| If she's going to take offense to it, don't say it. That's the same reason insults shouldn't be used...you don't want to put someone down, since that'll get you blown out 9 times outta 10.
Really you can go C&F here, or you can make her justify her opinion to you...
"Hah! Seems we have a difference of opinion, guess we can't date after all"
This one is saying you have standards, but be sure you can follow it up with something witty if she replies "you're right", or some such thing.
Or
"What can I say, his haircut was great. Makes me want to go out and get the same haircut."
This says that you don't really care whether or not she likes it, you do, and you're not going to hide it.
Or
"Oh, I'm terribly sorry to have offended you. Oh please, could you let me make it up to you by asking one question...What didn't you like about it? I really liked his haircut" (or whatever)
Risky. The point of going all overly beta is to highlight the silliness of her question, and to make sure that it's really huge, so that she gets that you're mocking her a bit, and not seriously that beta. Then you follow it up with a real question, so she knows that, while you're poking a little bit of fun at her, you're not trying to get rid of her, and you're not trying to insult her.
Cut the overly beta part if you don't think you can pull it off without actually sounding overly beta.
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