For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for January 23, 2025

I feel for him.

Leave it like that and perm the short part.

She looks like Shemp from The Three Stooges—only not nearly as funny!

Too late Elly. It is just hair and it grows out. Didn’t you once say the same thing to Liz?

Past the point of no return.

Funny how old hippies always screamed for change in others, yet they are the most resistant to it themselves. As they called it in Psychology 101: Projecting.

My dad was a barber and my uncle and two male cousins had him cut their hair since as relatives they didn’t have to pay. My dad got scissors happy and cut my cousins’ hair too short and they were whining to their dad, “We can’t go to school looking like this!” My uncle said, “Well, I can’t glue it back on!” I was laughing so hard I couldn’t breathe!

Stylists should take some psychology courses in cosmetology school…

I’ve gotten two absolutely dreadful haircuts in my life and I survived both of them. One, I gave a new stylist a picture, complete with measurements, of how I wanted my hair styled and he ignored it. The nape was to be 4 inches long, and he began by pinning my hair up and nearly shaving the back of my hear from the ears down. After I had a screaming fit, he cut the top 4 inches long. I resembled one of the troll dolls! But it grew back.

Change is inevitable. Some people never get it

Don’t take me half the way was a good song by crystal gayle, if you like country.

Ha ha ha! Wimmen! Am I right?

She’s not a doll, it would grow back. :P

Hair today, gone tomorrow

This is why you need to make up your mind entirely BEFORE sitting in a stylist’s chair. I feel sorry for those hairstylists who run across people who exhibit behaviour like what Elly is showing. This is when he should remove the cape and politely say something like “Please feel free to come back and see me when you make up your mind…” without doing another thing to her hair. He might lose her business, but that type of customer is normally not someone they want to deal with to begin with.

I thought it was always cut and dried – hair washed, hair cut, hair dried. The challenge is to fitting the discription to an actual style result.

Stupid is as stupid does, thy name is Elly.

Oh it’ll look different alright!

Trim some of her nose off,it’ll make her hair look bigger…

Hairstylist sign, “I’m a beautician, not a magician!”

You know with AI, salons could take a pic of you and then show you what you’d look like with your new style BEFORE they cut.

Elly, are you really that stupid?

I want a completely new look but also want to look the same. I am astonished that hardly any murders are committed by hairstylists.

Not a mullet; please, not a mullet.

I once saw someone leave with a half finished tattoo.

Just do what you will. Ellie won’t be thrilled anyway.

Other punchlines that were considered were:

1. A hair stylist that saves you from a bad haircut is a hair-o.

2. My hair stylist is the best when he’s a cut above the rest.

3. After giving Elly a terrible haircut, I needed to see a t-hair-apist.

4. I want to give her a fringe, because I want to go out with a bang.

5. Her last hairstylist doesn’t cut hair any longer. He cuts it shorter.

Change is really difficult for some folks (raises hand). Takes a little while to accept that hair DOES grow back. Usually.

WHAT A LOON

jeez,just buy a wig…..

Ha! I remember my barber warning me of the same thing when I went to a buzz cut for the first time as an adult. “I can take it off, but I can’t put it back on!” But that was fine and I went through with it, and never looked back. I haven’t needed a comb or to spend more than a minute a day on my hair for almost 30 years and wouldn’t have it any other way.

If she wants a change, maybe get rid of the tie dyed T-shirts

It’ll grow back….don’t worry

Kinda business in the front, party in the back right now, isn’t it?

Let him keep going. Whatever he does next isn’t going to look as bad as this mullet you’ve got now.

Good one

Before the first cut, all Elly should’ve said was “a variation on the theme”.

I hear the Princess Di cut was all the rage back in the 90’s ! ;-)

Woman is always fickle – foolish is he who trusts her. – Francis I

Looks pretty bad so far…

Just give her a mullet.

Nice Mullet there, Elly!

This strip is timeless. Lynn captured the human condition perfectly.

My hair is military short, takes no time at all to wash and brush

Well, if the rest of her hair was going to be that short, I’m not surprised she changed her mind. Never tell the stylist to do whatever they want.

Wait till she goes home. She will blame poor John for all.