Get Thee To a Haircuttery, Honey...

After finishing with the shaving, she offers a shampoo. Supoib idea, since I hate that post-cut shedding thing. Saunter over to the sink, sit down, lean my head into the crook, and start the washing. THREE TIMES. Once with this tingly shampoo that felt like liquid cough drops on my head. Some Paul Mitchell stuff, I guess. I didn't think much of it - shampoo, conditioner, and tingly stuff. Yeah, sure - I barely bother with anything bigger than a dime-sized dab from my mondo-sized Pert bottle, so my folicles appreciated the pampering.

After the drying (w/ towel), a return to the chair for some last minute touches (i.e. taming the mane of brambles crawling down the back of my neck), and I'm done. I give her a tip, say thanks, and walk up to the register to pay. As the transaction nears its finish, June walks over to the counter, smiles that crooked-teeth smile I caught a few times in the mirror (eyes closed during the cutting, of course), and she makes a comment about how the V on the back of my head looks nice. (That's the V formed by my hair, by the way.) And she's got that awkward smile on her face, and I say thank you, but I'm wondering about the other smiles, and her remembering me from last month, and the three shampoos, and other little instances, and damned if I don't feel more than a little awkward. And then I leave.

Next month, I might pick a different stylist.

At any rate, this exercise was interrupted as a couple entered the store and the husband greeted them (with a hollered "WHAT DO YOU WANT?"). The man began tentatively to explain what was up -- his girlfriend had, just for fun, bought a home hair bleaching kit, and well, things hadn't quite worked out...

"SHOW ME!" barked the husband, and the woman who had just come in removed the scarf from her head. It was your basic bad bleach job -- I have seen worse, but it was pretty bad. "That's awful!" says the husband, and the woman with the bad bleach job looked as if she was going to cry. "What do you want us to do about it?"

"Well," says the boyfriend, "we thought that maybe you could color again, so it doesn't look so bad."

"WHAT?" say the man, "you want your girlfriend to be bald? Christa, come here and look!"

At this, the woman interrupted her amputation of a mole on the back of my neck and went to assess the situation. "That's terrible," she says, "why did you do this?" The woman with the hair was unable to answer, as she was choking back tears. "It was just for fun," muttered her boyfriend.

"Expensive fun!" yelled Christa. "This is awful. I don't know..."

"You see how damaged the hair is," says her husband. "If we colored it again..."

"...it would all fall out, but that might be an improvement," says Christa, and the other woman no longer tries to hide her tears of shame.

"Her hair grows very quickly," offers the boyfriend, meekly, "do you think that if we let it grow out a little..."

"Come back in a week", says Christa, "and you might have enough healthy hair that I can do something with. Until then, you'll probably want to wear a hat." The younger couple depart, seeming genuinely grateful to the Christa and her husband. Christa returns to her abuse of my head, and I eventually leave the shop twenty minutes later -- half an hour after the posted closing time, earlobes burning, fifty DM poorer, and with the best looking haircut of my life.

I never went back there, though.

Well, since there's an N next to the monster and a K next to the woman in the second picture, I'll assume that's the demon id me trying to cut Katie's hair or something. Which is a touch distressing.

he worked for disney on fantasia, oddly enuff: night on bald mountain sequence

Last time I went to a barbershop to get my hair formally cut was 1991. Since then it's just been a matter of a twice-yearly trimming back of the split ends and the like to even everything up.

the scariest haircut i ever witnessed was accomplished with a roto-rooter

Finally got that haircut I’ve been needing. Good-bye mop...hello Mohawk! No not really, but I wish. The girl was a student so it was sort of slow going. She kept consulting with all these other people & asking their advice. I felt like a pot of soup that needed a touch more salt! An apprentice hairdresser is a bit of a risky business but not that big a deal. But can you imagine an apprentice tattoo artist? An apprentice surgeon? They have to start on somebody! It turned out ok though, very gamine.

For this coining of a new name, I take no offense. Yet. ;-)

yesterday on the bus a woman came up to me and gave me her card and said "you have great hair. i know exactly what you want to do with it. im working in brooklyn today and i want to give you a free haircut for before and after photos." so i went and she gave me a haircut. it was a pretty good haircut too even if its a little "fashion forward" for me. she told me its a little bit business, a little bit brooklyn. her name is mint and she works at a little salon on hanson pl right near fulton, i cant remember what its called but her co-worker is an antiguan woman name wendy who is kind of smoking and told me i looked like ashton kutcher. it turned out that what mint really meant on the bus was that i had a bad haircut and needed a good one. she took a bunch of before and after photos for her website. she used to work at a fancy salon in manhattan but shes moving to brooklyn because all of her regulars were bankers and stockbrokers who cant afford her anymore. she seemed amazed that brooklyn had so much stuff to do. she didnt even know there was an ikea in red hook.

mint!

You realize that you're not obligated to post the pics, right?

oops - NOW not NOT. lol.

its short for 'aminta' i believe

she sounds refreshing

her name is mint and she works at a little salon on hanson pl right near fulton, i cant remember what its called...

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i need a new haircut and i cant find mint

i need one really really bad

do u look ugly

yes ;_;

sorry

i need a haircut my hair is really ugly and no one likes me anymore

hi guys

my hair sucks too

i hate my hair!!!!!!

also haircuts are expensive and it grows too fast and is too thick and not luxurious

u guys should try:

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