Ok, so ever since I have had this amazing emotional & physiological breakthrough, the universe has been a very kind & loving place. I mean, almost simultaneously about four jobs just dropped in my lap. In this economy I am grateful! The other night I felt even closer to my husband because of his beautiful words & how he expressed how much he truly loves me for me regardless of how fluffy I get.
Today I think the Universe was trying to teach me a lesson. So I jump through hoops to get a hair appointment because my hair is really boring me. I have all these appointments next week where I want to look all grown up & polished. I was supposed to go into work from 10-12 & then 7-9 today. But instead the manager decides I am ready to do the closing shift which starts at 3:30 pm. So then that put me in a conundrum because I had my hair appointment at 1 pm. Well I got a little pissed because I said I could open but forgot I had my appointment, so I called back & said I had this appt. Well Ebber Debber mgr says 'I already told Summer.' Like, the 20 minutes that passed didn't matter because she told someone I would work. Long story short it irritated me & then I kept saying I didn't want to go into work.
Fast forward to my hair apt. So I bring in this picture of J. Lo with bangs. I already have bangs so all I needed was to get my hair colored. My hair stylist says 'No problem! We only have to strip your hair & then put toner in it.' Brilliant I say! So all is going well, it takes 2 hours just to get the foil in my hair (I have a tonof hair!). So the next step is to put me under the hair dryer & let the bleach do its magic & strip my hair. Next after that add toner, blow dry my hair & voila' - magical hairstyle appears. Well, that's how it was supposed to go...
Here's what really happened. I get the tin foil in my hair & I settle in under the hair dryer. It's kind of soothing with the low heat & the humming. About 5 minutes into this ordeal, my scalp begins to BURN like someone poured acid on my head. I mean the heat was so intense that I leapt out of my chair & ran across the salon yelling 'ANDRE!!! ANDRE!!!! It BURNS, it BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURNS!!!!!!' Andre' is my hairstylist who is African American, dreads & pretty built & Ex-Navy. Oh & totally Gay! I love all that about him, but he looked at me like 'Fool! Whatchoo doing out from under that dryer? It ain't time yet!' Then he realized what was going on. By this time my scalp was literally steaming. STEAMING. Did I mention that my scalp was on fire without the fire?!?!? He reached for his spray bottle & began hosing my head down. Then he rushed me to the wash basins & started ripping tin foil out of my hair frantically & then hosed me down again with the hair wash thingy. It HURT so badly & burned like a mofo. Now I was crying hysterically for several reasons...1) How the hell am I going to explain this one to my boss? 2) OMG BBq sauce this was painful 3) Do i have to go to the dr. on a Friday night?!?!? 4) Triple OMG BBq sauce this was so painful 5) Why the hell does this have to happen when my husband is out of the country & I am inside the loop & live in Katy?!?! 6) Oh hell I don't know, just know there are at least 6 reasons I was crying hysterically.
I finally stopped bawling & gathered myself enough to get into my car. I called my boss first to tell her my incident with hairgate. Then I called my brother whose mother in law happens to own hair salons & said the same thing my stylist said 'Some bleaches don't mix well with metal based hair dye & you can't put them under the dryer' IF ONLY THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A SIGN THAT SAID THAT OR SOMETHING TO CLARIFY THAT before YOU BLEACH MY HAIR & PUT ME UNDER THE DRYER. My brother met me at my house, looked my wounded scalp over, researched some stuff on the interwebs & then let me know I'd be ok. Just have to run my head under cold water to get all the chemicals out. I took 3 ibuprofen & that has helped.
My scalp isn't on fire anymore. I do have a couple of blisters, but throughout all of this the irony is that my hair is perfectly ok. Ha!!! So then I was like did Uni do this so I didn't have to go to work? Next time can we leave out the pain & burning?!?!?
Ok, that's it for now because I am exhausted & need to sleep this trauma off. I can laugh now as I remember running across the salon with steam flowing off the top of my head. Pretty funny sight when you visualize it.
Peace out Peops!
