SHIKIMIKIE: Japanese salon
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Showing posts with label Japanese salon. Show all posts

Sunday 19 July 2015

Having my Hair Cut in Japan

July 19, 2015 0
Having my Hair Cut in Japan
This isn't my first time having my hair cut here but this one I would like to share. To be fair though, there's no way I think this salon is better than my previous salon or the other way around but yeah. It just so happen that I feel like blogging now. As per usual. It's actually quite easy to find a salon here in Japan. And when you go in and don't speak English, you'll do just fine. They do understand basic terms. Cut, color, perm, iron, shampoo, style, and all that hair stuff. It's kinda handy to have a picture of the style you want and show them. They would more or else get what you want.







Salons here in Japan is kind of expensive for my taste. But it's actually good. Their stylists take time to figure out what would look best on you. In fairness to them. Also, this new salon that I went to have a separate cut and color stylist.






Before





But maybe unlike in the Philippines, their stylists can be a little talkative which I don't really appreciate. Can I just share that I haven't encountered a cut stylists that's not kinda cute? And flirty. The first salon I went to said I look kirei, right? This new stylist called me kawaii. Ugh, what can I do? This new one really look so demure and so kind. He looks like Vanness Wu from F4.








Me at the salon



It's really funny how my cut stylist was kinda hopeless in my disinterest in fixing my broken hair. He was like, there's a treatment that will make your hair healthy in an instant. Like, to the point that you'll be surprised. And I was just looking at him and explaining all the failure my hair have been thru in the past and he was like, oh. Hahaha it's cute.






After



I went for a tad lighter hair color than I already had and I'm really happy about the results. In the beginning, I actually hoped I chose a lighter color but being the lazy salon goer than I am, this might just be the percect color for me to sort of maintain. Or not.







Lastly, almost wherever you go here in Japan, they give you a membership card of some sort. If you go to their shop often, you acquire points that you can exchange for a service later. Kinda neat.

Thursday 19 February 2015

New hair don care

February 19, 2015 0
New hair don care

Basically, I cut my hair shorter. I was kind of asking my stylist to cut it shorter-shorter because the damage of my hair is beyond "don't cut it too short" but he refused and was worried my hair would go wild. I was kind of confident in explaining and at the end of the day, I got rejected. Oh my hair, you never fail to embarrass me. Hahaha but I fully trust hair stylists here in Japan. I think they know what they're doing. And they take time perfecting what they're doing. 















Took photos of my long hair before going to the parlor only to realize it's really effed up. 
















Also, I wanted to have my hair colored lighter. In the past, before this picture above of course. My hair really never cared whether you color it with blondish colors, reds, browns, anything!!! Like, it just wouldn't absorb color. I'm glad that we're actually seeing color now. 


















After picture. In fairness, I like the style and the color. He did say that he used like the strongest color I believe. I hope he didn't mean strongest chemical. Because I sure don't need more chemicals to damage my hair. Can I just say that the stylist is kind of flirting with me, he was like "きれいですね" and I was just like, "I DON'T SPEAK MUCH JAPANESE" LOL. But he's nice overall. Kind of cute.Entertaining. 
















It would be sure hard to keep this kind of hair style. It would go wild if you don't tame it with lotsa hair oil and stuff. But I'm happy. I probably got rid of half my split ends and frizzy hair. OMG may I just add that when I was about to go out, there's actually like a complimentary hair treatment product and he was like, please use it. I find it rather insulting. Haha oh well. Dry hair don care. That's all y'all!