i need a haircut

My new hairdresser is Hair By Fairy in Neil's Yard, Covent Garden. Cheap as fuck and very rock'n'roll. No one there speaks English, it's great (I discovered that "Claire" is apparently Italian for blonde) so it's kind of like Russian Roulette hairstyling, but everyone I know who's been there has come out with great hair.

I've found that taking a picture along of a hairstyle that you think is cool is generally the best option. I can't explain things, but I can show things.

However, the worst haircut I EVER had was when I took a WIG along to the hairdresser and said "do this to me." It turned out NOTHING LIKE what the wig looked like. Grrrrrr.

Why didn't you just wear the wig?

I had long hair pre-cut and it kept falling out from underneath the wig.

May have to try Hair by Fairy, but only if the hairdresser wears sparkly wings and doesn't talk to me about where I'm going on my holidays. Actually the wings can be dispensed with, would probably be horrid ravergoth type person. Just how cheap is "really cheap"? I mean, Kate is a rock star and everything :)

Then AGAIN, if my ambition in life IE TO LOOK LIKE KATE BUSH is to be achieved I need long hair (and liposuction and a new face CHIZ CHIZ).

What do you think - the one with the most votes wins.

So come on pick a number!

And I definitely had a fairy doing my hair at Hair By Fairy. He was FABULOUS, even though he barely spoke English (hence limited small talk). Call me old fashioned, but I still prefer gay male hairdressers. I never talk about holidays while being chopped. If you get a good Gay Male Hairdresser, all you have to do is say "I need my hair done for a gig" and you will get a wonderful conversation about clubbing and Did you SEE what Pop Star X was wearing last week?

I go to Jimmy's on Jamaica Road (£7 I think).

Last night I experimented with a radical 6! It probably won't last the week though.
Might suprise you to know that until I was 18 I had hair down past my shoulders - I keep a photo of it to remind me never to go back down that road.

My final vote is a one all over. It's only hair - it'll grow back! (famous advice given by me to crying girlfriend after disastrous haircut)

*sob*

CUTS on Frith Street, £30 for girls so hellifiknow for boys for wash and cut. Ask for Daniel (black guy who had to turn into white guy for TV doc) and revel in the fact that you can have a really laid-back time having an Ambrose-style conversation while the deed is done. They'll also send a runner to get a cuppa/cappucino from Bar Italia if you give them change.

Also I need a stylist or a colourist at the least because I want to put in tiger stripes. Tabby stripes are too tame for me now.

Funny to see that comment there because I am still so happy with my new hair, I'm pleased every time I see it in the mirror.

a few weeks ago there was a piece on s4lly h3rshb3rg3r, the woman who gave meg ryan and jennifer aniston their signature looks, and it mentioned that her cuts are now over $600.

1. Hoshi Coupe, east 9th street, around $40 and
2. Hair Mates, 3rd ave, similar

Or, he specializes in girls' short hair, but can do anything

3. Crops for Girls, Orchard St, $15 for student; $30 otherwise

What kind of haircut should I get? For reference, my hair looks like this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2234/2207969263_3f1d0f0a1e.jpg?v=0

Suggested joke response photos: weird mohawk! Puerto-Rican afro! Clown wig!

also please give me ideas of how to actually explain the haircut to the stylist (I am incredibly bad at this), and also tell me good moderately-priced places to go in NYC.

i'm seeing THE ROCK, a little

http://www.opengroup.com/sports/images/(SC)The_Rock_Photo.jpg

it's a little too messy. my take is you want to either a) clean it up - cut it short to match/emphasize the head shape - not quite the Rock, but closer to him than where you are now, a corporate-ish look you might have to adjust to, or b) take it a bit further and grow it out somewhat - not truly long hair, but longer, for a vaguely hippie-ish look that might not be you either. you probably want 'a' when going into the job world, but you could consider trying 'b' beforehand (tho school is basically the job world, lol). either way, i'd say lose some of the sideburns with 'b' or most/all with 'a'.

can i rebrand 'vaguely hippie-ish' as 'vaguely 70s'?

Yeah, I definitely want to clean it up some at this point. I'm fortunately/unfortunately in a job right now where my appearance doesn't matter much so I tend to let it go a little.

My problem is that usually when I get it cut short I either wind up looking too straight or with some stupid rooster-crown gelled thingamabobby that I hate. Or they try to do that styled "messy" thing in the front which doesn't work that well with my hair because of the texture.

you don't want the styled messy thing, you want it just as short in the front as elsewhere. you're gonna have to get used to looking too straight. it might be easier to do that if you let yourself go really non-straight beforehand.

THE ROCK HAS AN AFRO

ok, this one is not growing in well. Can someone recommend a good, relatively reasonable place in below-14th Manhattan or nearer-Brooklyn? I've tried pretty much everywhere in JC/Hoboken and I'm fed up.

charles li hair salon, e. 19th st just west of 1st ave, on the north side of the street -- you wont' regret it

http://www.welovelocal.com/en/london/islington/highbury/barbers/hair-machine-n78jz.html

indeed

I think I might get my hair cut like Hitler's again. You know, for the lulz.

where do you all go in london these days? been going to stamp on bethnal green road, it's decent but i never feel like they deserve 30 quid, not least cos the staff change so often you hardly have the same person twice, hence no conversation or memory of who you are.

has anyone got their haircut by toni and guy students for 5 quid or whatever or is this just an urban myth? sounds good...

a few friends of mine have done the toni and guy student thing - it's not always good, apparently (a friend had a four-hour 'haircut' that mostly was some trainee cackhandedly straightening her hair after cutting about half an inch off and leaving a bunch of split ends in). but i guess at free or five pounds of whatever it is you can always just get it fixed later if necc.

there is a really good place called 'studio stage door' in muswell hill, mostly staffed by japanese people, not dreadfully expensive and all the haircuts i've seen from there look good and wear well. on the other hand, fuck muswell hill.

Yeah otm, it is a bit far. I don't even mind spending 30 quid or whatever because hair is an item of clothing you wear daily! Like a smile! Just want to feel they deserve the 30 quid. My old hairdresser might ask "what have we done to make you leave?" to which I would say "what have you done to make me stay"

Been going to 'enry 'iggins on flask walk NW3 for the past couple of years and it's doing me very nicely. Cool, but not intimidatingly cool.