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What's the longest you've gone without a haircut?

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...it's going to be at least five months for me this year, but then, my hair doesn't grow very fast.

― MarkH, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I haven't cut my hair since Feb 1998.

― Ed, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I do not cut my hair between December and March
But i cut it weekly starting in april .

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

6 months or so. I also didn't wash it for about 10 weeks of that time.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i am getting mine cut tomorrow

― gareth, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Probably about 5 or 6 years... girl children are not required to get their hairs cut as often as boy children.

I still try to get it cut about yearly. So I have short hair at the beginning of the summer, a shapeless mullet for most of the year, then horrible split ends that drive me to repeat the process all over again before it can get long and pretty.

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I am having mine done tomorrow too. I hate hairdressers, they are worse than dentists for me. Every time I go they tell me I should go more often and bang on about how long hair needs cutting every 6-8 weeks. But I can't afford 50 quids every 6-8 weeks, I think, but do not let on as they might think I can't afford a tip and deliberately do it badly.

The only good thing about hairdressers is having your hair washed and head massaged by them, hmmmm, and being able to read Hello mag while they spend 5 hours painting on the highlights.

― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

50 quid . I get my beard and hair for 12 bucks and they do a very decent job.

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

every time you say something about how you look you sound more and more like a garden gnome.

― Ed, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

More inequality between the sexes, men over here usually pay about 7 quid for a haircut. Mind you, it usually looks like it.

Why do I let myself be so royally ripped off in the haircutting department? Just a vain fool I guess.

― Emma, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i am 6' 1 " tall and 220 lbs. I have glasses, a beard and dress in dark blue gwgs or wool thriftstore dress pants and t shirts or sloid color bright button ups. None of this sounds gnomsih to me.

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I used to go without haircuts for long times as hairdressers = DUD. Then I decided one night I would cut some off by myself! It was great!! I have ended up with a FRINGE. I am never letting anyone else cut my hair ever again! Just get a sharp pair of scissors and grab bits. I imagine it would be really satisfying to have long hair in a big plait. And then, SNIP! Ahaha. A delight. Potential bad things about haircutting - there is a risk you will be mistaken for a member of the Aislers Set on repeated occasions, and the Pinefox will think you're American.

Hey Pinefox, why not try doing some blue writing? And tell us about your hair too.

― sarah, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I pay ten pound fifty plus fifty pence tip to the nice lady who is head massage queen and also very fast and never any wait. We even talk about holidays and all the usual stereoytypes. She does a pretty good job too with my indestructible parting, making it look not unlike Robert Redford's hair in The Natural.

― Pete, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm sorry. For some reason I got it into my head that you were short and round. Many Apologies.

― Ed, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I am corpulent but tall.
I look like Allen Ginsberg.
I wish i could find out how to post a pic.

― anthony, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm not even going to tell you people how much I pay for a haircut, I get my hair cut and rehighlighted about every 2 to 3 months, depending on how much I torture my hair in the interim...the longest I've gone is about 2 years without.

― Ally, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think about 3 months. I became Presidents of the Chia Pet Society. "Poofy" doesn't even begin to describe the size of my pseudo-afro. And the carpet growing down the back of my neck - ish.

― David Raposa, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The usual answer to why womens haircuts are more expensive than men is "Well, they have longer hair". Which is fucking bullshit, because I usually have short hair, and still get charged through the nose. I used to pick my hairstyle out of the mens catalogue and insist that they do it with shears at Jean Louis David. Best haircuts I ever had. But then they got wise to my trick and now I just have perpetual bad hair.

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Clippers, not shears, sorry. Very strange image there for a moment.

― masonic boom, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

anthony - you just wrote a ginsberg-like poem - rock!

― Geoff, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

A couple of inches trimmed back every six months, my last one being just last week. Gets rid of split ends, see.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I usually have my hair cut every six weeks and it costs about £50. When I told my parents how much I pay, they made clucking noises until I told them I can afford it because I don't smoke. That soon shut them up.

My hairdresser is great. When I arrive, she gives me a kiss and pours me a glass of wine. She remembers what I said last time I saw her, doesn't try to force me to buy products and doesn't grumble because I can't really afford to give her a tip. I've been going to her for two and a half years and trust her so completely that I've allowed her to cut my hair while I was drunk. Yeah, she's great.

