Historic day here at My Reboot @ 30… I got my first haircut in Korea!!! Four and a half months into my stay here, I finally decided to take the plunge and brave the world of hair styling in a country that doesn’t speak my language. I figured that my trip to Thailand deserved a shorter look, considering my hair was long enough to help me through the cold Korean temps, but would probably be uncomfortable in the hot Thai ones.
It started out pretty good. I tried to tell the girl that I wanted my hair short. I illustrated this my pulling my bangs up and using my index finger and thumb to show how short I wanted it. She began cutting away. After a while I started wondering if she understood me because she was only using scissors and never took out the trimmer. It also seemed as if she wasn’t returning to places she had trimmed, but not cut to the specified length. It became incredibly apparent that she didn’t understand what I wanted when she took off the drape and my hair was still touching my ears and the top of my head was still rather thick.
I tried to illustrate again and finally her boss came over and tried to figure out if she could understand what I wanted. She started flipping through books and magazines in search of an illustration to show me, however, this seemed to be a mostly female clientele salon and they had NOTHING that they could show me.
I tried once again to illustrate with the finger method and she gave it another shot. I figured I might end up sitting here for a while. But soon the trimmer came out and I felt like I was starting to get through.
AHHH… the buzzing of the clippers on my head. One of my favorite parts of getting a haircut. Thankfully, when I opened my eyes, the look was complete. Not quite to my specifications, but I suppose having a little more hair on my head will help me not freeze once I get back to the cold weather in Korea. Then I got a quick shampoo… I love it when people mess with my hair… so relaxing. It was definitely a good start to my vacation.
So what do you think? Here’s the before and after:
Before...
...and after
#1 by Tom at January 4th, 2010
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I think more people will be concentrating on the fact that “Praise the Lord, he put a shirt on in the second picture”.
#2 by Kristina at January 4th, 2010
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You know I love it whenever Brandon gets a haircut! WOOOO.
#3 by Bossrocker at January 4th, 2010
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I am analyzing the symbolic significance of the scowl and the towels in the background of the first picture…. nice hair cut.
#4 by Brandon at January 5th, 2010
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Well, Justin, if you subscribe to the theory of line symbolism and factor in the differential of stench vs. appearance and then apply the proper amount of understanding that complex suds work in tandem with 2 parts hydrogen and one part water you can only come to the conclusion… that my roommate has a clean pillowcase and towels that are drying on a clothesline (no dryer in our place).
BTW, glad you all like the haircut. It was a shock to the people at church that had just seen me about 12 hours before.