I was hoping to get the shape of my hair cleaned up. Nothing major, just shaped up the layers.
While speaking in Spanish, I told the hair stylist that I wanted layers. And he got to work right away. I quickly found out that he spoke a good bit of English. So that was comforting and we were chatting a lot. Before long all of my hair was on the salon floor. Well... I am exaggerating, but it was huge percentage of my hair.
The stylist gave me what he thought was super, cool hair cut. And maybe a large portion of the young women in Chile would agree.
But I was mortified! I hardly made it home before I started crying. I mean... the man destroyed my hair. I have a photo of the bad hair cut. But I don't think it quite capture how truly bad the haircut was. I think you all remember the haircut I had before. It was the same that I had for years. Nice, pretty long NORMAL hair! Then I became a freak...
The stylist cut one layer in the back (at the level indicated by the butcher's knife in the photo). Then the rest of my hair made one (rather thin) longer layer. The difference in the layers was extreme, about 10 inches. It was if someone put a short bob wig on top of my long hair. Yikes!
On Luis's advice, I kept the haircut for a week. A rather long week. Then I went back to a trusted hair stylist. He was shocked at the disaster zone! And he got me fixed him pretty well. I think my hair now is kind of like Chrissie Hynde from the Pretenders. Or at least I hope. My hair is a lot shorter than before. And it will take me years to get it back to the where it was.
Anyhow, some time had passed. And I'm started to get used to it. I guess, its fun to put gel in it and make a "Pokemon" hair style (as they would say in Chile.)
So I guess you have to laugh it off. To help, here is a video from a chilean children show. It about a little boy who got a bad haircut. And he doesn't want to go to school because his friends will make fun of him. The other school children join in the song saying they will indeed make fun of him.
Me Cortaron Mal el Pelo
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there is at least one solution for a bad hair cut, Elise. THE solution. but you don't wanna go that far, do you ;-)
good luck with your new look!
It doesn't look that bad in the photo, but you are right about the bottom line. Whenever one is in a foreign country (or even just changes his usual hair dresser), it's a pain.
It was the same for me in the US. I tried a couple of (expensive!) hair dressers and then went for the famous "Jose's solution".
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