I will have to go to Montreal to get a hair cut as soon as I can get a free day. I decided that it is slowly time to wean myself from Coupe Bizarre by visiting Ottawa hair places until I find something I like.<\/p>\n
I figured that being open-minded is the best way of finding another good hair shop. How wrong I was. I believe that the Ottawa hair industry is monopolized by Vidal Sassoon or whatever. When I go to a hairdresser I generally just have 3 requirements that I think any hairdresser worth his salt can run with. In fact many hairdressers I have visited in the past do (they all work for Coupe Bizzarre). These three requirements are:<\/p>\n
Requirement 1: Has to be wash and wear – I don’t use hair products partially because ambidexterity required does not become me, partially because I don’t want to fund the industry thereby perpetuating the beauty myth and mostly because any dirt or grease landing on my face will cause boil sized pimples I’d rather live without. <\/p>\n
Requirement 2: Has to be fun – otherwise I can just put a pot on my head and cut out whatever is visible. Or take a picture of a mediocre haircut and take it to First Choice Hair Cutters (for the non Ottawans, that’s the place where they put a pot on your head, cut the visible parts and charge you 10$ for it).<\/p>\n
Requirement 3: The hair should be out of my face as much as possible. I am not too strict on this one. However, if I have to move the hair out of my face a lot, I get my face all greasy with my fingers and end up with the above mentioned zits. Plus it is really annoying while cooking or gardening or doing any activity where I need to see and my hands are too sticky or filthy to touch my hair.<\/p>\n
Not too hard. I am generally really vague on length and absolutely silent on the style, which, I believe, leaves the hair dresser free to do any hair style they can think of (or know how to do). <\/p>\n
At the hair place I went to this month, the hair dresser (and he seems to have been cutting hair for at least 20 years) told me that it is impossible to do a hair style where hair does not get into your eyes and cut my hair in a way that I have to put in half a can of hair spray to look like anything. Right now my haircut is so not fun it is sad. I have had a few bad hair cuts over they years, but noting that made me get another hair cut just to fix this one. I could post a picture but I don’t want any evidence of this atrocity lingering around.<\/p>\n
I am now convinced that Ottawa is a monopoly of hair products. Anytime I go anywhere they keep giving me hairstyles that look crap without gunk. I figured that they either don’t know how to cut hair or they are forbidden to cut hair in a wash and wear style by the corporate interests. I hope these corporations never take over Coupe Bizzarre or I will have to buy a very shapely pot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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