Appearance Based Judgment & Haircuts
- October 20th, 2008 12:01 am
There are a lot of times when, as a parent, I feel as if I might be failing Allie. The latest occurrence was recently when I walked into a local salon.
Friday, I had decided on a whim that I could no longer stand the current state of my hair. It was, and still is, doing all of the wrong things. So I walked hand in hand with Allie into a local salon. I had never been to the particular business before, but my favorite stylist no longer worked at my regular salon. So I was on a hunt for someone that could cut my sensitive, natural curly hair without butchering it. (I know, I just called my hair sensitive. How ridiculous. I know.)
Anyway.
The new salon had a sign in sheet. Immediately, I was reminded of the barber shops where my brother used to get his hair cut when we were younger. They always had sign up sheets where you signed your name and waited for your turn with whichever person became free first. The only difference between that barber shop and this place, really was a few large Indian prints they had hanging on the wall. All in all, I was already a little weary of the situation. I certainly didn’t want to end up with a bowl cut or the ol’ high and tight look like I might’ve ended up with at a barber shop.
But I forced myself to pick up the pen and sign my name. I looked around for a few minutes. Surely looking like an idiot, because the desk where the sign up sheet was happened to be smack dab in the middle of the room. As I eyed the ladies cutting hair, I noted that they all had bad hair. One even had frizzy permed hair with fluky splotches of what was sure to be color gone wrong. The walls were decorated like they had let my dead grandmother loose in the room and given her the go on putting up whatever she wanted. Excessive floral prints, random brass ornaments, small, glass baubles galore.
After managing to write my first name on the sheet, I panicked. I couldn’t let these people cut my hair. They had scary teased hair with 80’s bangs and brass on the wall. So I picked Allie up, and I made a run for the door.
‘Where are we going,’ Allie asked, likely confused by my erratic behavior.
I considered telling her the truth, I usually do. But ‘we’re leaving because those ladies with the scissors had scary hair and bad decorations’ didn’t exactly sound right.
‘I forgot something in the car,’ I finally told her, still running, of course.
‘What did you forget?’
‘MY PURSE!’
‘No, you didn’t. It’s on your shoulder.’
‘SHIT! It is!’
‘You aren’t supposed to say shit. That’s a bad word,’ she said, scolding me as per usual.
‘We just have to go, okay?’
‘Okay.’
We got in the car, and upon pulling out of the parking lot, I was sure that I had never been more embarrassed. Because while I teach my daughter on an almost daily basis that she shouldn’t make appearance based judgments, I had just done the very same.
The more I thought about it, the more my face burned with shame.
For a few moments, I even considered turning back around and forcing myself to let them cut my hair in order to prove to myself that I was not that shallow. Shallow enough to flee a place based on hair and decor. Punishing myself with what I still thought would be a bad haircut for what I had just done in front of my daughter, whether she was aware of it or not, seemed nearly logical. If I couldn’t apply the lectures I gave her when she doesn’t want to talk to kids with runny noses, how could I expect her to do the same?
More than just not following my own set of rules, I considered subjecting myself to whatever blotched up haircut I would get just for putting so much stock into my hair in the first place. After all, It was just hair: keratinized protein shooting through from the dermis through the epidermis. Just hair.
After thinking about it for a while, I even began to understand how one might pull a Britney Spears and just completely shave their head. Most days, that doesn’t sound like a bad idea. Most of us thought she was crazy, maybe we’re crazy. Being bald doesn’t sound like too bad of an idea.
As I said, in the end, I didn’t force myself to get the bad haircut. Because as much as I would like to think that I am above making the sort of judgment I had made, as much as I would also like to think that I am above caring what my hair looks, when push comes to shove, I’m not.
I’m still embarassed by the whole situation more than I am of the fact that my daughter’s favorite song is TI’s ‘Whatever You Like’. At the end of the day, as much as I had to admit it, I’m not letting someone with bad hair cut my hair. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone.
** Also, you should go enter the contest for the Good for the Kids gift certificate in this entry.*
October 20th, 2008 @ 12:12 am
Hey! What’s wrong with T.I.’s “Whatever You Like??” I just dowloaded it.
And my friend, when it comes to your hair, BE SHALLOW. That shit doesn’t grow back overnight.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 12:16 am
As a former cosmetologist, I think you made the best decision.
Judging a person’s character by their hair is naughty, but judging a person’s ability to create something beautiful with hair, based upon the hair on their head is perfectly reasonable.
