ghetto sylists

[bimbabe]

Has anyone had some really bad experiences when they tried a new stylist?
As a broke freshman I tried this place in Philly where they were drying with brown paper towels and one woman was sneaking puffs of a cigarette while stling another customers hair.

The place was cheap but who wants to risk their precious strands?

 

[mly3e]

Oh NO!!

Brown paper towels?????? I would run run run away from that place!

 

[vevster]

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A friend of mine wanted a simple wash and wrap and she wasn't paying attention and the stylist gave her this crazy ghetto style -- when she looked in the mirror she screamed "oh no!!!! change this!!!" She was going to a wedding, and the stylist wanted to give her somethin' special.

lolololol

 

[sassygirl125]

Re: Oh NO!!

I remember getting my hair done somewhere in Atlanta and my stylist started screaming into the phone, "You better not come over here! You know I have a restraining order!"

Thank goodness she was done w/ my hair!

 

[legs71]

Re: Oh NO!!

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I remember getting my hair done somewhere in Atlanta and my stylist started screaming into the phone, "You better not come over here! You know I have a restraining order!"

Thank goodness she was done w/ my hair!

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[bimbabe]

Re: Oh NO!!

lol

Another thing when you go to ghetto salons is that you know the whole story about Peaches and her 4 baby daddies before Peaches comes into the salon to get her blond and purple weave in!

If these stylists would not talk so much on the phone and gossip with friends who come in they would focus more on your hair instead of giving you the "generic special do"

 

[Dreamn]

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Has anyone had some really bad experiences when they tried a new stylist?
As a broke freshman I tried this place in Philly where they were drying with brown paper towels and one woman was sneaking puffs of a cigarette while stling another customers hair.

The place was cheap but who wants to risk their precious strands?

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whoa, paper towels??? im from philly, so where were u in philly?? north or west?? possibly south?

 

[bimbabe]

West Philly- Crimp/Primp and Pamper I can't remember the name. Just that I will not be going back there.

 

[msprettyeyes]

Look at this ladies:YOU KNOW IT'S A BLACK HAIR SALON WHEN...

1. Your stylist accepts a 3 piece from Popeye's as her tip.

2. All the stylists walk around with house slippers on.

3. Four people are booked for the same 1:00 appt.

4. Your stylist calls YOU at the salon talking' bout
I overslept but I'm on my way."

5. When your stylist finally arrives you can see that
she had been to the club the night before because
she still has on her club clothes, and she still
has the red "over 21" stamp on the back of her
hand.

6. Every hairstyle, no matter what you're getting,
req! uires that nasty brown gel.

7. The STYLIST'S head looks a mess.

8. There's a receptionist's booth at the front of the
but no one ever uses it because it's stocked
with beauty supplies.

9. The Asian man from the carryout across the street
comes in and personally takes food orders.

10. You have to divide your tips 'bout four different
ways cuz' one permed you, one shampooed you, one
wrapped you and your stylist finished you up.

11. You get to the salon and your stylist isn't there,
so you gotta page her. When she calls back, you
gotta go pick her and her baby up.

12. Your e! ars are ringing because 'loud musi c' is
playing on your stylist's radio and she is singing
along.

13. Somebody is making a chicken run and is taking
orders from the stylists AND the clients.

14. Your stylist stops doing your hair to go outside
and talk to her baby daddy.

15. Your stylist got 10 Polaroid pictures from the
club stuck around the mirror.

16. Your stylist holds a 15-minute phone conversation
with somebody while she styles your hair.

17. The tape man is there selling bootleg tapes for $5.

18. The stylists all talk about each other.

19. When they send Boo-Boo's baby girl to the dollar
store to buy your $10 "deep conditioner."

20. When for a finishing touch your stylist insist on
sprinkling a little bit of glitter in your hair.

 

[Tebby1017]

Okay, I went to a ghetto salon where:

1. Not a towel was in sight (yes, they also used papertowels).

2. The CUSTOMERS used those paper towels to dry OTHER CUSTOMER'S hair.

3. You would be there at the shop for AT LEAST 5 hours.

4. There was no deep conditioning, hot oil, etc., but plenty of weave for the ponytail haircut (I've gotten those before, but very tasteful and nicely done).

