It’s just so satisfying to look down at the clumps of hair shards covering the floor of the salon and think to yourself “That just came off of me!” Of course, the runner up to this feeling is when you notice a big hair haystack clinging for dear life onto your slippery nylon apron and then you just flick your fingers underneath it so it slides slowly down to its doom.
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37 Comments
January 28, 2010 at 12:36 am
I am not sure I agree with you, it freaks me out instead. I just got my long hair layered and when I turned around to look at how much hair was on the ground, I panicked a little. I always do when I have a good amount of my hair cut off, “Will it grown back?” What is awesome is how slick, flowing and smooth my hair feels after a good cut.
January 28, 2010 at 12:51 am
I love this. I’m getting my hair cut next week, and I’m looking forward!
January 30, 2010 at 10:30 am
Galileo, I love that you look forward to a haircut a week in advance. Dude, you’re awesome.
January 28, 2010 at 1:36 am
I always loved (hell, I still do) flicking hair clumps from underneath the apron.
January 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm
Agreed. Especially when you manage to flick them hard enough to get air. Whee!
January 30, 2010 at 10:31 am
Cary and Jen, that’s hilarious. Do you also do what I do and furiously brush your neck and T-shirt collar off as soon as you get off the chair? I admit it feels a bit weird spraying hair shards everywhere, but we gotta do what we gotta do, you know?
January 28, 2010 at 2:55 am
I like when I get so much cut off that I actually feel lighter afterwards.
January 30, 2010 at 10:32 am
Amen, Brad. Sometimes you feel like a different person for a day or two. Love it.
January 28, 2010 at 3:22 am
only reason why i really love it is because its not me that is cleaning it up! its someone else’s job! LOL
January 30, 2010 at 10:32 am
Bring out that giant, rectangular broom thing!
January 28, 2010 at 6:12 am
I have extremely curly hair. Whenever I get a cut, everyone around me screams in delight. “Look at all the curls!” They all look like little commas on the floor.
January 30, 2010 at 10:35 am
Ha ha! Little commas on floor? That’s too much, JDK. But I love how your photo totally backs up your story. So curly!
January 28, 2010 at 7:59 am
Sometimes I feel bad for the hair clumps. But I think they secretly mock me after I leave.
January 30, 2010 at 10:35 am
They do, rydash.
It’s not really a secret, to be honest.
January 28, 2010 at 9:50 am
This is awesome! To be closely followed by the awesome feeling of showering after a haircut (to get rid of all those tiny hairs that get all stuck to your face and ears… those belong on your alter-ego netherlist 1000 Annoying Things!)
January 30, 2010 at 10:36 am
Great call, Tony. The post-haircut shower is a great moment. Let those hair shards disappear down the drain and annoying scratch somewhere else.
January 28, 2010 at 10:17 am
LOL I agree but when they put the black apron on you and the grey hairs are prevelant, you’re like ‘urrrr did this just come from me?’
DOH!
January 28, 2010 at 11:47 pm
Absolutely! I try to avoid the barber as long as possible, but I’m always amazed at the greater amounts of gray hair piling up, and swear the barber is pulling some out of his pocket and tossing it down just to make me feel older.
January 30, 2010 at 10:38 am
Amit and Greg, I hear ya! I think I personally convince myself that they come from my old barber’s gummed up clippers from the guy before me.
January 28, 2010 at 12:11 pm
I used to let my hair grow long and then chop it so I loved to look at all the hair that came off.
January 28, 2010 at 6:29 pm
I just got my hair cut today! AWESOME.
January 30, 2010 at 10:38 am
How’s it look?
January 28, 2010 at 8:47 pm
It is a lot. My hair grows so fast.
January 28, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I agree with the first part, but as a hairdresser, I find the habit of flicking hair off the cape irritating. Not so much when it just slides off, but when it’s a violent flick that gets air. It’s distracting, and I’ve had people do it in the summer and had the hair land on my sandaled foot. Think of it this way…do you really want your stylist looking away just as she’s getting ready to, say, cut around your ear?
January 30, 2010 at 10:41 am
Jess, honestly, I had no idea! That’s such a great point. And the hair on sandaled foot thing is hilariously disgusting. I picture a six-year-old with lollipop-smeared cheeks excitedly flicking hair onto the floor and you just staring at him coldly through the mirror.
Seriously though, love the hairdressers perspective on this.
January 29, 2010 at 12:14 pm
That is terrifying for a balding person.
January 30, 2010 at 10:40 am
Eric, yeah, I’ll say. Because it’s like “Wait, wait, wait, I’m totally bald. Where did all this hair come from? And what am I doing at a barbershop?”
January 29, 2010 at 12:20 pm
I”m always astounded by the amount of hair chopped off and the very little difference it seems to make on my actual head.
January 31, 2010 at 11:35 pm
My hair used to be three feet long, by choice, it’s now about 1′/2 ” long all over my head and I love it!
Just had a haircut today and wow! There’s a lot of white in those trimmings. I guess I’ve earned every one of them.
February 2, 2010 at 6:29 am
my favourite haircut was last fall when i cut off to the scalp my hair i had been growing since sophomore year of high school (was jr in college @ haircut). the hairdresser let me hold the 7 ponytails that i was donating: it was amazing how much they weighed.
best haircut.
February 2, 2010 at 12:29 pm
If the floor is clean I leave.
If it is full of globs of all colors I wait my in line time and allow the busy barber to add to it.
February 18, 2010 at 9:03 am
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March 7, 2010 at 11:57 am
The sight of all that hair on the floor recharges me for some reason. Yay, that’s n less minutes of grooming for school!
March 11, 2010 at 11:56 am
Love your writing style Keep em coming I look forward to more!
June 26, 2010 at 1:10 am
a couple of things… that are awesome…
I overuse the word awesome but that is just awesome.
I really want the book and in preparation I’ve spent over an hour reading your blog
I have this thing where I constantly see if people write their blog on my birthday (I just find it awesome to connect to people that way, I don’t know why)
in regards to Aryq comment I will soon be chopping my hair and donating it.. It will soon be long enough. Yay! I can’t wait to hold my hair in my hand and have a new hairstyle. I’m so excited!
June 26, 2010 at 2:51 am
Seconding someone’s “showering after a haircut” – for anyone who’s ever had really long hair cut really short, that feeling of running the shampoo through your newly cut hair when suddenly, it just…stops! Weird, but awesome!
July 22, 2010 at 3:06 am
Got a haircut today. Awesome.