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Every couple of months or so I slap this stuff on my head for about 20 minutes, rinse it out and then I’m good to go… no more grey hairs (at least for awhile). The whole process takes about half an hour. I’ve tried doing this at a salon. It takes FOREVER, costs three times as much, and the results often aren’t what I’d asked for.
Unlike many women I know, I really don’t like going to the hairdresser’s. Seriously. I don’t like it A LOT. If I could I would cut my own hair, as it’s been the same cut I’ve had since I was 25. A just below the jawline bob. Not that it even matters since I always pull my hair back anyhow. So I have come to dread having to spend a whole hour at the salon when the cut only takes about 5 minutes… the rest is just faffing around. The only saving grace is that many years ago I found a hairdresser’s that gets me.
I just want my hair cut. I don’t want to chat. I don’t want to read gossip mags. I just want to get in and out as quickly as possible. And these guys totally understand that, though I’m sure they think I’m an anti-social weirdo, which they probably put down to me being a guiri. I’ve considered asking them if they would just cut my hair and let me leave without the blow-dry, which takes at least 4 times longer than the cut. But then I’d miss that moment when my hair actually looks like I wished it would always look like. Depending on weather conditions this lasts anywhere from 15 minutes to half an hour…
casa azahar 
I’m with you on the hairdressers, i view a trip there with as much enthusiasm as the dentist!
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I’m so in agreement! I dye my own heir, can’t stand paying someone all that dosh to colour it. When I have too much grey to cover at home, I’ll give in to being gloriously grey!
I do enjoy a haircut though, but hate the chatter. Just give me a nice cut and leave me to my thoughts please!
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I haven’t been in a hair salon since my early teens. For some awful reason, when I was nine, my relatives on the female side decided I needed to have my braids cut off and get “coiffed.” Horrible smells are my main recollection. At the earliest possible date, I bolted, let my hair grow, and for nearly fifty years I’ve done nothing but trim the split ends, wash it when it’s dirty, brush it when it’s tangled, and pin it up to keep it out of my soup.
I do pack it with henna every month or two, just so the pins stay in — henna makes your hair coarser and thicker. Also, if you had warm red hair as a kid and watched it grow dull, as it often does with time if you are not a genetically pure ginger, it’s cool to see the “original” color back on your head, so win-win. It takes longer than 20 minutes and leaves random splotches of what looks like mud around the bathroom… but worth it.
We have these Hair Cuttery and such like places in the US — like unisex barbers. No gab or ritual, just in quick and out quick. Maybe a barber shop, since Seville is kind of, ahem, known for barbers?
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