Akina Hisanaga was scrolling through pinterest when she came upon a picture of a blonde bowl cut with black shaved back and sides. Being an avid fan of short hair, she took a screenshot of the picture without a second thought. She went on scrolling through more photos of short hair and saving another one that she really liked. This was usual and an indulgent that made once in a while, with a forlorn promise of actually getting her haircut that way.
An unusual thing happened the next day. Akina was casually chatting with a close friend of hers when she just sent her that bowl cut photo and asked her if it would look good on her. Akina, to this day, do not know what prompted dhe to send it to her.
Her friends usually joke around and have fun so maybe something like that. So, Akina still took it as a joke when her friend bluntly told her not to do it because it would look horrible on her and "would come crying to her after the haircut" in her own words.
Somehow, it didn't stop Akina from sending the photo to another friend and asking the same question. Again her other gave Akina another reply of how she shouldn't do it and how she would look like a boy. At that point, Akina was curious as to how her friends would react and so, She sent the photo and the question to a lot of her close friends.
Their replies were basically the same, with different word choices. They were divided into two groups: yes and no. Of course, only a few friends said "yes", knowing my face structure and the uncertainty of the final result.
At that point, she became obsessed with the photos. Akina spent more time intensely looking at those photos than she had ever done before. Akina also started looking at the previous photos I had saved prior to this. Whenever she passed a mirror or when She remembered about the photos and the impending haircut, Akina put her shoulder length hair and overgrown bangs away to see how It would look without all that hair. After a week of this, Akina knew she had to do something about this and called her usual stylist whom she haven't met for almost six months.
She reached the shrine side of the saloon and she was met by Miss Kejoro. She was early for her appointment, Hence, she had to wait for two very long haircuts before it finally came to her turn.
Katsumi Kejoro then turned to her and welcomed her to her chair with a wide smile. She instantly put a cape on Akina.
Her hair flowed around her shoulders so beautifully when she flipped her hair out of the cape. Her hands started their routine inspection of my hair. When Akina showed her the photos, She was surprised she wasn't. Her hands scooped up to her hair, the same way she did, to inspect how she would look with my hair cut that way.
Then, Katsumi told Akina that it would look good but maybe, She might not like it, knowing her very selective moods. Akina scuffed and just told her to go ahead with it.
With the words of approval, She pinned Akina with a cape and started off by pinning her top and sides away. She was very nervous and excited: what she had imagined for a long time was finally happening. Akina felt the comb slide through the hair in the back and lift it up. Loud snips of scissors were heard. When Katsumi combed the hair down again, it scraped her nape without the length of hair in between. She repeated the process over and over again until in the mirror, she could no longer see hair in the back, as if my hair had been put up but I knew better.
She dropped more sections off from the back and for a second, Akina was back to her original shoulder-length hair. The long hair falling down was an absolute sensational tease, indeed but it didn't last long. The scissors continued their assault in the same fashion of combing down, lifting up, cutting and repeating again.
Akina said there, with my eyes in the mirror, impatiently wanting to know what was happening in the back. Finally, it seemed like the back was finished as she felt the scissors make a curved line around her head. She felt somewhat relieved the scissors were not closely pressed towards her head, but a little bit further from her head. Nonetheless, a bowl cut is a bowl cut.
Miss Kejoro then came to Akina's left side and let the hair fall down again. This time, the long strands felt out of place, maybe because the back was so empty and it was apparent in the mirror. She combed again and pinned a lot of hair back, only letting a shower of hair fall down. Her fingers squeezed the thin hair above her ears and cut off everything below her fingers.
This dramatically changed the image in the mirror. It was something new and exciting but Akina also felt a pint of disappointment, knowing it would take at least six months to get to that original length again. However, this did not last long as Katsumi Kejoro was quick in her work and let the hair down and cut again. The scissors felt so loud into her ears and the fallen debris tickled her ears. When every bit of hair on her eft side was neatly cut above her ears, she moved on to the right side where she repeated the same process again.
She cut and cut with sheer determination and Akina's excitement was shown on her face.
Akina's obsession was becoming a reality, after all. After the right side was reduced to the small sideburn the same as the left side, Katsumi let her grown-out bangs fall on to her face. She stood there, thinking about the right length for the bangs. Then her fingers scooped in and cut off whatever was below them. The hair fell back to be only a little bit longer than her eyebrows.
The final image was showing. Katsumi made quick work of Akina's bangs. When she stepped back to inspect her handiwork, Akina saw it: her face without hair but a bowl cut. The hair fell only to her ears and nothing more than that. She went in with the thinning shears to remove the bulk of her thick hair. She did a lot of thinning, maybe because Akina's thick hair got bulkier in this shortened state.
After the thinning came the small balding clippers with very high pitches. Akina got a little scared she would shave the back with the clippers. That would look super extreme. But she only used them to remove the stray hairs and to define the hairline.
At long last, the hairdryer came. It didn't take long to dry the hair, considering it was a dry cut. She only used it to shape the hair into that final bowl cut with the round comb. The loofah was used to brush away the stray hairs. And the haircut was complete.
Akina really liked the image as she saw in the mirror. Maybe most people, mostly potential males, would disagree with her but she loved it. The contrast and the openness of her face and her jawbones really excited her down below. When katst flipped off the cape, the haircut went extremely well with her black tank top, jean shorts and the choker.