Published on 12, July, 2020
Does any go an actual place to get their haircut? I've learnt to trim and cut my own because I cant stand the whole experience. What does everyone else do? I've had some mega tragic haircuts along the way, but nailed it now. I think lol
When I was a kid, I grew up with a cousin that lived with us for a time, and then became a professional hairdresser with her own family run business. But on a personal level, I can't say that I liked her or her haircuts very much.
For haircuts, she'd use blunt tools, and as a result she used more force, and it caused pain by having multiple hair follicles ripped out of my head. Loose scissors snagged a hair or two every snip. Blunt razors ripped out a chunk of hair by it's roots every downward motion. It was torture.
Not to mention that the results were so ugly, that I got bullied by both adults and children alike for having a round head, and they made fun of me for looking stupid. They had all kinds of bad nicknames for me.
I wanted to grow out my hair, but my mother was against it, and I'd always be forced to cut it against my will. And my mother also learned my cousin's methods, used the same sadistic tools to cut my hair, and the results were also less than pleasing.
My cousin as a person, was ego-driven and unkind, and I don't think many people would like receiving cut-eyes and snears very much. She married a egotistical man, who made back-handed and rude comments at family members. I've given their family-run business a chance, and I've visited a handful of times before, but they just complain and put me down the entire time, saying things like my teeth needs braces, that their 5 year old daughter is smarter than I am (I'm an adult), that I'm too childish and do I actually know how to do anything? ... Yep... unwelcomed back-handed comments. So I don't bother going there anymore. Why would they think that anyone would enjoy that? Now I just avoid them and their business all together.
I learned to trim the ends of my hair during covid, but I feel like a caveman butchering my hair, more than I'm actually doing it any good. Luckily I've met some great people that will cut my hair from time to time, but it's not often that I get a hair cut anyways (probably due to whatever happened in the past), but around the right people, it can be a positive experience.
Some people just don't understand.
My Nan was like that. Fortunately, my Mum wasn't.