I haven't had a haircut for about three months, though and it's just got to the point where I can put it up in bunchies. Thank god. Growing out hair is the most wretched thing I've forced myself to do for a while. I am also ruining my scalp by spraying my locks with Sun In once a week in an effort to be blonde, but it's all gone a bit brassy.

― Madchen, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can't remember the last time I got my hair cut, so I just have a stoopid mop on my head currently. However, a tramp told me the other day that it looked very expensive. Hmm.

― DG, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, I never had a proper haircut til I was about 11, my auntie used to cut it so I ended up looking like one of those horrible brats from Dallas. Since then, probably the longest is about 6-7 months...I'm not gonna get my haircut until England beat Australia at cricket.

― james e l, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Until this week, not since April last year, and before then I hadn't has a proper haircut since February the year. Unfortunately my selfish fascist brother has forced me to tidy it up (some nonsense about not looking like a vagrant at his wedding or something..yyyy...), but I foolishly tried to keep it as close to how it was as I could get away with, so now I have ambivalent semi-long semi-tidy really-quite-girly hair. I need a hat.

― Graham, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

In the past 5 years I've averaged about one haircut every six months. The longest I've gone is probably around 6 or 7 months.

― Josh, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

2yrs

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 13 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I haven't been to a salon (for my hair at least) since 1991. I figured out that I can do my own better than most of them anyway, but I do trim a few inches off evry six months or so. So it's very gradually getting shorter. Maybe one day, I will have that pixie cut I fantasize about from time to time.

― Kim, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i had mine cut today. it had grown from a suede/richeymanic type thing into a strokes like affair. i now look like nathan barley.

― gareth, Saturday, 14 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I had mine done on Saturday and as predicted the bitch hairdresser insulted me for not going more often.

However new hair do has led to the following extremely backhanded compliments:

(best mate) You look so glam you should be in the garage tent.

(colleague) You look like a diva (or maybe he meant Adeva?). Didn't say which one. Hmmm.

― Emma, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think I had no haircuts between 1989 and 1996, then I've had 5 haircuts since then.

― chris, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I can confirm to anyone who is aware of the late eighties popsters: Emma does not look like Adeva.

And it must be added that the Garage tent refered to is not the kind which has guitars in it.

― Pete, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Nor indeed cars. Who keeps guitars in the garage?

― Emma, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Gareth, you have just made all the girls on this board cry.

What are you doing getting haircuts, anyway? If you're too busy studying and examing to be going to clubs and pubs, you are far too busy to be Barlefying yourself.

― masonic boom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Hair is crap, I'm going to grow it out again and dye it back red.

― Ally, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Yet another hairdresser / dentist similarity is that going to the dentist always inspires me to buy a new toothbrush in a new-found fervour of dental health. Going to the hairdresser who uses about 4000 products on my hair and makes it look brill makes me rush to Boots / Superdrug and spend a stupid amount of dosh on hair care products to preserve my new look.

I have just been a total saddo and bought Neutrogena shampoo for coloured hair because on the ad Mandy Moore said it stopped her colour from fading. I wanna be like her!

― Emma, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I went psycho buying all those Sheer Blonde hair things, the shaping balm, the shampoo and conditioner (for HONEY TO CARAMEL BLONDES, I'll have you know), then that Beach Blonde thing, the shimmer gel and the sea salt water thing, and now I realize I hate being a blonde. What a waste of time.

― Ally, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You can post them to me Ally, I am a sucker for anything which promises to maintain highlights.

― Emma, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

They're bloody useless! I had this "highlight maintaining" shampoo, and all it managed to do was turn my (naturally dirty blonde) hair bright orange! Rubbish!

― masonic boom, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Maybe it only works on chemically enhanced hair. If only I had concentrated during science I might know more about this and could wear a white coat and work for Laboratoires Garnier and live a glamorous science life.

― Emma, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think it could be specially formulated for chemically treated hair, actually. But it depends on what you're using too - some of those shampoos are just going to destroy your hair, it depends on the tones they use to "enhance" - if it has a lot more gold than ash, for example, and your hair needs ash, then it's going to turn it brassy and red.

Has anyone tried any of these new hair dyes that are supposed to be "lumescent" and not turn your hair one solid color? Feria, Open, Lumiere, etc. Am I the only person who thinks they suck goat balls? I mean, they all have waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much red in them.

