A pointless poll

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1073595]

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[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

I am one of those rare women who hates going to the hairdressers. It always comes out covered in spray, costs a fortune and you have to endure someone inanely going on about their holidays in Tenerife for an hour while you sit there, vulnerable under the scissors.

I cut it meself and let the natural wave take care of the um...'style' ;)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Why do you ask? As it happens, I forgot to make another appointment when I last had mine cut, so it's long overdue. It's getting cut on Monday. Since I was about 13, I have had a) the same haircut (admittedly now with rather less hair) and b) only three hairdressers.

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Why yes, I do work in central London and wish not to be processed by the marginally cheaper hairdressers of suburbia. In a land of straight or curly haired women who don't mind perming or tonging or blonding, the wavy dark haired who do are up the proverbial creek. So I bite the bullet and get an expensive cut that doesn't require a lot of time spent on it in between cuts. (Oh, and I don't grow it out because it makes me look like Jesus. Great role model, lousy fashion sense.)

[estelyn-strider.livejournal.com]

Ah, but which currency do you mean?! I get my hair cut in €...

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

I ticked less often as I went several years without bothering and just scraping back my long hair. Only recently have I taken to actually having a haircut again. I paid about 40 quid from an (actually very good) local hairdressers, which I consider very cheap as I have lowlights too. I've known friends (ok - a particular friend) pay three figure sums for cuts involving color, so your 50 upper limit made me smile.

[sally_maria]

I like the effect after I've had my hair done, but don't have a lot of patience with the process. Add that to the fact that I hate making appointments for anything, and getting my hair cut is not one of my favourite things.

I get round the second problem by going to one of those turn up and wait your turn places - I have a book, I don't care if I have to sit there for half an hour. All I need is a straight forward cut, and maybe blow dry anyway, I like my hair the colour it is, and I don't have the patience to faff with it on a daily basis.

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Will some woman explain straighteners to me?

What is it that drives perfectly attractive, perfectly sensible young women with naturally wavy hair to completely flatten it in the mistaken belief that this is a) more attractive and b) more fashionable?

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

$40, two or three times a year. I can go back after a month or so and have it trimmed for nothing. I wear it very short, so it still looks good after 4-6 months with a minimum of maintenance from me. I don't colour it.

[chris-maslen.livejournal.com]

I get mine cut about once every month and occasionally get it coloured (cos I'm a tart and I like having jet black hair) but thenit costs 15 quid not 6.

I do like being a bloke sometimes.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

Eni's approach to haircuts:
1. Drink lots of Port. Red wine will do at a pinch.
2. Take a shower.
3. Take a pair of DIY scissors.
4. Hack off some hair.
5. Stumble out and ask flatmates if it's straight.
6. Hack off some more hair.
7. Call it a night and rectify minor asymmetries in the morning.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I ticked 5 as it's actually £7 which is nearer 5 than 10. :)

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

I have dark curly hair, rather like that of Alan Davies or Simon Rattle. It grows slowly, and falls out before it gets long - I did not have it cut for 7 years whilst trying to grow it, and it never reached my shoulders unless wet. Because these days I try and keep it vaguely styled, I get it done 2 or 3 times a year when I am in the north. I cannot straighten it, because it makes me look like the Princess Royal, and because it is genuinely curly it just looks dead.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I detest having my hair cut. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I cannot comprehend why so many women like it. Having some stranger poke around at me... Ick! And they're always so young and trendy, and I can just feel them sneering silently at my untrendy geekiness. (And, on a similar subject, when I see competitions offering a "pamper session" as a prize, I shudder, since it's my idea of a nightmare some perky blonde doing stuff to my hands or feet or hair.)

My solution is like someone else said above: Alcohol, scissors... then wear it up so no-one can tell that it's irregular and uneven. Well, they probably can, but I don't really care. I should go one to the hairdressers' one day, though...

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Mine's long so I just go along once or twice a year and get a few inches cut off. I like going to the hairdresser - I get lovely scalp massages. My only trouble is having to remember to book six weeks ahead because because he gets really busy on Friday nights and Saturday mornings.

[miss-t-ide.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that I really need to get my fringe cut, at least. Need to find a hairdresser in Cambridge that I can trust... No idea what the going rate for a cut and blow dry is round here. I work in Mayfair, so I don't think I'll be shelling out for a haircut in my lunch break..!

[gabriel-chase.livejournal.com]

I don't like having my hair cut because I look ghastly in the mirror. When I lean back in my chair and then can't move my head it's time to have it cut: 4-6 inches off twice a year or so. Always go to the same place which charges £10 no appointment, and I never let them do anything to it other than wash and cut it - no blowdry!

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I get at least a trim every couple of months, at $20 a pop (so I guess I should have ticked "10," as you're working in pounds). And I don't bother with the fancy place; the no-appointment one will do (do you have the "Hair Cuttery" chain in Britain?).

Now for the confession: I love going for a haircut, and, if I were rich, I'd hit the hairdresser's every week just for the fun of having my hair washed by someone else (I really heard myself in the commenter above who swooned over that head massage). The fact is, I'm not someone who ordinarily fusses much over herself-- my usual routine is to wash my hair and let it air-dry while getting on with life-- so I'm happy to let myself enjoy being fussed over when the opportunity arises. Which means, yeah, that $20 includes the optional extra après-cut styling. Luckily, my curly locks can stand up to being moussed, blow-dried, hair-sprayed... the whole nine yards. (Remember 80s hair? I'd have it, if the 20-something beauticians at the shop could bring themselves to do it. Maybe they're afraid a spectacular do would show up the rest of my frumpy, middle-aged self!)

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

I halved my dollar expenditure in an attempt to fit in. I really hate spending the money, but eventually I just can't stand it anymore.

[chainmailmaiden]

I used to hate having my hair cut, but since I found a very nice hairdresser in Carlisle I get my hair cut when I go to visit my parents. It's far cheaper than London haircuts, and they have chocolates for you to eat while you wait.

When Bacchus was out of work a few years ago I tried to encourage him to take up a hairdressing course at college. I quite fancied being able to have free haircuts at home, but he never got round to it. He is lucky, I cut his hair for free, whenever he wants. In fact if anyone else ever wants a free haircut I'd be happy to oblige providing you want it done with clippers. I can do the full range from a 0 to a number 6 :-)

[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

Best haircut I ever had, seriously, was when my mate Jim sellotaped my hair to one of those curved back traditional pine chairs in his mum's kitchen. He then used the chair back as a 'guide' to cut along. My hair looked great afterwards! Note - this is only useful if you are planning to cut off very long hair and make it shoulder length ;)

I never straighten mine, I just have to keep it damp or slathered in 'hair serum' to keep the waves as it's like Hermione Granger's hair otherwise...

[romancinger.livejournal.com]

I splashed out £15 (pensioner's rate!) on a haircut - just the cut - last week. I went to the best hairdresser in town, because with a 4cm bald spot to cover, I needed someone good. And she was; did a lovely job, exactly what I asked for. Except, like all modern hairdressers, she smoothed it down flat - which has never suited me, and suits very few other people, in my opinion. But it doesn't matter, I can simply do what I want with it once I get home. I rather like having my hair cut; I just wish they wouldn't expect me to make conversation. I prefer to meditate!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Oh and for your info mine is "A short back and sides, no.3 trimmer for the sides" with now and then "a little off the top"