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i like to think of it as ’self-editing.’

25 March 2006 | maura dot com | 6 Comments

desperation? boredom? the too-long wait for a first-timer appointment at devachan? whatever the reason, i took measures into my own hands and gave myself a haircut yesterday. it came out ok, save for this one cowlicky bit that i didn’t discover until i tried to restyle my hair this morning.

but the best part of the whole endeavor was this: after the snipping was complete, i didn’t have to fend off the blowdryer-and-round-brush advances of the stylist. that, undoubtedly, is the most irritating part of every haircut i’ve received in the past 18 months — listen, if you’re going to cut and style my hair, at least give me a style that i can replicate without having to add eyes in the back of my head and stretch armstrong limbs. curly-headed ladies, can i get an ‘amen’ to that?

6 Comments

  1. salmon said on 25 Mar 2006 at 13.14:

    they bring the round brush out for the straight haired ladies, too. my last cut/style experience left me with puff the magic haircut, but thankfully it was temporary.

  2. chickpea said on 26 Mar 2006 at 15.01:

    Many years ago I gave up on trying to get the curls to do anything that they didn’t want to do on their own. Sometimes that meant they stood straight up, sometimes it meant a total mop. There was no predicting. It’s the zen of the curl, I think.

  3. jayme said on 27 Mar 2006 at 15.14:

    devachan is worth it. one curly headed girl to the next. style is repeatable, no curly brushes required. I see francis. he’s a hair zen master.

  4. Misha said on 28 Mar 2006 at 0.24:

    What she said, except I see Mario.

    Seriously, best haircut and hair gunk evar.

  5. stevienixed said on 2 Apr 2006 at 10.31:

    Well, now that I have a perm, I fully understand what you mean. Except: it’s the same when I *don’t* have curls. I can never get it right. :-(

  6. thatbob said on 12 Apr 2006 at 17.28:

    I homeclip, usually when insomnial. Sometimes I let the moustache get longer than the beard, and sometimes I let both get longer than the head-hair.

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