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Have you ever gotten a new "do" while in Europe? Loved it or hated it?

Have you ever gotten a new "do" while in Europe? Loved it or hated it?

Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:33 PM
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I've frequently stopped in the Vidal Sassoon school in London and gotten a new "do' and have never been disappointed.But then I keep my hair short and it curls by itself! No way would I let anyone color it though..magenta is not my first choice!
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:34 PM
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Interesting thread. When I go to Italy within a few days I have Rosi in Congeliano take care of my hair. She always give me the best cuts. She does always "change the color a bit" but not to drastically. Than when I arrive home my hairstylist changes the color back. Going to Rosi's a few days after arriving is always like a "homecoming". Great manicures also.
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:35 PM
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I have always wanted to have my hair cut in Paris, but have always chickened out.

I DID however have my hair washed and "styled" in Skopje, Macedonia at a small neighborhood salon on the day of our "daughter's" wedding.[I was to be her "witness" in the civil ceremony] I speak enough Macedonian so it went well enough until the end. At that juncture it was all I could do to keep them from unloading a year's supply of hairspray on me! I escape with only a light coating.
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:36 PM
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Oh, yes. I'm a gambler at heart. Even with my hair. I had a haircut in Paris at one of those husband-wife salons. She did a terrific job even though we could not communicate verbally. I received compliments galore when I came back home. Two years later I returned to the same salon. Madame and her husband were fighting and screaming at each other while she was cutting my hair. Needless to say, the results were baaad...

Then I gambled again some years later. Had my hair cut in Barcelona. I speak fluent Spanish and the guy nixed all my requests. I was not happy with the cut so now I go to my hairdresser at home.
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:44 PM
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My one and only haircut away from the States was in London. Picture this.I had a lovely cut, wanted a trim. I'm over weight, short necked, round face.
I came out of the salon looking like like number "O".
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:54 PM
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Treesa, good grief, having your hair cut while your hairdresser was having a screaming match with her husband!! I would have been sick to my stomach. What a horrible experience.

And tondaylaya - I think we have all received the "O" haircut at one time or another. Don't you just hate that? The last time I ended up like that I had my hair cut a few days later again. True, it did sort of look punk,
but at least it wasn't an "O". LOL.
But believe me, I wasn't at the time.
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 05:56 PM
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Whew! After reading some of the responses above, I really lucked out. I popped into a salon in Paris a few years ago and despite my rudimentary French ("la meme chose, s'il vous plait") and Raphael's rudimentary English ("OK"), I walked out with the best cut of my life.

The salon was Jean Louis David Diffusion at 83 rue St. Dominique 75007. I have absolutely no connection to this salon; Raphael's card remains in my Rolodex here on my desk. I shall return....
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 10:55 PM
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It's been over a year since he underwent his German transformation (that haircut has long since grown out and he's had several French haircuts since), but no, it wasn't spiky. It was short, not a buzz cut, but definitely turned him into Herr Tilke. Our German relatives approved ;-)

His hair is a dark blond and he has fair skin, blue eyes, is over 6 foot tall and has a big build, so between wearing German clothes and getting a German haircut, he really blended in. Especially with a beer in hand!
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Old Nov 23rd, 2004, 11:44 PM
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BTilke, WOW, lucky gal!
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 12:28 AM
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Yes, well, I like to think he's lucky too!

When his German father was younger, he was a dead ringer for Danny Kaye. He ran into Danny Kaye once at the Ritz Hotel in Paris in the 1950s (they were both wearing black tie). DK was amazed and followed him down the street--couldn't believe his lookalike was a German.
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 12:59 AM
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I'm still getting over the idea of phoning in a haircut - we'll be getting them online next!

Only once have I had the nerve, and that was in another English-speaking country (Canada), so I could ask 'If I said, short back and sides, No. 2, would that mean anything here?' - only to discover the assistant came from Liverpool anyway.
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 04:59 AM
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BTilke, he sounds like a hottie! Sounds like a short layered do.to me. Which I like very much ;-).
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 01:27 PM
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Didn't happen IN Paris, but shortly before my trip there last month, I decided to change my (dyed) red hair to brown. Just wanted a little change, you know?

It turned green.

There is nothing like holding a plane ticket in your hand and looking in a mirror at hair the color of asparagus.
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 04:06 PM
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We decided to take a chance and got fantastic haircuts in Paris on our last trip. The salon was recommended by the owner of our hotel, who called and booked our appointments. Go for it!
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 04:42 PM
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Croque_Madame, so please tell us, what did you do???? Board the plane with green hair or dump a bottle of tint on your head in desperation or drag your hairdresser back to the salon at 10:00 in the evening or what?? Please, do tell.

I can only imagine the horror. Well I can imagine because that happened to me once but fortantly not when I was leaving on a trip.
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Old Nov 24th, 2004, 07:42 PM
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20 years ago in London, Kensington High Street: the best haircut of my life. People stopped me everywhere for a month to comment and ask about my great haircut.

4 years ago on Kensington High Street: just ok and hugely expensive.

3 years ago in Paris: a very nice haircut that I've written about before on Fodors.
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Old Nov 25th, 2004, 04:51 AM
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Croque-Madame, I have also had to board a flight with green hair. Well, mine was more every shade of the rainbow.

After the botched home color job, I had no choice but to fly elsewhere to have it fixed since there is no salon where I live. Needless to say, my hair has never seen a home color job since.
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Old Nov 25th, 2004, 08:59 AM
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Thanks for the sympathy, fellow hair victims!

Well, it took two hairdressers to get the color back to something approaching brown and a salon full of customers assuring me in chorus that no, it didn't look green anymore, but standing outside the salon looking into a mirror in natural sunlight, I could clearly detect an avocado hue.

So I went home and fiddled with it some more. It's a miracle every hair on my head didn't hit the floor in mass retreat from the repeat attacks, but a few brave strands hung in there for the trip to Paris.

When I met (for the first time in person) dln and her husband at their hotel in the 5th and saw her gorgeous, shining, copper colored hair, I only barely managed NOT to wail like a banshee and hurl myself across their bed in a fit of jealous despair!
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Old Nov 25th, 2004, 09:12 AM
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Last year when I was away on a trip, my daughter had dyed her hair green. My husband had ok'd it. That was just a start of a year that has seen pink, blue, probably some other colors, and most lately black. Her hair is a natural beautiful blonde that people pay hundreds of dollars to duplicate! But she's stuck with the fading black right now, because she's been cast in a play and can't dye her hair. I don't mind her color excursions now, but I do miss her natural color.
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Old Nov 25th, 2004, 09:18 AM
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WillTravel, oh kids!! One of my grandsons actually had this hairstyle (I use term losely) when he was a Freshman in HS. The right side of his head, from the middle of his head on down had hair that fell to his shoulders. The left side, from the middle of his head on down was completely shaven off. Now that was a look, believe me on this one, that was the strangest I have ever seen. Fortunatly it only last about 6 months. LOL. Thought his Dad was going to have a heart attack at the time.
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