Cut your own hair and beard - men only I imagine :)
Mike Harding said
02:01 PM Mar 3, 2022
Some years past when I began to plan and consider my future nomad life one of the things which occurred was hair and beard cutting - I have short examples of both. i loath either of them becoming too long because they both irritate and make me feel the heat excessively but I do not wish to drive 200km simply to get a haircut; as a consequence I bought one of these:
And it has been brilliant! Not only can I groom myself to a state of beauty :) but as haircuts are around $25 it's more than paid for its purchase.
Probably not for everyone but for those of us with little vanity I commend it to you.
Clarky 1 said
02:09 PM Mar 3, 2022
Bought one when they first came out.
They are brilliant and I have not been to a barber in ten years.
$89.00 when I bought mine about ten years ago. I am surprised how many haircuts I get before it has to go on charge as well although mine takes a while to charge. Probably 3 or 4 hours.
The best things is you dont have to ask anyone to cut your hair as it is self operate and you can sit outside and use it and not worry about getting yelled at for dropping hair all over the place.
A great piece of gear..
Mike Harding said
02:16 PM Mar 3, 2022
I think a friend bought mine at staff price from the Good Guys for $70 about six years past. Looking at the JB pic it's been updated but if mine died I'd be down to JB ASAP to spend $120 on a new one.
As I'm usually deep in the bush I just wander outside and prop a mirror on the car door and do the hair and beard there, showering afterwards helps too.
Clarky 1 said
02:19 PM Mar 3, 2022
Mike Harding wrote:
I think a friend bought mine at staff price from the Good Guys for $70 about six years past. Looking at the JB pic it's been updated but if mine died I'd be down to JB ASAP to spend $120 on a new one.
As I'm usually deep in the bush I just wander outside and prop a mirror on the car door and do the hair and beard there, showering afterwards helps too.
Agree with everything you say Mike.
I got my original one from Hardly Normal but I would not baulk at buying another one at current retail should I need to.
(MONEY Magazine) If you are male and suffer from stubble envy -- a disturbance characterized by a desire to have an always budding beard like TV star Don Johnson -- you may want to pick up an electric razor that went on the market this spring, costs only $29.95 and leaves you with a 5 o'clock shadow 24 hours a day. It is called the Stubble Device. The Wahl Clipper Corp. of Sterling, Ill. makes it expressly to capitalize on the sandpaper-chin look popularized by the Miami Vice sleuth. Rather than suffer the embarrassment of a clean shave, you can keep your beard fashionably semi-trimmed with the machine's handy one-to-five-day growth settings. The razor was originally called the Miami Device. But the company feared a trademark infringement lawsuit by the show's producers and -- even worse -- were afraid that Johnson could up and adopt a razor-clean look at a press agent's notice.
-- Edited by dorian on Thursday 3rd of March 2022 03:06:22 PM
Craig1 said
04:12 PM Mar 3, 2022
I only need to go to my Scissor Sisters every 3-4 months, the price is worth the entertainment value I reckon.
dabbler said
04:14 PM Mar 3, 2022
I've been doing my hair and beard for about 10 yrs after my long-time barber retired. I use professional hairdressing scissors (well worth the money) and a Remington lady shaver I liberated from the family bathroom. It's narrower than most beard trimmers but works. When it finally dies I'll start shopping. My beard protects me from the sun and sunburn and will probably never be fully shaved again. The extra heat doesn't really worry me and I rarely notice it. But interestingly, 8 yrs ago I shaved my head in solidarity with a family member with cancer. I couldn't believe how hot and sweaty it was without head-hair (and I've been bald since my twenties).
Bobdown said
04:48 PM Mar 3, 2022
The missus does mine with the Wahl clippers, usually a number 4 all over probably 4-5 times a year.
I've noticed the monk spot is getting bigger and bigger, starting to 'part' it in a circle lately.
