i once had a brilliant work colleague, who was proud of cutting his own hair: the trouble was that he was on healthy grapefruit and gin at 08.30 am and sobered himself up (or so he thought), on strong black coffee at 11 am. Possibly, one of  the greatest minds that I have ever come across but, sometimes, he used to pitch-up, proudly: 'having cut his own hair'. My advice: don't try it, sober or drunk and, as for him, well, he seems to have become lost to the world - out of step with it all; possibly in any age. I cannot find hide nor hair of him. I hope that he found rest; somewhere, somehow. In any event, the moral is: don't cut your own hair. Even Hardy Amies didn't cut his own clothes. Mind you, the 1st Duke of Wellington had been known to do so.

lf you don't have much hair left then l don't see the problem with it. The most troublesome part would be using the razor behind the head to clean things up, but using a mirror will allow the old fashioned methods to prevail. Afterall...self sufficiency needs to be re-learnt again, we cannot afford to rely on the network to keep providing our goods and services anymore, because that system is easily broken. There needs to be an alternative, that alternative is self sufficency. We can't just sit around like ducks in our cities ready to die when the system fails us, self sufficiency will always provide hope.

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Don't do it. It's a lot of work and involves too many mirrors and for me, one mirror is too many. It's much easier to cough up the $400 and let someone on the plane cut it for you.

For few years my  son cut his own hair with a number 3 and for a short time daughter cut with a number 1.

I used to trim my split ends myself in the old days when my hair was below my shoulder blades - does that count?

I have been cutting my hair for about 10 years.

I have good hair and rather long hair so if I make a mistake, it is not so visible.

I cut with cissors. The movie in the link is not cutting but shaving to me !

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