haircuts

[applehead]

whatever that means.

you can argue about hair and the science behind it all. *sarcasm*
my god. it's just hair!!!
it grows back.

[Emperor_Mike]

I like getting my hair cut. I haven't had one in a month and I feel like a bum. True, a bum who has Internet access, but a bum in any case.

[applehead]

i just got a really short bob and now i remember
how nice it is to have short hair.
it just looks much neater.

i've had bad haircuts from both koreans and non koreans.
with koreans stylists who have given me bad haircuts i blame them.
but with non koreans who have given me bad haircuts i blame myself.
what was i thinking?!
i've never had my hair cut by a white person.
never will.

[Emperor_Mike]

A Ukrainian woman cuts my hair. She's marvelous. I want to shower her with gift certificates for a wide assortment of hair care products.

[Mirai-Music]

Hair=Hell, i always have trouble getting a nice haircut.

It's kinda long now to :D, but for some reason i like it.

[nonamerasian]

I hesitate to get my hair done by non-Blacks, although there are some who I love to do my hair.

My hesitation is because some schools don't do a good job of teaching people how to deal with nappyheads. I have known people who've gone through hairdressing schools who've never once had to practice on nappy hair.

If they don't have nappy hair themselves, I'm not going to volunteer my head.

There are also Blacks I don't like to do my hair, either. If their and their family's hair looks very processed, I'm hesitant. If everyone who goes to their shop has a perm or weave, their place isn't for me.

[ShortNBitter]

I got my big Fro cut off!! Now I look like a stupid generic Chinese kidd!!!! NOOOOO

apparently i look younger DAMMIT

[Hiroshi2]

I cut my own hair, and it's real easy to tell.




j/k


I need a haircut though. I got a mini-fro going. And it's hot outside.

[Tao]

I hesitate to get my hair done by non-Blacks, although there are some who I love to do my hair.

My hesitation is because some schools don't do a good job of teaching people how to deal with nappyheads. I have known people who've gone through hairdressing schools who've never once had to practice on nappy hair.

If they don't have nappy hair themselves, I'm not going to volunteer my head.

There are also Blacks I don't like to do my hair, either. If their and their family's hair looks very processed, I'm hesitant. If everyone who goes to their shop has a perm or weave, their place isn't for me.
yeah, the consequences of that is a military buzz cut

[TB4000]

Shave my own with a razor blade and shaving gel. Low maintenance, and it works in a corporate setting as well as a party setting.

[lethal]

I haven't had a haircut in over 6 months.

I've had very bad haircuts by non-Asians who cut my Caucasian friends' hair quite well. Most have remarked to me "wow, you have thick hair."

Training salons often recruit hair models for their student sto practice on, however, they can only recruit the models that come in and ask. If no Asians ask to be a model, then the stylist trainees can't practice on Asian hair.

Even among ethnicities, I see differences. I've been to Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean places and each have cut my hair differently. Usually I can't really communicate with the stylist very well due to their limited English skills, so they cut it how they want and I end up with something differnet each time. The Japanese palces usually style my hair some way popular among Japanese men which doesn't really work for me because I have something of a receeding hairline and apparantly Japanese men don't suffer from that fate very often. The stylist doesn't work with receeding hairlines very much and mine ends up being emphasized.

Even with a recommendation, hair places are a crapshoot unless you have a regular stylist. I haven't found one I like in NYC, so I just stopped getting my hair cut altogether.

I did make an appointment for later this month before I'm scheduled to start work though. This place that was voted Best Men's Haircut in NYC.

[Tao]

I haven't had a haircut in over 6 months.

I've had very bad haircuts by non-Asians who cut my Caucasian friends' hair quite well. Most have remarked to me "wow, you have thick hair."

Training salons often recruit hair models for their student sto practice on, however, they can only recruit the models that come in and ask. If no Asians ask to be a model, then the stylist trainees can't practice on Asian hair.

Even among ethnicities, I see differences. I've been to Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean places and each have cut my hair differently. Usually I can't really communicate with the stylist very well due to their limited English skills, so they cut it how they want and I end up with something differnet each time. The Japanese palces usually style my hair some way popular among Japanese men which doesn't really work for me because I have something of a receeding hairline and apparantly Japanese men don't suffer from that fate very often. The stylist doesn't work with receeding hairlines very much and mine ends up being emphasized.

Even with a recommendation, hair places are a crapshoot unless you have a regular stylist. I haven't found one I like in NYC, so I just stopped getting my hair cut altogether.

I did make an appointment for later this month before I'm scheduled to start work though. This place that was voted Best Men's Haircut in NYC.
yeah, i've been holding back on a hair cut ever since i tried out this place that basically shaved my head. I'm holding out to have my mom cut my hair, only she knows how to do it well.....maybe you should let my mom cut your hair

[Faithless]

I hesitate to get my hair done by non-Blacks, although there are some who I love to do my hair.

My hesitation is because some schools don't do a good job of teaching people how to deal with nappyheads. I have known people who've gone through hairdressing schools who've never once had to practice on nappy hair.
So, you except that silly comment, "I don't do black hair."?

