Originally Posted by
Tock
You're limited by the way your hair grows to what you can do with it. If your hair is fine and lays down flat, you're not a candidate for a flat top. If your hair is coarse and grows perpindicular to your scalp, you'll never get it to lay flat, especially if you cut it short. If your head is covered with cowlicks, you'll never get it to do much of anything, unless you grow it out and slick it down with Elmer's glue.
Instead of picking a photo out of a magazine of male models with hair styles possibly unsuitable for your physiology, why not find a competant barber and give him a few tries to make something you like out of it?
Regardless . . . all those haircuts you posted were done by hairdressers. No self-respecting barber would ever cut hair like that. It's way too sloppy around the ears, for starters. And cutting hair with a razor damages hair more than it's worth--picture taking a 4 foot length of hose and trying to cut it by sliding a blade along its surface the way hairdressers slide razors along hair. You end up with a section of hair that's cut at a diagonal, and soon after it's cut, it starts to frizz out because it's been mortally wounded. Then when you go back for a trim, they can't do it right, because they end up slicing the hairs they previously left long much shorter, and don't cut the short hairs at all.
There's a reason why razor cutting blew over as a fad.
And the reason why the franchise hair joints can't cut worth a d--- is because they can't find barbers to work in those places, so they usually hire hairdressers right out of beauty school, where they don't teach clipper cutting, razor shaving, or men's haircuts. Sometimes the franchises will give the new beautyschool graduate a whole week training on how to use a clipper, and then when they put them to work, they give 'em a time limit, and fire 'em if they take too long.
Most states require haircutters to wash their hands and sanitize their tools between haircuts for the same reasons doctors have to do the same thing, but most of the franchise places don't even have sinks with running water for them to comply with the law (does yours?) . . .
There's lots and lots I could get into, but I'll just recommend that you either "do" your own hair, shave it off yourself, or find a sanitary barbershop with competent staff that can cut hair and won't give you cooties (or bacterial/fungus infections), and yes, it happens more than you think . . .
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