When was the last time you visited the hair-dressers?

About three years ago. I feel like it's the most uncomfortable environment, there is a huge mirror in front of you making you feel self-conscious and you're forced to engage in small talk with a stranger. Luckily I've since found a hairdresser who comes to my house and she's lovely, she came round two days ago and cut my hair.

'Going anywhere nice on holiday this year?'

"So what are you studying?" ... "Oh, wow how interesting"

Cut my own hair, one of the best investments I've ever made.

About three years ago. I feel like it's the most uncomfortable environment, there is a huge mirror in front of you making you feel self-conscious and you're forced to engage in small talk with a stranger. Luckily I've since found a hairdresser who comes to my house and she's lovely, she came round two days ago and cut my hair.

how on earth do you do that? unless you go for the skinhead look?

I want to try but scared I'll **** it up

You need a mounted mirror or a large mirror you can get close to, and a smaller, handheld mirror.
I start with the scissors, and I usually have an idea like throughout the month about what parts of the top are too long or could be cut shorter and how i'll go about it the next time etc.. so i start with the front, sweep it over and down my face and just take sorta snippets using the scissors in a vertical way. the idea is not to cut squarely horizontally, but to just hold them upright and take cuts into small groups of hair if that makes sense?
Move onto the top, you decide how long you want it. Ideally this works for shorter hair but mine was quite long, not inaccurate to say its medium length. Run your hands through your hair, and bring your fingers together. If its long or at least bundled in straight lines between your fingers, snip away at the desired length. Do this all over the top, I usually went shorter as it progressively reached the sides.
Then, making use of the handheld mirror, turn away from the larger mirror and use that as a reflection for the back of your head, which you see as itself a reflection of the handheld mirror. Take clippers, adjust to the length you desire but starting the longest. clipper the whole side of the head, do both sides. Say youre using a 5 guard on the clippers, make a rough mental note as to where you want that length to end on your head. get progressively lower in the length of guards, rinse repeat. the back is essentially the same, except the top third of the back of my head will be the same length as he top of the sides (5 to repeat the example), and then progressively shorter as I see fit. Just make sure their isnt some crazy rediculous contrasting hair length with the back and sides.. keep it relatively uniform. the bottom half of your hair feel free to just go as short as you want.

Alternatively, what I did before going 2 all over was scissor the front, number 7 all over the top and then did the sides. Alot less hassle using clippers.
My hair length throughout points:

Also, a video that I think you'd find helpful.. :