13 Characters You’ll Meet At Any Lebanese Hair Salon

The Lebanese hair salon is a wonderland of magical characters. You’ll find happy ones, sad ones, creepy ones, mad ones. These are the types of men and women you’ll encounter at any given Lebanese salon.

1. The chain smoker

This lady will have a full set of folded aluminum foil on her head, a few gossip magazines on her lap, and a cigarette in her hand every single time you glance at her. She’ll piss everyone else off, because you didn’t just get your hair professionally washed to have it stink of smoke on your departure.

2. The Don

The guy who’s name is plastered on the salon’s door – this guy has been styling locks since he was in the womb. He’ll have a full head of grey hair, and will cut your hair so swiftly and confidently that you’ll be worried that he’s not actually following a plan.

3. The hair-envy man

This man will be one of the guys who blow dries womens’ hair, and he’ll have a long, glorious pony tail filled with the most luscious of locks, because all the years of treating long hair has made him grow his own.

4. The Peter Pan lady

This middle-aged woman will ask the barber to go for the most fashion-forward, trendy cut and dye. The barber will be hesitant, but he’ll do it anyway, and she’ll leave thinking she looks like Khloe Kardashian.

5. The scroller

Phone in hand at all times, this woman won’t even look up to tell the barber what she’s there for.

6. The gossip queen

She’ll sit next to someone she doesn’t know, and will scream over the sound of the blow dryer to ask the person next to her about her life, her husband, her kids, and their husbands.

7. The adult child

This girl will walk in with her mother despite clearly being in her late twenties. When the barber asks what she wants, she’ll glance at her mother, as if to say, “what do I want?”

8. The nervous wreck

This girl will go in asking for a trim, and when the barber does just that, she’ll have hair dysmorphia while looking in the mirror, thinking that she’s now basically bald all because he snipped a centimeter of hair off of her very long do.

9. The hair-cut-disaster-girl

She told the barber to go with whatever cut he thinks is right for her, because she “trusts him”, with the first snip of his scissors you’ll witness a fully-blown internal breakdown that will surely manifest into an external one the second she gets home.

10. The platinum blonde dreamer

You’ll see this woman every single time you go to the salon, she’s been on a mission to go platinum blonde since 2014. She’s almost there, despite the fact that her hair has currently turned an awkward shade of pale orange as part of the process.

11. The creepy hair-washer

This kid is too young to really creep you out, but the way he’s massaging the shampoo into your scalp and staring at you while doing it is reeeally giving you the creeps. Good thing he’s not 5 years older than he is, because otherwise you’d throw an unreasonable fit.

12. The girl who just went through a break up

She’ll sit down, look at the barber, and say “CHOP IT ALL OFF.”

13. The beehive

Unlucky number 13. This woman asked the barber for a ‘soft wavy look’ because she’s going to a wedding this evening. Two hours later and she has a fully-fledged construction site on her head, complete with twists, turns, support systems, and enough metal bobby pins to make her head fall off when she stands up.