Wednesday, November 4, 2009

My Baby's First Haircut!

There comes a time in a person's life when their hair grows too long to pass as attractive. Many of you bloggers have kids, and I am sure you posted about their first haircut that you gave them. Well I don't have a baby yet. The only baby in my life is my husband Jason, and I just have him my first haircut. I have never ever EVER cut anyone's hair before in my life. Jason is such a good sport and has agreed to be my guinea pig as I learn to cut hair. I figure that it'll save us a lot of money if I can do our family haircuts myself, and it's about time I learn. Here are some before shots:


Things were going well. I felt like I was picking it up pretty fast, and I was pleased with how his haircut was going. Jason has such straight asian hair that it was pretty difficult. Here is some proof of how things were going:




Well, anyone that knows what it is like to give a haircut without any training knows that it is easy to go too short on one side, then go try and even out the other side, but end up going too short, so you go back to the other side, and it is just a vicious cycle! It was not my fault! I had no training. I just kept going back and forth, until this was our outcome: