Chapter 350: – Haircut
Lin Jin went to get a haircut.
The black cat seemed to really want her to be a long black haired beauty. So, during the operation, it did something to instantly turn her hair into waist length, straight black hair. Although it looked pretty good, for Lin Jin, who felt a compulsive need to wash her hair every day, this was pure torture.
She originally only needed to wash her hair for five minutes every day, but now it took twenty to thirty minutes to wash and blow dry. It was really annoying. It was even eating into her gaming time every night. But if she didn't wash it, she would always feel her hair was greasy and uncomfortable.
So screw it and just cut it off!
After two morning classes, Lin Jin called on Wu Min and Wen Xuan to help keep an eye on the barber. So the three of them , and the three of them valiantly marched to the barber shop by the school’s back gate.
The barber shop seemed to have changed owners. It had been renovated for a month recently. So the current owner of the barber shop was no longer the beauty who had teased Lin Jin in the alley before, instead it was now a scruffy, long haired, artsy uncle.
This uncle’s barbering skills were rumored to be really good. He had two apprentices who would do most of the initial cutting, later the boss would step in to do the final touches while casually talking to teach the apprentices.
Of course, all this was what Lin Jin had heard from other classmates. It had already been several months since she cut her hair. Ever since last winter break at home when her dad forcefully dragged her to get a crew cut, she had been scared of barber shops.
"Wu Min, if he cuts my hair really short, you have to help say something."Standing in front of the barber shop, Lin Jin seriously instructed Wu Min and Wen Xuan. "Wen Xuan, if my hair ends up looking like it's been chewed by a dog, help stop him too!"
"Are you not taking off your wig?" Wu Min scratched his head, a bit confused.
"This is real!" Lin Jin turned and glared at him.
Wu Min was even more confused: "Your hair can grow to waist length in just two weeks?"
Wen Xuan had both his hands in his jacket pockets and yawned, not caring at all about what really happened to Lin Jin’s hair. He just relentlessly said: "I was gaming till three in the morning. I still wanted to sleep. You dragged me out so early..."
"Sure it’s early" Lin Jin rolled her eyes at him and then turned to keep venting to Wu Min, "My mom took me to get hair extensions, that’s why it’s so long. But being this long is too annoying, I’m secretly getting a haircut."
"Hair extensions? What’s that?" Wu Min had never heard the term before.
"Anyway, it's because of the extensions that my hair got long. Now I want to cut them off!" Lin Jin looked up at the barber shop through the clear glass. At the same time, the two apprentices inside were curiously watching the trio outside, "Let’s go! And if they try to talk me into dyeing or perming or something, help me say no."
"Alright, alright" Wu Min looked helpless.
The group of three pushed open the glass door and walked in. Lin Jin strutted in with her hands in her pants pockets, acting as if she was a big shot. She looked up at the owner leaning against the wall playing Honor of Kings, and said, "I want a haircut."
"Oh" the boss glanced up at Lin Jin then went back to his game. "Dying is one hundred, perming one fifty, doing both would be two thirty."
"She’s just cutting her hair" Wu Min dutifully helped Lin Jin decline.
Wen Xuan glanced around the newly renovated barber shop, looked at himself in the full length mirror, then turned and said, "I want a haircut too, it just happens to be a bit long."
"Haircut is twenty, me cutting is fifty" the owner was completely unlike a business man. He indifferently continued "Twenty is them cutting, including wash, cut, and dry."
"Sure, it’s cheaper than before."
The previous salon, run by a beautiful woman, charged thirty no matter who was cutting.
"I’m getting a haircut too!" Seeing the owner ignoring her, Lin Jin got a bit anxious "Help me cut it to around my neck!"
The boss frowned. He raised his head and scanned Lin Jin up and down, then finally shook his head and said: "At most I’ll help you trim it a bit. Your hair is so pretty, cutting it short would be a waste."
What the f*ck! Am I the customer or are you?!
"I'm a professional" the boss seemed to hear Lin Jin's thoughts and added.
Professional my ass!
Lin Jin glanced at Wen Xuan, who was already being led to the back to have his hair washed by an apprentice, then looked pitifully at Wu Min.
The owner won’t cut my hair~
Wu Min immediately caught the message in Lin Jin’s eyes. He hesitated for a moment, then said: "I also think it looks pretty good like this... Cutting it wouldn’t be good, right?"
Whose side were you on?
"No way! I need to cut it shorter! This hair is too long! It’s too annoying to manage!" Lin Jin stood in front of the mirror, slightly frowning as she looked at her long hair tied in a ponytail. While this did have a youthful girl vibe, the hassle averse Lin Jin grew increasingly annoyed the more she looked at her hair. She turned to the owner and said, "If nothing else, just cut it to my shoulder. That length would also look refreshing when tied in a ponytail."
"You really want to cut your hair that much?" The owner’s Honor of King’s game finally ended. He put his phone away in his pocket and came over to Lin Jin, sizing her up again as he stroked his stubbled chin, his brow furrowed in thought.
"Yes!"
If it was cut to shoulder length, washing her hair would be much easier than it was now.
"Your face shape suits long hair, cutting it short won’t look good" After assessing it, the owner thought maybe he could help Lin Jin cut it a bit. "If it bothers you that much, I’ll help cut it a little and just tidy it up."
"Okay." Lin Jin nodded vigorously.
It was true that Lin Jin's hair was quite silky smooth. Despite her tendency to wash her long hair only once every two or three days out of laziness, perhaps due to a significant drop in testosterone now that she had fully become a woman, her hair didn’t get greasy as quickly as before.
Before she encountered the black cat, Lin Jin’s hair would become unbearably greasy if she didn’t wash it for a day. Now, though, it was much better. Though she still maintained the habit of washing it daily when it was shorter.
With such long hair now, washing it daily would kill her.
Trimming it a bit wouldn’t make a huge difference, but surely it was still better than spending half an hour just to blow dry it like before, right?
So Lin Jin obediently sat down on the chair, looking forward to the owner cutting her a shorter, pretty hairstyle.
"Don’t give me straight bangs" Lin Jin stated her preference first. "Side swept looks better... Showing the forehead’s okay too, just make the back shorter."
"Oh right, I’m not dyeing, perming, or getting any membership, just a haircut" Lin Jin hurriedly added, "You don’t charge extra for cutting long hair, right?"
"Fifty, take it or leave it."
The boss was speechless, feeling like he was being treated as some villain who kidnaps children.