Can't complain otherwise she'll shave the lot off.
rgren2 said
05:46 PM Mar 3, 2022
Lovely hair dresser does mine. $20, helps a local business.
oldbloke said
06:30 PM Mar 3, 2022
Electric mower every second day, except for the handle bars. Been doing it for at least 15 years.
Aus-Kiwi said
09:25 PM Mar 3, 2022
I have a circular cutter with height adjustment from #2 to 6 . Shave neck and carefully cut with sizers around ears . Never paid for hair cut in 20 or so years !!
-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Thursday 3rd of March 2022 09:29:32 PM
In March 2020 I had my usual short & spikey crewcut. I haven't been to a hairdresser for the two years that this pandemic has existed. I now wear my hair pulled back into a ponytail that's almost halfway down my back. When I get it cut off, I'll be donating it to the Kids With Cancer wigs for kids program. They can dye hair to the required colour.
Aus-Kiwi said
04:20 PM Mar 4, 2022
GTS . Dont you think they have suffered enough ? Aha
With any of these mens hair cutting kits these days they should come with a nose ears and eyebrows trimmer.
I have one the same as Mike H has, but I have bought a couple of nose hair trimmers while the hair shears just kept on going.
Those nose trimmers dont seem to last that long, at least for me.
Aus-Kiwi said
03:23 PM Mar 6, 2022
Yes I find the nose trimmers snot up !!! Great for ears !! I said ears !
Jaahn said
08:48 AM Mar 7, 2022
Hi
Well when I went overseas 20+ years ago to work in a remote place I cut my own hair and beard with a small electric clipper. I have done so since, my wife will trim my hair occasionally to improve my efforts The plug in ones are available cheaply and commonly and do not last forever. They get blunt and 'pull' the hair so you move on.
I was given a Sassoon model a while back, which is the best and longest lasting I have had, and probably most expensive. As I have an inverter the 220V AC is no problem. I might have problems paying the price shown for that cordless model ?? I gave up shaving every day when I stopped work. Not sure now why I waited so long
Jaahn
Sassoon
-- Edited by Jaahn on Monday 7th of March 2022 08:51:53 AM
Wannabe nomad said
09:19 AM Mar 7, 2022
I haven't been to a hairdresser since 2010 and knowone even noticed and 5 years ago I bought my hubby clippers (no facial hair) and he started trimming his own.
It all started when I was saving up for a trip of a lifetime to go to Africa, and being a female it's very expensive going down the colouring, cutting and conditioning route over a $100 even back then.
A friend showed me a clever trick (bit hard to explain) and now I can cut my hair any length just using hairdresser scissors and a comb on wet hair.
I've had the odd mishap, but then I've paid for hairdressers who 'scalped me' or gave me 'dos' I couldn't recreate after I'd got home and now grey is all the rage it's a win win.
I reckon we have saved $1000s by now.
Some years past when I began to plan and consider my future nomad life one of the things which occurred was hair and beard cutting - I have short examples of both. i loath either of them becoming too long because they both irritate and make me feel the heat excessively but I do not wish to drive 200km simply to get a haircut; as a consequence I bought one of these:
Hair and beard trimmer
And it has been brilliant! Not only can I groom myself to a state of beauty :) but as haircuts are around $25 it's more than paid for its purchase.
Probably not for everyone but for those of us with little vanity I commend it to you.
They are brilliant and I have not been to a barber in ten years.
$89.00 when I bought mine about ten years ago. I am surprised how many haircuts I get before it has to go on charge as well although mine takes a while to charge. Probably 3 or 4 hours.
The best things is you dont have to ask anyone to cut your hair as it is self operate and you can sit outside and use it and not worry about getting yelled at for dropping hair all over the place.
A great piece of gear..
I think a friend bought mine at staff price from the Good Guys for $70 about six years past. Looking at the JB pic it's been updated but if mine died I'd be down to JB ASAP to spend $120 on a new one.
As I'm usually deep in the bush I just wander outside and prop a mirror on the car door and do the hair and beard there, showering afterwards helps too.
Agree with everything you say Mike.
I got my original one from Hardly Normal but I would not baulk at buying another one at current retail should I need to.
