Hair woes.

[superbadgirl]

I've been delaying making a hair appointment for a couple of reasons. Highest on the list is that I wasn't happy with the last cut, or rather my inability to style the last cut. Because of the bad experience last time, I'm nervous. I always stress that a style has to be easy and doable for an idiot like me, and if the hair stylist doesn't listen even just once I get worried. And this is how I end up with straight long hair all the time, btw. One or two bad cuts scare me into never going back.

So I hemmed and hawed and just called now. T is going on vacation, and they can't get me in until 7/12. I'm already a shaggy monster. I'm gonna look awful by then. Really and truly. And with no guarantees I'll look any better once I've been cleaned up and trimmed...

Wah, right? ;)

Comments

[sgtsiler.livejournal.com]

My hair does gravity, nothing else.
I always demand the cut should look fine even if I leave it to dry naturally and WITHOUT products. I don't use em, so no use them using them to make me look pwetty.
If I don't trust them I make them prove it by just blow drying it.
Now (of course) I do blow-dry and sometimes even use products, but it seems to get the message across better when I don't mention that;-).

Luckily I have found a salon who I actually trust. Maybe ask around? Random strangers with your hair type who have a decent cut?;-)

Good luck!!!

[superbadgirl]

I think he assumed what he was doing was easy. Apparently I'm a dolt, because my hair has looked like crap since he cut it. ;)

LOL, how do you tell someone has your hair type?

*imagines self feeling up hair*

[planet-mel.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot of people tell me how much they like my really long hair. I just smile and nod. The thing is the length really is just about indecision, not, you know, any kind of style statement! I am with 100% about hinky stylists. I literally have not been to one in years. But since I'm starting a new job soon seem like I should spiffy up. I'll be shopping around for a new stylist soon. Good luck to us both!

[superbadgirl]

Part of it is that he likes to experiment, so he's not interested in giving me the same haircut every time. No matter how good a stylist is, there is a greater chance of fucking up when he's constantly changing it up.

I don't mind change, really, as long as I can style it myself, and with minimal effort. To me, standing with a flat iron trying to make the flippiness stop flipping is too much work. Plus, if I succeed it is only for a little while. Five minutes, I've timed, where my hair looks smooth and flat and un-flippy. After that? Flippity do-dah!

For you, I'd suggest finding someone content with simple styling, and letting you keep said simple style for more than two haircuts. :)

Sigh, such drama about the follicles.

[betacandy.livejournal.com]

Good luck!

[superbadgirl]

Thanks. It's teeny, tiny ponytail until I can get it cut again.

[bedelia77.livejournal.com]

Wow, haircuts all around! I'm getting mine done too...Travellingone recommended her guy to me so I've got a consultation with him tomorrow. I haven't had mine done since last December and that was just a trim - my hair is sooo long now and stringy and gross and I hate washing it because then I have to comb it after...ugh. I'm going to see what he suggests - I too need something easy since I sleep in as late as humanly possible without being majorly late for work, and that ain't gonna change ;)

I'm thinking I may go short. Really short. We'll see.

[superbadgirl]

Hopefully he'll truly understand what you mean by "wash and wear." I like my stylist, I do, but I miss being able to wash it and go without too much worry.

I'm thinking I may go short. Really short. We'll see.

Oh, do tell if you do. I was watching Charmed (hangs head shamefully) the other day, and Alyssa Milano had super short hair that looked fabulous. I wish I could pull that off. I don't have the face for it, I don't think. But it would be SO easy.

[bedelia77.livejournal.com]

I have the face for it but I'm not sure if it will work with the rest of my body (ie I'm smaller on top than I am on bottom so longer hair kind of evens it out...we'll see).

Charmed was a decent show when it first came out...at least I enjoyed it. Stopped watching after a few seasons, I got bored. Hehe.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I know how that is. When I first moved here, I got a great haircut and I loved it, but after it grew out, every cut I got after that really sucked, so then I'd put off going. A new place opened up not too far from here, and I got a great cut there a couple of months ago. I'm almost as afraid to go back for fear that they'll mess it up the next time.

[superbadgirl]

He committed two felonies last time - made it so I couldn't style it well myself, and insisted on changing my part. I part on a certain side because so far that is all I need to hide the white hairs - they are all springing up on the right side, so I part left.

He told me to think of them as highlights and changed the part. ANH.

Good luck when you go back!

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Oooh, he changed your part? I hate when they do that. They always try to let my hair go to it's "natural" part, but I haven't got one! I always end up looking like a freak when they do that.

[superbadgirl]

Oh, he cut it so it could be parted anywhere. So I changed it back. ;)

Seriously, though. Grey hairs might be "highlights" for some, but with my darkish hair and the fact that my greys are actually whites? NOT highlights.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

My grey hairs are white, too, and sort of witchy hair. I don't have many, but they do look *very* strange and not at all like highlights.

I always thought I'd never color my hair, but when my hair gets more grey, I might want to, if only because I think coloring it changes that witchy look--or at least, I've seen that work for other people. :-)

[superbadgirl]

Yeah, of all the things my mother had to pass on - it was early loss of pigment and that hairs are snow white. My dad still had a goodly portion of his dark hair, at nearly 70.

Ah, well. I always told myself I wasn't going to freak out about this stuff. It's hard not to, though!