• don@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    Paying $100 for a haircut doesn’t always mean the stylist has the requisite skills.

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      4 hours ago

      I give haircuts to myself and the shaving device I got recently was like 40-50 EUR and it s expected to last a couple years like the one before it.

      My reasons for not going to the proper place is:

      1. I am always on the move (I might not speak the language of the current country)
      2. I am lazy and prefer to do things at home rather than arrange an appointment or go wait there
      3. professionals make the haircut look way better but it will last for a couple days / couple showers

      Mine looks plain, in the beginning they look even worse then you start getting it. The advice I would give others wanting to try that: dont shave too much so the small imperfections will not be too obvious.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, I need to keep my hair a bit longer to not look like a worm
        So I bought one of those trimmers, you can connect to a vacuum. This sucks in the hair and it gets cut at least reasonable long.

        And every place I went, they just did their typical thing that’s currently en vogue, didn’t matter much, what I was saying. It was always just an adaptation of the current style.

        So I gave up paying 30-100€ every few months, because they couldn’t get it right anyway.

        If I need to look like shit for a few weeks, it should at least be cheap…

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        3 hours ago

        Yup, that’s what I do. I’ve been doing it for years and it looks fine. It takes about 20 min to get an acceptable fade, which is less than if I drove to a barber/stylist and back.

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        4 hours ago

        Anon learning (ha, anons learning) the meaning of caveat emptor.

        Sales don’t mean shit if the product/service is bad, plenty of bad products have tons of sales.

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        14 hours ago

        They might’ve also realized anon was (as usual) a complete fucking idiot when he showed the stylist the picture of some dude and called him a chad.

        “lol I’m fuckin dumbfuck’s shit all the way up and I’m rippin his stupid ass off while I’m at it!”