One of the things you may or may not notice when you first come to the Netherlands is how many barbershops and salons there are. Most of these are mom-and-pop type places, one person owning a space with maybe two or three chairs, and offering a limited range of services. Franchised hair cutters (Brain Wash) are a sight I've only ever seen in the city center. I'm not knocking on you if you haven't noticed--they can be hard to spot and they can be in some pretty obscure places that you might not think to look. Within a 1 km radius of our humble domicile I count five or six of these little places. That's a lot of hair cutters.
Which is surprising, if you think about it--after all, being zuinig means cutting your own hair, doesn't it? And with the plethora of how-to's online, it doesn't seem like it would be that hard. But apparently enough people lack enough faith in their own ability to handle a pair of scissors around their head that places like these, if not exactly flourish, make a decent amount of money from it.
And maybe it's just me, but it really isn't all that difficult to cut hair. You just sort of shape it into the form that you want--Kidlet is now sporting a darling shag cut (well, I call it that--it's got layers), while my husband gets his head buzzed every six to eight weeks. I don't know why it is, but for all the money Karel has spent at the barber's over the course of his life, he never manages to look any better than when I take a few snips at his head. I cut Kidlet's hair in little snips, with Kidlet oblivious on Karel's lap playing with our iPad. I even cut my own hair, using the 5-minute method shown below and then shortening the back to the length that I want.
It's just a little hair, after all. It grows back.
Which is surprising, if you think about it--after all, being zuinig means cutting your own hair, doesn't it? And with the plethora of how-to's online, it doesn't seem like it would be that hard. But apparently enough people lack enough faith in their own ability to handle a pair of scissors around their head that places like these, if not exactly flourish, make a decent amount of money from it.
And maybe it's just me, but it really isn't all that difficult to cut hair. You just sort of shape it into the form that you want--Kidlet is now sporting a darling shag cut (well, I call it that--it's got layers), while my husband gets his head buzzed every six to eight weeks. I don't know why it is, but for all the money Karel has spent at the barber's over the course of his life, he never manages to look any better than when I take a few snips at his head. I cut Kidlet's hair in little snips, with Kidlet oblivious on Karel's lap playing with our iPad. I even cut my own hair, using the 5-minute method shown below and then shortening the back to the length that I want.
It's just a little hair, after all. It grows back.
I cut the family's hair too. it was just the more convenient option and I don't think we look any worse than before... But we're not models or anything.
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