― Ally, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The last time I got a professional haircut was August 1999. I think I've allowed someone else to cut my hair a total of 8 times since September 1991. I usually just grab the clippers and shave it all off myself.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 16 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Red is the BEST color for hair. Cf. Tiffany.

― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 17 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

one month passes...
I hadn't cut my hair for 5 months (and even then it was just a trim) until yesterday. Now, if I had black-rimmed glasses and a tight t- shirt I would be emo.

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Emma, try John Frieda's Sheer blonde shampoo, conditioner and hair- mulch for highlight enhancement, if you haven't already. after a few goes, there's a noticeable difference and it means that you can officially refer to yourself as a Champagne blonde - classy!

Unfortunately, although it enhances your colour, it does nothing to enhance the shape of your hair, which means that i end up looking like a helmet-head. but a shiney, champagne blonde helmet head.

― nickie, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Probably about 6 or 8 months. But I go to a great hairdresser in Soho (which I have gone to since '93) and pay half of what Emma does, generally once every 3 months. I dye my own hair just to perpetuate the "It's BLACK!"/"No, it's COFFEE coloured!" argument my mum likes to start.

― suzy, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Thank you ladies but it's all academic now as my hair is all falling out. Also note it is more pricey to get highlights than all over colour as it is a proper fiddle especially on my old hair which is fine and long and there was tonnes and tonnes of it.

― Emma, Thursday, 6 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

four months pass...
About 2 years now!

― Jared Nestico, Sunday, 13 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i did not really get my hair cut from the age of 20 to the age of 30. I had a v long (and quite nice, I'm told) ponytail throughout my 20s. So kill me. I swore i would not have a ponytail in my 30s, so pledged to get it cut before my 30th birthday. in the event it was the day after the glastonbury a couple of months in advance. gah.

I also, did not wash my hair in that time. I still do not use shampoo.

― Alan Trewartha, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I haven't had it done since before my brother's wedding (

― Graham, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Which is why you look like a gurl.

― Pete, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I went to a blacktie debs thing before christmas and since I was told my hair would look nicer if it was cut by my date. I think I agreed anyway but it's hard to tell where obeying stops and agreeing starts sometimes. So December 27th. Before then September. Last year I had very long hair and didn't cut it for about 10 months.

― Ronan, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My father knew a man who got his head shaved bald once a year and that was it.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I once went over 2 years without a cut when I grew my hair long, but these days it's monthly, now the late-20s widow's peak makes longer hair look a bit weird.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 14 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I've got video camera at the moment and it has made me realise that from the sides, my 'rock star' hair just looks stupid. It's been about 3 months and it's time for a rethink.

― N., Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I just got my haircut yesterday after a full 16 months of avoiding the hairdresser. Last week I realized that my natural shag was becoming far too fashionable and to avoid any semblance of hip-itude I had to get an All-American Clean-Cut Part-on-the-Side do. Which I did--I'd forgotten what my face looks like.

― adam, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I've got video camera at the moment and it has made me realise that from the sides, my 'rock star' hair just looks stupid. It's been about 3 months and it's time for a rethink.

And this was eight weeks ago

― Michael Jones, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

When the Strokes need an extra member, there's their choice. Them or Embrace. *benignly awaits N.'s wrath*

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 26 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh, whatever. I'm a whore. I'll do tricks for Skittles.

― N., Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I wuv N.'s "haircut".

My post above should read:

I haven't had it done since before my brother's wedding (so before July 15th), before PitS, so that's six months now. Isn't it about time I got it cut?

― Graham, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I cut my hair yesterday. I feel 500 times better about myself.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

My hair is annoying me because I have those horizontal earphones and it keeps getting squashed and itchy cos of them. also it's a pain having to style it to avoid it looking ridiculous cos it goes everywhere when the wind blows.

oh for the days when I didnt realise I looked stupid with a shaved head. also with a shaved head if it gets wet you can flick water with it like with a toothbrush. er i dont know why thats a good thing but it is.

