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i am slipping dangerously into garagerock hair, i need to get it cut, and soon! but where? i've been going to zoo, but this is just out of habit, the cuts arent that good and its expensive (for mediocre cuts certainly)

where should i go? and what should it look like when i get it done?

― gareth (gareth), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:55 (twenty-three years ago)

but where?
Well, probably at the hairdresser. Or do you mean what hair? I suspect the hair on yer head. ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Monday, 4 November 2002 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew before I opened it that this thread was Gareth...

My new hairdresser is Hair By Fairy in Neil's Yard, Covent Garden. Cheap as fuck and very rock'n'roll. No one there speaks English, it's great (I discovered that "Claire" is apparently Italian for blonde) so it's kind of like Russian Roulette hairstyling, but everyone I know who's been there has come out with great hair.

― kate, Monday, 4 November 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I also need a haircut. What look should I go for?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 4 November 2002 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.pathfinder.com/ew/features/980731/gross/img/divine.jpg

― ch. (synkro), Monday, 4 November 2002 18:13 (twenty-three years ago)

How do you go for a look when getting a haircut?
I've tried this a couple times where I said "make me look cool"
but they don't know what to do. Once I was more specific and I said "can you get rid of the part" they made it all combed forward, and it looked awful. Maybe I need to go to a more expensive and hip place and try this?

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 4 November 2002 18:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I had exactly this conversation with our drummer at the weekend. He went to Hair By Fairy as well, but could not express "I don't know what I want, just make me look cool" to the girl. (hopefully, in a few weeks, if the Edgy Style Mag thing pans out, we won't HAVE to think about our hair any more, and we will have STYLISTS to do all this for us... cross fingers...)

I've found that taking a picture along of a hairstyle that you think is cool is generally the best option. I can't explain things, but I can show things.

However, the worst haircut I EVER had was when I took a WIG along to the hairdresser and said "do this to me." It turned out NOTHING LIKE what the wig looked like. Grrrrrr.

― kate, Monday, 4 November 2002 18:20 (twenty-three years ago)

i need a beard trim.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 4 November 2002 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

It turned out NOTHING LIKE what the wig looked like.

Why didn't you just wear the wig?

― ^Diego^ (dhadis), Monday, 4 November 2002 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I certainly spent a great deal of the next six months wearing the wig while the bad haircut was growing out...

I had long hair pre-cut and it kept falling out from underneath the wig.

― kate, Monday, 4 November 2002 19:31 (twenty-three years ago)

cut it yourself. its always more interesting then.

― donna (donna), Monday, 4 November 2002 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to Hair by Fairy last year, and I brought some pictures. It turned out okay.

― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 4 November 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

now i look i'm in supergrass. its need to get done, and soon

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

i know a great place BUT IT'S MY SECRET

― bob zemko (bob), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

i have mine cut at martin dorricott in knightsbridge (yeoman's row, across the road from holy trinity/brompton oratory - quite near the museums). cut and blow dry will cost you £20. highly recommended, if the journey's not too far for you.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

my girlfriend cuts mine. FOR FREE.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Pleasance on Great Portland Street is good Gareth (or it might be Great Tichfield Street - see how good I am with those two?). The hairdressers there all do shoot and catwalk styling as well as salon work. They know their stuff and it's not too expensive (for London, ha!) and all the people that work there are really nice, listen to you and don't have overly stupid hairdressery hair.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Ooh this is my favourite thread today. I too need a haircut in the worst way. I've been cutting my own for the last 5 years, and am getting bored of the heart-attack feeling I get when trying to get the back done properly, sandwiched between two mirrors and attempting not to cut my ears off.

May have to try Hair by Fairy, but only if the hairdresser wears sparkly wings and doesn't talk to me about where I'm going on my holidays. Actually the wings can be dispensed with, would probably be horrid ravergoth type person. Just how cheap is "really cheap"? I mean, Kate is a rock star and everything :)

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes I also need a haircut (actually today I need a hairWASH but that is more easily accomplished).

