Vietnamese Haircut

There is a funny irony here in California. Actually there are many funny ironies, but todays blog will focus on one in particular: Haircuts.

If you go to get a haircut at any given point in any given place in Cali, there is a very good chance an overly pleasant, friendly vietnamese lady will give you your new stylish do unless you go to a high end salon. Through my many experiences in different places in California due to my job, any given time I decide to get a haircut, in any given place in any part of any city there is always a smiling vietnamese lady standing at her chair, smiling and patiently awaiting my visit.

The humor in this post isnt even that point, its that every experience regardless of chain or place is deja vu of the previous visit. Regardless if its a well known chain, an independent stylist, or the $8.99 Hair & Nails spot next to the Liquor Store/Laundry Mat - You enter and are pleasantly greeted and talked to during the experience despite your inability to completely understand the conversation and the established fact that regardless of your description of how you want your haircut, you are coming off that chair with the same EXACT haircut time after time. After many disappointing haircuts and the unavoidable post disgruntlement, Ive tried to lighten up the situation and experiment.......Ive told the same and different places different clipper size attachments, different length measurements, and different combing styles to prove this theory and every time its the same cut. One length on the top, typically about 1 1/4" with a matching length on the side until about an inch above your ear where you will get buzzed. Makes your melon look like a perfect circle. Afterwards, if you take careful notice you'll spot that same haircut in different stages of its regrowth everywhere you visit. Its kinda the equivalent of going to a restaurant and ordering one of a hundred items on the menu which looks fulfilling and makes your mouth water only to end up leaving with a ham sandwich on a white roll in a "please come again" paper bag.

Whats the Vietnamese word for FADE or TEXTURE?

And anyone will tell you, theres no worse feeling than getting a bad haircut, better yet one that cost you money regardless of how much. You find yourself constantly looking in the mirror trying to adjust and fix your hair convincing yourself you can fix it with it product and combing methods when in fact........you simply cant.

You are left anticipating the regrowth of your hair so you can go and get another.................Ham Sandwich.

Due to the above Ive been contemplating going with the training haircut of the close buzz cut with defined lines until I meet the right person who comes close to the amazing skills of my ex stylist from home. Nothing like going into a place with complete confidence of receiving a great haircut time after time whether its something a little different and edgy, or the same old where no words are needed.

I decided to post this blog after careful consideration of stereotypes and being urged by one of my close asian friends at work who couldnt stop laughing about my explanation even hours later after the subject had been changed to more serious matters like the next post: THE NFL PLAYOFFS.

Stereotypes, although dangerous at some levels, can tend to be true and humorous if looked upon in a positive manner. Afterall, there is a reason those stereotypes usually exist and what makes us different better helps to make us a whole.

Somewhere In Vietnam......there is a nation of a thousand schools for hair stylists all created by the founder............... of the melon haircut.