Hi all,
We no longer want to take our five children to the barber or hairdresser for hair cuts. It gets expensive.
Instead we want to do a course to learn how to cut our children's hair (ages 3 to 12) ourselves. E would enjoy it too.
Can you suggest a good course to achieve this purpose? ie we don't want to do a cert 3 in hairdressing. The course needs to be fit for purpose.
Thanks in anticipation!
All boys.
Easy then! But a hair clipper from the shaver shop or similar and watch the DVD that comes with it.
5 kids eh? Didn't think about the costs before creating that many?!
Hahaha that comment made my evening.
Clearly took the Oz Bargain approach to contraception :p
Seriously though OP,
You might be able to get away with cutting their hair for a while. But there’s no way in hell a normal 12 year old will let you touch their hair.
The boys might not care for maybe 5 years then they’ll realise.
Unless you want to do a cert III I’d suggest YouTube.
Thats what I was going to suggest. Youtube tutorials, plus there must be certain cuts and styles that are particularly easy to do. ie. Don't bother trying to learn something really hard to do, some specific complicated cut that you're only going to do once.
I know nothing about hairdressing, but there must be a few cuts that look good, but very easy to cut . Perhaps someone with knowledge of hair cutting can chime in with some suggested simple but good lookinh cuts.
It's a shame that there isn't a TAFE like course for a couple of evenings similar too a photographic course. The only courses costs in the order or $15,000@
Lol. After the fifth child my wife and I finally worked out what was causing the problem.
Red headed stepchildren.
My parents just used a bowl
This!
Three bowls at different size of u want layering or steps
Can I suggest you let a pro do the 12 year old who is on the cusp of being a teenager? It's a time in their life where self image is gaining importance and I think it's one less thing to think about.
With the 3 year old?… trial and error!
Good advice. Thanks
YouTube.
Buzz cuts.
Mullets.
Spikes.
There are some good ones on YouTube, but I was hoping for someone to teach me and then watch me as I did it, under their direction and guidance. The best way to learn.
Try posting the request in airtasker?
I recently started to do my 4 and 7 year old boys hair. I took them both to the hairdressers and just watch really closely as what they did. #7 over the top and then 1.5 on the sides. Used a comb to help blend in the sides. Then the trimmer to round out the side burns and around the outside. First couple of times I noticed after that there was a bit longer and had to clean it up. But now its a 10 minute exercise to save $20 each.
Just to add to OP - as you are building technique n skill - always cut less than you really want. With top - easy to trim by holding hair between ur fingers like 1-2cm out and then go from front to back in incremental layers.
WAHL kit had a phamplet which I used for my boys - was 7 out of 10 ie encouraging enough for me to continue cutting.
And start with the young one
Good luck man !
Sounds good… but you don't use scissors?
If its for boys hair just get a pair of clippers, I don't use scissors at all
I have been doing that too, ie watching a professional, but I would like someone to explain the approach and show me.
Heaps of DIY haircut stuff on Youtube if you look around.
Invest in good scissors and scissors.
Thanks. Do you do it?
I cut and line my own hair and beard, better than most barbers in my area. I don't know how I learned it but I picked it up. I use a normal Remington shaver for the back and sides usually #2, a razor (old school) for the box (forehead) and gillet 4 blade for the neck. You can use scissors to line the top after shaving to your desired number.
Are they boys or girls? If boys just go all over with a hair clipper. For extra fancy do the back and sides on a lower number. My hair trimmers came with a DVD about how to do a few styles of men's haircuts.
For girls unless you want them to cringe at old photos, better off taking them to the hair dresser