Yet another hair excursion

I am going to try to get my hair cut today. It may prove more difficult than anticipated, since the place I always went to at home is no longer in business. :-( I'm always slightly frightened of trying someone new, as I am scarred by the number of times I've gone somewhere I didn't know and they were unable or unwilling to give me what I asked for. I really don't like finding out this fact through the resulting appearence of my hair. But it's gotten crazy long and flat lately, and it'd be convenient to take care of it while I'm still at home. My mom suggested trying a place in the nice new mall around here; I generally have success with mall places.

God, I'm always so nervous about this. It's just hair, and it'll grow out if I don't like it. But I'm so damn vain I don't want to have to deal with hair I don't like.

Redgoth hairstylist

So I tried the new hairdresser and I am very pleased. I got this girl named Kristen who was a lot of fun. I liked the look of her 'cause she was just a little bit punked out, and she was wearing the most awesome red goth boots. I said to her, "Nice goth boots, where'd you manage to find red ones?" She was delighted by the compliment, told me about this place in New Hope, and then said, "Oh, my God, you're a weekend goth, aren't you?" I laughed and said yes, and she was like, "Me too!" Although to be honest she wasn't really all that weekend, she had lots of piercings, spiked red-streaked hair, and of course the boots. And she asked me what kind I was, then said, "No, wait, don't tell me-- you're a lily, aren't you?" I'd never heard that term before. She said lily goths are the pale, delicate ones who dress more on the pretty side and show a lot of skin. And I was like, "Oh, you mean gloomcookie," which, yeah, that's totally me. She, interestingly, is a red goth-- she dresses in the punk goth style, but everything's always in red, including her hair, eyeliner, everything. She showed me a picture of her and her heavily tattooed boyfriend in her getup. I'd never actually seen a red goth before; I liked it. We got into a fun conversation about different kinds of goths and the various combinations thereof. I'm a pretty/perkygoth, while she's a perky/punky/redgoth.

And on top of it all, she did a great job with my hair. She touched up the layers and styled it really nicely. I'm very pleased, and I love finding fun people in unexpected places.