WHO PUT THE PLASTIC PUKE ON THIS OPERATOR'S SHOULDER?
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AND WHO IS THIS BLABBY PATRON?
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
True hair styling story: Seniors Day
I went to get my hair (such as it is, but mostly, it isn't) cut yesterday and ran into Great Clips because its usually quick and cheap. And that's the way I like it.
I was checked in by this old Queen named "Don Ray" (blond hair, dark roots) and asked to be seated - he'd be with me in a couple minutes. He went back to his chair and the elderly woman seated there. The place was empty, save for the three of us.
I watched Don Ray fussing - and I mean fussing - over some old woman with brown hair that should have been gray. Her hair was way short - too short - and it reminded me of the horrible hair cut that the woman from hospice gave my mother before she died.
Poor Don Ray, he was gently combing the woman's hair, spritzing it and trying to do something with it, but it was just too short. The woman was all smiles because she was chatting up a storm and Don Ray was smiling and saying "uh-huh" and "I know what you mean" as if he were listening to her.
She patted the top of her head and Don Ray raised up a comb full of hair and tried to give it volume. The dear old thing was tickled pink. From the side though, it made her look like a rooster. She turned her head side to side and her face just glowed with happiness.
She got up, talking a mile a minute, and went to pay.
"Now I don't know what to charge you. I didn't cut your hair, so I can't charge you for that. Let's just settle it at $5," said Don Ray. She paid him and smiled. "Now you remember what I told you. You don't need to mess with that traffic out by Easton. If you want a pair of shoes just go over to Target. They have nice shoes and they are priced fairly." She said she would, and off she went, in slow, measured steps.
When I got seated I complimented Don Ray on how well he treated her. I told him, from my vantage, he was terribly sweet to her, and that she reminded me of my mother toward the end.
"Poor thing. She comes in once a week wanting a hair cut, and sometime they cut it for her. She's barely got anything left. Today she came in wanting her hair colored and we don't do that here. So I said I would see what I could do."
He went on to tell me that since they weren't busy, she sat for twenty minutes while he fussed over her, and listened to her ramblings.
"She said she didn't like the traffic out by Easton, but she wanted to buy a new pair of shoes. I kept telling her that she could get a nice pair at Target, around the corner, and she wouldn't have to deal with the traffic. I mean no one is going to be judging her on her shoes, right? I mean if you were out there driving in that congested mess, would you want her in her Buick in front of you. Her shopping at Target is a win-win for everyone, the way I see it."
As Don Ray buzzed away my hair (number 3 clipper, all around) he told me that he charged her the five dollars because she always insists on paying something.
"She could have gone to Saturdays and they would have charged her twenty dollars and done nothing. Over at Toby's Hair Affair, they would have charged her forty dollars! Poor thing. And she tipped me $1. Bless her heart. I wish she could have kept that." He started trimming my neck. "You know, she just wanted to feel pretty. And we all like to be special, right?"
With that I was done. Don Ray and I settled up - $12 for the quickie cut and a $4 tip.
Did I leave there feeling pretty? No. But I have to say I admire Don Ray for making that woman feel pretty special. After all, its what we all want, right?
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Monday, May 28, 2012
Sunday, May 27, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
YES, DIZZY!
SEEMS LIFE ON THE ROAD WASN'T ALL GLITZ 'N GLAMOUR FOR
GILLESPIE. WE'LL HAVE TO PRESUME THIS WASN'T THE TIME THE CHEEKY
TRUMPETER SPENT THE NIGHT AT A RITZ-CARLTON SUITE.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Monday, May 21, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Mystery Client
That was indeed Brooke Shields our mystery client sneaking into the salon. Luckily Peter Lappin spotted her before he got under the dryer. We don't usually comment on our celebrity clientèle or compromise their anonymité but we do gossip about them in the break room.
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Monday, May 14, 2012
Sonia Rykiel
I got a Sonia Rykiel trompe l'oeil sweater at a vintage sale a month or so ago. This evening, I was browsing online to find out if I might have gotten a good deal on my sweater and I found this photograph of this insane portrait dress. I thought you should see it, too.
In a mid '90s edition of Who's Who In Fashion Sonia's Paris apartment is described as "mostly black accented with neon lights and a menagerie of stuffed animals." I thought that seemed entirely believable.
Here's something else that Sonia Rykiel designed.
Here she is.
She brings over-processed, very dry, ratted hair to a new level of chic. Awesome, non?
Sunday, May 13, 2012
The Mamie
This was created by Artist Michael Hackett who has been Mamie- icizing everything and everyone for a while.
Umberto's is real and Steven (a friend for over 20 years) is real. I don't get my hair cut by him because he's in the tower, he's famous and he costs a lot.
Umberto's is real and Steven (a friend for over 20 years) is real. I don't get my hair cut by him because he's in the tower, he's famous and he costs a lot.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Need New Style?
Stop in at the Hair Hall of Fame Salon and listen to the soothing sounds of our Reception Room Record Collection and find your inspiration today!
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