Has anyone else had a go at cutting their own hair yet? I did on Sunday and am pleasantly surprised by what it looks like front on, I've not plucked up the courage yet to see what the back of my head looks like though.
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Has anyone else had a go at cutting their own hair yet? I did on Sunday and am pleasantly surprised by what it looks like front on, I've not plucked up the courage yet to see what the back of my head looks like though.
If you have a clippers it’s quite straight forward I haven’t been to get a haircut in 19 years 😂
Just ordered clippers off Amazon a few mins ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
3 weeks for delivery though. Who knows, maybe things will be open again by then.
Purely scissors for me - I'm really not going to look at the back of my head for some time :hehe:.
I hate having my hair cut, listening to the barber trying to banter me about football, woman etc. I haven't been in 18 months, might give it a go myself as i have noticed a few dead ends :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Get some clippers and get it all off. Hair is for womenQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Same as me, but 24 years for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfeathers
Petition for Mike to ban Bob if he doesn't post a photo of the back of his head within 24 hoursQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I'm envisaging a sort of mullet affair.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Started clipping mine a few weeks ago. Just do it every week now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
My 80 year old father in law has started to resemble Top Shop boss Philip Green
My mullet days are long gone, but I suppose "a sort of mullet affair" is a possibility.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baloo
Bought some Wahl clippers the other day. Mrs D gave me a short back and sides. A bit of scissor action later (few missed bits) and the view from the front is fine. Round the back of the kneck is another matter. These Wahl clippers don't have a built in spirit level!
Due to the virus Peter’s in Carlisle St is closed, shall I ask him if I can borrow the photo of the neat back of the head finish he uses for every customer?:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
:hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
No chance, the amount of blokes i see walking around with military style haircuts is depressing, if you've got it, flaunt it :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by EastbourneBlue
Some of the old school barber shops still have photos uo from the eighties of different hairstyles, i wonder if anyone has ever looked at them and told the barber that they want one?Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
I used to cut my own but then I had mirror doors in the bedroom so I could angle them to look at the back. It can be a nightmare if you can't do that.
You go to the pub thinking eveything is OK and your mates extract the urine because they can see the bits you missed lol
Miss the moaning old sod,always makes me smile with his dead pan humour.Quote:
Originally Posted by splott parker
Northway down Grangetown was where my dad used to go for his short back & sides. Was he ex-Welsh Guard or something? Used to remove all the ear and nose hair too. Proper barber.
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Originally Posted by Tuerto
Lawrenney Avenue ?
What about the eye brows? They often need a trim as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by Fatty Foggon
I was born and grew up in the Landaff north/Gabalfa area of the city but I left home when I was 17 and never went back, except to visit my parents, for 27 years.
There was a barbers shop on college Road in a shop that didn't even exist that I remembered. The last thing I remember being there was a petrol staion and that was years before.
One day I popped in there with my then parntner, a complete stranger to Cardiff. As the guy was cutting my hair he told me "I was sorry about your father dying" (About 5 years before) and "I saw your sister yesterday walking the dog" and continued like that throughout the ordeal of the haircut.
When we left my partner asked me who he was and I had to tell her I had absolutely no idea. I'd never seen or spoken to him before in my life. It was scary.
I never went back!! lol
Aye, he would do a Bobby Gould Bushy Eyebrows trim as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
Mac is still there in the same shop hes been in for 50 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
He was unwell a couple of years ago and now just opens 3 mornings a week, but closed due to him self isolating a few weeks ago.
Bloody 'ell, Mac's is still going?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
I used to go to him for my haircut about 45 years ago. He knew almost everyone in the Llandaff North/Gabalfa area.
How about Stones newsagents around the corner, are they still in business?
Their shop was absolutely crammed and could only accommodate about 4 customers at a time, not enough room to swing a cat. It was a kids' paradise, with all the comics and cheap sweets they used to stock.
Anyone going for one of these...??
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You have a PMQuote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Replied, cheers!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bloop
That was someone's front room wasn't it? But a great shop, specially on sunday mornings. you oculd meet more girls there in an hour on a sunday morining that you sae all the rest of the week put togehte.... and when you're 14/15 years old that is more important than just about anything. :hehe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
You also have a PMQuote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
Quite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tuerto
Harry Jennings, where are you now when we need you😟
It was indeed a front room. Ran by Mary Stone, when I was a kid. I used to deliver the Echo for them back in 1970... 97 papers, six days a week for the grand sum of 50p!Quote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
1987-The Cardiff Post-500 papers and i had to put advertising supplements in them then carry the ****ers half a mile to deliver them £16. Not to mention that i had to run the gauntlet in Roundwood Llanedeyrn, At The 'Flynn's' Two three story houses. I always ended up fighting.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
I'll be giving myself a #4 tomorrow in the back garden. I've got a fairly decent head of hair for my age but you've got to keep it honest. My Mrs wants me to grow it out "to see how it looks". No thanks.
You mean the 'Cousin Itt' look? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
I had one of those.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatty Foggon
Trouble is, it was in the early/mid 1970s :old:
I think she's picturing Sting when he was thinning out but still had it swept back. I'm not having it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fatty Foggon