No.

In a pinch, I can cut hair reasonably and have cut my wife and granddaughters hair. Just maintenance though. I can't do style at all, but I can clean up what is there. Mostly. There are risks!

I tried to do my own once. Nope.

None of them cut hair, so I let mine get super long this time, and I usually get mine done at a local place, figuring they could have a little fun and show me something new, and if it sucks, do a second pass and I can go with same old, same old.

Usually, prior to finding my current people, I would just drop in, get the cut and get out.

The place I use now is a family business, Dad out of the picture long ago. Mom and two daughters decided to open up a cuts for guys only place, and they are hilarious!

They put up a ton of cliche guy trope, beer, cars, hot chicks, etc...

So I walked in there dome years ago and said, "Oh cool, you did pink for dudes!"

That started what has been a hilarious conversation going a few years on now.

Girl stuff has strong signals, with the color pink being a super easy one. Growing up as women, they thought guy signals made perfect sense, so that is what they did.

The most common thing they get from a new client seeing the hot chick, cool car posters, "Are you all lesbos?" "Do guys work here too?"

And it has been sort of a laugh 'o rama from there.

Stuff like, "We think the car and chick are hot too, don't you appreciate a little beefcake in the same way?"

Most guys: Nope, LMAO!

I really like them because they all made a deal to get through Dad leaving them: Mom put her home savings on the line to start and they are working on owning their building and are all living lean to get secure, and take care of mom proper when that time comes.

Smart people! Got their basic priorities in order. Happy to spend money there.

They will weather the pandemic just fine.

I asked why do a guys only shop, and they said to basically keep it simple and easy and just do hair, have a nice time of it and get everyone paid, live life, be secure. Guy hair is easy.

Rapidly evolving gender norms and role freedom nixed those plans and was unexpected!

Cutting most guys hair is easy peasy, as anticipated, (mine is, because I am not picky at all) but the most picky, hardest guy clients are just as painfully hard to satisfy as similarly demanding female clients are.

So far, they have seen far more of those clients than they expected.

During lockdown I realized I am more social than I thought!

A few months ago, they started doing one at a time in the shop, appointments only. I booked one and found myself looking forward to it. They are fun people, so I always do, but I felt it more. Long hair sucks, but there is more to it.

Normal is a thing many crave now, and appreciate it more. At least I do. Total will not miss it, until it is gone thing.

After we had our usual fun catch up chat, it felt really good. More than I expected.

The one daughter who worked that day to cut my hair expressed the same sentiments even though they originally expected a more stick to business clientele.

Pretty much everyone they interact with has expressed similar sentiments.

I asked for a cut that might work getting long again and it has.

Time to go back though. I only had two cuts during this lock down time, and both were during the brief open up periods.

What they did was one on one. One hair person, one client, and longer open hours, clean up, wipe down, rotate through stations to maximize the clean up potential to work well. 30 mins between cuts, vent the place, wipe down, all new gear each cut. I drive by and have seen someone in there 'O dark 30 in the AM, and PM.