Pleasant Surprises: Durham Home Hair Stylist
My #ThemeSong today is Blue Light by Prince, because it was a favorite of a particularly funky high school friend and because of my post below 🦋. (Note: Some of the video is risqué, but what did you expect from Prince?)
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During Covid, my friend Marshunda (the mother of one of my son’s classmates at EK Powe Elementary School in Durham, NC) set up a salon room in her house (she is trained in cosmotology). Meanwhile, my daughter dyed my long hair “Menopausal Covid Red”. I’d never dyed my hair before; and it was fun even if my husband didn’t like it 🙃. It also wasn’t going to grow out any time soon. I watched the line of gray move from the top of my head downward ; and, around the eight-month mark, I texted Marshunda that I wanted her to give me rainbow hair once the COVID stuff calms down- dye my gray roots blue now, green next year, etc. So yesterday, I visited her sparkly, feel-good salon room; and she cut, dyed and styled my hair the way I remember when I was a teenager. It took a whole two hours, which went by quickly with our catching up.
I was nervous when the time came to finally rinse the dye out of my hair. “It’s like unveiling a tie-dye,” I said. “I know it’s gonna look a little freaky.”
“It’s not gonna look freaky,” Marshunda assured me, turning on the water. She oohed and ahhed sincerely as the dye surged in a river of brown from my head.
She blowed my hair dry and asked if she could straighten it. “Of course!” I said. “We’ve already died it blue.”
Like a teenage girlfriend or mother, Marshunda lovingly brushed and straightened my hair, revealing my shiny, almost-black blue hair as it morphed, from the top of my head to my shoulder blades, into a healthy maroon-red mane. We both love how it turned out, and I am positive Marshunda saved me from a more carnival color had my daughter and I done this at home.
The price was better than right too - and less than I expected (of course, I left a good tip 😘).
This afternoon, while running errands, I noticed people noticing my hair with positivity (much like I used to notice people noticing my old child-painted minivan); and several strangers complimented me ♥️. It was a super positive day, which is worth more than the new do 😇.
If you live in or around Durham, NC, and you are looking for someone to cut and style your hair (or you just haven’t been in a long time, like me), you really must look up Marshunda. Email me at melissarooneywriting@gmail.com for her contact info!
