It's so good, and yet so bad...
I FINALLY got my hair done! Cut, color, and highlights - if my hair doesn't fall out by the time I'm 30, I'll be in good shape. Of course, I was supposed to go back to get touch-ups in September, but dammit if I don't have the money to get it all done every 8 weeks like my stylist would like. So the whole time he was needling me a leetle bit about how much work he had to do to fix it all....listen here, buddy, do you want to get paid or not?
So when it came to the color, standard color with reddish highlights are back, which is great. Now, the cut. I told my stylist - I want volume. My hair is fine and coarse, and it's too long on top and I'm just damaging it more by teasing it to make it look like I have hair on the top of my head. Give me volume. I want hair I don't have to tease. Can you start my layers and my bangs at nose-level?
Mistake number one - you tell a stylist you want nose-level bangs, and he cuts your very curly hair when it's WET...it'll be nose-level when he cuts it, but when it dries they will turn into EYEBROW-LEVEL bangs.
Mistake number two- you tell your stylist you want short layers, and he cuts and chunks your top layers yet leaves the rest of your hair long...to the point where you feel like either Red Sonja or a Sopranos refugee. AND, AND, AND...he "scrunch-dried" it, which doesn't work on a girl with two cowlicks and fine hair.
So when my hair dries naturally curly, it looks great - nice and springy, the layers are blended in, I won't have to tease for WEEKS. Yay curly hair! But when my hair is dried straight, I look like I have a shag mullet. Is that possible, you ask? YES IT IS.
So my hair will be curly for the next few weeks. But it deserves a break from the hairdryer and hot iron, so it works out. But still - shag mullet. BOO.
So when it came to the color, standard color with reddish highlights are back, which is great. Now, the cut. I told my stylist - I want volume. My hair is fine and coarse, and it's too long on top and I'm just damaging it more by teasing it to make it look like I have hair on the top of my head. Give me volume. I want hair I don't have to tease. Can you start my layers and my bangs at nose-level?
Mistake number one - you tell a stylist you want nose-level bangs, and he cuts your very curly hair when it's WET...it'll be nose-level when he cuts it, but when it dries they will turn into EYEBROW-LEVEL bangs.
Mistake number two- you tell your stylist you want short layers, and he cuts and chunks your top layers yet leaves the rest of your hair long...to the point where you feel like either Red Sonja or a Sopranos refugee. AND, AND, AND...he "scrunch-dried" it, which doesn't work on a girl with two cowlicks and fine hair.
So when my hair dries naturally curly, it looks great - nice and springy, the layers are blended in, I won't have to tease for WEEKS. Yay curly hair! But when my hair is dried straight, I look like I have a shag mullet. Is that possible, you ask? YES IT IS.
So my hair will be curly for the next few weeks. But it deserves a break from the hairdryer and hot iron, so it works out. But still - shag mullet. BOO.