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Title: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 29 June 2020, 11:49:32
How have ya'll been stayn' Stylish.

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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: absyrd on Mon, 29 June 2020, 12:34:14
I've been balding since age 30. Shave face and head every 3 days or so.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: SpAmRaY on Mon, 29 June 2020, 12:46:03
I cut my own hair back in March finally went to the hair place last week.

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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 29 June 2020, 13:09:03
I cut my own hair back in March finally went to the hair place last week.


gotta take before/after video nxt time.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: dgneo on Mon, 29 June 2020, 13:25:04
Been cutting my own hair since ~16 years old
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: suicidal_orange on Mon, 29 June 2020, 15:30:42
Stylish?  What for.  I have a job where it doesn't matter and any female with half a brain is not outside so there's no-one to impress.  Besides, any hair looks crap when you take off a sweaty bike helmet (https://cdn.geekhack.org/Smileys/solosmileys/laugh.gif)

Barbers re-open this weekend, I will not be visiting one anytime soon even though my hair is annoying.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: JP on Mon, 29 June 2020, 15:35:49
I cut my own hair now. I did my 2nd haircut just recently. 3 more more haircuts and I've paid for my clippers.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: hoggy on Mon, 29 June 2020, 16:20:57
Like absyrd, started to shave my head years ago. 

I'm really lucky living on an island without any active cases, barbers, shops etc are open here.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: funkmon on Mon, 29 June 2020, 16:58:38
I got a haircut in Ohio a little while ago. While Michigan was still closed down, I just popped over the border to Sylvania, Ohio and went to a hair place. $8. Then I went to a restaurant. That was nice!
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: ddrfraser1 on Mon, 29 June 2020, 17:32:32
My wife finally made me get one on Friday. Feels good. My hair hadn't been that long since high school.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Mon, 29 June 2020, 19:46:46
Where? Literally every salon in my state is still closed.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: funkmon on Mon, 29 June 2020, 20:40:41
Just drive to another state! Duh!
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: ddrfraser1 on Mon, 29 June 2020, 21:04:16
Most places in TN outside of Nashville think the rona is some kinda mask wearin, snow flake accommodatin left wing media hoax fixin te TAKE ARE JERBS!!
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Mon, 29 June 2020, 21:32:15
Just drive

impossible
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Mon, 29 June 2020, 22:43:07
Most places in TN outside of Nashville think the rona is some kinda mask wearin, snow flake accommodatin left wing media hoax fixin te TAKE ARE JERBS!!

Deyhderr arrr Jzzurreebss.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: yui on Tue, 30 June 2020, 00:45:04
i have not been to get an hair cut in 2 years... my hairs grow slowly and i like them long, i was planing on going this year but if it can't happen i will not be that bothered and anyhow i am not stylish at all, long hairs and starting to bald at 25...
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: jamster on Tue, 30 June 2020, 02:59:37
I seriously figured out how to cut my own hair because of this bloody virus. I haven't had people pointing and laughing (yet).
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: yuanyasmine on Tue, 30 June 2020, 03:13:15
All the salon closed, so I cut hair by myself ...
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: bananasplit_00 on Tue, 30 June 2020, 04:39:02
Went four hours to my parents over a weekend and got my hair cut, feels really nice to not have half a mullet anymore
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 30 June 2020, 07:35:23
starting to bald at 25...
Gotta eat ur veggies Yui.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: yui on Tue, 30 June 2020, 08:15:48
starting to bald at 25...
Gotta eat ur veggies Yui.
well i have not eaten anything but veggies last week but 95% of my family on both side lose their hairs young so i would put that on genetics more than not enough veggies :) i always ate quite a lot of them.
(i am on a tp4 diet right now because i do not have meat and want to make some space before going to the store, not going to take risks just for meat)
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Kavik on Tue, 30 June 2020, 11:10:04
Been cutting my own hair since ~16 years old

I've also been cutting my own hair since 16, and, before that, my mom or occasionally my grandma cut my hair, so I have literally never paid for a haircut in my life. I don't understand why men with short hair need someone else to do it for them unless they have some super elaborate hair style (which is never the case with anyone I know). With electric clippers, just cut 1/2 inch on the sides, 1 inch on the top, and clean up the back without a spacer while using two mirrors. Even using scissors for a longer hairstyle isn't hard; it just takes longer because it requires a bit of layering in order not to look like poop. Maybe this situation will give people the opportunity to learn.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: prognostics on Tue, 30 June 2020, 11:53:04
I got a haircut in Ohio a little while ago. While Michigan was still closed down, I just popped over the border to Sylvania, Ohio and went to a hair place. $8. Then I went to a restaurant. That was nice!

