The first time I went to a hair stylist here in Denver, her hair caught on fire while she was greeting me. ”Hi, I’m so-and-so, nice to mee-” and then gave a couple sniff sniffs and realized the smell was coming from her head. She darted off to douse her hair in water, all the while screaming bloody murder.

Anyways, you are all probably wondering “So you let her touch your own hair after that?!” The answer is yes, yes I did. She was crying the entire time while I awkwardly said comforting things like “no one will notice that half of your hair is missing or that you have a massive bald spot…{cries harder}… what? did I say the wrong thing?”

I returned a second time. After she provided her services, I made a small comment about her hair looking cute that day. I genuinely meant it too. However, so-and-so took it as “oh my gosh, like, I really want your same hair style on my own head!”

Now, it wouldn’t have been so bad if it was a simple hair-do like, oh I don’t know, just a nice little flip or wave. Or perhaps it was just down and flowing. However, once she began trying to re-create her gorgeous low sided bun, things did NOT go over very well.

I don’t know if it’s because I had more hair than her halfsie head or what, but my side bun looked like it was about to eat me for lunch. It’s alive!!! While driving home I had a debated what was worse- walking around the salon with the uglier version of my stylist’s hairdo, or having the receptionist hold back laughs as she was ringing me up. Then, while walking into my building a man asked “you goin’ to a costume party or what?” His comment took the cake.

These stories really have no relevance to anything at all, other than I made a THIRD appointment with her for today. However, when I found out she jacked her prices up to 95+ bones I told them to go ahead and scratch me from her schedule. I’m just not ready to make that kind of commitment people!

So I am left wondering- WHY do hair stylist charge an arm and a leg and a kidney??? I swear I can’t find one person in the Denver area who has a decent price. Nothing under $100 after tip.

Denver peeps- do you know of anyone who is good at hair and willing to do it at a normal price? I don’t even know what normal is anymore. I mean, is it just me or wouldn’t these hairstylists get more clients if they didn’t scare us away with pricing? Aren’t we in a recession?

-Kiersten, the Frustrated