Hey all, I'm still shaking my head over the confrontation I had with my (I guess now EX) hairdresser.
First off, he lives in my building and works in the shop in my building (I live in a resort-like, all-inclusive apt. building that has a spa/salon, grocery, dry cleaners', etc.) So, I see this guy often even outside the shop, which was why I hesitated to stop going to him even after I ceased enjoying the work he did on my hair - just too awkward to run into him when I had my hair done by someone else! And I didn't feel like sneaking around and taking the back stairs just to avoid him. He's an okay stylist - decent styles and I never burn with him with relaxers - but he is too scissor-happy, and when he has personal issues, he more often than not takes them out on people's hair . . . and in the past few months, he's been having mad personal issues.
ANNNYWAY, I run into him at the grocery on our ground floor, and he's all, "I haven't seen you in the shop for awhile. You need a retouch." And I tell him that I know that, and that I'm planning on getting one in two weeks (it'll be my eighth week) and that my new growth has been manageable. Then he actually starts PICKING through my hair /images/graemlins/mad.gif before I can say something and is all, "Have you been hot combing your roots? It's bad for the hair." And I said, "No, I've been visiting some black hair boards and getting tips on how to make relaxer stretch and tame new growth (i.e. coconut oil, protective styles, heavy-duty conditioner).
That's when the ish hit. He starts going off right in the middle of the dang store /images/graemlins/nuts.gif He's like, "Please tell me you are not going to nappturality (I think that's what he said) and longhaircare.com." And I was taken aback, because he doesn't seem very computer literate. I told him that I had not gone to napputarity, but that yes, I had reged at LHC, and was getting wonderful tips. And then he started acting more a fool, saying that he had clients who had followed regimens that had caused their hair to fall out, that the people on the board who say their hair is a certain length are either lying or mixed with something non-black, and that in another month or two, I'll be bald and crying because I listened to the advice of people who are "not licensed cosmetologists." That was his main point - He went to Timbuktu U for a cosmetology license, he's the expert, so HE should know what's best for my hair. I then said to him, "If that's true, then why the @&#& did you underprocess my hair at my last touchup?!" Then he got all quiet and looked at my hair and said I must have "done something" to make the roots look puffy and unrelaxed.
I'm fit to be tied. I trusted this madman with my hair! Are all hairdressers as loopy as this guy when clients want to be proactive and actually keep some hair on their head? If anybody's in Miami, then help a sista out, 'cause I need a new hairdresser STAT.
First off, he lives in my building and works in the shop in my building (I live in a resort-like, all-inclusive apt. building that has a spa/salon, grocery, dry cleaners', etc.) So, I see this guy often even outside the shop, which was why I hesitated to stop going to him even after I ceased enjoying the work he did on my hair - just too awkward to run into him when I had my hair done by someone else! And I didn't feel like sneaking around and taking the back stairs just to avoid him. He's an okay stylist - decent styles and I never burn with him with relaxers - but he is too scissor-happy, and when he has personal issues, he more often than not takes them out on people's hair . . . and in the past few months, he's been having mad personal issues.
ANNNYWAY, I run into him at the grocery on our ground floor, and he's all, "I haven't seen you in the shop for awhile. You need a retouch." And I tell him that I know that, and that I'm planning on getting one in two weeks (it'll be my eighth week) and that my new growth has been manageable. Then he actually starts PICKING through my hair /images/graemlins/mad.gif before I can say something and is all, "Have you been hot combing your roots? It's bad for the hair." And I said, "No, I've been visiting some black hair boards and getting tips on how to make relaxer stretch and tame new growth (i.e. coconut oil, protective styles, heavy-duty conditioner).
That's when the ish hit. He starts going off right in the middle of the dang store /images/graemlins/nuts.gif He's like, "Please tell me you are not going to nappturality (I think that's what he said) and longhaircare.com." And I was taken aback, because he doesn't seem very computer literate. I told him that I had not gone to napputarity, but that yes, I had reged at LHC, and was getting wonderful tips. And then he started acting more a fool, saying that he had clients who had followed regimens that had caused their hair to fall out, that the people on the board who say their hair is a certain length are either lying or mixed with something non-black, and that in another month or two, I'll be bald and crying because I listened to the advice of people who are "not licensed cosmetologists." That was his main point - He went to Timbuktu U for a cosmetology license, he's the expert, so HE should know what's best for my hair. I then said to him, "If that's true, then why the @&#& did you underprocess my hair at my last touchup?!" Then he got all quiet and looked at my hair and said I must have "done something" to make the roots look puffy and unrelaxed.
I'm fit to be tied. I trusted this madman with my hair! Are all hairdressers as loopy as this guy when clients want to be proactive and actually keep some hair on their head? If anybody's in Miami, then help a sista out, 'cause I need a new hairdresser STAT.
