YESTERDAY I BOOKED AN APPT WITH THE HAIRDRESSER ON A WHIM,
ALL I WAS PLANNING WAS A SIMPLE TRIM.
(So the pic isnt actually of me....and my do isnt quite as messy...but if you combed the guy in the pictures hair...youd get mine! I would upload a piccy of me, but have been having trouble connecting my camera...so it could be a while..you´ll have to make do with the story and mental image each and every one of you is creating for yourselves)
Now you folks know me...standard hairstyle...its long, straight, no fuss...a bit on the boring side, gets washed everyday, dries naturally over the course of the morning...easy as pie! All good!
It has been looking a little long a scraggy of late, so I thought I would book in and have a little trim, keep it in tip top condition...
Uh hmm...well, I walked outta that hair salon with a rather interesting look...actually its more of a local look, now noone will mistake me for a tourist...Ive got an Argentine mullet! They are so keen on the look, its a nightmare. (I blame the Italians who have the look perfected, its due to their bad influence that the majority of Argentinians sport "interesting" hair-dos... even if they did migrate over here between 1876-1976!!)
I feared that this may happen and I attempted to go to great lengths to avoid it. I tried to describe what I wanted (just a trim of the ends, por favor) without wanting to offend my hairdresser who was sporting her very own mullet, her mulleted friend beside her, the receptionist who had her own version, or anyone in that room, or anyone in the country for that matter!! As they are all mullet-tified!!
Actually while on the subject of Argentinian hair...I reckon it would be great fun to be a hairdresser out here. You can do what you like...literally.
Guys walk around the streets with
1) Mullets (obviously)
2) Hair that is short at the front and long at the back (slight variation from the conventional Freddie Mercury mullet)
3) Short hair with random long strands of hair, on different parts of their heads
4) Rats tails
5) Crazy large Maradona style microphone dos
Its incredible. They either are...
a) blind
b) the hairdresser is blind
c) too polite to tell the hairdresser they dont like the cut
d) get some kind of discount
e) have a weird notion that bad hair = good style!
I havent cracked the code yet, but for the sake of my sanity, im gonna do it!!!! Stay tuned, this is better than unlocking the key to the universe, or unveiling the Holy Grail, or even learnind the secret of how to get a seat on the tube during rush hour and have room to open your newspaper...wide!!
posted by Priya @ 10:47 AM
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