― Ronan, Monday, 28 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

two years pass...
I last had my haircut on 10th October last year and I'm going this Saturday, but horrors! the hairdresser I've been going to since I was SEVEN YEARS OLD is CLOSING DOWN!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:32 (twenty years ago) link

I really need a haircut, maybe I'll get one for my b/day. It's probably been about 4-5 months, but amazingly my hair is fine, not split or anything.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago) link

I cut my hair short once every 5-6 months, and no one recognizes me after the haircut

― Sym (shmuel), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:36 (twenty years ago) link

I had to do emergency maintenance on Friday - I have cheap-ass scissors with deep notches in for instant layering. Apart from that my actual paying-for-haircuts habit is becoming quite regular, since taking the plunge about a year ago. Before that I did my own for years, and oh boy did it look stupid sometimes.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago) link

I went about six months once, fucking gross it was too. Has a kind of anti-Smapson effect on me -- I feel vile when it gets too long. So it was a vile time for me.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:39 (twenty years ago) link

The problem is the cost. I have been going to the same expensive hairdresser for years, so a haircut is the same amount as a night out, it's a tough decision.

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:41 (twenty years ago) link

Yesterday at twenty one hundred hours!

― Playmobil Sarah (starry), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:42 (twenty years ago) link

have you ever been to the hairdresser on Abingdon Road, Enrique? Might be an option for me. Going to a hairdressers in London when I live in Oxford is a pretty stupid thing to do I suppose. As my colleagues have just told me. Repeatedly.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

6-7 months, would've been longer but for the cut last weekend

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:44 (twenty years ago) link

Mark -- that is seriously crazy. I go to one on Cowley cos I went there when I lived on Iffley Road. Which is similarly crazy, but not quite as. It's a horrible ritual, I always feel bullied, they always have trance playing... I've a fortnight before the next time...

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago) link

thet have TRANCE playing???? Oh. My. God.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:48 (twenty years ago) link

Well, I call it trance. It has anon Eurodivas/4/4 beats/synth washes == TRANCE

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:50 (twenty years ago) link

I hope the hairdressers don't try to dance to it while they cut.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:53 (twenty years ago) link

But that's the key Mark!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:55 (twenty years ago) link

It's what gives my hair its famously attractive 'je ne sais quois'. btw, what IS 'asymmetrical' hair? like a side-parting?

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:58 (twenty years ago) link

abt 4 months

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 9 February 2004 10:59 (twenty years ago) link

About 9 years, most of the nineties.

Nowadays I get a haircut more often, the last one was barely 18 months ago.

Last time I washed my hair was about 4 or 5 years ago. My hair's short enough now (about nipple-length) that none of it has _ever_ been washed.

― mei (mei), Monday, 9 February 2004 20:32 (twenty years ago) link

three years pass...

3 and a half months now, I've been put off after being butcherised by a mouth breather and I've tried to go back since but have been attacked by the phear on approaching the hairdressers and have turned back each time. beginning to look a bit scraggly, really.

maybe I'll go for a richie hawtin

― czn, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:46 (seventeen years ago) link

i havent had mine cut by a hairdresser since 1987. I cut it every 3 months or so. I wish I could stop. I want stripper length hair.

― sunny successor, Monday, 12 November 2007 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i think i've gone a year or so, or maybe it was a little less. in any case, i have super curly hair, so it just grew out, rather than down. i had a big 'fro for a few years in college, as well as a large beard at various times.

i've had very short hair the past 3 or 4 years, though, and normally just cut it myself with clippers every 5 weeks or so. i think i've been to barber once in the past 9 years.

― Mark Clemente, Monday, 12 November 2007 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link

8 months. College. Since 1989, I haven't gone longer than 3 months.

― mike a, Monday, 12 November 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Oooh, three months until your hair's anniversary, Ed!

Yay!

― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

It is so easy to cut yr own hair...after 4 or 5 mistakes. I have not not had my hair cut since 2005, and that was for free by my extra-awesome sister-in-law (radder bcz she normally makes like $60 for a haircut so v nice of her to slot me in). And before THAT I haven't paid for a haircut since 2002.

― Abbott, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

My father knew a man who got his head shaved bald once a year and that was it.
This is basically what I did from age 16 to 24 or so. Except it was more in the 18-24 month range. And I used an electric razor that was apparently intended for grooming dogs. It goes through a lot of odd hairdos in the interim. Most memorably the fluffy porcupine and the unkempt Beatle...
Now I get it cut by a real barber two or three times a year, basically when it starts getting in the way of my eyes.
I'd like to cut my own hair, but it sounds like too much effort for something that isn't all that expensive in the first place.

― Øystein, Monday, 12 November 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link


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