How do u cut your own hair?

well I was thinking about getting clippers so i can cut my hair by myself. I was thinking of doing a 5 all around.I hate having to drive and WAIT at the barber forever. Will that be easy to do with a pair of clippers that you can buy from a store?How do u cut your own hair?
5 all over the head would be easy but probably not the most complementary short style. It is not that difficult to learn how to taper the back and sides with guards. Maybe #5 on the top and upper sides with a #4, #3, #2 taper on the back and sides, and with a #2 clipper edge. The cutting sequence is to start with the #5 guard at one sideburn and work to the back of the head, then do the same starting with the opposite sideburn. Cut from the edge up to the top. Then swich to a shorter cutting guard and cut from the edge to a lesser vertical distance up the head, arcing the clipper out of hte hair to blend the two lengths. Next switch to the next shorter cutting guard and repeat. When finished with the back and sides go back to the #5 guard and cut the top from the front hairline back. Since the upper sides are already cut at #5 there is no blending required. Take the guard off the clipper and trim the sideburns to the appropriate length and clean up the neck edge and ear arches. A small trimmer/edger clipper helps with this stage of the haircut.

It should help to know that every guy's short haircut consists of three steps usually performed in this order:

1) Edging refers to designing the edge of the haircut from one sideburn around the back of the head and across the nape to the opposite sideburn.

2)Siding refers to cutting the middle section of the hair on the back and sides between the edge and the top hair.

3)Topping refers to cutting the top hair.

Edging and siding are largely the same regardless of the short ';buzzed'; style. It is the topping that differs.

Open these links and read them. It should help:

A ';coarse blade'; is usually a #1 or #1A blade. ';Fine blade'; refers to one of the zero blades. A ';long crew cut'; to Thorpe is currently more popularly referred to as an ivy league:

Tapering the back and sides:

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Short Pomp, Crew Cut, Flat Top, Butch:

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S.C. Thorpe, Practice and Science of Standard Barbering pg 127-135

There is a wealth of information on short haircuts at this answer:

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Good Luck!How do u cut your own hair?
i wouldn't cut my hair if i didn't know what i was doing.

and no, you can't just get a normal pair of scissors.

i would go to youtube or something and do a little research first.



i know i may be going a little over board, because your probably thinking that it doesn't take that much to cut your own hair. But trust me, i have made that mistake before. It was terrible. But if you do cut your hair, angle the scissors instead of just snipping.



good luck.