'Store Bought' Haircut.

I am not very picky about my hair, and right now it is just long. I have a niece who will sometimes cut it. I have cut it myself. I have had it cut really short in a shop. It curls and waves. Right now I color it with henna and indigo. I like it long, I also like it really short. All the in between stuff bothers me.

Hello there, I feel for you hun i've been there and can be sooooo frustrating. I am fortunate enough now tho that my daughter is a hair dresser and she does it to my liking every time :)............I can remember years ago I brought my daughter to a salon to get french curls and her hair was very thick, she may have been 9 or so. The hair dresser said to me that I should be reported for child abuse because my daughter had such thick hair and she thought that she would in the future have problems with her neck, go figure...she is now 34 and doing just fine but that one was a pip I tell you.

That's really cool. My great-grandmother had her own beauty shop when she was alive. My grandmother talks fondly of those days when she ran the shop right out of their house. It was connected to the house they lived in.

well for me, it has been the style that suits me more than the haircutter. i have been going to a big box haircutters for years and have really never had many complaints.

Hi!I'm glad you've found a hairdresser that suits your taste. Well I can't blame you if you are too choosy because you know this art pretty well. I am also very choosy and can't be easily pleased by any hairdresser so what could I expect from someone like you who knows this art from A to Z. I had one very good hairdresser. He is Alex, the best of all hairdressers I've had. Too bad he went abroad to work there and has not come back. For the time being I have to content myself with another gay hairdresser. He is okay but not as good as Alex. If Alex will not really come back I wish I could find someone as good as him one day soon.

Yes. I have had a hard time trying to find a skilled professional hair dresser to cut my hair. I went to quite a number of barber shops, most of them were quite disappointing which their work is just not satisfying me. Perhaps some easier hair styles they would be able to handle. Anyway, I did came across one particular female hair dresser whose skill I admire and the whole process of cutting my hair and straigthening feels so comfortable and lasting. My girlfriend liked that hair dresser too after I brought her there for a try.

I just cut it myself. It grows at different speeds or falls out or breaks, so even if I got a super-duper store-bought haircut, it wouldn't look that way for very long. Glad you found someone who does it well.

[b]Oh Jo, I do know what you mean! I have a terrible time with hair dressers! I'm still in the works of finding someone who will and can cut my hair the way I want it but it seems so deg gone remote anymore. I've not had a hair cut in about a year now because I hate having it done and not knowing who to go to so I'm thinking of growing it out so I can just put it up in a pony tail or just up on my head to get it out of my eyes so I can see to hear! My eyes are my eyes and ears since I can't hear well at all so I can't have this long strands hanging near my face like a lot of girls do these days. It drives me insane! I've got to know what's going on around me or I'm a nervous wreck! .....sigh..... sigh again. As for me, I'm sooooo burnt out but I don't have a choice but to carry on. I only hope the strength that I need will come to me soon because I'm so worn out. Tomorrow I have to take mom an hour and a half away to a neurologist in hopes he can help her with her dizziness and find out what's going on with her because she's deteriating so fast now especially since dad has passed. She's so depressed and cries a lot because she hates not being able to help with all that needs doing and hates to have to lay around and watch me but what choice does she have? My foster brother's daughter just turned 18 and is thinking of moving down here to help care for mom/grandma which will be such a welcomed blessing!! Please keep your fingers crossed that she does!! I need help so bad![/b]

I'm pretty easy to please with my hair, though I have had bad experiences a few times. My hair is straight, but it is dry and frizzy. I used to think it was all split ends and would tell the people to cut off all the damage. They'd cut off a tiny bit but it never looked any better, but never did they tell me it was dry and frizzy and how to fix it. My bigger problem has always been my kids. My oldest is mixed race and has thick, tight curly hair. He needs a very particular haircut, and it's been hard to find someone who will do a fade just right, without taking him into the city to find someone who's used to black people hair. My other boys all have crazy cowlicks and need their hair to be a very certain length otherwise the cowlicks show and their hair looks bad. One of them needs his hair a little shorter while the others need it longer. The last time I took them for a haircut I told the woman this, but she cut the 2 boys hair too short and the other one not short enough so their cowlicks still showed.

You know I can't even remember how I started going to my hairdresser. It has been about three years and she is always the one I see. I like her prices and her work. I am glad you found someone you like. What better way to find someone than threw seeing someone elses work.

