Well, the good news is the mushroom mullet is no more. The bad news is I now look like the long lost child of Little Orphan Annie and one of the Jonas Brothers. Why, you ask? I finally went to get my hair cut today. I went back to Fantastic Sam's, hoping that I would get someone other than the lady I got last time. Luckily for me, I did get someone different, although the other lady was one chair over. Oh well. You win some; you lose some.I've got to hand it to the new stylist. She was more patient than most stylists. She might not have listened to me, but she was patient. I explained to her that I wanted to bring the back up several inches so that there wouldn't be so much distance between the shortest layer and the longest. I also told her that I wanted her to try to make the right side match the left side. This time yesterday the two sides didn't match at all.
Initially, the stylist followed the latter part of my directions. She got the sides to match for the most part, but she only took one inch off the back. One inch wasn't enough to close the distance between the two problem layers. I hated to ask her to cut more off, especially after she took 30 minutes to cut my layers, but I did anyway. I could tell that, even with the sides matching, the length was going to drive me nuts. After all, I wanted a matching, layered bob, not a matching mullet.
The lady tried to talk me out of cutting off length. She just kept pushing more layers on me. Why has every single stylist that I've seen since the first stylist messed up my hair in June tried to talk me out of cutting off length? Are they all adverse to short hair? Or are layers just in this year? I don't know either. Anyway, the stylist convinced me to let her dry my hair before she cut off anymore lenght. I agreed because I thought that she meant that she would dry it with a diffuser or a round brush. Those are the only two ways that you're supposed to blow dry curly hair. The former method leaves bouncy curls; the latter method straightens them out. Uh, the stylist didn't do either. She just let a normal blow dryer loose on my wet hair. The result--a frizzed out mess that evoke images of electrocution--was more than a little scary. I bit my lip and said, "Yeah, you're going to have to cut it."
The lady tried to talk me out of cutting off length. She just kept pushing more layers on me. Why has every single stylist that I've seen since the first stylist messed up my hair in June tried to talk me out of cutting off length? Are they all adverse to short hair? Or are layers just in this year? I don't know either. Anyway, the stylist convinced me to let her dry my hair before she cut off anymore lenght. I agreed because I thought that she meant that she would dry it with a diffuser or a round brush. Those are the only two ways that you're supposed to blow dry curly hair. The former method leaves bouncy curls; the latter method straightens them out. Uh, the stylist didn't do either. She just let a normal blow dryer loose on my wet hair. The result--a frizzed out mess that evoke images of electrocution--was more than a little scary. I bit my lip and said, "Yeah, you're going to have to cut it."
Finally, the stylist did as I asked, but the new length was a little lopsided at first. The right side came out shorter than the left so I had to get her to fix that as well. I looked a little crazy afterwards. The frizz remained, even after the cutting and brushing. I guess the stylist saw that I was about to start crying when she asked me if I liked it better because she offered to wet it. Once the water was in there and the frizz calmed down, I calmed down as well. After an hour, it was good enough, and I was ready to go. I told her that the cut was fine, apologized again for making her recut it, and tipped her a dollar more than I normally tip. I would have tipped another dollar after that, but I noticed that, during the last 15 minutes of the cut, she kept giving the other stylist looks every time she thought that I wasn't looking. Sorry, hon, but rolling your eyes at me cost you a dollar.
Anyway, the cut is even now, short, so curly I could be on the Disney Channel, but even nonetheless. Now I just need to start taking some hair vitamins and let it grow out again.
