{"id":1814,"date":"2006-11-24T09:48:21","date_gmt":"2006-11-24T17:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/when_hair_salons_are_like_crack.html"},"modified":"2006-11-24T09:48:21","modified_gmt":"2006-11-24T17:48:21","slug":"when_hair_salon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/when_hair_salon.html","title":{"rendered":"When Hair Salons Are Like Crack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t this how dealers reel in their customers? It sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/23\/fashion\/23skin.html?ex=1321938000&#038;en=35197879d0ea990b&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">an after-school special<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Yet, even as many Manhattan women cringe as prices at their longtime salons rise, they are loath to move on. Switching stylists can be an emotional experience, akin to a breakup. And just as in romance, a clean break is not always easy.<\/p>\n<p>Merle Rubine, an adjunct professor of media and film studies and a former network television producer, said she doesn&#8217;t want to leave her longtime stylist at Vidal Sassoon. But as the price of her partial highlights has climbed to $190, she has been freer about expressing her unhappiness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My stylist feels terrible,&#8221; Ms. Rubine said. &#8220;I feel terrible. Everyone feels terrible. Does that mean that he&#8217;s going to open his own place and do a partial for $50? Probably not.&#8221; So her solution is to live with longer hair, and take longer between appointments.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isn&#8217;t this how dealers reel in their customers? It sounds like an after-school special: Yet, even as many Manhattan women cringe as prices at their longtime salons rise, they are loath to move on. Switching stylists can be an emotional experience, akin to a breakup. And just as in romance, a clean break is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}