Side Designs?

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Permalink Reply by Segadoway on April 2, 2010 at 6:23am

Get a friend to do it, or a hairdresser, otherwise you do it with clippers, or a set of precision clippers if you want to get more complex designs.

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Permalink Reply by terror on April 2, 2010 at 1:50pm

When I bought my clippers I got a "beard trimmer" thing that I used to do checkers a few times, never tried anything more adventurous.

Just experiment, the worst case is that you'll have to shave the sides back down all over.

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Permalink Reply by Kobalos on April 6, 2010 at 9:19pm

I'm gonna sound daft here, but I wonder if you have short enough sides (I'm thinking a less than half-a-cm), if you could use a cardboard stencil and an electric clipper? Never tried it...perhaps I will sometime - see if my idea makes a mess of my own hair. :D I suspect getting the sharp, clean edge round the design would be tricky by yourself.

But yeah, I still reckon the only way it'd work well is if you get someone else to do it.

I've yet to find someone who says they do their complicated side-designs themselves. I can manage stripes fine though myself, even round the back with the help of mirrors, but anything more complicated I've not tried.

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