Then AGAIN, if my ambition in life IE TO LOOK LIKE KATE BUSH is to be achieved I need long hair (and liposuction and a new face CHIZ CHIZ).

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 12:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going for a haircut today or tomorrow (Steve the Greek in Twickenham - £7). I normally have a number 3 back and sides and a 4 on top. Should I go for a 3 all over, a 2 all over or a 1?

What do you think - the one with the most votes wins.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 13:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I say coloured crayon all over.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I say buy clippers and shave it all off. Not only will you save time and money for years to come, but you will never again have to make small talk in hairdressers.

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

re: small talk in hairdressers...its actually better to have it! ive always hated the small talk but i got it done earlier this year and there was no small talk and it was infinitely more awkward with this huge silence

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the small talk too - actually local gossip in mine.

So come on pick a number!

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Keep it longer Dr C.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:27 (twenty-three years ago)

What? Dreads, Anna? Hair extensions? Kajagoogoo?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I like my hairdresser. He never does my hair quite right but he's a very nice bloke.

― David (David), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheap = £10 for haircut, £30 for hairdye. (Yes, this is cheap for London. Just coz I is a rock star does not mean I am loaded.)

And I definitely had a fairy doing my hair at Hair By Fairy. He was FABULOUS, even though he barely spoke English (hence limited small talk). Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer gay male hairdressers. I never talk about holidays while being chopped. If you get a good Gay Male Hairdresser, all you have to do is say "I need my hair done for a gig" and you will get a wonderful conversation about clubbing and Did you SEE what Pop Star X was wearing last week?

― kate, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C: go for 3 and 2: all the advantages af the grading, all the brutality fo the shaving.

I go to Jimmy's on Jamaica Road (£7 I think).

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Dr C - 3 all over is great, somewhere between skin and suede and prolly allows a month before you have to go back.

Last night I experimented with a radical 6! It probably won't last the week though.
Might suprise you to know that until I was 18 I had hair down past my shoulders - I keep a photo of it to remind me never to go back down that road.

My final vote is a one all over. It's only hair - it'll grow back! (famous advice given by me to crying girlfriend after disastrous haircut)

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i haven't had a haircut for ages. shall i have one?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer gay male hairdressers.
I used to have a gay Hairdresser, when I met him he had beard and was called Alan. Last time I saw her she was called Helen and had tits!

― Simeon (Simeon), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

It's only hair - it'll grow back!

*sob*

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

There is a hairdresser near me, on the Kingsland Rd, called "It Will Grow Back". Needless to say, I've never even been tempted to go there.

― kate, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:48 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to go past that on the bus every day - bestworst shop name ever!

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

um ok, i won't bother.

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth, I knew this was you, too.

CUTS on Frith Street, £30 for girls so hellifiknow for boys for wash and cut. Ask for Daniel (black guy who had to turn into white guy for TV doc) and revel in the fact that you can have a really laid-back time having an Ambrose-style conversation while the deed is done. They'll also send a runner to get a cuppa/cappucino from Bar Italia if you give them change.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:35 (twenty-three years ago)

whats an ambrose style conversation? (is it about dmx krew and russia and bump'n'flex?)

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes Daniel is good. I used to go there. Are 11:59 still going, in some form?

― David (David), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Liz, you let me cut it *evil grin* :)

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth, that's exactly what I mean by Ambrose-style conversation.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Liz, you should let me cut it *evil grin* :) (no it wasn't even worth posting this correctly)

― robert (robster), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

No way I'm letting you at me with scissors, boyo. Much as I love you. I think the fairies shall have their way with me, dang yr *evil grin*.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

No one seems to be taking my coloured crayon suggestion remotely seriously.

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i am calvin.

― angela (angela), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I spend $5 on hair cuts with a $1 tip.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 19:30 (twenty-three years ago)

While we're on haircuts and such, where in god's name can i get a half-way presentable and all the way cheap chop in new york city?

