Here is where you can say wherever you like whenever you want to say it...

[Susan BAV]

I GOT SUCH A LOUSY HAIRCUT THE OTHER DAY !!!

I thought I would just go out to a nice $alon and get a nice haircut, before my husband and I take a trip back to New York to visit with our son and some other relatives, and I GOT SCALPED!!!

I AM SO ANNOYED !!!

In the scheme of life, this is nothing! But I am so totally peeved! You know what I mean? It will take months for my hair to grow back and fill in the huge holes that dingbat left in my hair!

JUST STEAMING!!!

Venting, and I'm still annoyed! But not with angry faces and all caps now...
Any sympathy out there?

 

[Sherry]

Susan, I'm with you, sister. I've had some mediocre cuts when my regular stylist has been out. Take care and know that it will grow out eventually.

 

[liamty]

Oh no, WE hairdressers are getting a bad reputation!!!!
There is an old saying that there is only one week between a good and bad haircut, but from experience that can be a VERY long week!!!! (Note I haven't had that said to me, at least not to my face!!!!!!!!)

 

[Ross]

Well all I can say is:

 

[catwoman]

Ross:

Maybe we should take digital cameras w/ us to the barber/salon/stylist/clip joint and document the damage for vr.com????

I'm getting my hair cut Thursday afternoon ... I've been using same stylist for 25 or so years. When I had a hysterectomy in 1985, he even came to my home to do my hair the day after I got out of the hospital.
Since my husband also uses the same stylist, we always know when John's going on vacation and won't be available. We schedule our appts around his vacations.

 

[Ross]

I've had mine royally messed up before. I got so mad one time, I buzzed it all off. I soon found out that no matter how bad the haircut was, my bald head looked even worse.

 

[Johnny Stephens]

Have you run this by your doctor?

Have you run this by your doctor?

Selecting a new stylist is a highly personal choice, one only you can make. But, you've come to the right place. You'll find many here who have had exactly the experience you're going through right now. Lean on us - that's what we're here for.

My experience with bad haircuts dates back many years. It started when the barber got his scissors stuck/wedged in my hair and had to cut them out with another pair, leaving a big bald spot. His parting shot was "No charge today."

I hope you are successful in finding a new stylist with a good chairside manner. You might prepare a list of questions ahead of time to discuss prior to the next hair-cutting procedure.

Johnny

 

[Debrinha GT]

The same hairdresser

The same hairdresser

Hi all, I've had the same hairdresser for 16 years now and haven't had any problems. Whenever I want something done, all I have to do is explain to her how I want it and she'll do it exactly the way I ask her to. She's also very honest and doesn't try to cheat. The other day I considered getting my hair streaked again even though it still looks fine, and she said I could wait another few weeks before getting it done . She could just have taken my money, after all, I was the one who went there. I also get my nails done in the same place. Want the address?

Débora

 

[Susan BAV]

Well all I can say is:

Yea, well Ross, since I don't post my picture when I look good , I'm sure not gonna' post it when I don't look so good ...

But since a picture is worth a thousand words, then a thousand words should be worth a picture... But I don't know a thousand adjectives to describe icky, icky, icky! Roget couldn't even do it!

I look like she put a large bowl on my head for the front and then she left a remnant of long hair down the back - ICK, ICK, ICK!!! And it's not cut evenly nor well-blended and there are extra chunks of hair missing here, there, and yonder... It's such a mess that I don't think it can even be completely repaired unless I went... GASP... short! I don't often get good haircuts but I don't often get a haircut that's this bad either. I've been told it's because my hair is thick and stylists get lost cutting it. But since there's so little left, that shouldn't oughta be a problem for awhile ...

But all of your comments cracked me up and made me feel much better for your empathy! Thank you! I'd like to hear more of your hair horror stories!

 

[fyrfytr]

Hey Ross,
We will get a picture for you at the reunion.
Take Care

 

[Ross]

Well Susan you could always do as I did and take on the Sinead O'Conner look, but I can assure you, you'll look better with hair even if you don't like it!

