- Hi, I'm Parris and I realized I haven't
had a haircut in over three months.
So the hair is getting kind of scraggly looking.
This is because I've been doing this ongoing
series of videos about Control GX,
a gray-reducing shampoo.
I'm in the final stage right now and
I was gonna wait until next week or so and get a haircut.
But I can't stand it any longer.
Going to get my hair cut today
and I thought I would update you on
what's up with the hair and some things
I've realized that I was really surprised by.
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So I think this will be the last video in the series.
I'll show you a close-up here in a minute
of how my hair actually turned out.
Now my original plan was I was gonna
go this whole last month without
doing any of the shampooing
and then have my hair cut.
And usually I get it cut very short
with the buzz razor sort of thing.
So I figured all the dark would come off
and I'd be back to my original color.
The caveat to that was if it got too bad,
having the gray and the dark in my head at the same time,
I would just go and get my hair cut
because I do have a regular life to lead as well,
in addition to doing YouTube videos and experiments.
So as my hair has grown out something I realized,
not at all related to the color is that
I like having the hair longer.
And I realized the reason why I keep my hair so
short is because of the gray.
I did a video on hair dyeing a year or two ago
and it didn't turn out too great.
Kind of purplish and I stained some
spots on my face and my head.
But in the comments to that video someone said,
"Hey, what you need to do is cut your hair
"really short when you have that much gray.
"That reduces the appearance of the gray."
So I went from the hairstyle that I like,
which is similar to this but cleaned up somewhat,
to having very short hair because I wanted to
reduce the appearance of the gray.
Now that my hair has grown out and I remember
hey, I like my hair like this.
But I don't want to have hair like this
that's the color that it was before.
So I've decided on a compromise I'm going to
have that hair style, the haircut that I like.
I'm not going to use the shampoo daily
but I'm going to use it 3 times a week to
take the edge off the gray.
This may end up with using the shampoo
maybe say three times a week.
That it's going to be long enough that
when the hair gets more than an inch long,
it will be the full darkness that you see here,
but further in from that it's going to be
all the variations from it's original gray color to that.
So I'm not sure how that will look
but that will be the next experiment
that I'll be conducting for myself.
And I figured I needed to tie up this video series.
And in an interesting coincidence,
the person who's been cutting my hair,
the only person who's cut my hair for 17 years,
is off on vacation now.
And I thought, "What am I gonna do?"
Because I don't want to wait any longer.
But there's a place not too far from here.
That's Floyd's Barbershop.
Floyd's Barbershop like in Mayberry
but it's actually not.
I'm guessing they took the name from that
because they actually have a barber pole out front.
But from what I've seen on their website
they're very modern and up to date.
So I've decided for the first time in seventeen years,
I'm going to have someone else cut my hair.
Going to get a different style.
Have no idea what it will look like
when this outer layer of darker hair is removed.
Today I guess is the day for trying new things.
Let me show you what I'm working with now,
then I'm off to the barber and I'll show you it after.
Here's the left side.
You look underneath there's gray in there,
but it's had about a week's worth of the shampoo
to reduce that hopefully some.
Here's the right side.
And the back.
It feels like it's a mess but I love that it's long.
Well I'm back.
I think I turned out really well.
Let me tell you, barber shops have changed
in the last 17 years.
I'm having a hot menthol towel on my face
while I have my head back getting the
shampoo and a conditioning.
And then there's different towels wrapped
around my head while I'm having the
back of my neck and I didn't know what was
going on because I felt this hot.
Oh my gosh someone's cut the back of my neck.
It was shaving cream, the foam.
That hot foam had been applied to the back of my neck.
And then a straight razor shave the neck.
And at this place, Floyd's Barbershop,
they finish it off with about a three minute massage.
Not a hand massage but one of those
handheld machines that get you real good
across the back of your neck and your shoulders.
That was really nice.
The woman who cut my hair happened to be from South Korea.
So I got to talk to her about Roxana and the
K-pop obsession and all that.
We had a nice chat.
So for my next haircut, will I go back to
Floyd's Barbershop with all the nice
built-in amenities to the experience.
Turns out the person who's been cutting my hair,
who cut rock Roxana's hair since she was a baby,
He-maina's hair since she was a baby,
she's actually closing up her shop.
And she might get a chair in another hair salon,
but I think she's definitely headed toward retiring.
So I guess I found my new place.
Let me show you my cut.
Here I am.
Left side.
Still gray underneath.
Little bit along the edge now.
Over here.
Now the back, there wasn't much she could do
about the strip of gray.
Here I'll show you.
Right along here.
Hopefully, the shampooing it a few times a day
will fill that in.
If not I might consider getting a little bit different cut.
I'll link to both the Control GX product
and to Floyd's Barbershop.
I think they're a nationwide chain
and I kind of like them now.
I'll link to both of those down below this video.
So, new hairstyle, new hairstylist.
Things are changing.
But however much things change,
it's still the same Parris.
It's still the same gray roots underneath.
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