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boniblithe are singing the praises of their stylists on their LJs, so I shall join in because I am a sheep baa.

Anthony at Esoterica loves Star Wars, enough that he's indoctrinating his 4-year-old son into the Star Wars love. He's also lousy at selling product, which I appreciate because I hate having product pushed at me. He understands my fine, stick-straight hair and suggests stuff that make it look good, rather than the normal trendy cuts that other stylists want to try to put in my hair. (I have spent years trying to make stylists understand the difference between stylish and trendy, and fighting against their tendency to put something on my head that was featured on Friends.) He loves playing with color, and I'd be coloring my hair more if it weren't for that whole SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY ON MANGA thing. He also raised his prices recently ... but not for me. :D He tells me he's got another client who loves the J-rocker Miyavi, and every time Miyavi changes his hair, she comes in with pictures and has her hair redone in that style, so he doesn't bat an eye at me bringing in lots of photos of Japanese women at examples of the sort of styles I'm looking at (hey - they've all got straight hair, unless it's permed, and thus none of the cuts assume you've got wavy hair to start with). He also wants to buy a copy of Project Blue Rose.

If he's got a fault it's that he loves to style my hair so it's reminiscent of Veronica Lake: i.e., over my eyes and blocking my vision. But I can live with that, because a head toss or two and I can see again.

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I usually go to Hi-Tech Cuts in Seabrook. I prefer Lynn, but am willing to accept an alternate if need be. It's $10 for a nice haircut, and at the end they cap it off with a 10 minute scalp massage. Which is, of course, the real reason I go: a scalp massage from a cute little Thai girl is hard to resist.

Hee. :D

Random digression: it took me a long time and many bad haircuts to learn that I cannot go to a place that charges less than $35 for a haircut. I eventually figured out the reason - the more expensive it is, the more well-trained in complex haircuts the stylists are, and my hair doesn't really take to simple cuts of the sort you can get for $8.95 in chains. (If you have to pay extra for the blow-dry and styling after the cut ... the haircut will be truly horrendous on me.)

I have been going to Craig at Propaganda for almost eight years. He truly understands the plight of the wavy/curly-haired! He has done everything to my hair from crew cut to creative dye jobs to poodlerifficness to my currennt, long gentle waves. It's $55 (he might be up to $65 now) for the experience (plus I usually tip him ten to twenty bux depending on how happy I am) which includes an aromatherapy scalp massage, shampoo, cut, style and either make up or a hand massage (plus all the herbal tea or coffee you can drink). All the products used at Propaganda are Aveda products and I come out of there smelling good enough to eat! =D

(I also only get my hair cut once a year to 14 months. I have ridiculously healthy hair and rarely get split ends.)

I hate the product pushers too. Stylists always want to do things like add layers or bangs or add features to my hair. Then they want to glop on a buch of gels and pomades and sprays and god-only-knows-what. It's always a battle royale to get a simple haircut (and even then, they screw it up most of the time). They just don't seem to grasp the concept that a female-type person could want a hairstyle that takes less than a minute to do, doesn't contain any form of goop, and stays completely out of my face.

I have a similar attitude towards makeup - I simply don't have the inclination to apply goop to my face except on very rare occasions.

Mine puts some stuff in hy hair, but not much. I put more in my own hair than he does, I think, but I like my hair fuller than he styles it, in general. I don't mind: as long as the cut works when he styles it and when I style it, that's all that's required.

I like playing with makeup, but then it's the same impulse that leads me to like costuming: it's the artistic part. I like applying makeup, but I don't like wearing it because I'm allergic to some of it and it melts off my face in Texas summers and I forget it's there and wipe my eyes and smear it everywhere.

I'm not sure I own any at the moment, actually. I think I threw what I had out when I moved and haven't had any need to buy more since.

What I don't understand are women who *won't leave the house* without it. It's not like people are going to be turned to stone if they see the bare skin of your face...

Good stylists seem to be few and far between, though I have no first-hand experience with them at all. I bowed out of that particular battle before it started--I haven't had my hair cut since I was in first grade. :D

I did that for three years when I lived in College Station and there were no stylists that wouldn't do a Friends-chick cut on my hair. It was not a success - while my grew down to my butt, it was thin and wispy and dry and the ends split and it just looked overall horrible. When I moved to Dallas for grad school, I whacked it off to my shoulders and haven't regretted it since.

Which makes it really funny that when I went into Esoterica for the first time and requested they cut my shoulder-length hair to jaw-length, the stylists were all worried that I would regret such a drastic move and suggested that I do it in stages. XD

ooh sylists! mine's an aged hipster. healed up tongue ring and shaved my head with no problem

and her name is melissa. how sweet is that!

i needa haircut ;-;

I am so jealous. I haven't been able to find a stylist I really like in ages.

(I hope you don't mind if I friend your journal.)

Took years. But I walked into this salon and saw a stylist with a green Mohawk, and knew I'd come home. XD

(No problem! I don't mind at all.)

I only choose hardressers that ether a) my mom doesn't like, or b) that don't like my mom.

Too many bad haircuts, by friends/relatives of my mother o_o I won't even get into the perm she made me get once...

Anyway to go with the trend;

My current hairdresser is a local woman with her own licensed shop in town. Her name is Donna Auburn, and she is the mother of one of my childhood friends.

Her shop is probally only 10x10, maybe 15x15, it is really tiny. Only one person can be served at a time (besides from the fact that she is the only worker). She has like 3 chairs for waiting people, and one of those blow-dry chairs, and a hair washing sink.

I like always get my hair thinned (oh so thick!), and a trim. I like my hair when it just touches my shoulders, and can be put up into a pony.

I sooo want to dye my hair when the vocational school opens again!

Oh and I can't for the life of me remember what it is called ether ;-; I so win!

Oh and my hair used to go down past my butt to, XD always in a braid, I think I would go crazy with long hair now...

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