I always cut my own hair, just below the shoulders, unless I go in for highlights. I have the right hair texture along with natural waves so if there's a mistake I can't see it. When I use the curling iron is when I catch some strands too long.

I have sideswept bangs and when they get too long they drive me nuts. I will have to trim them soon. The rest of it can grow down to my waist, I don’t care. My super straight hair shows every miscut.

Absolutely, positively never. I can't even blow out my hair correctly, if I tried to cut it I would mess it up so bad young children would laugh and point at the weird lady.

I often trim my side swept "bangs" between haircuts, but since I haven't been going anywhere it hasn't bothered me. I usually go every three week for trim and color. I am surprised to find out exactly how much gray hair I have. I was thinking 85% but it's more like 95%, with a brunette streak in the front. My hair stylist brought me all the supplies I need to color myself, but I haven't yet. Probably the next day or two.

DH asked me to trim his hair in the back. Showed me how his clippers work. I did an ok job. (Didn’t tell him I cut too much in one spot.)

A spiky pixie is a very intentional look, and I'm actually glad I had it cut verrrry short this last go round. It still lays like I want it to, although I may need to get DH to take his clippers to the neckline. I'm starting to go here:

I do not want to go there.

You're beautiful!

Yes, she is.

Oh, that's NOT me! Merely representational of what the hair at my neckline is quickly becoming. I wish I were that young and lovely! :)

I'm so happy that I grew my hair out about 7 years ago, and 5 years ago I grew my bangs out. I bought a box of hair color to use in a few weeks when my roots start to show.

My husband has been cutting his own hair for almost as long as we have been married, so he's covered.

My appt was supposed to be Apr 24. I suppose I will survive....but what worries me is that he is VERY popular and overscheduled as it is...I can’t imagine how long it will take him to catch up! 😩 I am going to look scary soon😩

I was in for a cut just days before we shut down, so lucky! My next appointment is scheduled for 3 weeks from now, so for now I’m good. I’ll be okay for a week beyond the appointment, but after that the style will have completely fallen out, my hair will be a style it was never meant to be. But I won’t cut it, it’ll only make it worse,

DS21 on the other hand, was overdue for a cut before early March, he was going to cut it over spring break, but that’s when things closed. I really might have to take the clippers to him.

I got a cut and color the day before they shut the salon and I only go every eight weeks. I had her cut my hair extra short so I can probably stretch it to ten weeks without resorting to a session with the kitchen shears. I trimmed my eyebrows today.

I guess i should have directed this to people with short hair only — Ida, you get me. 😆 If I had longer hair, it wouldn’t matter so much. My appt was scheduled for April 1...even just a week overdue isn’t pretty. I would never try to cut my whole head, but I don’t think I can wait another month to have the back trimmed.

I also have some root touch up as well as an actual box of hair color but haven‘t used either yet. Like most, I‘ve only left the house to go on walks (wearing a hat!) and to go to the grocery store, so it’s mostly about what I can tolerate when I look at myself in the mirror!

My hair is pretty short, but it's a modified bob so it can grow out a bit without totally losing it's shape.

How did you know what I'm thinking, Sue? I've done it before but am resisting. The inch of no haircolor growth is starting to wear on me. I cut DH's hair tonight and have done that before many times and was tempted to turn the clippers on my hair because I'm no longer in the mood to style it or deal with it. I put a hat on when I go out.

I am lucky, my last two cuts before this happened I had been transitioning to longer layers. It is laying pretty well still.

DS2 is becoming quite a joke. He doesn’t like getting his hair cut at school so he always waits for break. He got it cut at Christmas, he meant to take care of it during Spring break but he was only home about 24 hours before we left for St Maarten, he figured he’d take care of it when we got back. Well the joke is on him I guess. I keep offering, LOL.

Fortunately, we are all used to the whole “I don’t cut my hair during football/lacrosse season until we make the playoffs” thing with him, so we have seen his hair an unruly mess before. It is a pretty bright gold color, so there’s that :)

And DH has given up shaving for the duration, anybody else have that happening?

