Hair Cut

I'm fussy about hair cuts. And I've noticed that people that go through most beauty schools are not taught how to cut hair of different races of people.

I had never had a good haircut until I came to live in the Boston area. I grew up in the deep south and most of my visits at the Hair Cuttery ended with a complaint that I have, "That springy, hard to cut hair like a Mexican" and the resulting 3 week wait for my hair to grow out and look decent again.

Now I frequent places like Lisa's Hair salon and sit down to find hair cut sanctuary from a woman that learned how to cut Asian hair. I go to the Korean/Brazilian salon down the street from lisa's and I get an even better haircut from a muscle bound korean man with long blond hair.

This is the surprising part. I live in a very mixed neighborhood and I go to a place where there are pictures of Sinatra, Bennett and Scarface all over the walls. There are porn magazines in the waiting area and the clientele mostly consists of White men almost shouting about sports.

This is the best hair cut I've ever had in my life.

The fellow I go to is White and he just knows how to cut my hair. I haven't asked him why, but I credit his intellect and the fact that he just pays attention to what he's doing and learns from it.