This is so stupid, you are part of the problem
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Kavik on Tue, 30 June 2020, 12:18:05
i have not been to get an hair cut in 2 years... my hairs grow slowly and i like them long, i was planing on going this year but if it can't happen i will not be that bothered and anyhow i am not stylish at all, long hairs and starting to bald at 25...

Make sure you are not pulling your hair into a tight ponytail. The tension on the roots of the hair can cause hair line recession.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: yui on Wed, 01 July 2020, 00:40:21
Make sure you are not pulling your hair into a tight ponytail. The tension on the roots of the hair can cause hair line recession.
i did it a while back but did not liked it so i stopped, i let me hairs free, but part of my problem may be the tearing my hairs when i am stressed out, and lately it happens quite a lot and with the mask the beard is now safe.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 01 July 2020, 00:44:50
baldness is scary   :eek: :'(
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: yui on Wed, 01 July 2020, 00:50:25
baldness is scary   :eek: :'(
I do not understand why though, at worse you end up looking like st IGNUcius (Richard Stallman). although i know that i am the aim of all those keeps ads i still do not understand why that product even exits
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Sniping on Wed, 01 July 2020, 01:14:17
been scared about cutting the tops but i've been doing the sides. i've been cleaning it up every 2-4 weeks. i take a #3 guard and cut everything down liberally. i then take off the guard and trace a line an inch and a half from the bottom of the sides, conforming to the roundedness of my ears and cut off all the hair below. then i blend it and voila
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Sintpinty on Wed, 01 July 2020, 09:31:35
Yeah got a haircut, 1 inch off 2 weeks ago. Apparantly my family likes it medium length and in a ponytail
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: fohat.digs on Wed, 01 July 2020, 17:16:01
The easy way.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Sintpinty on Thu, 02 July 2020, 21:10:55
The easy way.

I heard skotch tape is popular too
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: captain on Fri, 03 July 2020, 09:03:17
It’s “Y’ALL”, a contraction of you and all, not a contraction of ya and will! 
I bought a Wahl clipper at Price Club in 1988, and haven’t paid for a haircut since.


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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 03 July 2020, 09:13:20
It’s “Y’ALL”, a contraction of you and all, not a contraction of ya and will! 
I bought a Wahl clipper at Price Club in 1988, and haven’t paid for a haircut since.

d'is how I talk ya'll..
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: captain on Fri, 03 July 2020, 09:14:34
And here I thought we were friends.
English Grammar Matters!
Let’s eat grandma!  You filthy cannibal! 


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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 03 July 2020, 09:18:04
And here I thought we were friends.
English Grammar Matters!
Let’s eat grandma!  You filthy cannibal!

Grammar is the general consensus, Things has/is/will changeding.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: captain on Fri, 03 July 2020, 09:55:46
Wrong. General consensus of the WELL EDUCATED, perhaps. If you aren’t a native Texan, maybe y’all should use your own dialect, and pervert it to your whim.


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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Fri, 03 July 2020, 15:03:32
Ne1 tried one of those curved hair clippers ?  Does it help / make things easier ?
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Mon, 13 July 2020, 03:31:25
I've been giving myself haircuts. The first one was horrible, the second one was alot better.

Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: Darthbaggins on Tue, 14 July 2020, 13:48:22
Got one last month, so I'm due to get another.  So far where I go has been good about how they are handling this, but of course the rest of the state I'm in hasn't been  lol.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 14 July 2020, 15:08:23
Now with the WHO info on Airborne spreading of covid, how it can linger in the air for HOURS. IDK guys,  Don't think I'll ever go to the salon again. They're always small, they have high traffic of different unique users throughout the day, they almost certainly have airconditioning, they have fuzzy hairs/dust/ sprays / chemicals that make people cough and sneeze.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Tue, 14 July 2020, 18:08:33
Salons should make house calls honestly. Why should that service be just for rich people?
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: fohat.digs on Tue, 14 July 2020, 18:23:16
Gas and time. Would you pay for fuel and travel time, and also setup for carrying the gear into your house and back out again?

My guess is that would double the price of a male haircut, at least, maybe triple.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: JP on Tue, 14 July 2020, 19:26:28
In the city I live there are a rising number of homeless folks downtown. One day I seen a man with clippers cutting hair right on the sidewalk. It looked like an outdoor barber shop with a line of people waiting in line.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 14 July 2020, 20:00:17
In the city I live there are a rising number of homeless folks downtown. One day I seen a man with clippers cutting hair right on the sidewalk. It looked like an outdoor barber shop with a line of people waiting in line.

