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.
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Lemmy is not a good source for the average man’s grooming habits
haven’t cut my hair in years, long hair supremacy.
I think my last one was about thirty years ago. Or close.
:(
why is that sad?
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.
✨MAJESTIC✨
I look like a human 3 months a year: mid autumn - mid winter.
I bought the proper hardware to cut my own hair, learned how to do the fades. It’s easy to keep it the same length all the time this way.
Mainly I just got sick of paying so much for a 10 minute cut.
Edit: I’m not gonna say it was smooth sailing from day 1 I should add, I buzz cut my failures off as I was learning a couple times lol.
did you put mirrors on both walls?
Besides the bathroom mirror I make do with a handheld that’s double sided. One side is magnifying for close ups.
A 360 / 3 way mirror would be better. Looks like this:
If you have two mirrors you can hang one on a door for an adjustable side view.
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)
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 (it doesn’t really look like 6 inches of vertical growth since it isn’t straight) but my husband, with such straight and short hair, has a quarter inch tolerance.
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.
3-6 months, just self cut for the first time. Longer hair, don’t know what to call the style. Like a bob with the back 80% heavily layered and the front hair being the longest (a bit past my chin).
I haven’t had a haircut since I was 19 (I am currently 40).
Because of hair loss or do you have one hell of a mane?
One hell of a mane 😎
I am not jealous at all 😐
KOLANAKI
Hair grows 6" a year. Your hair is 10 feet long?
IDK where you heard that considering hair grows different speeds for different people. It also doesn’t keep getting longer forever.
On average it grows 6" a year. I looked it up on the internet. Do you have the internet?
So you just went by the AI blurb at the top of the page. Got it.
What are you so butthurt about? I got it from Wikipedia, which also says, “Most humans develop the longest thickest hair on their scalps and (mostly observed in males) faces. This hair will usually grow to several feet before terminating, but many humans develop much longer hair.”
Go away, angry little man.
Any emotional tone you read in my replies is entitely in your own head, dude.
I shave it off once it starts looking like shit
so constantly?
/s
dam son
For both men and women, the type of hair style matters. Long flowing can go 6 months between cuts. The shorter the cut and the more detail the more often it needs to be cut. 6 weeks is often the case for short cuts. If shaved parts, every week might be necessary. In warm weather more often than in cold weather.
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.
I cut my hair when it bothers me. I don’t keep track of the interval.
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.
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”
I don’t know what problems OP is facing, but in my case, this is basically what the hairdresser recommended that I do and also what I tried doing. Except it didn’t help because nothing was appealing to me (I’m rather change adverse). I really needed to maintain a particular style for a while to get used to it before I could decide if I liked it or not. After that time has passed, I couldn’t tell if I disliked it because it was grown out too much or if I just didn’t like that cut, or if it was some other reason.
Also for people like me atleast, yeah it might look good on this or that person, but they don’t look anything like me.
I’ve basically just resorted to never cutting my hair though. I’ve had everything from darn near bald to just past my shoulderbladees which is about where I am currently.
