You can learn how to cut your own hair in various haircutting courses, at hairdressing colleges or beauty schools. However, there is also the option of learning this as part of a distance learning course, where you have a specialist teacher at your side who will supervise you online and where you can organize your learning time independently. You will learn with digital and/or printed learning booklets and have access to the online campus with a digital teaching environment. This allows you to learn flexibly in terms of time and location.

A course in cutting your own hair is ideal for anyone who would like to create fashionable and perfectly styled hairstyles for themselves, their family or friends, who have already gained some experience in cutting their own hair and would like to deepen their knowledge, who are considering retraining in personal care and would like to learn the necessary basic skills, and for those who would like to learn more about this subject.

A distance learning course on the subject of "Cutting your own hair" can be chosen in two different ways. On the one hand, there is the option of receiving the course documents exclusively in digital form. In this case, the costs amount to CHF 520 (as of 2018). For a course with both digital and printed course materials, the course costs CHF 600 (also as of 2018). For up-to-date information, please contact the training provider directly using the contact form.

Professional hairdressing equipment is not usually included in the price of a self-styling course. However, you can usually obtain this directly from the school at a reasonable price.

During a haircutting course, participants learn how to cut their own hair step by step. They first receive an introduction to styling and learn everything important about the function and structure of the hair, hygiene and care. They will then learn how to balance the look with suitable hairstyles, the basic technical terms and the working materials and how to use them. Last but not least, hair cutting is practiced extensively and commented on. They learn how to cut ends, graduation and blunt cutting, which haircut suits them and others, how the shape of the face and head influences the hairstyle, how to make convex cuts, cut bangs, make a concave cut, cut a bob, create a layered haircut, how to effilate and shape, slice, point with the point-cut technique, create a fringed women's haircut and a men's haircut as a round cut and barrel haircut, how to cut a short hairstyle for women and an asymmetrical bob.

Knowledge of haircutting and styling is not necessary for a do-it-yourself haircutting course. You will learn everything you need to know to cut hair without a hairdresser in this course.

Depending on the type of course, the time it takes to learn how to cut hair yourself can vary greatly. The distance learning course on haircutting listed here takes eight months to complete. However, participants who prefer to learn at a slower pace or have very little time available can extend the course duration by up to 36 months. With the conventional standard study period of 8 months to learn haircutting, a work and learning effort of around six hours per week is expected.