I’m running out of options, friends.
At this point, I’ve visited three salons here, been to four stylists and still, STILL I cannot get a decent haircut. This is partially my own fault, since I strayed from the acceptable suburban uniform of the chin-length bob over the summer. Y’all remember this:
The Great Bang Experiment of Aught-Seven. What a bloody disaster that was.
So, yeah. Since my New York stylist gave me that cut, I was never able to replicate it again. Not to mention the fact that my Chambana stylist decided she hated it and maliciously refused to follow the lines of the style and I ended up looking less emo and more Elmo.
After making my way through two additional stylists, I wound up today with Jessie. I like Jessie, she’s cool and her hair looks great.
But why, oh why do these people keep insisting that my hair needs “movement?” Add in the super-ugly factor of half-grown out bangs and you have a recipe for Carol Brady.
She chopped up my hair with a razor, giving it a swingy little shape … AND THEN SHE BLEW IT OUT WITH A ROUND BRUSH.
Hello! Helmet head is not the look I was going for.
*sigh*
I went this morning in the hopes of discarding my headbands, hoping against hope for a cut that could blend in my growing-out bangs with the rest of my head.
Instead, the minute I got in the car, the headband? Right back in.
I’m not posting a photo now, because I haven’t showered yet and I need to work with this monstrosity on my own for a bit first. I do have some vanity left, after all.
Oh, Chambana. You’ve doomed me to ugly hair. And the worst part? Mr. C mentioned the words “North Dakota” a few weeks ago.
Can you imagine what I’ll look like in North Dakota? I shudder, shudder to think.
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oooo…I would have to think that North Dakota might be WAY worse. Have you seen the movie Fargo? Yikes!
I cut my hair super short and now I’m growing it back out. Having curly hair makes it, let’s just say, interesting. The wrong thing to shriek in the city’s fanciest salon: OH MY GOD YOU ARE GIVING ME A MULLET! Very wrong. Good luck with your hair endeavors and North Dakota (?)
OH and wait. If North Dakota has to do with a post doc or an academic position after he finishes his graduate work, I feel your pain. One word: Mississippi. For a Vermont girl like myself, that would have been the kiss of death.
Wait wait..How is she gonna decide that SHE doesn’t like your hair if that was what you desired? Did you take a pic? Does she know what Emo means? Everyone I know is driving to Chicago to get “done”. Thank god I know how to handle my hair on my own because the things I’ve seen walking around on the heads of the black women here isn’t so hot either. And North Dakota? Whooo.. and I thought your blog couldn’t get anymore entertaining…:)
I’ve been going to the same person for about 10 years. We try some variations on occasion, but she knows what I want and what will work with my hair and I really like going to her.
If you want to try her in the future, let me know.
THIS is the worst part of moving. I keep needing to find new hair dressers.
my favorite hair girl decided to be a paralegal!! the hair hasn’t been the same since – i feel your pain
north dakota huh?
I’ve been going to Jen at H2O in Urbana (she used to be at Ippatsu) and she’s been cutting my hair for 6 years. I love her. She’s cool and does what you ask her to do, but also gives her opinion on what would look good.
A couple of years ago my well-meaning step-dad gave me a gift cert to a local salon/spa for a variety of treatments, one being a cut & color. The girl who did my hair told me this as she was cutting my hair, “I’m not doing what you wanted me to do.” After I was done, I drove immediately to Jen, walked through the door and made an appointment for the next Sat. (I was in tears and said, “Jen, you have to fix this!”) She’s awesome.
North Dakota? What’s in North Dakota? Just think how far you’d have to drive to do anything fun. Sheesh.
Did you try Jennifer at Spa Envy? I know you went there once, but didn’t have her. She’s a little hip, really listens well and is talented.
I finally found a stylist that is affordable and awesome…but she’s a complete flake. Half the time she cancels or just isn’t home. Headbands all around.
Oh hell. Just come out here and we will spa you up good, babe.
I’ll send the Mr last months National Geographic. It containted a story about North Dakota being the least populated state in the union. It’s a ghost state filled with ghost towns. That should change his mind.
I hope.
Last time I got my haircut my eight year old came bounding in the house after school and said, “Oh Mom, so sorry about your hair. It’ll grow back though, right?”
I haven’t had it cut since and that was in October.
I’m from North Dakota. I survived. I even got out. (All the way to France.)
Yeah, there’s nothing there, but it is cheap and people are really nice. And everyone is way too polite to comment on your hair. The worst you’ll get is “it’s interesting.”
