Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Lack of decent hairstylists in Iowa

Oh the frightfulness of getting your hair done. I do envy anyone who lives in a trendy knowing, hair cutting city. I certainly don’t. I should have known that moving to Iowa would be a challenge when it came to my ever changing hair needs. I’ve been so patient and good about leaving my hair alone for the past six months. But the need for change became overpowering and I just had to get it trimmed. I went in wanting a bob, but a longer version of my cute bob that was posted further down. That way I could have a cute style, yet still keep the locks long for the husband. I have a rule of thumb; I never get my hair cut by someone who does not have cute hair themselves. But today I made an exception. You see this gal that cut my hair works out at the gym I go to and is in several of the cycling and ab classes I attend. She’s super sweet and most of my fellow gym friends go to her. But her hair is bleached out blond, long and puffy. I’m not a puffy hair girl, no offense to those that are. Anyway, the cut didn’t turn out the way I was expecting. You have the bob type cut, and the back is suppose to be an even cut, but she added in these long wispy type things to the bottom of it. It’s just weird. I had her trim it up once, but that still didn’t improve it. And she had another client waiting for her to finish, so I didn’t want to be a nuisance. So after the second trim I just left it. So I won’t be posting a picture, my hair really isn’t post-worthy right now. The real challenge in all of this will be convincing Tom that another haircut is the only solution.

10 comments:

Cozzette said...

Your rule of thumb is so true. When I worked in salons the person with the craziest hair always did awesome work.

Susan said...

I'm sorry it didn't turn out the way you wanted it too. Hope you can find someone that can fix it right.

Amy said...

Now I definitely need to see a black market pic...send me an e-mail. I'm sure you just think it's bad. But maybe not.

Anonymous said...

Bummer! Especially when you were so looking forward to it! It's even worse that you know her and she'll know if you change it. Or maybe just tell her and she'll change it (for free) - that happened to me with color (remember my Billy Idol hair) and she changed it the next day, no problem. Just be sensitive when explaining that it's not you. So, Nate looks at gun info online all the time so our parental control is off. I decided to turn it on again today (not like I've ever had a bad webpage pop up yet). Then I went to your blog and it wouldn't let me go there because of "sex". Interesting. . . what kind of blog is this????

JoDee said...

I want the picture. I don't care about the sweet little story to go along with it, I just want the juicy part, THE PICTURE!

Amy said...

On another makeover note, I like your blog's new look. And I'm glad you changed it to names instead of websites on your sidebar.

Anonymous said...

Finding a new hair person is one of the worst parts of moving to a new place. You just never know what you are getting into. I made the mistake of going to a girl who cut hair out of her house that was in my ward when we first moved here. I hated it, but felt obligated to keep going to her because I saw her every week. I'm sorry! That's never how you want to feel when you make the effort to go get a cut.

Mandy said...

Hi Megan,
I found your blog from Amy's blog. I am Kelly's sister-in-law also-just to give you background on me. I just thought I would say "hi."

I completely understand your hair issues. Right now I am trying to grow mine out, but it's very hard for me. Everytime I see someone with really cute short hair, I get it cut.

When I had really short hair, I would have to get it trimmed often to maintain that style. The bad thing was that no matter who the stylist was, they always parted my hair down the middle, making me look like a butt. Very embarrassing. I would inevitably see someone I know too.

Megan said...

Mandi-my blog is by no means sexual, although when I first started it and logged in for the first time it took me to a porn site instead, but that was because I didn't spell out blogspot when I typed in the web address. I was disturbed and almost didn't go on with the blogging, but Amy sorted me out.

And also, hi to Mandy, good to meet you, It's so nice to hear that everyone else has traumatic hair stories. I'm the same way when I see someone with a cute short haircut. It just convinces me that the only way I can be attractive is with short hair. Plus people with cute short hairstyles always look very put together, mainly because you have to fix your hair when it's short.

And by the way I have no intention of emailing out pics of my haircut, you would probably laugh and tell me that I'm ridiculous for being so upset over it. On a good note though, I have figured out how to flat iron the back of my head so it's not so weird. This way I don't have to get it fixed now, I'm just going to deal with it.

Cozzette said...

Hey you can always get the flobee. Haha