From Asia #3
Got to indulge today in one of those wonderful treats of being in China.I got my hair cut.
Now, I'm not talking about a "First Choice" type haircutting experience. No, that's why I say it's an indulgence. When you get a haircut in Shanghai, it starts with a professional wash. You sit in the chair, and a woman with fingers stronger than you ever thought possible kneeds in shampoo and gets it all the way down to your scalp. While she's there she also give you a cranial massage, gently pushing pressure points and massaging your scaplp. Then it's off to have her wash all the soap out of your hair and give you a quick towel off.
Then comes the acutal haircut. Again, not a quick ten minutes and you're done sort of thing. No, the sylist took about 30 minutes with my hair, and I've not got a lot of long locks to begin with.
So far this has cost us all of about 7RMB or so, which works out to just over a dollar Canadian (6.5 to a dollar). That's cheap enough that almost every Chinese can afford it too, even at a 6RMB an hour wage. But then comes the true indulgence part of the visit. The massage.
Yup, a full upper body massage for 25 minutes or so. That same girl with the iron fingers who washed your hair then kneeds your back, arms, hands, neck and scalp again, for almost half an hour. The additional cost for this is, I think, worth it. It costs an extra 4RMB for the massage, or 60 cents Canadian.
I'll go for another haircut before I leave, but probably only to get the massage!
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