Love hair appointment days!
Anyone that knows me knows I am a FREAK when it comes to my getting my hair done. I love getting it colored and also love to inspect the coloring job just as much. My hubby knows that on hair day to avoid my calls because I might be crying. Once I called him crying hysterically over too many highlights in my hair. I. AM. A .FREAK. He said it sounded like someone had just died. In my defense though, the girl gave me uniformed highlights right up to my roots? I haven’t asked for that style since the 8th grade. Since moving to New York and barely having any friends, I have found it hard to find a hair stylist. Who could I get recommendations from? The Target check out people think I’m creepy enough by going there everyday to buy one random thing just so baby boy and I can get out of this basement, so asking one of those girls is not an option and my sister in-law goes to another county to get her hair done. So instead I asked my mother in-law who set me up with a young girl at the salon she goes to. I was super excited to have found a hair salon so easily. I went to my appointment with a thousand pictures like I normally do and was thrilled when she said she knew exactly what I wanted and was going to be doing a new technique on me. I felt like this was what I always dreamt living in New York would be like. Trendy hairstylists, doing things super trendy like putting my hair in tiny pony tails to highlight it, in result making me super trendy!! YAYYYY! Nay. I literally looked the exact same and it cost me $190! I almost died!! From what I hear though this price isn't bad. Sorry to be a cheap-o but in order to ever get out of this basement I do not feel like paying that for my hair especially when I go every 6 weeks! Not to mention Hubs was not loving it when I came home either. He was nice of course but said it looked just like it did when I left for my appointment except for the fact that I was now $190 poorer. Fail. The second time I got my hair done, I researched 944738 salons, had my best friend look them up to see which one she thought would be a good fit, called and talked to people on the phone about what I wanted and how much normal services were, and I finally settled on a place a few towns away. The salon was nice and I did like the girl, although I didn’t feel totally comfortable with her, I still thought she did a good job. She colored my hair and then put in a few low lights and cut it short, which I loved. Loved for $260?? Hell to the no. All I could think about was the fact that I could fly home to Florida for that price see my family and get my hair done by my friends that do a good job for a third of the price and they even let me be a freak during my appointment bothering them on what exactly they are doing to my hair at any exact moment. Ugh! After that, and my husband making me do extra chores for the next week (Kidding. Kind of.) I did end up taking a trip to Florida and was able to get my hair done by my friend Eliza for way way way cheaper than anywhere I had gone to in New York so far. Now that my hair had a base color again and just needed to be kept up with the LOB I was rocking, I was on a mission to find a salon that wouldn’t break my saving for a house fund, but would do a good job and I would feel comfortable with. I also didn’t want a place real far that in the middle of winter I would be driving all over town on iced roads . I mean, I'm not even a great driver on clear safe roads! I ended up finding a place 10 minutes away with a girl named Samantha and she did a great job!!! It was $100 (LOVE that price!!) for cut and color. She cut it a lot shorter than I originally thought I would want but it looks great and I feel like it gives me just enough trendiness for being a hip New York Mom. It feels good to finally feel like I found a hair salon! Moving away from everything I knew was hard enough and it may be dumb to some people but not having a hair salon was weighing on me. I want to create a life here with my family and little things like a hair salon or nail salon is something I never had to go and look for because I had friends who could recommend me to places or people I knew my whole life that ended up going to school for hair and I would go to them. It was always easy choices. Being a mom in a new town and not yet working has made it hard to meet new people. I know when I start working I will meet friends and once I do at least my hair will look good. :)