Epic Haircut
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Haircut in Kapfenberg, Austria - 20 Euro. As I was told.
"Let's save some money, what worse could happen?" This soliloquy has had me doing things that I sometimes regretted later.
I was in FH Joanneum, Kapfenberg, Austria, for my Erasmus semester. This town albeit small has most facilities available. Breathtakingly beautiful, It's situated in the eastern extensions of the Alps.
It had a small castle atop a mountain, a river carrying crystal clear water, and a rail route that was well-connected from Florence to Zurich to Vienna and Prague. However, being in Austria, also meant that it was more expensive than the rest of Europe.
I went there after my summer break around the end of September 2015 from Pune, India. I had already applied a few money-saving tricks such as a fine haircut to defer the next one as long as possible.
Around mid of December, all the Austrian students in our hostel went to their hometowns for Christmas. The hostel had only a few foreign students. Those must be the most silent days of my life. In such an ambiance, the mind tricks you into doing something adventurous that you would not do otherwise.
I was told by some of my hostel mates that a Haircut means making a hole in the pocket as it costs them 15-20 Euros. Some get it cut from their roommates to save that money. I invented a different plan. I searched on Google "How to get a self haircut". Google gave me a few links out of which I chose this one -"I think I got this. Let's do it, what worse could happen? If something goes wrong I will go to the proper saloon before anyone could notice it" I thought. I woke up pretty early the next day so I will have more bathroom time. I was excited and couldn't wait to see the look on my roommates' faces when I would flaunt my self haircut to them. They would think that they wasted their money when they could have also done the same for the last few years. The thought gave me Goosebumps.
I got a pair of scissors, a comb, and a trimmer. I laid old newspapers in the bathroom and on the washbasin to make the cleaning stuff easy. I did not want a single hair on the bathroom floor left afterward.
There were some adjustments I needed to do. I did not have a handheld mirror. So I removed a panel from the toiletries shelf. I was ready. As suggested in the video, I started nice and slow over my ears. Consciously checking for the left-right mirror-image adjustments. Carefully clipped layer after layer in a tapering fashion. The sides looked nice. Then I started on top and cut it like a pro.
The last part, the back of the head was tricky. This was the toughest part as suggested by the YouTuber. So, with intuition and the makeshift work of the mirror which hardly helped me to see the back of my head, I started giving it a tapered shape. After a few blind strokes.. the moment of truth.. did I make it right?
To see the back of my head properly, I got my phone, recorded the video of the back of my head, and saw it.
I rush with blood from head to toe. “What did I do?” I almost screamed.
There were patches of hair and a bare scalp peeking through it. It was looking like rats had chewed on my hair. That was the ugliest thing I had seen since I was there in that heavenly country.
All the enthusiasm vanished. I did not leave any scope to do the damage control. No hairstylist could have possibly redeemed it. I panicked. After a few moments of fright, I collected myself.
I went to my Ethiopian roommate. I woke him up. He looked at me, then back of my head. He suppressed his laughter and without saying much started doing what was the only option. He trimmed the back of my head with the trimmer and the rest I did. I was looking like a wrestler. Those were the times I realized how it feels in cold without the protection of hair. It took me two months the entire snowfall season to get back to normal.
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| Clicked in Bruges, Belgium, a few weeks after my epic work of art. |
Later I came to know that some hairstyle saloons in Kapfenberg offered haircuts at a price as low as 9 Euros.
No, the haircut did not make me cry.. this information did.
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Published on Quora -
https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-had-a-haircut-that-made-you-cry/answer/Ashish-Shete-2
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