The stylists were trying to be nice in the way they understand "nice" to be, but it was a test of my tolerance to indulge them. I wanted to get my hair cut shorter, but after she evened it up, she didn't want to cut it any shorter because she said it would look "mannish." I tried to explain that's what i want. I'm trans-masculine and i don't want an explicitly feminine hair style. It's still too fluffy and not what i want. Both stylists asked a lot of questions about my life and barely listened to my answers, but instead made a plethora of presumptive and generalizing statements about everything i said. My advice: Don't go to this salon if you are gender non-conforming in any way, artistic, or Pagan. I'm not Pagan, but some of my friends are, and the stylist made some unprompted comments about Paganism just being "hippy stuff." I'm not saying they don't know how to cut hair. Both of them have been at it for decades, so i'm sure they do a good job for ~normal~ people, as long as the one doesn't decide to show you about 50 pictures of her son. But they didn't seem very willing to cut my hair the way i really wanted it. I paid and tipped them because that's the proper thing to do, and i do have some manners, but i will never again go to a salon that hasn't been vetted as being trans-friendly.
