NEVER GET A HAIRCUT IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY

Why you may ask? Let me tell you...

Tonight I decided it was time to cut my hair. It had already grown majorly long...see look (at me, not the horse):
My hair is SUPER LONG. Obviously that means it's super hot....and even hotter in Thailand. So i tend to wear my hair up. Like ALL the time. So there's no real point in having long hair if you never wear it down, right? Well that's exactly what I thought. So it was time to bite the bullet and get my haircut.

Ok, now if you know me (which you should, or why else would you be reading this) you know my hairstyle is pretty simple. I cut it a little above my shoulders, and that's it. Nothing else. NOTHING ELSE. No layers, no thinning, NOTHING but a cut.

So I went to the hair salon after work. I showed her the length I wanted my hair. I said HERE. And pointed. And pointed. And pointed. She repeatedly asked if I wanted it "this short" or "this short" and repeatedly I said "Here" and showed her the length. I even showed her "NO" and "NO" to the lengths I DIDN'T want. Finally she puts her hand the length of how I want it and I agree. So we now know how short/long I want my hair. Let's get started.

First, she ties it in a pony tail and chops off the ponytail. Ok, that will make things easier in the long run. Then she puts the scissors away. WHAT?!?! She then THINS my hair until it is the length that is COMPLETELY SHORTER than I what we had motioned. Then she moves onto my bangs....that took um, like, 6 months to FINALLY grow out. And she thins then...to shortness. WTF?!!?!? Then she acts like she's done cutting, and I have to show her that both sides are different lengths. She says "Yes, cut, cut" and then blow dries my hair (not sure why she pulled out a blow dryer - she didn't wet my hair to begin with) and then straightens it. OBV both sides are still NOT EVEN. She finally cuts them to the same length...

How short you ask? Well since I'm OBV not putting up a heinous picture of me, put your forefinger to the bottom of your earlobe. Got down to the middle knuckle, and that's the length of my hair. Now add the image of thinning hair. Do you see it? Yes, it's me.

Don't worry - I didn't spend a fortune on the haircut. A normal meal at a restaurant here is 30baht. A pizza in the city (a rare treat) is 200 baht. Oh don't worry, my haircut was 150baht. Yes, my haircut was the cost of 5 meals, or almost a whole pizza.

They say a bad haircut lasts 2 weeks....how long does a horrible one last?

Sawasdee Kha,
Apes