Hair Color: You Get What You Pay For
I am quite certain that Christina at E Beauty Daily has a much better take on this all-important issue in a woman’s life than I do: hair color.
I have been going to the same stylist for 5 years…Paul has done wonders with color on my fine, semi-damaged hair:
Highlights so delicate and beautiful, they look sun-kissed…base color that looked like my 10-year-old self…BUT…all at a price.
During the holidays, everyone always takes pot shots at how much I spend on cut/color/styling. It’s the one beauty thing about which I’ve always been sort of snobbish; and I don’t care.
But recently, I mused, oh how horrible would it be to go to a salon that didn’t charge as much as my current salon. I even found reader reviews about both my salon (not so good) and one that is directly across the street (fabulous!).
Here I am all day, running The Pet Set from my home…who cares about my color and cut, right?
So, I made an appointment with the arch-rivals of my salon…the cheaper place across the street. Oh boy…the things you notice when you have to come down off your beauty perch.
- What? No free bagels? No satin beautiful black, satin smocks? No Vogue!?! No continual sweeping of vagrant hair? No Vogue?!?
Anyhoo…Kathy was her name…and she was nice enough, although the constant smell of the staff’s fishy lunch certainly did not make me want to make another appointment.
BUT…here’s the rub:
While I saved a much-appreciated hundred bucks — the hair cut turned out crooked, the color turned out flat and they didn’t even have the good products in the window that my more expensive, place has…god!
So here I am, 4 days before I have to go away to Vegas, with Jersey girl hair! When I’ve spent my entire life trying to achieve New York City girl hair!
I’m telling you, guys included, do NOT skimp on hair care! And do NOT think you can do the color thing on your own, at home…it’s like trying to re-create Lombardi’s pizza in your home oven…can’t be done.
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