Have you ever been lied to by a stylist about your hair's condition or anything else?

[ShiShiPooPoo]

I went Thursday to get my hair braided into a protective style. My hair is nice and I am satisfied with the service but the lady said I had heat damage. Now, I never divulge how much I know about haircare because I like to listen to them say stupid stuff so when she said this I was like really? She was all like, "Yeah, your gonna have to cut it off because it is physical damage instead of chemical." "ok" I said, "is it alot? Can you show me?" She proceeds to show me a couple braids that are not curling upon themselves at the very ends. It's not straight mind you but more of a 3a type curl. Now here's the kicker...I SHAVED MY HEAD BALD ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO AND HAVENT USED HEAT AT ALL IN THIS TIME. These braids were at the back of my head where my hair texture is mostly 3a-b and the rest of my head is like 3c-4aish. Now, you may say that she made a mistake but it was her tone too like she enjoyed telling me this...can't really explain it. Also, she told me that I eat too much pasta and that she could tell by my scalp. When I asked her to explain how she came to that she just looked at me. I wanted to say, "Girl, stop b*llsh*ing."
Have you ever experienced this?


ETA: It would have been better if she asked me "Do you use heat?" Then I would've told her no and she would've just dismissed it and kept braiding. Also, pasta comes out on the scalp? I don't want to walk around with spaghetti noodles popping out my head.

 

[Evolving78]

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i'm sorry she tried to take you for a ride. i don't think i have experienced that before.

 

[veesweets]

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Sooo pasta does something negative to the scalp? Somebody please tell me it aint so, I love pasta dishes

 

[knt1229]

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Luckily, I haven't had anyone lie about the condition of my hair. I have had some recommend things that I knew were not good for my hair. For instance, I went to a new salon and the girl doing my hair was asking why didn't I have a weave and did I want one. I told her no I wasn't interested. She started saying how she could glue some hair in and it wouldn't take her long to do it. I said no. I knew she was most likely trying to get more money.

But, more importantly, it was clear to me that she could care less about her customers hair health and was only concerned with making money at any cost. I never went back to that salon.

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

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Sooo pasta does something negative to the scalp? Somebody please tell me it aint so, I love pasta dishes

Truth be told I kill me some pasta so it may be coming out of my pores. I looked it up when I got home but I didn't find anything about that. I wonder if she said that because my scalp is real white or somethin.

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

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i'm sorry she tried to take you for a ride. i don't think i have experienced that before.

She got the wrong one because I sat there and was entertained. Also, we walked to the BS to get some hair and she said, "Did you see that guy? I can tell he needs a full body detox because he has holes in his face." I said, "Maybe he got shot with some pellets or something." She's like, "Naw girl, he needs a good colon cleanse".

 

[StarScream35]

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Have I???? Hayle yeah! It's one of the reasons I do not and I repeat do not go to stylists anymore. Back when I was relaxed I went to Great Clips to get my hair trimmed and I mean it was a dang good trim. She took off a good two inches and the hair that was left was nice and undamaged. Mind you, I rarely put heat to my hair so I was shocked when I went to get a relaxer two weeks later and the stylist was like "you need a trim cause your ends are damaged and scraggly looking". I was like come again! I told her I had it trimmed two weeks prior and her tone was all rough and nasty. I was so through with stylists at that point!

Girl if I were you, I would trim my own dang hair. Order yourself Creaclip and trim it yourself. Eliminate these lying arse, money hungry stylists out of your life. They are a menace to black hair progress. All those years I spent going to stylists and my nape area or kitchens, if you wanna call it that, NEVER grew because they were always breaking due to stylists failing to neutralize. Since I have been doing my own hair, my nape area is soooooo healthy and long, even when I was doing the relaxer myself.

Free yourself and free your mind!! Black hair salons are the new black slavery and that's a fact!

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

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The only reason I went to her is that I can't cornrow my own hair. I haven't been to a stylist in years so I felt she was ok.

I trim my own hair at home.

I like her for some comic relief.

 

[rayellejd14]

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I used to go to a stylist who would yell at me for waiting 8 weeks for a relaxer touch up, and had me coming in at 6 weeks. She said my hair couldn't handle going 8 weeks. I wish I'd never met her, my hair didn't grow at all while I was with her, and I can still wear my hair completely straight now at 12 weeks.

 

[HappywithJC723]

That's a first, she could tell you eat a lot of pasta by your scalp?! ShiShiPooPoo, I guess that me and you both have some weird stuff going on with our scalp because I loooove pasta This is too funny though

 

[Postal]

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You know, she might have just truly believed in what she was saying. She might not have meant to lie.

