Haircut Nightmare [Rant]

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Yeah, I wouldn't either but I'm tempted to sometimes. lol

I also don't like getting haircuts, but I realize hair is pretty important to other people and it certainly effects the image that you present to others.

I hate getting my hair cut and don't do it. In a way I would like to get it trimmed now and then but I worry that they'll trim off more than I want them to before I can stop them.

funny you should say that, she died a decade or so ago, from a heart attack. RIP

Well I wont abide a hairdresser that wont listen...they work for me...not the other way around.

I recomend shopping around and looking for another place to get your hair cut.
I have curly, frizzy dry hair that with a good trim and the right leave in conditioner looks great.
However most hair stylists dont know how to cut curly hair, so when looking for a new stylist, I use the phonebook first and call around and ask them if they are good at cutting curly hair. Once I find a good stylist, I usually stick with 'em.

As far as communication goes, never tell them to cut it like you did last time, unless you are a regular with the same haircut for 3 years or more. They cut hundreds of heads of hair between the time of your last cut and cant remember exactly how it was done.
Matter of fact I got the worst haircut of my life this way. See when I was in jr. high...I wore my hair in a spiked mullock (I am female btw, but it was the late 80's so anything was possible when it came to weird hair) Well I grew tired of that look and took a picture of how I wanted my new haircut...it turned out great! I even was able to get some friends during this time. (rather shallow friends though) Then after the haircut started growing out, I went back and told her to give me the same cut as last time, and she gave me a spike on top and rope curls in the back. I quickly lost my new found popularity and ended up in a deep depression.

But the best way to get the right cut is to find a picture of a model or actor or whatever with the cut you want, bring that in...it really helpsthe hairdressers get a visual of what you want. Keep that picture with you...bring it in each time.

As far as snotty hairdressers and ones that dont listen...even if you have to travel farther, keep looking till you find one that you like.
Also wash your hair that morning and tell them that you did, so they dont feel the need to wash your hair. If they want to just tell them you are allergic to most salon products.

hope that helps.

Jojo

Worst haircut ever was one I gave myself many years ago. I got drunk and silly and was dared to shave my head and did.

The next morning I REALLY regretted it. I shaved it completely bald. Now, on some girls that looks cool. I however, looked like a chemotherapy patient.

I learned lots of ways to wear scarves.

Another time, I had gone in for a cut when my kids were little. They had recently had head lice at school and we had all been treated and I didn't think I had any nits in there. Everybody was seemingly "clear". The girl told me that there were nits and she wouldn't cut my hair. Of course I understand, that as contagious as lice is they can't chance it in a salon, and she was a mom herself and understood completely, but it was very embarrassing.

I just discovered clipper cuts. Before, I had to describe using a #3 guide with clipper on the sides, cut half off the top, etc. And they would always vary in what I would get, in both style and quality of cut. Now though I can go in and tell them #3 clipper on the sides, #7 clipper in the top, and I get pretty close to exactly the same each time because except for blending the sides and top all they have to do is run the clipper back and forth over my head. It's also faster, and only cost me $12 instead of $22.

I also wash my hair right before I go to the stylist, so no need for them to wash it. But then I come right home and shower like crazy after to get all the cut hairs off me as even one tiny one will make.me insane.

I tried the flobee years ago and it wouldn't work for me. I have thick, straight hair - don't know if that's why.

I also used to cut my own hair years ago. It can be done - look for a book on how to do it at the library - but you'll never get your nondominant side or back of your head right. So keeping your style simple is required.

Last edited by GumbyLives on 25 Mar 2012, 8:30 am, edited 1 time in total.

I just use an electric clipper for the little bit of hair I have left.

my hair used to be quite thick and long/straight, and the flowbee worked fine. there is a certain technique to using the flowbee- one needs to use a very powerful vacuum cleaner, to insure the maximum traction upon the hair to be cut. the blades of the flowbee need to be oiled EACH TIME before use, for proper effectiveness. and patience is also needed, as a proper flowbee haircut takes about 10 minutes, one needs to persistently [gently!] bounce the cutting head up and down over each section of your hair, until a uniform cut is accomplished all over. it is not sufficiently powerful to cut hair instantly with just one bounce. you have to do about several hundred bounces over your scalp before the hair is indeed trimmed. having strong arms and core muscles is a plus. as for evening out the back of your head and sides, that takes lots of practice, but it is doable, i've been doing it for 20 years now.

haircut SUCK

That's what I do too. I'm going bald anyway, so I simply cut everything back to a length of 3 millimeters twice a month, including my beard. Shaving the back of my neck was quite a challenge at first, but it got a lot easier when I bought an additional pivot bathroom mirror and installed it on the opposite wall of my mirror cabinet.

1. Look in a fashion magazine or look online at men's haircuts. When you see the one you want, cut/print it out. Make sure the haircut you want fits your facial type (there are websites for this).

2. Go to a somewhat more expensive place. Be willing to spend thirty bucks or so. (And observe/ask how they do it so that you can get it replicated at a cheaper place later.) Bring the picture (see step one) and show it to them. You can also try the bring-a-picture thing with the cheap places; it's probably better than trying to explain it to them.

A place like Supercuts usually lets you get a haircut without a shampoo. When I tell my stylist I want three inches taken off, she never takes three whole inches off. I don't complain because she lets me wear my sunglasses while she cuts my hair. Only problem is, it's at Supercuts and I can't always get the same stylist every time I go in. So far I have been lucky. The last two times I went, I got the same stylist, the one who lets me wear sunglasses while getting my hair cut. Next time, who knows? It's getting to be that time again, too.

Supercuts = Russian Roulette. Sometimes you get a good haircut, other times you get a bad, very bad haircut.

lol. I like this analysis.

This is very true. I stopped going there years ago because of that. And even people who did a good job the first few times started doing a crappy job later. So I started paying out more money for a higher class place. I can still get a haircut I'm not happy with there too, but much less often (maybe 1 in 7, instead of 1 in 3 at Super Cuts). Now I get an even simpler haircut (like a longer buzz cut) so I get a screw up maybe 1 in 12.

It's totally stupid to have to pay out money for haircuts. But except for just shaving it off (which I've threatened to do, but I want to remain employed), or growing it out way long (which I can't do as I'm sensitive to my own hair touching my skin), what else can one do? (besides flobee for those who can make that work).