Thursday, February 05, 2009

Breaking up is hard to do

I was listening to a piece on NPR the other day. It was about how to nicely break up with your manicurist, yoga instructor, etc, due to hard financial times.

It made me think of how I kind of just broke up with my hair stylist.

It's not because of money, it's just time for a change. There are tons of articles about this online. Everyone has an opinion about whether to say something, what to say about why you're moving on, how to say it, when to say it and some common reasons for wanting to end the relationship, as it were.

Me? I'm a bit of a p-u-s-s-y when it comes to this type of confrontation and I have always just quietly faded away, stopped calling and hoped never to run into my ex-stylist around town or at a party where we each are a friend of a friend. This time is no different.

First, I stopped getting my brows waxed. (And did the switch to threading.) Then, I canceled a bang trim appointment because I was sick. Then, well, I just didn't call again to reschedule. Then, my cheating heart yearned for someone new and, like a country song by Jessica Simpson, when I got a recommendation to come on over to someone new, I took it. (The color appointment is tonight after work!)

But what if things don't work out with the new stylist(s)? Then I'll probably, uh, date for a while until I find someone worthy of an LTR.

What do you do when you want to break up with your hair stylist? Are you, unlike me, bold enough to say something?

3 comments:

daisymayrobin said...

Fortunately for me, I've seen a lot of flaky gay men that made the break ups easy. They were flaky to begin with, so when I decided to go elsewhere, I didn't feel bad.

Then, there was Jordan. Loved him. But he moved to NYC, and left me with someone he recommended that I ended up not liking. As luck would have it, I met a guy at a party who I knew when I was 15, and we've been BFFs for three years. I have no idea how or if I would ever break up with him... hmm. That's a hard one! Let me know how ot works out. Wil Aaron still see her?

Kittykat said...

Yeah, Aaron will still see her and I think she does a great job on his hair. His hair is so straight and perfect that it always looks good.

I'm going to post about the appt that I had last night. Stay tuned. :-)

Kittykat said...

Btw, you'll have to let me know where you go - your hair always looks awesome!