The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts wrote: »

I don't want to ask her not to do all these things because then she would have to charge me less.

As a "pauper", I need to keep costs as low as possible to enable me to have the thing at all.

If hair costs £10 to dry cut I can have it cut every 2-3 months, if it's £25 for washing, conditioning, blow drying, at £25, then it's a different ball game and I have to think about whether I "need" it and time slides by.

I don't like the environment in hairdressers' salons - too bright, too clattery, too chatty, too loud. I want to be in/out. I also dislike having people touch me/my head, so having it washed is one step too far if I can wash it myself at home just before I go in.
For blow drying, I hate the noise of it all - and I've never liked what they do to it, so I'm paying to be very disappointed

SingleSue

I don't like going to the hairdresser as it costs me money...however, I also like going to the hairdresser because I like a bit of pampering and that special feeling you get when your hair is newly done.

I limit it to once a year as a result, historically it would be just before our holiday but I changed all that and went up in January last year as it was vastly overdue and I am going up today ready for my visit to youngest for his 21st birthday.

Jackmydad

I've cut my own hair for years. Wahl with a number 3 comb. OH tidies up the edges.
She says I look like a Wombat when it's done.
(There is no truth in that I tell you! )
It's MSE though.

More complicated for you ladies.

PasturesNew

Jackmydad wrote: »

I've cut my own hair for years. Wahl with a number 3 comb. OH tidies up the edges.
She says I look like a Wombat when it's done.
(There is no truth in that I tell you! )
It's MSE though.

More complicated for you ladies.

Generally speaking, once you've sat in the hairdressers chair a few times, you kind of know what they do roughly... and, after the first 4-5 minutes they just "fill in the next 10-15 minutes" doing the same but snipping tiny bits... just to make it seem like they did something magical

I just have to get clumps, straight, between my fingers, at an angle of about 45 degrees and that'll do. As my hair's thick/wavy, I guess when I've finished, to most people, it just looks like "hair" Only a hairdresser would spot from 100 paces that "this bit isn't quite the same as that bit"

As for the "nonsense" they talk to you about, one, when doing my hair after I'd cut it 2-3x said "it's in quite a good shape already", without knowing I'd home-hacked it

Unless you have flat/shiny hair, that's cut very precisely, and exactly, there's really not a lot of difference to the average eye

Roll on the days of Robo-Cut where you step into a booth at the supermarket for 10 minutes

ukmaggie45

PasturesNew wrote: »

Unless you have flat/shiny hair, that's cut very precisely, and exactly, there's really not a lot of difference to the average eye

That's exactly what my hair looks like! I've been going to the same hairdresser for over 30 years, I regard her as a friend now. She's not cheap, but she's the only hairdresser I've tried (and I've tried plenty!) who has ever given me a decent cut. Not too expensive considering either. These days OH comes with me and she cuts his hair too. And does the trim eyebrows and beard too. :rotfl:

Used to get the wash, but since did my back in about 25 years ago I can't do the lean backwards over the washbasin thing. So wash hair in the morning, and she just sprays it with water to wet for cutting. Do have the blow dry - it's something I can't do myself any more, so it's nice to have a couple of days every 3 months or so where my hair looks good! :rotfl:

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

. . . Roll on the days of Robo-Cut where you step into a booth at the supermarket for 10 minutes

I value my ears too much!

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

I've cut my own hair for years.

Same here - with one of those combs with razor blades in. It's not worth doing owt else with the little I've got and definitely not worth going to a barbers - I'd probably be charged a finders fee

Cakeguts

PasturesNew wrote: »

As a "pauper", I need to keep costs as low as possible to enable me to have the thing at all.

If hair costs £10 to dry cut I can have it cut every 2-3 months, if it's £25 for washing, conditioning, blow drying, at £25, then it's a different ball game and I have to think about whether I "need" it and time slides by.

I don't like the environment in hairdressers' salons - too bright, too clattery, too chatty, too loud. I want to be in/out. I also dislike having people touch me/my head, so having it washed is one step too far if I can wash it myself at home just before I go in.
For blow drying, I hate the noise of it all - and I've never liked what they do to it, so I'm paying to be very disappointed

Such a relief to find someone else who doesn't like going to the hairdressers. Some people go every other week. That is my idea of hell. I have always preferred to go to the dentist than the hairdresser because you get pain relief if it is going to hurt.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts wrote: »

Such a relief to find someone else who doesn't like going to the hairdressers. Some people go every other week. That is my idea of hell. I have always preferred to go to the dentist than the hairdresser because you get pain relief if it is going to hurt.

One of my little "humorous sayings" is I'd rather go to a dentist than a hairdresser as they scare me least... even though I've had some shockingly appalling experiences with dentists at least when you leave the chair it's over and done with ... hairdressers leave me far more traumatised.

Cakeguts

PasturesNew wrote: »

One of my little "humorous sayings" is I'd rather go to a dentist than a hairdresser as they scare me least... even though I've had some shockingly appalling experiences with dentists at least when you leave the chair it's over and done with ... hairdressers leave me far more traumatised.

This is also what I tell people when hairdressers are mentioned. I had never thought that there would be someone else like this. Just having to ring up and make the appointment for the hairdresser usually takes about a month. I have to work up to it you see. Dentist no problem. I have a very good dentist who takes pain relief very seriously. He also has some very good jokes.