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...haircut at Diego's costs $40, or $25 with a junior stylist, which puts it at the top, cost-wise, of the Harvard Square salons. At Supercuts, Jerry's Underground and La Flamme, cuts cost $9, and at DHR they cost around $20. For the sake of comparison, I should add that a haircut at a glamorous boutique like Vidal Sasson in Boston costs upwards of $100, and at even ritzier salons, like those frequented by President Clinton, prices rise to $200 and above...
...first thing you do when you get there is sit down and have a long heart-to-heart with your stylist. Mostly you'll be talking about your hair, although it's totally fine to tell big secrets about yourself and people you know, and you should keep saying, "I can't believe my hair. It's so wretched. I'm going...
...Your stylist will nod sympathetically and ask open questions, and will usually say some weird thing about how your hair is alive and you have to listen...
...fabulous thing about Diego's, and what distinguishes it from less posh establishments, is that its stylists are completely fearless and up for anything. If you go to Supercuts, for example, you will be expected to issue specific, but nonbinding, instructions. But at Diego's your stylist will suggest any number of kicky cuts for you, and will give you lots of sage advice about caring for your hair...
Unfortunately, as Nelson writes, she was not always able to help herself adjust to the demands of mainstream journalism. A gifted prose stylist, she could not blend her need to write from a black perspective with the ostensibly objective stance of a conventional daily. Post editors claimed that they recruited Nelson because they valued her viewpoint. But when she wrote wrote anything with a point of view, they usually buried the story in the back pages or didn't publish it. Increasingly frustrated by second-rate assignments and alienated from her peers, Nelson veered toward an emotional breakdown. Her last...