Common in London and not in existence in Toronto, Seattle and the Eastside offer a plethora of childrens 'specialist' hairdressers. They even take it one step further here by offering funky and interesting chairs for the kids to sit on in the shapes of cars, rockets and other delights. Despite being 'childrens specialists', the 3 I've been to so far (I wasn't hugely thrilled with the first two) took at least half an hour per child to trim their little locks. I may not appreciate the finer aspects of hairdressing but common sense tells me that the key with children, especially small children is to cut their hair as quickly as humanly possible to avoid tears, tantrums and boredom.
The kids had their hair cut today at the 3rd such venue and although they have come out with lovely looking hair I am 50 bucks poorer and it took 30 mins each. This is 15 mins less than the first two we visited, by which time you can imagine Harry was screaming and sobbing and Dylan was fidgeting and getting more & more pissed off. Today they avoided tears, but it still did seem to go out FAR TOO LONG.
I think I'll give it a miss next time and take them somewhere ''normal". Bring back Jo-Ann!
Posted by katie at January 17, 2006 09:01 PM