I’ve started going to a new hairdresser. Things were fine at first,but I’ve noticed she’s cutting my hair to look like hers. No matter how many times I mention thatI don’t part it on that side,she still does it. This salon is convenient. How can I gently bring this to her attention?
C.M.,Berwick,Vic
Simon Letch
A: There’s a famous piece of writing advice that goes “Write what you know” – and maybe this hairdresser sees herself as a hair-writer. Maybe she’s “cutting what she knows”,using her own personal hair-experiences to inform her hair-narrative (while avoiding overly purple styling or gratuitous shags). Actually,writers and hairdressers have a lot in common;they both spend their days contemplating human heads,they both dabble in layering and texture,and they both cut their own hair because they’re in low-paid professions and can’t afford a hairdresser.
So if that’s why your hairdresser is cutting your hair to look like hers,then it’s actually a compliment. You’re in the hands of a true artist who wants to find emotional honesty in her work rather than just plagiarise the latest,bestselling Gal Gadot side-part. Then again,you might be in the hands of a complete narcissist who thinks her hairstyle is amazing and just wants to share it with the world. A giveaway would be if she finished the cut,held up a mirror to the back ofher head and said,“So … happy with that?”
Anyway,if you’re not thrilled about hair-twinning and don’t want to change salons,just guide your hairdresser through every step of the cut like a flight controller helping a passenger land a jumbo:“No,part on the other side … I repeat,partleft! No,left,damnit,hardleffffft!!!!!”
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