― , Wednesday, 6 November 2002 00:04 (twenty-three years ago)

In San Francisco, I used to get my haircut by Carmel at the Pink Tarantula. It's really ghoulish, I shouldn't mention it, but a few years ago she was shot dead during business hours by a hitman in front of customers and coworkers. Then for a few years I went to Glam-A-Rama, which is fun but after a while I found paying $50 ($60 with tip) to be a bit much. Now I go somewhere cheaper (I'm not going to reveal where since I still go there), but what's weird about the place is that my stylist hardly speaks a word to me. I mean, aren't hair stylists supposed to be chatty? At least I used to get gossip, flattery, and hip cache for my $60. I'm thinking about trying out one of the $8 Asian places in my new neighborhood; how bad could they be?

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

my hair was like 3 different browns, so i dyed it last night, and, OHNO, its gone black!

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

wait did u dye it BEFORE going to the hairdresser?!

― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 11:02 (twenty-three years ago)

(psst am i to understand from ppl's reactions to yr plight that you are something of a dandy?)

― bob zemko (bob), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 11:03 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're a fly girl, get your nails done
Get a pedicure, get your hair did

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i was actually gonna start a thread asking about good haircut places in london.

hair by fairy is pretty cool - especially for the price. I've never had a panic-inducing, disasterous haircut there. but it scares me how super-fast they are.

i got one of the worst haircuts of my adult life at CUTS. i don't know if it was just the guy who was cutting my hair, but jesus, it was totally beyond repair.

actually, i got one of my bestest haircuts ever at the toni and guy academy...for FREE.

this is reminding me of how badly i need a haircut. i've been trying to grow it for the past 6 months, but it just looks fucking awful. i think i'm just gonna cut it all off again.

― sand.y, Thursday, 7 November 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

i got it cut yesterday. i didnt go to any of the suggestions in the end, but to where i always go. it turned out reasonably well actually, i'm quite pleased. its still too dark though

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I got my hair cut from the lady who gives my stepmother a shampoo and set. I sat in the kitchen with a towel round my shoulders, feeling about 5 years old. It does not look that bad (and it only cost five pounds hooray)!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 11:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I did mine late last week - #1 with the clippers. I think I got it even all over.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 13:31 (twenty-three years ago)

God I need my hair cut bad. It's been three months again, and I'm starting to walk around with my hood up at all times. I always do this!

― Dan I., Tuesday, 12 November 2002 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm growing my hair out. I'm also saving money.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 21:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I got it a couple of hours ago.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I had my haircut 4 weeks ago, and it's not growing back fast enough. And it cost £5.50, gone up 50p! Next haircut will probably be around late January.

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 12 November 2002 21:46 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

http://www.embarrassing.us/dp/files/1-102.jpg

― erik, Sunday, 9 February 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

ROCK IS BACK!

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

That's the coolest family of all time. I wish I knew them.

― Ally (mlescaut), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know whether to fear for the girl, or envy her

― Vic (Vic), Sunday, 9 February 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

is that jaykay?

― sand.y, Sunday, 9 February 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm 3 minutes away from garage rock hair and loving it.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Sunday, 9 February 2003 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

these are my general unisex hair cut recommendations (the picture will probably get chopped up):

http://www.takarajimasha.co.jp/mini/pict/0303_r2_c2.jpg http://www.takarajimasha.co.jp/mini/pict/0303_r2_c3.jpg

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 10 February 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

Wahey! Had me barnet chopped last night at Hair by Fairy for a tenner. Now I have to go buy wax and other products to make it look pretty. Also will have to properly blast with hairfryer in mornings so the short bits don't go curly. Eeeep. Still, I'm glad I had it done, and there wasn't even any inane conversation.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

prometheus, in new york the place to go is apparently astor place...all my friends go there for cheap and hip hairdo's.

on the radio this morning, they were talking about hairstle trends for the summer-- we can all look forward to seeing 'cutout shapes from the scalpline and part'. so that whole 'i accidenally took chunks out of my hair out by using kitchen scissors' look is in!

i go to the 'cutting bar' in islington. £5. but it's a bit of a crapshoot, since there's two guys that are pretty decent, and everyone else seems to be learning still.