Would you see a dietitian that was obese? Would you buy a house from a homeless real estate agent? Would you hire a web designer without internet access? Would you trust your retirement to someone with bad credit?
You did the right thing. You trusted your gut. It might be “just hair” but if you’ve ever waited months for a bad haircut to grow out, it doesn’t feel like “just hair.” Personal adornment exists in every culture. All is well.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 12:25 am
Nothing wrong with TI, although I do think it’s a little unrealistic to be galavanting around with stacks of cash though. I’m sure he probably uses an AMEX.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 1:02 am
I will definitely walk out if I don’t like the ambiance or if the stylist’s hair is crappy. It is something you have to live with for months–they’re done in an hour. The one time I ignored my gut, I ended up with bangs, and bangs on thick wavy hair just do not work for me.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 2:29 am
I think I might just have walked out of there too.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 5:08 am
I’m pretty sure I would have left.
On second thought, I would have never gone there. I’m not that shallow just really lazy.
o that’s not right. On third thought, if I’d actually been motivated enough to go all the way down there and sign in- I would have stayed. And then hated my haircut and vow never to go to another salon again.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 5:34 am
I was gonna reel off a dentist analogy but lisa’s beat me to it with her list. You could end up putting up with a bad hair cut for a long time, if the place didn’t make you feel comfortable you were right to get out. Hopefully the next place will be better.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 6:57 am
I don’t think you were being shallow at all!! Getting your haircut by someone who has bad hair is one of the scarier things in life, LOL And I don’t think anyone would blame you for it
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October 20th, 2008 @ 6:57 am
The scars of not liking your hair are way more hazardous than the reverse. I wouldn’t have stayed for the butchering.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 7:07 am
If you had based your decision of leaving only on the women’s clothes or how the place was decorated, I would heap more shame upon you, but combine all that with the fact that they had shitty hair?! I’d be running too. Hair dressers need DECENT hair if not stunning specimens up top. It’s their PROFESSION!
I’m feeling crazy with my hair too. I’m trying to resist cutting it really short. BUT I am thinking about getting bright pink highlights. I’ve never done anything like that before and it sounds good…
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October 20th, 2008 @ 7:38 am
In this case, their business IS appearance, so you are judging the fruits of their labor quite literally. I don’t think this incident made you shallow in the least bit. I wouldn’t go to a goth salon if I wanted glamorous hair, and you shouldn’t get a haircut by people who obviously have different tastes that you do. Same goes for clothing (if the saleslady looks like she dressed with your grandma, for example), or nails (if they are wearing six inch talons), or makeup (you get the idea, right?).
If the business is based on appearance, judge away.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 8:17 am
I thought it was some kind of universal rule that you are not obligated to followed through with a haircut upon discovering your soon-to-be-stylist has god-awful hair. I don’t think you were wrong. I don’t think it’s at all unreasonable to expect that someone in a style-related profession would, you know, HAVE SOME. You have the right to jump ship if you don’t like what you see. The truth is, while people with 80’s bangs might still be perfectly good hair stylists, they are not marketing themselves well by having a non-current hairstyle and that is their problem, not yours.
Also, can I just say that I LOVE the fact that your kid scolded you for saying “shit”.
You are my kind of mommy!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 8:18 am
I would have walked… I wouldn’t let Mimi from the Drew Carey show do my makeup, and I wouldn’t get plastic surgery from a guy with a botched nose job. Sometimes, a snap judgement is all you’ve got. But you don’t have to tell her that.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9:04 am
I have done that and I WILL do it again!!!
I even walked out of a “Hills Have Eyes” doctor’s office before. This guy was freaky!!! After I saw the exam room with everything all over the place including used shot needles from other patients before me laid in different spots, I told him, “I’m sorry, but I don’t think so, I’m out”. Me, Hubby and baby went out the door. I got hubby to go back in to get our information back from them before they assumed our identities, but they were already shredding it when he walked back in. FREAKY!!!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9:10 am
Having gone through cosmetology school, it’s like the one main thing that if you want customers you have to look good. It’s definitely a snap judgement based business. If you can’t manage your own hair/make-up/nails/attire you certainly don’t deserve to be servicing someone else’s. Precisely the reason I’m not in the business….my hair…that and I don’t want to wear make-up every day.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9:31 am
Hey — you are completely in the right here! You’re teaching Allie not to judge people’s worth as a person based on a appearances, but as a good mom, you need to teach her NOT to let people with bad hair give you a hair cut. I’m sure all those hair cutting ladies were very nice and good people. That doesn’t mean they should cut your hair if they’re stuck in the eighties!
