Setting it straight
26/08/2006
After mulling over it for all of 8 hours (or so) I went to the salon again. A record for me – going more than once a quarter, and so I’ve now fulfilled my quota for the year just shy of September.
It’s a little weird how I finally picked the place – I first searched for the name of the Korean hair salon at Wheelock Place I read about that did a straight perm that didn’t flatten. The thing about rebonding your hair (not that most of you care) is that it gets so flat, it sticks to the sides of your head for a week or 2.
So I searched for the Korean hair salon, and found it. I also found a couple of forums that reviewed it. One of these, was http://www.cozycot.com, is a local health and beauty forum. Read a bunch of reviews, and most of the users there didn’t have great experiences at Jiwon – the Korean hair salon. They also said it cost something like $400 in total.
But good thing was I found related threads and everyone seemed to like the Soft Straight process at Supercuts. In particular, Supercuts at Far East Plaza. The thread started way back in 2003, but is still going strong 3 years later. So I found the name of a stylist someone liked, found the Supercuts phone number off Yellowpages.com.sg, made an appointment (half an hour in advance on a Friday evening, how cool), and scrambled my ass there.
It was a cinch finding the salon once you get to Far East Plaza anyway. And after you get past the frustrated homosexual at the reception, the ladies who shampoo and treat your hair are really nice and friendly. They were so amused that I found them from the internet. They were all really nice, asking if I was hungry, or if I needed to go take a leak. And they were crowded too, but they always manage to get back to me with a smile.
So that concludes a pleasant trip to the hair salon. All thanks to the wonders of the internet.
