Do You Chat with Your Hairstylist While Getting a Haircut?

payton on 10/10/2018 - 22:27
Last edited 10/10/2018 - 23:24 by 1 other user

While I know at least one person who talks with their hairdresser/barber, I wonder how many of you do the same?
Personally I think the $10 quick cut places are the best thing since sliced bread.
I pay $10, sit down, tell them what I want, and just enjoy the experience. The process of getting a trim is just nice. Now that they're $10 I can afford to visit every month. Never felt the need to make chit chat, they seem superfluous and might even distract the stylist.

So, vote!
Do you visit $10 Quick Cut places and chat/stay stoic
Do you visit an upmarket stylist and chat/read a mag while they do their work

If you're comfortable stating you're male/female along with your comment, please do!

Poll Options expired

  • 8
    Quick Cut Stylist - conversational
  • 37
    Quick Cut Stylist - brief/no chat
  • 5
    Upmarket - I talk about trendy style and whatnot
  • 1
    Upmarket - I read a mag or a stoic type
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Comments

  • datafellows on 10/10/2018 - 22:39
    +1

    Luckily she only speaks Korean ;P

    • payton on 10/10/2018 - 22:47
      +1

      yea on some places, asking them to do "1/2" .. not quite bald not quite Number 1 cut was a challenge
      but side and back very short, front very short was understood anywhere

  • follow on 11/10/2018 - 00:30
    +1

    if they dont start, i dont talk.
    i've found the cheap places dont talk and the more expensive do.

  • Some Human on 11/10/2018 - 00:41

    I cut my hair myself to avoid meaningless chit chat and save the $40 I kept getting stung for something I can do quicker, better and free at home in my bathroom.

    • Scab on 11/10/2018 - 07:46

      $40

      $40 for a haircut, are you female?

      I have long styled hair and I only pay half that.

      • Some Human on 11/10/2018 - 10:06

        Yes I am. Sign out the front always said hair cuts were under $30, then when it came to pay it was $40. Something about “senior stylist”. Then I figured out I could do it better myself for free.

  • onetwothreefour on 11/10/2018 - 05:30
    +5

    I try to avoid talking to her but my wife can be fairly persistent when she wants to talk to me.

  • Nugs on 11/10/2018 - 06:23

    always have talked with person cutting my hair. it's just the done thing at the places I have been to since childhood.

    recently gone to DIY buzz cut.

  • Cheap Steve on 11/10/2018 - 06:47

    I talk non-stop about my favourite topic, myself.

  • Carydadon on 11/10/2018 - 07:43

    Pre buzz cut/male baldness, I was almost to the point of anxiety before hair cuts because of this. I didn't have a regular hairdresser, wore glasses and very short sighted (usually close my eyes), and when people mess with my hair I tend to fall asleep. I probably should have said upfront 'you mind if I take a nap whilst you cut'? but alas just awkward silences and even more awkward small talk. Having said that, I now really see the value and have learnt to enjoy small talk and getting to know people, just not whilst your bound in a chair and they have sharp objects.

  • tdrive on 11/10/2018 - 09:38

    Upmarket/Male. I usually go after work and I'm tired. I usually can't be bothered with small talk, but like a good hair cut.

  • HighAndDry on 11/10/2018 - 10:22

    Some small talk.

  • lupiter on 11/10/2018 - 11:57
    +1

    I go to a place I consider cheap, $27 for short womens haircut.

    No chit-chat, they play Triple J, lets me put my glasses back on before asking if I'm okay with the cut, acceptable haircut, no up-selling, no product.

    I quite like getting a haircut, I find it relaxing, but only if they don't try to talk to me.

  • marcusv on 11/10/2018 - 12:48

    It depends on the barber. I generally am not one for idle chit chat (talking about the weather, plans for the weekend) so I haven't talked with barbers in the past. But I get along really well with the one I go to now so we chat the whole time.

    I wish I could get away with a $10 haircut but I have found that cheap haircuts make me look like a spud. Because of how my hair is it needs a proper style from a good barber.

  • Archi on 11/10/2018 - 14:10

    absolutely… the same stylist has been cutting my hair for the last 20 years, she is the same age as I am, she is more a friend then just my hairdresser.

    I guess it depends on you relationship with the person. I couldn't think of anything worse then getting a different person every time I got a haircut or went to a different establishment.

    kind of a loyal person I am.

    • Stopback on 11/10/2018 - 14:13

      she is more a friend then just my hairdresser.

      Until you stop going there for haircuts

      • Archi on 11/10/2018 - 14:17

        you are probably right… but she is entwined into my family now, she has been cutting my wife's hair for the last 10 years and my kids hair as well. too late now, she'll be cutting it either till she retires or dies.

      • fikrikusuma on 03/01/2019 - 15:35

        no not really, several person is really friendly, indeed. They used to talking about another customer

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