Hairdressers not great at listening

GrayFox208 · 26-10-2015 9:27pm #1

Am I the only one who finds this an issue? Ask them for a small trim and they get out the no. 1 razor. Or they try some hip teen ****e hair cut that makes you look like a complete tool. Any time I go to the hairdressers Dublin in particular I feel like they should pierce my ear and put a diamond earring in to finish the look they gave me that I didn't ask for.

Might just go bald.

And ****ing barbers tend to just stick to a style for the week and give anyone who walks in that haircut. Nightmare.

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 9:29pm

Teach yourself to cut your own hair and problem solved. You can shape it to your own liking happy days.

MadsL · 26-10-2015 9:29pm

Yeah, mate. Been on your holidays yet?

26-10-2015 9:30pm

They're daydreaming about buying that Rav4.

GrayFox208 · 26-10-2015 9:30pm

MadsL wrote: »

Yeah, mate. Been on your holidays yet?

Can't afford to go on holiday

MadsL · 26-10-2015 9:30pm

Bongalongherb wrote: »

Teach yourself to cut Grow your own hair and problem solved.

Haven't had a hair cut in four years.

Totofan99 · 26-10-2015 9:32pm

Haven't cut mine in ten years.

Don't go to hairdressers. Nobody ever comes out happy.

GrayFox208 · 26-10-2015 9:32pm

MadsL wrote: »

Haven't had a hair cut in four years.

I've not been to one in at least 6 months. But it's getting a little irate having hair in my face. I look like a cnut.

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 9:32pm

A bit of a hippy myself, I only barely remember what a scissors is.

Fleawuss · 26-10-2015 9:33pm

I get exactly what I ask for. Then again, I have connections to some lovely hairdressers.;)

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 9:34pm

GrayFox208 wrote: »

I've not been to one in at least 6 months. But it's getting a little irate having hair in my face. I look like a cnut.

Just shave it all off, I done that once and I had long hair, but was constantly told that I looked like tweety pie from the cartoon so I desperately had to grow it again. Be careful what you wish for.

mad muffin · 26-10-2015 9:35pm

Haven't gone to a hairdresser in 15 years. The wife cuts it.

GrayFox208 · 26-10-2015 9:36pm

mad muffin wrote: »

Haven't gone to a hairdresser in 15 years. The wife cuts it.

Mine is too afraid she'll do it wrong. I mean she has real ears to listen to what I want so it's not like she can. I wonder if hairdressers just have awful hearing with all the **** they listen to from aul ones.

salamanca22 · 26-10-2015 9:38pm

3 on the sides, 4 on top. In and out in 10 minutes :P

sonny.knowles · 26-10-2015 9:38pm

Do men go to hairdressers?

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 9:38pm

mad muffin wrote: »

Haven't gone to a hairdresser in 15 years. The wife cuts it.

I see. so after so long of your wife cutting it it would seem you like the style . But how would you feel now to go to the hair-dressers and have it cut by them ? would it be up to par do you think compared to your wife's haircut job ?.

Ruu · 26-10-2015 9:38pm

Hair, la de dah!

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 9:40pm

Baldness doesn't run in the family or generations before that so I will never go bald... But, The problem I have is that it's all gone grey so ye can never win.

newacc2015 · 26-10-2015 9:45pm

This might sounds sexist. But IMO the only person who can cuts male hair is a barber doing it on a daily basis. My friends get his hair by a top female hairdresser. But she cant cut his hair for ****. There is no fade into the cut and it looks off.

There is a reason why male barbers are doing so well. Men have finally realise the best people to cut their hair isnt a hairdresser but a Barbers. You never a man with an excellent cut who got it done in a hairdressers.

MadsL · 26-10-2015 9:47pm

newacc2015 wrote: »

This might sounds sexist. But IMO the only person who can cuts male hair is a barber doing it on a daily basis. My friends get his hair by a top female hairdresser. But she cant cut his hair for ****. There is no fade into the cut and it looks off.

There is a reason why male barbers are doing so well. Men have finally realise the best people to cut their hair isnt a hairdresser but a Barbers. You never a man with an excellent cut who got it done in a hairdressers.

It is sexist. Plenty of women who only cut men's hair.

tomwaterford · 26-10-2015 9:48pm

GrayFox208 wrote: »

Mine is too afraid she'll do it wrong. I mean she has real ears to listen to what I want so it's not like she can. I wonder if hairdressers just have awful hearing with all the **** they listen to from aul ones.

Maybe you've a weird shaped head?

I do know hairdressers who complain on this

blackbird 49 · 26-10-2015 9:49pm

My husband has'nt been to the barber in years, i do it, takes about 10 mins

awec · 26-10-2015 9:50pm

newacc2015 wrote: »

This might sounds sexist. But IMO the only person who can cuts male hair is a barber doing it on a daily basis. My friends get his hair by a top female hairdresser. But she cant cut his hair for ****. There is no fade into the cut and it looks off.

There is a reason why male barbers are doing so well. Men have finally realise the best people to cut their hair isnt a hairdresser but a Barbers. You never a man with an excellent cut who got it done in a hairdressers.

Loads of hairdressers are also barbers.

Anyway, the reason men end up with haircuts different to what they want is because they are too afraid to articulate what they actually want in case someone might think they care or something.

"Ah sure a bit off the sides and just tidy it up on top" and they are confused as to why it doesn't look exactly like they imagined.

