For the first year of our dating, my now-husband complained about every single hair cut he ever got. It was uneven. It was too short. The neck was done wrong. He got to hating getting haircuts so much he would have dreams about hairdressers lopping off parts of his ear.
I decided to take matters into my own hands. The first time Jacob let me cut his hair he was scared to death. Ok, I would have been too. I had never used scissors on a head of hair, unless you count that time I was sent home from school, but that boy’s hair just walked into my scissors!
Since that scary first-try, we have bought a Flowbee. I grew up on a flowbee. My sister was the only one in the family with hair that did not fit in the flowbee, so we all got hair cuts from home. It really is a miracle machine. It gives such a consistent cut. You can just write down the entire family’s length and give them the same hair cut every time. And for Jacob we just leave on the length he likes; the only time we change it is when I put on the angle trimmer.
What I really love is that the flowbee takes the guesswork out of the hair cut. This also means that it can be done in a reasonable amount of time with absolutely no training on my part. I can handle neck trimming and treating around the ears, and I’m learning sideburns (but I like them way longer than he does…darn). So the little snips are easy enough.
I start with the flowbee, and before I used a flowbee, the goal is to get the entire head of hair the same length. Once this is accomplished I trim around the ears. I never touch his bangs, that length seems to work, but Jacob hates hair in his ears, or touching his ears. I connect the trimmed ears around the neck and follow his neckline to see where it lies well. I can trim his neck pretty high with it still looking good.
The last thing that is just personal to him, I assume, is what he calls his “wings.” This term incompasses several problems he finds with his hair, all residing around his temples and above his ear. Sometimes it can be extra poofy here and I need to thin it out. And it also refers to extra hair falling into his face, he likes a sharp line around his face.
Cutting hair at home can be an adventure. It can build trust. It saves us a lot of money. Yes there is an initial investment of flowbee and electric trimmer kit, but we enjoy not throwing our money to some person who does a job we aren’t even satisfied with anyway. I really love how patient my Jacob is with me and my learning process, it is key to our enjoying this activity.
Our next goal is to have Jacob try to cut my hair, just a little trim to keep the split ends to a minimum. I have a lot of hair, so a lot of fudge-room, but that way we could both be removed from salon process.