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There are a few phrases you never want to hear your
hairstylist say. I heard them all in one afternoon. Among them were: “OH MY GAWD," and “What color did you NOT
want your hair?" and “Your hair grows back pretty fast, right?" That last one you especially don’t want to hear when she has
a pair of scissors in her hand and there’s lots of your hair on the floor.
Now, the absolute worst thing I’ve ever heard my hairdresser
say was, “There is no way I can know how a color will look on your hair until
we try it." She said that just before the screams started. We females generally consider it a “bad hair day" when that
one stray curl just won’t cooperate. Or when the humidity takes a turn for the
worse. Or when we start out wearing a hat and decide to take it off mid-day. (Guys of course never have bad hair days because most of
them are pretty clueless about their hair in the first place)…. But when one hairstylist says to the other, “Cover the mirrors,"
you know one of two things is happening. Either a week of grieving is being
observed by European immigrants or your hair is a color that is not even in the
big box of 64 Crayola choices. Suffice it to say nobody at the hair salon had recently lost
a loved one. I knew things weren’t going well when she said, trying to
strike a conversational as opposed to an anxiety-filled tone, “You know, none
of us are perfect; sometimes we make mistakes." “Can you please define ‘mistake,’ “I asked her. “Look, it’s nothing a little toner and about six weeks won’t
fix," she said, totally evading my question. “When you meet new people, they’ll have no way of knowing
what color your hair was supposed to be." She said that; my hairdresser – or
should I say, EX hairdresser – actually said that. Okay, the disaster wasn’t as great as she led me to believe
– no doubt a manipulative ploy on her part to make the damage seem less
formidable than it was – but my hair wasn’t exactly
let’s-go-to-a-high-school-reunion material either. The good news is that color really does grow out and hair
really does grow back. Soon, I hope…. |
