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A poll-style thread on 5ch’s Hello! Project board asked, “How often do you guys get your hair cut?” Answers ranged widely, from once every three weeks to once every four months, and replies split over whether the “once a month is normal” camp or the “once every 3-4 months is plenty” camp was more common. Some posts cited Recruit’s 2025 Beauty Census (an annual salon-industry survey), noting that visit frequency tends to rise with age. Differences tied to hair type and style — from shaved heads to naturally curly hair — also became a talking point.
What people said
I switch up salons every now and then
Sometimes as often as every 2 months
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Shaving your whole head sounds like a hassle
I've got curly hair
Probably every 2.5 to 3 months
Or is once every 3 months more common?
Guess that explains why otaku have no sense of cleanliness lol
Cutting it myself is a pain too
What kind of minority opinion is that lol
Normal according to who, lol
So that's roughly 1cm a month
Used to be every 2 months back when I was young
As my hair's gotten thinner, my haircut intervals have gotten shorter too
Something like this, but I can easily go 3 months
At around this length you can actually keep it going for a while
Short hair gets messy fast
What kind of job do you have?
Super comfortable
Frequency goes up the older you get, huh
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
There’s no single “correct” answer for how often to visit a hair salon or barbershop, and not realizing that is exactly what makes claims like “once a month is normal” and “every three months is plenty” talk past each other. Recruit’s 2025 Beauty Census, cited in the thread, shows that visit frequency tends to rise with age, suggesting that differences in generation, hairstyle, and hair type are what drive the gap. What split the thread was whether the “once a month” camp or the “once every 3-4 months” camp was actually the majority — people maintaining short, business-appropriate styles tend to cut more often, while those who aren’t fussy about length, or whose hair type and style differ (curly hair, shaved heads, etc.), tend to go longer between visits. Since Recruit’s survey itself is primary data reflecting real salon usage, it’s worth noting that it fills in age-based trends that impressions from the thread alone wouldn’t reveal.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “How often do you guys get your hair cut?“
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