There is another thread that asks what we are afraid of and I should have mentioned hairdressers. I have had ‘so many’ bad experiences with hairdressers. I will try to keep this brief though and just tell you about two “incidents”.
The first involved ‘the perm’. I had a great perm (well I thought so at the time and it was the 70s). It needed redoing though and my step-mother convinced me not to go to the original and very expensive hairdresser but to go to her niece who was “a fantastic hairdresser!!!” So I didn’t listen to my inner voice. The ‘niece’ did her stuff and after it was finished, rather than the Stevie Nicks look I had to start with, I resembled Michael Jackson. :-| So the next morning I headed off to the original hairdresser with my MJ Afro and she was not happy with me. So she cut it all out, leaving me with rather short, straight hair at the top and a ring of curls around the bottom. AAAGH! So, now almost hysterical (actually I was hysterical) I went to the local hairdresser who chopped off the curls. Last perm I ever had.
The second occasion related to the “Purdy” hairstyle again of the 70s. Think New Avengers/Joanna Lumley. I loved it. It needed a trim though and my best friend was now an apprentice hairdresser at a top salon. She convinced me to come in as a model. She wouldn’t be cutting my hair, her boss would. And he did. He cut it a lot. He made me look like a monk! And on the way home all my friend could say was “I am so, so sorry”. That did not help…
So, hairdressers…......... shudder…. scare me.