Long beautiful hair...
So, my whole life, I've feared haircuts. Maybe it's because my father always got my hair cut very short when I was young and I hated it; or maybe it's just that innate fear that you'll come out of the place looking stupid. Whatever the case, I usually handle this anxiety by growing my hair out long and when I can't stand long hair any more, by taking someone with me to make all of the decisions at the barber. In the past, this has worked well enough, I'm not sure if the third person perspective allows the people I drag with me to give better instructions or if it's just coincidence, but I'm usually fairly happy with how the event unfolds.
Last Friday, no one was available to go with me to get my haircut. But, I tell myself, I'm an adult, and I can do very basic things like this for myself. So, I go to sport clips. There, I figure, they have cut my hair before, AND they have that cut in their database...so even if I give poor directions or freeze up, I can fall back on a haircut from my past. I get there, and give the same outline I give everytime: long enough on the top to be a little floppy, short on the side, and tapered in the back. ...I guess she wasn't listening.
So far, every person I've talked to has indicated that I looked better with long hair. Two people actually used the words "bad haircut" and one said "well, your hair grows pretty fast." Sigh. I'm not looking forward to going to school where a largish number of people from my Japanese class actively proscribed me cutting my hair; I predict a lot of "I told you so."
I'm not mortified or anything. Mainly because I'm just not that vain, and also because enough gel fixes almost anything. But, next time...I don't care if it's superstitious...I'm definitely taking someone with me to do all of the talking.
Last Friday, no one was available to go with me to get my haircut. But, I tell myself, I'm an adult, and I can do very basic things like this for myself. So, I go to sport clips. There, I figure, they have cut my hair before, AND they have that cut in their database...so even if I give poor directions or freeze up, I can fall back on a haircut from my past. I get there, and give the same outline I give everytime: long enough on the top to be a little floppy, short on the side, and tapered in the back. ...I guess she wasn't listening.
So far, every person I've talked to has indicated that I looked better with long hair. Two people actually used the words "bad haircut" and one said "well, your hair grows pretty fast." Sigh. I'm not looking forward to going to school where a largish number of people from my Japanese class actively proscribed me cutting my hair; I predict a lot of "I told you so."
I'm not mortified or anything. Mainly because I'm just not that vain, and also because enough gel fixes almost anything. But, next time...I don't care if it's superstitious...I'm definitely taking someone with me to do all of the talking.
posted by Joshie at
9:18 AM
4 Comments:
I think I'm one of the ones that said bad haircut! yay! Don't blame yourself, though. I think you just happened to get an idiot to cut your hair this time. You know all those times I've given the barber instructions for you? Well, every once in a while when I take Ethan to get his hair cut, they'll do the complete opposite of what I say. Such as the time I said, "Don't take any off the top, just trim the back and sides." And then he came back with his hair about a quarter of an inch long on top. WTF? Some people are too stupid to even cut hair, and that's just sad.
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Margie the Pickle Princess, at March 25, 2007 8:27 PM
Aaw...poor Joshie! I'm worried that will happen whenever Patrick finally gets his hair cut. Stylists are stupid sometimes....I've found that often they seem to just have some idea in their head of how they think you should look and proceed to cut your hair like that no matter what kind of instructions you give them. I've also noticed that it seems my stylist always tries to cut my hair into some variation of her own hair cut...and with men I've seen that they have "Man Cut" in their head and just assume they are all the same. So, in conclusion, that sucks. ;)
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KieraAnne, at March 26, 2007 3:16 PM
Just for the record, I got my hair cut here is SC, and I ended up with big poofy southern hair. Luckily, it grew out enough to kind of lay flat. . . . but for a while there, I looked like a Sugarbaker.
By
Shemsi, at April 06, 2007 11:24 AM
This post would be so much better with pictures.
By
Matt G, at April 23, 2007 1:37 AM
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