I've just botched OH hair. AIBU?

I used to cut OH hair. We had bought some electric clippers with loads of attachments and you could extend and retract the cutting blade, after a while we got quite adept at trimming his hair. Well, one particular time a family friend, being impressed with the OH haircut, asked us to tidy up his hair..............yes, you've guessed it, I forgot to extend the cutting blades! Oooops!

Hereshoping, have you told him how you (and probably everyone else around him) feel about his hairstyle? He may think it looks really cool!

I wish mine would get his hair cut.
When he was working , he used to get it cut (sheared) annually.
Now he's retired (9 years ago) he refuses to get it cut. The shed hairs clog up the hoover, have ruined the carpet washer and frankly he looks a fright.

There was the occasion when my dear Mr. G decided to take the beard trimmer (motorised variety) to his head - he created a nice little airstrip (the thing apparently slipped) so I had to take over and gave him a number 0 cut - he was a billiard ball for a bit - at the time he was in his thirties and quite good looking, fit, etc, no tum, so he could get away with it - he never tried that again!

Fennel is it wise to encourage your husband to visit a ‘cheap young lady.’

In my part of Greater London a haircut and shampoo cost me £10. I share in my hairdressers' lives (the lady has a daughter in her first year at university, the man has a private pilot's licence), and they know that all I want is a number four.

Just a thought: do any of you let your husbands cut your hair?

Just another thought: do all you sheep-cropping wives ask your shorn husbands if they want anything for the weekend?

That last post reminded me I forgot to buy tweezers in town today - I've lost mine!

Sounds tempting to me as well, Yorkshiregirl, if they’d change the cut-throat shave for a bit of judicious plucking.

New Turkish barbers near me, and all male family members raving about it. A full pamper for men (why not ?) £22.
Hair cut, cut throat shave, hot towel, facial steam, facial, eyebrows, ear candles, nasal wax.
Men in my family aren't in the leadt effeminate but love this
A Male friend puts so much a week in a jar for this treat.

My ex had a female friend who latched onto him like a leech.
She would go round and do his ironing, housework and so on. (Always when I was at work)
One day she cut his hair and really messed it up.
Because he had really curly locks (afro) and she had shaved it almost to his head in a strip down the middle, he looked like a clown with two big puffy bits at each side.
He asked if I would sort it out... and I said no.
"You're really going to be that childish and not do it?!"
Me: "Yep!"

Oh, I have put the wrong comb on Mr P’s hair and gouged a chunk out. I didn’t tell him as it was at the back. He went about oblivious until we visited my daughter and she said, “I see you have been cutting dad’s hair again”.
He looked bemused but didn’t cotton on. It soon grew in, thank goodness. I take more care now. ?

Someone not so far from where I am sitting (on my own btw) may or may not have tricked a drunken ex, when he complained that he had grey hairs, that they had a brown dye. I didn't, they had a burgundy dye. Deeply satisfying.......

I used clippers on my oh for years as he was too tight to go to Barber. Night before a business trip abroad he wanted a "trim" so I got the clippers and started the trim. I started then realised I hadn't put the no 2 comb on I had scalped a large rectangle at the back of his head . My dd and I were laughing while I tried to rectify it and he kept asking what was wrong bet the businessmen in those far fling lands thought it was how British men did their hair

I am not a hairdresser but my husband likes the way I cut his hair using scissors. Also cut my sons hair and daughters. j Both have very tight curly hair and you can't notice any mistakes.

I always do my hubby's hair. When I start giggling, he knows I've used the wrong comb and shorn him! He just laughs and says it will grow back quick enough. I tell him that if he doesn't treat me right, I'll take it out on his hair.

I started cutting my children's hair when they were small - didn't do too bad a job except one time when I nicked an ear . Then I got one of those haircutting sets with clippers. Now even my daughter-in-law asks for a trim when she visits - she has quite long hair and just wants a bit off the ends.
My OH is now nearly bald, so doesn't take long. But sometimes he asks youngest daughter to do it for him and gives her a hefty tip - a lot more than he would pay if he went to barber. I only get a kiss for my trouble!

My dad always said there was only a fortnight between a good hair cut and a bad one.

Sorry - Grammaretto!

Good grief Amaretto, where does your husband have his hair cut? Are you in London? Here in the N/West, DH can get a good cut for £8 - £10.

Would it have been so bad to look a bit unkempt for a few days? Leave the man alone for goodness sake.

In a roundabout way you have made him do what you wanted in the first place - go to the barber. Don't fret - no matter how awful it looks it'll grow back.

He is home looking like a shorn lamb. I am being diplomatically silent on how much smarter he looks........and he has had his nasal hair removed!
I love his new barber.❤️

Have given this further thought and decided not to risk cutting DH's hair myself. If I made a mess of it (almost a certainty), he wouldn't get it sorted out professionally (he has zero vanity), and I would be suitably punished by having to look at it all the time.

I've been cutting DH's hair and beard for 40 years, though I'm not a hairdresser. He had a barber cut for our wedding and looked like a tailors dummy! Thereafter he refused to go to the barbers. I like his hair left a bit longer so I don't take too much off. What we save on his haircuts goes towards mine.

I cut my DH's hair in the first year we were married and we had a major row. He would not speak to me for 2 days.
Needless to say I now leave it to the experts!!