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None of us know how long Barbers & Hairdessers will be closed for but imagine how busy they will be when they eventually open for business again

One of my offspring kindly trimmed my hair with the hair clippers last night.

we're going to be a terrifyingly ugly bunch by the time we emerge from isolation

Especially if we stay in lockdown until June

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8164403/Britain-stay-locked-JUNE-says-leading-adviser.html

I'll miss looking at the Kurdistani flag in my regular barbers. It's quite pretty.

I'll miss looking in the mirror to see whose just walked in

I think more or less every business is going to have huge footfall when it all gets going again.

Got my hair cut at the barber the week before last, so I'm good for at least 3 months!

I get mine cut every two weeks and was due one this week...can't even think about 3 months from now...I'm getting withdrawal symptoms  :eek:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7g0862r2qU

I’m at the opposite end. I was going to get my haircut when all this kicked off so I’m going to have very unkempt hair at the end of this! Ah well, a change is as good as anything :)

Might just shave it all off to be honest

Its the future!

I haven't had the need to go to a barbers in 25 years, I shave mine to the skin once every 3 days, but not that extreme is needed or wanted by most (HerthaB excepted!) buy clippers and do it yourself, easy.

Every TWO WEEKS???!!! Blimey, what is your annual shearing bill?

Not the same model, but one of the best investments I've ever made. My hairstyle also doesn't require much skill to maintain.

That reminds me, I need a trim. And the colour's all washed out.

(https://i.imgur.com/0LeaJ4u.jpg)

My 88 Yr old mother usually has a home hairdresser every fortnight.  She's planning paying her to do her local shop instead.  Very enterprising and win:win.

Get the mirror and cut it yourself,    Doesn't matter if you fuck it up no one's  going to see it !!.

I'm still working essential worker serving the MOD & Aerospace

Absolutely. A lot of hirsute privilege on this thread.

(https://giphy.com/gifs/snl-nbc-saturday-night-live-3o6fJeGcUjFF2P6Qnu)

Hair is a privilege not a right :D

Hair today,  gone tomorrow.    O0 O0 :cry: :cry:

I did this myself last week, first time ever.
I look like my old man and it terrifies me!!

There comes a point where the alternative is worse than the shaving it off

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2c/d1/49/2cd149c216a69745a6ea9e8808fe8bc0.jpg)

I might go for a 2 all over.

1 all over, have been for years

I threatened to make my hair into a man bun as my girlfriend would kick off if I shaved it off. She is now suggesting I shave it before it gets to that stage or that I grow out curtains 😂

I'm with you. Wet shave every 3 days. Only minus is the frequent cuts that goes with it. Electric shavers give me a bad rash or I'd use one of those.

And your heads?   :)

I got a Mohican a few weeks ago.

Hello Vyvyan   :)

https://youtu.be/0VH-tJSpkjA

So cool.

Been over 3 years since I had anything cut off the length, so think I can survive lockdown without a hair cut

All these shaven heads, and probably the reason why we find it so intimidating visiting the County Ground !

Good to see Vyvyan Bastard on here, he loves his lower league footy. Once he sat in front of me at Gillingham's open rickety away end, a winter mid-weeker and hammering it down it was. The stewards recognised him and asked if he'd like to move to a seat under cover. "Only if they can all come with me" he said. Alan Gow then scored with a screamer and he jumped around like the lunatic we all know and love !

I do think people are slightly over reacting.  It is potentially only 3 weeks without a haircut.  Maybe when it get to 6 weeks I'll start worrying.  Even then I'll just tie my lustrous locks back and pretend Im 18 again.

For the 4th or 5th time ???. ;D ;D

Hate to be a Debbie downer mate but we're looking at least to the end of June, potentially September before anything "normal" of sorts returns.

Did you manage to get sorted btw?

Well everything seems to be being rescheduled for September the 5th.  Government seems to have come through for me at the least, with the 3 months for self employed at 80% so I should be ok.  June is a long time to wait though.  Ive got to get onto UC.

Ill just be bored out of my head but most people will be facing the same.  Ive volunteered for the NHS.  So hopefully that'll keep me going.

Appreciate you asking though mate!

Likewise, I did wonder but always nice to know someone has considered you. It's big changes for a lot of people but glad you should be alright. Personally I'm currently in discussion with a business consultant to see if it's worth me just suspending things as my situation is a little different to your own. Still had booked work cancelled but I wasn't reliant on those contracts. Had it been 6 months later, things may have been more difficult.

Going onwards my belief is, with this Socialist leaning approach, I think it will be difficult for any Government to go back to the previous way. At least not the same as it was. We've essentially become a Socialist state...under a Conservative gov to boot.

The political landscape will be a lot different from here on in. Going on just how he's handled things so far, I wouldn't mind seeing Sunak stepping up as PM once this has all settled. He does come across a lot calmer and more measured than well...the rest of them.

As Terry Pratchett said - We live in interesting times.

I’ve only got a beard trimmer. Do I risk shaving my head with that?

Better than a hedge trimmer !!.

Aren't they just a narrower type of clipper? Try them on your back first  :)

They will be fine, just take twice as long as normal clippers.

Dentist told to open on June 8th but hairdressers & barbers still have to wait until July

I bought clippers a few weeks back, I honestly dont think i'll go to a barbers again.

I was thinking the same. 2 all over, piece of piss

I bought some clippers too, but have been too scared to use them. I managed to shave the sides but not the back, so now I have a mini mullet, which my wife keeps taking the piss of.

