Mine's rather straggly right now...âĶ and grows around 6 inches a year.
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I'm blow drying mine under, I'm in perfect control 
Mine grows quickly and not only in length, it seems to get thicker too - like a wild bush - and it starts to go curly and I canât do anything with it.
I keep a tub of hair accessories for my granddaughter and I foresee me raiding it. Iâm going to look lovely in flowery/glittery hair clasps.
Yogi19 posted:Mine grows quickly and not only in length, it seems to get thicker too - like a wild bush - and it starts to go curly and I canât do anything with it.
I keep a tub of hair accessories for my granddaughter and I foresee me raiding it. Iâm going to look lovely in flowery/glittery hair clasps.
That Iâd like to see 
Mine used to be thick , and grew like a bush .....but nowadays itâs decidedly thin , so Iâm going to look like a scarecrow by the time this is over !
I'm shaven headed and I do it once/twice a week with my own Wahl clippers.
Free haircuts forever.
Looking at two pony tails crossed at the back and kirbied or clasped up the back.
Mine grows like wildfire....have to tie it back now, the bob has bobbed off
Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Looking at two pony tails crossed at the back and kirbied or clasped up the back.
Kaytee posted:Mine grows like wildfire....have to tie it back now, the bob has bobbed off
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
I'm shaven headed and I do it once/twice a week with my own Wahl clippers.
Free haircuts forever.
Never had that image of you 
I'm currently hovering around a 1980's snooker player Kirk Stevens bouffant
It's not good 
Saint posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
I'm shaven headed and I do it once/twice a week with my own Wahl clippers.
Free haircuts forever.
Never had that image of you
I'm currently hovering around a 1980's snooker player Kirk Stevens bouffant
It's not good
(Sorry for laughing);
Saint posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
I'm shaven headed and I do it once/twice a week with my own Wahl clippers.
Free haircuts forever.
Never had that image of you
I'm currently hovering around a 1980's snooker player Kirk Stevens bouffant
It's not good
Having seen the male pattern baldness in my dad, I decided many years ago, that as soon as it started to go, I would regularly shave my head at a number 0/1 level. It's odd now looking at pic of when I had some hair.
I look not too dissimilar to this...
OK - EC looks like a pool ball
I look like the Nolan Sisters
Time for photographic evidence of you own predicament
Saint posted:OK - EC looks like a pool ball
I look like the Nolan Sisters
Time for photographic evidence of you own predicament
Unfortunately, my current employment prevents me from exposing my true identity. 
i was about 2 weeks over due a haircut when the lockdown occurred.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:Saint posted:OK - EC looks like a pool ball
I look like the Nolan Sisters
Time for photographic evidence of you own predicament
Unfortunately, my current employment prevents me from exposing my true identity.
We know you're covert so the Bruce piccy shall suffice
Same with other FM's - just a similar kinda look from Googlay images will do
Cold Sweat posted:i was about 2 weeks over due a haircut when the lockdown occurred.
Snap - so i hope she starts doing home visits with PPE
She can shear me in the garage
I last had my hair done in August last year, for my retiral party. So under normal circumstances I would likely have been to the hairdressers again in January or February, but other more pressing issues had cropped up by then, pushing a visit to the hairdressers back for at least two months. This would normally have been no problem, but by the time the more pressing things had been dealt with, we were in lockdown.
Lets see what my hair looks like come the end of August this year. 
I have no idea how fast mine grows, but I typically get it cut every 10-ish weeks (to the top of my shoulders), and it's now been about 15-ish weeks and is about 3 inches longer than I like. I keep trimming my fringe, but at this rate my hair will be down the middle of my back before I get it cut. 
machel posted:My hair is very fine, I have a centre parting which has become a side parting with what looks like a bald patchðąðąðąðą
Saint posted:Cold Sweat posted:i was about 2 weeks over due a haircut when the lockdown occurred.
