Everything I Wish I Knew Before Getting A Buzzcut

Have you ever gotten a SUPER short cut? :D Any tips or tricks you want to share with the rest of the class?

I was around 19 when I buzzed mine for the first time and my biggest revelation was how many guys felt a need to tell me that it was unattractive for a woman to have short hair. Which, you know, made me keep the style for the next 10-15 years 😂 no one is gonna tell me how to wear my hair. I think it's really cool that you did it just because you thought it would be fun 😄

I went from hip-length hair to a pixie cut when i was in my 20s and my number one regret was that somehow the entire time it was short, it didn't occur to me to put it up in a shampoo fauxhawk and sing in the shower like Ferris Bueller. Don't skip that experience, folks!

The hair dye game is solid. She's got a white shirt on. That level of skill and confidence. Whew.

I remember watching your "500 years of haircuts" video. I assumed that was all in one day, didn't realize you filmed over several days, living with each step for a while. That actually makes me feel better; I'm glad you had that experience more fully than I had previously thought. <3

This current length is insanely cute on you. (They all have been but this one hits like snow white and I'm here for it)

Handy hint from a habitual hair dyer - micellar water will remove hair dye off your skin, and acetone will remove it from counters.

I'm thrilled to see people be themselves. I grew up in the 80s when everyone tried to look the same. It's taken me 50+ years to be me and I'm thrilled to see the younger generations breaking the molds. I LOVE that fun colors are more common. Your mix of dark natural color and the rainbow fringe is so fun. Keep inspiring each other!

I buzzed my head back in 2018, and honestly I was not anticipating the response that I got. I was expecting kind of a mixed bag of responses, but the comments I got both online and in public were overwhelmingly positive. That, and I had so many middle aged and older women come up to me to talk about how they were dealing with hair loss and had thought about/wanted to shave their heads as well, but were so scared of it. It really felt like an honor to be able to talk to these women about their own relationships with their hair, and the thoughts I had when I decided to buzz mine. Additionally, I never felt more feminine than when I had my buzz cut. I would 10000% do it again and again and again

I have ultra fine naturally blonde hair and it started thining markedly because of alopecia so, I bit the bullet and asked my hubby to shave my head totally. I now have a blast wearing wigs and I’m now behaving disgustingly for a 63 year old. I’ve become eccentric and don’t care what people think now which is a massive change from being very self conscious

also I want to say you're never too old to have fun with your hair!! my dad in his 50s and currently has blue hair! he dyed it for the first time in July when his band played at pride, so he went rainbow first!!

I love my hair as it is now, but my sister just started chemotherapy and i told her that if she ends up having to buzz her hair, i'll do it with her. I'm kind of scared but my sister feeling supported means a lot more to me than my hair ✨️❤️

About adjusting: I went from tailbone to chin lenght (once in a cut, I donated the braid, best decision ever). For about a couple weeks after the cut I kept trying to move around an invisible braid while doing things! The automated gestures of having a braid hunging around were a new discovery when I had not the said braid anymore.

One really unexpected benefit of having worn a buzz cut for a while (and liking it) is that it's made me feel a lot more carefree about anything else I ever try with my hair - "well, if I hate it, I'll just shave it off" is always on the table as an option.

A year already! That hair video was probably the most brilliantly crafted, superbly organised, well edited and interesting vid I have seen on YouTube, and I have watched it multiple times over the months. I remember the shock I had when you first casually took out the scissors…and then again…and again!! So many YouTubers make an enormous fuss about just getting bangs, and there were you (whose content was in large part hair-related!) blithely cutting away without vanity or hesitation or histrionics. So great to have an update and hear the answers to some questions I had mulled over at the time. Your hair suits you so well in so many styles (and colours!), looking forward to seeing the fun you have with it over the next 12 months!

As a professional hairdresser, I have found this video so so helpful! This gives me an idea of the process that I hadn't considered before and helps me help my clients! Thank you for such a well documented video, even though you lost a lot of footage, you explained your point incredibly well! Keep it up!!

I had a pixie cut for years. Also working in retail. Number one comment I received was, “you’ll look so pretty with long hair”. There were rumors that a couple of guys had a crush on me, but won’t ask me out because my hair was too short😮!

As far as being treated differently, having a buzz cut and a shaved undercut pixie, I got treated WAY differently in a positive way. I got SO many compliments and praise, almost every single day I got hair compliments. The most common one was people telling me I was “brave” for having short hair. It got to the point that I was afraid to grow my hair back out because I felt I would be losing something that makes me unique and special and gets me compliments. I’m growing it out now to see how it makes me feel and go from there!

I love that for practically every month you said some variation of "I look cute" or "I feel cute"! It's so cool that you were able to experiment with different styles and find things you liked at the different lengths your hair grew to 🥰

I’m a girl who had a buzz cut from late middle school to early college, and sometimes when I met someone new and knew them for at least a couple of months, they’d say something along the lines of “Your hair is growing back reaaally slowly.” Kinda bummed me out that some folks assumed that I had that hairstyle unwillingly. There were other people saying it looked cool, though, and wherever y’all are, I hope your pizza rolls always come out the ideal temperature for immediate consumption.