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Liz! What have you had done? Post a pic immediately!

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Because my hairdresser, Verity, retired from salon cutting to go exclusively catwalk/shoot I've found a new hairdresser just around the corner from me who does the cut for £10, is ex-catwalk but didn't like the bullshit and turns out he cuts the hair of several boys I know besides doing Weird Shit to the local despatch rider cohort. Also it turns out that they've got all the shopfitting from the old Italian barber who used to be on the same little street (and if you've ever seen the sleeve for Nick's single Hairstyle of the Devil, THAT is the barber I'm talking about).

Last time Kate went to Hair by Fairy they didn't do her colour as well as they might have, by her own admission (I thought it looked good) so I think we will be sending her to Hair by Chris.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 11 April 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i should get mine cut again soon

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:00 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG has the best haircut. Period.

Mine on the other hand is getting thin. My quiff is built on quicksand :-(

― Erik, Friday, 11 April 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Got mine cut yesterday at a rather nice joint in London Bridge under the Hays Galleria. I forget what its called but I bin there a couple of times now and the guy who cuts it is a real dude. Plus its very swish and you get a nice wash and everything with a cup of cha for 20 bar. Was looking 100% Garage Rock prior to cut and quite liking it but now it's nearly tidy, cos I have a wedding to go to on Saturday. Not sure about the whole thing just yet cos it's at that stage where it's all new and needs to grow out a little and get a little messy.

― Alex K (Alex K), Friday, 11 April 2003 11:26 (twenty-two years ago)

okay new yorkers, we've talked about a lot of things here, but we haven't really talked about this, oh fuck it, where do you get your hair cut? (i'm all about the low budget, used to go to Hoshi Coupe on east 9th st., but recently changed to Hair Mates on third near astor place. Am still anticpating my first coloring.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not getting my haircut til about June probably.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

my girlfriend cuts my hair

and it's FREE fuckers

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i hear matos is writing a feature on nyc shaving joints...

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 11 April 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the last place I got my hair cut was in Queens, I went in because it has a neon sign advertising it as "The Home of the Fade" (I did not get a fade). $7 + $2 tip.

― hstencil, Friday, 11 April 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

i just got my haircut on monday. i look so freshy minty and not like mullet-in-the-making.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

i got mine on tuesday. was tricky with having grown a beard recently and all. didn't want it too short. i think its OK.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I got mine cut on wednesday.

the dude shaved, like, twelve hairs at the front of my hairline. they weren't sticking out or grown in a funny place or anything. now they're short and will grow in to be shorter than the rest of the front.

why would he do that? I cannot think.

otherwise it's fine.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm going gray, too. i was shocked when i looked down and saw all of them. i'm like, "i'm gonna look like steve martin!"

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

How often do people go for a haircut? I'm thinking, 2 weeks into this new one, about going for another. I usually leave it 6-8 weeks but I'm in that post-relationship effort haze. (At £4.50 a pop this is manageable though, I suppose. Maybe.)

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

mine cost twenty pounds in the end and it only confused me.

― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

i went 5 months (!) between this one and the last one. i usually get a haircut once every 2 months, esp. during the spring and summer.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i need a haircut too. i want something cute but i can't find any decent pictures.

RJG, your hairdresser sounds crazy.

― sand.y, Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Do people take pictures along with them to the hairdressers?

I'm seriously thinking of having my hair dyed platinum silver-purple (I'll try find a pic) - is this a good idea and how expensive will that cost me?

