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i like the rainbow stripey scissors...
also, there was a hairstyle i was trying to make work for years. mostly i had to do it myself, with mirrors and navigating the back of my own head... because everytime i went to a "professional" it was invariably f*cked up because she (or occasionally he) got it into mind that what i wanted didn't look "good" and so would cut my hair some other way. i really would sit there for hours, telling a girl to go shorter- no, SHORTER... one in particular shortened my hair by an inch-and-a-half, one-eighth of and inch at a time. i asked her a few times if it might not just be easier to use the electric clippers and shear it off, and then clean it up with the scissors, but no... she was just incapable of wrapping her head around the idea that i basically wanted the back of my head shaved. it didn't fit her image of what a girl's hair should be.
i was told by some that they could do it if i had a picture from a magazine, but it was not a style that could be found in any magazine. i could describe it down to the detail, but there were no pictures.
i never did find a stylist that listened to what i asked.
now i have decided to grow my hair out for a while.
now i see girls around town with the hairstyle i was dreaming of, like it came out of a magazine somewhere.
Yeah - that's happened to me a couple of times.
My opinion? Client first. If they want it an inch all over, show them an inch on the ruler side of the comb to make sure it's really what they want, and then take it all off!! If you come in with a specific idea in mind for YOUR haircut, then it is no longer my job to recommend a style to you.
You can always give two inches and then take off. But some people are so terribly cowardly when it comes to haircutting. And shame on them. They'll never make it anywhere fun.
Tell me about your hairstyle. I want to hear it.
I wanted my hair to be long in front and short in back. Like a bowl-cut, with a very large bowl, and tipped down to cover my face. I wanted really long, thick curls around my face, sausage curls like on a doll or something, but the rest to be short & spikey. Maybe like wings that came off my head, if it was straight. Maybe like if you had your hair back in a ponytail, and then cut it off above the rubberband. I can draw a picture, but I can't find a picture on the 'Net to save my life.
I am still pissed off about the first time, the only time there was to get it right.
I had been trying to grow my hair out for a while, it was a little past shoulder-length. In years previous I had done all sorts of colours and crazy cuts, waist-length blue hair, short-short purple, this that and the other thing. Then I thought I would try long hair again. It seemed that all the other girls had long, straight, shiny, beautiful long hair, and mine? It didn't seem to be getting any longer, and always just looked boring, frizzy, nothing... Of course there was some insecurity involved, but a girl wants to look good.
I had this idea, and I knew already that it would be harder than anything to describe it. I tried to cut it myself the way I wanted it, and while I wasn't quite as handy then as I have become since, it was basically the right shape. It was shoulder length in the front half, the bangs and "sideburns" and a little bit back, but barely a pinch worth on the back of my neck.
It needed to be cleaned up, it was quite jagged, so I went down to the hair place down the street...
You might like to think stylists don't just cut people's hair off without asking if it's okay, but this one disapproved of my idea and just hacked off the sides I had left long. The one side, actually, and when I told her that was not what I asked for, she said she would make the other side even. She made the whole thing even.
She cut it all straight chin-length.
I was so angry I could have cried.
This absolutely ruined all chances of me getting the style I wanted. See, you can't have long hair when someone goes and cuts it all off. It doesn't just grow back. It does... grow back... YEARS later...
There were other stylists. I went through great pains to describe what I wanted, and how I thought they would go about doing it, but it was never quite right.
I'm still pissed off about it, very much.
I could try again, but I don't even want to anymore.
Nowadays, I just go to the hair place and say "trim it". They give me the same generic soccer-mom cut they give everyone, which changes a little sometimes, whenever the magazines get around to dictating what the Hot New Style™ is this season. This time around it is a little shorter right around the face, like last year I had bangs and now I'm growing them out? I don't know. I don't much care for it, but it is what it is. Boring, brown, not quite shoulder-length. I was in the architecture department, and they make it hard enough for girls down there in Eichberg, and doubly that for the non-Aberzombies, I thought it might make my life easier to not stand out. Well, they managed to drive me off anyway, and now I feel more free to look how I want to look.
I have been playing with making "extentions" or something... babyfalls? Fake hair & yarn on hairbands, but really short, so they match the length of my real hair somewhat. It adds volume rather than any sort of length.
Lately, I am thinking of this dye job I first dreamed up when I was 14 or so... Horizontal stripes in blue and orange, with "spacers" of blonde between. I guess that's beading terminology, but I don't know how else to say it. The stripes about 1" or 2", the spacers 1/2" or so. Different colours might be better, but the blue/orange is how I see it in my head.
I understand that this is probably pretty much impossible, and even if it could be done, it wouldn't last much longer than the photoshoot with the way my hair curls up.
In the meantime, I was wondering if there is a way to cut the hair to encourage the curls to spiral more. It's not curly so much as... noncomittal-wavy, frizzy in the humidity, and sometimes when I wake up I've got some stubborn coils. Thin hairs, but lots of them.
Your basic rampant celtfro.