My husband has been cutting his own hair for more than a year. I asked him for some advice. Search. ... do some Googling to make sure you don’t end up with a guard that’s too short or too long.

With every other aspect of my being stabilizing, I didn’t need my hair to be long and strong anymore. So I cut it—12 inches of it, and it was shockingly easy.

For most of my life, my hair has been long--mostly because I liked it that way, but also because I was always told that for "pleasantly plump" girls like myself, long hair was the way to go.