![]() In many cases, they save the date of the haircut for Lag B’Omer. In the Chassidic tradition, the first haircut of a child is done once he reaches three. This is the look that Ashkenazi men above the age of forty go for. Similar to the Side Shave, the barber however doesn’t take any time to fix the error of undercutting the guy’s hair. You can make it sound cool by telling people, it is the “I got the haircut three weeks ago Fade look.” The Step Got to leave the 2 on the clippers for the payot otherwise known as sideburns. For those who don’t know, saying “That is the new style” is how all new styles start. This style started when a barber got lazy, put down the clippers and said, “That’s enough…I’ve been working too hard.” At that point, when only half the job was done and all the hair on top was still there, the barber told the person in the chair, “This is the new style.” Now all the kids are doing it, calling it the Fade. The side gets cut, but nothing is done to the top. For this reason, and the Grow Long Ben Gurion look, Kippahs become bigger. Many people get carried away with the shave cut, especially with the Do It Yourself. The big Kippah look is something you will see at this time of year. I figured that I had the ability to move something from one side of my scalp to the other and charge for it. I started doing this after I got a Number 2. This is similar to the Number 2, just that the hairline on the back of the neck is crooked. The Grow Long doesn’t work for balding men, like myself. The Grow Long is for people who got used to not cutting or shaving and are now embracing the new lifestyle of relaxation and unemployment. When the barber puts clippers to your hair on the number six setting and cuts nothing off your head. The barber then took the mirror and showed me the back of my head, just to add to my tears. ![]() I told him, “Number 2 is not a style.” I was wrong. The first time I got this haircut, upon my Aliyah (move to Israel), I was crying. The barber then makes it look professional by brushing the hair off the apron, and charges you twenty dollars. After sitting there for a minute, the barber is done. The haircut is done by a barber who takes clippers and runs them over your head. You can always go with the “Big Kippah Look” The Number 2 With that in mind, here are some of the shaving and cutting traditions and styles of Lag B’Omer that you will see: Of course after five weeks of no hair cutting, Lag B’Omer and beyond has become male haircut and shaving season. From Pesach to Lag B’Omer, the 33 rd day of the Omer, it is a customary to refrain from getting haircuts and many men do not shave as a sign of mourning for Rabbi Akiva’s students who passed away approximately two thousand years ago.
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