What is it with hairdressers when you ask for a trim once they get a pair of scissors in their hands? I have just come back from my first ever visit to a hairdresser in Riga. Communication was difficult as I don't speak Latvian and she didn't speak English! However, a French lady who spoke both languages translated for us ( how I would love to have the ability to converse in three languages !) but obviously the word trim was lost in translation as inches of hair fell to the floor. As it happens I like the cut so I am not unhappy, but the same thing happens at home it is as if the word trim doesn't exist in a hairdressers vocabulary, or maybe it does but it means something completely different to what I think it does

Thinking about it I am sure my nervousness about this is because of the years of trauma I suffered as a child when my mother decided it was time to trim my fringe. She was always unhappy with her first attempt so would just have another go " to straighten it up" needless to say there would then be a couple more goes to "straighten it up" and by the time she had finished I had hardly any fringe left. I do recall after one particularly bad cut trying to sellotape my fringe down before going to sleep!

Is it just me???