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Looking for My Hairdresser Note: my previous post "Dont unveil" has nothing to do with my hair, ladies - gourmet&virgo. Some years ago, I met my most favorite hairdresser Eric. His 1st hair salon was hidden behind Macau's famous Chinese garden, a tall tree shading on the entrance. There, he made my first innovative curved hairdo, w/ my best gf waiting. I, a 21-y-o girl w/ gypsy look and big long hair, cried unreservedly when dislike the first appearance. He and his associates/helpers did it again full-heartedly. It took 8 hours. Several young hairdressers there all looked stylish and trendy, but Eric was the most low-key, quiet and restrained, yet a leader. 2-3 years later, I alone followed his removal to a 2nd-floor salon at the new-sprung Lan Kwai Fong (a location congregating chic bars and shops). My hair was shorter and he designed brisk but wild hairset for me, drum and bass techno music beating on. I noticed he was wearing an earring on one ear lope. Occationally, I met him while I was wandering in Macau's narrow streets. Each time, he was with one or two boys; each time, I happened to be w/ my gf; each time, he must touch my head and hair to feel for his creation and perhaps think for next time's design. I felt happy and warm. Not long then, the salon disappeared and became a shop like seven-eleven. I lost him for quite some time. Thus, my hairstyle and image was lost, incl. my self. I drifted among several hairdressers yet never found one satisfactory. Until one day I encountered him on the ruin of the Fortress. I saw him wear hat. He specially agreed to do my hair at his home studio, where they played and hosted hair-show. I clearly remeber how the dark red velvet curved around the ceiling, its imaginative handfeel. This time he worked on my big messy head for 13 hours until 1am. When i stepped down the stairs for taxi, the night was chilly but me no. This is the last hairdo Eric made for me. Since then, I've lost my soul hairdresser and my style as well. And nobody touched gently on my hair in Macau street any longer. I am still looking for my hair dresser. I never like to tell him what to do and I just 1000% percent trust his mind and hand if he can read me well. p.s. This new pic. shows my new hairdo by a new found hairdresser, still not... |
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DVC, I can only bother to spend a little more time on my hair once in two years for some hours. Is there anything to do with the general woman nature? I dont think so. My hair is a specail case, though i desire for simplicity and believe in "simple is best, less is more". I do apply this aesthetic phylosophy to dressing, shoes & accessories as well as to human relationship. But my hair is exceptional. My head shade is strange, flat on the back, the hair is very stiff and it likes to stand up automatically. Straight hair on me is somehow terrible. That's why I need fluffy perm or some curved, hence the long hours of full process arrangement. i bet making my hair is indeed a challenge for hairdressers. Lazy as i am , i also require them make hairstyle that needs not wetting, hair mousse such fusses in the morning. All a woman does, her ultimate purport is to simplify it. To achieve this, it takes occasional efforts to bring it out with the help of a trustful man. Abt losing and finding, i did has his name card and phone for appointment before. But I lost it. Given and lost happened again and again. I can simply knock at his home studio to see if he's still there but I dont. But I believe in yuan fen and just hope things come out without forcing. And life is always under such a course. No? (Secretly, nobody can catch my hint - i didnt write this only for memory of my hairdresser.) (to have a boot is boasting? what u mean?)
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Nannam, Woman read woman well. Winning hairdressers must indeed be able to "read" you, so as to provide you with a look that suits your personality, that boosts you into life. Those who can't sense who you are won't be able to enhance your natural features, nor to make your style match your moods, feelings, behaviours... and you'll end up feeling like someone "else" ‒ like twisted, untrue, unsure... Yeah! Let's read this loud to dvc. gourmet, Sometimes, i also cut my forehead part hair by myself or ask my gf to cut for me. If i can fit for straight hair, i love it! Unfortunately, i dont have this property. As to color, I like our original black the best.
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I think of my scant hair that takes me 15 minutes to shave and of my two pairs of shoes* that took me 5 minutes each to choose!... Man! Facts speaks: 15 mins to shave hair and 5 mins to choose one pair shoes fm the two! Magic slow use of time! A woman like me invest 2 mins to comb and hand puff the hair, and 30 seconds to choose one pair shoes/boots out of 4. I'd use 15mins on my stretching exercise. Man consume more time on dressing up than woman but he's here to comment. I am hiding my smiles under lips.
