brwnskingirl
New Member
will I go back to this salon in the bronx. I needed a relaxer badly after waiting for 8 weeks. The last place I got my touch-up from was wonderful but I cant afford 80 dollars just for a touchup that does not include a deep condition9 my hair is just touching the nape of my neck). I personally feel like thats too much to pay for hair as short as mine. so on sunday I decided to try the Dominicans that my bf recommended(should have know better), actually his sister and mother goes there all the time and its only $40 for a relaxer and deep condition. I went in on saturday to check the place out and saw that there were a lot of women in there that looks just like me and when I spoke to one of the women she sounds like she knows what she was doing.
So Sunday comes and my hair is itching I needed to get it done, so I showed up and asked her what type of relaxer she uses, she said a few names but not the one that I liked. My biggest concern was to use a lye relaxer ( i prefer lye over no-lye). She said that she gets great results with gentle treatment, I have never used this before. I asked her if it was lye or no lye she said lye. I really wanted to run across the street and buy a jar of revlon realistic lye formula but I didnt want to come across as a B***h and being difficult so i gave in to the gentle treament. So she went and got the jar of relaxer and started mixing....yes mixing so then you already know this ass does not know what she is talking about. I still remained calm(Im known to be bossy sometimes and I'm really trying to work on it so I said nothing). so while she was mixing I looked around her booth area and saw no signs of andy kind of base for the scalp so I asked her she said I dont need it because that's how mild the relaxer is.
So she starts applying this relaxer with a fine tooth comb, I was horrified but I needed it badly so I just sat. so when she reached the top of my head the back started to burn, she sprayed it and it was fine, she continued the other side of the back of my head started to burn she sprayed it again and then proceeded. after about 10 minutes in the relaxer I told her to rinse it out. Oh I asked her if she had neutralizing shampoo she said they make their own with vinegar and regular shampoo. (im such a fool)
so we got to the sink and she started to rinse out the back of my hair to ease the burn I guess and when she finished rinsing the back she wanted to continue to comb the relaxer in the front. I stopped her and said that I dont need it to be bone straight just rinse it out. She probably rinse my hair for less than 2 minutes before reaching for the shampoo. thats when I went crazy...I put my hand in my hair and still felt some relaxer in the middle and told her you know what she said? "that's just your hair soft like that". I asked her to rinse my hair out for a full five minutes she copped an attitude and said that I didnt even wait for her to finish. I told her she need to rinse all the relaxer out first before doing the shampoo(that's how I like it).
After all this I asked her to put in some of my 10 en 1 that I took with me , she did and told me to sit in a chair, mind you she didnt put on a plastic cap or put me under the dryer.
Okay so then she started to roller set me and I went under the dryer, when I was finished I told her I dont want my hair blown out with the hand dryer that it was okay to just style it. You know what she picked up to style my hair with? A rat tail comb. I just told her to forget it and I finger comb my hair paid and left the salon very pissed. I ran across the street to the bss and bought some optimum nuetralizing shampoo went home washed my hair thoroghly, applied some motions cpr(love it) and then GPB and was just happy I had'nt lost my hair. I ended up with burns in the back of my head around the nape area, it was okay though because I still had my hair. I knew she wasnt a professional when I told her that I got burned in the back of my head and she put her long ass fingernails there when she was washing my hair. She was rough, guess what else I saw when I was under the dryer? this other "stylist" was relaxing a womans hair and put the relaxer all over her head including the ends, when she took the woman over to the bowl to rinse( she took about three minutes to wash and rinse).She applie dthe conditioner to this womans hair with the same gloves she just relaxed with.
the moral of this story? Not all dominican sytlist know what they are doing...not all of them are professionals when it comes to chemicals. I have not totally written off going to another dominican salon but for now I will stick with paying the 80 dollars because its worth every penny.
So Sunday comes and my hair is itching I needed to get it done, so I showed up and asked her what type of relaxer she uses, she said a few names but not the one that I liked. My biggest concern was to use a lye relaxer ( i prefer lye over no-lye). She said that she gets great results with gentle treatment, I have never used this before. I asked her if it was lye or no lye she said lye. I really wanted to run across the street and buy a jar of revlon realistic lye formula but I didnt want to come across as a B***h and being difficult so i gave in to the gentle treament. So she went and got the jar of relaxer and started mixing....yes mixing so then you already know this ass does not know what she is talking about. I still remained calm(Im known to be bossy sometimes and I'm really trying to work on it so I said nothing). so while she was mixing I looked around her booth area and saw no signs of andy kind of base for the scalp so I asked her she said I dont need it because that's how mild the relaxer is.
So she starts applying this relaxer with a fine tooth comb, I was horrified but I needed it badly so I just sat. so when she reached the top of my head the back started to burn, she sprayed it and it was fine, she continued the other side of the back of my head started to burn she sprayed it again and then proceeded. after about 10 minutes in the relaxer I told her to rinse it out. Oh I asked her if she had neutralizing shampoo she said they make their own with vinegar and regular shampoo. (im such a fool)
so we got to the sink and she started to rinse out the back of my hair to ease the burn I guess and when she finished rinsing the back she wanted to continue to comb the relaxer in the front. I stopped her and said that I dont need it to be bone straight just rinse it out. She probably rinse my hair for less than 2 minutes before reaching for the shampoo. thats when I went crazy...I put my hand in my hair and still felt some relaxer in the middle and told her you know what she said? "that's just your hair soft like that". I asked her to rinse my hair out for a full five minutes she copped an attitude and said that I didnt even wait for her to finish. I told her she need to rinse all the relaxer out first before doing the shampoo(that's how I like it).
After all this I asked her to put in some of my 10 en 1 that I took with me , she did and told me to sit in a chair, mind you she didnt put on a plastic cap or put me under the dryer.
Okay so then she started to roller set me and I went under the dryer, when I was finished I told her I dont want my hair blown out with the hand dryer that it was okay to just style it. You know what she picked up to style my hair with? A rat tail comb. I just told her to forget it and I finger comb my hair paid and left the salon very pissed. I ran across the street to the bss and bought some optimum nuetralizing shampoo went home washed my hair thoroghly, applied some motions cpr(love it) and then GPB and was just happy I had'nt lost my hair. I ended up with burns in the back of my head around the nape area, it was okay though because I still had my hair. I knew she wasnt a professional when I told her that I got burned in the back of my head and she put her long ass fingernails there when she was washing my hair. She was rough, guess what else I saw when I was under the dryer? this other "stylist" was relaxing a womans hair and put the relaxer all over her head including the ends, when she took the woman over to the bowl to rinse( she took about three minutes to wash and rinse).She applie dthe conditioner to this womans hair with the same gloves she just relaxed with.
the moral of this story? Not all dominican sytlist know what they are doing...not all of them are professionals when it comes to chemicals. I have not totally written off going to another dominican salon but for now I will stick with paying the 80 dollars because its worth every penny.
