I can't get my hair cut, because I need to get my hair cut.

[LaraMN]

My hair is SO damaged that I'm too freaked out to go to my hairstylist.

The last time I was there, he yelled at me and told me to stop heat styling my hair and trimming my own bangs, and he also said something in Russian that sounded like it probably meant "asshole dumbshit!" or something like that.

I did not stop heat styling my hair, and I trimmed my bangs and possibly some parts that were not my bangs, and my hair is a hundred times worse than the last time I went in.

I need it cut SO badly but I can't go back there, and I don't trust anyone else to cut it!


Disaster!
No!

:banghead:

[flvegan]

1. Sinead O'Conner pulled it off...

:shrug:

[LaraMN]

2. I have a high forehead.

Can't do it.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Your post suggests that

your heat styling may have damaged more than your hair.

[LaraMN]

4. That or 17 years of dyeing my own hair with the bathroom door shut.

:silly:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. Soon, soon.......

You won't worry about your hair at all. Everything will be JUST FINE...........

[LaraMN]

6. Heh!

Exactly how soon will "soon" be?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

8. Well,it's not now,

because you still understand the concept of "soon."

[amitten]

7. Just go. Don't be scared of a hairdresser, of all things.

He'll just yell and you again and then make you look way better.

[LaraMN]

9. I don't like the conflict.

:cry:

[meegbear]

10. You can ...

1. don't do a thing
2. suck it up and go to your hairdresser
3. find a new hairdresser
4. shave it off

[LaraMN]

11. I was actually leaning toward #3,

with the thought that a new hairdresser would have to at least initially be nice to me.

[whistler162]

19. The new hairdresser will likely check their

bad hair book and rat you out to your old hairdresser and THEN yell at you also.

[Shell Beau]

12. Just tell him to shut up and cut it!

:7

[LaraMN]

13. But then he might get mad and not do his best!

:nopity:

[Shell Beau]

15. I am lucky that my best friend is also a hair stylist!

Works out nicely for me!

[MajorChode]

16. Just tell 'em you want it like this

[mopinko]

49. that's my haircut. sorta. has been for 30 years.

i let it grow a little around the edges, just to please my mom. got a little row of dreadlocks in the back. but i just cut it with my clipper, and boris doesn't yell at me. or charge me money. or make me make an appointment. or nothin'.
fuck that pretty shit. it is a trap.

[SeattleGirl]

14. Um, so does he think those of us who heat style our hair need to start

rolling it in little pink curlers and sleeping through the night with them?

My hair takes forever to dry, even with a hair dryer, and if I don't use a curling iron, it just kind of hangs there in a big poof.

What IS a girl to do?

[LaraMN]

17. I was straightening my hair.

You can't straighten curly hair without heat.

[SeattleGirl]

18. Ah, I see.

Same mystery applies though. How to straighten OR curl without heat?

[RetroLounge]

20. Just let it go natural

Stop coloring it, let it curl...

besides, we all know there are no russians in MN.

:9

RL

[LaraMN]

21. Are you nuts?!

I have silvers!

[RetroLounge]

23. Silvers are teh sexy!

Don't buy into the false sense of beauty pushed by the patriarchal society of russian hairdressers.

RL

[LaraMN]

25. I agree!

On everyone else but me!

"patriarchal society of russian hairdressers"...

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. If Boris throws tude on ya

just look him in the eye and say, "Keel moose and squirrel."

[LaraMN]

26. That's his name, too!

For reals!

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

33. Bahahaha!

Then casually drop names, "Fearless Leader" and "Meester Beeg." :evilgrin:

[Critters2]

24. Go to someone else. I don't think they'll yell at you at Cost Cutters. nt

[LaraMN]

28. I'm not going to Cost Cutters!

I took my kids there and they couldn't even cut their hair in a non-crooked manner!

[Critters2]

31. But did they scold you?

It's a matter of priorities, I guess. I prefer not getting yelled at.

[ikojo]

27. I can't get my hair cut because I simply cannot afford it

I have been on short term disability since the end of October. I figure it's hair and it doesn't need cut, I guess. I'll try to wait until I have a little bit more money.

[LaraMN]

30. One of the reasons I love the guy who cuts my hair is that he's CHEAP

and does a fantastic job!
It's about $13 +tip for a cut. I've paid three times that much elsewhere and been less pleased w/ the outcome.

[DeepBlueC]

47. ask him to recommend some product

show some kind of interest in mitigating the damage you are doing and he might be mollified. But please stop cutting your own hair. I see that you need to use heat(and product may help)but the cutting is just saying "up yours" to him.

[BarenakedLady]

29. I need my haircut so badly

and have for ages. It's mostly all dead ends. I'm embarrassed to go in now, not that I have a hairdresser anyway.

:hide:

[LaraMN]

32. Split ends are awful!

I have so may that I can just pull little wads of broken ends off.

Ugh.

[onlyadream]

34. Find someone else!

I had a really young dimwit once who asked me what I used on my hair. I used dep and she made a comment about me getting with the times and getting out of the 80's!! I was soooo insulted - all she wanted to do was sell her expensive crap to me. BTW, everything she said about dep was wrong (I ran home and read the labels and apparently dep kept with the times too).
This kid also gave me one of the worse haircuts ever.

[bicentennial_baby]

35. I've decided to grow mine out!!

:bounce:

Corkscrew curls should be back in about 6 months!

I'm terrified. My hair looks frightening in the growing out stage. :o

[pokerfan]

36. Sounds like the Soup Nazi of stylists

[Dangerously Amused]

37. Head him off at the pass.

Just say, "Okay, go ahead and yell at me. Yell all you need to. Let's get it out of the way. I don't like my hair either, but I'm addicted to heat styling, so just do what you can."

[madrchsod]

38. he should yell at you.....

cutting your bangs is bad enough but using heat to style your hair is a deadly sin....

if you have to style....

a little do will do ya!

[Inchworm]

39. I think I'm gonna let mine grow all straggly

and pierce my lip

;)

[Roon]

40. You're too old!!

Otherwise, I would do it too!!

[Inchworm]

41. LoL

That's why I would do it :D

Society would never expect it!

:rofl:

[Roon]

42. Hey, Great point

I know a physic who is approx. 75 years old and he has a nose ring. So I guess that would be ok.

[BarenakedLady]

44. BNL approves this post.

:thumbsup:

[Inchworm]

45. Yay!

Hi you!

Hope your evening is well.

:*

[Fran Kubelik]

43. Here's what I did.

I went to one of those cheapo places just to get a trim. Paid $12. She didn't give me a hard time about the fact that I OBVIOUSLY hacked at my own hair in the shower. Now that my hair is all even, I'll be able to face a stylist. :)

[blue cat]

46. suck it up

and go back to him. my hair was really damaged because i was dying it myself for years. it has taken about 9 months but now it looks sooooo much better once i started intense conditioning and getting my color/cut from a professional. my friend was so tough on me but now i am glad because my hair looks better.

[surrealAmerican]

48. I bought this book a long time ago:

How to cut your own or anybody else's hair
by Bob Bent and Jack Boxxi (Paperback - 1983)

It's listed on Amazon...