Well today, this morning, before breakdancing, I went to get my hair cut.
I was hoping that I had found a cheap and good hair dresser…
The ‘stylist’ asked me how I found the place, I said I was just walking past and popped in. She was surprised. I asked why.
Apparently most people that go there have had recommendations or seen/heard (wasn’t sure if it was radio or TV) their advert. Their advert with a voice over by Joanna Lumley.
It was when the words ‘Joanna Lumley voice over’ and ‘advert’ appeared in a sentance about a hair dresser. The hair dresser that I was currently sitting in, flicking through a classic car magazine. It was around about this time that I started to get that sinking feeling, in my wallet.
….
Things were about to get worse.
‘I’ve just cut off your fringe, now you’ll have to use “product” every morning or you’ll look really stupid’ [insert crazy south african accent]
‘….. ‘
‘Yeah just make sure that this bit of hair stays down at the front, otherwise your hair will look…. really stupid’
‘… ‘
It was about this time that the wise words of Eddie Izzard returned to me.
In the circle of style, looking really cool is right close to looking like a dickhead.
I think my ‘stylist‘ was trying to push this cool boundry.
If I were sure there were no trained psychologists within ear-shot then I would say that she was projecting the desire to change her husband onto her male customers.
If there were any psychologists in the room then I would obviously keep stum, Because this is quite probably a load of crap.
At add insult to injury, after settling the bill of forty fecking POUNDS and sliently vowing to never return, I walked out into a stiff head wind. This, I’m quite sure, moved the vital lock of hair from ‘cool’ to ‘stupid’.
So now there are now two hair dressers in Guildford that I’ll never go to again.
Follow MY (and Greig’s) lead! Buy hair clippers and do it yourself!
My hair clippers cost less than your forty-quid wallet-rape, and I can assure you that the reason I look like a dickhead has nothing to do with my hair! Could be coz of the "soiled-look" trousers I wear in public, than promptly tear off by jumping in a bush…?
Although that is a very tempting idea, the simple fact is that a shaved head relys on the correct shaped head. Something that I’m quite sure I don’t have.
Unfortunately.
Plus as far as I know Greig has strayed the way of the hair.
….it cant be much worse than the 60 pounds i payed for my hair cut on tuesday…i walked in there a semi confident Rowena and walked out a complete muppet! …with dodgy sweeping fringe thing to boot! it looked rather modern and interesting on tuesday but after i washed it yesterday, it now just looks fluffy and comical ….. and they didn’t even offer me a cup of tea!!
Row, follow the lead of the clippers…!
I haven’t set foot in a hair dressers/stylists/barbers for years… them and their charging you to have a hair cut!
..hhhmmm…i am going to go with Rob’s excuse about the shape of one’s head….i seriously think me losing all my hair would be a big mistake! although…..it would mean i would stop spendning an average of 15 pounds on hair products per week…
Row, for fifteen-quid a week, i’d hope you have the hair of a GODDESS, otherwise i’d be asking for your money back!
I don’t know if anybody out there gets fashion tv but they had some amazing hairstyles on their models. The dresses were even more astonishing. It must be hard to beat the Paris cat-walk for out-of-this world amazingness in Haute Couture. The fashion shows, of course, are something quite different.
i dont, unfortunately….but i am confident, in a few years…i will find the perfect hair product and may achieve hair worthy of a goddess…but i am not confident 🙂
But at what cost?!
The only way I can see your current expenditure being justifiable is if you look like a walking haystack without it! Hair product should never be that hungry on the wallet without the words "Godlike Results Guaranteed" stamped on the label!
…trust me, the words ‘haystack’ and ‘scarecrow’ crop up often when describing my hair without some sort of work on it…..i am not one of these girls who can jump out of bed with perfect hair….which is probably the reason why i have that slightly ‘dragged through hedge backwards’ look…15 pounds was a rough estimate….but i bet you guys have something you spend a lot on…..Pete and Photograghy equipment? Rob and travelling….andy and …erm..i dont know really……but you get the idea!!!