[181/365] haircut

[cosmolinguist]

At work today, L told me my haircut is "definitely gayer" than the undercut I had before. He then, delightfully, expounded upon this by adding "it's like a combination of a militaryish high and tight and...a pixie cut."

I love that.

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[momentsmusicaux]

By the way, how much maintenance is an undercut? How often do you need to go to the hairdressers?
I keep thinking I'd like to get one, but whenever I mention it at the hairdressers they look at me like I don't know what I'm asking for, because I look too square or something.

[cosmolinguist]

Strange that they seem confused -- it's a common thing hairdressers should know about!

My hair is thick and grows fast, and I really like it to be really short (I get a #1) so ideally mine would be done every four weeks or so (in reality it's often more like 6 or 8 by the time I get around to it but I think it's pretty untidy by that point). If your hair is finer or you don't want it quite that short or don't mind it getting a little longer, you could leave it longer between haircuts.

[momentsmusicaux]

I think that they think that I don't understand what I'm asking for, because what would someone who looks like me want with that sort of haircut!

(My greatest fear when getting a haircut is coming out looking like I work in a bank, and it happens far too often.)

[cosmolinguist]

Ugh, yeah hairdressers can be far too judgmental or conservative sometimes. I had a hell of a time just finding someone who'd cut my undercut like I wanted, rather than trying to make it "more feminine" than I'd asked for. Even when I went to a barber's called Fellaz, they eventually tried to make it feminine.

Maybe find a picture of the kind of thing you'd like, and go in with that to show them? It might help you convince them that you do know what you're talking about and you do really want it like this.