Submitted 5 weeks ago by xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day to [deleted]
I’m a guy and I have one every 2 or 3 months. But at work I think some guys have one more than once a month because they look groomed all the time.
PS: I trim my beard once a week. I’m talking about haircuts specifically.
I get mine done about every 1-2 months. Usually when it starts poking me in the ears and getting annoying.
My mate at work who’s very fashion conscious gets his done every 3 weeks or so.
I’m a “two on top, one on the sides” dude. I’m the same, the second my hair starts coming over my ears then I’m away to the barber. Two months is decent, though if I’m not able to get there through work or being away from home, I’ll stretch it to three months but I feel a bit like Noel Gallagher when my hair starts coming down to my lugholes.
That said, I treat it as a bit of a relaxation sesh. I’ll ask the barber for a “full service” and close my eyes for half hour or 45 mins and let the barber do his thing with the clippers and the hot shave and the massage and all that jazz. A guilty pleasure every other month or so.
Once a year. I look like an animal all the time
Hey, me too! I love that my appearance progresses with the seasons. I like growing through different styles, and the ritual of the yearly cut.
Even after the haircut?
Then they look like a well groomed animal.
I look like a human 3 months a year: mid autumn - mid winter.
TIL most dudes on Lemmy grow long hair
Naturally
I grew my hair down to my ass until it stopped growing around 25. I would’ve kept it longer, but I balded lol.
I haven’t had a haircut since I was 19 (I am currently 40).
KOLANAKI
Hair grows 6" a year. Your hair is 20 feet long?
IDK where you heard that considering hair grows different speeds for different people. It also doesn’t keep getting longer forever.
I bought the proper hardware to cut my own hair as and learned how to do fades. It's easy to keep it tje same length all the time this way.
Mainly I just got sick of paying so much for a 10 minute cut.
did you put mirrors on both walls?
If you have two mirrors you can hang one on a door for an adjustable side view.
About every 3-4 weeks.
Yeah, I used to go to a place where they’d schedule me out based on three weeks, which I liked better, but now this new place leaves it to me to remember and schedule myself. I don’t remember, so it’s closer to 4-5 weeks.
Well, first let me say that you should go to the barber as often as you want, not as often as an average man does.
I personally go every 3 months because I have long hair and only need to get it into a bit of shape regularly. If I had a short hairstyle I would go more often.
This is kind of a tautological answer. Of course it’s as often as I want, but what do I want? I had that question when I started making my own decisions on my hair. I was never fully happy with how things looked and haven’t figured out how to style it the way I like. What part of it was I unhappy with? I couldn’t tell. Would more frequent hair cuts help? Or less frequent so it spends more time in that slightly grown out state and I have more consistent hair to work with? And so many other questions.
If you know that most people get their hair cut after X weeks, then that gives you a starting point to experiment with instead of going into it completely blind.
What people do in that case is look at pictures of people with various hairstyles online, trying to find one where they feel like “this looks good, I want to try that one”. Or consult with a good hairdresser when you’re there who might have some suggestions of what could fit you. Nowadays there are even apps where one can try to put various hairstyles onto their own picture.
I think I had one back in the late 90s.
Now-a-days nature takes care of it.
Like birds come in and eat your hair or something?
I think I'd notice birds, it could be spiders though.
My hair is pretty thin white and wispy whatever of it is left..
But it's significantly less strong than steel - maybe pacifist spiders who resent their own culture.
My husband has straight hair he keeps in a tight fade, like nearly bald on the sides to very short at the top, and gets his hair cut every 2 weeks. I (lady, curly hair) can go a year between, just get it cut in short layers and let them grow out to long layers. The two of my kids who like theirs short but not crazy short go a month or two between.
Basically the shorter it is, the more you have to cut it - hair grows, on average 1/2 inch (13mm) per month, so mine has a 6 inch tolerance but my husband, with such straight and short hair, has a quarter inch tolerance.
i shave my head twice a week, because i have the fantastic luck to have incredibly thick hair, and since 22, mpb.
But you prefer the bald look?
put it this way, i’m no patrick stewart. i did not pull the look off.
Started dating a girl who liked it when I grew it out… so haven’t cut it just about ten years. She’s gone, but the hair stayed. I never found a barber who could consistently cut it the way I liked, so the only alternative I could see is regularly buzzing everything off.
I shave it off once it starts looking like shit
I cut my hair when it bothers me. I don’t keep track of the interval.
It’s been like 6 months for me. I’ve gone over a year before. I have thrash metal hair though. lol.
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I cut my hair approximately once every three months
Lemmy is not a good source for the average man’s grooming habits
whenever my family nags me about it too much lol
Yup. I get one when my wife tells me it’s time.
Every 5-10 years as it’s to expensive for me to get one and have to be incredibly lucky to get one.
You live on a deserted island or something? 😁
It’s called Amerikkka. You know. 4th world country, basic necessities are 400% percent expensive, no medical care that doesn’t cost 4,000 bucks.
Are you living in a deserted island or something? Because everyone knows the fuck hell whole of this Amerikkka country.
I donate my hair about every 18 months. 😉
I cut my own hair every weekend. I’m in the military, though (and no, I don’t just shave it). I found that I do it more to my liking (and consistently) than the barbers I’ve gone to, it only takes 20 minutes, I don’t have to pay $30, and I can shower immediately after. I use a 6 (3/4 inch) on top, a 3 (3/8 inch) around the curve transitioning to the sides, and then fade down from there, 2 to 1.5 to 1 and finally .5 (1/16 inch) around my ears, side-burns, and most of the back. Keeps everything clean, I always look good, and I spend about $40 every year or two.
I gave up and just grew it out cos I would need one after like a month
Once a month.
It’s actually become a bit of a self-care routine because I go to a Turkish barbers who’ll also do ear hair burning off (nowhere near as intense as you’re imagining), noise hair waxing, and a hot towel cut-throat shave.
I actually like the sensations from them all and I walk out feeling clean and fresh, gives me a monthly little boost of confidence.
I trim my beard about once a month.
I haven’t had a haircut in about a decade.
When my wife states I’m looking too much like a murderhobo which can be from three months to a year depending.
The last cut was in 1999 to clean up an undercut. It got longer for about 15 years after that. Now it gets shorter, thinner, and blder, every day.
A full haircut once a month with a cleanup 2 weeks in. My hair is thick as fuck and grows pretty quickly, so I need to stay on top of it.
I cut my own hair for years using clippers, but within the last few years started going to get it cut because they do a better job.
You made of money?
Cleanups are free since I pay ahead of time.
I shave my head in the shower every couple of days. Trim my beard once a week.
Twice a year. I always go for a short cut and then grow it out until it annoys me.
I never cared about having a consistent look.
Do you have problems with the tips getting dry and looking unkept?
Not at all. It’s perfectly straight and looks healthy, no matter what I do - as long as I wash it every other day.
I only use one of those all in one shampoos and a blow dryer. I don’t even use a comb or brush. Yet, I got quite a few comments about having especially healthy looking hair from woman.
2-3 weeks? By 5 weeks I look a little scraggly (I’m balding, so it’s not great to let it go too long, unless I’m dressing as a mad scientist for something)
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
haven’t cut my hair in years, long hair supremacy.
amorpheus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I think my last one was about thirty years ago. Or close.
sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
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