It’s not until you’re in the hairdresser’s chair, in front of that mirror with your black front cape on, that you realise how ugly you really are…
Kidding, you’re all beautiful. But really those lights in the hairdresser salons do nobody any favours.
This is just one downfall of using a proper hairdresser to cut your hair. Other than the usual:
Hairdresser: “There, all done. What do you think?”
Me: “Looks great, just what I wanted”… *Thinks it’s hideous what have I done to my head I cannot go out in public what happened here*
Hairdresser: “Great, see you next time”
Me: “Yep, see you then!” …*Thinks I’m never coming back again. Comes back next month for same thing*.
Anyway! How do we solve this? Cut it yourself.
Really, my actual reason for cutting my own hair is because I live in Berlin and I’m too afraid to go in and try and explain what I want done in another language. As you can imagine, I could go in with my long hair and come out with a pixie cut. I can imagine myself pointing to show length I want off… and they’d cut everything TO that length, not that length OFF. Know what I mean? I wouldn’t suit the pixie cut. As I’ve mentioned before, I do over think things. HOWEVER I’m not ready to throw away my efforts in growing my hair out.
And as well, it’s expensive and I have no money.
It began with me snipping the split ends myself. That went well. So I did it again when the time came. Good again. I’m a pro, I think to myself. Probably shouldn’t have praised myself too much over that.
Then came layering the front. I angled the scissors and snippedy snippedy I went. Not bad! Worked pretty well. Didn’t look like I had seriously fucked up. Here’s a pic of the self snipped hair…
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So once this had started to grow out again, and the ends were getting so split it looked like little trees were sprouting branches (see pic below for example), I thought, I should go get my hair done. But I ended up on youtube instead.
This is real hair. This is what happens to the ends. EEWWW
What do I stumble upon once on youtube? “How to cut your own bangs”!! So, you guessed it. I just went ahead and did another home job.
Now, I wouldn’t recommend jumping into cutting your own fringe without having dabbled in the split ends trimming, because it’s hard to ruin that. It’s VERY EASY TO CUT YOUR BANGS TOO SHORT.
Never fear though, I think I did okay. In fact I cut them too long, so I’ve been trimming tiny bits every day since because they’re literally in my eyes I’m so afraid of it being too short and looking fucking terrible. Keep in mind some faces REALLY suit short fringes. I’m sure my face is not one of those however! HAVE A LOOK!
Not bad! For a first go at fringe cutting. I’m sure my hairdresser friends will disagree… I’m super happy with it. Although I do look like a cute mushroom sometimes. Oh well.
If I had a hairdryer or curler to shape this, I think it’d be a liiiiittle better…
Mushroom human.
Overall, happy Emma! Here are two brilliant links to help you cut your own too!
Haley Blais’ Drunken Bangs is where it all started for me… Check it out. Key word “drunken” makes this all the better.
Cutting My Bangs was the next thing I watched… She’s good for making it real, yes it’s scary, but she goes very slowly.
Than I messaged Jeff (the boooyfriend) and said will you be angry if I do this? He said no, only if he could play playstation before coming back from work. Deal. He came home later, and I had cut ma bangsss!
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Cutting my own hair?? It's not until you're in the hairdresser's chair, in front of that mirror with your black front cape on, that you realise how ugly you really are...