For all you with the hair clippers, do you just buzz the whole thing the same length? If not, any tips on doing a bit more stylized cut with longer top than back and sides?
This is how I cut my husband's hair. He has coarse, straight hair. I use a Wahl for the bulk of the cutting, then a smaller electric clipper called a Peanut for the more detail cuts. You can do everything with a Wahl, but sometimes it is clumsy around the ears.
- Put a #3 guard on the Wahl scissors. Buzz vertically up the sides and back of head, not rounding into the top part of the head.
- Use scissors to cut the top of the head. I cut his around 1" - at the front side of my fingers when holding the hair.
- Stop the 1" cut as you approach the front of head - leave about 2" of space.
- Cut hair in the front of the head to the best look for person's face (usually 1.5-2" long, gradually blending into the shorter hair already cut with scissors).
- Grab Peanut (or remove guard from Wahl clippers).
- Grab a comb.
- Using the comb as the guard, use the Peanut/Wahl clippers to cut and blend in the hair around the crown of the head. This is the area where the original guard cut and the scissor cut come together. Easiest to start closest to the face, then work to the back of the head.
- Trim around the ears and back of the neck.
- Check eyebrows for stray feelers. Cut with scissors.
- Demand money for haircut, get laughed at by DH. :-)