Thursday Jan 23

[jennybee1018]

Hello! How are you today? Anything fun and exciting going on?

QOTD: Have you found a stylist/salon in your country that you like? Or do you wait until you go to your home country to get a haircut/color?

[dorothyinAus]

Good morning! It's not bad around here. Today marks 3 years since I moved to Australia. I celebrated by doing housework. Nothing much else going on.

QOTD: I hate to get my hair cut period, but I did find a salon here, and I am happy with the one cut I have had.

[jennybee1018]

Happy Aus-iversary Dorothy! (We call it a Doha-versary here, so trying to apply it for you)!

It's my mom's birthday! So I sent her an email and FB message, and my sister and I putting together a photo album for her. Nothing too exciting.

I'm just waiting until 5 o clock when I can head home and put on my pjs, and relax on the couch! :-)

QOTD: Yes! I am pretty flexible with my hair, and I had some great stylists in the US. I was lucky enough to find one here that I love. She's originally from New Zealand, and she's great at her job, and also fun to hang out with :-) I'm really happy I found her!

[Deleted]

There is sun here. Sun! I walked DH to work and plan on getting out a little later if it holds up.

QOTD: Oh brother. This has been one of my issues since we moved here almost three years ago. I've gone through three stylists that were recommended by friends so far. Not happy with any of them.

It's an ongoing complaint from people that move here that while the costs of cut and colour here is cheap compared to where most of us are from (London, Dublin, bigger North American cities), and while there are many salons, no one seems to be happy with what they get here.

Someone recommended to me that I find someone in London or Dublin that I like and just fly in every three months to get my hair done. At first I thought it was insane. Now... maybe? My sister is living in Rio and mostly gets her hair done in London when she is flying through for work.

Just cancelled an appointment for this week because I'm not happy with the colour I got last time.

I miss my person at home!!

[singingpilgrim]

Hello all. Been a while.

I haven't been to a hair salon since 2006 (my older sister's wedding) and that's the first time I'd gone since high school (prom) so obviously yeah, I don't really go to them here. Though no I take that back, I went and got my eyebrows threaded at a salon for my own wedding last year.

Honestly I don't really trust hair dressers with my hair. I've never really had a hair cut I've been happy with (they styled it okay for my sister's wedding, but I didn't really have them cut it.) My hair is sloooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwww growing (I started growing it out jaw length and it hit maybe six inches past the shoulder... five years later.) So if they cut it wrong it takes forever to grow out. So I just trim it on my own.

Admittedly it's kind of ratty right now. I've been considering doing something with. I enjoy having long hair so I don't see myself cutting it (as it'd take years to grow back) but I have contemplated dying it. But really I got my first grays last year and they're only multiplying which made me realize that I probably only have a few more years that vanity will allow me to be natural anyway, so thus far I've restrained from dying. I figure in a decade or less I'll probably be exclusively dying my hair for a while.

[potatopie]

Jan 23, 2014 6:35:55 GMT -5 jennybee1018 said:

Happy Aus-iversary Dorothy! (We call it a Doha-versary here, so trying to apply it for you)!

cute


not much today. we're finally settled back in SA after our 2 month whirlwind tour of family. trying to enjoy the summer weather but i'm still fighting this beast of a cold DS and i got in italy. bleh.

QOTD: good timing, i need to make an appointment for next week. for the first time i actually got my hair cut here just before we left and waited until we got back to get it cut again. usually i would go to someone at home if I had the chance. but I've finally found someone who i like here. she's great at knowing what I'm asking for, but also what looks good on me.

[glitterfart]

My parents arrived this morning!!! So glad to have them here, as is DD.

QOTD. I do have a really good someone, but I don't go often. I got a friend to trim it the other day for our family picture. I used to go often and get highlights and low lights, bu now I'm just going darker with ome gray sprinkled in.

[irish]

Afternoon. I'm tired... Had to get up a bit before 6 to go to work. Even though I'm still on maternity leave... Just a meeting and prep for it. But dd2 woke at 4 and 4.45 so dh went in the second time. Now I'm waiting for my iud consultation - fun...

