How To Clean Up Forehead Hairline With Clippers Men

Give Yourself a Buzz Cutting Now

Yes, you tin use bristles clippers. Yes, you will brand a mess. Yes, it will grow back. And yep, you can utilize this to cut someone else's hair.

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Our brave model, reporter Michael Gold, will offer his experience at each stage of giving himself a buzz cutting.

Published April 15, 2022 Updated April 26, 2022

How can y'all give yourself a buzz cut? Here, let us prove you.

You lot will need:

Clippers with guards, which attach to the clippers and command the length of a cutting
A mirror, plus maybe another mirror or a phone.
A garbage purse or towel
A comb or hair pick, depending on your pilus blazon

One annotation: Yes, y'all can use whatever you have. A beard trimmer or even (make clean!) canis familiaris clippers tin can work. If you have clippers only no guards, just know that you will take a very short cut. A beard trimmer works, simply volition have more than time.

Michael Gold, a full general assignment reporter on The New York Times Metro desk-bound covering news in the New York City region, agreed to effort it at home. Desiree Marshall, a barber who works at Classic Men barbershop in Brooklyn, walked usa through how to practise a simple buzz cut.

Step one

Prepare Your Work Surface area

Cinemagraph — Michael's tip: "Recall about where you're standing, and where the hair is falling. At the very least, cleave out some time to clean your bathroom."

Showtime with make clean, dry out hair that's complimentary of any gel, pomade or conditioner. Cover yourself with a towel or garbage bag so you lot don't get hair all over yourself. If you're cut over a sink or counter, consider putting down a rag or paper towels for easier cleanup (or to not clog your drains). Situate yourself in forepart of a mirror. It helps to accept someone cut your hair for yous, every bit they volition take a ameliorate view of your caput, but it'due south possible to do this alone. And if you lot're beginning with longer hair, it may exist helpful to pull information technology into a ponytail and chop the excess hair off with scissors earlier beginning the fizz cutting.

STEP Ii

Brush, Brush, Brush!

If you have straight hair, wavy hair or hair with looser curls, use a comb to brush the hair on the top of your head forward toward your forehead. Comb the back and the sides downward and comb through any knots, if you have them. If you have super curly, thick pilus or an Afro, use a pick to comb the hair out as full as possible.

Stride three

Choose Your Own Adventure

Ideally, yous're using clippers with a baby-sit for your preferred length.

Here is a cursory guide:

If you want a very close-to-the-scalp cut: choose no guard.
If y'all still want to castor your hair, but not take to do much with it: choose guard numbers 1 to three. (The number volition vary depending on your hair texture and thickness.)
If you want hair long enough to pull with your fingers: choose guard number four or higher. (Whatever guard beneath a four volition generally upshot in pilus besides short to brush through with your fingers.)

Step Four

Mow

Turn your clippers on. Commencement from the brow and fizz the hair back to the crown of your head.

You want to hold the trimmer and so the blade is flat confronting your head. Going in small sections, slowly move the clippers from one end to the other — you will take to go over sections a few times to get an even look. If you're using a tool other than clippers, this process may have longer. E'er use gentle strokes.

To do the sides, get from your sideburns dorsum to the crown.

For cut the back, guide the clippers from the base of operations of the cervix to the crown, going against the direction your hair grows. If you lot're doing the cut yourself, this is where you'll use a mitt mirror to run into what y'all're doing to the back of your caput.

Step five

Don't Forget Your Ears!

Await over your piece of work in the manus mirror, checking for spots you may take missed. Be sure to fold your ear downward and so you don't miss cutting the expanse effectually and behind your ears. Once you feel you've achieved an even look, you're done.

Tips

If you have no experience cut hair, now is not the time to effort an at-home fade or other way that requires a lot of technique. For beginners, sticking to a buzz cutting is best.
If your clippers aren't grabbing hair, switch to a lower number of baby-sit.
Take some "earlier" photos in advance, in case of disaster. "I still spent the morn stockpiling selfies for dating apps, my Instagram close friends and sentimentality's sake, just in case something went horribly wrong," Mr. Gold told usa. "It'due south important to be prepared!"