Snap - so i hope she starts doing home visits with PPE
She can shear me in the garage
This sounds like rather a "specialist" hairdressing experience!
At lunch today, I did a grocery run for a family I know who are at-risk and therefore can't get out. I was shocked to see that my friend had shaved his head since I saw him earlier this week!
He said he'd gotten tired of his out-of-control hair, and ordered the shears online.
Lori posted:At lunch today, I did a grocery run for a family I know who are at-risk and therefore can't get out. I was shocked to see that my friend had shaved his head since I saw him earlier this week!
He said he'd gotten tired of his out-of-control hair, and ordered the shears online.
Holy Cow - bit extreme!!
Saint posted:Lori posted:At lunch today, I did a grocery run for a family I know who are at-risk and therefore can't get out. I was shocked to see that my friend had shaved his head since I saw him earlier this week!
He said he'd gotten tired of his out-of-control hair, and ordered the shears online.
Holy Cow - bit extreme!!
Saint posted:Lori posted:At lunch today, I did a grocery run for a family I know who are at-risk and therefore can't get out. I was shocked to see that my friend had shaved his head since I saw him earlier this week!
He said he'd gotten tired of his out-of-control hair, and ordered the shears online.
Holy Cow - bit extreme!!
Not half
Saint posted:Lori posted:At lunch today, I did a grocery run for a family I know who are at-risk and therefore can't get out. I was shocked to see that my friend had shaved his head since I saw him earlier this week!
He said he'd gotten tired of his out-of-control hair, and ordered the shears online.
Holy Cow - bit extreme!!
Yes, but I'm considering asking to borrow the shears. 
Today my hair measures 4 inches from the bottom of my ear-lobes,
I have a friend who has short-ish hair, and it's completely out of control. She had her husband cut it, and give her what she's calling a "grandma fauxhawk".
I saw the picture, and I can't even comment on it...
Close
Saint posted:
Close
Back work after the Bank Holiday today. So, I cut my hair. 4 mins and job done.
Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Back work after the Bank Holiday today. So, I cut my hair. 4 mins and job done.
Baldy last Tuesday. I now look like a kiwifruit. Quite liberating too.
velvet donkey posted:Enthusiastic Contrafibularities posted:
Back work after the Bank Holiday today. So, I cut my hair. 4 mins and job done.
Baldy last Tuesday. I now look like a kiwifruit. Quite liberating too.
Starting to resemble Cousin It
My hair has reached the thick and unkempt stage and itâs starting to curl.
In a few days time, I wonât be able to get it to sit right.
Hubby asked me to cut his hair yesterday, using hair clippers. Iâve never done it before but it turned out okay...if a bit shorter than when the barber does it.
He offered to do mine but I declined.
Yogi19 posted:My hair has reached the thick and unkempt stage and itâs starting to curl.
In a few days time, I wonât be able to get it to sit right.
Hubby asked me to cut his hair yesterday, using hair clippers. Iâve never done it before but it turned out okay...if a bit shorter than when the barber does it.
He offered to do mine but I declined.
Smart woman!! 
Lori posted:Yogi19 posted:My hair has reached the thick and unkempt stage and itâs starting to curl.
In a few days time, I wonât be able to get it to sit right.
Hubby asked me to cut his hair yesterday, using hair clippers. Iâve never done it before but it turned out okay...if a bit shorter than when the barber does it.
He offered to do mine but I declined.
Smart woman!!
Did some gardening (pruning) today. Nice tidy bushes - haystack for a hair-do!
For a minute I thought you'd pruned your hair!
I have never been to a barbers/hairdressers in my life. I've always self cut my hair and mostly kept it very short apart from brief periods in the mid-80s when I styled my hair similar to George Micheal (despite hating Wham! but thinking it would be attractive to girls) then I dyed my fringe with peroxide, early 90s when I tried out "The Wonderstuff" look (I don't think it was a 'look' but I just thought, long and curly is cool), then I went for the early 2000s when I just wanted to see how crazy my hair would get if I left it to grow out. These days, it doesn't really grow that much on top, but I use clippers to keep it short and neat all over.
