Hairstyling

[Winkybag]

anything for the weekend sir?

Do any hairdressers still ask that? Aaaaah, the golden days of 'barbers' industrial tubs of brylcreem & sex only happened on a saturday

Maybe the post-war baby boom was just a result of people having sex mid-week, after they'd used their "weekend condom"?

 

[omlette]

Please please please remember that I will not always have time to blow dry it straight, and that I would just LOVE for it to look presentable when I don't too.

When you cut layers in that look OK when it's either straight and silky, or wet, when it dries naturally they will look like huge granite steps unless you use the thinning shears to graduate the ends quite a lot. So if you'd do that, it would be just great. Thanks.

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That's what I should say. What I actually say is normally "erm, mumble mumble, erm just a trim please". I have a lot of hats.

 

[Winkybag]

that's so fucking irritating isn't it? tbh, it's why I don't go more often. I'm crap at small talk. And I want to say 'shut up and concentrate - this is my hair'. But that would be a bit rude I expect

"Where you going out tonight?"

"Did'yer see Big Brother?"

"My friend's mum's next-door neighbour's cousin's boss knows Posh Spice's sister's child minder's ex-schoolmate & SHE reckons Beckham's cheated on her again. Bastard"

"Is the back alright for yer?" (Said whilst waving the tiny mirror vaguely behind you, with little grasp of light reflection/refraction.


Then your phone starts vibrating under the smock, so you fiddle around incriminatingly

 

[Stig]

Never been to a hairdressers in my life.

Not that you can tell, though, I'm so great at styling my own.

 

[dilute micro]

I cut my own hair. This is how it looks except my beard isn't that long and without a mustache. I don't care what people think it looks like. I like it. The people I work with think I'm some sort of radical.

 

[Ms T]

take as little off the length as is possible, please, but give me some choppy, asymetric layers. DO NOT give me a forward graduation, I WILL sue you.

hairdressers are fucking traumatic. I go, maybe twice a year at most.

Cut my own fringe, though.

What's a forward graduation?

I need a haircut....

 

[omlette]

What's a forward graduation?

I was wondering the same thing...I wonder if it's layers that get shorter from front-to-back, instead of longer as normal.

 

[spanglechick]

it's regular layering around the face. shorter at the front, getting longer, completely evenly/symmetrical on both sides of the face.

fine for some people - makes me look like a librarian. The last time I had one I cried myself to sleep* every night for about five days - and wore a ponytail for about four months. (They'd also managed to take between 4-5 inches off the length).

*sounds like hyperbole? or an over reaction? possibly the latter, but I was fucking devastated. The librarian look is so hideous on me. I didn't plan to cry that much, but I couldn't help it.

 

[snorbury]

Is the librarian look also known as the bookish look? Do hairdressers recognise this/these styles?

 

[pembrokestephen]

"Could you hack it around a bit so that it sticks out when I wash it, makes a great big lump of hair on the top, with loads of straggly bits poking out in all directions? Also, maybe, thin it out so much on the sides that it looks like a Gary Glitter Special? Oh, you can't? Strange, that's exactly what you did last time. Maybe I'll try the one up the road."