I'm really wonder where she got that pasta idea fromerplexed

 

[SUPER SWEET]

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Dang it's been 4 years already... I remember when you shaved your head. Time is flying

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeea. I hate when you go to a new place and the salon thinks they are the end all be all about Natural hair.

I went to a place and dude called someone over to examine my hair, he holdin up strands, he shakin his head,he groanin, and then he proceeds to tell me I need to get a full cut not a trim. I said ok sure next visit. He insisted so I told him wait a min I'll be right back....... he's still waiting.

 

[naturalmanenyc]

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I don't think they all lie, they just don't know any better.

I've had a stylist tell me to blow out and flat iron my hair every 2 weeks (fine 4a curls) to get it to stay straight longer. Umm yeah, heat damaged hair does stay straight longer since the curls are burned away. It could have been a ploy to get me on a regular payment schedule, but I felt more so that the stylist didn't know any better.

 

[Crackers Phinn]

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Sooo pasta does something negative to the scalp? Somebody please tell me it aint so, I love pasta dishes

Yeah girl, Italy is full of bald folks.

 

[KiWiStyle]

I went Thursday to get my hair braided into a protective style. My hair is nice and I am satisfied with the service but the lady said I had heat damage. Now, I never divulge how much I know about haircare because I like to listen to them say stupid stuff so when she said this I was like really? She was all like, "Yeah, your gonna have to cut it off because it is physical damage instead of chemical." "ok" I said, "is it alot? Can you show me?" She proceeds to show me a couple braids that are not curling upon themselves at the very ends. It's not straight mind you but more of a 3a type curl. Now here's the kicker...I SHAVED MY HEAD BALD ABOUT 4 YEARS AGO AND HAVENT USED HEAT AT ALL IN THIS TIME. These braids were at the back of my head where my hair texture is mostly 3a-b and the rest of my head is like 3c-4aish. Now, you may say that she made a mistake but it was her tone too like she enjoyed telling me this...can't really explain it. Also, she told me that I eat too much pasta and that she could tell by my scalp. When I asked her to explain how she came to that she just looked at me. I wanted to say, "Girl, stop b*llsh*ing."
Have you ever experienced this?

ETA: It would have been better if she asked me "Do you use heat?" Then I would've told her no and she would've just dismissed it and kept braiding. Also, pasta comes out on the scalp? I don't want to walk around with spaghetti noodles popping out my head.

She didn't lie, that woman is crazy as all get up and truly believed every word she was saying. I would stay far away from her...

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[9MillaNina]

Yes, that's why I chose to start doing my own hair years ago trim an all. But my salon was different. She would tell me I needed a trim when I didn't. All I would need was dusting. I'm sitting there wondering why I'm not retaining length, it's all because this ***** cutting it all off lol. But to answer the question again, yes I have been lied to

 

[halee_J]

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She got the wrong one because I sat there and was entertained. Also, we walked to the BS to get some hair and she said, "Did you see that guy? I can tell he needs a full body detox because he has holes in his face." I said, "Maybe he got shot with some pellets or something." She's like, "Naw girl, he needs a good colon cleanse".

^^^ this needs to be immortalized in a siggy

To answer your question, I haven't really been taken for a ride, apart from the age old, "You need a trim" when my ends are just fine.

 

[LexiDior]

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I think i have. Once, i asked my stylist if shes noticed that my hard was shedding really bad, she said NO. But now that im taking care of my own hair, I dont shed nearly as much now.

 

[Seamonster]

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Wow, the only lie stylist ever told me was that they weren't going to cut my hair and then proceeded to turn the chair, and chop it off. After the fact she would say, it looks so much better now.

In fact my fine strands often need a trim, but I want to decide when, and how much. Also my stylist was a high school buddies mom, so she been knowing me since we were kids, can't tell her nothing. Dear momme did keep my hair looking fabulous, and she even taught me how to do a 70's blow out, and demanded that I condition natural hair.

 

[Seamonster]

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Oh, I forgot,

1.One time Mom was out of town so my fiancée took me to another stylist, and she burnt me on the forehead. She told me she burnt me because I was pretty, black and had a man that loved me enough to come to the salon with me. Her man had left her the week before, and married another woman.

2. A stylist just snatched all my fine hair out while cornrowing it, and I ended up with a TWA. This happened to me twice, always by stylist that were great stylist, but lousy combers. Thinking kinky hair is so strong. Guess they lied to themselves, but my hair fell out.

