it's been a while

I have a confession to make... I haven't had a really good haircut in well over a year.  If I am being really honest... that goes for color, too.  This came about due to a very traumatic moment in "the chair" last spring.  My husband's company was hosting a black tie event and I was a bit nervous - we had just been here a month - so very sweetly said husband suggested I go to a salon and have it blown out - alleviate some stress on my side.  Great idea.  Bad result.

I chose an uber-tony salon on the uber-tony street (there really is just one here) and booked the highest ranking  uber-stylist on the price chart.  She was fashionable and friendly... and insisted that she absolutely could not blow dry my hair until she had given it a little trim first.  There was a standoff.  I relented.  In less than 10 minutes she had butchered my tresses into a mess of layers - the dreaded razor may have been used - I kind of blacked out.  I attended the event in a beautiful (and borrowed) gown with a modified shag on my crown.  Not a confidence booster to say the least.

I have been growing out that damn haircut ever since.  I have had help along the way.  One super wacky guy I found in London that runs a "long hair clinic" where he proceeded to pluck and measure my strands and then twisted them into fists full of knots that he ever so gingerly nipped at.  It was odd, but it seemed to do the trick.  But did I mention that he is in London???  One can only find so many excuses to get to London every few months!

Alas, I ventured out today and relinquished my OCD hair tendencies to someone new.  A friend recommended him and she totally saved me.  I was starting to look a bit raggled and faded.  I almost called and cancelled my appointment a total of 5 times.  What a fool I would have been - I would have missed meeting the single best hairdresser I have had the pleasure to meet in over a decade!  Isn't it great when these little moments happen?