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Thank you MNers, I have just cut my own hair and it looks

474 replies

JackBauer · 16/04/2009 19:30

frigging awesome!

I used a method from this thread and then something similar to trim the back.
I did have same length below shoulder hair and now it is all layered and light and pretty.
And it took 10 minutes in the kitchen with a brush, hairband and some scissors!

OP posts:
MuffinBaker · 18/04/2009 18:09

wonders why i spent £48 having my hair cut and 3 year old says he doesn't like it as it is stuck up. his is meant to be stuck up apparently

MuffinBaker · 18/04/2009 18:16

misdee Yours looks fab. DS1 saw your baby and said "nice baby" (proud mummy that he can be so nice.)

Sometimes.

Saltire · 18/04/2009 18:34

mamapiggy - thanks. I will try it again with 2 ponytails. I did wonder because the back doesn't look any different but there are quite noticeable layers at the front. This has saved me money, I was trying to hold off until July to get my haircut at my friends sisters salon back home, but won't need to worry now

Saltire · 18/04/2009 18:42

Jack and Misdee how do you get your hair so shiny? Mine enver looks like that.
Love the colour of VS hair, mine was a bit like that when I was a teenager and all curly al la carol Decker

misdee · 18/04/2009 19:04

muffinbaker, thanks, and say thak you to your ds as well.

saltire, i dont do anything to my hairt to make it shiney, well nothing specvial. i wash and condition it most days, and leave to dry naturally. i use heated hair stuff like dryers or straighners about 10 times a year max. i sold my straighteners as i just wasnt useing them.

i also dye my hair too much. havent done it since before dd4 was born though and she is 5months.

i cut hair a bit more last night and its now off my eyes, which is better. i just did the one ponytail.

Juxal · 18/04/2009 19:08

I'm so of you all. I used to cut my own hair, but basically just hacked at it. Over the last 3 years it's grown to about 18" and I couldn't afford a trip to hairdresser.

I met a hairdresser who comes to your house a month or so ago, and in exchange for dh giving her son guitar lessons, she cuts mine and dd's hair. So my hair it TOO BLOODY SHORT to do that cut now. I really really want to.

I'm going to have to grow it, aren't I?

Wallace · 18/04/2009 19:14

Think I might join the revolution...

Have heard of this before but always been too chicken.

Having heard - and seen - good results I think I will give it a try...

misdee · 18/04/2009 19:28

go on wallace!

VictorianSqualor · 18/04/2009 19:30

I've just washed and styled my hair. I love it even more now

cluelessnchaos · 18/04/2009 19:46

I got so many comliments today on my funky hair and it looks so good both dds 11 and 8 want me to do theirs.

Wallace · 18/04/2009 19:55

Well I did it. I only took about 3 inches of straggly ends off so it doesn't really loook much diffeent. I haven't got the funky layered mumsnet look - I'll have to get a bit braver!

misdee · 18/04/2009 19:56

be brave, gooo on

cluelessnchaos · 18/04/2009 19:56

do it again. I took off loads and all the hair I have left feels so healthy.

Wallace · 18/04/2009 19:58

maybe I should open some wine

SparkyFartDust · 18/04/2009 20:03

Right, I'm off to do mine.

I last went to the hairdressers in 2007 . I find the whole business tedious and expensive so have gone for 'unkempt witch' look in recent years.

This could be the answer I've been looking for.

Wallace · 18/04/2009 20:09

I'm glad I have found others who usually go for the "unkempt witch" look

gizmo · 18/04/2009 20:10

Very tempting: love the fringe, but how do I get it to work with very long (think below waist) hair?

I want to lose some length, but not much more than 3". Could I take a layer from my crown down to just above my ear and make that into the ponytail, IYSWIM? Would that work?

PuppyMonkey · 18/04/2009 20:13

I misread the first line of your first post and thought you'd written it looks frigging awful!!! I'm a bit disappointed having followed the thread that it turns out it looks nice, tbh.

SlightlyMadStirrup · 18/04/2009 20:43

I have just washed mine and it is currently drying naturally.

The front is haning around the right length - around my mouth. Back is still quite long though - even the layers. How do you get the back shorter without making the front shorter?

The other thing I have noticed - at the moment the front looks more stepped than feathery. Have I done something wrong?

SlightlyMadStirrup · 18/04/2009 20:46

Oh and DP still hasn't noticed . It is over 6" shorter at the front!

Saltire · 18/04/2009 21:14

Wallace - don't open the wine until after you've cut your hair. Goodness knows what will happen otherwise

Amapoleon · 18/04/2009 21:43

OOh I want to cut my hair but mine is too short for this!

I might try dd, how does it work if she already has a fringe?

SlightlyMadStirrup · 18/04/2009 21:58

hmmmm....naturally dried look isn't great...I stick out at the sides (and DP still hasn't noticed).

I think the straighteners will calm that tomorrow....

misdee · 18/04/2009 21:58

pictures please.

Saltire · 18/04/2009 22:17

I left mine to dry naturally, as usual and it looks ok, except the front bits which seem to stick out, but it looks ok.

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