i love style needs to get their hair did

I love Dollarama! I would estimate 18% of all my stuff is from there or made using things from there. It's the best place ever.

DOLLARSTORE!!!!!!!!

:D

Dollarama is so much more than a dollar store, Tehresa... those outside Canada will never understand :)

perhaps, but DOLLARSTORE!!! is an attempted meme that ethan and i will not let die.

DOLLARSTORE!!!!

oh hahaha sorry dear. okay. DOLLARSTORE!!!!

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

so my hair is not any shinier now but it is apparently a shade lighter?!~!?

fuck. now i'm gonna have to dye it.

uh oh.

When Home Hair Treatments Go Bad

was not expecting that at all! if anything, i expected it to do nothing.

oh no!
so it's not even a colour you're into, i'm guessing, right

yeah it just looks like pukey

like, chemically lightened but not in a good way...

tza, john frieda has a line of glazes for different color hair types. i use the medium blonde on my light blonde hair and I can really see a diff. each time i use it. my hair color goes from flat and dry looking to shiny and multidimensional.

oh!

what did you use?

I just saw Barbarella for the first time ever and, while the movie is barely watchable at all, I do crave and covet her hairstyle(s). I wd like that hair all the time.

seriously

your hair could totally do all that, laurel!

hand sex - no, big hair - yes

i used natural instincts 'shine happy' clear gloss.

ugh.

the frieda stuff - you have to use that like, a few times a week, right? i feel like that would cancel my sulfate-free shampoo kick.

i've only seen barbarella with the sound off at mod nights but i feel like i've seen it that way about 50 times.

yeah, every couple of days, T.

so my hair appt is for tues but i'm nervous cuz the guy doing it this gay japanese dude who apparently has an 'attitude' according to my friend. hairdressers with attitudes scare me, cuz they always say mean things about my hair (mostly because i wait like two years between haircuts, have uncoloured roots, flakey scalp etc.)

i always feel so judged whenever i go

just kiss their ass a lot and be like 'i'm sure you will do a fabulous job'

and say things like 'i trust you.'

i do that anyway, because i'm so scared they'll do something nasty to my hair!

***warning, long rant ahead, please feel free to skip!****

i'm pretty darn tolerant of haircuts, haven't ever even been close to tears after a cut, and woke up this morning and was so pissed at the cut i got last night that i nearly cried in frustration (stress about moving has me at the edge, to be honest).

i went in, said i wanted edgy but not ugly, told her this was too long for me, that i wanted the back really short, and that i kind of liked having bangs. she said she would take the back up a ton and leave the front a little longer "for interest," and totally restructure the bangs.

well, after a full hour of her cutting, my hair looks pretty much exactly the same as when i left. except flatter, since she thinned it out. the back is a little shorter, but in 2 weeks it will be too long for me, and the front literally is exactly as long as it was when i went in. bangs are a little shorter, but no real difference.

so i'm pissed at myself for wasting 3 hours i should have used packing/cleaning and instead traveled to and from a not-great haircut, not to mention wasting $50. i don't think she's actually bad, she just didn't do what i wanted and i thought i'd asked for, at all. toby thinks i should call and try to go back to have them "fix" it, but that seems really weird to me, and i'm not able to think rationally about it.

any advice?

er, it looked the same as when i arrived. and when it goes behind my ears (which i do without thinking about it), it actually looks MORE mom-ish than it did before.

you should definitely call and ask for the cut to be fixed.

maybe say something like, "perhaps i wasn't clear when i spoke to the stylist, etc etc. this really isn't what i wanted at all, and i'd appreciate it if i could come in for a clean-up."

won't they just blame me for not expressing myself enough, and possibly mess it up more?

talking myself down here:
-- i don't care if they don't like me, i'm moving in a few days (i do care, but don't want to)
-- if it comes down to it, i'm actually prepared to take toby's clippers to my hair and just get rid of it all, and suspect it would be an improvement on this.

xpost-- that's a good way of putting it, when i say "clean up" are they going to schedule me 15 minutes? because this really needs starting from scratch.

yes. people do it all the time!
xpost to collette

god i am so glad i have a non-crazy, non-egotistic, awesome hairdresser. srsly i understand the stress involved when this is not the case, aagh. i am even thinking about going back to short(ish) hair later this summer b/c i trust her to do something great that suits me.

you are the client! they did nothing of note to your hair! if someone owns the place, talk to them, but if the woman who cut your hair is just renting a chair there, i guess things are different. but still, someone's gotta be in charge.

yeah, she's one of the two owners, so there's not really anyone else i could go to. i'm drinking caffeine to steel myself to call her, thanks for the advice, guys!

COLETTE
you can do this
you paid them $$ and they have to fix it
if all else fails, get a pixie!

yes, i will bring you along and say "make my hair look like amanda's!"

Colette, it is very standard for stylists to fix their mistakes. A lot of them even give free bang trims between hair cuts.

What you are describing sounds like a cut I have been seeing a lot lately, which is a thinned out bob with shaggy bottom edge. Sometimes shorter in back like the famous bell labs' reverse mullet pic. I love the cut but my hair would be too wavy to do it.

Now that I got a professional to establish my bangs in the first place, I trim them myself. I kind of do this:

How to Trim Your Own Bangs

The important thing here is that you are making little snips up into the bang, not cutting across. Cutting across may result in "psycho bangs."

colette, i know how you feel! years ago, when i needed a haircut, i went to a salon where one of the girls needed a 'razor' model. she said she would do any style i wanted, it just needed to involve razoring. this was around the time meg ryan had the shaggy kind of cut, so i took in a bunch of magazine cutouts and told her i wanted it shorter (my hair was almost butt-length) but layered etc etc. so a few weeks later i turn up for the cut. she hacks awhile for what seems like hours, and my hair is quickly disappearing. in the end, i had one of those horrible styles that were popular at the time with stupid young redneck girls: a long fringe parted to the side and slicked down, with a fluffy kind of duck tail at the back. i was DEVASTATED. but what could i say? it was free!

this is basically why going to the hairdressers terrifies me and i don't go very often.

repost from rolling 2008 beauty thread:

hair serum! for dry hair! any reccomendations?

god having my hair mid-length is getting soooo oldddddd. even if i dry/iron it straight, as soon as i am in humidity the ends turn up and i look like i've spent hours perfecting a 'flip' that is just not cute. argh. GROW FASTER, HAIR!!!

ugh i am having the same issue. i wish i hadn't cut it! but i knew that was going to happen.

i have no patience with it right now! esp now that it's a color i'm not overly fond of.

hair serum! for dry hair! any reccomendations?
I will fully rep the John Frieda stuff, my hair is super damaged but it makes it nice and glossy :)

I'm sorry about the shitty haircut Colette :( I think if you paid for a super short hair cut you could probably call and be like "okay so in three weeks it'll be too long again, can I expect a free trim?"

Anyone in Toronto should have Miranda do their hair, http://hairbymiranda.ca. She's fantastic and listens and gives the free bang trim when needed.

my Kerastase Concentre Vita-Ciment came in the mail yesterday! it will be interesting to see if it's as magical as it's made out to be (ie here http://www.makeupalley.com/product/showreview.asp/ItemId=70977/Concentre_Vita_Ciment/Kerastase/Treatments)

I will fully rep the John Frieda stuff, my hair is super damaged but it makes it nice and glossy :)

I had good luck with other John Frieda products, so might try this

just stopping in to say that i have the beachiest beachb hair ever right now and you should be very jealous