This is a weird etiquette-type poll, I guess. When you get your hair washed at a salon, do you keep your eyes open or closed? Why?
This is a question that bothers me every time I get my hair cut.
Both- it depends on how comfortable I feel with the hairdresser and if we are talking or not during the hair washing.
Closed. I wear contacts to get my hair done so if the water splashes even a bit, I lose it.
Me too, applejamie. I have also gotten the ol’ shampoo-in-the-eye at a salon (she was really apologetic), so now I keep 'em closed unless it seems safe to open them.
Appropriate user name Lisa-go-Blind, having got the shampoo in the eye once I just keep my eyes closed relax and talk. Being a bloke, and the hair washer usually being the youngest female stylist, it helps as well to have eyes closed, as that avoids the temptation to look at the stylist’s cleavage.
Open. The place where I get my hair cut has a TV mounted high on the wall in front of the basins, so you can watch it while you’re getting your hair washed. I also like to chat away to my hairdresser, which would be a bit strange if I had my eyes closed.
I try not to close my eyes and groan when I’m getting a head massage at the end, because that would be way creepy. 
Open… at least when the attractive blonde who washes your hair tends to wear sleeveless blouses with rather large arm holes… and no bra… and tends to reach over your face rather than around the top of your head…
Closed, because I wear contact and I’m also very sensitive to light. And having someone else wash your hair is a wonderful feeling.
Closed because it feels good and I relax and enjoy it.
They know it feels good. You know it feels good.
It’s not “sexual”. No shame in enjoying it.
Then again, that’s coming from the girl who has caught herself drooling through the little hole you rest your face on, on a massage table! LOL
Closed.
I’m pretty blind without my glasses, so keeping my eyes open would be kind of pointless.
Closed, partly because it’s very relaxing and partly because I feel a bit weird about having a stranger wash my hair.
Closed. It’s relaxing.
Why does this question bother you?? 
In Japan, when you get your hair shampooed, the stylist puts a little cloth over your eyes, nose and mouth. They don’t chat much either, which makes things wonderfully relaxing. I thought the cloth thing weird and a bit icky at first but it does totally do away with the “where should I look” stress.
On a slight hijack but another similar “where should I look” problem area - the OB/GYN. They have curtains that cut across your middle! So the nurse gets you in the stirrups, pulls the curtain closed and then the doctor comes into the cubicle. If it’s a polite Dr, they will say “shitsurei shimasu” (“I am about to commit a rudeness.” Yeah, too right!!) before examining you, but I have once not even known the guy was there until I got THE FINGERS. Eeek.
Interestingly, yanking the curtain back and demanding a commentary (which I always do) really, really upsets most doctors, and they seem to not know where to look then!!
Hijack over…
Closed. It’s very relaxing and pleasurable.
Open until the later gets near my eyes, then closed. But I have to mention that the one thing that absolutely drives me nuts is when that little trickle of water goes down your neck. It’s only water, I know, but it makes me want to jump out of my skin!!!
lather, even…:smack: :smack: :smack:
Ditto and ditto. 
The gals who’ve shampooed my hair haven’t been especially attractive so I keep 'em closed. However, I now usually opt for no shampoo at all, since I do that in my am shower.
At a doctor’s office, a new Physician’s Assistant stepped into the treatment room for a pre-doctor check - BP, auscultation, etc.
She is wearing a PJ top (aka scrub suit top), and the Vee neck is
rather deep for her little frame. Now she bends over with the stethoscope. Peripherally I can see the vee dropping wide so if I chose, I could drop my eyes and scan her boobs.
But I already noticed they would not be remarkable, so instead, I looked left (as when a doctor says “Cough.”). She noticed averted my eyes and suddenly exhibited that “Oh, what a gentleman you are” syndrome.
Eyed close.
And I’ve been known to purr a bit.
The only thing I can think of that compares to having my hair washed at the salon is rubbing a dogs belly and the dog gets the runaway leg thing going. My stylist asked me why I’m always so tense in the washing chair but I haven’t figured a way to explain.