/diy/ - Do It Yourself

buzz it and if you look like shit just cream it with a razor.

>>1735706

DIY it with one of these! Fun for the hole family.

Get a wife and have her do it for you.

>>1735706
Buzz the sides and back
For 1-3" hair, using your fingers as a guide, buzz with a 1/2" guard. The fingers will add an inch or two. Taper ~3" in front to 1" at the "crown point"
To avoid the egghead look, leave a wedge of ~1" hair running from your temples to the "crown point" at the back. Taper from 1" to 1/2"
You WILL fuck up so:
-always overestimate your cuts by at least a half inch
-always cut in two sessions: the first to get the general layout, then the second (the next day) to touch up the edges and craft the tapers
-find a nice hat

>>1735740
Came here to post this. Or as in my case: get a GF whose sister likes to cut hair.

>>1735706
Get a hair clipper like https://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/QC5130_40/family-clippers-hair-clipper key point it has 21mm comb, or is adjustable.
> set it at 15 and do both sides of your head and the back starting at neck and going upwards
> set it at 13 and trim just a bit above your neck - the place that goes up to your ear level
> for top of head set it at 21 and go top to front combing the hair up before each pass
> this will cut very few hair at a pass so do 15-20 passes and see if it short enough for your liking if no, decrease and go again until it does
Also
> DO NOT GO FRONT TO TOP or it will look retarded
> Keep sides/back at least 1 step lover than top
Judging from your pic id go 17 for top, 15 sides/ back and 13 up to ear level. Also you will want someone to shave you your neckline straight at the back, i learned that shit is impossible to DIY.

buy decent clippers
put on length guard you want
go to town
just did mine, took 5 minutes
shower, use mirror or fingers to feel to length differences, clean that up
done

>>1735938
i have one similar to this (same price range) and i've been using it with some success.

however, i'm worried that it will stop cutting well eventually. how many uses until the teeth stop being sharp? can these things be sharpened, or do i have to buy a new one?

>>1735974
>took 5 minutes
i usually take more than 20, and then i have to cleanup everything. how much do these "decent clippers" cost?

>>1735706
>ITT; ijits who look like they tangled with a weed eater
I can always tell when someone cuts their own hair, they look like it.

>>1735977
i think they were around $50-60, WAHLs.
didnt add time for cleanup, but i usually do it outside or on my screened in porch.

also, you gotta clean and lube that shit
>>1735978
i would probably have someone else help me if i did different lengths, but i just do #2 all over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpHjlBPigLs

>>1735706
Get yourself a Flowbee, nigga, and hook it up to the shop vac

>>1735975
I have no idea, the box says "self sharpening" iirc. I have been using the same one for about 5 years now and it still cuts fine. Given its $30 it pays its price in two months. A friend started borrowing mine once i told him i cut my hair so we got him his own as a birthday gift later that year. He's been cutting himself for a couple of years now too.

>>1735737
>>1736053
Just get pic related

>>1735737
My dad got his gold chain sucked up in his flowbee. The early 90s were truly a great time to be alive, lads.

>>1736155
This, I have one.
6 on top 2 on the sides and back, every two weeks.

>>1735706
Just rip them out.

>>1735978
I can cut my own hair if i do it on a regular basis, like once a week. Always little by little, so even if i fuck up it's hard to notice and easy to fix.

>>1736170
I have absolutely no interest in my hair "looking good", so I just do all over with No.2 every Monday morning at the start of my working week for convenience.

>>1736175
This. I hit my head with a no.1 every other week. Takes 10 minutes hunched over the garbage can. Thankfully I have the right head shape for it too

Kek good thread bc I actually just got done fucking my shit up since I am tired of not getting the haircut I want at the barber. I use a 7 on the sides, then a 4 to go from the very bottom of my hair up to about Midway then I like to fade my Temple and neck with a 3 and a 2. Today I flew too close to the sun and wanted a leaner look and decided to attempt to fade my neck with a 1 but I fucked up as you can see in pic related where there is a solid division between the 1 and 2 and the upper part of my hair

>>1735706
Mald

>>1736290
I was aiming for a fade at the neck similar to this. Any tips?

>>1736295
get a proper mirror setup
start with big guards and work your way down slowly
it's not hard, if you fuck up take it all down and try again in 2 months

>>1735919
My gf cut my ear and it took days to stop bleeding.

>>1736295
Stop getting a gay-ass fade and just buzzcut your hair like any sensible man

>>1736477
This.
I went the buzz cut route and I get laid just as much as before (never).

Use as many mirrors as possible.
As with anything else it will take practice before you start getting good.

i hit my sides with a #3 guard then do the top with a #5 and try and fade into that 1 inch with the #3. Then I get my gf to clean up the back without a guard and finish the back with the #3.

just use a shaver and go all over

just buy a set of clippers and buzzcut all around like the intro to full metal jacket with the same #1 length insert. No need for fancy shmancy different lengths or fades or other whatever nigger shit, that is how you get JUSTed doing it yourself

>>1735737
WHOAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>1735706
There's two haircut threads. From the other:
>Go by feel and look in the mirror when you're done. I have no training but I always do myself and kids in high school asked me. See with your hands. Feel how it should be to avoid weird cowlicks and stuff. Don't measure anything. The final touch is for optical illusion. Vertical cuts are more forgiving than horizontal. Use hands and shape of bone in the skull.

Use clipper guards as guards and not a go/nogo gauge. Lean them on the points a bit and angle for feel or you're going to look like cut grass on rough terrain. You gotta compensate lean for occipital bun or pointy skull cap so, start with steep angle. >>1736295
This is a bird kiss around ears and down and flat at the neck. Follow the bone ridge and sweep back like a comb for the sides and against the grain in between.

>>1735740
>>1735919
>>1736341
don't get women to cut your hair, they always think they're experts at everything when they aren't, and they'll fuck up.

>>1740004
fucking true, asked a girl who likes me if she could do it and she literally shaved my entire neck, i looked like a turtle for at least 2 weeks. Get clippers, two mirrors, one big and one handheld and use the clipper guards to do your fade