I'm a genius...well, that's my excuse.

Angilion

Angilion

Angilion

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Feel free to laugh at me for this:


I recently went from having waist-length hair to a 6mm shave. I bought some clippers so I could keep my head shaved myself. No sense paying a hairdresser to do such a simple "style".

It was getting slightly longer, so I was going to trim it back down to 6mm again when I got home from work tonight, as I do every few days. Pop out the clippers, pop off my glasses, start shaving.

Then realise it sounded a bit different to normal.

Then realise that I hadn't put the grading guard on.

That's how I found out that a strip a couple of inches wide going back a few inches from my forehead shaved to 1mm does not work at all well with 6mm hair on the rest of my head. I may have seen something that looks more ridiculous, but nothing comes to mind.

Geniuses are well known for being absent-minded.
I am absent-minded enough to forget to attach the very obvious guard.

Therefore I am a genius.

There may be a flaw or two in that logic :)
 
I had the guard fall off when I was using the clippers once. Sod's law it was on the back of the head and home-stretch too. Only solution is to work with the lowest grade. If you've taken it all off, you'll just have to do it all over and let it grow back.

Anyone else hate how their hair goes fuzzy after using clippers? I much prefer it about a week later when it gets that natural edge to it again.
 
Ive given up on guards and just use the clippers as they come now.
Mainly because somehow 2 teeth broke out of the guard and i ended up with a stripe on the back of my head.
Been pulled up by CPP (US army partol looking for GI's out on the drink past their cerfew) a couple of times since I started cutting my hair so short, quiet funny really. I'm way to fat and old to be army and im not american.
 
pics or it didnt happen :)
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Pics please :D
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Unfortunately, I am the one person in the western hemisphere who doesn't have a camera. So you'll have to do without pics.

Only solution is to work with the lowest grade. If you've taken it all off, you'll just have to do it all over and let it grow back.
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That's what I did. It looks odd at 1mm all over, but far less odd than before.
 
Tbh all you've done is cut out several weeks of diminishing blade cuts, you would have ended at unguardd anyway at some point.
 
I have exactly the same story.
Around 1998 I went from long hair to around 6mm and one night I forgot the guard, sweared and shouted a bit but quickly realised 1mm is best.
 
same happened to me, pics in picture of yourself thread :( I like hair cut every 2 weeks but not workinig thought i would save a few quid just shave it to 7.5mm. Will be saving money on beer in future.
 
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