Maybe, it's a fine art, but I think that if a hair stylist goes through all the trouble to get the training, why not go all the way? Fear of the folks underneath that hair? Hmmmm.

Our family hair cutter is very nice. A self-employed Asian woman with a moderately successful business.

But like so many hair stylists, she has to bring up the fact that she doesn't do black hair. I didn't ask her if she did. It wouldn't matter to me a bit even if she did. But she (they all) have to explain themselves, like it's some sort of guilt relief.

It only matters to me when her damn floor is filled with other peoples hair and I'm swimming in it.

When it's down there, black hair probably looks no different than non-black hair, especially when its all piled up in a yucky ball.

I only go to this lady because it's convenient for the family to all go together, and MY hair cutting place closed. I like my old hair cutting place because they were not afraid to cut black hair, and so the place was filled with customers of all groups.

The only problem was that they were little old ladies. But that's another story.

[nifer]

my present hairdresser is a white guy who does an awesome job. before him, i went to this chinese gal who did an "OK" job, until one day i went in and said i wanted highlights. what an awful dye job. the color was too brassy and in the front of my head, instead of the highlight going down lengthwise on my hair, there was a streak that went across widthwise! ugh.

[robotic]

i've had the same haircut for nine years!

[Bhodi_Li]

yeah, the consequences of that is a military buzz cutHey! What's the matter with that?

[Oblivious]

i just got a really short bob and now i remember
how nice it is to have short hair.
it just looks much neater.

i've had bad haircuts from both koreans and non koreans.
with koreans stylists who have given me bad haircuts i blame them.
but with non koreans who have given me bad haircuts i blame myself.
what was i thinking?!
i've never had my hair cut by a white person.
never will.

OMG i wanted to chop off my hair twice and each time,
(both korean ladies) dissagreed and said i'd cry. ?!? LOL
i've done it before!!! i've had short, short hair. sheesh!
anywho, both times, i was just like, oh alright! just do whatever
you want to it. LOL anywho, i like my new hair stylist. she
gives great layered cuts. i love my new haircut!

[nonamerasian]

So, you except that silly comment, "I don't do black hair."

I appreciate the honesty.

I've seen people get their hair pretty messed up because the stylest didn't admit that they couldn't do their type of hair.

The only time I have a problem with people saying they can't do nappy hair is if it comes out of the mouth of a Black stylest who advertises that she does natural hair.

[rice cracker]

I have stylistphobia. I trim my own hair. Once every so often, like every other year, I go get it professionally cut. Each time I get "the Jennifer" cut ><

[moJo]

Each time I get "the Jennifer" cut ><
what's that?

eh, i'm not exactly picky about where i go to get my haircut. they have to be minimalist stylists though. i need just a trim and the simplest of layers in the front. i just happen to go to the same place for 4.5 years, even though i've moved away from there 2 yrs ago (i've been visiting often enough). $10 with student discount, and i still pretend to be a student. i used to cut my hair maybe 2 or 3 times a year. but its been an entire year since i've had any kind of cut or trim. i'm like...that lazy.

[applehead]

maybe she meant the jennifer aniston cut?
=)

oh oblivious, that is so weird.
i always thought stylists find joy in cutting long hair
really short.

[Hiroshi2]

I hesitate to get my hair done by non-Blacks, although there are some who I love to do my hair.

My hesitation is because some schools don't do a good job of teaching people how to deal with nappyheads. I have known people who've gone through hairdressing schools who've never once had to practice on nappy hair.

If they don't have nappy hair themselves, I'm not going to volunteer my head.

There are also Blacks I don't like to do my hair, either. If their and their family's hair looks very processed, I'm hesitant. If everyone who goes to their shop has a perm or weave, their place isn't for me.




I feel ya. I've always wanted to just show up at one of those white barbershops with a bunch of old white men sitting around talking all day and just be like, "who know how to braid hair?!!"


But you know it's not true the other way around - I've seen white, Latino, and Asian kids get haircuts at the little Black neighborhood barbershop where I go to. And the customers were always satisfied, the barbers knew how to cut their hair and everything. And there definitely wasn't any kind of racist anything going on. People had no problem hanging out at the barbershop with the other races of people (mostly Latinos).

[nonamerasian]

But you know it's not true the other way around - I've seen white, Latino, and Asian kids get haircuts at the little Black neighborhood barbershop where I go to. And the customers were always satisfied, the barbers knew how to cut their hair and everything. And there definitely wasn't any kind of racist anything going on. People had no problem hanging out at the barbershop with the other races of people (mostly Latinos).

I haven't seen too much Asians, but I've seen the others go to Black shops, too.

Seemingly satisfied with the styles, too.

[Hiroshi2]

I haven't seen too much Asians, but I've seen the others go to Black shops, too.

Seemingly satisfied with the styles, too.





Well truthfully it was only one Asian. He looked like he was Filipino, Vietnamese, something like that.

[Faithless]

I appreciate the honesty.

I've seen people get their hair pretty messed up because the stylest didn't admit that they couldn't do their type of hair.

The only time I have a problem with people saying they can't do nappy hair is if it comes out of the mouth of a Black stylest who advertises that she does natural hair.
"Natural hair". Have to admit that I had to look up the term.

It definitely can be a specialty.