I haven’t had a professional cut since at least February.
Mrs. J. has done a fine job twice, most recently a close cropping in what she calls Elliot Stabler style.
I haven’t gotten a haircut since December. I had wanted to get it cut before we went to see Welcome to Night Vale in early March but something came up so I didn’t. Everything, including the venue I’d gone to the night before, started shutting down the next day…and I don’t think it’s vital to get it cut now.
So far it’s okay. I keep my hair longer than shoulder length anyway, and I know from not being able to bear having someone new cut it the first year after Mom died that it’ll be a few months yet before it looks wildly unkempt. At least red hair (really red, not auburn or strawberry blonde) doesn’t gray so I don’t have that to worry about.
I finally gave up and cut out some tangles from not being used to having to actually manage my hair. But, other than that, nope. And I hated when my dad, who is over 60 and taking care of my mom with a lung condition (as am I) went ahead and got one. (His hair looked better before, even.)
The lady he went to is an odd one that is both spreading nonsense about masks while wearing one herself. And then cheering when we found out that the Arkansas mask mandate was a scam–the police literally have no power to enforce it because the law specifically says they can’t “detain” anyone, meaning they can’t do an arrest, hand out tickets, anything. All they can do is tell them they need to wear them, or escort them out of the store if the store has a mask requirement (which they could do already, since it’s just basic trespassing law).
Hah! I’ve been doing my own, and I’ve gotten pretty good at doing a fade. Yesterday I took things in a more severe direction, shaving the sides and back. My gf cracked up, I now look like a character in Peaky Blinders.
It’ll grow back.
How does that make it a “scam?”
Because it literally does nothing legally. It makes it seem like the governor created a mask mandate, but it cannot be enforced in any way it couldn’t have already been enforced. It’s political theater.
Before the law: stores could have mask policies, and call the police to remove people who wouldn’t leave who didn’t follow them. Police couldn’t arrest, fine, detain or otherwise make people wear masks.
After the law: stores can have mask policies, and call the police to remove people who don’t follow them. Police still can’t arrest, fine, detain, or otherwise make people wear masks.
It’s a mask mandate in name only. It does nothing at all except (1) try to pacify mask enthusiasts by tricking us into thinking the law is doing something–i.e scamming us–and (2) making a bunch of police departments have to put out statements saying they won’t actually be enforcing any mask laws.
I was mad at these police departments, and still am at some of them, based on what they said. But I found out from a police officer friend that the reason they had to do this is that they literally lack the power to actually do anything. They were just trying to stem off all the calls from people who hear “mask mandate” and think the police can do anything other than say “you should wear a mask.”
He quoted the part that says they can’t detain, and explained that meant they couldn’t do anything else, since detaining is the bare minimum. You can’t arrest without detaining. You can’t ticket without detaining. You can’t do anything but say “You should wear a mask.” Which they could do before.
I’ve been telling myself Nicolas Cage from Con Air, but yes, pretty much the same thing. My hair reached my tshirt collar in the last week or so, and my wife says keep going!
It’s been at least February, perhaps earlier. When I get up in the morning, it looks like a firecracker went off in my hair. I look like I’ve reverted to my teen years and grown a DA like all the hoodlums had and am progressing rapidly to hippieville and a ponytail. I have to use conditioner AND a styling product in order not to have people calling the men in white coats to take away the crazy dude. My wife, however, likes it. She doesn’t want me to cut it short ever again.
Update: I bought clippers, which turn out to be metric and not numbered so I picked the guard closest to the length I wanted. The top and back are good. The guard I used for the sides was more emphatic than I intended, but eh, it’s only hair, and it still looks pretty good considering it was my first attempt.
Nine or ten months in (can’t remember exactly), and I still haven’t had a haircut, and my wife doesn’t want it cut either. That said, I’m on a town committee that hasn’t met in person since March, and we’ll likely be (carefully) meeting next month, and I’m on the fence a bit. I suspect inertia will win & I’ll show up with hair to my shoulders, but we shall see.
Got my second haircut of the year yesterday. I’m a notorious procrastinator anyway and my barber is always saying I should come in sooner. I apologized for procrastinating eight months and asked her if anything had happened in the meantime.
No haircut since the first of the year.
Last haircut was March 8th, and before that sometime in late December. Getting a regular haircut has never been a priority to me, and with the pandemic it’s gone completely to the bottom of the queue. I liked having long hair back in the day and always wanted a ponytail, so I’m just letting it go to see what happens. I’m working from home until at least the end of the year, so what do I care how I look. I do some judicious trimming occasionally, to get rid of split ends. At this point, it’s beginning to look promising. The younger guys I work with, however, couldn’t wait to get a haircut.
Finally got one the other day (with mask on of course) after the county gave the go ahead. I probably have never been happier to get a haircut in my life and that is speaking as someone who typically regards haircuts as a bothersome chore. Normally I’m fine with longish hair but 6+ months was too much. Immediately felt 100% better to get rid of that shaggy lion’s mane - I was in a great mood for the rest of the day.
Me too. (Or almost. My partner’s daughter cut a few inches off my long straight hair in February or March.)
Not dyeing my hair has been kind of fun! I had never intended to get trapped into “having” to dye my hair but over the past 2-3 years I did it regularly anyway.
Now it’s cool to see what my current natural state of grey is. It’s quite salt-and-peppery rather than full-on grey (I think the minoxidil I’ve been using has brought some of the brown hair follicles back), which I quite like.
I’m rocking the ‘ombre’ look right now. The dye my hairstylist was using is supposed to be semi-permanent, since I mentioned to her a couple years ago I was thinking about just letting it go gray, and that was intended to help with the transition when I finally pulled the trigger. My hair decided to really glom onto the dye anyway, though, so while it’s faded some it’s nowhere near gone.
My husband helped me cut a couple inches off the ends about 10 days ago, and I suppose we’ll just keep doing that every 6-8 weeks until ?
I got some shampoo made especially for silver/grey hair and it tones the grey nicely, so I’m happy with that part of it.
I got a haircut on March 7. I usually go 8 weeks between cuts. I finally got an appointment for June 18, which was just shy of 15 weeks. I mildly joked with my stylist about getting a Covid cut, and women getting a Wuhan wave.
i get my hair cut twice a year. i’ve been searching for a new stylist when joe moved to florida.
last cut was the christmas cut, the easter cut was a no go.
after much you tube watching i decided to go the self cut route. ordered clippers from amazon, watched more you tube, and finally was in the mood to try labour day weekend. it worked!!! it worked really well!
a bit of a pick me up in these endless months.
I already had clippers from when I used to go bald. But I’m too old and fat to pull off bald, so I cut my own hair and instead I look like Jim Jordan. It’s not great but better than Varys, I think.
I haven’t had a haircut in nearly three years. I’ve had short, military style haircuts since I turned 18, 30 years ago. I have my own business now, and don’t have to meet any grooming/uniform standards anymore, so I figured I’d let it go. Surprisingly, my hair is curly now. It was arrow straight with bowl cuts as a kid. Now I look like Sammy Hagar. Add in wearing a mask everywhere, and I can stand right next to someone I’ve known for years, and they won’t recognize me. Also grew a beard, to further confuse people. 