With that....
I don't mean to sound racist, but (isn't that pretty much the most racist way to start any topic?)... Well, in my experience, WHITE WOMEN JUST CAN'T CUT MY HAIR RIGHT!!!! There... I said it. I feel better having gotten that off my chest.
Now, please don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that ALL white women can't cut my hair, just the one's that I have had cut my hair. In the past, Latina women, Asian women and African-American women have almost consistently always given me a very good haircut; exactly what I am hoping for. HELL, even white men have given me good haircuts. However, almost all of the white women in my life seem to fall short.
I say "almost" because I have found that if I go to a high dollar salon and pay a high price, then yes, those white women have done fine by me. But, they cost too much. I cannot justify having a high price white woman trim my hair.
See, when it comes to my hair care, I am both ignorant and cheap. So, I go to discount hair cutteries and I have no idea what lingo to use when I get there. I am pretty much of the mindset when it comes to the cosmetologist cutting my hair that "you work with this hair... I just wear it!"
So, yesterday, I walked into my discount hair cuttery. I walked in and was promptly greeted by an African-American lady with her hair cut like a Mohawk (not spiked) with a pony tail. She looked great! I liked the contradiction expressed by her hair versus the business suit looking outfit she had on. This was a classic don't-judge-a-book-by-its'-cover type look.
She turned to me and said "I'll be with you in just a second" and straightened up her area. I was thrilled. I looked down at my phone and when I looked up, a little white woman was standing before me and asking me for my information.
"Oh please be the receptionist" I thought to myself, but I knew better. In this place, the ladies cutting the hair handle the desk.
"Come on back with me" she said. I followed, staring longingly at the Mohawked business suit lady. Here's where I should have said "but... her... I want her," but I didn't want to offend the white woman and I didn't want to mess up what may be their office rotation.
I sat in the chair. The lady about to cut my hair asked me if I still had my hair cut the way they had it registered in their system.
"Still a scissor cut?"
"Yes"
"Still like it straight above the ear?"
"Yes, but I do like the way my hair looks right now over my ears."
When I sat down, I had bangs that, when pulled straight, could reach halfway down my nose. I had hair over my ears that maybe covered the first quarter inch of my ear tips as they sat naturally feathered back, but, again, if pulled straight would go halfway down my ears. Also, when I looked at myself in the mirror, I could just see the hair on the back of my head growing out enough to just rest on my shirt collar and be visible under and to the sides of my ears.
I really liked my hairs length, but it was starting to become bushy and unmanageable. I just wanted to have tips trimmed and my hair thinned out a bit. So, I mustered up the courage and spoke:
"But, I really like the way my hair looks right now. I just need the tips trimmed and the whole thing thinned out a bit because it's starting to become a little unmanageable." I felt such pride in myself for having the gall to actually ask for what I wanted.
She replied "Okay, sounds good. Please look down."
Then I heard a long drawn out "Snip" and suddenly my left ear was freezing. She had just lopped off about an inch of hair over my left ear thus cutting a somewhat straight line in my hair over the ear. At this point, I knew it happened again. There was no point in stopping her. I just need to ride it out.
By the time she was finished, I had a nice even haircut, but it wasn't what I wanted. She cut my bangs! I like bangs. My bangs don't even reach the part of the nose that meets my forehead. Is that the "bridge" of my nose, or just the top? I'm not good with nasal references.
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| It isn't this bad, but this image does capture both what I think it looks like and how I feel about it. |
It's not that she is bad at cutting hair. Again, at the very least, I have a clean professional looking haircut. It's just that, I think she simply gave me the only haircut she knows. I need her to know more!
Now, at the very least, I am quite comfortable with the belief that whatever the person cutting my hair might mess up, it will always grow back. And right there is where I tend to offend the second group... Of course, that's only if I haven't already offended the second group.
Aaaaaaand... this is going to be a two parter... sorry.
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