A (hair) do over..

Oh yeah, another one

I went to get a perm once (God alone knows why) and told the guy my hair was curly so use the BIG PURPLE rods! Well, he apparently didn't have enough and I wound up looking like Poodle Head for quite some time That was tough to live down

Pink...

(not the rods, I won't go there)

oh holy ****

You know what my friend said to me just today????

that looks like one of those soccer mom hair do's... where they try to look like jennifer Anniston. You know the kind.. fake nails, suv, complain when their manicure isnt done correctly, more charge cards then friends...

I just died laughing.

It was damaged.
In fact i cut my hair really short to get rid of a lot of damage and colored it to help hide it.
yes, doing that actually MADE sense.. just trust me

But that was the start of a new style.
When I say chunks since 94, I mean, if I got color, that was how it was applied. Hair cuts and styles always different. I did short and ringlet curls for a while. Pin straight thick bright color patches. Large sort of bouncy curls no color, short tight curls like and older black woman would have..

many different things..

it is just that, when color is added to my hair, it looks best to me, and matches my personality when it is big and bold. Soft highlights are hidden in my hair and look inappropriate.

Even with out me saying so, all of my friends who have seen this have said the same thing... " thats not you. Thats not right"
and I agree.

What are you complaining about?

I once left looking like a librarian*!




(* Do we have any librarians here? Sorry, sorry!)

Next time the hairdresser you like does your hair, ask her for a descriptive technical paragraph you can use to describe it to anyone else who does it when she's not available. That way you're talking in a technical lingo to the new stylist that might help get the message heard more thoroughly.

and me, I end up looking sporty if I don't get the appointment firmly in hand right up front. I am NOT sporty. There is no point in trying to make me look sporty.

Well, as a Librarian, you could at least show some cleavage to offset that image, but with the Poodle Head it wouldn't have made a difference - everyone was staring at my poor head.

So do you have a belly-dancing style?

( I posted it over on the trivial and bored thread a while back - my own striped hair with about 4 pounds of 2 foot-long extensions in 3 colours)

you are as sporty as I am a soccer mom.

lets swap suv's eh?
My hummer bores me..

Yeah, but how's the manicure?

Trivial and bored thread? I think I must have missed that, sheeit.

I was gonna mention that Jennifer A. thing, then thought better of it.

i didnt believe it until I looked her up afterwords and.... yeeeup. This is a style she has. A style I see tens of thousands of people with.
Gads.
Who wants to look like everyone else?

yup.
lookie here..

http://www.skinz.org/celebrity/jennifer-aniston/jennifer-aniston-wallpapers-2.jpg

OMG!! You so look like that A little less polished, perhaps, but yep, you got yourself a JenA hairdo Oh, and I wanted to say, she, that you're looking pretty hot these days.

I'm sure she ended up looking like JA because that's one the hairdresser has had the opportunity to practice often.

It's beyond me how you can be talking to someone one on one, and directly tell them "3 big chunks" or "use the purple rods" or "no, I don't want the haircut you have, that's not what I'm describing at all" and they still go ahead with whatever they had in their mind in the first place.

Years ago, I went to my brothers wedding back home, and stopped by my mom's hairdresser, Emma, who I'd known since I could walk. I didn't know what I wanted, just that I wanted to look "fancier" for the wedding. At that time I didn't know the first thing about pinning up my hair, french twists, etc.
She did a really simple chignon, and I loved it. Not fussy, just not something I did every day.


A few months later, I was going to a friends wedding, and went to a hairdresser to get the same thing done.

I explained and explained, saying I didn't want curls or anything all fussy. I just wanted my hair "up"
The woman started working on me, and 5 minutes into it, I was thinking "this is how long it took Emma to do the whole thing, what's this woman doing?"
She started getting out a curling iron, and I was like "wait a minute, I don't want curls, I just want my hair up"
She assured me my hair wasn't going to be curly, but that this was just the way she did it.
Then, she started putting curlers in my hair, despite my further questions. Anyway, she futzed and fussed, and the Aqua Net came out, and I didn't know what teasing was, but that's what she was doing.

I had at some point zoned out, and kinda nodded off. Then I looked at my watch and saw I'd been there over an hour!!
I freaked out then and said "I have to be at the wedding in like 45 minutes, and I haven't even showered, dressed or put on my makeup yet! The church is like 20 minutes away! WHAT ARE YOU DOING???"

I put a lot of the blame on myself for being young and stupid, and not realizing she had her own agenda, regardless of what I said.

When she realized I was pissed, she finished up in 5 minutes, and I cried all the way home. My boyfriend was freaking out saying he didn't know where I was, and we should have been at the church by now. He was all dressed and ready to go. He took one look at my hair and was speachless, and not in a good way.
I didn't have time to properly do my makeup, I just threw myself into my clothes and hoped for the best.

That balloon head photo reminds me of myself after going to the hairdressing salon at our hotel in Guadalajara. There was poor communication between myself and the hairdresser due to language difference - but I figured what the hell, just using a few spanish words and hand gestures. Never in my wildest nightmares did I figure I'd end up looking like a raised bowling ball. I headed straight to the Lobby ladies room and spent a half hour trying to brush that hair out, giving up, going back to our room and shampooing it all out with difficulty.

Very funny.

What is it with hairdressers, anyway? Why can't they understand the simplest requests? I thought it was just me, not giving clear enough instructions, but clearly this is a universal problem! They appear to be collectively a very willful group, bent on having their own way!

Someone should run a course: Communication: How To Make Your Hairdresser Do What you Want. It'd take it in a flash!

Speaking of celebrity hairstyles, here's a few the girls of my generation sported...

The Dorothy Hammil - without a doubt the ugliest hair style of all time. I was a young teen at the time, and all I could think when I saw girls with that hair was "they'll never be able to have sex. they would just look too stupid with their clothes off and that hair"


Farrah wings
I remember Joann Kazlowski had such major wings, so heavily sprayed, you could have thrown a rock at her head and it would have bounced off.




Cher - I aspired to this look, despite the fact my mother was always saying "why don't you DO something with that hair?"



At a little bit younger age, my dream was to either be "That Girl" Ann Marie, AKA Marlo Thomas, or Laura Petrie, better known as Mary Tyler Moore.




Good God, just look at Ms. Petrie....the hair, the capri's, the bongo drum.
Perfection itself.