Crazy little thing called hair

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So what's the deal with hair? Someone got any knowledge they wanna share.

Anyho what I really wanted to say was, I went to the hairdresser today. I'm a non talker when it comes to hair, I just can'r make small talk with the hairdresser and it's like I've got this non-small talker sign on my forehead, because they never even try it with me.

Moreover when I was finished, and it actually didn't turn out to bad, I came out of the store and guess what was opposite it? Oh yes there was a liquor store that felt sorta appropriate in a way.

So now share, best and worst hairdresser experiences and just general talk about hair.
 
I generally don't have a bad expeirences with hairdressers, plus I don't shut up sometimes so they like me. And I tend toget the sexy women hairdressers so I have fun.
 
Mmm. Well, I've never been to a hairdresser. I go to a barbershop a couple of blocks away from my work. The barber's Laotian and it's a little hard to understand him. But he's a nice guy. We talk about the weather or current events or fishing. He loves to fish up in northern Minnesota.

I just get a buzz cut usually so it just takes a few minutes really. Before the Laotian guy, I went to the same barber from about age 4 to 27. We were like good friends, even though he was about sixty years older than me...
 
Goldenboy, you confuse me... there's a difference between a hairdresser's and a barbershop!?!
 
I haven't been to the hairdresser so much, when I was younger my mum always cut my hair and the last few years I've just been saving it out.. I have some mixed memories about going to the hairdresser though, when I was very little I remember it being like an exciting adventure since I didn't do it very often, but the last time I was there it just felt awkward and the hairdresser kept saying stuff that made me feel bad that my hair was in such bad shape (lots of split ends..).
 
Allycat said:
Goldenboy, you confuse me... there's a difference between a hairdresser's and a barbershop!?!
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Well, in the States, a "hairdresser" was traditionally associated with females, for females"”though that's less of an issue these days. A beauty shop is where you'd find a hairdresser. And I guess some women get their hair cut at barbershops now too.
 
I've gone and got mine done a few times. I too have the nontalking sign. Yet the lady who always does my hair insists in trying to make conversation when its obvious i don't really wanna talk. Normally i just sit there while she trys to talk, I like to concentrate on the hair thats falling from my head 😀
 
I go but i'm a shy person so i dont normally talk much to begin with i just tell them what to do and i sit there but when my grandma is around all 3 of us talk about it... each time i go and get my hair curled and stuff around may they always ask "are you trying looks out for your prom" its like no i'm only a freshman... but thats as far as our convo's usually go....
 
Alright, wikipedia says that the technical difference between a hairdresser or hair stylist and a barber is that in addition to cutting hair, barbers trim beards and can even give you a shave (I see that only very occasionally). At he shop I go to, they even shine shoes.

More importantly, barbers are CHEAP. Mine only charges $10 a cut (and I give him a healthy tip of course).
 
Right... we don't really have that distinction here, though the style of the hairdresser/barber's (both called "kapper" in Dutch) does depend on the gender of the owner. I go to a shop run by a woman, with an all women staff. Like my looks in general, I don't really care about my haircut too much... mostly get it cut to please my mum 😉
 
Oh I just realised why the hairdresser didn't even try the small talk with me. I didn't think about it then, but I had my t-shirt on which it says "IDIOT" on the back, so she lifted my hair up and the word idiot starred her in the face, perhaps that was why she was so small with the small talk....!?
 
Allycat said:
Right... we don't really have that distinction here, though the style of the hairdresser/barber's (both called "kapper" in Dutch) does depend on the gender of the owner. I go to a shop run by a woman, with an all women staff.
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Yeah, actually, I forgot I went to a female barber for awhile too. She was very good. She worked for her dad at his shop.

I think the most common places to get a cut in the States these days are probably the gender-neutral, giant corporate chains"”like Supercuts or Cost Cutters. I'm still thinking barbers are cheaper, not sure. This is one of the stranger Buffy Boards discussions, eh? Heh.
 
Lol, it probably is... we don't have any corporate chains here in the netherlands. I think maybe a few of them got a few shops in neighbouring towns, but that's as far as it goes... it's all small business here.
 
Well, I'm not a talker either.
When they are talking, I think it distracts most.
I just tell them what I want and that's all the talking I do.

I worst haircut was to short and made me come out tof the salon looking like a poodle. She had put moose inmy hair. You don't put moose on my hair. It already has volume and it's currly, so imagine what I looked like.
 
Not a talker at all..I cut my hair in Sweden(while I was there on holiday)...Lil advice for everyone;;DO NOT do it in a foreign country... My hairdo is not bad..it's just that it's not what I had in mind and not exactly what I asked for in English..
 
I'm a talker. My hairdresser is really nice and she always does a fab job.

I just cut my hair last weekend. Got me some long bangs ala Buffy in S7.
 
ana8 said:
Lil advice for everyone;;DO NOT do it in a foreign country...
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See that's what I was afraid of. Sure my english is sorta good, but can't say I'm an expert on hairtalk and all the vocabulary surrounding it. So I decided to cut my hair now before I went back to England, but what if some of the native speakers give us, non native English speakers, some more hair terms and not just the difference between a barber and a hairdresser?
 
Stick to the simple terms. Like I like mine layered and the lenght cut.
 
What a coincidence that you bring this topic up. I was at the barber last week (I always go to the barber rather than hairdresser coz the girls there always want to do some blow-wavey/super-gelled styling job whereas the barber just cuts it how I tell him) and it occured to me that both clients either side of me were deeply engaged in conversation with their respective barbers while me and mine barely said a word to each other. One pair were discussing the Brazilian F1 Grand Prix and the future of Ferrari/Williams etc. the other was talking about the drought we've had for the last few years here in oz.

And its the same everytime I go. They usually ask right off if I've got the day off followed by what kind of work I do then we spend the rest of the cut in silence except for the "is that short enough on top?" type of questions. I came to the conclusion that the responses given to the work related ice-breaker questions determined for them if you were a talker or not.
 
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