We’ve all gone on first dates, with boys that we date once or twice, boys that stay in our lives, shopping dates with gay friends…everything has a first.
Well today, I had a first that lasted for about four hours.
I found a new hairstylist.
He was a quirky gay man with a streak of blue on his bangs. He had big hands and worked the scissors with an art I’d never seen before.
It was love, at first shampoo. The shampooist? Spent a good ten minutes on my hair, massaging my temples and scratching in all the right places with the temperature at a perfect temperature.
It was….glorious.
I left Vermont, and my stylist that my mother and I had had since I was young girl (minus a 7 year stint in Bennington) stayed there – obvi – but despite my five years in Boston, I never made the effort to find a new stylist. I went home every three months or so and during her walk in hours on Saturday mornings I’d go get my hair and my eyebrows done.
So earlier this week, I requested info on salons in DC from my freaders and from my twitter pals. i got a few good ones from you guys and from other friends/coworkers, I also did my own research and made some calls and settled on a place called Shears on 15th Street. The Asian woman who is the own sounded cute and gave me a good price on a color and cut.
My hair this morning when my new stylist looked at it, was no fewer than three different colors.
No lie.
It is, and I quote fiance when i say that this is the first time since “we started dating” that my “hair is all one color.”
Four hours later, my hair was all one color, a great length and blow dried to perfection. The only unfortunate thing about this experience? I know…I KNOW there is no way in hell that I’ll be able to recreate this work of art next Friday for my engagement pictures.
Damn.
However, this is a first date that I will be sure to call back in a few months. I got his digits, and I know when he’s free so I will be calling him back at least once or twice in the next fifteen months before the wedding.
P.S. Liz helped me find the perfect outfit for pictures, and fiance and I may have found our reception venue. But I’ll write on that tomorrow. For now I’m going to go enjoy my voulet wine and “20 greatest Celebreality FIghts” oh vh1 you’re sooo trashy I love it!
