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Planning to cut my husband’s hair in the afternoon, I hope my concentration is ok for 20 minutes, steady hand, so he doesn’t have a bad hair cut.
I’ve been cutting his hair since COVID days, so this is not new, but you never know.
 
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SoCalZone10 said:
Planning to cut my husband’s hair in the afternoon, I hope my concentration is ok for 20 minutes, steady hand, so he doesn’t have a bad hair cut.
I’ve been cutting his hair since COVID days, so this is not new, but you never know.
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Same here - I started cutting my husband’s hair during the pandemic, and he now refuses to go to a barber and makes me do it! Honestly it’s not that bad, the only thing that annoys me is the couple of times a year we have to do it indoors, because the hair gets everywhere and it’s a pain to clean up.

It probably saves a good amount of money - even with the higher cost of left-handed shears (they were pretty hard to find!), they and the clippers probably paid themselves off after only a few uses.
 
badjak said:
It's been difficult here to find people that use scissors.
So last time was clippers and size 4 is shorter than I thought 😒
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Excerpt from here says...
"The numbering starts at #0 (no guard) which cuts nearly to the skin at 1/16 inch (1.5mm), then increases by 1/8 inch increments. A #1 guard leaves 1/8 inch (3mm), a #2 leaves 1/4 inch (6mm), and so on up to #8 at 1 inch (25mm). Most barbershops use this universal system across all major clipper brands."
 
Barriehie said:
Excerpt from here says...
"The numbering starts at #0 (no guard) which cuts nearly to the skin at 1/16 inch (1.5mm), then increases by 1/8 inch increments. A #1 guard leaves 1/8 inch (3mm), a #2 leaves 1/4 inch (6mm), and so on up to #8 at 1 inch (25mm). Most barbershops use this universal system across all major clipper brands."
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Thanks.
Too late now and I never measured :)
Next try, number 6, top and front.
4 for sides and back.
Lucky thing... My hair grows pretty fast :)
 
Depends where you are and what age the clipper blades being used are.
It is standardised now after many customers were shocked to be shorn! 😂

The most common cause of the surprises is often that the short clipper blade (the metal plate fixed directly onto the clipper) can be the measurement in millimetres (say for example a 4) or it can refer to the number on the the comb attachment so in the past asking for a number 4 could get you a cut Ripley would be proud of or something much, much longer.
And exactly that happened to Mr SSOAP once back in the late 80’s.
A number 4 with the school barber was much, much longer than a number 4 in the local hairdressers. Oh he got in big trouble for going full thug look and shaving all his hair that short 😂

Now all the clipper blades AND attachments come with mm or inches on them as well as a number.
But those attachments last forever so I’m sure theres still a fair few knocking about 😬
 
I cut my husband’s hair outside. My husband has thick hair. So #2,#3,#4 and then I thin his top and side, after that I use the right ear and the left ear. Then number 0 for the nape line in the back.
Then I do his eyebrows, his ears, so he can hear better.
That’s is all about it.
 
I also used to cut my partner's hair. I bought a special hair dressing cape (very cheap) which meant the snipped hair slid off. I always cut it indoors but I have a hard wood floor so it was easily hoovered or brushed up.
 
This is a picture in the back of my husband’s hair back in Aug 2020, this is after several months of me cutting his har. He wanted me to take a picture of him playing with surfboards before he got rid of it.

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