Cutting my own hair - is this easy or likely to be a disaster?

Nomoonatall

OldMotherTucker wrote: »

Instead of thinking of ways to save on haircuts, why not think of ways to earn extra money! £60 is just one day's extra work (if you can find it) but that would pay for a whole years haircut!!

My daughter and her fiance have their hair done at home by a friend who is a hairdresser - sometimes we all go round there and have a trim or some colour - works out really cheap!

Blimey, I don't think I've paid that much in a lifetime!

But then, I have no pride...I don't even wear makeup! x

The pony tail cut does work though!

[Deleted User]

I've cut my own hair for over 20 years and Mrs. Sleazy has asked me to trim hers more than once and she's only received positive comments afterwards.

System

I was quite successful at cutting mine, then i made one disastrous mistake on one of the sides which meant one side was shorter than the other so i cut the other side shorter to match. Then i trimmed the back to match the front but the one side didnt sit right (and still doesnt) so i trimmed a bit more off making the one side shorter than the other again.

Ive given up now. I'll get someone to trim it once every 6 months or so but the only problem is. My hair doesnt seem to be growing as fast as it did. Its taking forever to get to one length sides and back.

DigForVictory

I cut my mother's hair & she trims mine. Works for us.

There are some excellent videos and advice on the longhair community forum if you are wanting to cut your own hair. It can be done, and successfully & the longer, the easier.

There are those who cut by the state of the moon, and who have dedicated scissors (boxed to discourage random lopping) but there is sense & support there once you translate from American!

OldMotherTucker

Nomoonatall wrote: »

Blimey, I don't think I've paid that much in a lifetime!

But then, I have no pride...I don't even wear makeup! x

The pony tail cut does work though!

Mine is wavy, shoulder length and I have it cut nearly every year!!:rotfl:

esuhl

fairy_lights wrote: »

I've cut my own hair in the past, and my advice would be...don't do it!!
I used the 'twist and snip' method, where you make your hair in to a pony tail, twist it round, and cut.

No way! I had a friend who did this years ago. I assumed she came up with the idea herself, and thought was quite ingenious!

To be honest, I didn't notice at all. Her hair looked fine to me. Although it was naturally a bit "frizzy". Maybe it would have been more noticeable if she had very straight hair.

theoretica

I cut mine - so long as you want straight across the bottom, not layers I would say give it a try, the worst that happens is you need to then go to the hair dresser and get it a bit shorter.

Do use good sharp scissors that have never been abused by cutting paper - I use my sewing scissors.

sillyvixen

For years I used to cut my own long hair.. I stopped about 6 months before my wedding as I wanted it cut to the correct length to achieve the style I wanted, I also lost my grey highlights!!! I now have my hair coloured every 3 months and they will cut it every other time and it costs no more. I know I am carp with a home colour kit. Having tried it 3 times in my younger years (4 hours cleaning the tiling grout in the shower, managed to spill the stuff and ruin my parents bathroom carpet and once I even managed to get dye on the cat who went and sat in the sun for a few hours nag came back in with several red splodges on his back- not to mention the towels I ruined) .

If you want to try cutting your own hair, do it when you are not working (and don't take too much off in one go) worse case senirio is you end up at the hairdressers getting it neatened at a cost you would have ended up paying if you had not tried yourself.

I would still be cutting mine if it was not for the walking disaster I am at colouring!!

MonicaSmith

I always had disasters when I tried trimming my own hair. Its better to go to a hairdresser to save your original haircut.

bluebells100

I've cut my hair lots of times over the last few years times but I still get it done professionally in between.

For my fringe I use a pair of clippers and cut along one of those clips you can get. When you cut along the clip obviously make sure it's straight and pull the hair quite tight. I gauge the angle of the clip along the bottom of the hair as well as checking that it looks straight. I then neaten the sides of the fringe which come out longer.

I have tried various methods for the rest of my hair but what works best for me is to section the hair like the hairdresser does - section the top off and split the bottom part into several small sections and trim a tiny amount off each section, then do the top the same. Make sure you comb through each section and pull it tight. Also as you are doing it yourself the sections could end up being at the wrong angle when you pull them round to the front, so only do tiny sections and make sure you're taking the same amount off each part of hair. Gauge the amount you take off along the bottom of the hair and note if it appears slanted.

You can check that the sections are the same length by holding the parts from the same section on opposite sides of your head together like the hairdresser does.

I used to use something similar to the ponytail method and it didn't work well. It took me a while to get a reasonable result cutting my own hair to be honest. And now i only do tiny trims myself (except the fringe). The main thing is to only take off tiny amounts and go slowly.