The barbershop could not afford to go, and the young man began to tinker with his own hair

Before you know it, the price of washing, cutting and blowing in street barbershops is becoming more and more outrageous.

It is already difficult to find stores with a unit price of less than 30 yuan in first-tier cities. Even the price of haircuts in urban villages is mostly above this price. Only some stores that focus on "ten-minute quick cutting" can meet the demand for cost performance, but the degree of affordability is directly proportional to the degree of popularity, and there are long queues.

88 yuan is still a discounted price, thank you very much. / Screenshot of the group buying website

The young man, who didn't want to be swept up in the barbershop, decided to pick up clippers and scissors to design his favorite hairstyle and become his own Tony teacher.

Many things are said to be easier said than done, and the same is true for haircuts. For people who have not learned to cut hair systematically, the electric fader is the most convenient tool, and the stopper is the soul of the electric fader.

限位器和电推子。 /unslpash

Song Chao is 33 years old this year, and before that, he suffered from hair loss, and spent tens of thousands of yuan on a hair transplant at the age of 28. He takes great care of the "one acre and three points of land" on his head, and he especially hates that some Tony teachers use scissors too violently and will pull out their hair. After turning 30, he was at home by himself, cutting his hair with an electric clipper.

In order to avoid accidentally pushing too hard into a bald head, Song Chao usually adjusts the limiter to a position of 3-4 cm, pushing the right side first and then the left. One of the most difficult is the back of the head in the blind spot, and the effect depends on the feeling. Song Chao figured out a set of "tactile pushing method", touched it from right to left with his left hand, and pushed it from bottom to top with his right hand with a fader with his left hand. After this round, take a picture of the back of your head with your mobile phone and adjust it at any time until you are satisfied.

Align the position with the left hand and shave the head with the right hand. /Screenshot of Xiaohongshu

As for dealing with the top of the head, Song Chao will adjust the limiter longer, go through it according to the texture of the hair, and "thin it a little". Since he was over 30 years old, Song Chao didn't like to cut his hair very short, he preferred to look at his hair volume to be very vigorous, after all, only with more hair can he have the opportunity to tidy up his hairstyle. Every morning, Song Chao would carefully pamper himself with hair clay and setting spray, and he felt that he had regained his confidence.

Scissors are the exclusive tools of advanced players, and if non-professional players try to challenge, there will probably always be a price to pay for their hair and fingers. Lu Wei, a straightforward guy from the Northeast, didn't believe in evil, so he tried it once, but his hair was as ugly as a dog's gnaw, and he finally had to go to the barber shop to find Mr. Tony to clean up the mess.

Scissors belong to professional players, don't try it lightly. /pexels

Cutting bangs is also not an easy task. If you use a clipper, it is "a cannon to hit a fly", not only can it not be hit, but also collateral damage - the hairline comparable to the Qing Dynasty style is exposed. If you cut it horizontally with scissors, the neat bangs will become the legendary pot lid, and if you tie it into a pinch of scissors, it can easily become a live-action New Year doll.

After many times of "stealing teachers" in the barbershop, Lu Wei summed up the trilogy of "combing and flirting with bangs-cutting bangs-combing down and checking the length". The key is "point cutting", which must be repaired little by little, otherwise "regret the medicine will have no place to sell".

You need to be cautious when cutting bangs, and if you don't pay attention to it, it's funny. /Internet

Another thing that is very troublesome to cut your own hair is how to clean up the hair that you cut all over the place. Blogger Xu Tian once posted that in order to facilitate the cleaning of his hair, he cut his hair in the bathroom, but in the process of finally flushing his hair into the sewer, the sewer was blocked. Xu Tian found a master who opened the sewer, and the master used nitrogen and dissolving agent to dredge the sewer in 5 minutes. But as soon as the bill was settled, Xu Tian was frightened-

1160 yuan! It's better to visit the barbershop honestly.

Cleaning up the cut hair is also a hassle. /unsplash

Some Xiaohongshu netizens suggested wetting the hair first, and then drying it a little before starting to cut, so that the broken hair will stick together and be easier to clean than one by one. Some netizens also reminded that the bangs should not be cut wet, otherwise the hairline will appear higher when you blow dry.

The above operations are just basic hair cuts, and if you want to do complex hairstyles, such as layering and perming, these are difficult to do on your own.

There are some things that should be done by Mr. Tony after all, and it is not recommended that you try them lightly. And what we have to do, in addition to paying the money, is to be very clear about our needs, and then calmly accept the final result.

Haircuts are expensive, and it's not new.

According to a report by the Shanxi Evening News in January this year, some Taiyuan citizens said that they had been cutting their hair in a barber shop for more than 10 years, and that the simple haircut had grown from 98 yuan at the beginning, to 128 yuan, 158 yuan, and 198 yuan at a time, and then to 298 yuan and 398 yuan now. The Beijing News also reported last year on the phenomenon of "Teacher Tony becoming a "director", and the price of haircuts has to triple up. In general, it is basically difficult to feel the difference in service during the whole process.

Senior, Senior, Chief, Director, Store Manager...... With so many levels, it seems to be an IQ tax. / Weibo screenshot

In addition to being expensive, many netizens have complained about the general experience of opening a blind box in a barber shop, obviously telling Mr. Tony about the desired effect, and even intimately attaching renderings, but cutting it out is completely different. Although men will always have a way out in their hairstyles - shaving their heads, it is better to be forced to accept a "new" self if they are so determined.

Cut bangs, send eyelashes, can't hold back. / Weibo screenshot

There is another annoying point of the barbershop - card sales.

A few years ago, I discovered a treasure barber shop near my home, and their hair washing session is very relaxing, not only washing and massaging the head, but also using wormwood pillows to cushion the back with warm compresses and free ear cleaning...... This set of washing scissors is only 45 yuan, and the price seems to be quite fair, but the sugar-coated cannonballs are still behind.

In the process, the shampoo girl will whisper to the side to sell how cost-effective their card is. After politely refusing, the haircut brother was another Amway. If you recharge homeopathically to become a member, the user level seems to have gone up a level, and there are small fruits to give away after cutting hair, and the shampoo used is said to be more "advanced".

While washing your hair, you can sell at the same time. /unsplash

And after becoming a distinguished VIP member, new doubts followed: Will this store suddenly run away and go out of business?

The price is expensive, the blind box is opened, and the card is ...... These are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the barbershop. And when young people pick up the clippers themselves, they are brave and more likely to be helpless.

From today onwards, be brave and get your own haircut. /pexels

Under the big wave of the beauty economy, this generation of young people pay more attention to cost performance, and do many things by themselves, which can not only get a new experience, but also reduce unnecessary waste. The same goes for cooking, and the same goes for haircuts.

Do it yourself, have plenty of food and clothing. The old saying I heard several times in my childhood will one day hit the eyebrows of young people.

*Song Chao and Lu Wei are pseudonyms

   Author Titan

      Edited by Wang Zhongzhong   

Proofread by Yang Chao

Typography Kyla

                Cover: Edward Scissorhands

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