This is the one about my hair.

Posted October 4th, 2009 by Mike Lawson

This sixteen-year-old kid at work wants to go to cosmetology school, and he has a pretty good eye for style.  Last week I told him that I wanted him to cut my hair for me.  It was a week of “do you really trust me?” and “what if I mess it up?” conversations…I kinda think that he liked telling people he was going to cut my hair more than he actually enjoyed cutting it.

Last Friday I brought my clippers and scissors to work, and the kid went to town.  My instructions were simple: do my hair the way you’d do it if you had hair like mine (his hair is much curlier than mine is, and he has told me he wishes he had straighter hair).

He did a fairly good job.  The length on the sides and top was really good…except for my front curl.

Backstory: I have this annoying Clark-Kent-like curl in the front of my head.  It’s particularly frustrating for people that are trying to style my hair when they realize that their entire creation is thrown off by this freak curl.

So when the teen was cutting my hair he took the scissors and totally gave me baby bangs.  Like the hair on the top of my head is 5 inches, and my bangs are 1 inch.

It’s a pitty too, because the kid really gave me a good haircut.  But I can’t live with these stupid bangs.  So today I had Dan do this to me:

I think that after it grows out I’ll give the kid another chance at my head.  Like I said, aside from the bangs, I really liked the doo.