aksherly cutting hair is quite a skill isn't it :0

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just did a hatchet job on poor ds

fortunately he thinks I am quite skilled

and hasn't really looked in the mirror yet

last time i did ds1's hair i took him out in the car - just to get him to sleep - and cut his hair WHILE HE WAS ASLEEP IN HIS CAR SEAT!!!

it is that difficult in the tutter hole

i spent a lot of money on scissors and my skills improved markedly, i have even taken on dh's hair now.

I bought a hair clipper and use it on DS. Works well and is much easier than taking him to the hairdressers.

Have also trimmed DD's hair but with less success.

I did use proper scissors,yrs old though.
I'm not keen on clipper cuts.

I think Im quite good at cutting Ds's (2.7) hair aitch. Although have had to cut it in his sleep like tutter -he has ASD and is terrified of scissors but then he started sleeping with his eyes open to catch me in the act. Got clippers out yesterday and Ds ran away clutching his head lol poor little lamb.

I also cut my sisters hair even put some layers in there. I watch the hairdressers when I go and try to copy there techniques.

I loved cutting DS's hair. I'd stick him in front of the telly and he's sit there quite happily whilst I snipped. Was really satisfying though he did end up with some dodgy haircuts Stopped when he was about 3.

I only tried once, DDs fringe was practically non existant before I got it level.
She looked silly for months but fortunately was too young to care.

I did such a dreadful job on dd's fringe last week that I'm now going to have to pay Actual Money to a hairdresser to fix it before my MIL comes to stay. I am officially a bad parent. It just seemed like it would be easy, but of course it wasn't.

oh no people...please stop!!! hairdressers are trained to cut hair, parents will only sentence you to life of squint fringes, 'choppy' backs and uneven sideys...

I have made a solemn promise never to cut my child's hair, but then my SIL is a hairdresser albeit 200 miles away

actually his fringe looks better than the barber does
hate the way the barber just cuts it straight across despite me asking for a choppier looking one

teuch the last 2 professionals we tried refused to cut ds1's hair

i think they could see a lwasuit winging their way for loss of ear(s)

Dh still hasn't forgiven me for attempting to cut ds's fringe myself. The horrified look on his face when he came home the following evening and realised I'd tried to even it up was priceless. Am resolved never, ever, to try to do it myself any more. There is a reason why hairdressers train...

I will never do it again - i made a mess of dd wonky fringe 2 yrs ago and made that vow then commited the same crime last week, my ds 14 months was getting a long fringe and his curls at the back were getting a bit girly so regretably i gave him his first haircut!! I trimmed the fringe and thought hmm not bad so did the sides and thought oh yeah this is easy on a boy then i cut of his curls at the back - it is like a wedged concaved bowl and looks hideous halfway up his head - i could have cried, have sat outside of the hairdressers on 2 occasions to get it fixed but have been to embarassed to go in even though in my head i was going to come out with a story and blame my mil! Hopin git will grow back soon with baby curls too

to op.
Uh-huh.
my profile page contains the solution. Long hair for boys.

I do it with a breadknife and some nailclippers.

unfortunately ds has course hair that ends up quite bouffant-like when it gets too long

ds1 (2) looked like he'd cut his own hair the last time I tried. My mother's help was so horrified that she whisked him straight off to her mother's for a proper cut (she's a hairdresser).

I wouldn't dream of touching DD's hair with scissors! I haven't even tried; just the thought gives me shudders I have seen too many hairdressers make a hash of it without me trying it. DD has really fine, straight hair and it a bit of a devil to cut by all accounts. I now buy quite a lot of money - half the price of my cut; more than what DH pays for his - to get her a decent hair cut that looks nice.

I cut dd's hair once after she'd butchered it with the scissors on a Sunday afternoon & it needed serious attention before school. It turned out rather well . People wanted to know where she'd had it done (& I don't think it was so they could avoid the place). It was ages ago though & I've never had the bottle to try again.