# Ever cut your own hair? I just did - it feels like my head is floating...

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**Created:** [June 30, 2003, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-cut-your-own-hair-i-just-did-it-feels-like-my-head-is-floating/185296 "2003-06-30T05:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-cut-your-own-hair-i-just-did-it-feels-like-my-head-is-floating/185296/21 "2003-07-01T05:22:26Z")

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> \*Originally posted by OpalCat \*  
> \*\*I almost always cut my own hair. \*\*

See, now the bad thing is that my hair used to look like your hair. And then I cut it all off. And now my SO likes your hair better than mine.

[whine on]

“_WAAAAAH! My SO likes Opal’s hair better than mine! WAAAAAAH!_”

[/whine off]

Ahem. He says it’s growing on him. Here’s hoping.

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**Author:** ![austen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@austen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/austen)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-cut-your-own-hair-i-just-did-it-feels-like-my-head-is-floating/185296/22 "2003-07-01T05:25:50Z")

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I used to cut my own hair. It didn’t look so bad, so I thought, since I have long curly hair.

Then, after about a year and a half, I went to my hairdresser at my neighborhood salon. Lovely Steven ( my hairdresser) asked me who had given me my last cut.

I said, “I did.”

He said, “Stop DOING that.”

And I did. Now, still, I haven’t gotten a trim since October (growing out my Sarah Jessica PARKER! short do from the summer), but still. I heed the professional warning.

YMMV.

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**Author:** ![elfbabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b782af/32.png) [@elfbabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfbabe)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-cut-your-own-hair-i-just-did-it-feels-like-my-head-is-floating/185296/23 "2003-07-01T06:18:17Z")

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I trim my own split ends, but I go to a hairdresser on the rare occasions I do get it trimmed. It’s only about twice a year, but if I ever stopped I’d feel SO disloyal. She’s been cutting my hair since I was a baby.

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-cut-your-own-hair-i-just-did-it-feels-like-my-head-is-floating/185296/24 "2003-07-01T07:43:06Z")

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I haven’t cut it myself, but **Orange Skinner** has.

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**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-cut-your-own-hair-i-just-did-it-feels-like-my-head-is-floating/185296/25 "2003-07-01T07:44:25Z")

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It just felt strange, not really like floating. It was more cold than anything else, since it was long before I got it cut.

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