Divorcing your hairdresser
Cats: slack woman|It’s never easy, but sometimes you just have to do it because it’s the right thing.
I didn’t want to hurt him. We’d been so happy together - for four years. We never fought and there was never a bad cut or an off colour.
So why did I leave him?
Well, I guess things just weren’t fresh anymore. I was looking for something new. Different. So one day, I walked.
The following year wasn’t easy. I went from stylist to stylist. Friends set me up with stylists they thought I’d like. I even ran up to a woman with a haircut I liked and asked who her stylist was. But nothing worked out. I now refer to it as “the wilderness period.”
Then I met Darla. Friends with saucy haircuts recommended her to me. Darla and I hit it off immediately. It was a match made in hairdresser heaven.
But I still thought about my old stylist. What would he think of me? Was he blaming himself?
I learned answer to these questions when I bumped into him one day. I wasn’t sure how it would go. I’d never bumped into an Ex before.
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July 13th, 2007 at 3:49 am
I need a hairdresser! My last walk-in resulted in me looking like Betty Boop. Who’s Darla, and where can I find her??
July 13th, 2007 at 4:09 am
I go through this every four years or so. Let’s face it, things get stale. They keep doing your hair the same way, and even sometimes get kind of lazy about it, doing it the same way but not very well. A suggestion that we try something different is usually met with a bit of indignation, as in “I know hair, and I especially know your hair, and I know what looks best on you, but if you INSIST … ” and then they give you something, almost spitefully, that isn’t really what you suggested.
I feel it’s actually necessary to switch every few years.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Ugh, this is so true. I recently got a MULLET! I appreciate that you and Jacy didn’t point and laugh when you met me, but I have to now take a break from my hairdo lady. And it’s very hard to find someone new. Maybe Jacy and I can trade?
July 13th, 2007 at 4:45 am
Tanya, we should start a mullet support group. I OFTEN end up with a mullet, and then generally end up going insane and getting a bad hair stylist to hack it off into the Betty Boop do. In fact, much of the past ten years of my life has been spent alternating between looking like Betty Boop and a CNN news anchor. T’is a sad state of affairs.
July 13th, 2007 at 5:08 am
I went through this very thing last year. There was no one reason, just a general “time to move on” feeling. The problem is, I am still trying to find a replacement. I have gone to the same lady the last three times, and she is fine, but it’s just not as good as it could be. I also didn’t officially “break up” with my stylist; I should have said something.
I actually got a gift certificate for my old salon (for esthetic services) and “sold” it to my sister (she bought me shoes) as I couldn’t bring myself to go in even for a mani/pedi. We switched dentists a couple of years ago and it didn’t bother me nearly as much as this.
July 13th, 2007 at 5:45 am
OK, here is the top secret info on Darla. She’s a Wish Day Spa in Dartmouth.#465-3482.
I’m glad to know I am not alone.
Espanya, Jacy and I were polite enough to laugh at your mullet behind your back.
Deepti, it’s not the haircut that makes you look like that.
Jacy, I’m sure Darla would take you for an appt. But you are so right on with the description of hairdresser relationships that go on too long.
DMacFly, if you’re in HRM, try Darla.
July 13th, 2007 at 6:05 am
Tanya, I have a great guy called Ulric, number 416-461-5527. It takes him a couple of days to call back. He ordinarily works at an expensive salon somewhere, but on Sundays he works at an abandoned salon on the Danforth for cheap cheap cheap. He is particularly gifted at colour and gave me the greatest textured bob a while back.
p.s. I didn’t notice any mullet.
July 13th, 2007 at 6:08 am
She did tooo, Espanya.
July 13th, 2007 at 6:10 am
I swear I didn’t. I did, however, notice the socks with crocs.
July 13th, 2007 at 6:25 am
AAh! Are you saying I look like Betty Boop anyway?
July 13th, 2007 at 8:15 am
I broke up with my hairdresser a couple of summers ago. We’d become friends outside the salon, so it was a hard thing to do. But my cuts began looking matronly, and that look doesn’t work well on this head. We’re not really friends these days … but my hair looks fabulous.
July 13th, 2007 at 9:56 am
HAHAHAHA!!! I forgive you two for the pointing and laughing, at the mock crocks and the mullet. And Jacy, I’ll call your dude in a couple of months, once my hair has had a chance to grow in a bit.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
I should try Darla. I’m tempted to do a “Britney” to be honest, then I wouldn’t have to worry about it.
By the way, I had to go to the Citadel today for a bagpiping recital and bumped right into Jack and Meg. Kinda cool.
July 13th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
That is waaaay cool, DMacFly
I just got home from seeing them in concert tonight at the Cunard Centre(?)
Great show; not so great venue…
Were they playing?
July 14th, 2007 at 5:09 am
No, they didn’t play. I was going to The Hill to see my daughter’s bagpipe recital, and had a hard time getting in (I didn’t know what was going on). Anyway, they were piped in by the 78th ceremonial band, and marched around the wall to the cannon, which Meg fired. They were then piped out and got in a silver van. A lot of people walked with them, as we did; we could have easily talked to them, but we didn’t (nobody did). I wish they had played.
July 14th, 2007 at 6:06 am
That’s so Cdn that no one mobbed them, politely leaving them to go about their business.
Too bad they didn’t play - they were very good.
July 15th, 2007 at 8:21 am
You should have asked Jack who does his hair. Breaking up is hard to do, I applaud your courage GT.
July 15th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Hey G you know my hair,can you can remember those 2-3inch long dread locks? they are now 15 - 16 inch long. I haven’t bothered with a hair dresser for coming up 15 years. think of all the money I’ve saved! the only problem is trying to teach my little one to brush her hair when she knows I don’t!!!
July 15th, 2007 at 1:12 pm
Dale, Jack does hair? Is there anything he DOESN’T do?
Ro, ah, the tw0-sided knife of parenthood, you old hippie.