Does anyone know of a vaccum cleaner specifically designed to clean hair clippings off your neck and clothes after a hair cut?

Is he putting a cape around you that snaps tightly across your neck?

I don’t know of any such device, but seems like you could use any vacuum and put a soft brush attachment on the end.

Flowbee?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowbee

Dust busters have been good at this since 1979. There is also the suck cut

No. I’d just use a home vacuum and suck it

That little kid is going to be a good drummer one day

Hot shower works for me!

Unless someone tells me otherwise it looks like I’ll have to create something. I was thinking of a soft nozzle, that leads to a clear tank that unscrews so the hair can be dumped out. That would be connected to a dustbuster like device.

Ideally I’d like to get a haircut and be presentable and ready to go to work immediately rather than having to take a shower.

What do your hair cutters do?
Mine puts some kind of tissue around my neck and uses a cape but hair still goes down my neck and is loose on my head.

(I accept that this is a first world problem but surely I am not the only one on the planet who has wondered about this.)

My barber uses a small, standard canister type of vacuum. A really good vacuum that is not a canister type, but not specifically for barbers and hair, would be a Rainbow.

When I get a hair cut, the cape is snapped around my neck so no hair goes underneath it. Hair falls to the floor, since the cape covers my arms and legs. My hair is wet when the hairdresser cuts it, so it’s not flyaway, it’s heavy and stuck in clumps since it’s wet.

@jca2 @kritiper After your cut are there stil hair clippings left on your head? If you run your fingers through your hair while at your desk at home or the office do clippings drop on everything?

I imagine the device would look like a canister vac with a flexible hose with a flat flexible nozzle that is replaceable for each customer. Between the hose and the canister vac would be a clear plastic bottle about the size of a mayonnaise jar that would catch the clippings so they could be easily dumped out without having to empty the canister every time.

@LuckyGuy: After my hair is cut, the stylist blow dries it with the brush and dryer, so there’s definitely nothing loose.

Maybe if you had your hair washed and dried by the barber it would help, but I know men usually don’t get it done that way.

The problem here is the hairs are short. They get embedded everywhere. Clothes, everything. I shave my own stuff and I get nude before doing it and shower after and I still have tiny hairs in my fibers.

@LuckyGuy :: This is like perpetual motion. If it was a solvable problem it would have been done by now.

And fucking hell.. It always goes back to me having cancer…

But right when I started chemo and radiation I wanted to get ahead of the game and just shave everything. Do shit on my terms.

So I was in my bathroom, clippers in hand and ready to go to town. Then I thought that long hairs would be easier to clean up. If I trim them and then they fall out I have a goddamn nightmare. Tiny hair stubs all over my bedding.

This was the right decision.

And I have a Dewalt orbital sander. I bought a 20 dollar adapter to hook it up to a shop vac. It works well for dust. Might be a solid way to, possibly painful way to modify with a barbers brush.

You are the engineer.. So go wild.

Maybe putting powder on your skin before the cut will help? I see my husband has more problems with this than me. I think partly because he has more oils on his skin (I’m extremely dry) and also the hairs are thicker and shorter. I don’t know if he has trouble at the barber, but if I cut his hair it’s more tricky. Is your hair wet when it’s being cut?

@johnpowell Great answer. The short hair does make it different, and I love how you word things.

I think a Shark Vacuum accessory extender might be useful. It has a small opening for getting into crevice s with a rubber tip to prevent scratches.

I went to a barber supply site and saw this Royal Hair Vacuum unit. if is more of an industrial grade unit that would be useful for high volume barbers. Single hand use. Unhook the hose and the unit turns on. I saw a youtube video of a high volume barber shop in Japan that does men’s cuts in 10 minutes and they have central vacuum for this purpose. It reminds me of the car washes that offer free interior vacuums – hoses hanging from the overhead pump units always on and ready to go.

@johnpowell That adapter might be handy. I’ll keep playing with the idea.

You’re right about everything going back to the big C.

OMFG OMFG OMFG.. This is my favorite thing. A thing that is going to cause me a fuckload of anger for the rest of my life. THIS IS NOT HYPERBOLE

“I imagine the device would look like a canister vac with a flexible hose with a flat flexible nozzle that is replaceable for each customer. Between the hose and the canister vac would be a clear plastic bottle about the size of a mayonnaise jar that would catch the clippings so they could be easily dumped out without having to empty the canister every time”

Welcome to a long gross story. What you describe already exists. And it is a specialized tool that is wildly expensive.

