adw425
Well-Known Member
I went to Chicago for my class reunion Friday and Saturday. I had my trusty bun for the party Friday night at Bourbon Street, but I went to the hair salon on Saturday to get my hair done for the first time in 10 years. I had originally asked my mother to make an appt. for me somewhere, but then I thought of my best Chicago friend T and asked her to make me an appt. with her hair stylist who she has been going to for 20 years. She made the appt. for 1:00 pm, but I changed it to noon as my experiences with hair salons means that you are going to be in there three, four, five hours, but that was not the case at all.
At noon I was at the shampoo bowl. There was one other patron in the salon. When I expressed surprise, she said that she schedules her appt. 45 minutes to an hour apart. The whole time I was there, there was only one person to the three stylist there. There was never more than six people in the salon.
At the shampoo bowl, when she took down my hair, she said I had nice hair and she pointed out that I had splits. I told her I know as I used to trim my hair every two to three months whenever I would flat-iron, but have only trimmed twice in 18 months because I had only flat-ironed twice. I told her I needed a trim and she said we would talk about it when I got in her chair.
She washed my hair (she did not overwash and strip it) and put me under the dryer with some Nairobi deep moisturizing conditioner, which had a nice tingle. When I got in her chair, she asked me if I used a metallic dye. I told her I used Bigen about every 10 weeks and she said she could tell because metallic dyes are drying to hair. She said that it was good I did not have a relaxer or the metallic dye would likely dry my hair out too much and cause some damage. (I think I am going to revisit my use of metallic dyes although she did not discourage me from using it.)
She combed my hair out with a wide tooth comb and there were no tangles and very little snagging. As she was blowdrying my hair, she said again how nice my hair was. After blowdrying, she flat-ironed and that is when she trimmed. She was very respectful, did not try to talk me into anything and was concerned about do anything I was uncomfortable with, but I told her to do what needs to be done as I knew my splits were pretty bad since I never had a professional trim after growing out my relaxer.
[The bad news is that I lost about three inches of hair. I was APL and now I am just below shoulder length. The good news is that my when I run my hand over my hair, it is so smooth, it borders on sensual when dry and when wet, I do not have to detangle at all and there is absolutely no snagging. I had so many snags before, I guess I was just tearing my hair everyday because I actually had not retained much length at all in the last 18 months...]
After trimming, she curled it. I wanted it under and she talked me into curling it up and this is the result. I kept feeling my hair because it was soooo straight, it felt like a fresh relaxer. I couldn't believe it! I was in there for about 90 minutes. It was completely stress-free and even enjoyable. I got lots and lots of compliments from my family and the folks at the reunion
and even when it got hot and humid during the evening after all the dancing, my hair did not swell up 
. There are five pictures altogether in my album that show off the shine, straightness, full back, front and side.
At noon I was at the shampoo bowl. There was one other patron in the salon. When I expressed surprise, she said that she schedules her appt. 45 minutes to an hour apart. The whole time I was there, there was only one person to the three stylist there. There was never more than six people in the salon.
At the shampoo bowl, when she took down my hair, she said I had nice hair and she pointed out that I had splits. I told her I know as I used to trim my hair every two to three months whenever I would flat-iron, but have only trimmed twice in 18 months because I had only flat-ironed twice. I told her I needed a trim and she said we would talk about it when I got in her chair.
She washed my hair (she did not overwash and strip it) and put me under the dryer with some Nairobi deep moisturizing conditioner, which had a nice tingle. When I got in her chair, she asked me if I used a metallic dye. I told her I used Bigen about every 10 weeks and she said she could tell because metallic dyes are drying to hair. She said that it was good I did not have a relaxer or the metallic dye would likely dry my hair out too much and cause some damage. (I think I am going to revisit my use of metallic dyes although she did not discourage me from using it.)
She combed my hair out with a wide tooth comb and there were no tangles and very little snagging. As she was blowdrying my hair, she said again how nice my hair was. After blowdrying, she flat-ironed and that is when she trimmed. She was very respectful, did not try to talk me into anything and was concerned about do anything I was uncomfortable with, but I told her to do what needs to be done as I knew my splits were pretty bad since I never had a professional trim after growing out my relaxer.
[The bad news is that I lost about three inches of hair. I was APL and now I am just below shoulder length. The good news is that my when I run my hand over my hair, it is so smooth, it borders on sensual when dry and when wet, I do not have to detangle at all and there is absolutely no snagging. I had so many snags before, I guess I was just tearing my hair everyday because I actually had not retained much length at all in the last 18 months...]
After trimming, she curled it. I wanted it under and she talked me into curling it up and this is the result. I kept feeling my hair because it was soooo straight, it felt like a fresh relaxer. I couldn't believe it! I was in there for about 90 minutes. It was completely stress-free and even enjoyable. I got lots and lots of compliments from my family and the folks at the reunion
and even when it got hot and humid during the evening after all the dancing, my hair did not swell up . There are five pictures altogether in my album that show off the shine, straightness, full back, front and side.
