# haircut (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover haircut. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Great Books: What Were They Thinking?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/the-great-books-what-were-they-thinking/) _2026-08-22 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ We got kicked out of Junior Great Books. We’d signed up of our own volition but were incredulous when we got the boxed set of books. Like Dorothy Parker, we wondered, “What fresh hell is this?” “Aesop’s Fables. Ugh!” “I draw the line at The Jungle Books.” Let me put this in context: we were \[…\] ## [Mary McCarthy’s “Birds of America”](https://thornfieldhall.blog/mary-mccarthys-birds-of-america/) _2026-08-21 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ “How can we not write satire? ” Juvenal asked in the second century CE. That’s why I appreciate Mary McCarthy. I recently reread her brilliant novel Birds of America (1971), set in the 1960s in Rocky Port, Massachusetts, Paris, and Rome. McCarthy aims her savage wit at American politics (the 1964 presidential election and the \[…\] ## [£25 for a Haircut. Give People the Time.](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/25-for-a-haircut-give-people-the) _2026-08-20 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ Ten-minute haircuts for a tenner are bad for the barber, bad for the customer and bad for the trade. ## [The Bad Barber Is Hurting the Good One](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/the-bad-barber-is-hurting-the-good) _2026-08-20 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ Britain does not have a barber problem. It has a rogue business problem. And good barbers are paying for it. ## [Was I Censored? Women & Sexuality](https://thornfieldhall.blog/was-i-censored-women-sexuality/) _2026-08-20 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ It started when I mentioned Cynthia Heimel’s humorous book, Sex Tips for Girls. She includes a six-page section on how to give a blow job. And then Ellen mentioned “fellatio” in a comment: the comment disappeared. I found it in the trash; I rescued it. It disappeared again; I rescued it again. And then the \[…\] ## [Hair Clay vs Wax vs Paste vs Fibre vs Pomade: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Use?](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/hair-clay-vs-wax-vs-paste-vs-fibre) _2026-08-19 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ Most men buy hair products backwards. They pick the tub first and ask what it does afterwards. Here is the easier way. ## [I just learned about geocaching](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/i-just-learned-about-geocaching/) _2026-08-19 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ Geocaching – the word's largest treasure hunt. Did you know about it? I did not, until last week. ## [When Hairbond Signed Jimmy Anderson](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/when-hairbond-signed-jimmy-anderson) _2026-08-18 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ I styled his hair. He held an eagle. He dropped the product. And he supported Burnley. ## [In Which We Go to a Club: Who Were Those Men with the Boat?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/in-which-we-go-to-a-club-who-were-those-men-with-the-boat/) _2026-08-18 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ It started at the grand opening of a club. I was given two tickets, and what else was I doing on a Friday night? I begged Captain Nemo to come with me, but the only club he liked was a dingy warehouse where we had once heard 10,000 Maniacs and Talk Talk for free. Anyway, \[…\] ## [Why I Created Hairbond Super Fibre](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/why-i-created-hairbond-super-fibre) _2026-08-17 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ My hair was receding. I wanted it to look thicker. Two of our best sellers were disappearing. So I spent two years making the product I couldn’t find. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/L1SfgESNvC33) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [Who’s on Prozac, Who’s Not?](https://thornfieldhall.blog/whos-on-prozac-whos-not/) _2026-08-16 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ I used to think I could walk down the street and identify people on Prozac (by which I mean antidepressants in general). It turned out I was wrong. The handsome, impeccably dressed middle-aged man who held the bus door open for us appeared on the street corner one morning wearing “beggar clothes” (tattered jeans, a \[…\] ## [The Awkward Customer: Some People Need A Haircut. Some Need Boundaries.](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/the-awkward-customer-some-people) _2026-08-16 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ Why the best barbers and hairdressers know when to listen, when to sell, when to say no — and when to show a customer the door. ## [Hairbond vs Layrite: