# Men:how fancy is your haircut? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533 "2012-11-19T20:15:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![geneb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e4f/32.png) [@geneb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/geneb)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/21 "2012-11-19T23:03:48Z")
I bought a trimmer a number of years ago and just go at it with a 1/4" guard all over. I’m not going to win any beauty contests, but it is quick, cheap and effective. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2012, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/22 "2012-11-19T23:11:11Z")
3 on the sides, 4 on top. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/23 "2012-11-20T00:00:19Z")
I haven’t had a haircut in 3 or 4 years now. I really ought to go in for a trim, though. ---
**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/24 "2012-11-20T00:04:31Z")
Every 2 or 3 weeks, it all comes off with a Wahl 000000 Balding Clipper. If I feel like getting fancy, I’ll take a razor to it in the shower. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/25 "2012-11-20T00:33:34Z")
I just say “cut it the way it is, only a little shorter.”. The fancy part is I go to a place where they shampoo me first. I feel like such a metrosexual. ---
**Author:** ![Charles\_Peterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Charles\_Peterman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charles_Peterman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/26 "2012-11-20T00:42:57Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > 3 on the sides, 4 on top. Sounds like a Fred Ward. Fuckin’ A, Bubba! ---
**Author:** ![MichaelEmouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/michaelemouse/32/101_2.png) [@MichaelEmouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelEmouse)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/27 "2012-11-20T00:46:00Z")
I take this to it once a week: [http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff119/glorydoodle/Slim3.jpg](http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff119/glorydoodle/Slim3.jpg) I tried it with a straight razor. Do not try it with a straight razor. Taking a very sharp knife to complex curves you can’t see will produce a lot of blood. Mack, Have you considered getting it cut progressively shorter? As in: You leave 1 inch, get used to it and see how comfortable you are with it after a while. If you are, leave 0.5 inch, get used to it and see how comfortable you are with it after a while. If you are, then 0.25 inch until you find what’s good for you. I don’t think combovers are ever a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/28 "2012-11-20T00:50:42Z")
Self administered buzzcut or headshave. Cheap and easy. I’m a homely old geezer, a fancy haircut would be wasted on me. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/29 "2012-11-20T01:00:44Z")
Mine’s pretty basic. My barber spends maybe 15 minutes on it. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/30 "2012-11-20T02:48:35Z")
“Regulation haircut. Trim the moustache and beard, #2 on the sides, nut leave it a little longer in the middle.” Twice a year… ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/31 "2012-11-20T03:15:08Z")
Used be fancy but have now found that my request of a short back and sides, 3mm buzz on the sides and leave some length I can mess up with a bit of hair putty is golden. I get more positive feedback on this haircut than any other. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/32 "2012-11-20T04:39:57Z")
> [@Charles\_Peterman](#): > > You’re not saying a straight-back do, maybe with some pomade or whatever, is a combover, are you? Well, I comb it straight back over the bald spot, so it’s a combover that way. It’s not a one side to the other combover. I don’t know what else to call it. [QUOTE=MichaelEmouse] I don’t think combovers are ever a good idea. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I know. I just don’t know what else to do with it. My awesome blonde hair! Going going… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/33 "2012-11-20T04:42:02Z")
Mine is medium complicated: Back and sides, number 3 guard. Blended/tapered with the top and front. At frequency 1/month it’s usually take 0.5-0.75 inches of the front and top. I usually also get it dyed with a semi-permanent dye (“Men’s color camo”) to minimize but not completely eliminate the gray. Rounded on the neck. Square-off the sideburns at above the middle of the ear. (I wish I could grow proper sideburns, but I can’t) For styling - forming cream. Smooth the top down towards the front, then mess up (not quite spike) the bangs. Easy-peasey. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/34 "2012-11-20T05:27:31Z")
Fusion razor every morning in the shower. What hair? ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/35 "2012-11-20T06:30:40Z")
I’ve been trying to get the cheapest possible haircut. This seems to be found in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I found a place next to my favorite dim sum joint in the Richmond District for $11. The next time I found one in Chinatown proper for $10. The last time I got it cut for $7, but I noticed one for $5. I can/t quite remember exactly where it is, but I like wandering around Chinatown and figure i’ll find it again. I’m actually letting my hair grow out, and it’s at the looks like hell stage, but I think I’ll get it trimmed over Christmas at the $5 joint. I usually let my hair grow long every 5 years or so for the hell of it, even though it makes me look like a dirtbag. My hair doesn’t grow nearly as fast as it used to, so it kind of sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/36 "2012-11-20T06:34:19Z")
On a scale of 1 to 10, probably a 2. If one is no effort at all, then I do one more, or the barest minimum of effort - shaving it off every few months, and that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/37 "2012-11-20T06:49:32Z")
Number 5 on all sides, finger-tip length on top. I’d really prefer a nicer haircut – this one actually grows out like crap. But my hair just doesn’t DO fancy. It’s too thin to shape it and too fine to do anything interesting with (when I had long hair a braid wouldn’t stay for more than 3 minutes). The 16-ish or so cowlicks don’t help (two big ones and 14 or so little ones). So between the cowlicks and the fineness of my hair, if I grow it out at all I get no-volume hair that’s insanely frizzy and sticks out everywhere. But if I have it short it’s just kind of a mop on my head, I can basically spike it or… spike it, and even then it’s so blond and thin that if you spike it you’ll see good portions of my scalp. ETA: I’m not balding or anything, I definitely have hair, and it’s not definitely thin in the sense that a balding man would say their hair is “thinning”, my hair just kind of has one layer and no poof. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/38 "2012-11-20T07:38:00Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > The whole head, scalp and beard, gets shaved with a #2 trimmer, and the neck and cheeks get shaved clean. Hard to get simpler than that. This is what I do too, apart from not having a beard. ---
**Author:** ![Tabby\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tabby\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabby_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/39 "2012-11-20T07:45:30Z")
Well, I get a wash and cut every 1-2 months or so. I used to look through the men’s magazines, tell the hairstylist what to do, even got a perm once. Now… eh. whatever. It’s probably korean inspired, or something (I’m asian) but I can’t be arsed any more. Women get all the fun hair. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2012, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533/40 "2012-11-20T08:24:05Z")
I’ve never had anything more than just have it cut. No wash, no clippers. My barber just uses scissors (of two types), a comb and a straight razor round the bottom. I don’t let him put anything on it at all. If the cut has a name I don’t know what it is, I just go in and we agree on “the usual.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/men-how-fancy-is-your-haircut/641533.md?page=3)