Thursday, November 10, 2005

What was I thinking?

I should've known better, but I was feeling impulsive. Not a good thing when you're headed to the salon for the first time in many, many months. My hair has been driving me crazy for a while now so my plan was to visit Letty and get a trim. Nothing drastic, just an inch or two taken off. Once I sat in her chair things changed. Something came over me and I heard myself saying 'Do you have any suggestions?' The first thing out of her mouth was 'BANGS! Let's do bangs!' At least I was smart enough to stop that right away. Bangs would've driven me crazy. But then, for some strange reason, I said 'Have at it. You can have you're way with me as long as you don't give me bangs.'

Letty: 'Are you sure??'
Me: 'Go for it! I need a change right now.'
Letty: 'Okay...I think you're going to love this.'
Me: (quietly in my head) 'I sure hope so or I'll be wearing a hat for the next couple of months.'

So as she's cutting my hair, she has my chair facing away from any mirrors so I have no idea what she's doing to me. All I see are piles of my beautiful red hair growing on the floor and I start getting sad. And then worried when I can feel her working higher and higher, my hair getting shorter and shorter. 'Oh sh*t...what have I done?' I try to stay positive and keep my hopes up that it will look amazing when she's finished. I really try and as she turns my chair to the mirror to finish styling I think to myself 'It's not too bad, but not really that cute either.' Maybe I just need to get used to it. Oh, and styling it this morning - a pain in the A*S! It took forever and finally I just gave up. My only saving grace is that it's just long enough to fit in a ponytail. Oh...and to top it off, I think one side is longer than the other.

Letty was great about it and tried to convince me that I looked cute. And I'm sure I don't look as bad as I think I do. I even had a fireman stare at me as I was leaving the salon and I keep telling myself it was because he thought I was hot, but I'll never know for sure. He may have just thought I was part of a freak show.

C'est la vie!

Posted by Maple :: 10:32 AM :: 3 Comments:

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