kasey
Active Member
Hey girls,
A couple of weeks ago I went to get my hair trimmed--well cut. I wanted a couple of inches taken off the ends.
The folks at the salon were nice, but I swear that they all conspired against me.
Here is what happened.
The night before I had done my usual condition wash and twist. That morning I took the twists out and smooth my hair back into a bun, without brushing or combing it back, but my hair was really soft.
Well I get there and take down my bun and immediately the stylist is like--you need reconstruction--as if my hair was totally falling out with every step. Then she tells me that she is a natural hair stylist so I start to think maybe she will be okay.
I tell the stylist that I would like to get a rollerset. The she says, "natural hair can't be rollerset." I was like where are Sweetcocoa and Skeegsmb when I need them. Since I wanted a trim I let it go. (Stylist usually need to blow dry natural heads to do a good trim.)
So she instructs another stylist to shampoo my hair twice with a moisturizing shampoo and then use the reconstructor and sit me under the dryer. The stylist leads me to the shampoo bowl and then the first stylist says, "no, comb her hair out first."
Then the second girl leads me to another chair and starts making light movements with the comb. Then she asks if she is hurting me. (I think there is some stereotype that it hurts to comb a natural head.) While she was combing my hair a guy from the back came through to watch. He asked the stylist if they were gonna style my hair in an afro.
The stylist said no, and then she tells me how she used to be natural and that she recently relaxed. She said that her natural hair was more wirey than mine. She also said that my hair was in good condition--it wasn't breaking while being combed. (Thanks to you guys.)
Anyhoo I get shampooed, reconstructed. Then after she rinsed out the reconstructor the stylist put a moisturizing conditioner on my hair, but the conditioner also had protein, seaweed, and it only was left on my hair about 30 seconds..
So after my hair was rinsed, you guys know how it looked. It was puffy, with none of my usual ringlets and a little dry feeling.
Then I went back to the first girl's chair and she was like, "see natural hair can't be rollerset." I tried to explain that I needed to sit with the moisturizing conditioner for a longer period of time and that it wasn't a good idea to towel dry my hair, but I let it go.
Well instead of just blowing me dry, which usually happens with my other hair trimmer, another stylist twists my hair, sits me under the dryer, then start to blowdry my hair. Then at some point, without telling me, they decide that they need to prepare my hair for a press (hotcomb) so they untwist it, put on a heat protectant, retwist it, and put me back under the dryer.
I come from under the dryer. Then the first girl says that she is going to flat iron my hair. She barely puts the flat iron on my hair. Then she says, I am gonna have to press it--as if my hair is a brillo pad.
Well my ends, the last two inches, were really bad, they weren't split, but they were thin looking compared to all the new hair I have since LHCF. I wanted to gradually cut off the old hair. But instead of cutting off the two inches I requested. She ends up cutting from three to five inches.
My hair was 8 to 11 inches with a four inch spot at the crown. She wanted to even it all up to the short spot. I had to repeatedly tell her I didn't want that because I wouldn't be able to put it in a bun.
Next, my hair is very baby hair fine and curly at the temples and across my forehead. It has always been this way. But she tells me that my hairline receeding
and asks if this is hereditary.
Well she stops cutting it, curls it and I ask her to put it in an updo. Then she puts on some type of pomade that made my hair feel sticky. (That wouldn't have happened if the pomade was put on while my hair was wet.)
Then the final insult of the day she says, this hairstyle won't last two weeks like it would on relaxed hair.
At this point I just wanted to scream.
--kc
The only great thing about the visit was the reconstructor. It has been a couple of weeks since the treatment and I have seen dramatically less hair come out after shampooing and conditioning.
A couple of weeks ago I went to get my hair trimmed--well cut. I wanted a couple of inches taken off the ends.
The folks at the salon were nice, but I swear that they all conspired against me.
Here is what happened.
The night before I had done my usual condition wash and twist. That morning I took the twists out and smooth my hair back into a bun, without brushing or combing it back, but my hair was really soft.
Well I get there and take down my bun and immediately the stylist is like--you need reconstruction--as if my hair was totally falling out with every step. Then she tells me that she is a natural hair stylist so I start to think maybe she will be okay.
I tell the stylist that I would like to get a rollerset. The she says, "natural hair can't be rollerset." I was like where are Sweetcocoa and Skeegsmb when I need them. Since I wanted a trim I let it go. (Stylist usually need to blow dry natural heads to do a good trim.)
So she instructs another stylist to shampoo my hair twice with a moisturizing shampoo and then use the reconstructor and sit me under the dryer. The stylist leads me to the shampoo bowl and then the first stylist says, "no, comb her hair out first."
Then the second girl leads me to another chair and starts making light movements with the comb. Then she asks if she is hurting me. (I think there is some stereotype that it hurts to comb a natural head.) While she was combing my hair a guy from the back came through to watch. He asked the stylist if they were gonna style my hair in an afro.
The stylist said no, and then she tells me how she used to be natural and that she recently relaxed. She said that her natural hair was more wirey than mine. She also said that my hair was in good condition--it wasn't breaking while being combed. (Thanks to you guys.)
Anyhoo I get shampooed, reconstructed. Then after she rinsed out the reconstructor the stylist put a moisturizing conditioner on my hair, but the conditioner also had protein, seaweed, and it only was left on my hair about 30 seconds..
So after my hair was rinsed, you guys know how it looked. It was puffy, with none of my usual ringlets and a little dry feeling.
Then I went back to the first girl's chair and she was like, "see natural hair can't be rollerset." I tried to explain that I needed to sit with the moisturizing conditioner for a longer period of time and that it wasn't a good idea to towel dry my hair, but I let it go.
Well instead of just blowing me dry, which usually happens with my other hair trimmer, another stylist twists my hair, sits me under the dryer, then start to blowdry my hair. Then at some point, without telling me, they decide that they need to prepare my hair for a press (hotcomb) so they untwist it, put on a heat protectant, retwist it, and put me back under the dryer.
I come from under the dryer. Then the first girl says that she is going to flat iron my hair. She barely puts the flat iron on my hair. Then she says, I am gonna have to press it--as if my hair is a brillo pad.
Well my ends, the last two inches, were really bad, they weren't split, but they were thin looking compared to all the new hair I have since LHCF. I wanted to gradually cut off the old hair. But instead of cutting off the two inches I requested. She ends up cutting from three to five inches.
My hair was 8 to 11 inches with a four inch spot at the crown. She wanted to even it all up to the short spot. I had to repeatedly tell her I didn't want that because I wouldn't be able to put it in a bun.
Next, my hair is very baby hair fine and curly at the temples and across my forehead. It has always been this way. But she tells me that my hairline receeding
Well she stops cutting it, curls it and I ask her to put it in an updo. Then she puts on some type of pomade that made my hair feel sticky. (That wouldn't have happened if the pomade was put on while my hair was wet.)
Then the final insult of the day she says, this hairstyle won't last two weeks like it would on relaxed hair.
At this point I just wanted to scream.
--kc
The only great thing about the visit was the reconstructor. It has been a couple of weeks since the treatment and I have seen dramatically less hair come out after shampooing and conditioning.
