Hair Raising Experience

Recently, I went to straighted my hair and had to trim off some of the ends for its dryness. Somehow, these ends still end up being very very dry after 4weeks of attempting to self-treat them.... I had to go and get it fixed before I loose my whole head of mane hee...

But I really dread the idea of making an appointment with my regular hair stylist, especially after I did not go to her for the straightening.... I'm not sure if she'll be happy with me.

My alternate short & sweet option was to visit the neighbourhood salon at the bottom of my flat. I've always wondered how they survive, with barely any custmer throughout the day, and about 8 other salons in the same area, how good are they? (its really scarly walking into unknown territory of the hair salon... u know, u can walk out with a totally awkward hairstyle that is totally NOT to your liking... *scared*)

Also, the shop is tended by females who seemed to dress in spaghetti strips and short short skirts, often they are open till 11pm in the night, so are they REALLY just a hair salon?? *shoulders going up and down* chanting I dunno.

So after days of pondering, with Ad's encouragement, I mustered up my courage and walked into the "hair salon". The short haired lady with a whole head full of blonde hair attended to me as I approach their shop. I showed her my frizzle hair ends and she broke into a smile saying that I need to get my hair treated. Not wanting to spend MORE $$ on my hair, I responded by letting her know that I've got HOME treatment hee... but of course she insisted that theirs is DIfferent!

So I went on to inquired about the COST of my hair trimmings.... and she said "$10", I tried weakly to retailiate about my hubby's $8 haircut and I knew that I was at the losing end because of my ultra LOOOONNNNGGG hair, so I meekly gave in.

(I learnt that you've got to let whoever that is cutting your hair WIN at something first before they cut your hair, else you'll walk out feeling like you need another haircut...)

She was quite "gentle" with cutting my long frizzle hair ends, after flipping my hair left-right, forward-backwards (about 20mins) she seemed quite happy with her works, she decided to do the Big-Mirror-behind-the-head thing when i cant really see what she's done for me cos I havent put on my specs yet!

I was quite worried what I'll see on the mirror, for the 20mins that she was cutting my hair, the horrendous image of her "accidentally" cutting more than needed was on my mind. I could not even catch my nap in peace....

Even though the cut was quite decent, there was stil some frizzle hair at the ends, after pointing out to her... she looked cheery and said "No problem, I'll take care of it for you, but it will be shorter..." (You know, when hair stylist tells you that it'll be 'shorter' you have alot to worry about..... cos their short can be anything from 2cm to 20cm... while yours is 2mm to 10mm....

She started chopping my hair off gladly, I din dare to make any comments in case it gets even shorter or look really GROSS! I'm at her mercy..... *shivering with fear*

After what seems like an eternity, its finally over, all the bad ends are gone and i'm very happy to quickly pay up and leave before anything else happen.... its much shorter now... *sob* *sob* and it feels really really WEIRD! Its like its unnatural u know?

(hope i never have to step into that shop again.... *eeks*)