Hair update
Feb. 14th, 2022 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSo I finally reached the point of action with the head-shaving thing; stopped dithering, and made an appointment. For today.
It was originally scheduled as a shave with razor, but I got a call this morning saying the barber got sick (argh) -- unknown if covid but did I want to reschedule? I didn't really, so I switched to clipper-shave, which more people there could do. Not complete hairlessness, just dark fuzz.
I had my morning aide braid my hair (simple braid, not anything fancy) and cut it so I could keep it. Then went in and had the shave. Clippers tickle a little, as it turns out.
They had good covid policies: staff vaccinated and masked, customers masked. She never fully removed my mask, just unlooped one ear to buzz that and then re-looping. And it was fast; I was in there for maybe ten minutes including paying.
The result is AWESOME.
I love the feel of air currents against the back of my head-- it was windy when I got out and I just spun around giggling because it felt so good. I like the way my pillow feels when I get into bed. Every one of my aides so far wants to touch it, and I like being "petted".
I just. I love it. So much.
I'm too tired to add pics (I wish it were easier to upload images to DW; that's one thing rav uses to do really well) but I did post one to Twitter -- https://twitter.com/isabeautiful/status/1493419537332465666
(The cryptic tweet was after braid cut-off, but there are a couple IRL people who follow my Twitter that I wanted to notify before I said anything publicly.)
It was originally scheduled as a shave with razor, but I got a call this morning saying the barber got sick (argh) -- unknown if covid but did I want to reschedule? I didn't really, so I switched to clipper-shave, which more people there could do. Not complete hairlessness, just dark fuzz.
I had my morning aide braid my hair (simple braid, not anything fancy) and cut it so I could keep it. Then went in and had the shave. Clippers tickle a little, as it turns out.
They had good covid policies: staff vaccinated and masked, customers masked. She never fully removed my mask, just unlooped one ear to buzz that and then re-looping. And it was fast; I was in there for maybe ten minutes including paying.
The result is AWESOME.
I love the feel of air currents against the back of my head-- it was windy when I got out and I just spun around giggling because it felt so good. I like the way my pillow feels when I get into bed. Every one of my aides so far wants to touch it, and I like being "petted".
I just. I love it. So much.
I'm too tired to add pics (I wish it were easier to upload images to DW; that's one thing rav uses to do really well) but I did post one to Twitter -- https://twitter.com/isabeautiful/status/1493419537332465666
(The cryptic tweet was after braid cut-off, but there are a couple IRL people who follow my Twitter that I wanted to notify before I said anything publicly.)
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Date: 2022-02-15 07:54 am (UTC)Also, if it's all the same length, upkeep with clippers at home is an option.
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Date: 2022-02-15 04:34 pm (UTC)(I say this, but I change up my hair every few years. Before the buzz it was blue and purple pixie. I was getting the buzz colored for a while but my stylist was so overbooked I just gave up and go natural. I'm sure at some point in about five or six years I'll do something else.)
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Date: 2022-02-15 04:32 pm (UTC)I get some ASMR from the clippers sometimes, it's kind of neat.
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Date: 2022-02-15 06:25 pm (UTC)Very cool!
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