At a friend’s insistence, I called the hair stylist she referred me to – Susie. I went in for a trim.
“What would you like, hun?” asked Susie.
“I’m not really sure … what do you think?”
“I think we should go a little shorter – that would look really cute.”
“OK. You are the potter … and I am the clay.”
“I love you!” Susie proceeded to give me more than a trim. After a while, she commented, “You’d make a great redhead.”
“What?” I was dumb-founded.
“I agree,” said a fellow client. “You have the perfect complexion for red hair.”
Why is everyone such an expert on something I never heard before? And hey, if I was meant to be a redhead, wouldn’t I have been born that way?
“I don’t know,” I said.
“If you don’t like it,” chimed in the fellow client, “you can always change it back.”
“OK – why not?” I said.
Susie made me a redhead, and I liked it.
Next visit, she said, “We need to go a little brighter.”
“Brighter?”
“I went easy on you last time, but you really need to go brighter.”
“You are the potter …”
After she made the change, she asked … as I looked into the mirror in amazement … “Do you want me to do your eyebrows?”
“I think you’re going to have to.”
While home that evening, every time I passed by a mirror, I did a double-take.
Whoa! Did I pass through a nuclear-waste site? What have I done?
But it’s easy to adjust and change … doesn’t phase me a bit now. It’s only hair – and it can easily be changed, right?
I like Susie … she’s more daring than me. I think I’ll keep her.
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January 17, 2012 at 1:46 pm |
Dahling, You look fabulous
January 17, 2012 at 11:09 pm |
Thank you, Don!
January 17, 2012 at 4:56 pm |
Hair stylists are actually friends that do your hair. That’s their secret. They have fabulous memories for everything you’ve ever told them about your family plus the funny thing your hair does in the back if it’s cut wrong.
Mine is named Jana. Think I’ll keep her too.
January 17, 2012 at 11:10 pm |
So true, Adrian!