6th March 2010. It was the day I made the biggest mistake to my hair.

Went to the hair salon and relaxed it -.-

Back then I didn't know that if you wanted loose curls on your hair, you should tell the stylist that you want a perm, not a hair relaxing treatment. I remember my mum asking the stylist what would happen to my hair if I went for the treatment, and the stupid woman showed us a picture of a girl with shiny wavy hair. She told us that my hair will be shiny and smooth and blah dee blah blah. What she neglected to tell us was that my hair wouldn't have loose curls, it'd just be stick straight. I thought my hair was going to have loose curls or waves just like in the picture, but I was wrong. I mean, how was I supposed to know? The dumbo went and showed us a picture of a girl with wavy hair, so I automatically assumed that my hair would look just the same after the treatment.

Boy was I wrong. My hair ended up flat as the ground and she went and cut my hair in a way that I didn't like. It was somewhat short at the top but super long at the bottom. It was just hideous. Plus, I could literally feel my super stick-straight hair sticking to my scalp, because it was that flat. To make things worse, my family had organized a celebration dinner that night, and I was so disappointed with the result of my hair that my mood has gone with the wind during that dinner.

I'm glad that the relaxant has gone off almost completely now but there's still a few parts of my hair where the relaxant has decided to stay.

Ah, yes, I forgot, a couple months back I went to the same hair salon with my mum -- since that's where my mum always goes for a haircut -- and I'd gotten a haircut. The woman came and chopped some of my hair off and I just thought my new haircut was horrible. It was fine at the top part of my hair but as it got to the ends of my hair, it was just unsightly. Okay maybe not unsightly but it looked just plain hideous. It looked like as if the stylist just took a pair of scissors, grabbed all of my hair in her hand, and chopped it off in one clean snip. But she didn't. God knows what she did to my hair but the result was just disappointing. Oh, and you know what's worse? She was talking to her other bloody stylists while she was cutting my hair. I hate when that happens! Like, dude, you're working on a customer here, you shouldn't be talking to your other colleagues while you're doing your work! Seriously! It made me wonder if she was really concentrating on cutting my hair or engaging herself more in the conversation about God knew what. She was speaking in Chinese with her colleagues. Of course, I chose the latter, since my hair ended up unprofessionally cut.

And they are so...RUDE! I mean, they're not so friendly and they speak to my mum in a very harsh manner. I'm not sure if my mum realized that but each time I heard them talk to my mum in that questionable tone of theirs, I just feel like slapping their faces and say, "HEY BITCH! YOU'RE TALKING TO A WOMAN WHO'S SO MUCH OLDER THAN YOU! IS THAT HOW YOU SPEAK TO YOUR CUSTOMERS?!" Yes, I would really use the word "bitch" in cases like these.

I don't know why my mum still bothers to go that salon. Maybe I should tell her about my own hair salon that I've discovered a couple years back. It's barely a five-minute drive from home and the salon is actually in a compound that used to be a house, complete with the gate and the lawn and all. I still remember the first time I went there. The stylist who worked with me really knew what to do with my hair, and I went home with a smile on my face because I loved my new haircut. It cost me RM40 but it was worth the money.

I went to the same hair salon yesterday to get a haircut because I felt like I needed one. The haircut cost RM21 because I'm a student and I think they considered me as a member there, although I don't remember signing up. But when I first went to the salon a couple years back, they made me fill out a form for their customer records, I think. Anyhow, I managed to get the RM21 haircut because...well I don't really know why haha.

The stylist who worked with me yesterday was very friendly. He also knew what to do with my hair so I trusted him on that. He didn't talk to his other colleagues while styling my hair and I also observed around and managed to notice that the other stylists didn't speak to one another while they're working on their customers. I found that very promising and very professional and I have no doubts about going there again.

I sort of like my new haircut. It's about an inch shorter, or maybe a little more than that, and it looks nicer now. I'm kind of sad that it's shorter but at least it doesn't look like as if someone took a whole bunch of my hair and cut it with a scissors in one clean snip.

I can't wait for my hair to grow out. I just want to get rid of the treated part of my hair, quick! I miss my natural waves :'(