I have a friend who cuts his own hair, and his mantra is "there are only 3 days between a bad haircut and a good haircut".
Growing in.
And that's from someone who used to have a Moonie/Geezer Butler.
Lori posted:I have a friend who cuts his own hair, and his mantra is "there are only 3 days between a bad haircut and a good haircut".
I wish!
Don't play hide and seek Jen. Too much happening
Jen-Star posted:velvet donkey posted:Don't play hide and seek Jen. Too much happening
How you keeping mate ð
Cptn. Tom Moore carries me through
His daughter's alright too.
velvet donkey posted:Growing in.
And that's from someone who used to have a Moonie/Geezer Butler.
Moonie looks like Geezer Butler?
Saint posted:velvet donkey posted:Growing in.
And that's from someone who used to have a Moonie/Geezer Butler.
Moonie looks like Geezer Butler?
Moonie's hair is long. Mine was. Manly grooming is not for me. Hence suedehead.
Black Sabbath eh? I don't like Ozzy one bit, but they were a band
velvet donkey posted:Black Sabbath eh? I don't like Ozzy one bit, but they were a band
Used to listen to my brother's old stuff
Was always into Rush ... and i liked Saxon when i was younger
Got the Wahl clippers out this morning - looking neat and tidy again, well for 7 days that is. I should really calculate how much money I have saved over the years by cutting my own hair.
Man with the most beautiful hair - ever
BBC has a video on how to cut your own hair:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/liv...nned_post_type=share
@El Loro posted:BBC has a video on how to cut your own hair:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/liv...nned_post_type=share
Must....not....succumb....
Mine seems to be falling out.........
My hoover brushes need trimming......
@Lori posted:Must....not....succumb....
I looked for you, you can relax ..... it was more about how to make your hair look not too bad, rather than a real haircut.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:I looked for you, you can relax ..... it was more about how to make your hair look not too bad, rather than a real haircut.
thanks for doing that!
My co-workers told me yesterday my hair looks "nice"...but I think they are just trying to make me feel better.
@velvet donkey posted:Cptn. Tom Moore carries me through
His daughter's alright too.
Capt Tom Moore, the legend of legends!
@Carnelian posted:Capt Tom Moore, the legend of legends!
A legend indeed. Heâs a star!
Hi Jen, nice to see you.
Cut mine again this morning for a new week at work.
a few more weeks of this and i may well have a pony tail!
@Cold Sweat posted:a few more weeks of this and i may well have a pony tail!
Hi CS Hope you and yours are keeping well ?
@Cold Sweat posted:a few more weeks of this and i may well have a pony tail!
Phil Collins stylee, just don't go there!
@Carnelian posted:If our parliament was full of people like Capt Tom Moore, what a country we'd be!
I couldnât agree more
@Cold Sweat posted:a few more weeks of this and i may well have a pony tail!
@Cold Sweat I have some of my granddaughterâs hair bobbles if you want some?
It LOOKS longer, but the measurement doesn't seem to have changed much!
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:It LOOKS longer, but the measurement doesn't seem to have changed much!
Optical illusion?
You just need to be faster, Machel.
@El Loro posted:My mother was the necessity for invention
All mother's are.
She invented me and still runs rings.
I need to give up to superiously knowledge one day.
@velvet donkey posted:All mother's are.
She invented me and still runs rings.
I need to give up to superiously knowledge one day.
i won't be tempted to try and cut my own
Get clippers.
Trial and experiment. I'll have a Mohican this time next week.
Who gives a monkeys.
The full Travis Bickle.
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I was just wondering if *I* could do that...and then I saw the end.
@Lori posted:I was just wondering if *I* could do that...and then I saw the end.
Her face at the end cracks me up everytime
@Dame_Ann_Average posted:
Her face at the end cracks me up everytime
Me, too!
