Beauty
10 things we all think at the hairdresser
Let me start by saying that I am blessed with the best and sweetest hairdresser in the country. I know that an appointment at the hairdresser is a moment of relaxation, that I don't have to worry about a botched haircut and that I leave with perfectly styled hair that even looks good a week later. I should mention that I visited a disastrous hairdresser for several years, which is why I have experienced all of the following at least once. My hair was cut fine (except for that bob line, which I still have trauma from), but otherwise it was anything but relaxing and I was already nervous for three days before my appointment. So. Do you recognize three of the ten points below? You know what you have to do. Find another hairdresser.
1. I don't want her to cut my hair
That you walk into the salon and are immediately approached by the type you absolutely do NOT want cutting your hair. And also that you don't dare to say anything about it because you find it so pathetic.
2. The chair is terrible
They all seem like incredibly handy chairs with the nicest armrests and the coziest cushions, but in reality, they are monsters where you don't feel comfortable at all and that don't give any sense of relaxation. How you're going to hold out here for three hours is a miracle.
3. I said the ends. Not twenty centimeters.
The whole dilemma with hairdressers is that they have a completely different vision of your look. So you might have something nice in mind and whisper it in their ear, but in the meantime, they do what they want anyway. And those ends, they always end up longer.
4. I really don't feel like talking to you
Hairdressers who just chatter your ears off? About the weather, about vacations, about their kids? My goodness. The hairdresser should just be a moment of relaxation, and you have no need for that at all.
”I once sat in a hairdresser's chair who washed my hair with ice-cold water”
5. I can never drink my tea like this
A very recognizable problem. That you're twisting yourself in all sorts of ways just to reach your teacup and that you only drink it when it's already cold.
6. It didn't turn out at all like the picture. Because that is how I wanted it.
You flip through all those nice magazines and find an example that you want to copy exactly. Well, I can take you off your pink cloud: that's not going to happen. Maybe when you leave the hairdresser, but not when you've showered, blow-dried, and applied all your styling skills yourself.
7. The water is too warm. Too cold. Too warm. Never just right.
I once sat in a hairdresser's chair who washed my hair with ice-cold water. I subtly asked if it could be a bit warmer, but according to him (a fairly famous hair stylist), this actually promoted the use of the products. He may have been famous, but I never visited him again.
8. Takes a long time…
A little cutting, half an hour of chatting, and then answering the phone thirty times in between. For a visit, you already have to carve out some time in your schedule, but with these kinds of scenes, it indeed takes twice as long.
9. You're putting all sorts of things in my hair that I'm ultimately not going to buy
A mask, a serum, an extra conditioner, and some styling product in your hair. All very nice, but at home, you obviously have no space for it, let alone that your wallet allows it after this visit to the hairdresser.
10. It probably looks better at home
The biggest fear is that you walk out with a Bea hairstyle or a haircut that only the hairdresser sees as trendy. But it probably looks better at home. If you've washed your hair yourself. And you should always give it three days, right?
