To cut my kids' hair to save £16?

[KeithLeMonde]

I am not a hairdresser.
My kids prefer having their hair cut at home.
They don't look appalling - people don't point at them on the street (and when I tell people I have cut their hair, they generally look impressed rather than embarrassed).
But they've just had a proper barber's haircut and they do look better.

I'd prefer to keep the £16 every 4-5 weeks but am I going to scar them for life with bad hair? They're 7 and 8 BTW.

£17 for the two of them on the two for one monday tuesday thing, they are all franchise I think, so they may vary, but my DS's get hot chocolate and a hairwash and everything and a man cuts their hair and they talk about footy - fab!

This months Vogue has an article where various fashion types admit to only getting there hair professionally cut yearly, and trimming fringes themselves etc. on this basis cutting children's hair yourself is definently 'on trend'

I have always cut my DS'sand DH hair. It's not so much as a money thing but a 'they can't be arsed going to the hairdressers thing. I use professional clippers and I think I do a really good job. Their all have hair/heads/faces that suit shortish hair. DD and I go to the hairdressers.

I swap haircuts for walking my hair-dressers dog. I have to walk the dogs anyway so what's one more?

I think dh goes to the barbers every so often.
I cut mine and both DD's hair.
Nobody has sniggered as we walk past commented.

Probably close up a real hairdressers would be horrified,but I don't think generally people notice,unless you've attempted an actual style and botched it,rather than a trim and tidy up of long hair.

For me the cost of regular hairdressers is money that needs to be spent elsewhere.

I cut dh and ds as well. Both use clippers with longest setting. Looks nice, not too short (can't bear crew cuts) I do have proper scissors which I use to trim up round ears etc

I used to cut dd1, she has straight hair and a bob, very easy to cut, but she loves the hairdresser, so she has short bob, grows it for 4-5 months, then has hairdresser cut

I cut dd2. She has wavy hair, with a bit of a curl, cut it straight across back in a bob. it bounces up to cute bob, easy peasy.

I have a set I got from Amazon and buzz Dh and I used to do Ds when he was still home, saved a fortune. You get better with practice, the first few I had to re do a few spots the next day but not any more.
I cut Dd's hair, but it's very long and I just trim the bottom a few times a year.
I have these and use the guards.
www.amazon.co.uk/Wahl-79400-800-Colour-Coded-Clipper/dp/B000J2474E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1350954563&sr=8-1

I have always cut my girls' hair. I'm not a hairdresser but I have yet to find a hairdresser who can deal with curly hair. I have curly hair and I know what I am doing. I cut my own too. I have a great pair of scissors.

With DS whose hair is straightish I send him to get a cheap trim about three times a year.

Bwahaha ecto - round here it's£12 to £15 for one. Grrrr.

DH got clippers from Argos 12 years ago & never looked back. Does his own, too.

I thought we lived in a cheap area but kids hair not cut here for under £9 each (without a tip).
DS1 has been having his hair done at Barber's since age 11.5-ish, though.

my 4 lads have never been to a hair dresser, when they were very young i just to trim the wispy bits but as sooon as they started school i invested in male hair clippers, it is quick neat and modern they have a cut no.4 which lasts about a month it can be cut shorter if required, they are so easy to use and give a professional result, i've saved £100's over the years. my daughters go to the hair dresser once in a blue moon as i trim them with hair dressing scissors to tidy up, if they didn't like it they would soon complain. kalisi, that image will stick with me for the rest of the day, arrgghh.

Dh took ds1(20m) to the barbers on Friday, £7! It only costs dh £8 for his, just glad I wasn't paying!

I'd cut ds's hair but traumatic mum's haircut when I was a child, I wouldn't put him through it!

I have always cut my kids hair and dh's (2 dd's) so much easier than taking them to hairdresser and much cheaper .

YANBU - I cut my DC's hair (nearly 7, 5 and 3). People are usually quite impressed when they find out I cut it (often they like DS1's hair cut and want to know where I went to get it done).
I initially started cutting it becuase DS1 hates noises and the sensation of anything being done with his hair nad have carried as he hasn't outgrown it and I'm not about to start paying money for something I can do perfectly well myself.

I cut my DD's hair - one has long locks,so just gets a good solid trim every couple of months and the other I have recently cut into a short bob with fringe. I have had lots of trial and error over the years though - used to cut friends' hair at university. Wish I could take my hair off and cut it myself but sadly that's not feasible...

no no no no no no is all i can scream. as a dd of a mum who cut all my sibs' and my hair please please please stop right now. if you want to save money get it cut less.
just please leave it to the professionals
i am a blithering wreck just typing this
oh the horror of the home cut.................

Mobile hairdresser? My kids hate the barbers but are fine with the mobile one.

my dh has a real horror photo taken when he was 8, a perfect pudding basin cut, by 10, photos show a jimmy osmond look alike [long hair to you youngsters] by 21 we are doing the hippy look and now at 48, it more resembles homor simpson! he has to shave it all off as when it grows stubbly he looks like a hedgehog with alopecia - his words not mine, so i apolgise to any hedgehogs reading this who may be experiencing this distressing problem.

Im not a hairdresser, but self-taught and practised lots. I now cut DDs hair and my DP. Yes he looks much better when hes been to a barber, but I dont butcher him and he still looks smart when I do it, same with DD.

I have a friend cut my hair twice a year too - she just asks for a cuppa in return.

Its ok if your just giving it a trim, but for a nice styled cut I would go to hairdressers. It only costs a few quid for a kids haircut.

if it is longish girls hair, I'd find it completely straight-forward to trim it myself but I wouldn't attempt layers or a graded bob. No idea how to cut boys hair but at 7-8, I don't think it matters too much if you don't do a perfect job of it.