In recent times I have found myself getting in with fashion, so to speak... Well in particularly with how I have my haircut. Keeping it long on top and going for the posh/suave sort of look. Now I'd say I was really going for the Justin Timberlake current style, however the hairdressers or barbers I have tried in the past 8 months in the UK, Germany and now Holland still can't seem to master it. Even after showing them a picture. This exact picture here to be precise.
Now ok, I'm not paying top dollar, but how hard can it be? I mean to me it looks a 2 back and sides (6mm) with it long but neat on top. I've also noticed that on pretty much all occasions that the person doing my hair basically ignores what I ask for and generally does what they want, I mean who is the customer here seriously? It reminds me of a time in first year of University when me and my friends went to a certain barber and requested for it to be cut a certain way, and he straight out said 'I'm not doing that, hair isn't meant to be cut that way, it would look stupid'. This with my friend asking for his fringe to be cut shorter. Complete joke. And I mean a hair cut isn't cheap, at an average of £9 - it maybe me just being stingy being a value for money sort of person.
Another thing that worries me, and it is generally with female hairdressers. But they will cut my hair, and I can see in the mirror it doesn't look right, sometimes they cut my hair sort of square. And I can see the panic in their eyes thinking 'why won't this cut right?' or 'I don't know what I'm doing'. Then rather than stand back for a second or two and assess what they can do to get it right, they just continue to chop more away and hope it improves. Luckily for me the most recent time I had it cut it did. So I generally have a rule of thumb when it comes to getting my hair cut and that is to not have a woman do it! I'm not sexist, I just feel that women are better at cutting women's hair whereas a male barber always seems to know what he's doing with a man's hair. But sometime I sit down in the chair for then a woman to come and ask me how I want it and I am just too polite to say I want a male hairdresser.
Another thing with the average kind of hairdresser and barber is once they have finished and they ask if you want it styling. Well I don't know where they learnt to style, as I doubt they would ever do their own hair as terrible as they seem to do mine. It starts by using the cheapest wet look hair gel ever! they have this huge like litre tub that cost about £1 and it is so crap. It stinks, feels horrible and makes your hair look terrible. I mean with my style of cut you would never use wet look gel, so I don't know why they are so stingy in buying the crap. Then they just seem to brush it in some terrible direction and make you look like its a first ever attempt at styling your own hair.
I don't know why I tell them yes, I sit there watch them put so much in and slick it back and I look absolutely ridiculous. I then have to endure an embarrassing walk home where I inevitably wash it all out and style it properly with some more expensive VO5 putty which adds good hold and a sleek more natural look.
Anyway, like I said before maybe I'm being stingy and I'm now earning good money, so I think next time I shall spend a bit more money and go to more of a professional. In the UK I'd spend about £8, in Germany it was 12€, my latest haircut in Rotterdam was 15€ and I would always complain about my haircut, ok its not bad, but its not good either! So enough is enough and I have now found a very suave hairdresser who does the classic cuts and it is 30€. So to me this is like women's territory of haircut prices and yes I'm paying double what I normally pay, but hopefully I won't have anything to moan about. Only time will tell. But if I've learnt anything, its that being stylish is expensive. I should just go back to being a skinhead and buy myself some clippers, much cheaper. But I'm always told (and I agree) I have very good hair. So may as well make the most of it, especially if I end up with hair like my father in the future.
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