Leroy Hoard
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It's a classic look, even more so while holding a giant hamburger in your hand.This swirl is forever
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When was the last time you changed your hairstyle? (2 Viewers)
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James Daulton
Footballguy
Change it up all the time. That’s one of the great things about having amazing hair into your 50’s.
Been cutting my own hair for about 15 years with a #10 guard and have gotten it down to a science. Well, until I decided a couple of weeks ago to try something new and incorporate a fade approach on the sides. That was a disaster... it resulted in a complete nuke, and I'm now trying to grow out an ugly buzz cut.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
until 12: burr haircut, occasionally would be able to get the "brush up" in the front I would later comb down as a weak excuse for "bangs"
age 12-14: short in back long bangs in front (combed from the crown with big swoop in front - think Wooderson ...almost every guy had this haircut)
14-college: long, parted in the middle feathered ...you know the look ...couple of times went with the more severe crop in the middle Rod Stewart-style
out of college - 30: shorter version of above
30-55: regular business -guy haircut, though just a bit longer ...parted on the side
55-57: didn't cut it for over a year after I retired ...shoulder-length but still kept it somewhat in shape
57-now: back to the shorter version I wore most of my adult life, though I usually only get a haircut 2-3 times a year ...so it gets a little long at times
ShamrockPride
Footballguy
About 2 years ago I cut off my man bun. There is exactly 1 known photo of it in existence, and I and I alone possess it.
Some evenings, late at night, in darkness, after everyone else has fallen asleep, I will still pull that picture out...and softly weep, longing to grow my best friend back.
Some evenings, late at night, in darkness, after everyone else has fallen asleep, I will still pull that picture out...and softly weep, longing to grow my best friend back.
rockaction
Footballguy
Here's where you're wrong. No Millennial gets away with only one photo of his man bun. Violates the laws of generational physics.
DallasDMac
Footballguy
1981. Joined ROTC in college. Long military career. Been out about 12 years and have kept my hair the same. Can't stand anything other than short. I'm a simple kinda man.
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Forever. No part. Relatively short. Shower, slight bit of gel, muss it up a bit with my fingers a bit and done. Easy
Sorta like the newer, tighter cuts now with the part and shaved sides but too old for that. Don’t want to be that guy
Sorta like the newer, tighter cuts now with the part and shaved sides but too old for that. Don’t want to be that guy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Spring 2016 I switched stylists and have been wearing a faux hawk or pompadour fade ever since. Basically used to just have a normal, conservative business length side part for 20 years. Since the change I’m usually sporting a closely shave sides/back that fades into heavier length on top. Never or rarely used product before, now I rarely go out without it. Usually use matte paste, has a dry look but holds in place.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
Think we’re roughly the same age.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
Think we’re roughly the same age.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
This guy gets itSpring 2016 I switched stylists and have been wearing a faux hawk or pompadour fade ever since. Basically used to just have a normal, conservative business length side part for 20 years. Since the change I’m usually sporting a closely shave sides/back that fades into heavier length on top. Never or rarely used product before, now I rarely go out without it. Usually use matte paste, has a dry look but holds in place.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
nirad3
Footballguy
Spring 2016 I switched stylists and have been wearing a faux hawk or pompadour fade ever since. Basically used to just have a normal, conservative business length side part for 20 years. Since the change I’m usually sporting a closely shave sides/back that fades into heavier length on top. Never or rarely used product before, now I rarely go out without it. Usually use matte paste, has a dry look but holds in place.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
My sister is one of those stylists. She's worked on everyone from Tim Tebow to Lisa Kudrow to Courtney Love.I guess I should have her cut my hair, but I just go to the $15 barber down the street.
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top dog
Footballguy
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
My previous go to was Super Cuts
I guess I should have her cut my hair, but I just go to the $15 barber down the street.
nirad3
Footballguy
My previous go to was Super Cuts
Yeah... my fraternity nickname was "Othercuts". Apparently when I was a pledge I let my hair get sloppy... I mean, I was a dumb 19-year old... so yeah, that was my nickname. Dumb.
