The Gamer's Quarter

[Harveyjames]

I just cut my own hair short, ending a great run of self-given mid-length haircuts since about october last year. I haven't been to a barber in about 5 years, since in university I read that Spike Jonze cuts his hair by simply running his hand over his head and cutting any hair that poked out from between the fingers, and I decided, yeah, I could do that. I've never liked going to the barber's, anyway, so it made sense.

Last year I got confident enough at cutting my own hair that I started to creatively decide what i wanted to cut away and what I wanted to leave. It worked out OK! One person said I looked like a 'Prada model' and someone else said I looked like 'one of Franz Ferdinand'. Cool, I was just trying to do myself a haircut I liked! Great result!



^ That's what Franz Ferdinand look like in case you don't know. ^

So I managed to repeat that trick about three times over the next half a year. It was a golden age of my hair! That brings us to the present day, a day like any other day, where I would give myself a haircut like any other haircut, but..

Shit went wrong! I gave myself a haircut that looked like Prince circa 2003, or a lesbian!




The thing about cutting hair is there's no undo button. I tried fixing it, but it just got weirder and weirder until the only thing to do was to cut it all off, and this is what I look like now:

<-- that's actually a weird mirror-effect photo I did on someone's mac early last year. My facial expression is much the same, though, i.e SAD

Have any of you lot ever cut your own hair? Would you do it for this thread and post pictures?

[Mr Mustache]

I've used clippers for the past eight or so years.
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[Harveyjames]

Do you not get sick of the fact that your shit always comes out the same way, though?

[kirkjerk]

I can barely feel competent using the clippers on the back of my electric razor in the mirror (to keep my sideburns from looking like pube-ish messes), the angle always feels funny. So I just don't trust myself w/ more than that.
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[daphaknee]

i havent gotten a REAL haircut in like six years
i love cutting my own hair it is the best thing

[Shapermc]

I use to cut my wife's hair for a really long time. I'm actually (well, was) decent at cutting hair. When I was in training school I use to cut hair to help other people save money.

Anyways, I have to have my hair cut the same way pretty much. I have a cowlick at the front of my head that makes my bangs curl like a wave no matter what I do with my hair. So this means that if you look at my High School ID I pretty much look exactly the same because I always have the same haircut. Also, if I shave my head (like I was pretty much forced to for 18 months) I look about 5+ years younger, so I don't do that. Currently though, I just use beard trimmers and am trying to let my hair grow out ala John Connor in T2.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

[Harveyjames]

[daphaknee]

girls think you're gay, they all think you're gay

[Harveyjames]

No, these are girls I know

How are lesbians for cutting hair? Pretty shitty I'd imagine, going by the look of you

[daphaknee]

horrible never let a lesbian cut your hair NEVER EVER

[boojiboy7]

So I grabbed some clippers and cut my hair down to about 3/4 of an inch today and it feels nice not to have my 'fro, but also a bit cold.

Why the hell is it thunderstorming in January in Cleveland? God, the weather is so fucked up.

[Winged Assassins (1984)]

Australia is shipping its rain overseas. We decided that we're all sick of it over here so we are sending it to Canada like the unopened Christmas present we never wanted in the first place. We have plenty more to go around so expect to receive more of it.
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[sediment]

i gave my fiancee a mohawk two days ago. she's very happy with it, though it's so long she's not sure she can spike it.

i'm going to get her to bring my current hairdo in so i can rock an industrial mohawk, myself. the only thing cuter than a girl with a mohawk is a couple with mohawks.
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[Winged Assassins (1984)]

I am just imagining your fiancee with a big fat Wendy O. Williams mohawk (see video for The Damned). I can see her right now, driving a school bus through a wall of televisions and jumping off shortly before it explodes even though I have absolutely no idea how she looks like. With her eyes I guess.

It's a really sweet daydream, you know.
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[sediment]

yeah, the first thing i imagined was her throwing a chainsaw at our tv, so there's maybe a bit of Wendy O. in her after all!
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[boojiboy7]

[Hospital Zone]

I'm frustrated enough now with every haircut I get in my military-cut/prom-night town that I'm going to start trying to do this myself. Homebrewed haircut. I'm excited and scared by the glory of what I can accomplish alone. I think I start with that Spike Lee trick, which seems easy enough.

I generally wait so long to get a haircut that I can't bring myself to ask friends to do it for me. At the place I have been going to, I get passed around by all the stylists; everyone knows me as that guy who can't articulate what the fuck he wants to do with his puffy mullet, and so I get rushed out.

"That's short enough I think. I've got a perm to do and you're cramping my chair!"
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[Redeye]

[bleak]

You can just use the gel glue.
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[Harveyjames]