5. During your 5 hour visit, at least 3 Boosters would come in to sell you ANYTHANG and EVERYTHANG (clothes, jewelery, kids underwear...you get the hint).

I could go on but I won't....

Tebby

 

[dontspeakdefeat]

Lol!

 

[hotpink]

bimbabe, how come when I read your post even before you mentioned the name of the salon I knew that you were talking about Primp and Pamper on 51st and Walnut in Philly!!! I used to go there back when I was in high school. The last time I went there I fell down a flight of 15 steps leading to their basement to get my hair washed! Luckily I wasn't hurt. Needless to say, I never returned!!

 

[Karonica]

I remember I went to this G-H-E-T-T-O shop. Dude comes in selling bags of socks. The hairdressers stopped what they were doing just to get them some tube socks.

Then the place was F-I-L-T-H-Y. I mean hair balls rolled around on the floor. The floor used to be white, but it was stucko and sticky, with layers of crap. Not to mention there were about 20 toddlers running around the place filthy dirty.

One girl was getting her hair done with a big huge baby carriage in front of her. Her baby started crying, so the stylist had to stop doing her hair so she could console her child, who would not stop crying. He eventually got passed around the salon to other people to try to get him to shut up, which he did.

They had nowhere for you to hang up your coat. People just threw their coats on the bench (yes, a bench with a stain-covered pillow seating) in the "waiting area."

They took orders from each other so they could call in to the carryout, just to order some daggon breakfast!

When people called the salon, kids answered the phone, and never told half the people that they had a call.

About half of the people in there weren't even getting anything done to their hair. They just came in there to hang out and watch a movie.

They had no bathroom. If they did, I sure didn't see one. All I saw was a big, empty pantry looking room with pipes.

My stylist had to borrow half of her supplies from another stylist.

I don't even think that place had a ceiling.

I could go on and on. I forgot to call the health department on them, because it was trifling.

 

[shelli4018]

Um,let me tell you about Sally's BSS around the corner from my house. It was closed for a couple of days this week because of an unfortunate accident. Apparently two girls got into it over a guy. To make a long story short, one of the girls grabbed a pair of scissors behind the counter and went to work! There was blood everywhere. But luckily no one died. My mother was next door and said it was like the Wild, Wild West up in there.

 

[Tebby1017]

See...where I said I was going to stop, you picked up! So many of those things were going on at my ghetto shop...


One more that I forgot...

I know a girl who works at a ghetto shop (the styles are ghetto, but she's a really good stylist and she knows about healthy hair AND how to TRIM, not cut). I don't know what happened to all of the stylists there but they all got Saved around the same time. Now when you go to the shop, people are speaking in tounges, prophecizing (sp?), laying hands and being layed out on the floor...I'm not knocking anyones beliefs but come on, there is a time and place for everything.

Anyway, why do we do this to ourselves? We could have so much more and do so much better for ourselves if we would get some focus.

Tebby

 

[katie]

My first stylist had her "salon" in her home.So when it was time to rinse out my relaxer she would have me run to the basin in her laundry room and she would have me facing forward and tell me "Close your eyes as tight as you can!" as she rinsed and neutralized.I was 13 at the time..it is a wonder I can still see!!And she would even charge almost twice as much as other stylists because she said her salon has a more "personal" feel!!Ummm...I'm not trying to be best buddies with my hair stylist any time soon,we don't need to get personal.

Another stylist I went to when I wanted my hair braided told my shocked mom "Can you braid?" (my mom said yes) "Well come and help me so we can finish this faster."

 

[jaibee]

I used to go to a shop that had a roach problem (YES A ROACH PROBLEM) and you could not sit your purse down or else you might go home with a little visitor......

I used to go to a shop where they would sell purses, clothes, boiled peanuts, tapes, cds, anything bootleg you wanted.....

Then I went in one salon where some women came in there and jumped one of the stylists cause she was messing with one of their GIRLFRIENDS....

NO UNFORTUNATELY I AM NOT MAKING ANY OF THIS UP BUT I DO NOT GO TO ANY OF THESE SALONS ANYMORE....NOW I SEE WHY I HATE LOOKING FOR A NEW SALON

 

[katie]

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Then I went in one salon where some women came in there and jumped one of the stylists cause she was messing with one of their GIRLFRIENDS....