Eephus
Footballguy
Stopped dying it early 2018 but it took the better part of the year for the color to grow out. I grew a matching beard starting in December. One big advantage of natural hair color is I can now comb it up/back, which used to expose roots. I wear it up/back now with some pomade. Mrs. Eephus once led the dyed hair/clean-shaven coalition but she's acknowledged the new/old look is good. 
Like James Daulton, I've been blessed with a lush scalp into my 50s. My head wouldn't look good bald.
Like James Daulton, I've been blessed with a lush scalp into my 50s. My head wouldn't look good bald.
Eephus
Footballguy
There was a Super Cuts a block from my office so I got my hair cut there for years. They had a lot of cutter turnover so the consistency wasn't great until I became a regular for one stylist.My previous go to was Super Cuts
Since I retired, I ride my bike to a Filipino barbers out in the Avenues. Two chairs: two cousins. It's cheaper than Super Cuts and they finish with one of those Stim-U-Lax massagers on my neck and shoulders. Nothing against Super Cuts but I wouldn't trust one of their employees with a straight razor around my ears.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Yeah, I had the same gal at SC for over a decade. She moved away and I found a guy in Chinatown through Yelp. Not a barber, he has a nice little salon with another stylist. His wife would wash my hair and give me an amazing scalp massage. Pretty sure it was like $15-18 plus tip. Oh, and the guy doesn't know a lick of English. If I had any instructions I had to tell his wife or the other stylist. Went to Danny for a year or two before I met my current stylist, and I go back to him if my gal is on the west coast (she's around L.A. for about a third of the year it seems like.)
proteus126
Footballguy
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Send before and after pics. Hair only. We’ll decide.Spring 2016 I switched stylists and have been wearing a faux hawk or pompadour fade ever since. Basically used to just have a normal, conservative business length side part for 20 years. Since the change I’m usually sporting a closely shave sides/back that fades into heavier length on top. Never or rarely used product before, now I rarely go out without it. Usually use matte paste, has a dry look but holds in place.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
mr. furley
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
So, you're rocking a Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart? Rad.
Totally.
As long as I am still carrying around this horse's mane, I will have fun with it. I don't care if it turns green as long as it's there. "#4 on the sides, # 6 on top"s need not apply. I'm considering getting one of the chicks at my local shop to cut the back of my hair to look like a pine cone, but it'll be a while before it grows out enough to make the attempt. Had the "John Wick" hair Oats is pining for a few years back and sorta miss it. Wouldn't mind going back there again either, but it'll take even longer.
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BeTheMatch
Footballguy
About 1995
saintfool
Dead sexy
i went to a men's salon that was just off Wall Street once. i was asked to be a hair model for a stylist there who was auditioning there. it was staffed by all these crazy hot stylists along with a cigar room, pool table, and full bar. while i waited, i got a massage and hot towel. it was kind of amazing. the head stylist finally took over after the audition and finished the job for her. she was like "move over, let me just fix his hair for you..."Spring 2016 I switched stylists and have been wearing a faux hawk or pompadour fade ever since. Basically used to just have a normal, conservative business length side part for 20 years. Since the change I’m usually sporting a closely shave sides/back that fades into heavier length on top. Never or rarely used product before, now I rarely go out without it. Usually use matte paste, has a dry look but holds in place.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
it was glorious.
pollardsvision
Footballguy
Same here for 23 years. #2 guard on the whole thing (though, I did switch from #3 to #2 a few years ago, if that counts as a style change). I was tutoring a friend in Geometry in HS. We got stoned and she said "let's shave your hair"? I said sure, and it's been that way ever since.
