Wednesday, April 20, 2011: Hair day!

Wednesday, April 20, 2011: Hair day!

Got up and got ready to go get my hair done.  My appointment is at 10am!  Gerald wants to be there before the bridge goes up at 9:30 because he doesn’t want to get caught in the bridge traffic.  We head out and there is hardly any traffic this morning. Only 1 cruise ship is in port today, so that may account for some of it, but there also may not have been any boat traffic going in and out of the lagoon either.  Either way, I’m glad! We get to Xperts (the salon) just in time and Falo is there waiting for me.   It’s not a big salon at all, but they have made good use of the space.  I only saw 4 stations.  One for the owner, Eyup, one for Falo and another one that I saw a girl using.  I didn’t catch her name, but it looked like she was doing a color for Eyup while he cut some girl’s hair (did a FABULOUS job too!), so I don’t know if she was apprenticing or just helping him out.  He was also cleaning and dusting shelves, which makes me think she may be apprenticing, but for sure she didn’t appear to be a senior stylist.

We went in and asked Falo how long he thought it would be, since Gerald didn’t want to sit there the whole time (and I didn’t want him too either!).  Falo said it would only be about an hour and a half! It took me 3 hours when I had this done the first time! Oh gawd…that’s not a good sign!  But here I am…so Gerald left, I put my purse down and they escort me to the European style wash basins in the back of the salon. In the back part was a larger, more spacious station that I would assume Eyup would use, but he was using one of the front ones.  Although, there was a guy installing the most fabulous chandelier over the station, so maybe he was just temporarily displaced! I also saw the cutest thing too! It was one of those little carnival ride airplanes on a pedestal! They used it to put little kids in when they get haircuts! IT WAS SO CUTE! Eyup said they use that otherwise the children cry and this keeps them busy! What a wonderful idea! I’ve never seen one! But you know if I had a salon or cut hair…I would! Shoot - I don’t do that and I want one!

Falo proceeded to wash my hair and we went back up front to his station.  While he was combing my hair, I mentioned that I needed to color my hair and probably should have done that first, and Falo said it would be better if it did it now before the keratin treatment, so we immediately changed course and we decided to color first.  He foiled my hair with such precision, it was kind of funny! You could see the concentration on his face and he did work fast.  Each foil was meticulously placed, folded and crimped! And if he didn’t like it…he would redo it!  And when I say foil…I mean aluminum foil…like you would find in your kitchen.  Not like the thin pre-cut sheets you normally see.  It was really thick and there was a roll of foil in the window! I guess the girl was cutting foil sheets before she started the color for Eyup.  And then Falo asked me to fold the top ends, which I happily did!  Wonder if the store foil is cheaper!? Oh well…whatever works!

My highlights finished, we proceeded to do the keratin treatment, which is not difficult really, but very time consuming.  Every stand needs to be dried and flat ironed…even the wispy new hair around the face, which is very curly on me! Gerald of course showed up before I was done, so we sent him off again and he went to the car rental place to have them check the squeaks and wiper blades.  After a while he came back with a different car!  And in not too much longer, I was done, and of course I, ok…my hair, looked FABULOUS! =)  He did do a good job…now I have to endure 3 days of not shampooing my hair! ACK! 

By this time it was about 1pm.  We needed to go back to Rent-4-Less to close out the billing cycle for the month, so we did that.  Then we headed to Good Cards (the island’s only place to buy greeting cards that I am aware of!) to get a birthday card for Erica (she turns 9 in May).  We were going to go next door to mail it at the post office, but I discovered I didn’t have the address, so we couldn’t.   We were starting to get hungry and thought we would go to the Carousel for ice cream but we were planning on visiting Janet at Pasanggrahan and that would ruin our lunch, so we passed on the ice cream (I know…sit down!) and just headed down town.  Not much traffic, they didn’t shut the street down so we drove all the way down and parked at Pasanggrahan. We went in and visited with Janet, ordered a drink and lunch. It was delicious as usual! 

** I took some pictures of Pasanggrahan and the boardwalk!

 

We came back to the apartment; I put one of my silk scarves on the pillow and took a nap.  And that was pretty much it for the day.  We ate salad for dinner, listened to the cat whaling down below and I took a picture of the moon shining on the water.  Isn't it cool!  

Then I went to bed, listening to the rain hit the roof! Zzzzzzzzzzz