Re: Barbers...:(

[streetsoldier]

Well, I was looking a little scraggly "up top", and went to the local barber...only he wasn't there, and a young lady did the job...or, did she?

Oh, the haircut was OK, but she immediately started trimming my Robert E. Lee BEARD, and THEN asked, "Would you like your beard trimmed?"

I said, "Well, since you've already started..." after which she took me from a "grizzled Rebel" to what appears more like a CNN legal analyst defending Michael Jackson.

It gets "better"...after all that, she glued my hair to my head using "greasy kid stuff" ("Suave")...goo I haven't used since I was 10!

I immediately came home and entered into "damage control" as a far as I was able...no more grease, anyway.

Query for the Board; has anyone else had a similar experience with your barber or stylist?

[Lindaloo]

I have been going to to the same hair stylist since 1985. She STILL wants to cut my hair like it is the eighties. lol. When she styles it for me she tends to give me big hair. I have to rush home and do damage control too.

[j]

well...can't say I have...but, and no offense Bill...but I would NEVER let a man run his hands through my hair. I would just prefer as long as I have to shell out 15-20 dollars, that I have a pretty shapely woman do it.

Just my preference is all. I think it stems from my youth when my Mom used to take me to a Unisex Barber shop called GQ's. The word around town was that it stood for "Guys and Queers". I didn't object because there was plenty of hot babes cutting hair and only one man, the owner.

As luck would have it, I got stuck with him one day because the girl that always cut my hair was out sick. Everything was going fine until near the end of the haircut, he straps this vibrating thing on his hand and gives me a scalp massage.

That was it for me man...no more males cutting my hair!

[streetsoldier]

j,

I have no problem with either a male or female, providing he/she is COMPETENT, and asks ahead of time about the client's preferences.

BTW, I grew up when "barbers" were all men, and women were "stylists"...and neither group dared trespass into the other's "territory".

[OtherHD]

Bill, I just got my haircut Monday to prepare for the return to school, and the same lady that did my hair the last few times cut it. She always gets it too short and no amount of gel can keep it down. Today I just decided not to bother making my hair look neat...I actually think I like it better the new way.

[j]

Bill -- I am actually in perpetual search for the perfect hair stylist. I'm pretty picky since the ex witch was a stylist and I think I have this mental block about it. I'm with stylists the way I am with restaurants. One bad experience, and I won't go back.

[furluvcats]

Gotta be careful with who does your hair. My girlfrend Tina comes from Chicago often, and she does all our heads. Other than her, I have my girl Cherise from Daytona, whom I've had for many years now...I call and make sure I have an appointment with her everytime I go back home. I have a temp that styles my hair here, but I don't let anyone here cut my locks....

[coriolis]

I just got a buzz - beard and all, done by none other than my dear spouse. She also did all the boys too. All the same. I like it that way - no maintenance. I can shower before going to bed and don't wake up to a bad hair day.

[coriolis]

Bill, was that a General Lee beard or a ZZ-Top beard?

[george_r_1961]

I went to the same barber for 11 years till he recently retired. I didnt care for his partner so I found another barber shop close to my home. Im not one to sit and BS in the barber chair..just wanna get my hair cut(all 3 of them lol ) and get out of there. Back to the topic: I let an obviously drunk barber cut my har about 20 years ago and ended up shaving my head so it would all grow back evenly.

[weatherluvr]

I had every style from the "Joe Dirt" mullet, to a tail, to spikes. They could never get mine right until a few years ago, when I took a razor and opted for the "Stone Cold" hairstyle. I let it grow back a little, and keep it buzzed very close; unfortunately, the top never did come back...

[streetsoldier]

coriolis,

Definitely a "Marse Robert" beard, y'all...for a "ZZ Top", ask for Dennis!

[Miss Mary]

Bill - if I have time I'll find the hair topic I started over at Community Forum. It's pretty funny.

You see my regular hairdresser for almost 20 years, except for a year here and there, nearly scalped me last summer. I wanted a new look/cut, something current, I said not short and he took my hair up to almost my ears in front. The very back was so short I could only wet and comb it down, I couldn't even blow dry it. I vowed then and then to not get a trim for 4 months and I didn't. I went back to my daughter Nina's hairdresser. She's even older than Mark, in her 50s, but has a vision for what's in right now. Mark's stuck in the 80s too, like someone's hairdresser here is too. That's so frustrating! For years he would cut my hair in such flattering ways, what I wanted too. As if he was cutting his wife's hair. She's a hairdresser too, they met in hair design school. I was so upset last summer I almost cried. It's just now getting back to what I had then.

A good hairdresser is hard to come by. When you find one hang on to him or her!

Mary

[azsnowman]

Actually Bill, the ZZ Top beard is history, had to, the PD wouldn't allow it, now it's high and tight, like a 5 o' clock shadow, still got the mid back length ponytail, tucked under the WMAT PD ball cap, pinned down JUST in case the hat comes off during a altercation!

Now......I've always gone to a barber shop, y'all remember the OLD barber shops with the *Shoe Shine Man* sitting there doing a shoe shine? Michelle now does the high and tight.....skin close on the sides, flat top and the LONG, LONG ponytail, now in brades!

Dennis

[ColdFront77]

I don't care who (male or female) cuts my hair. I know I should get it cut when it gets to a certain length, but I wait for my mother really thinks I need one, she (and others) can see it best, after all. Once it's done, it's nice to not have to go for awhile.