Posted by finelinebob on August 27, 2006, at 0:21:22
In reply to Re: I got a hair cut » Deneb, posted by llrrrpp on August 26, 2006, at 23:19:44
Which one did you get cut? Sorry couldn't pass that one up. My dad's fault.
Geez, I need a haircut so bad! I just don't have enough time with work to schedule one.
My hair has been one of the things I've hated most about my body. I have thin, flighty deflated hair. I had one stylist, tho, that really knew what to do with it and the shape of my head and for the first time in my life I thought my hair was a plus, not a minus, in the "looks" department.
Had a hard time finding a new stylist out here in NYC, City of Vanity. I kinda bopped around from one Jean Louis David butcher shop to another, then I got myself bound into the Mother-of-All-Bad-Relationships ... and my torturer always saw this really expensive guy out on Long Island, so I figured what the hey -- if he cost $60 for a wash and cut (plus tip to the washer and to him) then maybe he knew nothing about hair. So, I get in the Chair, and he asks me how I want it cut, and me (silly me, thinking he was the pro and knew what he was doing) asks him what he thinks he can do with my hair to make it look good. Mr. $60+tips Pro says, "Nothing".
So much for that.
One day I passed by this sign for "Manning Hair Design" and I knew that was it! I didn't need my hair cut or styled, I needed a hair DESIGN. So I go in, and in this second floor salon on Madison Avenue in NYC's Miracle Mile are about 10-15 african american women getting extensions and braids by african american women stylists, and at the far end the only other male (other than children) -- this rail-thin hispanic man who was just too casually glam. So, after getting the customary wash, I get into the Chair and he asks the same question and I give him the same answer -- I don't know WHAT to do with this stringy, thin, lifeless hair ... do you? And he said of course he did! His boyfriend has the same type of hair so Cesar has to deal with it all the time.
Way WAY before Queer Eye, I was telling my male friends that if they wanted male advice, they really need to talk to gay men and not hetero women. Sorry, gals, but gay men know men better than you, even if you're talking about hetero men.
Well, that's my hair story, and I'm sticking to it.
Meanwhile, good on you, Deneb!!! I never realized how important hair was until someone made mine look attractive. So for you going for something new and different, two snaps up.
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