No. 5783Anonymous 2nd September 2018 Sunday 7:34 pm5783Semi-borderline autist requesting the service of professional poofter.
As wee nipper my haircut alternated between a short-back-and-sides and a bowl. When I turned 16 I tried to be a metalhead but my hair is so thick and just a little wavy that the whole thing was an unmitigated travesty. So then I bought some clippers and chopped it all off again, then I was back to short-back-and-sides.
Because of self-confidence issues I've always been terrified of getting a decent haircut. But I think I've grown out of that now and I'm fed up of blandness. Plus my widows peak combined with having much finer hair at my temples results in a silly floppy thing à la >/fat/4638, which is silly and irritating after about 5 hours of office work defeats the power of L'OREAL 48 HOUR EXTREME TOUGH HAIR SAUCE. Also I think I've forgot how to link across boards, so if this goes terribly wrong I apologise.)
What are all the cool kids wearing nowadays that would suit a late-20s, wannabe metalhead with glasses and a penchant for paisley shirts, who might occasionally need to put on a suit and talk business shite? And also something that isn't too high-maintenance.
In my mind I can see a fohawk suiting me, or does this seem like a terrible idea?
I'm really leaning towards a faux-hawk with fades similar to this, or is there some rule about haircuts I'm missing that would make me a massive knob-head?
I'm not /poof/ enough to tell you what's trendy, but the best thing I ever did was go into a barbers (more like a blokes hairdressers tbh) and say "what would look good on me?" and then I got that.
Seconded. Go to a salon (or the kind of barbers where everyone has sailor tattoos and elaborate beards) and just ask them to sort you out. If you like the result, take a few photos so you can get the same thing again.
>>5784 I tried that with my local barber. He spent 20 minutes ranting on about how nobody should have the right to tell other people what looks good on them and how everyone should have their own style and not be judged and how Iran is a beautiful country and America should fuck off out of their business. Interesting chap and all but I won't be going back, my hair looked barely different afterwards.
I've no idea what to do with my hair. It's big and curly and I love that but it needs shaping and I don't know how, it's too short to go full Alan Davies. I'd also like a barber to clarify if I'm getting a bald spot on my crown, it's my absolute worst nightmare and I swear from behind it looks like it's thinning.
>I tried that with my local barber. He spent 20 minutes ranting on about how nobody should have the right to tell other people what looks good on them and how everyone should have their own style and not be judged and how Iran is a beautiful country and America should fuck off out of their business.
There's your problem. As I said, I went to a bloke's hairdresser rather than a barbers. The sort of place that gives you a bottle of beer and that. You go there once, pay the exorbitant fee - Mine was about £30 - and then immediately take a picture of his handiwork to show Mr. Iran or whoever next time.
Or just keep going to the puff salon. I did until I got bald enough to not need it.
My last barber was brilliant. She used to be a world class stylist doing the London fashion week and stuff like that, but then had to give it up when she got pregnant, and when she started work again took an easier job as a mens barber. Now I've moved 40 miles away and suddenly decided I want a proper haircut. I might take start going on a 2 hour round trip back to my old town just to save myself the stress of trying to find a decent unisex salon who wont try and talk to me about the x-factor.
>>5785 >barbers where everyone has sailor tattoos and elaborate beards
That sounds exactly like the barbers I go to. Twenty quid for a haircut and a beard trim isn't that bad.
Considering I had long hair and never really got my hair cut for 20 years, that first hair cut took nearly 2 hours. It looks a lot better than it used to, because seeing a bloke who is almost 40 with a ponytail is just kind of sad.
>>5788 I haven't found a truly decent barber since moving town about four years ago. I usually fit in a haircut now when I go back home to visit my parents.
It's my experience that finding somewhere that you can ask that question is hard as hell. I've had to book myself into a Toni & Guy's in order to find someone who can look at my bonce and come up with something that doesn't make me look like a ponce. Everyone below that level just asks me what I want done and when I say "give me a cut that's going to look good on me" look at me like I'm talking martian.
>>5791 Thanks, and thanks to everyone elses suggestions.
I think I'll try the local toni & guys, but for various reasons I'm sort of set on a high fade faux-hawk or sensible-ish mohawk, so I might go down the route of showing them a few photos and say "something that would suit me similar to these."
