You're Doing It Wrong

 Okay, this is my “Before” picture.  Yep that’s me, the once invisible Stacy over here at BMB.  I’ve come out of hiding I guess, and now you all can see what I look like, or looked like, because today I got my haircut.  I’ve been thinking about it for awhile, although I wanted to go to a high end Salon that my friend went to, but it would of been $40.  And I hate to spend much on myself, but today I decided was the day to get it cut.  I first drove to a discount chain haircutting place, but they were packed, apparently other people were looking for a cheap bad haircut.  So I drove up the rode to someplace much worse, and cheaper.  I walk in and write my name down, and this, um, what’s a nice way to put this……um, frumpy looking girl calls my name. Please god let her be the cashier and not the stylist.  Oh crap, she is the stylist.  Okay, I know you’re not suppose to judge a book by it’s cover, but if you are going to be cutting my hair, I would like you to look like you know how to do your OWN hair!  Her hair is in a messy ponytail!  She couldn’t even have a neat ponytail.  And she’s in sweats, not “yoga” pants, big ass baggy sweats!  UGH!  So I show her the picture I brought with me on how I want my hair to be cut.  She tells me that she will need to use the razor scissors on my hair for the layers, which I agree to.  I get in the chair and she starts razoring off 3 inches of my hair.  You’re doing it wrong   (this saying keeps going on in my head)  Anytime I’ve had my hair razored, they first cut off the length with regular scissors, then razor it.  Not her, she’s razoring the crap out of my hair, and of course my thick long hair is getting all stuck.  She then asks me what side I part my hair on, and when I tell her she parts it and starts cutting it.  You’re doing it wrong  Every time I get my haircut they part it down the middle, cut it and then style it, not the other way around.  More and more is coming off, oh crap, why did I do this, what the hell was I thinking?  And when she’s done, I look like Carol Brady, the top of my hair is all puffy and the bottom is straight, kinda like a woman’s mullet.  You did it wrong  This doesn’t look like the picture, what are you blind?  I know, you get what you pay for, but I didn’t want to look like Carol Brady!  I came home and colored my hair, and tried to re-do it the right way.  I’m still not too pleased with it, and I need to experiment with it, but other people have told me it looks good.  I will take their word for it and deal with it, it’ll grow eventually.  Below is my “After” picture, sorry it’s in black and white, but it’s late, and my make up has fallen off of my face by now.  Believe me, it’s a lot better than the color picture I took.