How To Get a Great Haircut

How To!

Slate Magazine

Business, Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Are you stuck in a hair rut? On this episode of How To!, Courtney Martin brings on Alana Lucia Balestrino, hairstylist, barber, and founder of the Brooklyn-based studio Baddies. Alana explains how to work with a stylist or barber to get a haircut you love. If you liked this episode check out: How To Dress with Confidence. Also: Decoder Ring’s Mystery of the Mullet. Do you have a problem that needs solving? Send us a note at [email protected] or leave us a voicemail at 646-495-4001 and we might have you on the show. Subscribe for free on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen. The show is produced by Rosemary Belson, with Kevin Bendis. Our technical director is Merritt Jacob and our supervising producer is Joel Meyer. Want more How To!? Subscribe to Slate Plus to unlock exclusive bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of the How To! show page. Or, visit slate.com/howtoplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	Adobe Express, the quick and easy create anything app.
0:30.6	Amazon offers term time working to their employees, like Anton,
0:34.6	who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.
0:40.0	Hello!
0:40.9	To him, this is the best sound in the world.
0:47.2	Actually, maybe that's the best sound of all.
0:51.4	Now that's term time working.
0:53.7	Offered at Amazon. Ten weeks off guaranteed per year.
0:57.1	Mix of paid holiday and unpaid time off. Conditions apply. I was sitting at the hair salon, dreading it,
1:03.7	and thinking, this is a weird thing to have a problem with, but at the same time, it's something
1:09.6	that's so ever present, literally on my head.
1:13.0	Why not figure out whatever hangups I have about it?
1:17.2	Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. Hair. It's the feature that perhaps says the most
1:23.4	about us, right? It's connected to culture, heritage, gender, personality. Before you even speak,
1:29.3	your hair communicates something crucial about who you are. When you take all of that out
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