Nice post — find another stylist yet?
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October 20th, 2008 @ 10:13 am
You are totally not alone in that! Solidarity!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 10:33 am
would you let someone who couldn’t play the piano teach your child paino?!? NO!!
So, why would you let someone with a bad haircut (or one that was not ‘your style’) cut your hair?!?
Does that one work? Really, hair stylists SHOULD have awesome hair… it’s marketing!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 10:59 am
OMG you are SO not alone! Seriously – you’re not teaching your daughter to judge, you’re simply teaching her good taste!!
I would have walked right out of there too!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 11:28 am
I totally hear you on this one!! I too have been looking for a good hair salon in my area, and had to go find one when I botched my hair with a home-dye kit. It wasn’t pretty!! Even more worrysome was the fact that I would have to entrust my now orange hair to someone I didn’t even know. I went to a salon in my area that has been there for a while. I figured they can’t be THAT bad if they’re still in business 20 years later, right?? The girl who was assigned to me had this crazy WHITE blonde hair, but surprisingly she did a pretty good job. Basically at that point, I think anything would have looked better than my current hair job, so I was very releved.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 11:28 am
You weren’t judging them as people, but as professionals. You wouldn’t go to visit your lawyer in jail or let a dr. with dripping sores treat you, right? Good call!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 11:37 am
Dude…When it comes to the ‘do you have to be a little biased.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 11:41 am
My personal opinion of hairdressers is if you can’t do your own hair- your’e not doing mine!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
I have to agree with all above. You made the right choice. Just tell your daughter that it’s the same thing as not choosing the ‘F’ student as a partner for the big project
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October 20th, 2008 @ 12:15 pm
There were a lot of clues in that place. Plus, I think your inner self was telling you something and you were listening. It happened. It’s over and I totally agree with many of the other comments about the stylists having bad hair cuts.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 12:17 pm
OF COURSE you should make judgments based on appearance when it involves that person altering your own!
I always insist that the chick with the nose ring cut my hair at Great Clips (classy I know). Everyone else gives me a granny cut.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
Listen to Lisa has 6 Daughters – she took the words right out of my mouth and made them prettier.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
Judging someone that is going to cut my hair .. um.. something I totally would have done.. you did nothing wrong..
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October 20th, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
I am totally with you on this one!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
I forgot to mention in my last comment that I once got the hair cut you avoided today, i.e. I came in and let the lady with mousy dishwater blonde hair pinned up in a banana clip cut my hair. I walked out with the strangest concept of longs layers and curled swoopie bangs I’d ever imagined. (Rest assured, it was salvageable, but for the next few weeks, when I straightened my hair, I’d go…HOW do these layers make sense? It’s like Edward Scissorhands fell on my head.) So learn from my mistake, Amanda, LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE!
(Although, in my denfense, that was the fourth salon I’d tried to find an opening in that day and at that point my swoopies had grown out, so I was left with a five-head. Not pretty. I was desperate.)
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October 20th, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
i say good for you for making arun for it. hair cannot be rectified overnight. Wise maneouver.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 3:43 pm
Shallow though it may be, I think you made a very wise decision. I am not ashamed to admit I would have done the same. Heck I’m the person who just called to get into her hairdresser after far too long (and way too many split ends) and found the soonest I could get in was in two months. And I booked the appointment! Isn’t that crazy? I’ve cut my hair all my life and now that I found a good stylist I will no longer allow anyone else to cut my hair. Not even me! Ca-razy!
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October 20th, 2008 @ 3:51 pm
Girl, I think you just used what all animals use to ensure their species survive- and looks good.:) Our intuition, that flash of “Good idea to run into th eopen field?” Then the gazelle ses a lion in the corner of their eye and says “Oh no, bad idea.” The frizzy hair ladies are the lions, albeit with good intentions, and you are a fur loving gazelle. Ain’t no shame in your game.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 8:05 pm
Totally justified.
I usually take the cheap-o route at Superbad cuts. But I have had 2 decent haircuts my whole life (neither by my mother). Both cost me a fortune, and the stylists had fabulous hair.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
Run, Sassy, run!
I used to hyperventilate when it would come time to cut my hair. Then, I started asking coworkers with great cuts where they go. One recommended Donna. I lurked by her salon one day – it was by a burger joint I not-so-secretly love. The salon was very old looking, but I remembered Jill’s fantastic hair. So, I made an appointment. The rest is hairstory – I’ve been seeing Donna for almost 10 years. Sure, I go somewhere hip and cool every now and then for a change, but for the tried and true, nothing beats Donna.