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i've never taken a picture in the like, 5+ years i've been going to the girl who cuts my hair. but recently, she's been doing an 80's thing, and last time she gave me a really awful undercut. so i am going to change hairdressers and bring pictures to avoid hairdresser disasters.

David, you could probably dye it that colour at home?!

― sand.y, Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

That will end in (my / someone else's) tears, sand.y.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i still can't picture what colour you mean. i am imagining the same colour hair as glimmer from she-ra.

― sand.y, Saturday, 9 August 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

bump

gareth where is your "usual place" anyway?

i miss charles li, my gay asian hair master

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 09:45 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

i woke up this morning and fear that i'm getting close to a mullet. suzy, did you say there's a good and cheap place that you love? help! don't want to pay £40 for a trim...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 4 March 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris (my ex-catwalk barber pal) is working in a little barbers' called The Pleasant in Rosebery Avenue, next to Antoni and Alison shop. He's awesome, but his colleagues are freaked by girls who aren't referrals so if you go in, say you're looking for Chris and I said he'd be the guy to sort it out. He is the only one there who is not an old guy, cuts are £8 but I just give him £10, and please in all seriousness do not let anyone else in the shop touch your hair. Gareth did not heed my advice on this point and came out of there with a non-Shoreditch mullet courtesy one of the old duffers.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i will take your advice. does he work weekends? it would be so nice to get a haircut on saturday.

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

no haircut since june! I've saved at least a fiver!

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not sure about Saturday, but you could always swing by over a lunch, since your nice friend works next door (he's a 9-6 man). I think my last Chris haircut took 20 minutes.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 4 March 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, that's a good idea! maybe next week.

i went past it on the bus tonight and my friend starting giggling since it's called 'gents hairdressers'...

― colette (a2lette), Friday, 5 March 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i am finally getting my hair cut today, after not having it cut since june!!

― gaol clichy (clichy), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:12 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I'm getting a haircut on Tuesday for the first time in four years. Nothing drastic, but I haven't used this stylist before and I'm very nervous. Basically I want my hair to look like this

http://www.kanga.nu/~mirror/mirrors/lorry.org/scrapbook/new/keri-russell1.jpg

with a little bit of this

http://www.lookalikesbychar.com/photos1001/nicole.jpeg

which all told isn't that diff from what I have now, but it could look better, y'know? plus i really need a trim at this point.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yay, i just got back from the wonderful ILX barber...i love him. he makes me happy...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

there is an ilx barber?

sometimes i think i have come very far in recent times, but, then, i read a thread like this, and i am in just the same place as i was on the 4th november, 2002

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm about to have my usual haircut crisis again. I need a haircut but all the places in my neighborhood are either salons that charge at least $60 or the Hair Cuttery. No middle ground. I will probably end up getting a shitty Hair Cuttery haircut again.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I have found hair equanimity. There is a place across the street from my house ('house') with decent hours that charges only a quarter of the most I've ever paid and at which I've had moderately successful communication and results with three different random people. Also, I share two names with it.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

gareth, the ILX barber is the one you went to but got the old man to accidentally cut your hair instead of hip young guy. from what i hear, of course.

i love it that you give him £10 and he gives you £3 back. which is, of course, his tip. good haircut and generous tip for £10? i'm in love...

― colette (a2lette), Thursday, 20 May 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I got my haircut at last minute at a semi-posh salon rather than the usual barbers the other day. They fit me in that afternoon (a saturday) and it turned out the guy who cut my hair lives down my road and isn't gay so i managed to avoid conversations about "fabulous" things etc. I got a free beer and he only charged me £10 instead of the usual £16 cos he new me. Refused to give me change too so I couldn't even tip the fella. Top one!

