{"id":8538,"date":"2016-06-29T22:22:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T17:51:19","slug":"whack-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/?p=8538","title":{"rendered":"Whack job"},"content":{"rendered":"

For seven months I have been patiently growing out my hair. After it was shaved in one place for the brain fluid drain and then chopped\u00a0off by the nurse tech<\/a>, I figured that my hair, like my brain, needed time to recover.<\/p>\n

Eventually my hair was long enough that the weight of it was pulling out\u00a0the natural curl. Yesterday I got it cut.<\/p>\n

I went to a place that specializes in curly hair. The stylist told me she’d been cutting hair for more than 10 years when she was hired, but was still required to go to a special school just to learn the right way to cut curly hair.<\/p>\n

I filled out a lengthy form about my hair, including my goals for my hair. Really? It’s hard enough to come up with goals for my career and personal life – now my hair has to have goals, too??<\/p>\n

The stylist didn’t look at the form. She talked to me, inspected my hair, and began to cut.<\/p>\n

I told her that I use a texturizing scissors on it, because it’s so thick and heavy on top. She frowned and said, “We don’t recommend that.”<\/p>\n

When she was finished, a huge pile of hair lay on the floor. That always gives me a queasy feeling, to see my hair on the floor. It’s like having a limb cut off.<\/p>\n

Then she shaved my neck.<\/p>\n

That’s how I knew it really was too short. I’ve NEVER had my hair so short that I needed a neck shave. That’s my neck in the featured image above.<\/p>\n

After washing my hair, she put a ton of gel on it and made me sit under a bonnet hair dryer until it had hardened into lacquer. \u00a0I didn’t actually expect it to look good after that, and it didn’t. It looked like a helmet.<\/p>\n

\"helmet<\/p>\n

At $70, it was the most expensive haircut I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

I stayed away from mirrors the rest of the day. Today I washed all the goop out and let it air-dry.<\/p>\n

It’s a little better, but it still looks flat. Not\u00a0the\u00a0fluffy curls that I know it’s capable of.<\/p>\n

Hard to believe that someone who specializes in curly hair could spend so much time cutting\u00a0mine and yet actually reduce<\/em>\u00a0the curliness.<\/p>\n

\"day<\/p>\n

Oh well. It’ll grow out eventually. Meanwhile, have a peek at my neck.<\/p>\n

Today’s penny is a 2015. That was when I was cutting my own hair – and it looked fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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