QOTD: I've a guy I've been going to for years here. But when I lived in London for 2yrs I never got my hair cut there. Always waited till I got home.

[Wanderista]

Hi there.

QOTD: I do have a hairdresser here that I go to for my hair needs here. She's Swedish (from Sweden) and she's a family friend now. I do like her. She really focuses on hair health and she's always staying on top of new information, like she recently converted to an organic salon. She also does massage, facials, and other beauty stuff. I go whenever I need to but mostly just for hair. I've been highlighting and styling my hair since I was about 13 and I like doing so. My natural color is pretty mousy so I don't miss it. It is like darkened, nondescript blonde. My styled hair IS my hair. 

I have been to salons and used products in a few different countries. I have opinions about them but different things work for different people. I had better experience in Continental Europe with hair than in London. I did get a really cool haircut in London but apparently the stylist used a poor technique so it looked great at first but did not grow out well. I prefer certain French hair products (shampoo, conditioner, etc) to, well, products from anywhere else - they are the best for my hair and, yes, I will pay for them vs. something else. 

[Deleted]

Hi,

QOTD: I've gotten my haircut once in the 17 months I've lived here. I hadn't been back to the U.S. as of November last year and decided to brave it. I got it cut at the same place DH goes because he bought a crazy membership card for like 200 or 300 dollars and haircuts there cost about $10.

It wasn't a terrible cut, but I got home and realized there were some uneven parts around my face that I had to trim myself.

I haven't had good luck with shampoo here. Chinese tend to have thick, somewhat course hair and therefore generally use moisturizing and damage repairing shampoos. I have fine, fairly thin blonde hair that is very oily and that really needs a clarifying shampoo a couple times a week to look the best. They have pretty much no options here, even imported ones, for clarifying shampoo. I've seen one and it cost $25. I just can't justify spending that much on shampoo. I don't feel right asking a friend to bring back a huge bottle of shampoo for me, they usually have to do the same. So I'm stuck using a moisturizing shampoo and every couple of days I'll use one of a couple little bottles I have of non-moisturizing shampoo. It's sad.

I don't color my hair, but I know people with lighter hair have a hard time finding salons here to get that done.

Overall, my hair is kind of sad case here

[anna7602]

I am making chicken tikka masala today for the first time. I'm super, geekily excited about this. 

QOTD: I haven't found a stylist I've liked all that much since leaving Miami in 2000. I've managed to find people who were okay everywhere else I've lived, but haven't had any kind of committed hair stylist relationship in over a decade. DD, on the other hand, is firmly committed to her stylist in Paris and is holding out until we return in April to get another hair cut. It's because this woman has a toy kitchen and Strawberry Shortcake (Charlotte a fraise) dolls in her salon.

[Cheesecake]

Happy day after Thursday late to yhe game but don't have an idea for a QOTD so I'll just check in here.
I've got a cold/super sore throat, so it's only a matter of time before DD
will catch it too.

QOTD: The only hairstylist I've ever liked and trusted is in Denver. And when I still went there twice a year, that was doable, but it's been over 2 year since we've been in Denver so I'm forced to use one here. He's not terrible, but definitely not great either. And that makes me sad.

Sent from my Xperia Z, please don't mind typos!

[crimsonandclover]

I'm late to the party, but since getting a separate computer for work, I can't use GBCN for procrastinating as much anymore!

QOTD: I use the same stylist - me. My haircut is really simple and hard to mess up, so I just grab the scissors and do it myself.

[irish]

Jan 24, 2014 7:43:48 GMT -5 Cheesecake said:

Happy day after Thursday late to yhe game but don't have an idea for a QOTD so I'll just check in here.
I've got a cold/super sore throat, so it's only a matter of time before DD will catch it too.

You may be lucky and she won't catch it. I was on antibiotics for a chest infection when dd2 was only a few weeks old, which dd1 gave to me. Amazingly dd2 never got it.