I still need to find someone here to cut my hair. We moved here a few months ago, and I still have not found my "go to" person for my hair. I have most of my other stuff lined up--doctor, bakeries, favorite upscale restaurant, favorite lunch place, farmers' market, kitchen shop... However, I still have not chosen someone for my hair. I have been busy with some other things, but I think I've also been avoiding choosing a place. My boyfriend has a place, but his standards are lower than mine. The woman he goes to does an okay job, but she is rushed and rather rude. I expect at least a somewhat polite personality to go along with some kick-butt hair cutting skills.

I'm very lucky - my best friend also happens to be a hairdresser! And an amazing one at that. Before we met I had an awful time with hairdressers too. I have very thick, wavy/curly hair that I've always worn long. Hairdressers HATED cutting my hair. I also had a hard time explaining what I wanted, I could never quite communicate it right. It's so much easier for me know that the person who does my hair is someone I talk to everyday, so no matter how long it takes me to explain what I want she understands. And she also knows what looks good and what works, so a lot of the time I don't need to say anything at all. It's SO nice!

Honestly, I have not had a great haircut since the mid-eighties! I have very long hair and nobody seems to know how to style it the way I want it. Yes, I know, the style I want is out-dated. Who cares, it's what I want! I got so frustrated over a cut last year that I cut off 12 inches of my hair by myself, layered in some bangs and facial frills, too. It is so frustrating not to be able to get a good haircut.

You bet...... when I was in my hometown I had found a really good hairdresser just around the corner of where I lived. She did my hair for years, also for my wedding in Sept. 2005 and I was happy with what she did. when I relocated to the town where I am now, it was very hard to find a good hairdresser. I had two very bad experiences with hairdressers in walking distance from our home and was fed up and frustrated as I wanted to let my very thin fine hair grow and not cut too much. But then my husband suggested why I wont try the hairdresser he goes to and this has been the best decision ever. They only cut the spliss out of the hair and it grows wonderfully now. Never thought it would grow that well.

There has only been one person who cut my hair so good that I loved it! I can't stand the old lady haircuts (don't mean to offend anyone) where it's swooped up on the sides, blah, blah, blah. I like to keep up with the styles of today, not yesterday. The girl who cut it was a Manager of the shop but moved on and no one would really tell me where she went...go figure. I usually cut it myself but I'm getting tired of doing it. I need to go and get it straightened out soon, haha, as I'm no hairdresser.

always had trouble with that and my hair is the same as yours but i should tell you as you get older, it gets worse because it thins even more. i had a great hair dresser and cutter back when i had my job. mostly because i made such good money i could afford her. shes still in business but i cant afford her now.

Hi AL! I have the same kind of hair as you do, but am not a hairdresser, although I did cut my own hair for awhile. I am very fanatic about my hair because it is so thin and curly and it needs someone who really knows how to cut curly hair, which not every hairdresser does. I have had alot of "traumatic cuts" throughout the years and everytime I find a good hairdresser something happens. My last hairdresser, who was great had to retire early because she has cancer. I was devastated when I heard about it because I really liked her and knew her for a very long time. She was also one of the partners. Before she started cutting my hair the first partner cut it and he decided to leave and start his own business behind his other 2 partners back. Well, since my hairdresser left I had to go to the "last standing partner". I had my first cut with him about 6 weeks ago. He's a great guy and I think I trust him with a scissors!

I've had many a disastrous hair cut but I had my hair cut earlier this week and was p,eased with the results. At home, I stick to the hairdresser who knows my hair and knows me - what I like. I am open to new ideas but don't decide what to do without consulting me. I am so happy that you have found someone who does your hair to suit you. It is a funny thing about hair as if we are nt feeling good about our hair then we feel so bad about ourselves. Many blessings. Jhordie is well and the surgery is a success. She will have sight in that eye. So I am feeling so good about it all. They are know beginning to mAke plans to return home next month. I think that I will be here until September.

Yes, yes, and yes!!! It is almost like they have an idea in their head about the way my hair should be, no matter what I tell them I want. The funny thing is that no matter where I go, they seem to all have the same idea. Maybe I should just go with it since I am out voted. I do micro manage my cuts now though...much more than when I was younger and just let them get a hold of me..lol..I wish I had known you when you were doing hair. It would be worth the trip to have it done the way I wanted it.

I was ok in finding hairdressers until I moved to Puerto Rico. I had an aunt here doing it and she did a great job. However, she lives much further away then I wish to drive too especially with the gas prices. Then I had this guy in town who did a great job the first time but the second time was terrible. So I wanted to let it grow so I would cut my own bangs and my better half would trim the back for me. Now I find that I really need a professional cut because now I'm just shedding and its driving me crazy. I'm tempted to go back to the guy but I'm so afraid too. I really wish they had a "supercuts" here. They did my hair both in New York and New Mexico and they were great.