I was too scared to go to the hairdresser in China! I saw some of the styles people were carrying on their own heads and thought "if they do that to themselves, imagine what they'll do to a foreigner..."

The split-ends-situation was dire by the time I left and literally the first thing I did on the first morning after I left China was wake up, shower, find a hairdresser.  

I wouldn't say they completely messed up my do, but they did send me out with one of those puffy fluffed up hair-do's you see many chinese guys sporting.  I wear glasses, so I don't see the final product until it's all said and done.  I couldn't do anything but laugh.  Oh, and go home and wash it again.  Turns out the cut was ok, just the stylist afterwards got a little carried away with the hair dryer and brush.

Am bold.......LOL.....am joking here.......but to say the truth i did not have the previllage to have my hair cut messed up by a hair dresser...............LOL

  No but when I got here I honestly didn't know which was a barbers and which was a knocking shop. Fun finding out though.

  I do remember finding it absurd when I went to a barbers once for a number two (meaning a very short cut, I don't mean I wanted to use their loo) that they made such a fuss about washing my hair first. It was all over the floor ten minutes later. Then when he was done, the bloke who'd shaved it shaved between my eyebrows as well. Cheeky bastard.