Oh, and it’s really freaking cold. Like minus 30 for a month at a time. (Keeps out the riffraff.) And nobody talks like the movie. And anyone from there knows that when they’re pretending to be cold in the movie, they’re totally acting, because you can tell by looking at the snow that it had to be at least 30 degrees that day. Duh.
My husband met Steve Buscemi when they were filming it. He made him coffee. Buscemi tipped him. He still has the buck. (He signed it “Mr. Pink.”)
Don’t worry, ND isn’t that bad. That would be Wyoming. (heh)
I feel your pain. I finally found someone who did a great job, but then she closed her shop and cut back her hours, and the quality of the cuts went down, down, down. You could try Rachel at Rod Sickler– she’s very very thorough and careful.
I love my stylist.
I’ll never let her get away.
Yes, that kinda is a threat. LOL.
I have an appointment tomorrow and although my stylist KICKS ASS and I usually get so many compliments on my funky hair cuts, I’ve been doing this longer, layered, one-color snooze-fest of a do since my baby was born.
It’s easier to put up and keep out of my face.
*sigh*
I’m so glad, in a misery loves company sorta a way, that I’m not alone in the search for a good ‘do.
Too many don’ts in my book.
I was serious when I said that Ruth’s is the best in town for bobs. They REALLY know what they are doing. I know lots of people who go there. I always tell them to do whatever they want and it always turns out great.
I’m so overdo for a cut! And my brows make me look like a Yeti! I shouldn’t have cancelled my appointment a few weeks ago.
Hey, I use a round brush! But I have fine hair.
Don’t complain about bad cuts in C-U until you’ve tried Ruth’s. I’m telling you.
My husband does my hair. Cut and color. It’s not what he does for a living, but he does a passable job.
My old friend Andrea, a Fargo native, is a damn good chef. She moved back and has opened up a couple restaurants.
I, too, go to Jenn at H20. She rocks! Turns out she was best friends with my former stylist who I also loved (and who moved away). So I feel extra-special taken care of. However, I have yet to find any stylist who will put the round brush down.
North Dakota???!!!
I wanna go ta’ – North Dakota —
Love that song. Must get you a copy.
I never found anyone in Alabama to do my hair and I fear what sort of “mommy ‘do” I could end up with here.
I just want to be cool, ya know.
Hope you’ll post pics of your helmet hair soon. And North Dakota??? Please don’t move until we’ve at least had a chance to meet!
I’m due for a cut.. now I don’t wanna go lol. My only option is either Fantastic Sams or drive an hour and a half. At FS I always end up with this racist redneck chick and I have to sit there and bite my tongue because I’m afraid if I piss her off I’ll end up bald.
Oh, I hear you. I have not even had my hair cut ONE SINGLE TIME since we moved here this summer because I fear the process of finding a good stylist. It so often takes finding a handful of BAD ones first….
As for North Dakota? Look at it this way — it will be so cold, you will be able to just grow your hair out super-long and use it as an extra layer of warmth. And no one will know, because it will be far too cold to go out in public. Problem solved!
I’ve got the same problem here in Ogreville. What seems to work is to find a photo of a cut I like and tell the stylist do do exactly that. I tell her (it’s always been ‘her’ here) how much time I want to spend on doing my hair each moring, and I shriek if she dares bring out the little round brush or hairspray. I don’t leave until I’m happy.
I’m not difficult, I just know what I want and have no trouble expressing as much. Why pay for a cut you don’t like?
And what is it with the North Dakota?!?
I just made my appointment to have my hair chopped for the first time in New England and now I am very very nervous…
North Dakota? Do they even bother to do hair there? Don’t they have to wear hats 10 months out of the year?
Delurking to say I go to Jenn at H2O also. She is a. hair. goddess. I have never been able to go to a stylist before and say “just do something” and have it look so good. She may be cuttin’ hair in the Midwest, but she won’t give you a Midwest haircut.
It looks adorable in the picture, there’s no shame in headbands, after all. Growing out bangs is a pain though.
Funny. I got butchered by a hairdresser 3 weeks ago, and now I look like I have hat hair all the time. I love your new do, though, and I am contemplating hacking all of mine off again and go back to short and sassy.
Finding a good stylist is HARD.
Oh dear god. I’ve lived in North Dakota. 5 longest years of my life. The haircut won’t matter because it will be hidden under a thick hat for 10 months of the year.
You gotta love a good haircut. Makes you feel clean!