I have one of these:
https://au.wahl.com/Products/Australian-Products/Home-Grooming/Clippers/Lithium-Color-Pro-Chrome-Clipper.aspx
It was a gift. I don't think I would have paid so much for one if it were my choice. It's a good unit, though.
I don't have a beard, so that's not a consideration for me (do women like beards, or do they just put with them?).
In my experience Dorian it depends upon the location of their specific sensory experience of the beard.
-- Edited by Mike Harding on Thursday 3rd of March 2022 02:55:35 PM
I never did understand the fascination with facial hair (handlebar moustaches?), but it's evident that Wahl Clipper Corp does.
Back in the days of Miami Vice, the company produced the Miami Device, a shaver designed to leave you with a permanent 5 o'clock shadow.
https://miamiviceonline.com/uploads/monthly_2020_04/miamidevice.jpg.619e1101f624399f1cee838c65b16b42.jpg
https://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1986/09/01/83455/index.htm
September 1, 1986
(MONEY Magazine) If you are male and suffer from stubble envy -- a disturbance characterized by a desire to have an always budding beard like TV star Don Johnson -- you may want to pick up an electric razor that went on the market this spring, costs only $29.95 and leaves you with a 5 o'clock shadow 24 hours a day. It is called the Stubble Device. The Wahl Clipper Corp. of Sterling, Ill. makes it expressly to capitalize on the sandpaper-chin look popularized by the Miami Vice sleuth. Rather than suffer the embarrassment of a clean shave, you can keep your beard fashionably semi-trimmed with the machine's handy one-to-five-day growth settings. The razor was originally called the Miami Device. But the company feared a trademark infringement lawsuit by the show's producers and -- even worse -- were afraid that Johnson could up and adopt a razor-clean look at a press agent's notice.
-- Edited by dorian on Thursday 3rd of March 2022 03:06:22 PM
The missus does mine with the Wahl clippers, usually a number 4 all over probably 4-5 times a year.
I've noticed the monk spot is getting bigger and bigger, starting to 'part' it in a circle lately.
Can't complain otherwise she'll shave the lot off.
-- Edited by Aus-Kiwi on Thursday 3rd of March 2022 09:29:32 PM
In March 2020 I had my usual short & spikey crewcut.
I haven't been to a hairdresser for the two years that this pandemic has existed.
I now wear my hair pulled back into a ponytail that's almost halfway down my back.
When I get it cut off, I'll be donating it to the Kids With Cancer wigs for kids program.
They can dye hair to the required colour.
Thought this might apply to some..........
With any of these mens hair cutting kits these days they should come with a nose ears and eyebrows trimmer.
I have one the same as Mike H has, but I have bought a couple of nose hair trimmers while the hair shears just kept on going.
Those nose trimmers dont seem to last that long, at least for me.
Hi
Well when I went overseas 20+ years ago to work in a remote place I cut my own hair and beard with a small electric clipper. I have done so since, my wife will trim my hair occasionally to improve my efforts
The plug in ones are available cheaply and commonly and do not last forever. They get blunt and 'pull' the hair so you move on.
I was given a Sassoon model a while back, which is the best and longest lasting I have had, and probably most expensive. As I have an inverter the 220V AC is no problem. I might have problems paying the price shown for that cordless model ?? I gave up shaving every day when I stopped work. Not sure now why I waited so long
Jaahn
Sassoon
-- Edited by Jaahn on Monday 7th of March 2022 08:51:53 AM
It all started when I was saving up for a trip of a lifetime to go to Africa, and being a female it's very expensive going down the colouring, cutting and conditioning route over a $100 even back then.
A friend showed me a clever trick (bit hard to explain) and now I can cut my hair any length just using hairdresser scissors and a comb on wet hair.
I've had the odd mishap, but then I've paid for hairdressers who 'scalped me' or gave me 'dos' I couldn't recreate after I'd got home and now grey is all the rage it's a win win.
I reckon we have saved $1000s by now.
hair ?
I do.