Good thing I own a lot of hats
What I said: “I’m trying to grow it out, so I want to keep the length, but it needs to be shaped a bit.”
What she said: “Sounds great! But your hair is really dense, so I’m going to thin it out a bit and give you more structure.”
What she meant: “I’m going to give you a mullet.”
It looked all right when I left the salon, a little shaggier than I had expected, but it was fine. What I learned, however, is that without a $5,000 futuristic hair dryer and an assistant named Rosie who gently pulled my hair down while diffusing it, the home-version of my hairdo would look like Carol Brady with a perm.
I see a lot of headbands in my future…
Filed under: General on October 6th, 2009
October 6th, 2009 at 9:22 am
sorry jenny, but you’ll get no sympathy from me. if there are no pictures, it didn’t happen!
October 6th, 2009 at 10:45 am
I will straighten your hair out. no worries..
October 6th, 2009 at 10:52 am
What Kat said. Sympathy will follow photographs.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I have curly hair, and I just cut it at home. I’ve only had one person cut it right. So, it’s just easier to do it myself.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I loved my new layered haircut when I walked out of the salon, and all the way home, and through all the “wow this is awesome!” vain mirror checks.
Then I went to bed and woke up looking like Andy Gibb. It’s not pretty.
October 6th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
An affront to one curly-haired blogger is an affront to us all. Death to barbers!
October 6th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
yea, photos!!
btw I just stumbled across a website called “My Parents Were Awesome” – someone submitted this and it reminded me of your photobooth series
October 6th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
This is the one post where you DON’T include a photo?!
October 6th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I foresee a series of hat pictures over the next six months …
October 6th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
kat: that’s what i keep telling myself. no pictures, no mullet. never happened.
nat: for the first time in my life, i might let you… except then i would REALLY look like florence henderson.
shari: yeah, you just keep your sympathy. i don’t need your pity! hold me?
churlita: amen. i’ve done the same for pretty much the past decade. until now.
karen: that’s exactly it! when i woke up, my hair looked like an ice cream cone! or like a diamond.
vahid: and she HAS curly hair! traitor!
lynne: okay, that was truly an awesome photo!
sizzle: uh, yeah. i won’t be posting a photo of this ‘do until i have mastered the right combination of gel, pomade and diffusion. it’s getting less mullet like, until i go to bed and it starts all over again.
waterfall: hats, scarves, clown masks… whatever does the job.
October 6th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Aw, I’m sorry to hear it, Jenny. I spent over a month this summer with my hair pulled back every day because I hated my haircut. And I read Hair Thursday so I should be better at communicating. (Or they should be better at understanding.) Sigh.
I’ve yet to come across a stylist who really gets curly hair. Mind you, I haven’t been looking at any top salons… but still, even when I went to higher quality places when I was younger, no one ever said, “stop combing your hair and washing it every day!” (I concede that I was told I should be using conditioner.) Anyway, I never see hair dressers with curly hair… they must be out there somewhere, right?
In the meantime, I’m with Vahid.
October 7th, 2009 at 8:19 am
But mullets are coming back in style! This is actually good news!
October 7th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Carol Brady was hot, BTW.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
I’m also curly haired and I feel your pain. When I moved to Cyprus I thought my luck would be in, as almost the entire nation has thick curly hair, but for some reason they will only cut your hair in the centre, even though I wear a side parting, so I end up with one side of my hair higher than the other. It’s a special look, and I like to think I’m rocking it.
October 8th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Do you need my ion blow dryer and my heat diffusing round brush?
Because I can totally lend it to you.
October 8th, 2009 at 6:48 am
claire: i never learned proper curly hair maintenance until I was in my thirties! there should be more community outreach for us.
dave2: good thing i still have my leg warmers in storage somewhere…
sir: according to his autobiography, barry williams thought so, too.
serap: hey – i part my hair in the middle! i should totally move to cyprus!
sarah: you know what? i’m now on day 5 of this hairstyle and i think i’ve learned to work with it, not against it. it’s looking less like a mushroom every day, and you’re right – the ion hair dryer is key.
October 9th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Ugh. Bad haircuts are a tragedy. Good to hear you’re making it work for you now.