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 May 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

ay new yorkers, we've talked about a lot of things here, but we haven't really talked about this, oh fuck it, where do you get your hair cut?

just got my hair cut here and they did a fantastic job. not cheap, but really not that bad for a we-do-models upper east side salon.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i was a mudhoney client from '99 until this year, when my beloved genius brendan left for another salon. i still recommend them, though - bethany at the sullivan street location for men clara at the bond street location for both men and women.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i need a haircut so bad!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i cut my own hair these days. i suppose i shouldn't be surprised that people regard me with fear and suspicion

― the surface noise made by people (electricsound), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

and now i think the time has come to cut my hair once again. i almost got it cut, the other day. but today, there is no going back

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

i got a haircut, i dont know how i feel about it just yet

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

and here we are again

i still dont know where to go. i hate them all

― terry lennox. (gareth), Saturday, 10 September 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

you should DIY, gareth

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Saturday, 10 September 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

I NEVER get the haircut I want. Maybe I should hack at my fringe a bit, see what happens...

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Saturday, 10 September 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

ok im going to take a picture in this time. but i need to find a picture of someone with the hair that i want. i saw a hipster guy with great hair the other day, kind of choppy and over to one side. ack, im no good at descriptions

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 September 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)

far right, like this?

http://images.radcity.net/5893/936513.jpg

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

like this?

http://www.jimpoz.com/quotes/images/speakers/hitler.jpg

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 11 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

I need a haircut. I will probably wait until December when I go back to CA.

― youn, Sunday, 11 September 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

I can HIGHLY RECOMMEND the salon located in North Finchley(London). They have Artistic Team that doing shows;teaching Classsic/Creative Cutting in Goldwell Academy. I`m sure any of them will give you something that will suit you even if you don`t know what you want.
Salon name is LEXINGTONS, its 5 star salon but prices not too expensive: man haircut with finish is £25. You will see their fashion directions from their work displayed and video playing from the last show; plus all of them are very friendly. I get great hairstyles every time!

― Tamara, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:12 (twenty years ago)

Tamara, do you work for them by any chance? ;-)

Seriously. I need a haircut. I'm getting desperate. I might even go to Tony and sodding Guy.

My bandmates (not Anna, the other two) keep swearing by their super-Amazing Japanese stylist, but never put me in touch.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

My hair is optimal fringe length now, but horrendously shit sides + back. However I don't want to go to a salon because they can't understand the words "leave the fucking fringe alone"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

what is the most any man should ever pay for a haircut?

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

I find that grabbing it and holding it generally does the trick.

(I am forever trying to keep scissors away from fringe. However,it's got ridiculous now - beyond Scottish Cow phase and into "might as well have long hair all round" phrase now.)

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

I considered applying duct tape to it before going.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

I need a haircut too. Actually I've needed one for about a year...still don't know what I want though, to keep it longish or to go for another wedge-like bob. Sadly, I can't handle a fringe it seems.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to the girly night hairdressing party we were going to have?

Oh yeah, we couldn't find the time to do it before the next gig, which is when I need mine hairs cut by.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

Wear a top hat.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:47 (twenty years ago)

i went to that place on rosebery avenue that suzy recommends. it turned out ok

― terry lennox. (gareth), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:52 (twenty years ago)

I thought they only did male hair and short hair. (I do not want short hair.)

Also I need a stylist or a colourist at the least because I want to put in tiger stripes. Tabby stripes are too tame for me now.

― The Brocade Fire (kate), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

So I have an appointment for a haircut at 5 today. This gives me about 3 hours to decide wtf I want...gah I'm indecisive! I always grow my hair out thinking that I'll do interesting things with it etc but then only ever do the minimum to get it out of the way. How do other people decide to change their style?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I decide to change my style upon seeing pop stars with the look that I want. (Except for the tabby/tiger stripes, that was inspired by g-kit's comments.) Whatever you do, do NOT pick your new style out of the books that they have sitting there for that purpose, because then it will be an impulse decision and you will end up with a mullet or something horrible!

