Ruminatorial

Hair Cuttery

I'm sure half the men in the US with comb-overs didn't choose to do it, their crazy barber chose for them.

I went to a nearby Hair Cuttery yesterday to get trimmed up. I used to be particular and expensive in my choice of haircuts, but since I'm more skin than hair on top now I don't see the point any more. So I stroll in and am assigned to an older Asian woman whose name I can't pronounce and country of origin I can't guess. Using hand signs and grunts we negotiate what length she should be aiming for (pretty short) and she starts clipping away. One big difference between an expensive haircut and a cheap one: at Vidal Sassoon they don't use an electric clipper to do their work, they use actual scissors. Anyway, she gets mostly done but hasn't trimmed the sparse hairs surrounding my bald spot at all. She's smoothed them down as if trying to hide something. Who are you kidding? I've known for 20 years that combing a few hairs around won't fool anyone, and it looks ridiculous. So I point out that it's still too long on top, and she says she was trying to keep it long. Riiiight... After she trims some more in a sort of haphazard way, I bolt out of there. Back home I actually have to get out my own clippers and finish trimming the objectionably long hairs on top. What is wrong with the cosmetology industry? Can't they let men go bald with some dignity?

posted by Jeff @ 1:24 PM