Posted on 10/17/2013 1:52:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Last week I was at my hair salon, and as I was settling into the chair, Misty, my longtime hairstylist, was shaking her head as she finished sending a text. "I have a client coming in after you, and that was his wife telling me what to do to his hair," she told me. "It really puts me in an awkward position."
Wait, women do this? According to Misty, yes. "The worst is when they come in and hover and give me direction," she said.
Excuse me, what? I'm assuming if you're old enough to have a wife, you're a grown-up man. Although maybe this is a normal thing. After all, a few years ago Tom Brady hinted that the reason he kept his hair long was because his wife, Gisele, made him do it. (I give that couple a pass just on general principle. Plus, she played it down later.)
While the whole concept of art directing my guy's haircut seemed a little over-the-top to me at first (and not only because—full disclosure—my hub shaves his head in the tub every other week because there's not much left at this point), I softened my stance a bit after I thought about it.
A lot of guys just can't be bothered about things like hairstyles or clean clothes (amirite?), and they definitely appreciate a woman's feedback. I mean, you want your man to like your hair too, right? I think what I have the problem with is this concept of women acting like pageant moms, and the guys going along with it.
I will, however, offer a concession. If your guy ever takes it into his own hands to do this, a la Jake Gyllenhaal a few days ago, you march his butt right down to the salon.
/johnny
I like going to the barber shop, sitting down and asking for the usual. I went to Orange County CA for business for a couple months and had to get a haircut. Not only did it cost twice as much, but I had to explain that I really didn’t use “product” on my hair.
Why are you reading Glamour?
There’s as many answers as there are temperaments of couples.
Of course a good thing can be carried too far. Think of Delilah and Samson.
My wife cuts my hair just like I want.
And of course, she calls him Hunny.
learning how to be a glammarian, i guess
I get a haircut twice a year whether I need one or not.
It turned up during another news search, and seemed interesting to post.
I only get involved when a stylist doesn’t believe hubby that he doesn’t do the whole comb-over thing, that he wants what little is left on top cut the same length as the rest. Sometimes a new stylist doesn’t take him seriously, so he has my second set of eyes there to make sure it’s done right. Now, he’s got the same young lady who’s been cutting his hair for the last 8-9 years, and she knows exactly how he wants it, so he doesn’t need me there. She went out on maternity a few months ago, and I should have gone with him. The replacement stylist was not as good as his regular one.
If it does not have a barber pole outside I don’t go in. My wife can give me feedback on my hair cut at home, she pretty much likes what I like. My mom quit going to the barber shop with me when I was 8. I buy my own socks and underware too. But whatever works for ya’ll is OK with me.
pointless word musing... glamo[u]r and grammar used to be the same word. back when few people could read and write it was considered a mystical skill. it was glamorous to know grammar.
My husband MAKES me cut his hair....luckily, he is bald on top. I would rather not deal with it...but, penny pinching and all!
My son used to go with me, for a haircut, until he ‘discovered’ girls, in Junior High School. From that point on, he went with my wife to the “salon” for his cut. The biggest problem I had was the cost (at that time), a $4 haircut was now $25.
One Friday, his pals came to the door. “Sorry, fellows, Tim is at the beauty parlor”, I told them. Next week, I came home from work. “Dad, you told those guys I was at the beauty parlor - they teased me all day !”. “That doesn’t happen to guys who go to the barber shop” I told him ;)
I have been going to the same barber for 20 years. He is an older guy, works with one other guy in a small barbershop in Cambridge, MA of all places. It is a 25 mile ride from my house.
I started going there because there was a really good Tex-Mex place where I loved going to eat, and would make it a ceremony to get my hair cut and go eat. One of those places that fry their own tortilla chips for their salsa.
My barber and I talk sports, life and politics. His magazines run from the SI Swimsuit edition to GQ and Men’s Health.
I leave him a big tip. It is an old style barbershop, they wear the tunics and all. He cuts my hair just the way I ask him to, whether it looks good or not.
My wife has been trying to get me to go to a barbershop closer to our house, so I went to one downtown to get my hair cut before I drove south to DC to hang out with the DC Chapter of Free Republic folks outside Walter Reed.
A woman cut my hair, and when I got home, I looked at it and was aghast. It looked like a bowl cut. I had to go sit in line at a SuperCuts, and a very young woman tried to clean it up, but I still wasn’t happy with it.
My town recently had an Octoberfest, and when I was downtown, I saw two new hair cutting places. My wife encouraged me to go check them out, so I walked into the first one and stopped dead. It was filled with hair stylists, almost as if they decided on purpose they had to have a plethora of minorities, and all of them looked like 20-something hipsters. Out of politeness, I asked their price, and it was four dollars more than my barber.
I walked out. Not my kind of place. I need a guy-type barber shop. It is what I feel comfortable with.
Not unless invited.
Hahaha...very good!
he didn’t respond to them by bragging on the hot chicks that were asking for his phone number did he?
“Why are you reading Glamour?”
I could only assume he was the one who WROTE to Glamour in the first place......
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