Have you ever noticed what a good hair day does for you?

September 18th, 2007 | Beauty

I got my hair cut today, on schedule, and I always walk out of there feeling like a million bucks. I laugh and say I get up in the morning looking like this. (Not!) But she cuts my hair in a way that with a minimum of effort I can do a good job with it myself– and I do look good when I get out of bed in the morning, just not as good as when I walk out of the salon. It took me about 2 years to find her after getting a couple of bad haircuts from the man I’d gone to for a very long time.

Having a good hairdresser is worth a lot!

My hairdresser was having such a good day today when I came in. She was just sparkling. She had had a client come in a week early, which left her with a two hour block this morning. Someone called in who had been referred to her by another client, and she was able to get in that day (practically unheard of.) (I book 6 weeks in advance.) She colored her hair with a variety of colors and foiling (and techniques) (as she said to me, even if someone had the formula, as she said to the client, it would not look the same) (we like to talk techniques even though it isn’t my field) and it was one of those serendipitous times when the Universe aligned and it turned out better than perfect for a person who wouldn’t have done well with a drastic change, but she looked terrific.

Meantime, there’s an author whose books I’ve read. And since I’ve read a number of them lately, I’ve seen her pictures on the book jackets over about a 20 year span of her life. Perhaps if I’d read the books over 20 years, I wouldn’t have noticed it as much. I now get an emailed newsletter from her and she looks twenty years younger than she did twenty years ago.

I suspect she’s had a little work done, outside of her hair, but whoever did her, did a terrific job. Maybe God.

It’s her hair that is particularly striking. It has gone from dark to many shades of highlighted blond, and she looks beyond good. Somebody steered her into her best look. That’s for sure! Her hair reminds me of the color of mine (bottled) which also has this multi-dimension to it, without having to foil it with 6 different colors. Perhaps she is able to do the same, but I kind of doubt it as the most recent picture before this didn’t look like she had any white to work with, though she might have been coloring it dark.

On the reverse side of this, not too long ago I saw a SA for the first time. Her hair was a lovely shade of multi-dimensional deep brown. She was in her 50s, guessing. The other SAs were coming up to look at her hair and raving about it. Evidently a few days before she had been as blond as me and decided to go dark again. The person who colored her hair did a magnificent job. It looked completely natural, with good sheen. I couldn’t even picture her blond. The dark went so well with her skin coloring and eyes. And it wasn’t too dark for her age. She said that was her natural color before she went blond. Good for her!

I remember my aunt coloring her hair a strawberry blond, which went perfectly with her complexion. When she was about 70, I asked her if she was still coloring her hair. She had stopped because everyone knew how old she was anyway, she said. I couldn’t picture her with white hair.

Contrast that to another aunt who has had prematurely steel gray hair since her 20’s (my dad’s, her brother, was pure white from his 20s). She has very olive skin and this color just looks terrific on her. No hair color for her!

My mom colored her hair red. One day she thought she’d go back white, so she asked her hair dresser to take the red out. She took one look at herself and said, put the red back in, so she never left the salon until it was red again. (Usually she colored it herself.)

So, what do you do with your hair? Do you get it foiled? One-step? Nothing? Have you changed your hair a lot in the past few years? Are you ready to do anything drastic?

Karin

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