Hairdresserphobia

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I have not cut my hair since 93' My hair is down to the center of my back and past my chin up front. I keep it pulled back in a ponytail.

Yeah i hate going to the hairdressers.. Awkward conversations.
Luckily i've found one who doesn't seem to talk very much

I had a good hairdresser in my last town. I went to her for five years. Now I'm nervous about going to someone else. No one could do a Vulcan haircut quite like my last hairdresser.

I never get my hair cut. My hair hasn't been cut in probably about 15 years except maybe for one or two trimmings. I really want to get my hair trimmed soon but I hate getting my hair cut. I'm always worried that they'll cut off more than I want then to and I think $15 is too expensive for someone to just snip across the bottom which would take them a minute or two at most. The last time I had it trimmed they made me stand and got on their knees to do it.

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My hair is just below my shoulders, but I haven't been to the salon in years. I don't mind going, in fact I like going when my hair turns out the way I want. I used to get a perm every six months and a trim by the same girl at the same place. The last time I went there, she cut it too short and the perm was too tight. She used different rods than before. So, I'm afraid it won't be the way I want it.

I get my older daughter to trim the bottom of it when it starts looking bad down there, and when I dye it my younger daughter does that because she dyes her hair at least twice a month and knows all about that.

I style it myself, and like doing different "do's" and find the tutorials on YouTube for them. If I ever want a perm again, I suppose I will go to a salon, but I'll find a good one in the city and end up paying about $150 for it, but at least it will turn out the way I want it. Rather than the $35 hit or miss that you get around here.

As for conversation with the stylist, I don't mind that, but I used to mind it when I was a teenager. The way to prevent it is to bring a magazine with you and read an article while they are doing your hair.

Frances

The last time I had my hair cut was in the college barbershop circa 1969. The barber didn't like the way my hair grew--really--and I decided to save him the trouble of cutting it again. From time to time I'm criticized for being an old man with a ponytail, but when I think of all the money and awkward conversations I've saved over the years, it's well worth it.

I can't stand a stranger touching me, and the small talk. So I've cut my own hair and been a skinhead since I was 11 The result of that though, is that the feeling of having hair is so strange to me now, that it's almost uncomfortable. So I always keep it really short. I've gotten hypersensitive towards my own hair

My mother and grandmother always cut my hair at home while I was growing up. I only remember ever going to a hair dresser when I was about 16 or 17, and then I would only go once a year. I started cutting my own hair when I was about 20, at which time I also decided I really didnt care that much about my hair so it didn't matter how it looked if I cut it. If I do go, I go maybe once a year and then either copy what they did when they cut it, or look at hair cuts online where they describe how the hair is cut and I do something similar. I also trim my mother's hair. I like cutting hair, if it werent for the conversational aspects I think I would have been a good hairdresser.

Most of my adult life I have liked having short hair - which means getting it cut and I have no idea how to do it myself. But every trip to the hairdresser was a nightmare and I would put it off. Everything about it made me uncomfortable. The mirrors, dealing with any aspect of fashon, trying to converse, them asking me questions like, "so what are we doing here?" while figetting with my hair and me replying, "I want it to be shorter" or something like that.

Then I found this crazy hippy haircutter guy with a shop with one chair who worked part time. He could cut my hair in 10 minutes, including the wash, knew what I liked and did all the talking. I still would procrastenate about going but I got my hair cut more regularly. He also only charged $10. Then he retired.

Then I found a woman who cuts hair in her kitchen, She is nice and we have a few things in common to chat about and the environment is a lot better than a salon- but it's still hard for me. But a year ago I just stopped going and let my hair get long and am liking it. Only thing is, long hair is a lot harder to wash. My arms get tired.

My hair grows to fast to go to the hairdressers... i never liked the hairdressers anyway so i will either cut it or shave it myself every so often...

I dont like the barber touching me and the awkward conversations that are inevitable, so I cut my own hair.

I hate going to the hairdressers. I'm good at cutting men's hair, so my husband and dad never need to go to a barber, but I wish someone could do the same for me. The whole experience for me is torture:
- sitting with my head backwards in the sink, feeling like I'm going to choke
- water that's too hot or dripping down my neck
- seeing myself talking in a mirror
- then the cut, which is quite often too short, as my hair is really curly and they often forget to allow for it bouncing up
- weird conversation with someone who I would never normally speak with or an uncomfortable silence
- the hairdryer, which is too hot and burning my ear, it must be destroying my hair
- paying - if more than one person has dealt with me, who do I tip, how much, what if I don't have enough change?
I go once or twice a year.