eclectica
2004-11-30, 22:31
I just cut my hair about an hour ago. I cut it myself every three weeks or so. I use a Remington clipper which I got at KMart for around $13 and I cut it to a quarter inch length. When I was in the military in training we used to try to grab our hair with our fingers, and if able to do so, that meant it was time to cut it. Right now after cutting it I can barely grab it with my fingers.
My wife likes when my hair is long but to me it looks sloppy. I also get "hat head" or disorganized hair after sleeping when it is long. I wash my hair every day in the shower with regular bar soap that I wash the rest of my body with. If by the time I get out of the shower and get my shoes on to leave the apartment and my hair is still wet, that means it's getting too long.
I remember being younger, like around the age of eight, and hating to get hair cuts. I thought I looked better with longer hair then. Actually though my hair would look nice after showering in the evening, but it would be fucked up by the time the morning came. My father used to cut my hair with scissors. I remember one time my friend's father said after seeing my haircut that my father would be better sticking to the field of mathematics than the field of hair cutting, which I found to be funny. My father was a math professor.
My brother who is six years older than me, was seventeen years old when he got a crew cut, which was more unusual back then in the early 1980s. He also dyed his hair with hydrogen peroxide that made it a yellowish color. I got into having crew cuts in my last year of High School and since then I have always wanted to have short hair. For lack of money some times I would not get it cut except every six weeks or so, but that was solved once I bought my own clippers.
Cutting the back part is tricky because you can't see it, so what I do is hold a mirror behind my head and stand in front of the mirror cutting back there. Like shaving, it involves many runs in many directions to get it all cut nicely. Too bad it's not a clean single cut like a lawn mower. I have to go with the grain, against the grain, left to right, right to left, several times; until there are no missed spots.
My hair grows pretty thickly, like the type of hair that Mexicans, Asians, or native Americans have. My hair grows forward so I can't comb it back. When it gets wet it comes down forward. Even though my daughter is mixed racially half Black and half White, she has my hair in its basic growth form. When she was born it was straight and grew much like mine with the same appearance as mine when it got wet. You can see a picture of her at 1 month old here (http://www.tatom.org/saffronia/2002-06%20on%20couch.jpg). Since then it has gotten curly but it is not quite as frizzy as what you would expect of a mixed child. It is just curly. My wife also has relatively soft hair for a Black person, probably from her father's side from Mali, which has traces of Fulani from northern Africa.
I have my mother's type of hair. She has strong genes and not only did my daughter get her hair but she got her dimples too. My mother is half French Canadian and half Armenian, so that stubborn straight hair comes from either the Asian or the small trace of native American "Indian" from the French Canadian side.
My wife has so little hair that she doesn't even shave her legs. I am pretty hairy though and have a moderate amount of hair on my back. My daughter looks like she will be hairy when she grows older. I can see traces of hair on her back. Or maybe that is just temporary. She had hair on her forehead when she was born.
After I cut my hair I shower and vacuum the bathroom because the small hairs get all over the place and drive me crazy. Even after showering they end up itching a little. Usually one or two get into my shirt and poke sideways. I've noticed that the hairs come off easier in the shower if I haven't showered in a while. This runs opposite to what I would have expected. I discovered this one day when I showered in the morning, and then an hour later I decided to cut my hair and shower again. So I thought that the hairs would come off really easily because I had just showered and they wouldn't be sticking to any of my body oils. But it turned out that I had a great deal of difficulty removing the hairs in that shower. So I figured later that having the natural oils on the body that build up through time, would make it easier for the hairs to come off during the shower because hairs would stick to the body oil and the soap would then remove them from the body more easily. But if the body is clean already then the hairs are harder to remove.
My wife likes when my hair is long but to me it looks sloppy. I also get "hat head" or disorganized hair after sleeping when it is long. I wash my hair every day in the shower with regular bar soap that I wash the rest of my body with. If by the time I get out of the shower and get my shoes on to leave the apartment and my hair is still wet, that means it's getting too long.
I remember being younger, like around the age of eight, and hating to get hair cuts. I thought I looked better with longer hair then. Actually though my hair would look nice after showering in the evening, but it would be fucked up by the time the morning came. My father used to cut my hair with scissors. I remember one time my friend's father said after seeing my haircut that my father would be better sticking to the field of mathematics than the field of hair cutting, which I found to be funny. My father was a math professor.
My brother who is six years older than me, was seventeen years old when he got a crew cut, which was more unusual back then in the early 1980s. He also dyed his hair with hydrogen peroxide that made it a yellowish color. I got into having crew cuts in my last year of High School and since then I have always wanted to have short hair. For lack of money some times I would not get it cut except every six weeks or so, but that was solved once I bought my own clippers.
Cutting the back part is tricky because you can't see it, so what I do is hold a mirror behind my head and stand in front of the mirror cutting back there. Like shaving, it involves many runs in many directions to get it all cut nicely. Too bad it's not a clean single cut like a lawn mower. I have to go with the grain, against the grain, left to right, right to left, several times; until there are no missed spots.
My hair grows pretty thickly, like the type of hair that Mexicans, Asians, or native Americans have. My hair grows forward so I can't comb it back. When it gets wet it comes down forward. Even though my daughter is mixed racially half Black and half White, she has my hair in its basic growth form. When she was born it was straight and grew much like mine with the same appearance as mine when it got wet. You can see a picture of her at 1 month old here (http://www.tatom.org/saffronia/2002-06%20on%20couch.jpg). Since then it has gotten curly but it is not quite as frizzy as what you would expect of a mixed child. It is just curly. My wife also has relatively soft hair for a Black person, probably from her father's side from Mali, which has traces of Fulani from northern Africa.
I have my mother's type of hair. She has strong genes and not only did my daughter get her hair but she got her dimples too. My mother is half French Canadian and half Armenian, so that stubborn straight hair comes from either the Asian or the small trace of native American "Indian" from the French Canadian side.
My wife has so little hair that she doesn't even shave her legs. I am pretty hairy though and have a moderate amount of hair on my back. My daughter looks like she will be hairy when she grows older. I can see traces of hair on her back. Or maybe that is just temporary. She had hair on her forehead when she was born.
After I cut my hair I shower and vacuum the bathroom because the small hairs get all over the place and drive me crazy. Even after showering they end up itching a little. Usually one or two get into my shirt and poke sideways. I've noticed that the hairs come off easier in the shower if I haven't showered in a while. This runs opposite to what I would have expected. I discovered this one day when I showered in the morning, and then an hour later I decided to cut my hair and shower again. So I thought that the hairs would come off really easily because I had just showered and they wouldn't be sticking to any of my body oils. But it turned out that I had a great deal of difficulty removing the hairs in that shower. So I figured later that having the natural oils on the body that build up through time, would make it easier for the hairs to come off during the shower because hairs would stick to the body oil and the soap would then remove them from the body more easily. But if the body is clean already then the hairs are harder to remove.