AN owner of a hair salon in Kulai, Johor, along with three management staff, shaved their heads bald as a gesture of apology for a poorly done haircut by a trainee staff, reported Sin Chew Daily.
Just days earlier, an upset mother uploaded a photo of her son’s haircut at the salon, saying that it looked like the boy’s hair had been “chewed by a dog”.
The post sparked a heated discussion on social media, with many criticising the salon for bad haircuts.
After contacting the mother, the owner of the hair salon, Daniel Chong, and three other employees shaved their heads bald to express their sincere apology for the shoddy haircut.
Chong said he had to take responsibility for the mistake made by one of his trainees.
He also refuted claims that the shaving was a marketing stunt, adding that one of the employees who shaved his head was getting married in a few days.
> Three-time best actress winner Charmaine Sheh nearly gave up on acting early in her career and was once criticised for her poor performance and having a “chicken voice”, reported China Press.
She was a runner-up in the 1997 Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant and was rushed into acting without much training.
In one of her earliest roles in 1999, Sheh was cast as the female lead in the martial arts drama The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain, which fared poorly.
“I did my best but when I saw the comments, I thought about quitting. I felt like I did not know how to act,” she said.
With her confidence shattered, Sheh sought help from her colleagues, one of whom was her co-star on The Flying Fox of Snowy Mountain, Sunny Chan.
In just a year of coaching under Chan, Sheh said she felt like she had gone through a crash course in acting, which improved her performance significantly.
Looking back, Sheh said she is now less concerned about public perception, and has learnt to let go and stopped reading negative reports.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
