How to get a haircut in the USA and why is it a problem
'15.08.2019'
Source: Svoi Blog, Nata Shama
One day, a friend of mine who has been living in the US for 11 for years complained that his hairdresser, Masha from Los Angeles, had immigrated to Canada, and now he will have to look for a new Russian girl to cut it for ordinary halfbox. I asked why the Russian? My friend nervously grinned and said that everyone else was shearing it so that God forbid. I did not attach any importance to this until I myself moved to the USA and went to look for a hairdresser in order to get the same unpretentious half box.
In Los Angeles, at least a thousand beauty salons and hairdressers. There are poorer and richer ones - for every taste, says the author of the blog on the portal Svoi, Nata shama
The average price of a female haircut in a more or less adequate place is $ 70 – 100 dollars. For painting with additional chips such as highlighting, you need to pay $ 100 – 200. Men are sheared for $ 30 – 60.
There are cheaper shearers mainly master immigrants from Latin America and China. It does not always turn out to be bad, but the idea of Slavic hair, however intolerant it may sound, is very remote, and they perceive beauty from the basis of their own cultural traditions. Therefore, it is likely that you will be tonsured badly. Sometimes they do not know the language, and it becomes harder to explain what you need.
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In salons more expensive you will encounter different techniques of haircuts and more or less advanced craftsmen who know their work and have a sense of style, but they also do not always cut out exactly what you need.
While hairdressers from the CIS understand our native haircut names, they have a similar vision. You and the master are more or less equally aware of a normal haircut, because you are from the same cultural environment. In addition, Russians often shave cheaper than good American specialists.
How to explain which haircut you need
- Women's haircuts
It is better to bring an image with you, perhaps the master will be able to transfer this image to your hair. But one picture is not enough.
If you need to trim the tips, speak immediately, at what length. Same with bangs. "Cascade" is called "Layered hair"," Bob "and" Kare "sound the same as in Russian. If you have naughty hair, warn about it in advance, show strands that curl stronger than others or deviate from the general course. Here you can titles haircuts look.
- Male haircuts
It is best to say the size of the nozzle and the zone. "On the sides of the №2, above №5" - it is safer than "Here, short, here to shave." But you can operate with the names of hairstyles. "Playground" - "Flattop", "Hedgehog" - "Crew cut". Here is dictionary to help.
Watch carefully for what is happening during the haircut, because your "Shorter" can be understood as "I'm going to the army, please cut off everything you can reach," and your "Trim the tips" can pass for "Make my cascade even hair."
Is it possible to find your hairdresser?
In the US, a lot of people, and among them there is certainly a master with his hands from the right place, who knows how to turn lochmas into a delightful haircut. The worse your hair behaves, the more insistently I recommend you look for among former compatriots, although, of course, miracles happen.
If you don’t have any special problems with your hair, or your haircut is 2 mm all over your head, go to any cheap salon where there is no cockroach on the wall during the initial examination, and you will be happy for $ 10 dollars.
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What else you need to know about a haircut in the US?
- Hairdresser is a licensed profession. The master must have a work permit, without him you cannot even buy tools. Therefore, many Russian hairdressers work illegally with the departure of the house.
- In cheap hairdressing, the master struggles to get you into the chair right from the doorstep and starts cutting. Be vigilant, do not give in until you realize that you are in the right place.
- There are practically no beauty salons with a complex of services. In one place they are engaged, as a rule, in something one: hair, nails, beard, epilation, etc. For women there is Blow dry bar - there make styling and hair. For men work Barber Shopwhere they cut their hair, beard and mustache.
- In the mediocre salons can come without a record, there are few people. It is necessary to register in expensive and good in advance, usually it can be done by e-mail or through the site.
- Americans do not spend a lot of effort on cutting-edge interior design. The furnishings and equipment inside can be quite old, it does not mean that it is badly sheared here.
