“Of Bears, Bull and Beagles!”

Should you trust your hairdresser?

I think my hairdresser has aspirations to work as a stylist for Cirque Du Soleil. I only wish I had figured this out yesterday before I let him loose on my hair!

I really liked the blonde I have had for the last year, but at heart I am a red-head so I decided to head back down that route (no pun intended). I have been messing with my hair colour for so long now, I have pretty much tried everything at some point mostly with good results but some not so good, like the time I did it myself and it came out pillar box red - no joke!

So Jimmy and I discussed some ideas and all of which sounded good and since he is the "artiste" I let him decide on the final colours. "Strawberry blonde!" he said, "We'll do a nice rich coppery colour all over and then add in some blonde highlights to brighten and some deeper lowlights for some richness." Now doesn't that sound like it would be really nice and suit me very well? Naturally I agreed and off he toddled to mix those wonderful chemicals while I settled in for the long haul and turned to Vanity Fair and Brad Pitt.

Upon his return Jimmy says he has had a crazy idea; he wants to do the high/low lights a bit chunkier than normal, with a concentration of red ones framing my face, so they are a bit less subtle and a bit more "editorial" That should have been my queue to flee in horror but I missed it...
"Not too chunky?" I ask
"No, No, I promise not to make you look like a Zebra" he chortles.
"OK, go for it!" I agree.
Jimmy sets to work and I return to Brad, tick tock tick tock tick tock......

45 minutes later I am a red head again, and Jimmy is trimming "an inch or so" off my hair. Can someone tell me when the inch changed and became 4 inches? I must have missed the news bulletin on that issue. Anyway after the cutting is finished (because he ran out of hair to cut) he starts styling my hair and it is only then as it is dried that the full colour is revealed...

Strawberry Blonde? Erm, not by my definition.
Do I look like a Zebra? Well no not especially, bit it is crazy and I think I would make an excellent clown!
Do I like it? Sure I do both the colour and cut are really nice, they are just not what was planned and expected and the crazy colour is going to take a little getting used to.

Don't get me wrong Jimmy is a great stylist and colourist, and I would absolutely trust him again. If nothing else it'll be an adventure!