Saturday, August 28, 2010

OMG ! Hair colours and cuts!

What I thought I was getting: Saint Karl Coiffures

A male French non English speaking hairdresser , young - mid to late 20's, trendy metrosexual or possibly Gay, tight jeans, olive skin, tattoo's on his arms, jewelry and a piercing. His hair styled in the messy just got out of bed look. I thought he should be the man or 'boy' for the job! Specifications below all translated into French by Google translate, the price sorted and supplied on a docket.
  • All the roots touched up
  • Foils, sliced through the top section - 2 colours - natural brown alternated with natural ask
  • Toner- to take away the yellow tinge on the ash foils.
  • layered hair cut , length to remain the same and long sides
  • blow dry- straight ( they don't use hair straightners here in Coutances
  • cost quoted for - $64 Euros , minus 20% discount on colour on a Thursday

What I got!
A male hairdresser, French, no English , ( that's where it ends) ...... middle aged to elderly; late 50-early 60's, Albert Tatlock ( Coro Street) dress no style ie , half a head of hair almost a comb over , trying to colour my hair , and another ladies as well as cut and blow dry the hair of an older woman with a blue rinse. Too late once it all started to unfold ........

  • roots - some grey remaining ! 2-3 colours now !
  • huge chunks of hair picked up, coloured and crushed by tin foil which he fumbled, dropped and placed half way down the hair shafts. This is called meches papier ( 50 euro's thank you !)
  • two colours- brown with a copper tinge and yellow ash brown!
  • no toner, although in saying this he did put 'something' in the foils at the half way point, whenever that was in the colour processing time ( no timer and he was darting between me and 2 other clients) and again at the washing stage- no head massage!
  • mousse- a large squirt on the hand, kneaded into the hair - a mere 7 euro's ..what a bargain. No other product used .
  • a quick layering of the back and frayed scissoring of the fringe.
  • blow torch hair drying , my bottom lifting off the seat as he pulled on the curling brush- curls!!!!
  • Voila! fini!
  • 121 Euro's minus 15.40 euro's discount- Merci beaucoup! Au revoir!
I'm needing to breathe into the brown paper bag by this stage , or cover my head with it ! The defib machine is on stand by - 1,2,3 stand clear - paddles on chest ! Do we have a heart beat! No...she's gone..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!This might have been a kinder way to go.


I am not going to look at what they have done to my hair colour.

Look at the back ! So much for fine streaks / foils!


Mark and the dog went out in sympathy with me!


2 comments:

  1. hahahahaha so funny!

    I quite like it hehe
    The blonde is cool but the roots are yellow? haha
    nice of mark and the dog though haha

    as sam would say you got a mince and cheese pie hair colour haha mince with cheese on top

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