Stylists love my Feria color, too, sara! I like it also; I just long for that really vivid yet classy looking red. The color of red that can rock out, or go to a career function and you look supersharp, not all manic panic.

I color my own hair, and Pete trims my bangs into the perfect batwing point with edging clippers. For the once a year I get my hair trimmed, I go to my friend Anna at whatever salon she's at. I usually tip $5 on the $20 cost, and bring her coffee.

In LA, it was totally $150 + tip for cut and color, but I love love love E and would pay whatever she told me.

Yep, yes, this. And yet E did my reception hair as a wedding present and has given me free in-between dry cuts many times. She's a gem, and I love her to pieces. Thank you SO MUCH for recommending her. I swear most of the people I know go to her now.

Funny story, Aims, but she now has BOOBS. Decided to save up for a boob job, and she looks great. (She looked great before, but she works in LA in the beauty industry, so I get it. She went from an A to a C/D.)

She went from an A to a C/D.

You know, if she's going to the trouble of getting one installed, you'd think she'd at least go with an MP3.

I am so bereft about my stylist. Our friend Ernst (no, really) was my stylist in Indiana and he was so good he could do anything and it looked amazing, so I would let him play. He would refuse to do stuff I wanted sometimes and he was always right. I kept going to him all the way through Kansas and New Mexico, but I figured by the time I was in my third state from moving away I should find a new stylist. But I always hate everyone. They always give me the youngest girl, and she is always horrified by my butch or punk cuts and tries to femme it up and then I look horrid. Like a mom haircut gone terribly wrong. I miss Ernst. And I still see him twice a year. I should just go back to him. I just started feeling bad that I just visited him to get my hair cut. But really. It`s his fault for being so damn good no one in the country could replace him.

I need a haircut so bad

Aren't you due for a San Francisco trip?

Poor Liese. I went back to my old stylist because her cuts were always the best, but this last one was just so-so.

I just tried a new stylist, and went back for the dry cut the other day (free in between cuts). She was a little cheaper than my old one, but I picked her based on yelp reviews, and because I wasn't feeling the last few cuts I'd gotten from the other woman.

But I always tip 20% to haircuts and massages and nails. I just figure that's gotta be a decent tip--I don't want to be the customer they bitch about! The thing I get puzzled about is the "free" cuts in between (my old stylist did them too). Sometimes it's just a bit of bang or neck trim, but for example this time, she did a little more, since it had been the first cut and she wanted to see how it was going. I tipped $10 (I think the original cut was $70 plus tip?) but couldn't decide if that was good or bad.

I got the insomnia fairy tonight. I hope everyone else is sleeping (at least, during the appropriate time slot in their time zone).

Damn, it's 2 a.m.

Insomnia fairy has visited Colorado also. Gah.

I finally watched an episode of Hoarders. OMFG. I feel like my place is a mess but I'm sparkling compared to the people they profiled. Wow!