Two Brands. Two Very Different Ideas.](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/hairbond-vs-layrite-two-brands-two) _2026-08-15 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ One came from the California barbershop. One was built in Britain. The products sometimes compete. The brands shouldn’t. ## [Women and Sexuality in 20th-Century Literature: Cynthia Heimel, D. H. Lawrence, Mary McCarthy & Erica Jong](https://thornfieldhall.blog/women-and-sexuality-in-20th-century-literature-cynthia-heimel-d-h-lawrence-mary-mccarthy-erica-jong/) _2026-08-15 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Why, one wonders, this sudden interest in sex? As a woman of a certain age, I already feel I could write an instruction manual. But as I laughed over Cynthia Heimel’s Sex Tips for Girls (1983), I was astonished by her detailed instructions on how to give a blow job. There’s no casual hopping into \[…\] ## [The Young Gun](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/the-young-gun) _2026-08-14 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ CJ Martin was never just a Hairbond customer. He became part of the Artistic Team, part of the road and, somewhere along the way, a friend. ## [Cynthia Heimel’s Humor Columns & Essays](https://thornfieldhall.blog/cynthia-heimels-humor-columns-essays/) _2026-08-14 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ “The eighties weren’t our fault.” – Cynthia Heimel (1947-2018) Rearranging my bookcases is one of my favorite pastimes. I never know what I’ll find, and today I ferreted out a treasure trove of Cynthia Heimel’s humor books, Sex Tips for Girls; But Enough about You; If You Can’t Live without Me, Why Aren’t You Dead \[…\] ## [The Hairbond Distorter Clay Lowdown](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/the-hairbond-distorter-clay-lowdown) _2026-08-13 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ What it does, who it is for and how to use it properly [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211087633/e8d27a43bdd778733a30cdacaf37fead.mp3) ## [How Hairbond Won the Welsh Dressing Room](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/how-hairbond-won-the-welsh-dressing) _2026-08-13 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ How Kieffer Moore, Chris Mepham, Harry Wilson, Connor Roberts and Dylan Levitt helped Hairbond spread through Welsh football without a sponsorship deal in sight. ## [Pollution in the Midwest: Booth Tarkington’s “The Midlander”](https://thornfieldhall.blog/pollution-in-the-midwest-booth-tarkingtons-the-midlander/) _2026-08-13 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ We are experts on polluted cities. We learned from living in cities plagued by air and water pollution, the smoke from the factory stacks, the chemicals lobbed into the river, the destruction of inner-city neighborhoods, and flight to the suburbs and exurbs. Suburban life is complicated. There were no trains or buses from the far \[…\] ## [How to Slick Back Men’s Hair Properly](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/how-to-slick-back-mens-hair-properly) _2026-08-12 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ From natural control to full gloss, here’s how to get the shape right and choose the Hairbond product that suits the finish. ## [Ask the crowd: AI or not (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ldWqO2dU7Bkm) _2026-08-12 · **Sponsored**_ Get a transparent verdict from verified humans via web, RSS, or API. ## [Patrick Forster: The Barber Who Helped Build Hairbond](https://journal.hairbond.com/p/patrick-forster-the-barber-who-helped) _2026-08-11 · Hairbond Journal · Hairbond Journal_ From Newcastle barbering and Premier League dressing rooms to Hairbond education, football and friendship, Patrick Forster has been part of our story for years. ## [What Happened to the Clamshell iBook? The Age of the Cute Computer](https://thornfieldhall.blog/what-happened-to-the-clamshell-ibook-the-age-of-the-cute-computer/) _2026-08-11 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Before everyone emailed and texted, before the invention of the talking refrigerator, most of us lived more or less off the grid, Our idea of high tech was the princess phone. But until I got a laptop computer, my life revolved around the typewriter. I happily typed papers, articles, essays, reviews, letters, and lists on \[…\] ## [Air or Water? Living in Polluted Cities](https://thornfieldhall.blog/air-or-water-living-in-polluted-cities/) _2026-08-10 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ When we moved into a 100-year-old bungalow in a lovely midwestern town, I was delighted.. The sun was brighter and the sky bluer than in the bustling post-industrial city where we used to live. That city was referred to as “the big dirty” by truckers. And the air was dirty, sometimes filthy, though the water, \[…\] ## [Welcome to Hairdo Hell: A Memoir](https://thornfieldhall.blog/welcome-to-hairdo-hell-a-memoir/) _2026-08-09 