Bad hair day!

I just got a really. bad. haircut. Late 70s, "Eight is Enough" bad. Don't want to go out in public without a hat on bad. I always think my haircuts are bad for at least an hour after I get them, but this time I'm pretty sure the conviction will hold. I should have known better. This is the fourth haircut I've had with this particular person, and I've never been terribly impressed. She typically takes about 15 minutes, which at least at first was preferable to the hour-and-a-half, elegant cuts I got back home, it being very hard to sustain small talk for all that time. But 15 minutes really does not provide enough time, particularly with my dense mop of hair, to produce anything approaching that je ne sais quoi one hopes for in a haircut. Problem is, in this small small town, I'm kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Do I want to offend someone I won't be able to hide from for the sake of cooler hair?