Haircut Nightmare [Rant]

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I officially hate getting my haircut. I really wish my hair did not grow to lengths that I find unacceptable. I'm the type of guy whom likes my hair short. I think guys should have short hair, but that really is for another subject. Anyway, the issue I find when it comes to haircuts is the language barrier. Either that is a barrier of profression or a true barrier of language. I use to go to the inexpensive places, but I mean no offense when I make this statement were usual not the same ethnicy as me. In the end they would cut my hair as if I had their hair. I have rather poofy cloudy thick hair, it's soft and fluffy like a cloud, by wild wavy and curly. And they use to cut my hair as if it were straight hair and my hair is not straight. So I decided that I go with an actual salon. Last time I went to a salon and got a haircut I met someone whom was rather rude. I had a meltdown and even wanted to leave because I was not using the jargon.

If I go to Starbucks and order a "Small coffee" they know what I mean. A small coffee is a small coffee. The haircut people should be the same if I say short in the back and long in the front, what the f does that mean to them?

So today I go to the salon because even though I went through hell and back the last time, my hair turned out right. Well lo and behold I get the same person from the last time. And this time I completely shut down. I have really sensitive skin and certain shampoos, especially scented shampoos give me contact dermatis or some kind of rash. I do not know why, but Salons have this policy I guess not to spread nasties around. Well I tell her my issues and she goes, "Well your hair isn't really clean"

I was completely shocked and was extremely upset, by that comment alone cause Wednesday night I had taken a shower. As if she knows when my hair is clean enough. Here someone is saying this with dry hair that has been dyed that god awful red color. Then she of course dictates my cut. The last time my hair was shorter, even though the cut I have now is good, it was shorter than what I have right now. I try telling her this, she tells me "I don't remember doing it that way"

And I said, "And I don't remember my hair being this long the last time,"

She goes, "Well if I cut it any shorter it won't be the same style,"

I said, "It looks nothing like the same style of the last."

I didn't want the argument though and completely gave up. And shut down. I was done dealing with her. I was done being there. I was done with it all. And I just wanted to get out of there and pay for the cut and leave.

I hate getting my hair cut. I just do.

This thread was a bit of a rant. If you want to talk about your haircut disaster stories please do.

A month and a half ago, I've decided to give myself a good haircut using a home barber kit. I thought that I could even out my bangs by using the blending attachment, but I was wrong and I've ended up looking like this, because I had to even out all of my hair.

I don't deal with my own hair because it's a hassle to deal with when not trying to cut it. So why would I go hassle with my homecut? It's very unruly hair and doesn't liked to be styled like those in "hipster" things these days.

I hate it too. I never go and get my hair cut anywhere. I did it myself for a while, which was eh, okay, because I have shoulder length curly hair. Kind of uneven, but whatever. Luckily for me, my little sister is planning to become a hairstylist. She had a lot of practice already, and knows me. So she's done it for the last 2 years or so. She sees me everyday and knows exactly what I like about my hair. She cuts it perfect and exactly how I like it. Unfortunately, she is moving halfway across the country in a month, so I'm gonna have to figure something else out soon....

i've been using a flowbee for decades now, it has paid for itself many times over. the lion's share of barbers/hair stylists won't cut your hair the way you tell them to, they have their own ideas which they impose on you, take-it-or-leave-it style. so i cut my hair myself to my satisfaction. it's so simple to do, all you need is a big mirror and a hand mirror, and a spot trimmer.

I use electric clippers with the 10mm attachment. Works great on hair, beard, and my dog. I hate going to a barber. They always want to blow dry my head. I can't stand blow dryers.

I just worry about my own skill of my own cutting. I get er lazy and start looking like a homeless person in my house. I don't really have any facial hair, or much facial hair. So it's just my hair that I tend to let go out to unruly lengths at times and then I look like a hermit.

Okay. Thanks.

Man I'm so tired after today I cannot even come up with a proper reply. lol

I don't like getting my hair cut either because I tend to go to the upscale salons and more than half the time the women there are snobby and they like lecturing me on what's wrong with my hair. My hair is extremely thick and poofy and is hard to manage. They say that I should spend more time on it and buy high-end products which I don't have the money for. I also don't have the time to spend 3 hours on my hair everyday. It's usually awkward because I don't know what to say half the time so I just sit there in silence. I'm really lucky if I get somebody I like.

I am an early 50s female. I have never had a perfect hair cut, but sometimes they are okay. I stopped going to salons a few years ago, partly because money was too tight, partly because I had put on a lot of weight and the chairs were too tight, and partly because the rim of the shampoo sink hurts my neck when I lean back, and I had had enough of that. My step mom used to cut all of her kids hair when they were growing up and still does her own and my father's hair. They are snow birds, and live up here near me in the warm months, so now I have my step mom do my hair in the late spring/early summer, and again just before they go south for the winter. It's never perfect, but it's okay. During the winter I cut my bangs and sides two or three times with a pair of salon type hair scissors that I found in my mother's personal effects after she died. My sister didn't want them, but I sure did. I am not a very good hair trimmer, but amaturish as it looks, it still looks better after my trims than just before the trims. I did try a Flowbee a relative sent me a few years ago, but it was lousy. It just couldn't handle my thick, heavy hair, so I sent it back. I don't know if he returned it to the sender he ordered it from, or tried it himself. It might have worked on his thin hair.

I have had similar problems of getting across to the hair dresser just what I wanted, inspite of it's never being complicated. They seem to have an idea of how THEY want to cut the hair, and the heck with what you want. I even have problems with my step mom. I sometimes have to take out my salon scissors at home after she has cut my hair to trim off little "cute" type locks she has left on. I don't do "cute". I am not capable of looking cute no matter what I do, so little things like that look foolish. You and I just have to be willing to put up with less than a perfect cut. You could always do a short military cut, or do a complete bald cut.

Although I am female, for many years I have had a humorous fantasy of someday doing a bald cut, just to see how it would look on me. Persis Khambatta, eat your heart out! If I were ever to do it, it would have to be in the winter, so I could wear a knit cap when going out afterwards.

Well I'm not entirely frustrated yet where I'd give up my hair. In my family we have the good genes of not going bald. So I'd like to be old enough to boast a little at some point. ahaha.