“Even if only for a few hours one weekend inside a Walmart, hairdressers also end up assuming a profound role in helping us crystallize our sense of self”
Photo: Photo Illustration by Stevie Remsberg/Photo Getty Like any good early-2000s preteen, I decided in seventh grade that I needed to have chunky red highlights. So I turned to Angie, the willowy midwest mom who ran the salon inside the local Walmart and our family’s designated coiffeuse.
Since Angie, there have been others whose impact far outlasted any hair change. There was Elena, from that Chicago salon with the Groupons, who gave me my first blowout and demonstrated how to curl my hair — for a “good going-out look,” she assured my clueless teen self. Recently, there was Grant, the Brooklyn barber who warned me against both dating comedians and using cheap shampoo, and runway-beautiful Celine, who dressed like a chic mad scientist and cut the best long layers.
These days, I still see Sarah every two months — only now, it’s to touch up that purple dye job I begged for over the summer, and I’m just one of her regulars at the salon where she works full-time. It’s weird to think about what this one relationship has outlasted over the years, and it all just deepens my belief that the bond we form with the people who do our hair is a lovely and oddly lasting one.
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