Post-It Note

She walks in. She’s in her mid twenties, attractive, blonde, blue eyed, with perfect skin. When she was in last time for color, she showed me the picture of Resse with the short eyebrow skimming bangs. I agreed that the bang would look great on her face. Today she brings me the same photo. This time she has a small yellow Post-It note attached to it. She looks up at me “I have some questions” she says. I listen closely, as I glance down at the Post-it note that reads as follows:

- eyebrows or above
- Hip, not mommy
- Bald temples?
- Boys?
- longer on edges

I take her questions one at a time. First, I agree that the bangs should hit at about the eyebrows. Question two, I take a small slice of bang in the front and show her the difference between a bang that is modern vs something that might look a bit out of fashion. Question three, “No one will see your bald areas around your hair recession” I say. Then she drops the Question four “If I cut these bangs, will guys still want to ask me out? I haven’t had bangs since junior high.” She says. I’m thinking to myself that I could shave her bangs and eyebrows both off and she could still get a date. “Yes, guys will still ask you out” I reply.

I cut off the first 10 inches as she closes her eyes. I spend a good ten minutes working on the bangs. I take them up a quarter inch at a time. I stop every now and again to pull the length into a ponytail to see how they will fall when she pulls her hair back. Then I blow dry her face to get the small dry hairs that have lain to rest on her eyelashes. I finish and they look great. Her face is opened up and she smiles.