Hrrrm.. outdoor def helps at least for mens cut..  DIY seems to be the route to go though.   It's plainly not safe.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Tue, 14 July 2020, 20:22:29
Gas and time. Would you pay for fuel and travel time, and also setup for carrying the gear into your house and back out again?

My guess is that would double the price of a male haircut, at least, maybe triple.


I could see paying upwards of about $150 4x a year if that became the norm.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: tp4tissue on Tue, 14 July 2020, 22:36:20
I could see paying upwards of about $150 4x a year if that became the norm.

That's pretty expensive.   For mens cut I don't think it'd cost that much,  prolly doable for $50 per cut.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Tue, 14 July 2020, 23:17:03
I could see paying upwards of about $150 4x a year if that became the norm.

That's pretty expensive.   For mens cut I don't think it'd cost that much,  prolly doable for $50 per cut.

A salon cut is already $50-60 not including the tip which is another $20. If they are coming to your house (and they better bring me coffee or a milkshake or something too) it'll cost at least double that. $150 is realistic, but people would cut down their annual haircuts from every two weeks to every 3-4 months.

It's a totally feasible business plan. Set up in a couple git hub cities like SF/NY and get a network of already out-of-work hairdressers. Easy business plan filling an existing void with a product people want.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: noisyturtle on Wed, 15 July 2020, 00:02:20
More I think on it the more it makes sense. If someone jumped on this now it could set a precedent, just as rideshares have before. Have financial milestones in place, promote it as a needed service which I believe right now it is, emphasis safety maybe even partner with a manufacturer to get the hair dressers discounted filter masks and maybe customers get small discounts if they get their hair cut outside. Marketing would be easy, and even if we only retain a fraction of the initial customers who try the service out of novelty that's already an instant base we don't have to go looking for. Everyone wants and needs a hair cut, but right now are unable to access safe options to get one.

Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: no, the other guy on Wed, 15 July 2020, 00:20:39
I haven’t had a haircut since November. I don’t plan to.
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Post by: vincenttngo1 on Wed, 15 July 2020, 18:45:34
My buddy luckily does house cuts so thats how I managed to prevent myself from looking like a hobo...lol
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: WholesomeDucky on Thu, 16 July 2020, 09:26:07
My work building has a barber shop in it, so I've been keeping the fresh cut. But not when I was teleworking though, I was flat out bummin it then  :p
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: downtownHippie on Thu, 16 July 2020, 10:09:52
in '89 when I went to college and had to pay for a haircut (I guess my parents had paid for them all along...) and I realized I'd just handed someone the last of my beer money...I've had long hair for ~30 years now.  I get it trimmed a couple times a year these days, and I'd just had it trimmed in Jan...I'd like to get my stylist to dye it purple again, the color has faded, but length is not an issue for me.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: captain on Thu, 16 July 2020, 10:24:57
Why don’t you get some scissors and clippers, Hippie, and do it yourself?  You can even dye your own hair! 


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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: downtownHippie on Thu, 16 July 2020, 12:17:51
Why don’t you get some scissors and clippers, Hippie, and do it yourself?  You can even dye your own hair! 

don't really want purple fingers nor a purple shower stall...sometimes paying professionals really is worthwhile
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: 1391401 on Thu, 16 July 2020, 17:44:42
I just buzzed my own head for the first time in my life the other day.  I havn't had a haircut since before COVID started.  Feels good man.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: JayZz on Wed, 29 July 2020, 13:15:02
I get my hair cut once a month. Usually the last week of the month.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: -Jerry- on Wed, 29 July 2020, 14:03:17
I let my wife (never cut any hair ever) at mine about two months into lock down. Could have gone much worse; I wasn't ashamed to leave the house at least, though I wasn't in any case.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: suicidal_orange on Fri, 31 July 2020, 08:42:14
It's hot and I have too much hair.  Not really up for registering my name and address to risk being stuck home because some numpty failed to follow safety procedures which is a requirement of getting it cut in a shop but don't want burnt stripes on my head from shaving it myself and wearing a bike helmet either.  Guess it's going to grow some more then...
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: fohat.digs on Fri, 31 July 2020, 08:52:43
I let my wife (never cut any hair ever) at mine about two months into lock down. Could have gone much worse; I wasn't ashamed to leave the house at least, though I wasn't in any case.

Men's haircuts, if not more than a couple of inches long (and you aren't going for a particular sculpted look), are pretty easy. You won't go too far wrong if you more or less cut every hair to the same length.
Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: captain on Fri, 31 July 2020, 08:53:29
Ya will haircut too.


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Title: Re: Ya'll getting haircuts ?
Post by: -Jerry- on Fri, 31 July 2020, 09:02:04
Tapatalk steals money then adds ads back in and demands more money! 

You what?