My Fascination About Haircutting
Posted by Belle on 11 Dec 2007 at 08:38 pm | Tagged as: blogging
I had days off Sunday and Monday and accomplished quite a bit despite of the dreary weather. I made some changes in my dental insurance first thing on Monday morning, personally delivered S’ CD to our local radio station as requested by the station manager. She said she received about 10 CDs a week but most of them don’t make the grade. The fact that she took interest in listening to it is enough to make me happy. Will update you on what she has to say about the CD when I hear from her. She said to give her a week and promised to get a hold of me.
I also finished wrapping the presents for my dear in-laws and are now in the mail stream –thanks to my husband. Since he was in the groove of helping, I delegated the task of sending Christmas cards in care of him with no objection whatsoever–first time he has ever done it. Now, all that is left is putting up of Christmas tree, and wrapping presents for my daughters. My husband volunteered to mount the Christmas tree tomorrow, and so all I have to do is to spruce it up. How is that for a teamwork?
Though, there was a catch. He had been bugging me since last week to cut his hair. I worked 6 days last week so I didn’t have time. And no, I am not a hairdresser. For the past months, I have been watching a hairdresser friend of mine at Wal-Mart cut people’s hair at least 5 to 10 minutes a day during my lunch break. For some reasons, I have this fascination and inclination about hair-cutting. When I look at people’s hair, I tend to analyze their hairstyle and conjure in my mind on how to go about it if I were to cut it myself. Then one day, when I felt I was ready to venture into it, I asked my husband to buy me a set of hair-cutting tools. Whoa, talking about confidence! Well, practice makes perfect right? And my husband doesn’t mind to be under my 10 inexperienced and clumsy fingers. Not only that, he saves $10 per haircut plus tip.
Tang tada dang—here are the pictures. What do you think?
He has a cowlick right above his ear that is why the hair is thin in this area.
I wanted to wet his hair so I could get a good grip of his hair to better style it but he refused.
This was the second time I cut his hair, the first time was at my friend’s house. E, convinced enough that there was nothing wrong with my husband’s haircut, took a chance, too, and let me cut her hair. Hahaha! She later went to a retired hairdresser friend of hers to make sure that I didn’t murder her hair. The hairdresser ran her hands through E’s hair and said that I did it perfectly. What a confidence booster! Yessss!
Who’s next?
Amazing! You have hidden talents or maybe in your past life you were a hairdresser–haha. It’s so sweet he offered to help out with the tree.
You did a GREAT job on his hair honestly. How I wish my hair when I get older gets the same color as your hubby, golden white. How many times did I ever used bigen to dye my greyed sideburns and it pops out every after a few weeks, so I want to grow/show and let it be.
I can actually cut Belle. I used to do it as a part time sa mga kababayan natin, kaso minsan puro “tawad” as in FREE. Wag lang skin-head cut or else pati panit baka mamgunting ko, hahaha.
Apparently, I just had a haircut, not bad for US10 bux, so ok, next time I’m next.
Self-taught hairdresser huh? I think you did a great job. And that’s true, you can save a lot of money if you cut his hair.
You know, I have four boys at home and you can just imagine how much they spend on hair cuts. Maybe I should also learn how to do it eh? But I don’t think they’ll let me cut their hair now.
My husband used to cut all my children’s hair, ala-beatles. They haven’t forgiven him for that, hahaha.
I have a daughter who cuts hair like a pro — like you. She does my hair all the time, though it’s difficult to get an appointment with her nowadays. So busy med clerking.
You may have missed your calling, Belle. But then you are multi-talented.
when i was young, my mom used to cut my hair, and mine would always look like ni-ruler! gupit-bao ang tawag dun. my old pictures never fail to give me a good laugh!
Great job!!! And saved him $12.00 + tip on my part of the world.
I cut my son’s hair when he was littel, just because he hated the stranger messing with his hair. Then now I do the haircutting on my 2 4-legged children and they are harder to do… hehehe but at least they don’t complain if I mess up.
My family is a long line of hairdressers so like you, I have had fascinations with that art… I say art because it is amazing transformation happens when it is all done and over it.
Did that customer of yours give you at least a kiss for a tip???
I wouldn’t mind to be the next subject…
Hi Ate Belle,
It’s great that you are done with your Christmas stuff already. I would like to automate the whole process hehehehe.
Your husband is a brave man!
I am fascinated with hair styles also. Whenever I see someone with unflattering haircut I am itching to tell her/him to try a different hair cut. I tried cutting my daughter’s hair, I only planned to trim it and I had to keep cutting to make it even. hahaha
Check my post about choosing hairstyles and looks:
http://mygoodfinds.org/2007/10/23/mommy-all-glammed-up/
Yes, it’s sponsored but it’s what high profile stylists use. You can have fun with your face too!
very nice!! tama si annamanila, this could be your calling. my sister (she’s in nebraska) also cuts her hubby’s hair. she’s pretty good at it. kami kasi pinagpraktisan niya noon. don’t want to remember the bad haircuts she gave us anymore..hahaha
ako, i’m not good at all. i tried cutting my kids’ hair and people were always commenting na papatayin nila yung gumupit ng buhok ng mga anak ko. hello, ako kaya yun..hahaha
Oooh me! pick me! LOL
great job, Belle! FishermanHubs cuts both of my sons and his hair. But now that they’ve grown (and know better.LOL), they go to the barber instead.
you’re smart and it’s not a surprise that you have the knack of cutting hair. I like the cut of your husband’s hair. Excellent. now you can even make it a business.
The only brave thing I did was to cut off my fringe. Am not so talented like you, I even could not give my late dog, Fatso, a proper fur trim as he looked ridiculous after that…hehehe! Good old Fatso didn’t complain about that though.
thank you all for the compliments! i hope i can find more willing people to model for me for free. that is the only way i can improve my skills.