At the salon on Monday:
What I Said: Hi! Please correct the unsightly off-center blob of white bird poop highlights on top of my head. I'd like to go brown. Maybe all brown. What do you think of that?
What Stylist Said: Hmm... I think you need some highlights to add dimension. *rakes fingernails through my hair*
What I Said: Okay then, but I want my hair to be mostly brown with a few subtle, natural looking highlights - and just on the top.
What Stylist Heard: I want you to make me look like Cruella De Vil.
I should have payed attention in the Earth to Hair Stylist communications course the college semester I turned 21, instead of pounding Keystone and dancing until even my toes were sweaty at Popeye's in Old Sacramento.
Regardless of who I turn to for coiffure 411, I always get the same assistance: ridiculousness. One hair genius even managed to deposit white spots all about my crown, effectively leoprifying me. That was the one and only time I called back, hemmed, hawed, coughed, gurgled and eventually managed to choke out a correction request.
I've been to the Aveda Salon in Palm Springs, a fancy place in the back room of a florist shop in Downtown Sacramento, SuperCuts, StupidCuts, the office of a Chinese deli in San Francisco, and a place I saw advertised on tv that promised to make me look like a rock star. Not just my hair, me.
Do I look like a rock star yet?
ugh, thanks for the reminder, I look like a skunk with my racing stripe getting bigger..time to break out the bottle of dye from Target. I give up getting "professional" color. I can just as easily screw it up myself for less "Cha-Ching"!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I never cut my own hair, I'll still go to get that done. Have a great rest of your week. Rock Star!
I LOVE it!!!!!! it's totally today, you lucky girl.
ReplyDeleteThis is exactly why I intend to go all white - I can no longer stand the new colors that stylists invent for my hair.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to see how the absence of color works out.
Damn you and your positivity! That just pisses me off!!
ReplyDeleteBut the natural skunk stripe is cool! I have the kind of salt and pepper gray that makes my hair look greasy and my skin pallid. I've tried dying my own as well - going for brown - and having it ending up bathroom mold orange.
ReplyDeleteI am SO jealous! If my hair were white I'd totally go there. You will end up looking platinum blondish. How do you wait it out? Are you going to dye it that color & then let it grow out, or just let it happen over time?
ReplyDeleteOh no! I hate when my color doesn't turn out. So lucky I finally found a stylist that listens and does what I want her to do. Except this time I had to handly my recession roots on my own. All blond it was. I still like the colors, she just needed to weave them a bit more.
ReplyDeleteHi Karie! Thanks for commiserating with me.
ReplyDeleteI think it would help if I had a firm grip on what I actually want. I'm sure your hair lools fabu.
Oh, hair woes! I got 'em too. Just read a feature in the current issue of O about doing it yourself -- with step-by-step instructions from a pro. Hmm. Believe it or not, after years of back & forth (doing all-over color myself & having the "pros" do highlights & make me too blonde) I am actually contemplating doing my own highlights! I am pretending they will make me look hip, and my skin younger, and my gray less noticeable. *snort* This could get ugly. Will report back soon.
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