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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$350 haircut!!!!!!!!!! [/quote]

Should I feel shame for my 12 year old’s $500 haircut plus tip?  If she had normal hair I wouldn’t have had to do it.   She didn’t ask for it, I cared about her grooming.   It’s 1,000 times better.

The salons are getting out of control.   My other daughter, an arts student, goes to Bumble and Bumble in NYC for about $600 for highlights, cut and blow dry and tip.  Everything is priced separately and now a blow dry after a cut is an extra $100. Them charging extra for a blow dry made her start looking for another place.   Next they’ll charge extra for “premium shampoo”.  [/quote]

Why does your daughter need highlights? When I was an undergrad and grad student at Columbia I found a listserve of trainee hairdressers and would have my haircut my trainees at high end salons for a $20-40 tip. If you want to set money on fire you can’t complain about setting it on fire.

Do you think any of this is you? Why would you say your daughter’s hair isn’t normal? By normal do you mean not fitting a particular Eurocentric definition of beauty? [/quote]

Her hair is beautiful thick and shiny so she said she’s looking for a cheaper haircut that includes blow drying. Her haircut is pretty basic and doesn’t need the top expert.   She’s like a ot of females and wasn’t happy with her hair color.

My 12 year olds hair is difficult because it’s wild, always snarly, five layers worth, straight and curls all bumbled together and she doesn’t comb it.  Maybe you’re right about the Eurocentric definition.  Currently she has no White friends.  She has a group of about six friends Latina and Black.  Her close cousin is Puerto Rican and her best friend is Black.  They all know how to do hair or some family members know the best hairstyles and I can’t do anything.   I feel bad about that. If I even try something it falls out within an hour.  She couldn’t keep it groomed and I couldn’t so I tried something new.  [/quote]

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