I have really bad ear wax. It doesn’t just fall out like it does for normal people. I have “hairy” ears so it just gets stuck in there until my hearing deteriorates. Then I need to go in and have a doctor (nurse) go in and flush the ear out. But that doesn’t get it all so the doctor has to go in with a metal hook to scoop the wax out. This is like a hot poker. It is so painful but you can’t move since a metal rod is all up on your ear drum. It is bad enough I tried ear candles. Yeah, don’t do that.

Ear wax is a major problem and q-tips don’t work for us..

But years of painful and hour long ear flushings.

Around four months ago my right ear got a wax nugget lodged in a bad place and I couldn’t hear from it. And chemo killed my left ear so I was deaf. And then I did google shit to my right ear that let to some swelling and I was pretty much miserable.

But I had an appt with the Ear Nose Throat guy to do a endoscope to look for cancer. So he offered to help clear my ears.

And this was fucking amazing.

You know that articulating arm the dentist has that annoying orange light on? He had one of those. But at the end it had a camera, a hook, a water sprayer, and a vacuum… All in one little machine. Precision visuals, water jet, suction, and scraper all in one tiny package.

He cleaned both ears in under 10 minutes. I was in awe. Like seriously.. I went from enthusiasm to pure anger that I had endured 100 hours of flushing and hooks. When it could have been banged out in minutes.

Still pissed about that.

I really offended my sister since I called her right after it was done and told her “I just had a ear abortion”.

It was a bit abortion-like. But with ear-wax.

I asked to see what was removed from my ears. And there was a little quart plastic thing that could be swapped out that was filled with ear muck.

@LuckyGuy Sure. Any vacuum will leave something. That’s why I go straight home and take a shower and change my shirt.

As far as cleaning the floor goes, my hairdresser (who is pretty crafty) has a shop vac underneath the wooden floor of the shop, and there’s a hole drilled into the floor right over the vacuum. He turns the vacuum on with a wall switch, and then the hairs are swept into the hole and sucked up. Voila, hairs are vacuumed up and nobody has to bend over with a dust pan. Easy peasy!

@johnpowell That sounds like quite a clever device. “camera, a hook, a water sprayer, and a vacuum… All in one little machine. Precision visuals, water jet, suction, and scraper all in one tiny package.”
I wonder what they do with all the wax nuggets they collect. Fancy candles? :-)

Since human hair ranges from 40 – 120 microns in diameter I could put a filter on the outlet and keep the hair inside the jar. I already have lots of filter material in different sizes – 1 micron, 5, 10 , 25, 100 microns, – that I use for filtering my fish pond water. I could easily cut some to the correct size.
Clearly I am overthinking this.

BTW, if anyone needs any for an experiment, don’t buy it. I can put some in an envelope and send it to you.

@LuckyGuy -What if you used a lint roller?
Hopefully, your hair would be short enough to be rolled.
If not, you have just decorated your head. For awhile.

I always cut my hair wet so it stays clumped and together. Never had a problem doing it this way.

@LuckyGuy -Have your hair cut during a tornado good story to tell the kids,it will blow them away!

@LuckyGuy
Maybe create a comb and or razor that has a small vacuum built into its handle as the hairdresser cuts?
Think like a hair curler barrel but has tiny vac in it?

There are pet grooming attachments for vacuums that have soft bristles. That would probably work.

Takeing a shower is best. But I understand… You just took a shower, no time…. Gotta go…

Lint roller or duck tape.

Otherwise a wet towel and a change of clothes. (then again it’s in your ears and everywhere)

The vacuum has a large dust bag and can hold a lot of hair. Plus the bag doesn’t plug up with hair (and cause the vacuum to lose power) like it does with dust and dirt that gets sucked up around the house.
The barber has other customers waiting and can’t afford to spend a great deal of time trying to vacuum up every single little hair. It would help if the person getting a haircut and the barber could be suspended upside down and then less hair would fall down the neck.

@kritiper – a hairstyle cut upside down would look different right side up.