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2/5/2007 11:08 am |
Nan - "Shaving", what a waste!? I couldn't agree more!  I get my hair and beard trimmed about once a month. A shampoo with my morning shower, towel dry and a quick brush and I forget about it. But even as simple as this is it is hard to find a good hair stylist to cut my hair and trim my beard the way I like. So while I wouldn't relish the idea of sitting in a chair for 13 hours I can certainly understand the feeling of feeling great afterwards. I have a number of friends who are hair stylists and they are artists; and the mostly women who use them speak of them the same way Swallow speaks of her guy...with love and reverence for enhancing their life. And why not!
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2/5/2007 2:57 pm |
** Davinci I've had a beard since 1978. I used to have to shave twice a day. Oh man, razor burn, cuts, etc., etc. - pain and agony. Here is a picture of me when my hair was still black - summer of 1983. I'm carving up a lamb that we had BBQ's over an open fire - yum!
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Ric&DVC, Wise men grow beard. To be wise you need invest time. Dont grumble. Why not change, Ric. To look less wise but more cool. (w/o beard, your cheek will feel the cool breeze.) DVC,there certainly exists general difference btw men's haircut and women's. But there has indivisual difference man by man, and woman by woman. I am a very manly woman if considering the time/money i invest on my outlook. There are men also like make-up. My friend's student boy, 16, paint his eyebrow and eyelash more delicately than girls. Amazing. Nam, Swiss speaks Swiss. Thanks for helping my quick 'understanding' to DVC's time management. It's a shame to misunderstand his efficiency.
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2/7/2007 4:31 am |
swallowtsui - Why not change, Ric. To look less wise but more cool. (w/o beard, your cheek will feel the cool breeze.) Hmmmm, cool or comfortable? Easy choice - comfort. But what the heck I'm cool either way. 
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2/7/2007 4:43 pm |
Davinci - Sure, Ric, but why not give it a try, you coward?! I don't see is as being coward. I see it as being practical, and even enlightened....no wasted metal for razors, chemicals for shaving cream, and so on. I feel so, so ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly when I think of helping to save the planet with this small contribution. heheheh The only time a shave is good is when it is done by a professional with a straight razor. Now that is pure heaven. But then reality sets in the next morning when you wake up and need to shave. Oh ouch! hehehe I believe in trying to learn by my previous experience and not repeating painful mistakes. OK, somedays, er weeks or months, I am a slow learner - but not with my facial hair.
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Women should be women, and men men... DVC, you say should be, your will only. Nowadays men and women are more an intwined melang. Ric, Dont you use more soap/water to wash yor beard? You save there but waste here.
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2/7/2007 8:54 pm |
swallowtsui - Dont you use more soap/water to wash yor beard? You save there but waste here. Heh, I suppose one could argue that. Thanks for sticking a pin in my great Eco self-congratulation. However, water is a renewable resource. Hmmmm, well of course it could be argued that it takes electricity to clean sewage and treat and pump water. Oh dear, now that I am thinking this way maybe I should stop taking showers and bathing and really save water. Then again, I could be a real eco-warrior and commit suicide thereby no longer consuming anything. Just think if the world comes to the future envisoned in the classic film Soylent Green with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson I could even be reycled into food. So many opportunities to save our plant.
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2/8/2007 6:33 am |
Nan - "What plant is that exactly, Ric? A power plant on some e-less and foodless planet, perhaps?I] Make a typo and look what happens. Mistress Teacher grades my posting..yikes. Well, the plant Earth of course. hehehe I suppose we could view the planet as a plant. Gaia, our Mother Earth, is having a rough time these days and can obviously use some serious nurturing.
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Nam, Nowadays makes a man can be a woman and vice versa. Could it be done in the past. Becoz of technic progress and social freedom, men and women are more liberate to express themselves in a mixed-sexual way. In the long past surely the \bsexo?\b difference was much more apparent than today.
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