a week

No-one seems to have mentioned the horrors yet of that other disaster of male pattern baldness, the 'hair island' (aka Shearer's island)

I would go proper short but I too have the wrong shaped head, and ears like the doors on a London taxi. It would be a disaster. As it was when I got it done before army cadet camp one year.....I looked like a remedial school runaway.

As soon as the hair island appeared it all went to a grade 0, beard and head once a week. When I was younger I had bleached hair, various colours, the dreaded 90s undercut. Been bald and proud since my late 20's I'm 37 now.

However, going outside at -20 this morning was a bit chilly on my noggin!

I once had an accidental mullet from Mr Lister, the local barber. I had long hair in my early teens, went for a trim, ended up with a mullet. To this day I have no idea how it happened. He just decided I needed a mullet. I was too shocked to say anything and just paid.

Started going bald at eighteen or nineteen and trimmed down to number one. I now use a headblade razor twice a week and go for the full chrome dome look. Just seems neater.

lols at Stoner & Bikebouy . Pics of the latter please.
" Thankfully I’ve got an M head and not a sunroof"
I have both. 🙁
"daddy, why do you wear a hat"....Ha

All those that shave themselves - which clipper set do you use? Do you shave in the shower to avoid hair "debris"? - I'm considering starting to do it myself as the old Cypriot guys at my barbers are going blind. The crack is good though.

After growing my hair long when I chopped it all off it was much grayer underneath - so be aware of that

The Turkish barber on the high street in Arbroath is the only place I’ve found that does a good job.

Pretty much this but I have to keep an eye in a Turkish barbers or the tend to take the cheeks down and remove the meat of the mutton chop.

If you are ever in Edinburgh Ivan & Someone on lieth walk.

Ivan does a great beard.

Aye normal barbers is only interested in running a Number over it so it ends up stubble again . If I wanted that I'd do it at home.

And from lunch room chat it seems the struggle is real..... Some magnificent beards have been trashed at the hands of Shaznay down the barbers pole. ....that's not to decry all barbers but short of paying 40 quid for some trendy place it's hard to find somewhere that can do a good beard.

all the **** time.

all i have done is a grade 3 all over. it's impossible to find a barber who is capable of doing this without leaving random tufts. every time! sometimes i wonder if they're feeling for braille on my head, or where the bloody assistance dog is.

I was quite sad when the dreads went. Took me a while to get over that I must admit. Went on an impulse one day. First trip to a hairdressers in about 15 odd years. I choose my barbers now on the ones that remember I have no interest in football.

All those that shave themselves – which clipper set do you use? Do you shave in the shower to avoid hair “debris”?

If already stubble and you have shower cubicle then yes. I find it easy to kneel/bend over the bath and do it by feel, then shower and clean up clippings. Long hair is best done this way in dry bath, then scoop up hair and bin before finishing and rinsing, saves blocking drain.

Clipping gets easier to achieve by feel after a few weeks. Normally use the 2 mirror (hand and wall) technique to spot and buzz straggler stubble.

I use rechargeable and washable clippers. Remington Pro Power at the moment. They have worked well for 6 years now, I bought because USB charging and a good deal. Always use without guard. Close-shave is too much hassle and shiny finish not my thing,

Which it did, after a fashion, ending up pulled back in a ponytail.
Which was fine, but that was the problem, my hair is fairly fine

You are Francis Rossi and I’ll take that fiver 😎

My normal barber was off and what appeared to be a member of East 17 was in his place. Alarm bells were ringing but the chap did a fantastic hair cut on me, so much so that I asked him to trim my beard. Mistake! I came out looking like Craig David.

Another time a barber tried to blend a scar on my temple into my forehead and then even it up on the other side. WTF! I shaved it all off when I got home, too polite to complain (and the guy was new.)

All those that shave themselves – which clipper set do you use? Do you shave in the shower to avoid hair “debris”?

all i have done is a grade 3 all over.

Why pay a barber?

Thanks for the info Malvern & Dez.

We definitely need pics of before and after.
There was a similar post a while ago and the guy (whoever it was) looked soooo much better afterwards. If I remember it got a few women (but mostly men) swooning.