[The Wire]

(06-06-2016 12:34 AM)GoldHawkStar Wrote:  

1) Amazon for under $25 because it was slightly more durable and had a specific guard I wanted. It's the highest rated one on Amazon. As you go up in price, the quality of the trimmer goes up (to an extent). Spend even more and you'll get expensive haircut kits that come with all sorts of brushes and combs. Fuck that shit, we just need the electric clipper and a guard. If you're spending more than $25 on your clipper, you're doing something wrong.



2.) You should go no higher than a three guard on your buzzcut. Higher than a three is when it begins to look less like a buzzcut and more like normal, thicker hair. You're wanting to go with a short hair look.

3.) The entirety of your scalp hair should be the same length and the entirety of your beard hair should be the same length. For example, let's say you're going with 1/8" on the scalp and 5mm on the beard. The entirety of your scalp should be 1/8". Don't make the sides shorter. The entirety of your beard should be 5mm. No short sideburns with a longer goatee

Good post but there's some things i'd point out.

1. Don't cheap out on the clipper. For $70 you can get the same clipper found at barber shops(Oster fast feed).

2. The clipper guard length is going to be determined by your head shape. Some guys cannot pull off a #3 up top and it will look awful because their skull. For example Ryan Gosling looks goofy as hell with a tight buzz because his optical bone sticks out(back of his head) giving off a unbalanced look.






This is an extreme example but Gosling would need to have some kind buzz cut inspired look with at least a #5 uptop to balance it out but ultimately his best look is below. The problem is once you start to use clipper guards above 3 then you are correct it starts morphing out of a buzz cut and that essentially makes the hair much more difficult because you need to use different guards to fade the cut from the top to bottom. With that said using higher guards like a #5 can still give off a buzz cut look if your skull is shaped oddly. I would recommend going to a barber though if that is the case.