what do you tell the barber/stylist ?

[eits]

#3 guard, half inch off the top, texturize with a razor.

 

[GeekDrew]

Currently... #2 on sides, #5 on top.

Thinking about growing my hair out, though. Perhaps long enough to donate to locks of love (in a year or two).

 

[IronWing]

"Could you cut my hair, please?" Then I get nekid.

 

[guyver01]

Hey Baby, i think it's time to cut my hair again.

 

[NutBucket]

Same as last time.

This! I've had the same barber for about 20 years.

 

[RobertE]

Men go to barbers and use a # blade.
Everyone else go to stylists who use scissors.

 

[brblx]

"Cut my hair."



This. I won't go to any hair stylist that requires I tell them some number. Bitch pick up some scissors and start cutting.

depends on how often you get it cut. if i go in after two months and tell them, 'just trim is a bit' or something they're gonna wanna smack me, because it's just a big matted wad of hair at that point. 'two on the sides and leave enough on the top for it to lay down' is pretty much what i tell them; that way they at least know to start short on the sides before they get into trimming the top.

recently i've been just buzzing it myself with a #1, as well as not shaving. ironically i think i look like less of an aggressive asshole than when i had hair and a goatee.

 

[HeXen]

i say nothing....i'm bald.

 

[guyver01]

Men go to barbers and use a # blade.
Everyone else go to stylists who use scissors.

fail.

a real barber never uses a #guard.

a real barber uses scissors.

STYLISTS use #guards

 

[brblx]

i say nothing....i'm bald.

that must be an odd exchange. do you just walk in and shrug until they kick you out? or does the guy just know to pull out the bottle of turtle wax?

 

[Powermoloch]

no. 4 short

 

[brblx]

fail.

a real barber never uses a #guard.

a real barber uses scissors.

STYLISTS use #guards

people who don't get 'the jerry seinfeld' use guards. you're old.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Really what it boils down to is that a number tells me that they probably have no idea how to appropriately blend the hair so it will look terrible.

 

[brblx]

erm...you're not asking them for a blend. i'm saying 'make all the hair on the sides and back of my head precisely 1/4" long, then trim and blend in the hair on top'

i've never had them NOT blend the sides into the top. that part is assumed...it's not an army barber. i'm just telling them how long to cut the sides. good luck leaving a 1/4" of hair with scissors, tim allen.

 

[MotionMan]

Metal #2 on the sides and back.
#1.5 around the ears.
"Short" number 4 on top.
Squared back with rounded corners.

It has not changed in many years.

MotionMan

 

[GeekDrew]

Really what it boils down to is that a number tells me that they probably have no idea how to appropriately blend the hair so it will look terrible.

So... does your hatred still apply in the case that the stylist wants to use scissors, but I instruct her not to?

 

[YoungGun21]

erm...you're not asking them for a blend. i'm saying 'make all the hair on the sides and back of my head precisely 1/4" long, then trim and blend in the hair on top'

i've never had them NOT blend the sides into the top. that part is assumed...it's not an army barber. i'm just telling them how long to cut the sides. good luck leaving a 1/4" of hair with scissors, tim allen.

This. It would be a pain to cut short hair with scissors. I keep my hair short, so I tell them 3 on top 2 on the sides and they know whats up.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

erm...you're not asking them for a blend. i'm saying 'make all the hair on the sides and back of my head precisely 1/4" long, then trim and blend in the hair on top'

i've never had them NOT blend the sides into the top. that part is assumed...it's not an army barber. i'm just telling them how long to cut the sides. good luck leaving a 1/4" of hair with scissors, tim allen.

Just doing a hard buzz on the sides back does not account for the unevenness in peoples' heads though. My stylist uses clippers there too, but it would be a disaster if she just set it to number 2 and let er rip.

 

[KK]

fail.

a real barber never uses a #guard.

a real barber uses scissors.

STYLISTS use #guards

You are right. A real barber uses a # blade, not a guard.

 

[brblx]

Just doing a hard buzz on the sides back does not account for the unevenness in peoples' heads though. My stylist uses clippers there too, but it would be a disaster if she just set it to number 2 and let er rip.

exactly...i just put the number 2 on and let 'er rip, and it glides over all the lumps in my head and actually makes it look round an smooth.

you saying you want them to follow the line of your head lumps?

 

[herm0016]

3 on the sides, take quite a bit off the top. if they have suggestions i usually let them do it. i go to the same place all the time.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

exactly...i just put the number 2 on and let 'er rip, and it glides over all the lumps in my head and actually makes it look round an smooth.

you saying you want them to follow the line of your head lumps?

What?? No. If all the hair is the same length then it will stick out different amounts based on the lumps. That's why some degree of attention to the buzzing + blending is needed.

 

[crownjules]

I tell them "I'd like my hair cut."

I've been going to the same barber for awhile so he knows how I want it at this point.

 

[GasX]

Any haircut that includes "number x" is total fail.

Any haircut that requires scissors is for fancy boys...

 

[Leros]

fail.

a real barber never uses a #guard.

a real barber uses scissors.

STYLISTS use #guards

I'm not sure my stylist even has guards. She always uses a straight razor and scissors.