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Several years ago, I won an award for an essay. It’s lovely to win an award, even if you just get a plaque or certificate, which you immediately lose, and which surfaces years later in a filing cabinet. Later, I won an award I’d never heard of. Of course it was an honor, as all \[…\] ## [Date Night: The Wardrobe](https://thornfieldhall.blog/date-night-the-wardrobe/) _2026-08-09 · Kat · Thornfield Hall_ Last night I went on a date. We went to a movie, or you could say two movies. At the first theater they wouldn’t let us in because we were 30 minutes late. At the second theater we were an hour late and still got tickets. “Now it’s date night,” I said to Captain Nemo.. \[…\] ## [the gentrification of air-drying clothes](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/the-gentrification-of-air-drying-clothes/) _2026-07-02 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ Reading The Shopkeeper's post about hanging laundry sent me on a trip down memory lane. When I was a kid growing up in South Africa, I would watch my mother wash clothes in the bathtub and then hang them on a line to dry. And when we visited family in India, I'd watch her beat the clothes on a designated laundry rock (a large, flat thing either born there or dragged there) before...hanging them on… ## [Why do I struggle to drink water?](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/why-do-i-struggle-to-drink-water/) _2026-06-24 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ This is a rather baffling concept to me, even as I experience it. We all need water to survive. So far, I've succeeded in drinking enough water that I don't keel over and die. (Which is about 1-2 cups a day. Horrific.) But maintaining an optimal level of water intake? I'm not doing that part right. And it's so counterintuitive to me that I'm not hydrating! I want to be able to sing, and have… ## [I got a haircut and a nose ring!!](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/i-got-a-haircut-and-a-nose-ring/) _2026-06-11 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ It truly is a time of transformation! Part I. Haircut After two and a half months of the aforementioned bit-chomping for a pixie cut, I finally got one yesterday! I was really nervous about it, because the last time I got a haircut in Cape Town, I overpaid for an underwhelming experience. This time, I paid only R50 more and got the deluxe treatment, with everything from hot chocolate and a… ## [Bear Blog Question Challenge](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/bear-blog-question-challenge/) _2026-06-09 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ Answering Ava's Bear Blog Question Challenge. ## [Re: Bear Pride Theme!!](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/re-bear-pride-theme/) _2026-06-03 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ Thank you thank you thank you Robert Birming for the Bear Blog theme of my dreams. In fact, I've gone into frankly unhinged territory by also turning all of my links rainbow-coloured when you hover over them. Is this the taste of too much power? Happy Pride!! ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/lPG2Ee5zvPtX) _2026-06-03 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [Junited 2026](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/junited-2026/) _2026-05-31 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ "Junited is a little blog-loving adventure where the blogging community gets together to share posts they enjoy and discover new bloggers along the way." – Robert Birming ## [Re: Adults Have Lost the Ability to Smile, Why?](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/re-adults-have-lost-the-ability-to-smile-why/) _2026-05-18 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ South Africans are a pretty friendly lot. ## [Networking and Haircuts](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/networking-and-haircuts/) _2026-05-13 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ I've recently made a shift from content marketing back into the publishing world, and it feels both terrifying and thrilling. (AI and capitalism have done their numbers here, too, so it feels extra daunting.) I've been immersing myself in the local publishing scene with gusto – getting to know other editors, reading more books by local authors (as well as figuring out if I want to start publishing… ## [let's steal ai's job](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/lets-steal-ais-job/) _2026-05-01 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ "Your AI slop bores me" – a website using the whimsical as a vehicle for protest. ## [re: joymaxxing and supermarket etiquette](https://scribblypam.bearblog.dev/re-joymaxxing-and-terrible-supermarket-etiquette/) _2026-04-29 · scribblypam · scribblypam (✿◔ヮ◔)ノ\*:･ﾟ✧_ A response to tala's and megatechbody's blogs on joymaxxing and supermarket etiquette.