Good hair/hair cut
I love good hair. In fact, it's absurd how much I love good hair. I don't even get funny looks any more when I randomly declare 'she/he has excellent hair'. So, why don't I take care of my own?
I can't be arsed. It's a mess. It's naturally extremely wavy on one side and pretty much straight on the other. Nightmare! I don't even look after it enough to put it up, it just stays down in all its messy glory. I go for months between cuts and then never use the same hairdressers. They never get it right. It's too layery on one side and not enough on the other. My fringe is too heavy on one side because of the side parting and they never thin it out. Result - complete disappointment every time I leave the hairdressers.
Normally, I choose a hairdressers at random and go in and book an appointment for the soonest time possible. Yesterday, during my 'jobs' day, I decided to give the last place I went to, another chance. After all, they didn't do a bad job, just mildly meh. It hasn't been cut since they last did it at Easter - oops! Luck is in - they can do it the next day. Um, yay? So today I wake up with a dreaded foreboding of the appointment. I almost don't go - I want to put the duvet back over my head and just sleep through it. But no - it needs to be done.
So, I get to the hairdressers and find I've got someone different to the last time I had it cut there. Not a problem. I sit down waiting for a wash basin to come free. After all, what's the point of going to the hairdressers if you don't let someone else do all the hard work. By the by, am I the only one who just wants to fall asleep when someone else washes their hair? It's so soothing! Before the hair washing, the hairdresser comes over and asks if she can look at my hair. Panic! No-one's ever done that before.
Hair is important to this lady. She looks at it, runs her fingers through it even.
"Your hair is very fine but there's a lot of it which means we're limited in what we can do with it."
Oh, I knew that. No startling revelation there.
"One side of your hair is more naturally wavy so it kind of falls to the side - opposite to the other side of your hair which is pretty much straight." Oh. my. god.
"Plus, you have this thick bit at the front on the one side which I'm going to seperate into two layers so that the bottom one can grow and get rid of the bulkiness. Is that ok?"
IS THAT OK? For the first time in 25 years, someone has nailed my hair on the head! She understands it. She totally gets it.
Result? I walk out of the salon with a hair cut I love. I've booked my next appointment. I've never, ever, done that before. And I tipped her. Is it offensive to tip a hairdresser? I don't know. All I know is, today, my hair found the love of its life.