Riddle101 · 26-10-2015 10:09pm

Yeah OP, happens to me. When my hair grew quite long one time, I went to the barber and just wanted a trim to sort of make it more neat and tiny, and the guy ended up cutting it too short for my liking. It wasn't what I wanted, but the job had already been done. Funny thing is, I still go to the same barber every couple of months. It's ok now though because I ended up shaving it eventually, so he can perform the most basic task. But I wouldn't trust him to cut it to a particular style.

I know another person who had a problem, where a barber from the same place, completely botched his haircut and had to shave it. Needless to say my friend wasn't too happy about it.

awec · 26-10-2015 10:21pm

Riddle101 wrote: »

Yeah OP, happens to me. When my hair grew quite long one time, I went to the barber and just wanted a trim to sort of make it more neat and tiny, and the guy ended up cutting it too short for my liking. It wasn't what I wanted, but the job had already been done. Funny thing is, I still go to the same barber every couple of months. It's ok now though because I ended up shaving it eventually, so he can perform the most basic task. But I wouldn't trust him to cut it to a particular style.

I know another person who had a problem, where a barber from the same place, completely botched his haircut and had to shave it. Needless to say my friend wasn't too happy about it.

But you realise that "just a trim to tidy it up" is really vague, right?

It's like going into McDonalds and asking for meat in a bap, and then moaning because they gave you a McChicken Sandwich when what you wanted was a Big Mac.

mad muffin · 26-10-2015 10:29pm

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I see. so after so long of your wife cutting it it would seem you like the style . But how would you feel now to go to the hair-dressers and have it cut by them ? would it be up to par do you think compared to your wife's haircut job ?.

Yeah, my wife does a great job. Everyone complements me on it. I would never go back. My wife does a much better job than any of them.

biko · 26-10-2015 10:30pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-AF_kiAvkE

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 10:36pm

It depends on the shape of a persons head. Let us evaluate the egg-shaped head for hair cutting shall we...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEf3wXEfmU

We will evaluate the cone-head hair-cut later, and then onto triangular shaped heads.

GrayFox208 · 26-10-2015 10:45pm

Bongalongherb wrote: »

It depends on the shape of a persons head. Let us evaluate the egg-shaped head for hair cutting shall we...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcEf3wXEfmU

We will evaluate the cone-head hair-cut later, and then onto triangular shaped heads.

What about the pin head?

riclad · 26-10-2015 10:52pm

I just say i want it short ,but not too short .
Short all round ,
Thats it. i never had a bad haircut.

Bongalongherb · 26-10-2015 10:53pm

GrayFox208 wrote: »

What about the pin head?

I never heard of a pin-head all the same. Must be a new head shape that entered itself into the chain of different shaped heads.

Hitchens · 26-10-2015 10:58pm

I got the wife to cut mine once. Met the brother that evening and asked him what he thought of it ........he said, "it'll be nice when it's finished!"

mad muffin · 27-10-2015 7:22pm

biko wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-AF_kiAvkE

I always knew Sarah Jessica Parker was a man.

NachoBusiness · 27-10-2015 8:28pm

mad muffin wrote: »

Haven't gone to a hairdresser in 15 years. The wife cuts it.

You're most likely a ride of a man and she only does that so she can give you a haircut that'll keep other women away from ya.

May not be true.

wilhelm roentgen · 27-10-2015 8:29pm

I went to the barbers the other day. He asked me how I would like my hair cut and I replied, "In complete silence!"

Hitchens · 27-10-2015 9:00pm

mad muffin wrote: »

Haven't gone to a hairdresser in 15 years. The wife cuts it.

I went into a butcher's shop the other day and asked him if he had a sheeps head and he said, "no, it's just the way the wife cuts me hair"

(you're not in the meat trade by any chance?) :eek:

MilesMorales1 · 27-10-2015 9:28pm

I pay a fiver for my haircut, so I don't expect some magnificent perm. Number 2 all over, bobs your uncle.

GrayFox208 · 27-10-2015 9:35pm

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I pay a fiver for my haircut, so I don't expect some magnificent perm. Number 2 all over, bobs your uncle.

Bob isn't my uncle. What are you saying.

fizzypish · 28-10-2015 12:40pm

I shave and cut my hair generally 4 times a year. I get buzzed as much as is tolerated by the OH (I'd have a 2 blade left to my own devices). 3 months of the year I look like a teenager, 6 I look scruffy and the last 3 I enter full blown homeless mode.
My hairdresser doesn't speak much English so I just point to the shearers. System works.

OldGoat · 28-10-2015 1:22pm

awec wrote: »

But you realise that "just a trim to tidy it up" is really vague, right?

It's like going into McDonalds and asking for meat in a bap, and then moaning because they gave you a McChicken Sandwich when what you wanted was a Big Mac.

This.

If you can't articulate what it is you want your barber to do for you then bring a picture of the style you want. If at that point the barber ****s it up you've got a crappy barber. If all you ask for is "a small trim" then you'll never get a consistent haircut.

Like any other trade there are terms words and concepts that apply to barbering. If you use them your barber will know precisely what you want and won't have to read your mind. Talking to your barber about your haircut will teach you what you want and don't want. He just might appreciate the chance to show off his trade rather that chat about your recent holiday.

If and when you do find the barber that gives you the haircut you like then stick with him/her. At that point you can go in and ask for the usual and he'll know what you mean...and then you can talk about your recent holiday.

Here's a link to a magazine piece explaining some of the barbering terms. It's not comprehensive but it'll get you started.
http://www.ties.com/blog/hair-terminology-tell-barber-exactly-want

Maximus Alexander · 28-10-2015 1:23pm

I just run an electric razor over the head once a month and avoid this problem altogether. But then I'm handsome enough to pull it off. :cool:

Hairdressers not great at listening

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