So I wrote on 27 Jun 2008 about my brave adventure of a hair cut in … years. Well, I decided to go to the same place to get a similar hair cut again. Of course, since it is a salon institution, I got a different girl. And….

It is a total Disaster!!! Not only she trimmed way too much on the side but she also trimmed a good 3 inches off half of the hair on the back, despite my repeating request of not trimming the back!! What amazed me was that she even argued with me, “I have to carry the pattern over”… well, I am alive, you are alive, my head is alive, none of the above is on a text book!! Cannot you modify your pattern to fit my head!!??

For a salon institution like Aveda, what should you produce? A bunch of students that only knows technicality or someones know something called “Communicate with your customer?”

I should have sensed it when first I asked her to trim just the hair on the side to frame my face and she said “That’s not a hair cut then. You could just do this at home”…

Even better, when I asked her if she has a lower setting of the hair dryer (you know how they press that hair dryer right against your hair and skin), she flat out told me “Yes, there is a lower setting. But I don’t have time standing here all day to dry your hair”.

Wow.

So, that’s it for the adventure.  I don’t know what I am going to do for my next hair cut…considering how slow my hair grows… Certainly not Aveda again.

All right, here are some interesting points/suggestions from different sources following the tragic:

–  How to grow your hair faster?
Take your vitamins!
Get pregnant!

– What to do with a 80s punk kid hair style?
It’s kind of Hip. I like it.
Just cut the back hair shorter to match the rest.
Brade the hair to be an anime character!
Make lemonade out of lemons!

And, since 4 days later, I had my wisdom teeth pulled out and developed a nice swollen face, I discovered the ultimate way to be younger:
Step 1: Bad hair cut. Forget about your age and trying to be sexy. Cut your hair like you had when you are 10 years old.
Step 2: Develop a swollen face and thus regain that round chubby cheek.
Step 3: Sleep a lot to regain that baby face….

Unfortunately, I still don’t feel like socializing with all that returned youth….