Haircut from Great Clips
Item Purchased: Haircut from Great Clips
Location Purchased: Great Clips / University Village / Chicago, IL
Price: $12.00 + tax
Review: I took the opportunity granted to me by waking up early to get a haircut today. I used to get my hair cut at a top-notch salon in the Sears Tower because it was located next to the bookstore I worked in. Similarly, I chose Great Clips because it is right down the street from the bookstore where I work now.
If I am reading my receipt correctly, my stylist’s name was Blanca. Blanca amazed me after asking me how I wanted my hair cut, with her speed and accuracy. Being a regular white dude with straight boring hair whose only follicle challenge is the Michael Landon pre-mullet that forms in the back of my head every so often, “a trim…clean up the sides and back” is all I usually have to say. No soonder did I say that, and Blanca was off and snipping away. I imagine her handiwork to look a lot like that of Edward Scissorhands’ shrub sculpting if viewed from afar.
The haircut took no longer than ten minutes and not only was I pleased, but I was on time getting back to work. With the holiday coming up in a few days, it is good that I look semi-clean and feel a bit less shaggy. That way, I will endure slightly less antagonism from my family regarding my chosen path in life…which is that of ever seeking a path.
Great Clips isn’t anything special when it comes to extra beauty services, but if all you need is a haircut, you’d do well choosing this affordable path. I’ll never understand why people choose to get a $40+ haircut at name-brand salons. Is personal vanity worth that much? It’s not like these salons etch their logo into your hair or brand it on your forehead, so why not save $20-$30, let Blanca work her magic and lie to your friends who care about those sorts of things.
But I suppose if your friends are the kind of people who judge you on name-brand haircuts, you have a lot more problems than just saving a couple of bucks.
Blanca and Great Clips = You looking presentable and respectable.
Rating: 4.25 / 5
April 21st, 2007 at 1:51 pm
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April 21st, 2007 at 3:18 pm
Oh! I miss your bangs flopping all over the place!
I have a fear of haircutters. Probably why my hair reaches down to my thighs… Not the top though. I just snip that off myself. I have THE longest “mullet”- it’s probably Guinness book-worthy.
Well, you already know if you’ve snooped my MyS pics.
My mother will shortly be commenting on my (lack of) job choice and my hair too. Good luck to us both
April 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Wait, was this from Nov 05 or Apr 07?!