A Visit to the Hair Salon
While the world prepares to implode (or explode, depending on your take) there’s a little corner of the wild where women of all stripes continue a time-honored tradition. America’s women—her childless cat ladies, aging soccer moms, glam girls, and graying socialites—gather faithfully at local salons to get their tresses just right.
Blondes have more fun, it is said, and as a fake blonde, I can confirm this is true. I hit the the salon regularly, and for a certified people-watcher like myself, it’s a dark sort of fun indeed. Such entertainment comes with a price, though—and not just the $250 highlights. One must part with peace and proceed through a number of stations to experience the kind of spectating that makes for a sociologist’s dream.
Like people, hair salons (as distinguished from “barber shops”) exist on a socioeconomic and taste spectrum; if you’re paying $15 for a cut and style, you’re not getting a scalp massage and listening to wealthy women bare their souls. Nobody at Krazy Kutz has an hour to listen to such nonsense, nor are they bringing you hot tea or offering a “Malibu” treatment. In addition, the cast of characters cutting your hair may differ by a few degrees—it’s Ethan, fresh from the ABC beauty academy, versus Phillip, the certified, trained-in-Paris “balayage specialist”.
My salon sits on the “high end” of the spectrum but has changed names over the years (as has the former frozen yogurt down the sidewalk). Under its previous ownership, beverages, a mag
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