How to trim your own hair

**squee** · November 5th, 2009, 07:48 AM

I searched the forum on how to trim your own hair.

Something that I am very interested in due to my lack of trust in hair dressers.

...last time they cut 6in off when I said 3 (the other 3 inches were free of split ends, perfectly healthy!)...
things like that happen a lot for me

So I decided to find a few links on how to cut ones own hair and make a thread here because I was unable to find a trimming your own hair thread. I just used the search buttons, forum and general one.

Anyway,

Feel free to post how you do it if you trim your own hair

Links:
Link1
Link2
youtube long-layer cut vid.
2nd youtube vid., just trimming long hair
there's more on youtube...a lot more

**tamif27** · November 5th, 2009, 08:09 AM

I've been pulling all my hair to the front , like a backwards ponytail, with the tail the center of my forehead at the 'widow's peak' area

carefully combing to make sure all the hair is evenly brought into the ponytail

I then comb the tail as evenly as possible, align the hair

Then I bring my hair betwixt my fingers and trim the whole tail straight across

(My hair is thin so I can get the whole ponytail between two fingers.)

This gives a layered-ends V shape which works for my thin hair.

I do think i'll try the feye's V-trim, though.

thanks!

**squee** · November 5th, 2009, 08:30 AM

no problem

**junkyschristmas** · November 5th, 2009, 09:14 AM

Hey - I did Feye's a couple of weeks ago and was really happy with the results, esp. since I have a morbid fear of hairdressers! Here's a link to a thread with LHC members discussing self-trimming: http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/...t=feye%27s