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I can’t see shit without my glasses. The person in the mirror getting their haircut is just a flesh colored blob.
When they finish up and I put my glasses back on, it’s a surprise every time.
I’m the same way. They always ask midway through how it’s looking and I just say it’s looking great. I’ve gotten some funky cuts and some really good cuts that weren’t what I was going for.
My wife (not a hair stylist) cuts my hair now which makes it extra fun because she just does what she wants and I never know if I’m getting a mullet or a buzz cut.
I used to be like this before I got my eyes zapped. I would just close my eyes because I couldn’t see shit anyway and not having them on was overstimulating.
For years after some guy in a back alley wielding a laser pointer fixed my eyes, I would still find myself closing them during a hair cut.
I scrolled away from this post and scrolled back to make this comment because i couldn’t get the image of you sitting in a hairdressers with your eyes screwed shut like you’re about to get hit by an oncoming train out of my head.
Why is there an oncoming train coming out of your head?
I started wearing contacts to the barber because of this. It’s really the only time I wear them because they irritate my eyes way more than they did when I was a kid. Can barely keep them in for four hours before my eyes are screaming for oxygen.
Glad it’s not just me… I wore contacts from the time I was 18 through my mid-20s. I went back to glasses full time until about a year ago. I’m in my mid-40s now… and man those damn things are hard to wear now.
Just walk away. That’s how mohawks were born.
I started doing my own haircuts during the pandemic and I’ve probably saved thousands of bucks since then. And even then, I still don’t speak up until afterwards. You know when you’re halfway through it and you can see it’s not looking good but you power through it anyway because then you’ll end up with an even worse mess if you stop midway.
Exactly this. Once I start using the trimmer, I don’t take no guff; it’s full steam ahead.
They know better than me anyway. That’s why I hired them instead of doing it myself.
I thought so too, and it was true until my last cut which was so bad I teared up as soon as I left the salon. Cut my bangs to about an inch and the rest was long, so they just went straight out. The person was newer and I should have called it out, but they just kept cutting thinking they could fix it. They couldn’t.
I used to go to a hair cut every 3ish months. The last 3 hair cuts I got went along like Them: what do you want? Me: 3 on the top, 7 on the side* Them: What? Me: Sure
Its been 2 years since my last hair cut.(*I may have forgot the numbers by now) Tell my friends and family I’m trying something new. I’m just too lazy/annoyed to go back in the chair and just smile and wave…
As a bald man for a few years now, shaving your own head saves a lot of money
I just start making the same noises I make at the dentist when something isn’t right. There’s nothing in my mouth at the barber but the sounds are important. Words? No thank you.
guh. gah. uff. pffff. ehhhh. ehm. huhhh. hmmmm.
Never make your hairdresser mad.
I have been gathering strength for about 6 months now to tell my barber to go a bit easier on my ears when he’s folding them back to trim hair behind. I may speak up one day.
Don’t speak up, just nod. They love that.
I learned to cut my own hair during the COVID lockdowns. Been doing it ever since.
Wait… what? Where is this person going to get their hair cut…?
No no seriously… My Barber asks me how I want my hair cut and the first time I got asked I had no idea what to say and my hair was still too long.
Now my barber asks me what I want and I know exactly what to say and sometimes it’s a bit short and I look silly for 3 days then everything is fine
Barbers have always asked me what I want. I hate this person from OPs picture (I don’t hate you OP, I hate the person in your shared picture)
They’re in the service industry, you have to 100% treat them with respect and have the respect go both ways and you politely tell them what you want.
I assume the person from that twitter post that OP shared is a giant arsehole who just wants everyone to understand what they want and is cruel to everyone.
I think it’s meant to be humorous, as in: obviously you can speak up but OP is too anxious and just watches it unfold.
That’s what I got from it, anyway.
Well based on my downvotes I guess my need to help people and my sarcasm I’m misunderstood.
At least this place doesn’t support child predators and Nazis like Reddit… (I was banned from Reddit for wanting to shoot and kill child predators and Nazis)
Well you have certainly put in my place. I wish you well fellow Internet stranger!
I look forward to the next episode where you defeat me again.
You haven’t seen the last of giant drunk dickhead! I’ll be back next week!
They always ask me what number I want.
I don’t know I’m not a hairdresser what’s the scale, shouldn’t you know that. Is it out of 10 or what?
Look you have my head and you can see the hair on it is too long, make the hair shorter. And if this can be done with the minimal of conversation about sports I don’t follow, all the better.
No idea where you are, but in Australia there’s 1-4 1 is a close shave, 4 is light shave.
I don’t talk banter with any of my barbers, I don’t talk to them at all after I’ve told them what I want… Well I tell them thanks and pay them after my hair is cut.
I take a 3 around back and sides my hair is still covering and I don’t need a hair cut for another few months
Then you have to see on top and that’s where you see the real changes my barber always shows me how long my hair will be.
I have made many mistakes in saying “bit more” or “not that much”
“Bit more” left me cold on top, “bit less” made me have to go back to the barber earlier than I wanted to.
I am talking 100% from a severely depressed, but untimely secure on my manhood (because I hate myself more than anyone could ever hate me) but also from experience and understanding that hair grows back.
I don’t know how well your hair grows back but just take it easy and take bad hair styles with good hair styles. You’ll find your sweet spot.
I have a lot of scars on my head from having water on the brain… Had half my head shaved as a 13 year old with the other side scars and stitches I’ve cut my own hair and completely COMPLETELY F#&ked up my fringe.
Just find your hairstyle and don’t worry too much.
I still have a picture somewhere of me as a 13 year old with half my head bald and the other half full of hair.
