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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
It's just hair, why are you overthinking this
I only let a barber touch my beard one time. I was picking up my fiancee at the Amarillo airport after she'd spent all summer in DC, and her flight had been delayed for hours and hours. So after eating breakfast and lunch in the Jetstream Burger Bar, I decided to go get my hair cut at some strip mall EZ Cuts or suchlike. After the haircut, the stylist asked me if I wanted her to trim my beard. Since it was a little scraggly and there were smooches in my near future, I said "Sure, just a little."
I don't know if it was a general vendetta against beards or if something just went horribly wrong, but by the end of it I was left with a crop of deeply sad Miami Vice stubble. Since my normal beard situation is "semi-domesticated scholar," this was not an ideal outcome.
So I drove back out to the airport and plonked back down on my stool at the Jetstream. The lady who'd served my breakfast and lunch said "Hey, where'd the beard go?"
I apparently responded with a look of such misery and shame that she laughed and gave me a free scotch.
My fiancee, upon observing this same expression when I finally met her later that afternoon, said that it reminded her of a dog wearing a veterinary cone.
I've been having the same person cut my hair for the past few years, but I also occasionally shave my own head. She's pretty great though so I'll probably stick with her for awhile (plus she's super nice and I like talking to her)
I think the thing that annoys my barber is not going. It means more hair to deal with. Sometimes I'll get sloppy and wait too long for my next haircut and they'll give me a gentle reminder to come in more often.
See... that would definitely turn me off their service.
I rarely have the a) money or b) time to sit down and have a professional cut my hair, so the last thing I need is to be made to feel guilty about it.
Every haircut starts with the hairdresser saying "So what are we doing today," and everyone knows how to answer that question better than you do. Maybe every haircut has a specific name, but no one told you, so the only clear direction you can articulate is "shorter than this." When I was younger, my answer used to be "Just, a boy's haircut? Like, a regular- just the kind of haircut that boys get, the one that you see all the people getting. Or, do you see what my hair shape is now? I would like that, but less of it, please." Then they'll ask you what kind of buzzer you'd like them to use, and you have no idea what that means, so you just say "Boy's haircut" again, and then they'll give you a terrible haircut because the information you gave them was impossible to follow, and you'll leave as fast as you can, saying "Thanks very much this has been great," because you want them to think everything went well.
I visit a salon so rarely that I end up going to a different one each time, because I move. I've sometimes had intentions of going back to the same person, but I never stay in one place long enough to actually do that.
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DepressperadoI just wanted to see you laughingin the pizza rainRegistered Userregular
Yes, absolutely
I really like the place I go to get my nails done, but I'll sometimes go a while without getting them did
The women who work at that nail salon obviously live nearby, so I'll see them when I'm shopping or at wawa or something and we exchange pleasantries
and always they try and steal a little glance at my nail sitch to make sure I'm not cheating on them with other nail people
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
I cheated on my hairdresser of like eight(?) years?
I immediately regretted it.
Ive never cried over a haircut but this experience has led me to understand exactly why people cry over bad haircuts. Then, I got mad at myself for getting so emotional about it, because you know that's a healthy thing to do.
Then when I went back, she knew. Straight away. But we have grown as a couple and got past this dark time.
It's only slightly better than going to the dentist.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
It's just hair, why are you overthinking this
I probably need to go get my hair cut soon. The place I go to always offers a free shampoo following a cut, and it's bizarrely hard to convince them that I don't want the shampoo.
Don't take it personally, random stylist! I bet you're really good at it! I just got places to be and do not find it relaxing to have a stranger all up in my scalp!
I've gone to the closest SuperCuts to wherever I've lived for as long as I've been in charge of my own haircuts. I've never had the same stylist twice.
I haven't lived anywhere long enough as an adult to have a regular barber
That might be because I get my hair cut every 4-5 months because I don't really like going to the barber that much. I'm generally a tense ball of stress sitting in that seat
Shen I was a kid we went to the same guy every other month. First Dad would get his haircut, and then me or my brother, and finally whichever one was left.
Dude had a stack of old Archie comics so me and my brother would sit on the floor and read them until it was time to go.
He eventually retired and we had to start going to Supercuts or wherever.
Last ~10 years or so I’ve just cut my own though.
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I like having the beard done because whenever I try to trim my own beard I fuck something up and have to mow it down to almost nothing and start again.
But time before last it was a guy who had only recently moved from apprentice status and he was, perhaps rightly, so afraid of causing some kind of beard disaster that he basically hovered his clippers around the perimeter of my head for 10 minutes, perhaps taking one micron from a single hair every 30 seconds or so while making a face of extreme concentration.
My hairdresser knows how to handle my unruly mop (it isn't sentient to the degree that tynic's hair is because my hairline has receeded) and I will never willingly go to someone else.
The women who work at that nail salon obviously live nearby, so I'll see them when I'm shopping or at wawa or something and we exchange pleasantries
This doesn't really matter to anything, but it caught me off guard painting this as something 'obvious'. I probably live 30-40 minutes away from the people who cut my hair when I go to the medium-level chain rather than cheaping out to the closest supercuts.
My aunt is a, like, super high-end hairdresser for fashion shows and photoshoots for magazines and stuff, and she told me to never go to a hairstylist that has clippers on their table at all.
Every time she sees me she scours at me and knows I get $11 haircuts at Great Clips and demands to pencil me in for a fancy 'do and I'm like, "Yeah, sure, you're a cool bird to hang out with and also family."
