Haircut

Where it was £10 including wash, extensive head massage, cut and style at the top end of the market, I found myself going to the hair salon far more than I needed to in Korea. Especially in a country where basic commodities were so cheap, I didn't mind splashing out on frivolous haircuts and subway station clothing more frequently than I went to the supermarket.

Now even though I'm living rent-free meals-free, somehow life here feels that much more expensive. Really it's because my income has a specified purpose, namely that 20 grand+ education I'm about to fork out for, and expendable income doesn't feel quite as free-flowing as it was. So that's my excuse for letting my hair shred itself to pieces and refusing to pay £40+ for a similar level of cut that I was receiving three months ago. Can't really complain; Hannah claimed it cost £80 at the bottom of the scale for a mere trim in Oslo.

Anyway, probably tired of hearing my complaints about the state of my hair, my mum booked me in for a £3.50 cut at the local higher education college. Actually it's £8.50 when you add on the cheeky blast of a hairdryer, but still, not bad money. But is the three hour pre-amateur haircut really worth saving the pennies, when really you could probably find a cheap qualified hairdresser for £20 somewhere about the town? I fear not. And there's nothing like getting your hair criticised by someone who has failed to pick up the basics of cutting hair 10 months down the line at the end of the course.

...but then it's the amateurs that scrape through beauty school that become "qualified" and charge the cheaper rates. If I'm unwilling to fork out for haircare in favour of education, I'd probably better start getting used to a lesser quality haircut.