Hair cuts, hi & low

Excuse the crap Blackberry photo, but it's all I had with me to snap my new do, $25.

I've been growing my mop for months and months from its uber short style, and yesterday reached the boiling point: my hair was truly looking like a mop, with no shape, too much hair, and an icky texture (probably helped along by icky dollar store shampoo).

So my amazing hairdresser gave me what I asked for: a shorter blunt cut, tapered at the front and shorter at the back (that's how my layers were growing out so it made sense).

Cost, $25 plus tip.

I've discovered, the hard way over the years, that spending $100+ on a do often gives you the same or even a lesser cut than the cheaper varieties. Truth is I'm so happy with my $25 cut (and the good cuts my gal has given me over the years), that I have no inclination to torment myself looking for the 'perfect' hairdresser.

I'm thrilled with my own look, and before you ask: I'm sorry, but this is one find I can't share with you, not out of selfish reasons but for consideration for the stylist. My advice: there are plenty of peeps who work from home and supplement their incomes this way; you just gotta find 'em. But if you check out my Twitter feed to the right, I hear the Mrvel Beauty School in Yorkville charges $10 for a cut.

On the not so cheap note: I did have to equip myself at the drugmart after my cut with the necessary brush, (decent) shampoo and styling product - and images of me morphing into 'a high maintenance babe', as the women in my fam jokingly call it, flashed through my mind. We'll just see how it pans out, but I don't mind paying $40 for the accoutrements of style especially since the do was such a good deal!