Haircut!
I got a haircut.
Ten-plus years of the same hair was all well and good - I liked my old cut fine - but it's always been thin and fine, a prime candidate for hair Cialis. When postpartum shedding made half of it fall out, all at once, I started to feel like Baldy McStringyscalp, and that was just not on. But what to do?
I called Faux Salon, the place a local weekly's readers had rated "the best salon in the South Bay" for their innovative and well-trained hairdressers, and made an appointment. When I walked in, I said to the stylist "I get my hair cut twice a year, I color it myself, and I don't do anything to it but brush it. I need a cut that's professional but that I can keep out of my four-month-old's grabby paws. Within those parameters, do whatever you want."
I know I'm a challenge, okay? I don't even own a hair dryer, fer chrissake. She kept saying things like, "Have you tried hot rollers?" and "Do you have a diffuser?" to which I replied, "What are hot rollers?" and "I have a hairbrush." The poor woman. But! She gave me a cut I like, that I think will probably wear well with minimum care and not require constant cutting to update. She said I don't need to blow it dry or anything, though I think it would probably look far better if I did spend more than a minute on it in the mornings, alas. And despite the fact that the salon itself was full of hipster stylists with Manic-Panic chunks in their carefully edgy 'dos, she gave me a cut that is staid and professional enough to take to meetings. Huzzah!
Also, when she styled it, she found the curls. I had no idea my hair could be so curly! Getting it to hold like this involved products, and therefore will likely never happen again, but I took before-after-after photos of the various effects to document the possibility. Sure enough, it makes a difference. The question is, do I care enough about my appearance to find fifteen minutes a day to make it look like that? I bet you can guess the answer.... Oh, well. By the time I need to get it cut again, the hair that fell out should be well on its way back in, and I can start inching back toward my old hairstyle.
Ten-plus years of the same hair was all well and good - I liked my old cut fine - but it's always been thin and fine, a prime candidate for hair Cialis. When postpartum shedding made half of it fall out, all at once, I started to feel like Baldy McStringyscalp, and that was just not on. But what to do?
I called Faux Salon, the place a local weekly's readers had rated "the best salon in the South Bay" for their innovative and well-trained hairdressers, and made an appointment. When I walked in, I said to the stylist "I get my hair cut twice a year, I color it myself, and I don't do anything to it but brush it. I need a cut that's professional but that I can keep out of my four-month-old's grabby paws. Within those parameters, do whatever you want."
I know I'm a challenge, okay? I don't even own a hair dryer, fer chrissake. She kept saying things like, "Have you tried hot rollers?" and "Do you have a diffuser?" to which I replied, "What are hot rollers?" and "I have a hairbrush." The poor woman. But! She gave me a cut I like, that I think will probably wear well with minimum care and not require constant cutting to update. She said I don't need to blow it dry or anything, though I think it would probably look far better if I did spend more than a minute on it in the mornings, alas. And despite the fact that the salon itself was full of hipster stylists with Manic-Panic chunks in their carefully edgy 'dos, she gave me a cut that is staid and professional enough to take to meetings. Huzzah!
Also, when she styled it, she found the curls. I had no idea my hair could be so curly! Getting it to hold like this involved products, and therefore will likely never happen again, but I took before-after-after photos of the various effects to document the possibility. Sure enough, it makes a difference. The question is, do I care enough about my appearance to find fifteen minutes a day to make it look like that? I bet you can guess the answer.... Oh, well. By the time I need to get it cut again, the hair that fell out should be well on its way back in, and I can start inching back toward my old hairstyle.
posted by The Stute Fish at 09:14
4 Comments:
Aaaw, look at you! That's a great cut. I have the same problem with styling - it *never* looks the way it does fresh from the salon.
That is a good look for you. Very professional but young too. The before photo makes you look older than I know you look in person. (Nothing short of baldness is going to keep your hair out of the boy's grubby paws. Really.)
Thanks, ladies! I'm pretty happy with it. I was prepared for her to do ANYTHING, but I like that she was relatively conservative (didn't cut it ALL off or decide I needed something asymmetrical) while still really changing the whole shape of it.
You should try this product that I got at the drugstore - CharlesWorthington "Big Hair Volumizing Mousse" it is for fine or limp hair. you just spray a little of it at the roots and fluff your hair upside down. It really works to eliminate the limpies. Plus it lasts forever, I've had one can for nearly a year.
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