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What does "jump" mean.Does it mean to cuss out or to beat up?It is pretty bad to cuss someone out at their job but even worse for them to get beaten up.

 

[msprettyeyes]

My definition of jump is when two or more people pull sneak attack on one person and beat the mess out of that one person.

 

[Britt]

Re: Oh NO!!

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I remember getting my hair done somewhere in Atlanta and my stylist started screaming into the phone, "You better not come over here! You know I have a restraining order!"

Thank goodness she was done w/ my hair!

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[Brooke007]

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My definition of jump is when two or more people pull sneak attack on one person and beat the mess out of that one person.

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[ineedmoney]

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Um,let me tell you about Sally's BSS around the corner from my house. It was closed for a couple of days this week because of an unfortunate accident. Apparently two girls got into it over a guy. To make a long story short, one of the girls grabbed a pair of scissors behind the counter and went to work! There was blood everywhere. But luckily no one died. My mother was next door and said it was like the Wild, Wild West up in there.

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that sounds like what happened to my niece!! she was getting her hair braided for her 8th grade graduation and my sister was in the shop with my little cousins wataching the braider, and some crazy lady bumrushed her in the salon. my sister grabed my cousins and took them out the salon and my brother in law had to go back and grab the other lady off the stylist.

ladies and gentlemen welcome to the hood.

 

[Brooke007]

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ladies and gentlemen welcome to the hood.

[/ QUOTE ] Okay. Note to self: Stay the hell outta the hood. Never been there....Never go there. I thought that I was experiencing ghetto 'cause I took my little boy to the barbershop and they were playing rap! I was so upset I walked over and turned the music off when I heard some very inappropriate language. Everybody froze, got pissed but didn't say ANYTHING. You know they all wanted to jump me. They didn't know they'd be jumpin' an internationally competitive 3rd degree black belt steamin’ mad and ready to fight over her baby. Hmmmph. But you ladies have experienced ghetto at a whole other level.

Poor babies.

 

[Karonica]

Oh dear. I'm surprised they didn't kick you out.

 

[sassygirl125]

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I don't even think that place had a ceiling.

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Now when you go to the shop, people are speaking in tounges, prophecizing (sp?), laying hands and being layed out on the floor...

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My cousin was getting her hair done in Daytona Beach, FL and her gay male stylist started waving some scissors around and told one of the straight female stylists to stay away from his man or he would "slice her like bologna".

 

[ladybug]

ghetto salons to me = domincan salons...always crowded...spanish music playing at a deafening volume..and way too many ppl there for comfort...

 

[jaibee]

When I say jump I mean PHYSICALLY get beat up... they came in the shop and fought the stylist
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Then I went in one salon where some women came in there and jumped one of the stylists cause she was messing with one of their GIRLFRIENDS....



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What does "jump" mean.Does it mean to cuss out or to beat up?It is pretty bad to cuss someone out at their job but even worse for them to get beaten up.

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[deepdimples3]

My friend told me about a stylist who was eating cheetos and licking her fingers while styling her hair.

 

[pookeylou]

Daaaaaaaaaannnnggg! That's pretty bad! (Never mind smoking in the salon is illegal and dangerous with all of those flamable sprays around)

I used to refer to my stylist as "the abusive husband"...he treated me horrible...but I couldn't leave him!

You know a salon is ghetto when you call to confirm your appointment and the stylist ask you to pick up a "3 piece" on your way in.

You know a salon is ghetto when in the middle of rinsing the relaxer/conditioner/color from your hair...he has to stop cause someone flushed the toilet...and he doesn't want to scald you or freeze your head.

You know you are in a ghetto salon when there's a bucket under the sink to catch the water dripping from the sink.

You know you are in a ghetto salon when you have to "page" your stylist before you come to make sure he will be there.

I am so glad that I decided to transition to my natural hair...I do not miss those days.

 

[bimbabe]

ha yes cheetos can be used for some nice shine. My hairdresser in Barbados can't use the washing mashine and wash hair at the same time.So people in her house have to warn her and get her approval to do laundry.