Good Advice for Haircuts
Clip It…Clip It…Clip It
I enjoy watching those transformation videos where this guy with three feet of beard and hair walks into a barber, and they cut off, style, and transform the look of the guy. I like the long-haired look, having grown up when it was rebellious behavior to grow your hair long, whether you were male or female. But I also like a clean look to those long-haired dudes. No ZZ Top looks float my boat anymore.
I especially like it when my husband lets his locks go until they curl around the nape of his neck, but he hasn’t done that in a while. He has kept his beard trim and looks pretty sharp. It’s amazing the number of times folks who would be the age of his kids if he’d ever had any are shocked to hear how old he is. I don’t get out enough for anyone to say the same thing about me.
It is sort of depressing to hear about celebrities who die who are younger than either of us. It’s just another poke to get stuff done. There’s almost a sense of hurry in the air to be productive.
It is no longer enough to say, “One of these days I will …..” One of those days is here.
Anyway, my advice about haircuts is don’t talk to your hairdresser. Just don’t do it. I made the mistake once to get into a conversation with some lady, new to me, a hairdresser, who went on and on about how I needed to dye my hair. She sounded like a psychic saying, “You’ll never get promoted. Nobody will hire you.”
She had a lot of other things to say about the color of my hair, which is silver with brown underneath. I walked out of that shop, never to return again with my hair a good three or four inches too short. It did grow back, so it wasn’t disastrous, but I learned that day it was not a good idea to engage the person at the other end of a pair of scissors in small talk, especially if it was something that got them excited like how I didn’t dye my hair.
So, keep it calm, shut your mouth, and come away with a good haircut.
I actually cut my own hair the other day. I draw a part down the middle and back of my head, grab ahold of each hank separately, and cut. It got a bit on the shorter side because one side was a bit shorter than the other. So, I evened them up, and the resulting haircut was nice and short. It is a way to save $120, have some fun with scissors, and feel a bit creative. I remember the first time I cut my own hair; I was so frightened I would mess it up.
Now, I am fine with the process. It will always grow back. During the Pandemic, I figure I’ve saved at least a good $1,800 on haircuts.
Thanks for reading.
YouTube Transformation of Long Haired Dude La Grange by ZZ Top — Spotify