Due to the major language barrier that plagues my life here in Korea simple things become missions, requiring preparation and thought. This month's mission became getting a haircut. At home it would be a matter of calling your hairdresser, booking an appointment and showing up, telling her what you would like and then leaving a happy, satisfied customer.
In Korea, the first step was finding pictures on the internet of what I wanted my hair to look like. Then finding a place to print these pictures (more difficult that you would imagine since I don't have access to a printer).
I then decided that talking to a Korean friend and asking her to write out instructions for me would be a good idea as well.
The anticipation...
I don't usually concern myself too much with my hair. Most days it just does what it wants anyways, regardless of the cut and what I want it to do, so its not too big a deal but in Korea the land of STRAIGHT hair finding someone who knows how to cut curly hair is virtually impossible. I was starting to get scared...
The salon experience...
The salon was very nice, at home it would be the chic place you splurge on for prom or your wedding. They took me in to a back area and started to wash my hair...SOOOO amazing. The hairwash has to be one of my favourite parts about getting a haircut.
So far so good...everything is going as planned. The stylist actually speaks english and she appears to understand what I want.
Next I was taken to a chair, where they started to blow dry my hair...I wanted to scream and say WHAT ARE YOU DOING???? My hair does not blow dry well...it just turns into a big afro. Then they started to brush it out. On the outside I looked calm but on the inside I was screaming. Cass came over and asked if I was Ok.
The cut started and I was terrified. She just started cutting what seemed random hairs and she cut more and more. Here I am with a huge afro getting my hair CHOPPED off.
After the cut was over, they started to straighten it. At this point I was less nervous as I realized that it was actually looking quite nice. Overall I think I had 6 or 7 different people work on my hair in the 2 hrs I was there.
I'm definitely going back there, I LOVE MY HAIR. It was an incredible 15,000 Won for the entire thing which is about $15 and that place would be considered a more expensive place to go...usually you get a haircut here for under $10.
New hair...shorter lots of layers.
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