Funny to see that comment there because I am still so happy with my new hair, I'm pleased every time I see it in the mirror.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

argh no mullet for me ever! I've given up trying to have bangs/fringe so I don't think there's a danger of that.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

I think the wedge/eton schoolboy thing would probably look very cute on you? (Or perhaps that's projection because I've always wanted that hairstyle but my hair is too wavey.)

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:45 (twenty years ago)

My style changes gradually. I rarely get it cut the same way twice and generally agree to whatever (subtle) changes my hairdresser wants to make. I've gone from very short to a jaw-length bob in the last year and hardly noticed it happening. I think I let the hairdresser get away with this because I am no good at picking a style to suit me, so I'd be rubbish at suggesting for you too Sarah, sorry!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 11:49 (twenty years ago)

I need a hairdresser now. I got pissed off with my hair last night and took the kitchen scissors to it. It's doesn't look bad. I came into my current workplace and no one mocked me or even noticed a change (the advantages of an office full of men), but it could be better.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:15 (twenty years ago)

I would reccomend the Shimura Stylist, but she's quite expensive.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

See what you think later on.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

Also, bring your job application and we will fill it out for you!

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)

It's not a form. Any job I go for always requires feature ideas and a critique of the magazine. I've only ever filled in a job application form once in my entire life.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Plus, it doesn't feel very sporting to pick AMP's brains for journo jobs, even if it's a commissioning position.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

Damn. I mean, I could come up with those for you, too, but they'd probably be really rubbish. x-post

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 5 October 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

i GOT a haircut and you can't tell! (stomps off cussing yosemite sam style)

― ai lien (kold_krush), Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

Anyone in NYC have a favorite stylist? I need recommendations -- someone who can do long layers better than just technically-adequate (or I'd save myself the trouble and go back to Beehive). Preferably in the range of $80 or less. My split ends thank you.

― Laurel, Saturday, 8 October 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

bumble and bumble are good at the layering thing, and if you go with a more junior stylist it'll be under $100. plus both of the salons are architectural wonders, and if you go to the w.13th st branch in the early evening you can watch the sun set over the hudson as you get your cut.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone know where I can get a nice haircut for less than a million dollars in New York? I'm willing to pay about $40, but can't go much above that. I have a ton of layers and do not want this fucked up.

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:16 (twenty years ago)

call b&b and see if you can get in to a training session. you need to have free time during the day to do this, but it's worth it. vidal does it as well, but they generally like to do drastic changes.

a few weeks ago there was a piece on s4lly h3rshb3rg3r, the woman who gave meg ryan and jennifer aniston their signature looks, and it mentioned that her cuts are now over $600.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:22 (twenty years ago)

My free bumble and bumble haircut was awesome! the result of the free stlying session was not but a) it washes out and b) I got free stuff.

― tokyo nursery school: afternoon session (rosemary), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20051006/news/news1.html

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Monday, 10 October 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

Re cheap places to get a haircut in NYC, try any of the Japanese pseudo-chains in the East Village and beyond, including:

1. Hoshi Coupe, east 9th street, around $40 and
2. Hair Mates, 3rd ave, similar

Or, he specializes in girls' short hair, but can do anything

3. Crops for Girls, Orchard St, $15 for student; $30 otherwise

― Mary (Mary), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

i can't recommend shaving your head enough

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

Shaving own head not an option (it's about to be winter and my brain would freeze), although I am partial to that treatment in the opposite sex so I'm with ya there.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

women shaving their heads as well would bring us closer to a borg-esque world of no beauty standards

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

unless we started judging people based on the shape and texture of their heads.

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

which we almost certainly would

― strng hlkngtn: what does it mean? (dubplatestyle), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Haven't we already seen that movie? Phrenology to thread.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 10 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Japanese hairstylists are A++, thanks Mary.

― Laura H. (laurah), Monday, 10 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Positioning and diameter of scalp moles and head-polyps will open new horizons of desire and sexual regimenting

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 10 October 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

What kind of haircut should I get? For reference, my hair looks like this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2207969263_3f1d0f0a1e.jpg?v=0

Suggested joke response photos: weird mohawk! Puerto-Rican afro! Clown wig!

