Why can’t I replicate the hairstyle my stylist gives me? I had my hair cut on Saturday and watched closely as she dried my hair. Her hands whizzed around my head with clips, a big round brush, and a hairdryer. Despite my best efforts, I haven’t been able to duplicate the glossy smoothness of her styling magic.
Why not? I use the same hair products she uses, have the same round brush, and have a hair dryer. I dutifully dry my hair in sections, yet never yield the same results. I went so far as showing up with wet hair to determine if the shampoo or water at the salon was behind the magic. Nope.
My stylist makes my side-swept bangs cover one eye, leaving me feeling coquettish, while my efforts bring to mind bangs of the mid-1980s or a cresting wave at the beach!
Please console me and tell me you share my plight. If any stylists could shed some light on this issue, by all means, do so. In the meantime, I’m off to wrangle my bangs with a hairdryer, flat iron and a few dozen clips. Wish me luck!
You are not alone. Normally I’m pretty uninept, but this particular task is such a challenge. I like to ascribe it to being the second person, simply being able to walk around the head and keep your hands below shoulders so as to get less tired and frustrated.
Still doesn’t explain how one day I got the brush so resolutely tangled up that I was forced to extract it in increments over a period of hours, more than once contemplating the use of the largest scissors in the house. Needless to say, I cancelled my going-out plans that time.
Argh!
I totally feel your pain!
How is it that I leave looking like a movie star and when I try to do it, my hair comes out looking like a hobo hit me with a muddy stick?
I have to agree with pannonica, it’s got to do with being able to style with two hands. And with this, I recommend The Hair Maid. (http://www.hairmade.net/)
I’m on my second one. It’s adjustable, so you can prop it up to whatever section of hair you’re coiffing, and use two hands to style. Does it help? Yes. Is it like having the stylist in your bathroom, heck no. Does it beat hobo-stick-hair, heck yeah.
I think it’s positioning. You are working up-overs and the stylist is working with the hair infront of her. It makes all the difference. I’m imaging you with a Flock of Seagulls’ type quiff.
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If you had a wig it would be so much easier…
so what i have gleaned so far is that i either need to behead myself before styling my hair OR purchase a wig!
There’s always the Flowbee.
http://www.flowbee.com/
Bingo!
Which incidentally reminds me of the last time I had my hair cut. It was a sort-of-spur-of-the-moment thing a couple of weeks ago…
I was getting my eyebrows done at my usual place, during lunch break as usual. I jokingly complained, as usual, that I was long overdue (months and months) for a cut and before I knew it I had an appointment with Sasha, whom I was told was very good. Did I mention it was my payday?
So there I am, post-waxing, sitting from a distance watching Sasha finishing up on someone else, and having some initial misgivings. You see, Sasha was a young woman with blonde hair cut in what I can only describe as tennis-ball chic, sans seams. With a stud in her lower lip and a star tattooed on her inner wrist. Her client was having a severe bob with an angular front done on her lustrous black hair. It looked good, but not the sort of thing for me. And I’m thinking to myself, I do not want either of those hairstyles. (And wow was the woman in the chair ugly!)
Next thing I know, Sasha plucks the hair off the client’s head and plops it on her own, says “thank you” to Art, her (male) co-worker, I breathe a huge sigh of relief and get a great cut, garnering a bunch of unsolicited comments at work that afternoon! Voila!
That’s why I have been doing my own hair since I was 10 years old.
the flowbeeeee! i always wanted to give that a whirl. jon, why don’t YOU try it out for my research, and i’ll blog about it?!!? it will be great!!
lol@pannonica and the “ugly woman”
pi: you’re too brave for me…if i cut my own hair, it would be an edward scissorhands special.
No comments from the men yet!……I suppose it’s because we can get our head tidied in 15 mins and at a fraction of the cost you have to pay….so our lack of financial involvement excludes us from getting our word in!
Theoretically.
This is why I do not have a “hair-do”. No products, no hair dryer, no styling. No stress, no cursing, no BAD HAIR DAYS. My hair is plain, straight, with no bangs. The way it actually grows out of my head. If I want to do something new, I have a whole realm of possibilities w/ braids, ponies, clips, headbands, up-dos, french twists, etc etc. etc. I never ever everrrrrr worry about what it looks like. Wash it, brush it, and I am good to go. And when my ends need trimming, I don’t need to pay a stylist $50. I spent money on a good pair of hair scissors and my husband cuts it straight across the bottom for FREE.
I always wonder why women pay so much to have their hair cut or styled ornately. Once it’s cut or colored, you have to keep going back every month to maintain said style, and in between you’re constantly stressed about how good or bad it looks.
FREE YOURSELVES LADIES!!
@pipsky: c’mon, surely you’ve have a hair whoospie once!?! wrong size trimmer or something?!?
@ dishy…well, sure…easy for you to say, you poker-straight haired goddess.
as for me, queen of frizz, i can’t just ‘wash ‘n go’ unless i care to look like an escapee from the asylum.
i go the braids route when i’m feeling all heidi, but other than that, i have to do my hair or risk looking like a nutcase.
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHH!!!!
My hair dresser says she has the same problem…her hair never looks as good as when someone else does her hair. Good to know the gods have the same problems as us mortals!