kathryn
Cathlete
I'm usually not one to fuss and fret over my hair (I wash, condition, and let air-dry, spritz with water and rearrange in the a.m. if it needs it, and use some other leave-ins on occasion), but I'm fretting now!
I got a fabulous cut in Paris (from a place I just walked into on a whim), and now I need someone to keep it up.
Before my cut, my Parisian "coiffeuse" discussed options with me, told me that she'd be cutting dry (which, according to her, is what you should do on curly/wavy hair...NOBODY EVER DID BEFORE that I recall!). She also said that the too-square or blocky look I didn't like in the top area (a look she called "tête de champignon" = "mushroom-head"!!) was due to someone cutting round/circular rather than square (almost like a man's cut is what I need). Who knew? Certainly not the previous hair stylist I went to, LOL!
Then, she sat me down, didn't have ME move my head around every-which-way to accomodate her cut, but stood, sat and otherwise moved around me as I kept my head in a natural allignment. She also used some mysterious, special scissors or something on the back.
The result (after close to 1 1/2 hours of cutting, then washing, putting in a plant-based blond rinse that just colored the white hairs, but enlivened my regular hair color, serving me fruit-flavored water, discussing Sarkozy and how the French are sorely disappointed in him) : a cute short cut that needs pretty much no care at all. Even less spritzing-when-it's-not-quite right.
It looks fabu from the back and sides as well. (well, with one exception: I didn't check out the back with a mirror until I got home--just forgot--and she'd left the natural trail of hair on my neck: I shaved it off, and now it's perfect!)
In our consultation, I'd asked her to "take off 10 years," and when she was done, she said "that's 15 years less!"
How can I find someone to do as good of a job? (I'm sure if I go in and ask "can you replicated this?" someone will say 'yes' even if they can't). I've already had to trim the bangs a bit on my own, and need help fast! LOL!
(I joked with my "coiffeuse" that if I were like Oprah Winfrey--I had to explain who that was--I'd take my private jet whenever I needed a cut, and come to Paris. She replied that I could stay where I was, and send the jet to HER, and she would come...with husband and dog in tow!)
I got a fabulous cut in Paris (from a place I just walked into on a whim), and now I need someone to keep it up.
Before my cut, my Parisian "coiffeuse" discussed options with me, told me that she'd be cutting dry (which, according to her, is what you should do on curly/wavy hair...NOBODY EVER DID BEFORE that I recall!). She also said that the too-square or blocky look I didn't like in the top area (a look she called "tête de champignon" = "mushroom-head"!!) was due to someone cutting round/circular rather than square (almost like a man's cut is what I need). Who knew? Certainly not the previous hair stylist I went to, LOL!
Then, she sat me down, didn't have ME move my head around every-which-way to accomodate her cut, but stood, sat and otherwise moved around me as I kept my head in a natural allignment. She also used some mysterious, special scissors or something on the back.
The result (after close to 1 1/2 hours of cutting, then washing, putting in a plant-based blond rinse that just colored the white hairs, but enlivened my regular hair color, serving me fruit-flavored water, discussing Sarkozy and how the French are sorely disappointed in him) : a cute short cut that needs pretty much no care at all. Even less spritzing-when-it's-not-quite right.
It looks fabu from the back and sides as well. (well, with one exception: I didn't check out the back with a mirror until I got home--just forgot--and she'd left the natural trail of hair on my neck: I shaved it off, and now it's perfect!)
In our consultation, I'd asked her to "take off 10 years," and when she was done, she said "that's 15 years less!"
How can I find someone to do as good of a job? (I'm sure if I go in and ask "can you replicated this?" someone will say 'yes' even if they can't). I've already had to trim the bangs a bit on my own, and need help fast! LOL!
(I joked with my "coiffeuse" that if I were like Oprah Winfrey--I had to explain who that was--I'd take my private jet whenever I needed a cut, and come to Paris. She replied that I could stay where I was, and send the jet to HER, and she would come...with husband and dog in tow!)
