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How are you handling personal hair grooming these COVID days?

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44 votes were received.

Have been going (masked) to a barber/salon for several weeks now.	12		27%
A spouse/trusted friend has been cutting my hair.	12		27%
DIY with mirrors and somewhat good luck.	17		39%
Hair? Have been shaving myrself bald.	3		7%

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Just curious about what folks are doing.

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Northern California Coast

Flowbee baby.

I am nearly due for my yearly haircut. I went a little long during the pandemic and learned that I prefer a spring cut over a fall cut. My hair provides decent insulation.

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Dennis S
Flowbee baby.

I'm using the much more modern equivalent: a Remington clipper with built-in vacuum, that I've written about here before... it's still going strong, and easily paid for itself within three uses. I've gotten WAY more than three uses out of it by this point.

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Freya says, 'Hello from NOLA, baby!' (Laissez bon temps rouler!)

What’s hair? I seem to vaguely remember some reference to it in my very distant past.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Cutting my own monthly with electric shears since April 2020.

When/if the pandemic eases off a bit more, I expect to start getting my hair cut by a professional again. I'm getting very good at it, but I miss the social aspect.

...It'll be weird going out some place where someone not my SO hovers over me for a half hour, sharing my air-space.

If you want to try it, I have a quick and easy procedure with semi-pro shears and standard rakes:
#4 rake over the ears.
#5 rake just above that, dropping down in a "U" around the back from the ears to the base of the skull.
#6 rake for the next 2-3 inches above that.
#7 rake around the "cap."
#8 rake for the top of the head and the front.

If the back isn't straight, I hit it with a small beard trimmer using a mirror on the back of my bathroom door and the mirror over the sink. Sometimes I use a piece of masking tape across the back of my head to get a clean line.

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I cut my own hair using Wahl clippers and some thinning sheers.
#4 (1/4”) beard
#8 (1”) sides of head
#10 (1.25”) back and top of head

It’s not as nice as a stylist but it’s good enough as long as I cut every three weeks.

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davemchine
I cut my own hair using Wahl clippers and some thinning sheers.
#4 (1/4”) beard
#8 (1”) sides of head
#10 (1.25”) back and top of head

It’s not as nice as a stylist but it’s good enough as long as I cut every three weeks.

Wow. I’m #1 all the way round (#2 on the beard). Anything less and I look kinda like Bozo.

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Speedy
What’s hair? I seem to vaguely remember some reference to it in my very distant past.

take off your shirt, face away from a full length mirror, and hold up a shiny pot lid. Your hair just flew south. Some moved into your ears.

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you missed an option: just like I did in 2019.

again, prob another one of those regional things.

got mine cut a few days ago, no masks, no nothing. come in, sit chat up the woman cutting my hair, pay walk out.

Been that way for some time.

Year ago, might have been masks on, but still easy to get a cut. available anywhere.

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What jdc said.

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Staunton, Virginia

Going this week, masks went away last year thanks to Desantis's anti-health stance.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/11/2022 05:33AM by Ombligo.

For many years I've been cutting my wife's hair and she's been cutting mine. We started after I went to a hair place with her and 2 hours later we walked out after somebody pretty much cut straight lines across the back, sides and front of her hair; the sides were sloped but the front and back were horizontal. The person also did a thing where she held up pieces of my wife's hair and cut them at an angle all the way around. That gave it a tapered effect on the sides and back. The total time to cut her hair was maybe 10-15 minutes. After we left I told my wife I could do that for her and we'd save hours. So, she let me try it. After several times I got pretty good at it. She regularly gets asked who cuts her hair. I cut the front and sides of mine and my wife does the back. Again, maybe 10 minutes, tops. We always do it before we're going to take a shower and we get ready to shower before we cut so clean up is brushing off, vacuuming the floor and the shower. Easy peasy.

Of course, it's helpful that we're both married so we don't worry about impressing anybody. That's a helpful perspective if one of us messes up!

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Steve,

No hair cuts at all from Feb/March 2020 until July 2021. Just let my hair grow out. Got a hair cut the morning of a family event. Been getting one once every two or three months since. I make sure I'm the first cut of the day and always wear a mask and an old flannel shirt for it. Usually in and out in about 15 minutes. I always go on a Sunday morning. That way, I have time to change my clothes and take a quick shower after the cut before I go about my business of the day.

