When you sign up for a $20 haircut at Aveda Institute, you take a bit of a risk, so you take a deep breath and hope for the best repeating the mantra: it's just hair. it will grow back. i can afford to get it fixed.
Many have the theory that you just ask for a trim when you go for this $20 haircut in order to avoid disaster. However, we have to remember that we're dealing with people here, not just some Flowbee haircutting machine. You have to work with the (delicate) psyche of a beauty school student. In my opinion, one has to find the right balance between confidence and caution in order to make this work. Asking for just a trim starts the relationship with an air of mistrust, which is no way to begin if you want to survive.
1. Know what you want when you go in. Stylists at this level are not generally ready to create on-the-fly, even though they might try. Be firm, but gentle about what you want.
2. Instill a sense of trust.
3. Give compliments when they are due.
Otherwise, you might get what the woman next to me got: your hair stuck in a blow dryer! She asked for a trim, just a boring trim.
Let that be a lesson to you.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Treacherous...
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3 comments:
You are the right person for our times. Can I vote for you for president?
I'm not old enough to qualify. But I'm sure it would be a mistake to vote for me anyway. There are reasons for that age limit. Quarter century-ish time is definitely not when you want someone to be making decisions for 300 million people. She can barely do it for one.
Um, well, Bush was old enough to qualify. And he cannot even do it for one. In fact, when questioned about his drug use, my recollection is that he referred to an incident that took place when he was in his forties (well after he was supposedly age-qualified) as a youthful indiscretion. But you may be too young to remember his first campaign.
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