I'm with Mabel! If someone has a good haircut, you bet I'll ask where she got it done. I did about three weeks ago: asked the librarian. Turns out the shop she went to is the one at the end of the road I live on. Sweet :) Got an excellent haircut for less than $20, and that was a bargain.

Do men notice other men's haircuts? How about shoe shines? Shirts? A man once asked my husband which laundry he took his shirts to. Husband said, "My wife irons them." The man paused a beat then asked, "Would she iron mine too?"

Do men notice other men's haircuts?

Well, sure...I suppose. But it's different for us. If we notice something, good or bad, we tend to chalk it up to nature instead of a barber. For many of us, there's only so much that human intervention can achieve. ;-)

Still, I understand the female perspective. Considering how many hair magazines my wife pored over before going to the stylist, I wouldn't blame her for wanting to be able to just point to another real person's hair and say, "make mine like that!"

Well, gosh Eric, I was gonna ask who does your "do" but, well, I can't hardly do that now.

Thanks for ruining the moment!

Rob, if you're looking to me for hair advice then you have my deepest, most sincere sympathies.

This reminds me of a favorite scene from the movie Double Jeopardy where, while in jail, the main character is cutting hair and an inmate shows her a picture and says she want to look like that. The main character responds, "The only way you're gonna look like that honey is if I staple the picture to your head."

This is usually the result when I attempt to emulate a hairstyle I see on someone I know.

Of course, it doesn't stop me from trying. :)

A woman blogger would also post a picture of the haircut for all to see. ;-)

And to Beth's point, the last time I went in with a picture and said "I want to look like this," it was the Dorothy Hamill haircut and I cried when I looked in the mirror. What works for one never seems to quite work for another.

"The only way you're gonna look like that honey is if I staple the picture to your head."

And the corollary, if the stylist is honest, would be "and even if you DO look like that when you leave here, the only way you'll KEEP looking like that is if you come back here every morning!"

...it was the Dorothy Hamill haircut and I cried when I looked in the mirror.

You, too?! ;-)

the only way you'll KEEP looking like that is if you come back here every morning!

You have no idea how many times I have tried to cajole my stylist into living under my bathroom sink. Somehow she never seems to go for it.

You have no idea...

Give me more credit than that, wouldja? After all, I *am* married to a woman with hair. ;-)