Wild Unicorn Herd

A POC/non-white/mixie nerd scrapbook. Because we’re awesome.

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For fuckyeahqueercuts! I’ve been cutting my own hair for…jeez, at least a year? This is my routine:

  1. Tools: clipper with attachments, scissors, hand mirror. You also need a big mirror on the wall, like a bathroom mirror. Useful: towel over the sink to catch bits of hair, broom (or vacuum) to clean up the floor.
  2. I put my back to the bathroom mirror and hold the hand mirror in front of me so I can see the back, and clip the back of my head all the way up to the crown, using a shorter attachment near the nape of the neck.
  3. Same thing with the sides, but with my shoulder to the mirror. You have to bend your ear down to clip around it.
  4. Some parts of the sides you can do facing the bathroom mirror.
  5. I like to do the top more choppy-like, with scissors. Pinch a line of it between my fingers like so…
  6. …and cut bits of it, but not straight across—tilting the scissors and pushing them so they shear the hair off at an angle. Or aiming the scissors straight down so they only get narrow bits of hair.
  7. Or you can aim the scissors parallel to your head and cut random bits that way.

tl:dr; Use clippers on all the hair you can’t see from the front. (Practise without the clippers turned on, so you know by feel instead of sight—it gets confusing with a mirror.) Then use scissors on the parts you can see to cut random bits till it gets that choppy, kind of layered look.

Oh yeah, and attitude! You can have the ugliest hair ever and if you act like it’s supposed to look like that, people will believe you.

P. S. Forgot to put the attachment on the clipper and shaved a bald patch once. The world didn’t end. I wore cute scarves for a week (I looked like a butch Yenta) and kept cutting my hair with the clippers to get it closer to the shorter patch, and life went on.

P. P. S. Caveat: YMMV depending on hair type. My hair is straight, fine, and thick. Anon should look up tips for their particular hair type + ethnicity + whatever.

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I’m Going To Be A Spinster!

I just thought I would take this time to state the obvious.

Inevitable Things That I Don’t Give a Shit About:

  • The sun turning into a red giant and engulfing the earth in like five billion years
  • White Western feminism descending into a myopic nonprofit book deal circlejerk
  • Doctor Who being a complete hot mess
  • Me dying alone

Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to take some photos of my cat.