Mine is shaved close--just in time to see Black Panther. I look like John Candy without the widow's peak.

When was the last time you got a really bad haircut?

it'll grow back..

I cut my own hair...
So...
Yes...i've had many a jacked up hair cuts....
But at least I didn't have to gaffle up a random barber off GP....


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

Prior to that, I had locs for 8 years. I feel your pain though, lots of cats come through the office with bad cuts every now and then.

I visited a new barber a few years ago. happened to be someone I knew as a kid from the old neighborhood. I let him cut my hair twice. motherfucker took about 2 hours.
He used every tool imaginable for that damn hair cut.
spray water bottle, blow dryer, clippers, T-liner, straight edge razor, a chalk pencil or some shit,

all that shit ad he pushed my damn hairline back

so my hair cut consists of clippers and 1 gaurd


i basically look like rick carlisle

https://goo.gl/maps/YGjqt66qBwT2

they dont cut blk ppl hair too good.

I let a youngsta try it.

hairline got WRECKED

But my boy cut it WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too low. Maybe he said it needed to grow back in bc he had pushed it back. But I wore a hat all week.

Until, my boy who's the jokester of the crew says, "ay....you been rockin hats all week....you never wear hats like that."

Me: I mean, I'm just switchin it up

Jokester: Nah.....you always be having a fresh cut? What that cut lookin like?

Me: I'm just....I'm growin it back in so I ain't....

Jokester: TAKE YOUR HAT OFF!!!

Me: Nah man, you ain't gotta s....

Jokester: *walks up and takes my hat off, as I try to push him off*

Everybody around us: *sees my hairline and haircut is fucked up, super low, etc etc.....starts screamin laughin*

Me: Ain't shit that fuckin funny!

my barber just retired. Like...just retired from barbering...by text. JUST NOW! He just cut my son and I Saturday. Dude has cut our hair for 4 years. I'm blown.

like. without explanation?

full celebrity barber

he already locally popular...
and cuts a few athletes


but he was talkin about a shoot he just did for UnderArmour...
and the check they cut....and where they might be sending him

and i'm a bit ......concerned lol

there's 2 other dudes in the shop and I've gone to one of them, the owner, a few times before...but, yo!!

effective immediately I'm retiring from being a barber. apologize for the suddenness of this, I wish I had time to exit in a timely manner. I had great memories of being your barber and I will miss it. ______ and ______ have my full confidence and will continue to provide you the service you've come to expect.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

"There is nothing more for me to achieve"


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

.

First dude cut it too low

Second dude couldnt line me up right to save his mommas life

Went back to first dude and he had my shit ON POINT

Went back...he was in jail

Went back to second dude and he creeped me out (like, tryna holla on the low)

Went back to first spot, but a different dude...had me lookin like J Jonah Jameson (on the very day we were going to see Louie Vega)

I resigned to Great Clips for a minute. Hey..if imma get a bad cut, Im not gonna pay 25 bucks for it. Dude had me looking like a black cop.


I finally found a barber after all that...smh





Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




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i was rocking the beatles cut from like 4th grade through like 11th

then buzz cut til like 2 years ago (mostly self cut, sometimes faded at a shop)

i think the last 9 months its been aight but since i started growing it out i had some pretty bad cuts while i figured out what exactly i wanted.

i looked kinda fly for one hair cut in 3rd grade i think

he'd gone through cancer treatment, and tried to come back to work, and he clearly wasn't ready. i'd been going to him for over 10 years and felt a sense of loyalty to him.

he fucked my hair up pretty good, to where i had to shave my head. I was gonna try again, but he went back in the hospital, and passed away shortly after.

I shaved my head for almost 2 years after that. his daughter cuts my hair now.

Dude was nasty wit it..I mean, I'm giving 20 dollar tip on a 20 dollar haircut nasty.

He got sick, tried to make his comeback but the skills were gone. He passed right before I moved




Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




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One of my friends was an 8th grader. And he was old for his grade. I was young for my grade so he was like two years older than me. He said he could cut hair. He cut my homies hair and it looked fine. So I said, aiight. First pass and *bzzzt* down to the scalp followed by "Oh shit!"

I had to tighten it up at home and since I went on my lunch break I had to look crazy for 4 hrs

This was when my man who lived down the block gave me cuts. Sometimes he would be caught up and couldn't stop by or have me stop by his spot, so I would take my chances at Astor Hair.

I had my guys but one time they sat me with a Spanish chick. She was friendly and made sure to rest her bosom on my shoulder / arm.

Let's just say I went to my man afterwards to mitigate the damage and he was dying, but sympathetic.

Since my man stopped the barbering / started working at shops I didn't care to go to, I started going to my new guy, it's been 10 years

Just opened up his own shop in Queens in an area I never go to (like basically all of queens) but I have no hesitation of going out there

I stopped going to her because she had to have elbow or shoulder surgery so she was out the game for a minute and while she was on hiatus, the shop she was at closed.

He had my shit looking like I was from Memphis in the 90’s.

I had to coach him up.

Drove past there a few weeks later and this nigga had a hand painted PeT GroOminG sign on his shit.

I just shave it all off these days.

Bottoms up....and the devil laughs..




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couple days later, my whole scalp was flaming! I didn't know about cutting with the grain.

in my quest to get the closest shave, I went against every grain. bad idea.

Couldn’t get the fade right so I had a bowl cut.

I had to go a whole day with that shit. I went straight to my man after school and he faded me up and said “don’t ever try that again” I knew I couldn’t show up at the spot with that bowl or it would be endless jokes.

Then I went down to the community center where we all played basketball and shit. My nemesis was waiting for me and had like 3 dudes around him and I could tell they had been joking my cut. When I pulled my hat off and had that fresh fade. The look on his face was priceless.

Going to the cheap southeast Asian spots for $8 cuts

The cut was getting fucked up so I said fuck it and he shaved it off. I forgot how and why it was getting fucked up. Not really a big deal, but this was 90s LA, where the only Mexican guys with shaved heads were bangers. I was a dorky teenager and that cut invited a lot of trouble, mostly a few "WHERE YA FROM, HOLMES?!" here and there, or adults in my life taking me aside and lecturing me on why the banger life was a bad one :(

but it disappears within a week or two. recently the stylists have tried to do a drop in the back which i can't stand, i like my fade to be even all around my head.

once in high school i tried giving myself a fade and that didn't go well. i ended up bald because i messed up so bad.