My clippers are one of the best investments I've made for a long time.

No more faffing about going to a barber and then waiting for my turn. I just get the misses to go over the sides once a week or so and I'm done.

Same here,  bought some a few years ago,  never used them until a couple of weeks ago, still in the bag I bought them in,  £12.99 still on the box, cost covered in 2 trims !!,   Bollocks to the barbers now,  didn't realise how easy it was.

£6.50 for a haircut? I'd only get one side done for that up here, and that's at a tuppenny all off joint.

The lockdown has meant that my hair has grown longer than I have probably ever had it - i'm a pretty boring short back and sides and neat on top kind of guy - however I think I am going to carry on with the longer hair experiment even after the barbers have opened. Not to the levels of David Seamen mind you!!

I lived in Luxembourg for 9 years and a haircut there was 20-30 Euro and so I made sure that I only ever had my haircut in the UK, usually at a barbers in Wantage where I had to pay a skinny diver for the privelage.

Its £13 (I pay £15) at my local barbers in London fwiw.

London Prices !!!!,    over 60's  number 2 all over is between £6-8 quid in this neck of the woods.

Many tutorials on YouTube! Depending on how long the back is start with the longest guard on the clipper and work down in size depending on how you like it. Use a second mirror to see what you are doing and only go up to where the curve starts :eek:

Live dangerously. I got my daughter to do mine, even though she's never cut hair.  Came out a bit peaky blinders but did the job

My missus keeps threatening to buy clippers and do mine, but as its receding I don't want to risk it not growing back!

Same as, my missus did mine, went a bit Baldrick over the ears first time a few weeks back, but I had the second iteration done at the weekend and it was OK. She isn't going to be giving up the day job to open up a chain of salons any time soon, but it's good enough for lockdown.

Use the clippers to do sides and back and trim the ends off the top using a comb & scissors. Believe it or not the top is the easiest  

Haircut of the gods, Gnash. Own it. :-)

You from wantage?

I pay a tenner every 3 or 4 weeks. Might start doing my own. 1 or 2 back and sides 4 on top. What could go wrong?

  :)

https://youtu.be/xK15hA_QcyI

Don’t think a few more weeks will hurt...

Nothing can go wrong.  Mrs Chunkyhair does mine, 1 round back and sides, 2/3 on top. Piece of piss, never going to barbers again.

That all tends to suggest your username may be slightly misleading

male pattern baldness. haha bitches.

oh

Where will you get "something for the weekend"?  (Obscure social history reference, lost on the less than ancient)

nope, but my dad lives there.

I am not sure that this should be regarded as an obscure reference.

£35 for hair and beard, every 3-4 weeks for me. I think that's about mid-range. It's 45-60 mins of someone's time and there's no chance I'd expect someone to do that for much less when you consider costs too.

No 1 all over as temporary measure right now.

Beard? Haven't you got a beard trimmer, used to be great when I had a beard. Or do you have it styled?

Fiver a go about 3 or 4 times a year for maintenance of flowing locks & beard at George's in Gorse Hill.

I have but honestly, I enjoy it and it looks better when someone else does it. It's the only hour of the month I sit still and just stop everything too.

For £35 i'd be expecting a blowie too

I always used to go to Stan’s up Old Town. If his missus did it you’d get the occasional tit rub.

Brian's the barbers in Ferndale road during the late 70's & 80's £5 and a condom machine on the wall near the till :eek:

Here’s an admission.

I have never ever, not once used a condom.

One of our old Barber Shops called IVANS used to sell Dildos and Vibrators. Handwritten sign in the window;

"12 Inch Black Mamba"

A very, very true story.

I assume a present for the Mrs after you have had a trim :-[

The epitomé of Reg's reference to 'something for the weekend, Sir?'

I'm not sure though, it was either a roaring success or a non starter. The same sign was in the window from when we moved there and was definitely still there about a year ago (about 27 years). Pretty certain it was there before us too but time has perished the advert for sex toys; likely the state of which the Black Mamba is in too.

It is the Town running joke "just nipping to Ivans for a...haircut"  :soapy tit wank:

Who would ever own up to buying one is the question!!

I've not been to a barber or hairdresser in many a year but this has jogged my memory of my younger days. School mates and I would go together after school to get our haircuts. If we were skint we'd go to Brian's on Ferndale rd as he was cheap but not very good. I went there twice I think when I'd spend the extra money my mum had given me on fags or sweets. Wayne's bottom of Vic hill or Ian's on commercial rd were the more regular ones where we'd spend our time giggling at each other in the mirror as we waited our turn.

If you knew some of the characters in my town...you'd have no surprise. Class doesn't tend to drip off people in a North Mids (Derbys/Notts border) town. Openly frank and honest? Buckets of that.

Still, minus barbers selling sex toys (not on the side but visibly on the side) the story is similar up and down the country; every town has it's "characters"

Yes very true but sadly diminishing with the politically correct society we're all part of

Oh there are still characters around there. Seem to reproduce at a rate of knots too. Sometimes the diminishing element isn't a bad thing but I do get your point.

I'm a bit skint, but if you all chuck in a few quid to the charity she's doing the run for, I'll let Fred Elliot's daughter cut my hair.

Or axs after losing a bet that time.

Lopped all my hair off twice. The Tef was responsible both times. Cunts.