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I only get my hair cut like 2 to 3 times a year. Basically when it starts getting in my eyes and becoming a nuisance. I rarely trim my facial hair too. Just once it starts becoming annoying to eat messier foods.

Lemmy is not a good source for the average man's grooming habits

5 weeks is my sweet spot, i wear it short-ish and 'messy' (using wax/pomade) and at about 5 weeks it gets a little bit long to spruik up and starts floppi g over and getting long at the back.

Every few months, for short cuts, but it would be more if I wanted to keep the shape.

2-3 weeks? By 5 weeks I look a little scraggly (I’m balding, so it’s not great to let it go too long, unless I’m dressing as a mad scientist for something)

anything more than 4 months is too long. since asians hair grows much faster, reach 3-5inches will start to irritate my skin(have atopic dermatitis)

3-6 months, just self cut for the first time. Longer hair, don't know what to call the style. Like a bob with the back 80% heavily layered and the front hair being the longest (a bit past my chin).

Curly hair, so it often looks shorter than it is. I let it grow until it gets heavy enough to be annoying. 6 months to a year, maybe.

Haven't had a haircut since COVID. Now I just keep it long, I'll cut off a few inches every few months.

Companies I work for ignore it because I've become a valuable greybeard, so I get away with stuff like that

For both men and women, the type of hair style matters. Long flowing can go 6 months between cuts. The shorter the cut and the more detail the more often it needs to be cut. 6 weeks is often the case for short cuts. If shaved parts, every week might be necessary. In warm weather more often than in cold weather.

I'm a long hair but I still go once a month or so to get a trim.

Not often enough. It looks pretty ratty by the time I force myself to go. Maybe 4-6 months?

I’ve always been annoyed by haircuts so it’s difficult to motivate myself to go. However by the time I settle on a new location to regularly use, they close down. Then it’s that much more annoying o find a new place I don’t hate

I do trim my beard weekly though. Since I have the tools and know how to use them. Currently I have a full beard but cut very short, and shave my neck - shaving a straight line is tough to do

3 to 4 months. From short to thick helmet style and it starts getting annoying to style and it starts generating too much heat inside to survive.

I shave my head 2-3 times a week.

My husband has straight hair he keeps in a tight fade, like nearly bald on the sides to very short at the top, and gets his hair cut every 2 weeks. I (lady, curly hair) can go a year between, just get it cut in short layers and let them grow out to long layers. The two of my kids who like theirs short but not crazy short go a month or two between.

Basically the shorter it is, the more you have to cut it - hair grows, on average 1/2 inch (13mm) per month, so mine has a 6 inch tolerance (it doesn't really look like 6 inches of vertical growth since it isn't straight) but my husband, with such straight and short hair, has a quarter inch tolerance.

I shave it off once it starts looking like shit

haven't cut my hair in years, long hair supremacy.

I bought the proper hardware to cut my own hair, learned how to do the fades. It's easy to keep it the same length all the time this way.

Mainly I just got sick of paying so much for a 10 minute cut.

Edit: I'm not gonna say it was smooth sailing from day 1 I should add, I buzz cut my failures off as I was learning a couple times lol.

I cut my hair when it bothers me. I don't keep track of the interval.

TIL most dudes on Lemmy grow long hair

Once a year. I look like an animal all the time

I get mine done about every 1-2 months. Usually when it starts poking me in the ears and getting annoying.

My mate at work who's very fashion conscious gets his done every 3 weeks or so.

Once a month.

It's actually become a bit of a self-care routine because I go to a Turkish barbers who'll also do ear hair burning off (nowhere near as intense as you're imagining), noise hair waxing, and a hot towel cut-throat shave.

I actually like the sensations from them all and I walk out feeling clean and fresh, gives me a monthly little boost of confidence.

I cut my own hair every weekend. I'm in the military, though (and no, I don't just shave it). I found that I do it more to my liking (and consistently) than the barbers I've gone to, it only takes 20 minutes, I don't have to pay $30, and I can shower immediately after. I use a 6 (3/4 inch) on top, a 3 (3/8 inch) around the curve transitioning to the sides, and then fade down from there, 2 to 1.5 to 1 and finally .5 (1/16 inch) around my ears, side-burns, and most of the back. Keeps everything clean, I always look good, and I spend about $40 every year or two.

Quarterly

Every 1 or 2 weeks. I buzz the whole thing with #1 guard on the clippers.

Well, first let me say that you should go to the barber as often as you want, not as often as an average man does.

I personally go every 3 months because I have long hair and only need to get it into a bit of shape regularly. If I had a short hairstyle I would go more often.

I haven't had a haircut since I was 19 (I am currently 40).

I buzz my head about once a month, otherwise I start to look bald.

i shave my head twice a week, because i have the fantastic luck to have incredibly thick hair, and since 22, mpb.

About every 3-4 weeks.