Thanks for the giggle--I needed that today!
@Lori posted:Me, too!
Thanks for the giggle--I needed that today!
you're very welcome Lori
Hair seems to have sprouted another half inch today!
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Hair seems to have sprouted another half inch today!
It's like my fingernails: one day they are fine, and I wake up the next morning and they are too long!
I buzzed the husbands hair today
@Former Member posted:I buzzed the husbands hair today
How'd it go??
I'm afraid my marriage could not withstand such an event...
@Lori posted:How'd it go??
I'm afraid my marriage could not withstand such an event...
Well, considering I am blind, I canât really say, but he seems happy with it! No ears removed, no blood and no bald patches! Trying to work out how to attach a photo so I can show you!
@Former Member posted:Well, considering I am blind, I canât really say, but he seems happy with it! No ears removed, no blood and no bald patches! Trying to work out how to attach a photo so I can show you!
Wow, very impressive!!
If you click the link that says "Add Attachments", you can upload a photo.
Even if you're on your phone, as soon as you touch the text box, that link will appear.
@Lori I donât have add attachment option, just insert / edit image or link. Could be the screen reader I use?
Ah, that might be it.
i can tell you that, once you click in the text box, the "Add Attachments" link shows up in about the same place as you are finding the "Reply With Quote" button, if that helps you?
@Lori posted:Ah, that might be it.
i can tell you that, once you click in the text box, the "Add Attachments" link shows up in about the same place as you are finding the "Reply With Quote" button, if that helps you?
Helps to know where it should be and sorry to be so obtuse, but there are no links or buttons in that area when I click in the text box. I am using an iPad. The screen reader usually identifies all links, objects and buttons. Did I break Gaga?
Maybe I need to be a VIP to access that feature?
@Former Member posted:Maybe I need to be a VIP to access that feature?
Aha! I just checked, and that's it--it's a Premium feature. Sorry to mislead you--I had forgotten that.
I'm going to PM you with my email address, and you can send it to me via email, if you like. I'm happy to post it on your behalf!
@Lori posted:Aha! I just checked, and that's it--it's a Premium feature. Sorry to mislead you--I had forgotten that.
I'm going to PM you with my email address, and you can send it to me via email, if you like. I'm happy to post it on your behalf!
Thank you! Thatâs great! Have sent it to you and I really appreciate you posting it!
He tells me any idiot can shave a head! Some people have no appreciation!
@Former Member posted:He tells me any idiot can shave a head! Some people have no appreciation!
I would increase your rates.
That clip was from a 1954 Indian film called Taxi Driver.
Mala (played by Kalpana Kartik) is a village girl who has come to Mumbai but gets lost, Mangal (played by Dev Anand) is a taxi driver who comes to her aid when she is being attacked by two thugs. They have to go on the run and he encourages her to dress as a man for her safety (hence the hair cutting). Eventually all ends happily for the two.
In real life, Dev Anand and Kaplana Kartik fell in love during the film and one day, vanished from the film sets and got married. They remained married until he died in 2011.
How do you know that?
Your knowledge is out my sphere
@velvet donkey posted:How do you know that?
Your knowledge is out my sphere
Your reply re Travis Bickle was re that Mohican haircut in Scorcese's Taxi Driver. I found on Youtube the clip I posted which was from an Indian film also called Taxi Driver (as mentioned in the title of the clip) which also had a notable hair cut.
I found the complete film on Youtube. Scanned through it to check that the clip did come from that film. Went on IMDB to check up on that film which is where I got all the information I posted.
So, it's not that I knew anything about the film beforehand, more about doing a bit of research.
Beautiful!!
I really want peacocks. But then, I also want a mini-donkey, which I may have mentioned before. 
I'm beginning to feel somewhat liberated wearing my hair longer than usual; perhaps it's longest since I was a pre-teen!