I have medium-shortish hair if that makes sense. My hair is a layered cut, a variation of a shag I guess. It's also somewhat curly. So yes, I can and will cut it at some point I suppose. While I have long layers, its shorter at the back. It's cut in close above the neckline. That's the part that will be hard for me to cut. I think hubby will have to trim the neckline for me. The top, etc is long layers and I can take a piece of hair, twist it, and nip the ends. I've done that many times. I have long bangs and they are easy to trim. My hair is thick and will get too heavy. I have one of those thinning combs and will probably need it at some point. I don't like the bouffant look! LOL My husband has thick hair too but he says that thinning comb hurts!! (Waaaa) I think we tried it once on him on dry hair which is not a good idea. His hair gets very wavy as it gets longer. I'll probably try to tame his at some point also.

Ida, that is a "messy mullet." LOL

DH was suppose to get a haircut 10 days ago. He is looking a bit shaggy. DD2 has my hair scissors because DGS hair needed trimming.

Just trimming my bangs and blending in with the hair framing my face has made all the difference. Yesterday was a tipping point and now it's even hanging/laying differently. I can do this (that's what she said).

I've been cutting my own hair for over 30 years, although I have occasionally gone to a stylist. I've taught myself to be ambidextrous so that I can cut the left side of my head with my left hand, and I have left-handed scissors for that, which is really essential. I normally use my bathroom vanity mirror and a portable standing mirror that I bought for this purpose. It's tricky looking into two mirrors and then cutting with my left hand, but I got used to it after some practice.

I don't have my standing mirror here, and so I have to cut by feel, but I still get good results with that, mainly again from practice. Of course I could not do a complicated style without both mirrors, but I can do a simple one.

In 1976 I had a Dorothy Hamill wedge, and that grew out very nicely, and so I could go for a couple of months and it still looked good. Here's how it looked after I had been in Mexico and Guatemela for a couple of months:

Lars, I wish you could visit. Maybe give me a trim ;0)

I hadn't even thought about DH's....he hasn't said anything or complained. But typically, he has a trim every 3-4 weeks and that's where we'd be right now. I've always thought he went a little often, almost twice to my once. Now I'm curious to when his complaints begin to join my own ;0)

Not yet, but my pixie is heading into mullet territory. I did do a color touch up around my sideburns with that Just For Men brush on stuff. Shhhh, don't tell my hair stylist.

My very short spikey hair was scheduled for a cut last Saturday ... obviously didn't happen. I am not yet at the point where I am willing to try to cut my own, but I will soon have to trim my bangs and sideburns (?) ... and it's starting to not be spikey because of the length. <sigh>

Every time I have a go at my bangs with my nail scissors panic ensues. I have a just above the shoulders bob with wispy bangs and it is cut With military precision every three weeks, and i get gray root coverage and either low lights or highlights as we deem necessary for that visit. I have now missed two appointments and am starting to look like a neglected Auntie. But since cutting my own hair would surely make me look like Convict Auntie I will resist the urge.

DH has always kept his hair far too short for my liking, so this longer silver hair of his is very dashing.

I am going with the ponytail look and hoping that the homemade masks using hair elastics don’t empty the shelves of the elastics. I’ve got to be more careful about where I deposit my elastics when I take out a ponytail.

my is fine - It's all one length and am growing it out anyway. I usually have it tended to professionally every 6-8 wks but it isn't essential. DH cuts his own and does a fine job. Beard too. (thank heaven). I'd like to see pics of your homemade high fashion hair-do's. Even (especially) the disasters. Not a lot to do today so I invite you to contribute to my entertainment storage banks. What say?

I feel for you gals with short cuts that need to be crisp - tough to ignore and probably beyond home haircut territory. On 3/11, right before the real crazy began I had 5" lopped off so my hair would just skim the top of my shoulders. I have some layers left that I was growing out but were too short to hit with this cut. It's workable, I can pull it back as needed and should be able to manage for quite a while longer. My old bangs are part of the layers in front - they hit right at my chin now. But for those of you hesitating to trim your own bangs, there are a few tricks. I used to trim my own all the time. My sister was a stylist for a time and she taught me when I was a teen. Never had a stylist complain that I messed it up and created a mess for them to fix.

Current situation.

We’ll all have gray hair when this is over!

I had my hair cut March 6 before the SAH orders. I have chin-length, fine, straight hair and have never been able to get any lift at the crown. Even when they blow dry it it’s poofy for a few hours then flat again. It was the third or fourth time with this hairdresser and I didn’t like this cut as much and thought—maybe I’ll just let it grow out to shoulder length and just stop trying once and for all to get any height or volume—-looks like I’m going to get my wish.