 

[southerncitygirl]

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ShiShiPooPoo

Pasta makes for yeast overgrowth (candida) in the body if it is gluten-based (wheat or whole wheat, etc.) What we eat doesn't only come out when we go to the bathroom but secretes out of our skin/scalp, vagina, via sweat glands, etc. that flour makes paste in your intestines, messes with your immunity and constipates you over time.Wheat is not healthy at all unless you are going the route of spelt (a cousin to wheat) einkorn or kamut (last 2 are ancient ancestors of wheat). It is quite acidic and mucus forming.

All italians don't eat alot of pasta....it depends on what region you are from. They also cook it al dente while in the US we like it mushy and overcooked which is also bad cause the body processes it differently.

Even still this stylist is crazy!! This thread is funny is hayle

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

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Pasta and yeast ok. Now that makes sense. She couldn't explain that though so I think she might have been just repeating what someone else told her and didn't know how to defend it. She did tell me to stay away from wheat and gluten.

She also said the lady down the hall can tell you exactly what is going on in your body by looking at your tongue. I'm gonna stay away from that lady.

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

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Dang it's been 4 years already... I remember when you shaved your head. Time is flying

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeea. I hate when you go to a new place and the salon thinks they are the end all be all about Natural hair.

I went to a place and dude called someone over to examine my hair, he holdin up strands, he shakin his head,he groanin, and then he proceeds to tell me I need to get a full cut not a trim. I said ok sure next visit. He insisted so I told him wait a min I'll be right back....... he's still waiting.

Yep! lol four years. The people who gave me sh&t about why I did that are still trying to get their hair to grow. My hair has caught up and surpassed theirs in this time. They don't make comments about why I did that anymore.

lol...I would've done the same thing. "Uh...let me go move my car." lol!

 

[BlackHairDiva]

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yes one had the nerve to say that with each chemical treatment the salon offers, a haircut is given. because the hair is dead. I said i dont want a haircut. He said , i dont have a word on that the stylist does and she or he will decide how much hair is appropriate to be cut off. You leave the lenght that looks best on you. I hung up the phone on that Punk!! HEll no am I going to be bamboozoled in such a place and on top of that pay them....HELLL NO!!

 

[ShiShiPooPoo]

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yes one had the nerve to say that with each chemical treatment the salon offers, a haircut is given. because the hair is dead. I said i dont want a haircut. He said , i dont have a word on that the stylist does and she or he will decide how much hair is appropriate to be cut off. You leave the lenght that looks best on you. I hung up the phone on that Punk!! HEll no am I going to be bamboozoled in such a place and on top of that pay them....HELLL NO!!

What???? So you HAVE to get it cut? Then she decides how much? That's not fair! How ridiculous!

 

[missliberia]

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Oh, I forgot,

1.One time Mom was out of town so my fiancée took me to another stylist, and she burnt me on the forehead. She told me she burnt me because I was pretty, black and had a man that loved me enough to come to the salon with me. Her man had left her the week before, and married another woman.

2. A stylist just snatched all my fine hair out while cornrowing it, and I ended up with a TWA. This happened to me twice, always by stylist that were great stylist, but lousy combers. Thinking kinky hair is so strong. Guess they lied to themselves, but my hair fell out.

I'm so mad at all of this.

 

[BlackHairDiva]

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What???? So you HAVE to get it cut? Then she decides how much? That's not fair! How ridiculous!

YES!!!!! I even asked to clarify chemical treatment. That means a relaxer, hair coloring, BKt you name it ...they will cut you.

 

[coyacoy]

Oh, I forgot,

1.One time Mom was out of town so my fiancée took me to another stylist, and she burnt me on the forehead. She told me she burnt me because I was pretty, black and had a man that loved me enough to come to the salon with me. Her man had left her the week before, and married another woman.

2. A stylist just snatched all my fine hair out while cornrowing it, and I ended up with a TWA. This happened to me twice, always by stylist that were great stylist, but lousy combers. Thinking kinky hair is so strong. Guess they lied to themselves, but my hair fell out.

Whaaat!? Omg Seamonster that is terrible!! How did u respond?

 

[coyacoy]

yes one had the nerve to say that with each chemical treatment the salon offers, a haircut is given. because the hair is dead. I said i dont want a haircut. He said , i dont have a word on that the stylist does and she or he will decide how much hair is appropriate to be cut off. You leave the lenght that looks best on you. I hung up the phone on that Punk!! HEll no am I going to be bamboozoled in such a place and on top of that pay them....HELLL NO!!

That is insane...i would have clicked em too

 

[BlackHairDiva]

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That is insane...i would have clicked em too

Needless to say, I do my own hair now. Im happy. I just need to master self touch ups...With all the threads combined with videos on youtube. I should become semi- pro by the time I touch up.