Ear lowering
This weekend, I cut Steve's hair.
Now, up until this point, I'd never cut anyone's hair! Unless you count cutting dolls' hair as a child. Or trimming my own bangs, which, let's be honest, is really just following the edge the hairdresser left and making it a few centimeters shorter.
There were a few reasons Steve wanted me to cut his hair.
1. His mother has cut her husband's and three boys' hair over the last nearly thirty years. If this non-professional (with 30 years of non-professional hair-cutting experience, of course) can do it, so can I!
2. My mom has cut my dad's hair, also for the last 30 years. It must be in my genes.
3. Steve always goes to the beauty school where, although the girls are well-trained in hair cutting theory, many of them are absolute real-hair cutting novices. Her name was Nadia, it was her first time with a man...
So. We bought a set of clippers and set to work. Even the longest clipper setting seemed awfully short to me, so while I used it to do the back and sides, I cut the top by hand. Steve's hair is curly, so I can't honestly be sure any of this was even. In fact, I'm fairly certain it wasn't. But it was done, and, as Steve pointed out, not any worse than what those beauty school beginners have done in the past.
EXCEPT.
When the clipping and trimming was done, Steve told me to take the attachments off the clipper and "clean up" the edges. My first mistake was starting on his left sideburn, instead of the back. Somehow, it didn't occur to me that without the attachments, the clipper was more of a shaver. Yes, that's right, I REMOVED HIS LEFT SIDEBURN COMPLETELY. I just meant to make it shorter! And neater! ACK!
Steve swore it was fine, and even laughed at my horror. Maybe I should have taken the right one off, too, to make them even... but I didn't. I cleaned up the right one appropriately so that from one side, at least, his hair looks normal. It's possible that from the front, he's entirely lopsided, but from the right, he's good.
So. First haircut not entirely a success. I have at least two more to go to make the price of the clipper set worthwhile over getting haircuts at the beauty school. Hopefully, I improve significantly by the next time.