Sue you look adorable!

Just bought men's hair clippers today, for my husband. I will have to watch a lot of YouTube tutorials, to make sure I don't have to self-quarantine for other reasons...

That's a good start Sue - you just might decide to go au naturale!

LOL jb, we have the clippers and I actually took them out a week or so ago and just left them sitting out in the bathroom. Every day they tempt me, but I haven’t done it yet.

Marlene, you are too kind. 😊

Sueb20, I finally broke down and colored my hair today. My stylist dropped off a box with everything needed two weeks ago. I quickly remembered why I stopped doing at home (over 20 years ago!).

My hair is longer and I'm just pulling it back. And ignoring the gray for now. For those of you with shorter hair, my college roommate had short hair and wore the cutest headbands. It was her signature look. I'd jump on etsy and get a few headbands in fun spring colors.

My stylist just told me she can drop off color for me next week! Woohoo!

DD cut the back of my hair last night. She’s 19 with no experience, ha, but she’s a careful perfectionist so I knew she’d do a decent job. She did! She used the electric trimmer then cleaned it up with scissors. I feel pretty, oh so pretty...

I’m going back to what was my natural hair color and maintaining by touching up just the roots every week. I will also use my ole vacation hair pieces in same color. These synthetic pieces are quick and easy as they are either clip or scrungy style. All I do is pull my hair back, attach and style my side bangs. I don’t even have to dry my hair all the way.

I need to do something to stand looking at myself lately.

These are close to what I have in med brown but they come in all colors as well as straight or curly. Sometimes I double up the scrungy pieces as they are not normally as full as pictured.

I have not seen hair pieces in I don't know when! Terri, is your hair short?

Yes you have you just haven't noticed them. They've become very popular to add volume and flexibility in styling --- with young people, not for hair loss. I'd feel so weird with one. My hair has 2 styles, down, and up. : ) Thank goodness I usually go 8 weeks before a cut and color, and it's been ~4. We are in Q until May 20 here, so if we do open up after that I may not need to do anything myself.

DH and DS though, are gonna need some help!

Tina, my hair is normally just off my shoulder but it grows really fast. I can now pull it back. I don’t wear hair pieces often but they do come in handy, particularly in Florida where I live or when on vacation. My preference is a casual look. This is a vacation two years ago (I’ve grown since ).

It takes just minutes to do.

I used to have very thick hair but no longer do. I don’t care if some find them uncool as long as I feel more feminine. I’m not young, I was 58 in this photo. So, I think them fine for all ages.

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I ordered this one in # 6 medium brown. The brand is Look Of Love which I have never tried.

I don’t expect it to look this full in person which in my preference would be a plus.

Me, soon.

Bbstx, lol! Well, you look happy.

My son is asking me to help cut his hair. Me, the woman with a tremor. We are in desperate times for sure.

I cut my own hair once and I will never do it again.

I did get it cut right before lock down and it's kinda long anyway so I should be fine. I also stopped coloring about 2 years ago so that worked out well.

I think the cute short cuts need more frequent trims and skilled hands so those could be challenging to deal with.

My 16 year old DS shaved his head 2 weeks ago. I think it was a dare and others were to follow but I don't think any of the other kids went through with it. My mother was so upset! I don't care - it's only hair and it's not like he has any events coming up.

DH is getting pretty scraggly in the beard and hair dept. He needs do Zoom meetings so I may need to try my skills on him soon.

Rory, my son and his friends shaved their heads in February (pre-quarantine) in support of a friend who was going through cancer treatments. My son walks around the rest of us these days saying, "Well, well, well... who's laughing now..." (Btw, his friend is doing well and in recovery.)

Justerrilynn, your vacation up-do is very cute! I never would have guessed your age. The style suits you well.

Terri - you are looking good girl and you are not OLD (hehe, I'm just a couple of years younger). My hair is short-ish (long top and layers), and I have a headfull. It's not long enough to pull up.

Mt. now I'm going to be looking at everyone! LOL I know three young ladies who have just started out in the beauty business (two do hair and/or nails and one make-up). I'm going to have to get the low down from them. I'm in a small town area, so may just not be as popular here.

JT, you are absolutely a cutie!

And bbstx, that's the direction I'm headed too. "Here's the story... of a lovely lady..." 😖