DCMM: I Need A Divorce….From My Hairdresser

Like most women, I have been incredibly
loyal to my hairdresser.  But after my last couple of cuts, I have
walked out feeling less than happy.  And I have been unable to
articulate exactly why I am not happy, I just end up going home,
styling my hair, and feeling, not so thrilled with it.  And then I live
with it for 8 weeks, go back, and do it all again.  But I always love
my color, and I don't want to go one place for a cut, and another for
color.

Couple that with the fact that we recently moved and my
hairdresser is by my old house.  It is 20 minutes away.  Which doesn't
seem like a lot.  But with traffic and the fact that I color my hair it
is like a whole day process to get my hair done.  And I just don't have
that kind of time for something I don't like all that much.  But how
exactly do you find a new hairdresser when you have been going to the
old one for 5 years?

I know the advice is ask family and friends, but I have, and for one
reason or another, I haven't been able to find one that way.  I'd like
to find something very close to my house, for convenience sake.  Can I
just start calling salons I pass on the street?  How does that work? 
While I haven't loved my cut, it's not terrible, and I do like my
color.  I'd hate to end up with something truly awful.  This is my hair
we are are talking about.

I
know this is not the biggest issue in the world.  It is not hunger, or
poverty, or war, or health care, but as women, our hair is pretty
important to us.  That's why there is a hair salon in almost every
strip mall in suburbia and a million of them in cities.  But how do we
snuff out the good ones?