The thought having to go to a barber shop to get haircuts sounds miserable to me. I wouldn't even care about the cost, just the time spent doing it and I'm not a fan of having to make small talk.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Sad but necessary. Much like putting down a favorite animal that contracted rabies.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
I used to do the hair-model thing when I was in college for the free haircuts. nowhere near the luxury you described- it was a teaching experience for the stylist in training... they'd do part of the cut and have to wait for the head stylist to review... stop and go like that for longer than needed.i went to a men's salon that was just off Wall Street once. i was asked to be a hair model for a stylist there who was auditioning there. it was staffed by all these crazy hot stylists along with a cigar room, pool table, and full bar. while i waited, i got a massage and hot towel. it was kind of amazing. the head stylist finally took over after the audition and finished the job for her. she was like "move over, let me just fix his hair for you..."Spring 2016 I switched stylists and have been wearing a faux hawk or pompadour fade ever since. Basically used to just have a normal, conservative business length side part for 20 years. Since the change I’m usually sporting a closely shave sides/back that fades into heavier length on top. Never or rarely used product before, now I rarely go out without it. Usually use matte paste, has a dry look but holds in place.
ASIDE (just because this is why I made the change) - the girl who cuts my hair is part of a high end NYC salon that works mostly with models. Her team won an industry award for North American Salon of the Year a few years ago, and they get nominated like every year. Their rate is like $300-400, but I get a friends discount (&75 plus tip - usually give her $50.) I only know her because we did some volunteer gigs together & we go to the same church.
Anyway, I don’t remember ever gettin complimented on my hair before. In the last 3+ years it’s rare I go a week without someone saying something nice about my hair. Kind of weirded me out at first but I got used to it & just say thanks now.
I guess I’m that guy @Judge Smails?
it was glorious.
with my conehead/thin hair, it takes a deft touch the last decade or so for me to be happy with it. had a girl at a fancy soho salon who was a jr stylist (still 75) who was amazing- perfect cut for me every time, and would anticipate/recommend changes in style. but her rates kept going up... after 4 or 5 years it was 130 heading to 150 (so I'd cut back to 3-4x per year instead of 6 or more). then she moved to LA to work on movies/tv... since then it's been a wasteland. went to one of these stupid hipster barbers that opened up on our block that does exactly what bobby's been getting (probably nowhere near as well). that look doesn't work for me unless I spent time blow-drying and installing tons of product... which isn't going to happen.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
No heat - I have very fine hair that doesn’t want to stay in place, just falls where it wants. Besides the matte paste the only thing I do differently is I bought a paddle brush which detangles & gives it more volume than just combing it. I don’t put much time into it at all.
You ever leave a salon/barber thinking “man that looks great, they did a great job” but then you can never replicate it at home? If you have fine hair that’s hard to train, super common. Well I haven’t had that experience the last three years, so there’s something about the way she cuts it. I really don’t understand the technique but after she’s done shaping it - I think we’re done - she spends a lot of time “giving it texture”, which to me seems like random snips in the middle of my head.
All I know is it’s super easy & quick every morning.
mr. furley
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
oh god yes.
I've been wanting to go full neck beard, but that combines everything that is right and just in the world.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
saintfool
Dead sexy
i think the most i ever spent on a cut ($65) was at a salon here in Chicago. i found it based on a positive review on Yelp and it was close to the office. i found this great stylist - young, lithe and Ukrainian - that told me how she *knew* how to make me look good. she could have covered me in black tar, set me alight and i would have tipped her double. with her cute little accented voice, i was putty in her hands. i went to the salon religiously for maybe a year before she moved on somewhere without telling me. i kicked myself for a long while after that because i debated asking her out for months.
El Floppo
Footballguy
loved the use of "lithe" here. I was ready to her bidding just reading about her.
is the new av from gravity falls? floppinho was a fiend for that show.
saintfool
Dead sexy
saintfool
Dead sexy
it is! my boy stumbled onto it last Fall and loved it. he's watched both seasons 4x since without concern for burnout. I've turned him onto Futurama and Bob's Burgers. I'm hoping to introduce him to "The Adventures of Pete & Pete" via Youtube next.
mr. furley
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
mr. furley
Footballguy
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
when I look at the pictures of haircuts on the wall at my barbers', I believe that one is called "The Motocross."
skol asylum
Footballguy
Been the same crappy haircut for years. Maybe I should dye mine when my daughter does hers. She wants blue. I could see bleached blonde.
saintfool
Dead sexy
rockaction
Footballguy
I've done that. Too often to speak of. I look at it as being akin to a tourist falling in love with a tourist trap. "Look. It's everything I long to be!"saintfool said:
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