A Good Haircut

Back when I was in my 20s, all I needed to look good was clean hair and a smile. That doesn't work anymore. (Not for a long time.) I need a good haircut.

A good haircut looks good when you first come home from the salon. It may look a bit different when you wash it and style it yourself, but it still looks good. A good haircut looks good until it is time for another haircut. This should be longer than three weeks. On average it should be six weeks. But the way to judge it is that your hair is in your face, the color needs a touch up, or it's getting shaggy. If it gets shaggy after three weeks, you didn't have a good haircut.

I don't think I have a good haircut. The individual who cut my hair for a number of years is no longer available. I wanted to find someone else in my home town. (It was one thing to go to a hairdresser in Plano or Dallas when I worked in Plano or Dallas, which I haven't done in years.) I've tried a few of the others now and I still haven't had a good haircut.

So yesterday while we sat having lunch at Market Square in San Antonio, I looked at other women's hair. I can see that I am not alone. Nobody I wanted to trade hair with. No one I wanted to run up to and ask "Who does your hair?"

Pretty much the same thing when we were on the Riverwalk, although I did see two women with good haircuts there. But I didn't run up and ask because the odds of them being in the Dallas area are pretty slim.

It's a dilemma. I bought some hats last week because they look better than my hair does. It's a good short-term solution. But I don't want to fool around with hats for the long term. The one I had on yesterday did not feel that secure on my head. I felt my hair constantly trying to get out from under the hat. Maybe I could start wearing a hijab. Or maybe a turban .

Or, maybe I can find a hairdresser who's really knows how to cut hair.