My head is not designed to be hairless. I can't believe all the different shapes mine turns into. I couldn't have been crowned at birth. It has to be more like tonged and turned a few times. It's really bad.

 

[Harpoon]

I hadn't had a haircut at all in the summer months leading up to my first semester of art school at the CIA (NOT the cooking school)


Not spy school either, oh darn.

Oh wait, am I just saying that to throw you off or do I mean it?

Oh wait, is this a deception too???

Oh wait, am I REAL?

Are you????



Anyways... In college I discovered that haircuts in the "big city" were MUCH more expensive than in my own small home town AND I had to travel several city blocks, on foot, through snow (sometimes) to get that over-expensive haircut.

So, I didn't.

In November I was looking quite shaggy.


In comes friend who lives in dorm room upstairs.

He has home clipper set.

He will cut anyone's hair for a nominal fee (one load of wash, that is, four quarters for the coin-op machines in the dorm.)

I let him use my wordprocessor for free (I charged the same deal, quarters are a VERY hot commodity in college)



Two years of art school in a mohawk...

Plus about three years after that, including a nice photo of myself behind the camera for a biography piece the paper used to run, "People in Profile"...

There are a number of photos, some pretty decent, some not so, including a photo that was taken after one of my brother's college buddies asked if she could french braid my mohawk.


My "rebelious phase" finally came to an end (or did it???) when I got a job teaching video production to high school students in a summer enrichment program....


Had a nice long tail that went down to just below my shoulderblades when it was tied up. About two inches wide from my forehead back down to the base of my skull.

Discovered I have a "Mercedes Benz" logo on the left side of my head, a little bit above and back from my left ear.

A scar from SOMETHING.....




Must have been abducted by aliens at some point.

Maybe that's why I have an artificial valve now.... Hmmm....


Will share a photo when I get one scanned in.

 

[Bunny_Rabbit]

If anyone cares,

I REALLY NEED A HAIRCUT!

 

[Ross]

If anyone cares,

I REALLY NEED A HAIRCUT!

And a picture of you in that bikini you promised a ways back too!

 

[Susan BAV]

If anyone cares, I REALLY NEED A HAIRCUT!

No bragging now, Bunny; at least you still have hair !

And, Harpoon wrote: "Oh wait, am I REAL? Are you????"
Harpoon, have you been flashing those camera bulbs too close to your busy grey cells again ?

I'm loving these stories, Ross! And it's a lot more fun reading them than looking in the mirror right now !

I guess (hairless) misery loves company !

 

[Ross]

Susan I think you enjoy frustrating me. I need a pic! I think your a royal goddess in hiding, that's what I think.

 

[Susan BAV]

royal goddess in hiding

I think you must have meant to say, "nearly hairless and hiding?!?!"

 

[Granbonny]

It has been 25 years since I last wore my hair short. Why, the same thing. Let a little girl who had opened a shop in our small town (Living on our farm in Ga.) I cried all the way home and said never again. I keep it shoulder length... Wash every other day..Put up in French twist if something important or just wear it pulled back with cute ties.They make hair bands from hair as same as yours..(color) My hubby likes it..says, every woman seems to have the same bowling ball hairdo..Little round head with tight curls..My hair is thin and will not take a perm..and I cannot stand hair in my eyes..Hate to see a woman on T.V. being interviewed and has to constant push her hair back Bonnie

 

[Bunny_Rabbit]

Heh Ross you're going to have to wait a little longer for that pic.

You're right Susan I AM glad that I have hair. I wanted to donate "some" of my hair to one of those organizations that make wigs for people with cancer, but I just read on the internet that they don't want it if it's dyed. There goes that idea.

 

[joy]

I remember when I got out of the hospital the first time, I went to the mall, and we'd JUST gotten our tax refund, so my husband told me to treat myself and get a haircut. I asked for a chinlength bob, she took it as an ann haesch look, and I cried all day long. To make a long story short, I AM A GIRL, we don't like our hair to be butched.