I would if I had to, but I prefer not to. Took me a while to find a guy where I'm always happy with the result. He's a friendly giant with a huge black beard, and he chats for a very reasonable amount of time before putting a towel over my eyes and making my beard look nicer.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
I geberally wait way too long to go to the barber, because i always say "just something that looks good, but shorter", and then they keep asking questions when I clearly don't know, because I don't go to the barber that often.
I did used to go to the same shop for awhile before I moved. Looking for a decent one again, but so far, the experiences have been subpar and take forever.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I've never had a haircut that I've felt was worth the expense. Any time I've wanted anything other than a trim, no one I ever went to gave me advice or told me what might suit me. They just asked me what I wanted, and if I said I was thinking bangs, maybe, and shoulder- length hair, they'd just get going and give me a basic cut. Expensive places, cheap places, no one would talk to me or give advice.
Normally I get a basic trim, and the only feedback I've ever received was that they may take more off to get the split ends.
When I moved to NY, I tried several places trying to find some place where I felt even paid attention to. Nope.
My hair is fine and straight- ish, so it doesn't need a lot of love. About 5 years ago, I got some decent scissors and just started doing my own.
If that's all there is my friends, then let's keep dancing
I have a stylist in every port, but I can definitely tell the difference between a good and a bad one at this point. Many stylists don’t seem to care about men’s hair, and especially not their beards, and are just trying to get you out of the chair so they can charge more to a female client. When I find a good one therefore I tend to stick with them. My preference is always to find a male-specific barber, but those are as rare as hen’s teeth these days.
Sometimes I don’t get who stylists actually cater to. I constantly hear that stylists can’t handle thick or curly hair, but never met one that really handled my straight and fine hair, either. I mean, I guess they have successfully trimmed it...
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I don't know if it was a general vendetta against beards or if something just went horribly wrong, but by the end of it I was left with a crop of deeply sad Miami Vice stubble. Since my normal beard situation is "semi-domesticated scholar," this was not an ideal outcome.
So I drove back out to the airport and plonked back down on my stool at the Jetstream. The lady who'd served my breakfast and lunch said "Hey, where'd the beard go?"
I apparently responded with a look of such misery and shame that she laughed and gave me a free scotch.
My fiancee, upon observing this same expression when I finally met her later that afternoon, said that it reminded her of a dog wearing a veterinary cone.
These days I just wait until my split ends are really bad, then hack at it myself with scissors
See... that would definitely turn me off their service.
I rarely have the a) money or b) time to sit down and have a professional cut my hair, so the last thing I need is to be made to feel guilty about it.
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Ah what the hell the eyebrows too
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The women who work at that nail salon obviously live nearby, so I'll see them when I'm shopping or at wawa or something and we exchange pleasantries
and always they try and steal a little glance at my nail sitch to make sure I'm not cheating on them with other nail people
I immediately regretted it.
Ive never cried over a haircut but this experience has led me to understand exactly why people cry over bad haircuts. Then, I got mad at myself for getting so emotional about it, because you know that's a healthy thing to do.
Then when I went back, she knew. Straight away. But we have grown as a couple and got past this dark time.
Satans..... hints.....
It's only slightly better than going to the dentist.
Don't take it personally, random stylist! I bet you're really good at it! I just got places to be and do not find it relaxing to have a stranger all up in my scalp!
But one of them I dated, and she’s very jealous of the other in a lot of respects
The one I dated was my stylist for years, but recently she had to give up working at the salon. She’ll still do hair, but does it from her apartment
I took the semi-retirement as a freeing from this social contract, and the other one became my stylist
After posting pics on Instagram, I then got a LENGTHY text from the first one that was very passive-aggressive in tone
I like my new stylist better
I'll never be hurt again
Steam ID - VeldrinD
That might be because I get my hair cut every 4-5 months because I don't really like going to the barber that much. I'm generally a tense ball of stress sitting in that seat
Dude had a stack of old Archie comics so me and my brother would sit on the floor and read them until it was time to go.
He eventually retired and we had to start going to Supercuts or wherever.
Last ~10 years or so I’ve just cut my own though.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Maybe that's why I don't know what love is
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
But time before last it was a guy who had only recently moved from apprentice status and he was, perhaps rightly, so afraid of causing some kind of beard disaster that he basically hovered his clippers around the perimeter of my head for 10 minutes, perhaps taking one micron from a single hair every 30 seconds or so while making a face of extreme concentration.
edit: Of course I told him it was great.
I resent taking time out of my day to do something that I don’t care about, and then pay for the privilege
I wish I could combine it with something else, like commuting or sleeping
This doesn't really matter to anything, but it caught me off guard painting this as something 'obvious'. I probably live 30-40 minutes away from the people who cut my hair when I go to the medium-level chain rather than cheaping out to the closest supercuts.
Every time she sees me she scours at me and knows I get $11 haircuts at Great Clips and demands to pencil me in for a fancy 'do and I'm like, "Yeah, sure, you're a cool bird to hang out with and also family."
Steam ID - VeldrinD
I did used to go to the same shop for awhile before I moved. Looking for a decent one again, but so far, the experiences have been subpar and take forever.
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Maturity, for one. Professionalism, for another...
Normally I get a basic trim, and the only feedback I've ever received was that they may take more off to get the split ends.
When I moved to NY, I tried several places trying to find some place where I felt even paid attention to. Nope.
My hair is fine and straight- ish, so it doesn't need a lot of love. About 5 years ago, I got some decent scissors and just started doing my own.