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

also please give me ideas of how to actually explain the haircut to the stylist (I am incredibly bad at this), and also tell me good moderately-priced places to go in NYC.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

i'm seeing THE ROCK, a little

― blueski, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.opengroup.com/sports/images/(SC)The_Rock_Photo.jpg

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

it's a little too messy. my take is you want to either a) clean it up - cut it short to match/emphasize the head shape - not quite the Rock, but closer to him than where you are now, a corporate-ish look you might have to adjust to, or b) take it a bit further and grow it out somewhat - not truly long hair, but longer, for a vaguely hippie-ish look that might not be you either. you probably want 'a' when going into the job world, but you could consider trying 'b' beforehand (tho school is basically the job world, lol). either way, i'd say lose some of the sideburns with 'b' or most/all with 'a'.

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

can i rebrand 'vaguely hippie-ish' as 'vaguely 70s'?

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I definitely want to clean it up some at this point. I'm fortunately/unfortunately in a job right now where my appearance doesn't matter much so I tend to let it go a little.

My problem is that usually when I get it cut short I either wind up looking too straight or with some stupid rooster-crown gelled thingamabobby that I hate. Or they try to do that styled "messy" thing in the front which doesn't work that well with my hair because of the texture.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

you don't want the styled messy thing, you want it just as short in the front as elsewhere. you're gonna have to get used to looking too straight. it might be easier to do that if you let yourself go really non-straight beforehand.

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

THE ROCK HAS AN AFRO

― gershy, Thursday, 24 January 2008 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

ok, this one is not growing in well. Can someone recommend a good, relatively reasonable place in below-14th Manhattan or nearer-Brooklyn? I've tried pretty much everywhere in JC/Hoboken and I'm fed up.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:47 (seventeen years ago)

charles li hair salon, e. 19th st just west of 1st ave, on the north side of the street -- you wont' regret it

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:16 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.welovelocal.com/en/london/islington/highbury/barbers/hair-machine-n78jz.html

― Tracksuit Party, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:26 (seventeen years ago)

indeed

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 February 2008 12:38 (seventeen years ago)

I think I might get my hair cut like Hitler's again. You know, for the lulz.

― czn, Thursday, 14 February 2008 17:15 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

where do you all go in london these days? been going to stamp on bethnal green road, it's decent but i never feel like they deserve 30 quid, not least cos the staff change so often you hardly have the same person twice, hence no conversation or memory of who you are.

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 24 October 2010 11:03 (fifteen years ago)

has anyone got their haircut by toni and guy students for 5 quid or whatever or is this just an urban myth? sounds good...

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 24 October 2010 11:03 (fifteen years ago)

a few friends of mine have done the toni and guy student thing - it's not always good, apparently (a friend had a four-hour 'haircut' that mostly was some trainee cackhandedly straightening her hair after cutting about half an inch off and leaving a bunch of split ends in). but i guess at free or five pounds of whatever it is you can always just get it fixed later if necc.

there is a really good place called 'studio stage door' in muswell hill, mostly staffed by japanese people, not dreadfully expensive and all the haircuts i've seen from there look good and wear well. on the other hand, fuck muswell hill.

― ksh me thru the phone (c sharp major), Sunday, 24 October 2010 11:13 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah otm, it is a bit far. I don't even mind spending 30 quid or whatever because hair is an item of clothing you wear daily! Like a smile! Just want to feel they deserve the 30 quid. My old hairdresser might ask "what have we done to make you leave?" to which I would say "what have you done to make me stay"

― I see what this is (Local Garda), Sunday, 24 October 2010 12:04 (fifteen years ago)

Been going to 'enry 'iggins on flask walk NW3 for the past couple of years and it's doing me very nicely. Cool, but not intimidatingly cool.

― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 24 October 2010 13:46 (fifteen years ago)

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