On Sunday, I went for my second haircut in a month at my friendly (and chio) hairstylist’s. Before the last haircut, I had been going to the barber’s for a convenient but nosso nice crewcut. But you know, you have to pamper yourself every now and again. And my hair grows really quickly.
So, for a little bit more than what I pay the barber, I had a shampoo and scalp massage by some funky dude whose name I didn’t get again, and a stylish haircut by the chioest hairstylist you’ll ever see this side of Orchard Road. Actually, she could give me a Mohawk and I still wouldn’t mind. Or notice. Until I got home and my mother were to ask, ‘why you look like red indian?’
Cheryl the Chio started the usual hairstylist/barbershop conversation, but steered clear of politics (because this place, damned stylo one), asking me what movies I had seen lately, whether I had been clubbing, and asking why I didn’t go to the Zouk 20th Anniversary Bash.
I yammered away, as you would to a chio hairstylist who asked you those things: Went to Mohd. Sultan instead lah, had teh lah, nowsaday cannot drink lah, too old to party lah.
Then Cheryl suddenly asked, ‘Eh, before you came back here last month, you went to the barber for a crewcut right?’
I said yes.
‘You shouldn’t’
‘Why not?’
‘Because you have a fragile area’
‘WHAT YOU MEAN FRAGILE AREA?’, I asked, so loudly that the other customers turned to look, causing their respective stylists to go tsk (or ‘zhk’, depending on whether you’re a pinyinophile or a wade-gilesophile. Gotta get these things right, you know?)’ because they nearly cut their customers’ ears off.
‘There’s one part of your hair that grows more slowly than the rest’.
‘Oh no! Beijing 101 time!’
‘Don’t worry. I style for you and give that area more volume’.
Looks empty? It’s not. Everyone’s hiding below the window sill.
Pre-haircut and waiting for my cup of tea.
Mr. M, you and your fragile spot are truly foraging the path ahead into middle age, and damn it, you make it sound like so much fun.
Regards,
J
Mr. M, you and your fragile spot are truly foraging the path ahead into middle age, and damn it, you make it sound like so much fun.
Regards,
J
You heard me Mr. Old Chikopek. Dun deny it. But thanks to you I get to see chio bu. Someday I hope to become as old and perverse as you.
You heard me Mr. Old Chikopek. Dun deny it. But thanks to you I get to see chio bu. Someday I hope to become as old and perverse as you.
That’s a very refined way of referring to thinning hair. Will remember that.
That’s a very refined way of referring to thinning hair. Will remember that.
She’s cut my hair before. did u get the nice head massage?
She’s cut my hair before. did u get the nice head massage?
Yes, but not by Cheryl.
Yes, but not by Cheryl.
My hair is long liao. I better go search for her name card you passed me a couple of weeks ago.
Wonder if she does eyebrows.
My hair is long liao. I better go search for her name card you passed me a couple of weeks ago.
Wonder if she does eyebrows.
mmm u read Wallpaper one?
mmm u read Wallpaper one?
dude, i’m 25 and my stylist has said that to me too.
dude, i’m 25 and my stylist has said that to me too.
n im 27 n thts wat my stylist said to me too. well..guess we’re all balding already. eeeks*
n im 27 n thts wat my stylist said to me too. well..guess we’re all balding already. eeeks*
perhaps its not the age then. chikopeks lose hair easily. thus explains why most are balding. 🙂
perhaps its not the age then. chikopeks lose hair easily. thus explains why most are balding. 🙂
I am not balding. Yet. I just have a fragile area.
I am not balding. Yet. I just have a fragile area.
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Aiyah…you know why ham sup guys lose hair? Grass doesn’t grow on a busy street!
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Aiyah…you know why ham sup guys lose hair? Grass doesn’t grow on a busy street!
all the guys there have funky names, my stylist’s titus. i wldn’t have caught his name if he didn’t give me his name card
all the guys there have funky names, my stylist’s titus. i wldn’t have caught his name if he didn’t give me his name card
thanks for the surfstop, mr miyagi! 🙂
thanks for the surfstop, mr miyagi! 🙂
cheryl is my stylist too!.. hehe.. speaking of old..me almost got ear snipped off by her last time cos i said “we all getting old”..(me same age as her)
cheryl is my stylist too!.. hehe.. speaking of old..me almost got ear snipped off by her last time cos i said “we all getting old”..(me same age as her)
hehh been to next too. wa nice to be pampered man. hehh.
hehh been to next too. wa nice to be pampered man. hehh.