The Precise Mullet!!

In China a very popular haircut is the mullet! I do not understand it but they love it. Guys also love really fluffy hair, the guys will where their hair very high and puffed out. I was so afraid when I was getting my haircut that I would get some kind of mullet because in China the mullet can come in many different forms.

I must start from the beginning. Jacinda wanted to get her hair cut and our Chinese friend, Grace, wanted to take us, which was great b/c she could explain how we wanted our hair cut. We went on Sunday and it was pouring rain, so by the time we got to the mall to meet Grace we were soaking wet and then Grace called us and we explained where we were and we could not seem to see each other so we kept walking around. The problem was we went to the wrong mall. Both malls are about a 5 or 10 minute walk from our school but in opposite directions and we were already late and it was raining so we took a taxi which was about a 3 minute ride. The taxi driver looked at us like we were crazy.

We finally got to the hairdresser and they took all three of us in (at first I had not planned on getting my haircut but they convinced me it was for the experience)sat us in chairs next to each other and three assistants came in and started skirting liquid out of bottle onto our dry hair. They kept rubbing it in the same spot for about 10 minutes, so by that time half of my hair was soapy and she finally rubbed all my hair into the shampoo, but they shampoo your hair for a long time when it is dry. The assistants then take you to wash out the shampoo at a sink and bring you back to the chair where they give you a head, back, and arm massage which was awesome all the while they are serving unlimited hot drinks.

The assistant then takes me into the hairdresser and a man walks out. Grace told us that mostly men are hairdressers and a lot of the women prefer men because they have a better idea of how hair should look or different ideas than girls. So the man was cutting my hair and he spent an hour cutting my hair. He would cut some dry it and play with it and trim some more until it looked absolutely perfect to him. It was like my hair was a piece of art and he was working to make it a masterpiece. I wish I could find hairstylists like that in the U.S. There were even people waiting in a line for him to cut their hair but he kept working with my hair. It was great to have someone spend that much time cutting my hair because you could tell he thought that he did a really good job. It was great.

However, I think my haircut looks pretty good but it has lots of layers and most of them are short (the picture does not show the haircut that well) and there really is not much long hair so I think that if the long hair I left is on my back and not layed around my shoulders it looks like I have a mullet b/c all the front is short and the longness is in the back. I knew it would happen b/c so many women have haircuts like this one and it definitely is a borderline mullet. We like to call it the precise mullet b/c he worked sooo hard to make me the perfect precise mullet!

No matter how it looks Jacinda, Grace and I had such a fun day and the experience and the massage was worth the haircut b/c it only cost me about three american dollars.