(101 Things About Shanghai) Very Thorough Haircuts

This isn’t Eisa but it’s the only one I had a photo of…

I’ve learned not to schedule a haircut for days when I have anything else that needs doing.  The cutting itself usually doesn’t take much longer than it does for hair removal miami.  My standard haircut is nothing unnecessarily complicated- it’s a chin-length bob with bangs.  However, as noted, it isn’t the cutting that takes up the time.

At my current salon, you spend the first hour sitting in the adjustable-height hair-cutting chair being worked over by one of the staff. They start with a head massage and work their way down to the small of your back then out to each arm and all of the fingers, snapping each one as they reach the tips.

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Then, they dig out their ear-cleaning kit and gently and carefully excavate your ear canals (it is a surprisingly lovely experience).  At some point during the massaging and ear swabbing, a few more spare staff shuffle out into the middle of the room and start doing an exuberant synchronized dance routine to the Backstreet Boys, which you can see in the mirror in front of you (remember, you are sitting in a salon chair with the salon-cape draped over you and towels loosely wrapped around your shoulders, immobilized).

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When your ear canals are deemed suitably pristine, another staff member starts massaging vast amounts of shampoo into your still-dry hair. This shampooing can take up to five minutes, with more and more shampoo being worked slowly into the growing mass of lather.  You are rinsed and conditioned in a little curtained-off room at the back, with an extra temple-massage thrown in for fun.

You are returned to your little chair with your back to the dancers, towel neatly wrapped around your head. From there, you are inexplicably blow dried, then re-moistened, then the hairdresser himself starts cutting. He cuts minute amounts with great precision, and does so for an awfully long time. Several times, he stops to blow dry and style your hair and you think it’s done but it isn’t: he just wants to see exactly what needs refining still.  Individual strands are carefully trimmed. There are no strays.  It is sculpted.

A three hour haircut at the Eisa Salon on Shanxi Nan Lu, all parks included, costs a whopping 80 rmb (about $12US). It’s located between Zhaozhiabang lu and Jianguo lu, opposite Springdale Gardens (#888 Shanxi Nan lu). I have no idea what the exact street number is, but it’s part of a row of hairdressers and skin care spas.