Confession:  I get my hair cut, like, twice a year.  It makes me nervous and generally, I like my hair long so I just figure as long as gravity keeps doing its job, I don’t need to be hyper-vigilant about getting haircuts.  Another thing–the lady who cut my hair in Muskegon charged me $18.  Going rate in Chicago hovers around $70.  But I was at the point last week where I wanted to pull my hair out of my head so it was time to make an appointment.

My boss and another co-worker rave about Kate and “the best haircut they’ve ever had” so I gave Mops Beauty Shop a shot.  I was offered water or cream soda upon arrival, cupcakes were on a pedestal, Rilo Kiley on the stereo and there was lots of magenta so I was pretty much sold American on this salon.  After about an hour using hair product I’m obsessed with and an “omg, I need to change my life starting with my hair” moment, I had an amazing cut.  And bangs.  Edgy, Zooey Deschanel bangs.  I was freaking out on the bus ride home (yes, I rode the bus TWICE this weekend, thus adding to my new mental image that I am edgy and fearless) but once I bought my new edgy hair some new, edgy lipgloss, I was super happy that I ventured out to Logan Square.  Kate comes with my very high recommendations.