So, I have a regular hairstylist that I love, but I wanted to branch out a bit. God, I wish I hadn't!
I have a trip planned, so I wanted to get my hair looking nice. I scheduled an appointment on my lunch break the day before: 12:30 PM. I have a ton of hair and an hour lunch break, so it's usually a little tricky to get my hair done at lunch, but not impossible. The entire reason I went with this salon is because Super Cuts wouldn't make an appointment with me the day before, and I wanted to be sure that I wasn't waiting in line while my break ticked away.
I walked in 5 minutes early, and the only staffer in the salon was in the middle of someone else's haircut. She acknowledged me in a very short way. Just smiled at me and got back to her other client. I had no idea if this was the woman I was here to see, or if my hairstylist would walk in later. So I didn't bug her. I just flipped through magazines and waited.
At about 12:37, I finally caved and asked if she was [hair cutter's name].
"Yeah. [long pause] Are you my 12:30?"
"Yes. Do you know when you'll be..."
"In the next ten minutes." Gah! "Maybe 5... Are you in a hurry?"
"Yes, I'm on my lunch break."
"Oh. I'm the only person here."
10 minutes later, we got started. "I'm sorry I didn't talk to you more when you came in. I thought you were the woman who took our orders. I saw you had paperwork, so I assumed." Paperwork? I was looking at the magazines.
I asked for my hair to be "blow dried straight - with body". And professional looking. Any time I've asked for that, I get my hair blow-dried straight with a little oomph at the bottom. Getting your hair dried straight is about getting it sleek and shiny. I showed her a picture in a hairstylist book of a woman with straight, sleek hair, with some curves at the bottom. She repeated back to me, "Ok, I see. Straight with a curve at the bottom."
She got to work. I took off my glasses and waited. FYI, she's the type of hairdresser that has a problem with every product that you mention just because you buy it at CVS. She was also answering all of my questions in really clipped and annoyed answers.
She told me that she had a signature "sexy blowdry" that she thought would be perfect for my hair, but it might be a little too wild, based on what I was asking for. I told her to just give me a toned-down version of that, and it would be nice.
When I put my glasses on to see the final product, I didn't know what to say.
It was frizzy and HUGE. The kind of curls she gave me were like Farah Fawcett's. But HUGER. It was just a TON of my layers all windswept from my face.
It's also not shiny AT ALL. It looks like a housewife from the sixties who got her hair done in rollers. I tried to touch it a little, and she told me not to. Since I've gotten back to my office, I've tried to run my fingers though it UNSUCCESSFULLY. Okay, this is 2011. To not be able to touch hair and move your fingers through it - that hasn't been in-style for decades.
So, here I am. Annoyed. I wanted to be charitable since she perked up in the middle of the styling and talked to me a little more normally. But I'm so annoyed about my Farah-hair. Farah rocked a haircut, but that's NOT what I was going for!! read more