Hair Salons

If you had told me a month ago that I would be writing a post about hair salons, I would have told you you were crazy. I go to a cheap salon about once a year to get my hair cut, and have even been known to cut it myself. But in the past three weeks, I’ve gone to salons five times, to get my hair washed and styled. When you get your hair washed in Taiwan, it starts out with a shoulder massage, which goes from the top of your neck to about halfway down your back. At the more upscale places they’ll give you tea or coffee and a snack. After 15-20 minutes of massage, while you’re still sitting up in the chair, they put shampoo in your hair and proceed to give you a vigorous scalp massage. Then they take you over to the sink and rinse you. After that, I’ve had my hair blow-dried and straightened. This whole thing from beginning to end usually takes about an hour and a half, and my hair turns out feeling like silk and looking like the hair in shampoo commercials. The cost? About $8.

A happy customer.