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

TIL most dudes on Lemmy grow long hair

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.

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

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 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.

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

I think I had one back in the late 90s. Now-a-days nature takes care of it.

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

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

It's been like 6 months for me. I've gone over a year before. I have thrash metal hair though. lol.

3 weeks is my sweet spot. the barber is hot

whenever my family nags me about it too much lol

I donate my hair about every 18 months. 😉

Every 5-10 years as it's to expensive for me to get one and have to be incredibly lucky to get one.

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.

I cut my hair approximately once every three months

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.

When my wife states I'm looking too much like a murderhobo which can be from three months to a year depending.

The last cut was in 1999 to clean up an undercut. It got longer for about 15 years after that. Now it gets shorter, thinner, and balder, every day.

I trim my beard about once a month.

I haven’t had a haircut in about a decade.

I cut my hair myself, whenever I want a change :) (once every few months)

I shave my head 2-3 times a week.

Alright since we are on this topic, I am gonna ask how y'all keep a straight face when a mirror is placed in front of you for about 30-45m straight?

I cannot, for the love of god, stop my smile at all. Especially when I'm slowly transitioning to a new look, I just can't stop smiling when a mirror is placed in front of me. Feels extremely awkward when a guy is working on you and you starts smiling for no reason.

That being said, I'm due for a haircut now. Planning to do it by this weekend. Last I got my haircut was in June(!). So, a good 2½ months.

4-6 weeks

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

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

Twice a year. I always go for a short cut and then grow it out until it annoys me.

I never cared about having a consistent look.

6 to 8 weeks. If I allowed it, my vanity would have it closer to every 4 weeks but that's an expensive indulgence so I just look like a need a haircut a lot of the time.

As a woman I get my hair cut every 8 weeks.

Whenever my wife complains I look homeless and is willing to spend 20 minutes cutting it for me.

Which is roughly every 2-3 months I think. It'd be less often if I didn't have a wife and had to pay someone to do it, that shit gets expensive.

Every six weeks. Don't trim the beard though. Business up top... zz top down low

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)

I shave my head in the shower every couple of days. Trim my beard once a week.

My hair grows fast enough that if I wanted it to stay a specific style it’d need cut probably more than once a month. However, I typically just change the way I part it as it grows. It doesn’t look too bad at any stage, though I basically just slowly transition from looking like a fed to looking like the guys in the fourth Harry Potter movie lol.

It takes about 3-4 months for it to go from 2in on top to being annoyingly long. Probably closer to 5 for it to be like getting in my mouth when the wind blows.

And hey you can have long hair and still look “groomed” btw, just got to figure out how to style it right

Edit: I have straight hair btw with some but not a lot of natural volume. If I had curly hair I could likely let it grow longer without feeling the need to cut it.

I have long hair but I touch up my undercut every other week or so, i just do it myself

I would only cut my hair once a month or later if not for the neck hair. I get a cut once that shit becomes too long.

I shave it off once it starts looking like shit

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

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.

Our male apprentices, especially when they are eager to "score," have a haircut 2-3 times a month.
Then again, they also take their cars to the big car wash every single week, and meticulously vacuum the interior afterwards.

Every three to four months and I cut my own hair now too

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

Probably between 1-2 months for me.

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.

Almost never. I had long hair in high school and chopped it senior year due to this thing I was doing yearbook picture wise. Took years for it to grow out and this is where I made the big mistake. For versatility I went with a mullet because of I could throw a pony tail into my collard shirt and look all conformy. As I aged my hair grew slower and slower and it never grew all that fast to begin with. At this point my wife will clean me up before an inteview or such but otherwise I don't get it cut.

I haven’t had my hair cut since ‘08.

I could probably go get it done, but it looks alright and doesn’t seem to grow further than the small of my back.

I’m a 40-year old woman.

Quarterly

I think once every 2 months is about average. I wait 5 months.

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).

I go with a ponytail, and haven't had even a trim in 2 years.

If I had my preference I'd go in about once every few months to have more vivid hair dye applied, and get a trim then.