Are you looking a little shaggy? Is your child sprouting a quarantine mullet? We’ve gathered a few resources if you’re ready to try cutting hair on your own!
A few great tips:
How to Cut Your Own Hair, If You Absolutely Must from Huffpost
How to Cut Your Hair at Home from Wired
Easy Tips for Cutting Your Kid’s Hair at Home from Parents Magazine
Selected video tutorials:
From Dedham Public Library: Learn how to cut your kids bangs from a professional stylist!
More on Bangs:
How to: Cut or Trim Your Own Bangs | Ask a Stylist Amber’s Beauty Chair
How to trim your own bangs during COVID-19 salon closures! | Charleen Hess
Men:
Basic Men’s Cuts at Home | Krissy Joy
How To Cut Your Own Hair with Clippers | Moms On The Clock
How To Cut Men’s Hair With Clippers For Beginners | Legit Mom Life
Kids:
How To Cut Toddler Boy Hair | The Mamas Review
How to cut boys hair at home – Scissor Haircut Tutorial | Like To Style
How to cut girls hair – Basic Girls Trim | Hair 101 with April
How To Cut A Little Girl’s Hair | Tara Brough
Women:
How to Cut Your Own Hair Straight | Patry Jordan English
How to Cut Your Own Hair – Short and Straight |Sharee Anonuevo
How I cut & layer my hair at home | Pick Up Limes
How I Trim My Curly Hair | Joy Before Her
How To Trim Your Own Hair | Natural Hair – Naptural85
While you’re at it, learn more about the historical/cultural significance of hair by checking out these films and documentaries available from your library online via Kanopy and Hoopla:
Grooming a Generation (2017) – In 2015 a pair of barbers in Ypsilanti, Michigan started a program: Read to your barber. Get a haircut. Get a two dollar refund.
Pelo Malo (Bad Hair) (2013) – In this Venezuelan film, a nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Good Hair (2009) – Chris Rock explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles in this award winning documentary.
The Village Barbershop (2009) – A small-time Reno barber stuck in a rut of haircuts is suddenly faced with a difficult decision after losing his longtime business partner. He has to hire the last kind of person on Earth he’d ever want working there: a woman.
Hairworld (2007) – This documentary follows Team USA as they compete in an international hair styling competition.
Hair (1979) – With exuberance, inventiveness and humor, Treat Williams and Beverly D’Angelo lead a cast of future stars in this film of one of Broadway’s most popular musical phenomenons of all time.
Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) – Visiting her cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), sweet-but-dull Bernice (Shelley Duvall) is transformed into a smooth-talking man-trap by her vampish kin. However, the “make-over” works too well, Bernice becomes the belle of the ball, captivating every boy’s interest…
Finally, if you’re extra invested, check out this hair and beauty video training series – from Australia, circa 1999 – available from Kanopy: TAFEshop Hair and Beauty Collection