A Review After 4 months of Having Myself Haircuts

Last September, my hairstylist told me he couldn’t serve me anymore because he partially lost his vision. Before meeting this hairstylist, I really had unwell experiences matching a hairstylist. I hate communicating with them. They threw me lots of unknown terminologies. Most results didn’t match my expectation. Having a hairstylist who had served me for 12 years, I didn’t want to find another replacement. Therefore, I decided to learn to cut my own hair.

Many people love DIY and sharing their experiences. There are lots of resources teaching how to give yourself a haircut. I spent 2 weeks watching tons of tutorial videos and blogs. I bought all the necessary tools. Finally, in late September, I spent 2.5 hours in my bathroom cutting my hair, and then an hour tidying up the room with hair everywhere.

As an inexperienced hairstylist, my first “product” was, however, quite acceptable. What I needed was to use hair clay to hide the ugly parts. I then felt comfortable going out and meeting friends. When my friends saw my new hairstyle and realised I was my hairstylist, they felt amazed. This encouraged me to continue my haircut journey.

Being an extreme person, if something catches my attention, I’ll try to master it and turn myself into a control freak. Since then, I’ve been giving myself a haircut every 2 or 3 weeks. Sometimes I fine-tune my sideburns every other day. My girlfriend often said I was like a gardener.

4 months later, the required time for my haircut is reduced to 45 to 75 minutes, depending on whether I need to cut the top part of my hair. I can still recall the first time I spent more than 20 minutes struggling with my first take on the left side of my hair. Now I only need a hand-held mirror and can cut my left and back nicely and smoothly.

Before I learned about giving myself haircuts, I went to the hair salon and let my hairstylist cut my hair. As we’ve built a long-term business relationship and trust, we didn’t have to discuss the hairstyle. I didn’t even care what and how he would cut. Even if I found flaws several weeks after the haircut, I left them as is and waited for the next haircut.

Now I don’t visit the hair salon, saving my money and valuable paid leaves. I start caring about my hairstyle. I study hairstyles while reading hairstyle blogs. If there is any flaw, I’ll remove it, making the shape nice and clean. I also cut my brother’s hair (for free).

Was losing the business relationship with my hairstylist during the pandemic era a blessing in disguise? To me, yes. I’ve built a new ability.