Yesterday was Labour Day, so I was off work. T had to go to work because his clients are based in Australia, and for some reason, Australia has it’s own Labour Day. That being the case, I decided to go and straighten my hair. Now, in most ways, I hardly take care of my personal appearance. I don’t do mani / pedis, I don’t have facials…if you drop by my house unexpectedly, you’re most likely to find me in boxers and a huge shirt, but I do straighten my hair.

I used to have lovely straight hair when I was a kid. Then, for some reason, in Standard 5, it started going crazy and turned wavy. It’s not even the nice type of wavy, it’s more like frizzy wavy. It’s already been over a year since I last straightened my hair, so it was long overdue. I was tying up my hair most of the time because it was getting so big.

I made my appointment at Monsoon ID in 1 Utama (they’re having a 49% discount on all treatments), and was there promptly at 11am. They assigned me to a stylist called Keith, and I told him that I was bored of my hairstyle, and to change it. I don’t think that in Monsoon ID, they are very brave with their hair styles, mine basically looks almost the same, but with a side parting!

Anyway, despite looking like Cousin IT for quite awhile, it’s turned out pretty OK so far. Of course, I have yet to wash my hair. Most probably as soon as I wash it, it’ll be back to the center parting! I’ll have to re-train my hair to get used to the side parting, I don’t want to have a bald line in the center of my head. And can you imagine, even WITH the 49% discount, the bill came up to about RM400. Heheh…

Two reflections about the whole process:

• Chinese always assume that if you’re Chinese, you speak Cantonese.
• Hair salons must be one of the most unfriendly businesses to the environment. My hair was rinsed at least 4 times and new towels were used each time.

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