And, while I agree that it’s just hair, I have been in the chair and told the stylist, “I’m sorry, I just don’t think today is the day for us to do this.” Oh yeah, and before I moved here, I saw the same guy forever – and I hyperventilated everytime I sat in his chair – for real! He came to expect it.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 8:21 pm
I don’t actually find that to be shallow, A. It’s your hair and you have to live with it. If you think it’s gonna suck going in, you prolly wouldn’t like it even if it was great. Leaving was the way to avoid that.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9:07 pm
You need to explain the whole thing to your daughter–you were being smart. Wouldn’t you leave a restaurant if you saw it was dirty? People with bad haircuts generally give bad haircuts.
There’s good judging and bad judging–this was good judging.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
first of all, who is TI?
And, I know this is just a repeat of everyone else, but it’s okay to judge a person’s work, based on what they are advertising. I got my nails done for years and in the salon the women were always dressed nice, full makeup (not gross), and “done” hair. You have to show what you do.
I think, more than worrying about this, just try to work on what to say to your daughter when you don’t know what to say, so you can avoid having to tell her a fib (like about your purse). Just say something like, “I can’t talk about it right now. I’ll tell you after you sing Twinkle Twinkle 3 times.” or whatever.
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October 20th, 2008 @ 10:16 pm
There is nothing wrong with wanting to see some signs that the person who is going to cut your hair knows what looks good…that’s not being judgemental, that’s just reading the signs they’re giving you. It just makes sense. You’re being way too hard on yourself.
There’s nothing in the point for your daughter in getting your hair cut badly just to make a point that you are an open-minded person. I think that might just reinforce the point, you know?
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October 21st, 2008 @ 2:58 am
I think a salon is one place where you have to judge on appearance. That’s just the nature of the situation.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 6:47 am
My best tip for hair stylist, pick the one that has the hair YOU Want. It works every time. I will wait for a stylist, I look them over, and say I want HER (pointing to the perfect haircut, perfect color etc. And tip WELL. As to the parenting aspect, you could have come up with a better fib LOL.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 8:26 am
lolol i don’t blame you at ALL for running out ..one day allie will understand that you aren’t shallow but you value your hair. no shame in that!
my hair grows like a weed, so if i did ever happen to get a HORRID cut ..i’d wear a hat until it grew out. i do avoid the “bad” hair places though, like the plague. there are a few around here (first choice hair ..something or other, is one) that are about the same. first come, first served ..middle aged ladies with not-so-great hair and it’s cheap, like $20. really, at this place, you get what you pay for.
i’m glad you didn’t go through with it & ruin your hair!
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October 21st, 2008 @ 10:24 am
If I owned a shop where women came to get their hair done, I would insist that the stylists working in the shop should be models for the kind of work my shop does. That makes sense to me. I have been to shops where the stylists look like hookers with scissors (always dangerous, anyway – especially if you don’t pay) and I won’t do business with them either – and all I ever do is get a buzz cut.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 1:03 pm
I was the office manager in a salon for about eight months, and the entire time, I was amazed that the sweaty guy who looked like a pedophile (the owner) didn’t creep more people out and prompt them to run away. I’ll bet they would have if they’d known he was watching porn in the back office.
The look of the stylist is a really good litmus test for how your hair is going to turn out, so you made an excellent decision. The last time I went to a place like that to get my eyebrows waxed I ended up bleeding on one side and burned on the other.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 1:21 pm
I’m on the same page when it comes to avoiding judging folks by their appearance … except when they’re going to be messing with your appearance. How someone’s hair looks does speak to how they might cut yours; their makeup nods at how they’d do your makeup.
Just sayin’.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
Um, I had an unfortunate encounter with at a new hairdresser about a month ago. I cried for 3 days. Wise move on your part… I look like Zac Efron in drag, only I’m not nearly as hot as he is.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
I don’t blame you. Besides, I think you taught her to never doubt your gut instincts!
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October 21st, 2008 @ 5:35 pm
I’m all for teaching your daughter not to make appearance-based judgments but there are exceptions to every rule. I think it’s totally acceptable…nay, required…for you to make appearance-based judgments on someone who is going to be in charge of YOUR APPEARANCE. For the same reason that if you saw your plumber pull up with a stethoscope instead of a wrench, I would hope that you’d make an appearance-based judgment and not let him work on your plumbing.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 6:55 pm
I think Lisa summed it up best. I don’t think you’re shallow either, not one bit. Using good judgment and being critical are totally separate. I hear ya on finding a new stylist. The one thing I did shortly after we moved to Montana was seek out a friend I saw with great hair and ask them where they go. After I did, I had a random stranger at the grocery store approach me and ask me where I got my hair done.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 9:55 pm
They do each other’s hair, don’t they? You made the right choice.
