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Just before I start this post, part of this post was drafted out ever since February, I just haven't had the mood to post anything ever since my last post.

Just before the Chinese New Year, I decided on a haircut. Actually, one that wasn't much different from my past haircut. Except, much shorter and perming my ends.
The above photo was taken right after I was done with the perm, before washing. I was super amused at how it turned out, thinking I look super aunty, and couldn't stop giggling at myself in the salon. I'm weird, yes, I hear that all the time. The photo below, was how my haircut turned out right after the wash. Not too shabby yeah?

A couple of days before leaving Taipei, boyfriend and I decided to get a haircut, which was actually planned for. Ever since army brought him to Taipei last year, and his friends had a haircut, he's been wanting to try their services out. Initially, we wanted to get a haircut at Ximending, the more youthful and trendy area I guess, however, after a day spent with some Taiwanese friends, introduced by Puiyin, we were told that Zhongshan area had more salons and were more "adult" class. The Ximending area was apparently more for the high school kids.

With their recommendation, we took a bus there after hanging around the Taipei 101, and walked around the area, looking for a shop within our budget and looked really good. We found one, in fact, many. Being super singaporeans, we judged shops based on their shopfront, also the amount of customers they had in their shop (more customers means they are better).

I guess Taiwanese look very much into customer service as well? There was this building we saw that seemed very artistic and rustic, we wanted to see how it looked on the inside, and bravely took a step in. They had a customer service desk, and the people at the desk were on walkie talkies and all, SUPER HIGH CLASS, obviously the hair dressing service there also very expensive.

We just settled for a place that was pretty busy and looked pretty as well. It was about $20 SGD per person for a junior/senior hairstylist (I forgot which), just wash, cut and styling. We were looking for somewhere we could spend a little more to get the director's cut, however, they told us directors needed bookings. Although it was a little tough explaining to the hair stylist the fringe cut I wanted, she eventually got it right! They only understand mandarin, that is what you need to know.

About a month before I left for Taiwan, I decided to get my fringe trim, from a side bangs to a full bangs, and fickle minded me, decided I loved the side bangs more, which I had to explain in mandarin to the hair stylist (challenge accepted!). All in all, I got my pretty side bangs back, and a trim to my 3 month long hair, took about an inch or so off.

Us with our satisfied hair cut! It was pretty fun because it was the first time in our relationship I ever had a hair cut in the same salon with my boyfriend. Normally, I either get my hair cut when I'm out alone, or he'll wait for me somewhere whilst I have a hair cut, because guys hair cut in salons in Singapore is just too overpriced for an army guy like him. He'd rather get a cheap hair cut at a barber, who understands ratios.

Here comes the most important thing, the shop name, it's called FIN (I finally found it on google map). It has this huge glass door, and the shop front's pretty modern rustic, brown architecture.

That pretty much sums up my hair cut experience in Taipei, I'd go back and do it anytime again. Had full trust in them snapping off my hair (always doubtful of salons in Singapore).

But a good salon matters more when it comes to doing things like treatment and chemicals. If I do get sponsored to ever do chemical services for hair, I'd gladly say YES!!!! Because slowly, my hair is turning back to it's original brown/copper/I-have-no-idea-what-colour.

Share with me your haircut experience in Singapore, or just about hair styles!

A little bit more about my salon, it's called Snip Avenue, which most of you probably know because they have really cheap hair cut services, and their hair dye services are also considerably cheap. I go to the outlet at Clementi, near the mall, and my hair stylist is called Winson. He has always been the one who dyed my hair, and always someone who would recommend me to go for a more bold colour. Sadly, I'd lose a good hair stylist because he's returning to his country after CNY 2013.

So the colour he chose for me this time was purple.

I wanted to go for a darker colour, maybe chocolate with a tinge of pink, but I guess it's not easy, so he just gave me a single colour full dye.

So seen in the pictures below, I started off with soaking my roots with the colour there's about 3-5 inch of my hair that's my original hair colour (dark brown), and the rest, grassy blondish brown. Yes, your hair turns grassy if you're like me and have no money to invest in my hair, and leave it to fade it's colour for a whole year. I digress.. So my roots were left to soak for quite a bit, because of the shade difference I guess. And off to full head colour!


Look at the shade of the purple dye in the below. You've probably figured it'd be a really bright shade. Thank goodness for not having bleached hair because I wouldn't be able to look at myself the same with a head of shade like that. I was honestly pretty afraid of the outcome because I couldn't risk it to screw my hair just a week before the boyfriend's sister's wedding. And after a whole lot of waiting, and washing, and a series of treatment (the simple kind), I had my awesome coloured hair that I now love!