Caiti's Crossing

****Hairdresser Appreciation Post****

Since my sophomore year of high school I have gone to Brother’s Hair Design on Kings Highway to my hairstylist, Caitlin Wilson. I’m now a senior in college. That’s about seven years.

Seven years that she has spent 3-4 hours per visit highlighting my platinum blonde hair, foil by foil, and she even set a record in the salon for the highest number of foils ever used on a head of hair in the salon. She’s been the best friend and the worst influence I could ever have ;P and we’re able to relate on some of the craziest things.

Then one day I came to her, my blonde hair grown nearly down to my waist in length, and I told her I wanted to turn it into a long bob…

She freaked out a little and cautioned me and urged me to think carefully and logically about the choice. But she did it and I’m convinced no one could have done it better.

Then I called her the next day and said I wanted it a little shorter. And she went with it.

Then I texted her one afternoon and told her I wanted to go a different direction with my hair.

Like, a completely different color.

I told her I wanted to dye my hair gray.

I have never seen a reaction like hers. She was at work and she told me she’d talk it over with the other stylists and see what they could come up with. I scheduled my appointment once she confirmed it could be done and she told me I should come in for a consultation JUST TO BE SURE. I went in that morning and we looked at hair samples and examples and compared and discussed, and through all of that I noticed that everyone in the salon was greeting me, but no one looked me in the eye.

Not a single person.

They were speaking at me, but they were all focused on my hair. They were plotting and contemplating and thinking and rethinking.

I took no offense. I was actually in awe. I was witnessing all of these professionals wracking their brains to come together and agree that a certain route should be taken.

It was SO MUCH FUN being the guinea pig for a stylist who has never been asked to color hair gray. It wasn’t as simple as throwing a single color on my hair and letting it sit. I was asking for a style that had depth and two totally different tones in different areas of the hair so that when it fell a certain way it would look a certain way.