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October 21st, 2008 @ 10:52 pm
You did the right thing babe. You need to teach your girl how to find a good hairdresser. It is a very important and intimate relationship. I put more thought into my hairdresser than my husband.
Hmmmm. Never thought about that before!
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 4:43 am
I think I might just have walked out of there too. And, I know this is just a repeat of everyone else, but it’s okay to judge a person’s work, based on what they are advertising. I got my nails done for years and in the salon the women were always dressed nice, full makeup (not gross), and “done” hair. You have to show what you do.
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 7:49 am
A)Love TI.
B)Nothing wrong with teaching your kids that hair is no joke. One wrong cut and you can forver live your life known as ‘Dick Tracy’…..
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 9:28 am
I couldn’t be more on your side right now..I would never have let those women cut my hair either.
And Monday night, upon meeting my fiance’s grandma for the first time, my son yelled “WHAT THE HELL?” not once, twice but three times. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry..
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 10:53 am
Every time I walk into a place and there is somebody whose hair looks great and somebody’s who is AWFUL, I think about an old riddle I remember from when I was a kid. It basically said that if you drove into a small town and there were only two barbers, one which had long scraggly hair and the other whose hair was neat and well-cut, which would you choose? The correct answer was the scraggly guy because barbers don’t cut their own hair.
That said, I still would have high-tailed it out of there.
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 12:11 pm
I’m reminded of the old joke about two barbers and a man picking the first barber, who had the worst hair cut, to cut his. The punch line was that the one with the better hair cut, got it from the first barber. if none of the stylist had a good hair cut, you probably made the right decision.
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
Oh yes. TOTALLY the right decision. Bad hair should not be trusted in a hair salon.
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 9:44 pm
I agree with you and everyone else that if the stylist looks bad you need to book it on out of there. I do have a few words of wisdom for you though….Tony & Guy. Hands down best place ever. They are a bit pricey, but totally worth it.
I agree with Allie. TI is the best. Have you heard “swagger like us”? I love that one. His new album is really good. She has taste and that has to be because you passed it down to her.
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October 22nd, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
As twittered, here’s what I can remember of my mom’s chicken corn chowder…
She usually stews several chicken breasts all day in a pot of water, with pepper, onion powder, herbs/spices of choice. When she gets home/after a few hours when the chicken’s soft, she takes it out, drains some of the water and shreds the chicken. Then I think she adds chicken stock to the water and probably the rice at this point, since it takes a while to cook. When the rice is close to done, she adds corn, you could probably also adds carrots, etc. if you wanted. Lots of pepper and garlic.
I know that sounds simple pimple, but it really is. As long as you get the chicken in the pot in the AM, it doesn’t take too long to get it made at night. And it’s not much work and it’s really good. Hope that helps!
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October 23rd, 2008 @ 11:02 am
I once made an appt with an optometrist I had not seen before. When I got there, he had eyes that went in different directions. I was all WTF? How is he going to help me see better, he can’t even focus? I didn’t run away, but I never went back again, either. I did feel shallow, but my eyes are kind of important, so that exempts me.
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October 25th, 2008 @ 6:23 am
Would you let a teacher teach your child if, say, she were illiterate? That’s not a judgment, that’s a professional standard, which, I suppose, ‘professional standard’ is a judgment too, but eh, judgment is a human game and a fine one to play as long as it’s played in moderation. Because we can’t sincerely get away from ALL judgments.
A hairdresser with bad hair, that’s a professional standard. It’s like an accountant with loan sharks on their back. You don’t want to use them.
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October 29th, 2008 @ 2:04 pm
“Hey, *I* was that stylist!!! You, like, totally, like didn’t like my hair? *clicking my gum*
Whateva!”
Hehehehee. You made a wise decision. I used to let any ole’ stylist do whatever they wanted with my haircut.
That was until I got a REALLY BAD one.
Now, I punch the stylists who suggest bangs right in their eye.
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November 1st, 2008 @ 4:46 am
Here is my longheld philosophy that good hairstylists are harder to find than good boyfriends. I occasionally find one that I like (I’ve moved lots in my adult life) but whenever I go home to visit my mom I always make sure to need a haircut so I can visit the man who cut my hair for 15 years and still makes great choices for me everytime I see him. Too bad he is 3000 miles away.
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