Alright I know the first answer to the question "how do you cut your hair at home?" is "don't" but the mayor shut down all the barbers and salons in town. I'm also at a higher risk of developing complications from COVID, so I don't know how much I want to risk going out of town, nor do I want to be the typhoid mary who spreads it to an otherwise healthy community if I'm already a carrier. I'm just sick of growing a mop on my head!

Adding to the complexity is that I have an application for a job I really want out there, that I think I have a really good shot at. Now, the job would be a position at the university LGBTQ center, so they aren't strangers to wild haircuts. I just want a haircut that doesn't make me look like I've lost complete control over my life.

Any advice? I tend to get shorter cuts--clippers on the sides and scissors on top. The only tool I have at home is a set of cheap clippers with an adjustable guard (3mm to 20mm, and about 1mm between each setting), and some teeny mustache-trimming scissors.

Urm I have no practical experience aside from the typical I cut my own hair kids do under age 10. Have you checked youtube videos? There might be ideas there. I mean I know how hair dressers usually pull hair with a comb or fingers and determine the length to trim off, but I don't know their trick behind it.

However I will say always leave it longer then you think you want it. You can always take more off, you can't add it back.

I'm agree with Core. There are a plenty of turtorial films on YouTube how to cut your own hair.

For myself it's simpel. I'm a woman, but I have shaved my head bald tough.

I've cut my own hair for twenty years, though in practical terms it's down to nothing. Honestly, I prefer nothing to thinning hair. At least I look more like a T-600 that way.