Have you ever gotten a new "do" while in Europe? Loved it or hated it?
Nov 25th, 2004, 09:23 AM
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LoveItaly, I can imagine my daughter would think that hairstyle was stunning. She seems to like that sort of thing on boys.
At times I have felt like suggesting she shave her head so she can get her old color back!
At times I have felt like suggesting she shave her head so she can get her old color back!
Nov 25th, 2004, 10:10 AM
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Croque Madame, you have made my Thanksgiving Day! Yes, everyone, I am the one with <i>gorgeous, shining, copper colored</i> hair, and I am not ashamed to admit that I owe it all to Garnier #54! Lord knows what the original looks like now... And I'll have you know that Croque Madame's own do was no slouch, either. Despite the travails that preceeded it, when she showed up in Paris to meet us, she looked very fetching. My sweet husband had quite the time escorting two grande dames around Paris for the afternoon. 
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About fifteen years ago, I had my hair cut in Paris at one of the big department stores. Truthfully, I don't remember much about the cut. What I do remember is that I asked my husband to meet me at the escalator afterwards, and he never showed. I got into a complete panic because I had a plane to catch in less than two hours, and there was hide nor hare of him!! Turned out that he was at the DOWN escalator, and I was at the UP escalator. We eventually did meet up but there was such steam coming out of my head (directed all at him) that he couldn't see the new do.
)About fifteen years ago, I had my hair cut in Paris at one of the big department stores. Truthfully, I don't remember much about the cut. What I do remember is that I asked my husband to meet me at the escalator afterwards, and he never showed. I got into a complete panic because I had a plane to catch in less than two hours, and there was hide nor hare of him!! Turned out that he was at the DOWN escalator, and I was at the UP escalator. We eventually did meet up but there was such steam coming out of my head (directed all at him) that he couldn't see the new do.
Nov 25th, 2004, 10:28 AM
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Aha, dln! So that sexy Robert of yours has proven himself eerily elusive on more than one occasion!
How well I recall our mutual puzzlement as we stood outside that fabulous food scanning the street for his whereabouts!
It's weird how men can vanish in a wisp of air, leaving behind naught but a faint scent of after shave and leather wallet!
How well I recall our mutual puzzlement as we stood outside that fabulous food scanning the street for his whereabouts!
It's weird how men can vanish in a wisp of air, leaving behind naught but a faint scent of after shave and leather wallet!
Nov 25th, 2004, 07:08 PM
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I took my son to a salon in Le Bugue in the Dordogne one year and asked them to trim his hair. The stylist was on the cell phone during much of the time she was working on my son, and the result was a 12-year-old with a haircut that looked like a rooster. He had spikes all through the top of his head! We called him "Spike" for the next two months. Thank goodness it was two months until he had to go back to school, by which time it had grown out.
Nov 26th, 2004, 10:43 AM
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not to change the subject, but this prompts me to ask how one ejects themselves from their current hair stylist. I've been going to same guy for 10 years, know all about his kids, etc. but I want a change. I don't think he keeps up on things and I want to try another place. A friend who left him got a call from him asking why etc. I dread a call like that!! Any ideas?
Nov 26th, 2004, 10:49 AM
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bashful, it's sometimes really difficult but we have to stop being "nice" women and just take the decision we know to be best for our interests. Just think, you are depriving some good hairdresser out there of your patronage and you are keeping on one you consider mediocre.
If you get such a call, there's no need to respond at all - or you can say something like, "I've found something that works better for me."
If you get such a call, there's no need to respond at all - or you can say something like, "I've found something that works better for me."
Nov 26th, 2004, 02:02 PM
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Just reread this post and noticed that I owe dln a thank you for describing my appearance when we met in Paris as "very fetching". The lady has a kind heart and a generous nature.
In fact, as I clumped alongside her elegant self through the winding streets of the 6th, it was readily apparent that, in comparison, I appeared more like a moose than a madame.
In fact, as I clumped alongside her elegant self through the winding streets of the 6th, it was readily apparent that, in comparison, I appeared more like a moose than a madame.
Apr 16th, 2006, 03:28 PM
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I took my mother,24 year old nephew and his wife to London a few years ago. The last day we were there, my nephew decided to get his hair dyed blue. Made for an interesting security check at Gatwick Airport.
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Apr 16th, 2006, 04:16 PM
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My daughter has booked me in to a salon in, I think, Piacenza in Italy for a style on the morning of her wedding in June. I will be having my hair cut and colored about 10 days before at my usual hairdresser here but just a blow dry at the new hairdressers. I hope that nothing too disasterous can go wrong, as I can't speak a word of Italian.
Apr 17th, 2006, 09:57 AM
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This post made me laugh at a good memory! My husband and I were in San Godenzo--a little north of Florence. Very few English speakers anywhere. He wanted a haircut, and we found a salon in a nearby town. I was able to ask in Italian if they cut men's hair, but instead of telling them how much to take OFF, I must have said how much to leave ON. What a buzz cut he got! Luckily, it was a hot July, and the short cut was great. I thought it looked pretty handsome, and after that, we always referred to his short hair as "an Italian cut!"
Sep 21st, 2007, 05:37 AM
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About 10 years ago I was in Paris with a group of girlfriends and we decided to get our hair cut. The concierge at our hotel suggested we visit a place called Jean-Claude Bigune (a French equivalent to Toni & Guy, I suppose) and they did an awesome job. My French is terrible because of my Texas drawl, so I pointed at a picture in a magazine and that's what I got. It was only about $35, too, far less than I had expected!
