Oh Glenn....
Wow! That's not good enough.
Woooow!! ...still but good enough.mmhmmm...
Oh my goodness, Freaking WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There. That's a better summary of how I feel about my hair. (I am predominately 3C - few layers of 3B - Caucasian curly hair for reference)
MY SYNOPSIS :
* If you want someone to talk to about your week, don't go to Glenn.
* If you have very loose S-waves (looser than 2B/2C) and think that a twist out makes you a "curly girl" please don't take his availability (don't go to Glenn).
* If you dig "blowing out" your hair and/or straightening it every day, don't go to Glenn.
For everyone else, please, please enjoy this man's amazing work!!! I hate to post this, because it's harder for me to make appointments around, but, to my curly sisters, I cannot keep this secret to myself!! Go to Glenn. Tell him Kayla sent you. Tell him to make your curly dreams come true, and realize that there should not be "a" curly girl cut. Instead, let someone make your own curls what they're meant to be, for you. You go!
(Please note, curly girl can be replaced with curly dude - don't be another curly guy that cuts those amazing locks!!)
I just want to say, for the first time in my life, I do not wash my hair daily. French twists look awesome and are a style-choice, not a requirement because my hair is a reck. My hair makes my face look amazing and chiseled (a dream for any curly girl). I feel like my hair frames and shapes my face, not requires my face to "fill the shoes of what my haircut mandates". My curls are flowy, soft, and angelic.
A gel cast is not something I have to weigh the statistical probability of "my hair looks great when it works correctly, but success rate is less than 20% of the time". AKA: I do not weigh the aesthetic appeal of dried Roman noodles with 100% okay factor vs 20% likelihood of bomb-shell factor.
IN FACT, I don't wear product at all sometimes. It may get a little out of whack, but my virgin hair is still better 100% of the time compared to pre-Glenn.
MY EXPERIENCE
So, first thing first, Glenn does not come off arrogant, but he is also no Chatty-Cathy. He is not your "psychiatrist" hair dresser, instead he is your curly hair's psychiatrist. He sees what can be and should be, and makes it so. This is how you feel from the first 5 minutes of his hair shampooing. He loves your hair, probably more than you do. He treats my hair with the type of patience that reminds me of how I, a childless, much younger than my siblings aunt, acts towards my stubborn nieces when they do something that annoys their own parents at Christmas - what they have to deal with daily, I see as silly, because it is not a pain in my rear every day. That is how he sees my hair.
What I see as infuriating dead-end scarred curls that have product caked onto them in multiple layers, he sees as opportunity. He does not talk to me about my boyfriends, what's going on this week, or what I want. He instead spends this time studying my curl pattern like the Dead Sea scrolls. He even studies the "tangle pattern" to understand how my hair "tends to knot" so that he can cut those areas later.
Curly hair is hard. You cannot always cut all dead ends, or you will never get length, especially when it's damaged. If you always cut all of the dead ends, which begin to occur by the end of the month, length is equivalent to a land of unicorns and rainbow-treasure-chests. Instead of chopping all dead ends, Glenn goes for "best value" snips. He looks for the areas of curls he identifies during your amazing shampoo to snip, that does not take significant length off.
I'm proud to say, my 3C curls have grown 3 full curly inches in 8 weeks!! Whoa!!!!!!
MY FAVE PART
Glenn is no "textbook DevaCurl stylist". He cares about your curls, and he cares about his work making YOU look good. This, my friends, is not talent, it's not a recipe, this is years of cultivated skill. Glenn doesn't make your curls feel like a wig that you have to make yourself fit. He makes your curls actually frame you. This is how I suspect a girl with straight hair feels when she leaves. That is what makes him so special. You walk away feeling like he made your curls fit you.
Curls define curly girls in a way that few people understand. We get made fun of for them, adored for them...and in the end they become an integral part of who we are. They end up being a key point of our self-definition and differentiation.
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