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I loathe getting my hair done for so, so many reasons.
Firstly, it always feels to me like such a waste of time. The waiting on the uncomfortable lounge, reading the hair magazines and trying to figure out how to tell the hairdresser how you think you want your hair styled.
You are surrounded by mirrors, so everywhere you look you can see the woman with her hair in curlers, or the one with two bored looking trainees painting bright red chemical dye onto her hair and wrapping it in foils. The reflections just keep bouncing from one wall to the other.
Back and forth.
The constant chittering and chattering should prepare me for the awkward attempt to avoid conversation with the hairdresser, but I am always stupefied by how I just have nothing to say.
After all this person is a stranger.
I usually try to avoid having anything too dramatic done to my hair. First of all because I really don’t like the maintenance that follows letting a hairdresser creatively loose on you locks; I am not one to spend hours in front of a mirror with pleasure. Secondly, it makes sense that the less you have done, the soooner it is over and the prying questions from the hairdresser need no longer be awkwardly avoided.
I must admit, I often find that somehow the hairdresser manages to get me talking more than I would like to be, about things that are none of her business. With all those mirrors, it is just too hard.
These photographs for Kaaz Hair Salon are sharp and decadent, and I can appreciate the work that must have gone into styling the hair and make-up. Unfortunately, they did not strike a chord with me, and rather than induce me to “change my style”, these images simply reminded me how much I hate getting my hair done.
Creative Director: Gaëtan Namouric
Copywriter: Jonathan Rosman
Art Director: Sébastien Deland
Client Services: Ève-Marie Boutet
Photographer: Alain Desjean
Retoucher: Claude Lafrance
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So cut your head off, send it to the salon while you attend to more important things, reattach your head when the styling is done.
Salon unpleasantness successfully avoided.
Comment by qka — 2 March, 2009 @ 3:14 pm
I think that is such a sad article. Your trip to the hairdresser should never have you feeling tense and uneducated. Perhaps you’re going to the wrong salon?
I am a hairdresser, and I can assure you that at my salon every client that comes in doesn’t just come in for a ‘hair-do’, it’s an experience. We have a fun, charismatic atmosphere and our clientele is forever growing, which I award to that reason. Even new clients are overwhelmed by the comfort and kindness they are shown from us. Our clients are educated about every possible need for managing their hair at home, with colour suggestions, home hair care, even how to style or blowdry their hair at home. As for those pictures, the majority of professional hair photo shoots are competition work. Competitions are about hair for hairdressers. I think they’re great!
Comment by Katie — 18 May, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
I agree, and I hate it when a stylist tries to chat me up. It isn’t that I am not a conversationalist, but the questions are to me rude and invasive: Are you married? Do you have any children? What are your children’s ages? What do you do? Please, just cut my hair and don’t try to intrude so much into my life.
Comment by sarah — 28 August, 2009 @ 11:04 am
This is so stupid!!! I have never laughed so hard in my life!!! So what if a hairdresser asks you questions. Did you ever think maybe hairdressers dont like having to touch peoples hair and be in their bubble all the time? Seriously! Im a hairdresser and have been for several years. When I have a clients I dont know and feel uncomfortable with I chat to them so I know if there ok for my to touch them. Its also good to ask questions so that you can tell if there reserved! If they are then there is NO WAY you would use bright colours. This is worked out by talking to people. Maybe you have self issues that need to be sorted out if it really is a problem going to a hairdresser. Maybe you doing like looking at your self in the mirror becaus eyou dont like what you see. HA so lame. Lets hope you never decide to get a wax or you will really feel uncomfortable
Comment by sherie — 1 May, 2010 @ 6:16 pm