A few days agao my friend and I decided to get our hair cut. I was definitely overdue for one and she said she was too. Together we searched the local shopping square for the most impressive looking hair salon.
We finally settled on a salon that had a huge L'Oreal poster at the bottom. At the entrance we were greeted by a hugely tall Chinese woman who walked us up a flight of stairs to the actual salon. In the salon a whole row of stylists (dressed in bright pink and deep purple dresses) bowed and said "欢迎光临" (We Welcome your Glorious Patronage!). The cieling was wrapped in a tacky looking gold fabric and the seats for waiting were plush and bright red. How could I refuse?
From the gold beguiled cieling hung many pictures of people with flawless skin wearing all the trendiest Chinese hair-dos. Some look more like dragon ball z characters than anything. My friend and I sat anxiously in our red plush seats, constantly glancing around as if someone would run over and shave our heads. After a few minutes one of those purple and pink ladies walked over and began squirting straight shampoo into our hair from what looked like a mustard bottle.
It was a strange sensation at first, but then we relaxed. The assistants began massaging our heads with their fingers, we were content.
Next came a wash, which wasn't anything special. But while you are lying down you can read all the advertisements stuck to the cieling.
When the hairwash was over we were offered a complimentary massage. I asked what kind of massage, because if you are offered a massage in China you can never be sure if the lady is offering you sex. She wasn't! Yay! The assistant said that it would be an ear, head, neck, arm, and upper back massage. My friend said "Why not?"
It was absolutely fabulous. However there was one strange part where they stuck a long wrap of toilet paper down our ears to clean them. It was a bit disconcerting, but we got over it because the arm massage was next and that involved cutting off our circulation and blowing cold air onto our open palms.
All of this preparation took about an hour, and the haircut only took about 15 minutes!
3 comments:
Your sister told me when we looked at your previous entires that you should get a haircut! And you did!
so how much did it cost????
show pics of your new hair!!!
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It cost 40yuan for the whole shebang! Which is cheaper than we thought it would be. My hair isn't very amazing, actually the guy didn't cut enough off the back so I may have to get a touchup before I have a mullet! Ew!
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