One of the great things about living in a rural area is deciding if it is worth your time to drive to town to buy something or take advantage of a service OR if you can do it yourself--or do without.
Over a year ago I started looking for a new place to get my hair did. In DC there was Lucy at Salon Cielo in Dupont. In Florida there was Anita in Boca Raton. At home here in rural land there are three places I could go locally. I've tried one place a couple of times and the cut was nothing to write home about. The service was good, the price was fine, and the cut did not grow out well at all.
So I did the usual and asked my girlfriends who their go-to hair person was. Two out of the three people I remember asking somewhat shamefully admitted to cutting their own hair. My immediate reaction was to try my best to not verbalize the thought going through my head at the time "you are insane". I let some time pass. As my hair kept growing, and I wasn't up for the hour plus (round trip) drive into town where there are several more options for hair cuttery...the idea seemed less insane.
So would you rather pay around $30 for a so-so cut OR cut your own hair and have a self sufficient pride about your work? Well, I'd rather pay Anita $60 and have a great cut--but as that isn't an option self cuttery is my new skill. Worst case scenario: I pay someone else to fix my mistakes--which hasn't happened yet and I'm on cut #5.
Are my standards lower? Yes.
Did I save some cash-ola? Yes.
Would I seek professional assistance if going to a formal event where there would be tons of pictures taken? Yes.
Is there oodles of snow on the ground and folks around these parts wear their Winter hats all the time-even when indoors at the bar? YES!
Ahh Winter...your blanket of snow lets me showcase all of my fun Winter hats AND not care how my hair looks. Although thanks to the new layering technique I tried today (thank you youtube) my hair rocks!
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I am so proud of you! I've cut mine a couple of times and it is such a nerve-racking... and freeing... thing to do. Congrats for your success! (One trick a hair stylist taught me: For bangs, use a strip of (clear) tape across your forehead with the bottom of the tape matching where you want your bangs to stop. The tape will create a nice line to follow and help your hair stay in place while cutting. Worked great for me even with diagonal bangs!) Enjoying your blog!
ReplyDeleteOh... My... G-d!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou couldn't have stuck with classic Chinese characters as a hobby, you now have to cut your own hair? Your gorgeous, thick, full of volume, blonde, I-would-die-for-that-and-only-treat-it-like-spun-gold hair?
On the one hand, I feel at ease, especially since you put in the whole part about big events where lots of pictures will be taken. Yes, my heart skipped a beat and I almost passed out thinking about that one kid in every first grade class who one day decides he/she has eaten enough paste and it's now time to move on to hair cutting. I'm pretty sure that the kid from my own class now looks back on his 1st grade class picture and says, "man I probably should have stopped sniffing those Mr. Sketch markers a few minutes sooner."
SJB, are you sniffing markers??? I'm taking away all TV privileges just in case you come across a retired Flowbee infomercial. Forget "What Not to Wear," Alan and I are now nominating you for the A&E series "Intervention."
I recognize that as your BFF4E&E I should be highly supportive of this endeavor. However, I've seen your creative side and it weighed down all of the branches on our Christmas tree, so all I can say is "easy does it."
With that said, if you are going to keep doing this, please, please, please use BA's advice and use the scotch tape for your bangs. If you could possible take pictures or video of that and post it on line, we'd all be very appreciative.
Good luck and stay away from the peking sheers!
shut it down!!!!
ReplyDeleteUm...there will be no videos of me cutting my hair. Period. :P
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