<p>Just curious...being a commuter I go to my barber who I've seen for a decade whenever I need a snip, but where do you college folks go, if at all?</p>
<p>It seems whenever my friends get back for winter break or summer break they haven't gotten a haircut in months. The guys look like total slobs and the girls, well some of them have hair almost down to their butts.</p>
<p>Any of you guys get haircuts while on campus and if so, how often and where?</p>
<p>It's strange how people want to grow hair, honestly...I know a dude who grew a ponytail and I know this girl who went from chin length to butt length. (Chin length looked way cuter on her, IMO). Meanwhile, I have had the same hairstyle almost since I was born...</p>
<p>I like having long hair but I just recently got a haircut a couple days ago. I just went to HairMasters down the road. They did a decent job on it. It was getting a little to long to handle so I got a few inches cut off. No big deal.</p>
<p>I get haircuts about once a month. I go to school in NYC so there are plenty of places around. I'm not huge on style (or budget, for that matter) so I usually go to Supercuts.</p>
<p>I'm a girl with hair to the shoulder. I have been having the same woman at the same salon cut my hair all my life, seriously. I have never been to another place and the only times I had a different person was when this woman was out on maternity leave. I have no intention of letting someone up near school cut my hair. I have heard waaaaay too many horror stories of people just going in for a trim and they come out with a couple of inches cut off. Because my mom forced me to have ear-length short hair and thick bangs as a child, I refuse to open myself up to the possibility of having anything like that again. You can't expect someone new to know what you like and don't like the first time you go to them. I am warning you now to just wait until you go home to cut you hair, at least for the first semester. Then I say make the choice yourself. I mean, it's your hair, and you'll have to live through the weeks or months of a bad haircut if they screw it up. I don't think its's worth the risk.</p>
<p>I actually never get my hair cut at "home"...I wouldn't really know where to go. All that's around are Hair Cuttery type places and salons behind people's houses staffed by 40- and 50-year-olds. I never went to one specific place while growing up, my mom would just drag me to the nearest available location when she thought my hair was too long, because she thought chin-length hair was "cute" on me. So I found myself a real salon to go to in Philly and I imagine that if I graduate and have to be stuck at home too long and need a haircut, I will just drive back to the city to go there again rather than taking a gamble with Susie the recent beauty school graduate at the mall chain salon.</p>
<p>I've been trying out different salons in the area (there are lots of them).
Great Clips gave me one really cute haircut.. but when I went back the second time they totally butchered it (one side longer than the other, back was two different lengths). One place I went was really good, but it's hard for me to justify shelling out $50 for a haircut. I only get my hair cut 2-3 times a year.</p>
<p>See, all of you who have had bad haircut experiences and those who say certain places are "ghetto", you're proving my point. Wouldn't most of you agree that it's better to have some split ends and a bit of shagginess than to have a lop-sided, too short haircut? I think so.</p>
<p>I've always gotten my hair cut at "ghetto" places. I only go for trims, and do all the styling myself. If it's ever been uneven nobody's been able to tell. I mean, people at chains aren't THAT incompetant that they'll cut it so uneven people will actually notice...especially if it's curly like mine. Even when I straighten it, I'm usually wearing some kind of jacket or collared shirt or sweatshirt, so the hair just piles all up around there anyway.</p>
<p>What I fear way more? Eyebrow waxes. I need to get mine done once a week, and I have no idea what I'll do when I go to college. Now I HAVE had those ****ed up royally a couple times...</p>
<p>I like my hair at a decent length, probably fairly long for a guy. I got my haircut before I left, then at Thanksgiving, and before I came back again. I go to a salon at home in NJ that I really like, and I am very wary to try new people to cut my hair. With short hair it really doesn't matter, but my hair needs someone talented and precise. Furthermore, I would never trust a man with my hair, thus I wouldn't go to a barber nor supercuts for that matter.</p>
<p>I don't see anything wrong with long hair, it looks much better on me. I hate short hair anyway. I suppose I will have to ask someone for a reputable salon near here, there is a campus barber, but I don't think I'd go that route.</p>
<p>You think you have problems? My hairstylist (middle-aged woman) had a very smart, talented son who got scholarships to attend school OOS.
His first vacation home, no haircut. He knew she'd take it as a knife to her heart and very disloyal.
Before his next vacation home, he emailed her to be forewarned; that he had begun to check out the area barbershops. Just lurking. Knowing the trade, he watched how people looked as they exited the shop, and also he looked in the window for the quality hair products she used. She felt honored.
WHen he showed up hair-cutted, she critiqued it, but then boasted to all her customers that she had raised one smart son.
Next juncture, she went to visit him on campus and asked, "Well, do I bring my scissors or not?" He said to do so (good son) and let her cut his hair in the motel room where she stayed. Just for old times' sake.</p>
<p>I got my hair cut just above the shoulder when I turned 16. I am turning 19 in a few weeks and I'm about 4-5 inches past waist length. I guess haircuts at college haven't beeen much of a problem for me.</p>
<p>Well, I usually argue between going to the schools barber, which is free, although they really suck, but what I've done lately is borrowed a friends clippers and cut my own hair every week or so. Nothing like a high and tight.</p>