A number of work colleagues have gone for the slightly botched home-crop
Can't see my ears anymore - the back is starting to curl
Resisting the urge to cut my fringy bits is futile
Maybe another four months before i dare go to the barbers and i'll be
My hair was getting wild so I took scissors to it a few days ago - just the front and sides.
I'm not as brave as @Yogi19 plus i'm happy with my ears fully intact and attached!
@Cold Sweat posted:I'm not as brave as @Yogi19 plus i'm happy with my ears fully intact and attached!
CS
@Baz posted:
Evening Baz!
My bob has now turned into a lustrous mane (I wish), had to hunt for some scrunchies to tie it back, but at least the fringe is cut without any mistakes
@Cold Sweat posted:I'm not as brave as @Yogi19 plus i'm happy with my ears fully intact and attached!
@Cold Sweat, Looking at my handy work, I think I may have been stupid rather than brave
@Yogi19 posted:
I heard hairs scarves are fashionable.
The need to pick up scissors is nearing
My hair is getting too long for my age...thank heavens for Garnier root sprayððĐââïļ
Another Monday, another home-hair-cut. Thank goodness for my Wahl clippers.
This is getting ridiculous - and itchy
Starting to wonder of it's worth suggesting to my barber that she starts home visits in full PPE, no chat and face masks for the clients too
She can cut mine in the garage or the rear garden
Looking like a bloke in a wig
Are you guys getting any closer to opening up those kinds of businesses?
We are (at this point) scheduled to move to Phase 2, which includes salons and barber shops, on June 1st, but we have to make the numbers, first (# of infections, testing, etc.)
@Lori posted:Are you guys getting any closer to opening up those kinds of businesses?
We are (at this point) scheduled to move to Phase 2, which includes salons and barber shops, on June 1st, but we have to make the numbers, first (# of infections, testing, etc.)
I do t think ours are open yet Lori
Also any relaxing of RULES is going to happen at different times and rates in different parts of the UK.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:Also any relaxing of RULES is going to happen at different times and rates in different parts of the UK.
Same here. I'm subject to Washington state rules, which are kinda strict. South Carolina hasn't been under the same lockdown situation that we have been.
My hair used to look like a brunette version of this
But now it looks more like a Roman Centurionâs helmet 
My daughter, who has 3 kids (2 boys aged 14 and 1 girl aged 17) told me yesterday that she tasked the big sister to watch videos on how to cut hair, and then cut the boys' hair. I can hardly wait to hear how this works out.
@Moonie posted:Awwww
Roman Centurion helmet is the âin lookâ Yogi
Moonie, Iâm not convinced
@Lori posted:My daughter, who has 3 kids (2 boys aged 14 and 1 girl aged 17) told me yesterday that she tasked the big sister to watch videos on how to cut hair, and then cut the boys' hair. I can hardly wait to hear how this works out.
Lori, you never know, she might have a talent for hairdressing. Then again.....
It's all too late - utter mess - washed it last night ... it's gone awry
Can't even provoke it into a style anymore
. . . and at least another 3 months to go - or more!!!
It's only a matter of time for the scissors i'm afraid (and i'm very afraid)
@Saint posted:It's all too late - utter mess - washed it last night ... it's gone awry
Can't even provoke it into a style anymore
. . . and at least another 3 months to go - or more!!!
It's only a matter of time for the scissors i'm afraid (and i'm very afraid)
The way my hair is going I wonât need a haircut in three months just a wash and shine
As my hair curls over my shoulders I've decided that I can only get a true measurement when it's wet - the only time it will be truly straight. Trouble is I keep forgetting about measuring it until after it is dry again.
@Extremely Fluffy Fluffy Thing posted:As my hair curls over my shoulders I've decided that I can only get a true measurement when it's wet - the only time it will be truly straight. Trouble is I keep forgetting about measuring it until after it is dry again.
Hair had grown down the sides and started to look like spaniels ears
So today was scissors day
I hacked impatiently
Not a bad job tbh !! Looks ok . . . . at some angles - much better then before
Next day i can be bothered it's the front and top