Robert

Sadly, Supercuts.

I haven't found a barber is some time.

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A young lady in the salon where my daughter works has been doing my hair for about four years now. She's become another 'adopted daughter', visits our house and hangs out with our daughter. And she is an artist... I've never had a haircut this nice. I'm sort of "Dad" or "Uncle" to a whole herd of young ladies. And my wife is "Mom".

10+ YEARS ago, I had my head shaved at a "St Baldrick's Day" event. I also had my mustache of 40+ years shaved at the same event. I liked the clean look and have remained "hair free" ever since.



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I've been going to a woman who cuts hair at her house. In the early stages of covid, she cut hair outside. Pretty much back to normal now and haven't had any issues.

....as a reminder [ might as well do at the same time ].....get haircut....down there....

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Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches.

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As a man with a full head of lustrous hair, still, I let it grow and when around numerous cue ball friends I constantly run my hands thru it, and say, 'Wow. I need a haircut.'

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Altered Horizons
Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches.

I miss my ponytail. Chemo took it…

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Altered Horizons
Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches.

I miss my ponytail. Chemo took it…

A small sacrifice in exchange for having you walk among us still.

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It is what it is.

Regular old barber I've been using for 30 years. Masked at first...back in 2020. No mask since prob Fall 2020.... No one ever got Covid.

every 6 months, much to my cutters disappointment. But I've lost a lot and whats left doesn't grow like it did until my 40s.

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!#$@@$#!

....so is cut....better than uncut.....???

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Been getting semi-annual haircuts for the past several years. Walk into the shop, sit down, and ask for a #2. Barber cuts sides and back, there’s nothing on top. Takes longer to clean it up than to cut it.
Then I pay and say ‘see you in six months’.

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richorlin

Hmm. No option for us folks that have let our freak flags fly?

Seriously, THIS retired soul doesn't go out much and have not cut my hair in over 2 years. I haven't had hair this long since high school. Well, a little bit of a receding hairline, but what can I do?

My beard on the other hand is longer than I've ever worn it. Think Robinson Crusoe!!

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“ Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches. “


I was ready to do that last summer, as my hair was longer than it ever had been.

Or get a Flowbee.


I had to crawl under my truck when my transmission cable broke; lying on my back so I could see what was going on.

When I tried to lift my head, my hair was trapped under my back.

Drove me nuts.

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Altered Horizons
Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches.

I miss my ponytail. Chemo took it…

A small sacrifice in exchange for having you walk among us still.

Excellent point.
In truth, if I could get past the "Einstein with severe bedhead look", the tail would be mine again.

Still no beard until we are post N95 days.

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if I could get past the "Einstein with severe bedhead look"

Isn't that pretty much the ONLY Einstein look?

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if I could get past the "Einstein with severe bedhead look"

Isn't that pretty much the ONLY Einstein look?

True. Apparently the ladies liked him a lot. Hmmm…

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Cut it myself Mar 2020 to Mar 2021. Been having it cut in person for the last year. Most stylists wear mask. No masks required for customers since about September.

Never stopped getting my hair cut professionally (not that I do so very often). Don't wear a mask or expect the barber to. But masks, in general, aren't really a thing around here. Neither is COVID, most people have stopped concerning themselves with it and everyone is pretty much over it and moving on with their lives.

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Once or twice a year, pull the ponytail tight and trim off 4+ inches.

Maybe I should try that. I haven't had a haircut since lockdown started, and this is the longest I've had it ever in my life. I've been braiding it and pinning it up in back, but it's getting too ratty on the ends for me to handle it by myself. I think I'll try trimming off 2 inches to start.

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Never stopped getting my hair cut professionally (not that I do so very often). Don't wear a mask or expect the barber to. But masks, in general, aren't really a thing around here. Neither is COVID, most people have stopped concerning themselves with it and everyone is pretty much over it and moving on with their lives.

Except for those with long Covid or who have died from it or who will get long Covid or who will die from it.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.