I'm a dude who has had many questionable hair choices. Whether it was because I was young, dumb, poor, cheap, whatever... My last barber fled the country after having an incredibly traumatic experience where one of her dogs drowned and she nearly went down as well. I got a farewell cut the day she sold her shop, and now she's in Mexico with a mid-life crisis thing going on.
That happened last summer, and my hair at the moment is maaaaaybe long enough to braid, but there is some impending legislation to change who can do that.