Our beauty director gets a new job (sort of): men’s hairstylist

Photography by Nettika Berthelot
Photography by Nettika Berthelot

I have a new job: hairdresser. I’m shaving my husband’s head with the Wahl Signature Series/Charge Pro Clipper Kit ($60) and his beard with the Wahl Lithium Ion Rechargeable Trimmer ($60, both at Sears and Canadian Tire). No, I’m not nuts, just cheap. His haircuts/shaves cost $20 a pop. Sure, it’s peanuts compared to highlights, cut and a blowout. But he goes to the barber: Every. Single. Week. I did the math. Now I buzz his hair down, tight, and close to the scalp, while he sits in the tub in plaid boxers, which typically has me doubled over in fits of belly-aching laughter for at least five minutes–it never gets old. I anticipate each week’s session with the same giddiness as I do a super-juicy episode of The Bachelor. And I swear it’s brought us closer.

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