New York Girls please help me, need a new salon

[kiwiny]

Hi, this is my first post ,so it's long. Sorry!
I live in brooklyn and I need a salon for short hair my hair is currently 2-2.5 inches and I do not want to go to a domincan salon yet because my hair to short and I would like to go to a black salon with out getting ripped off. I want a stylist who is interested in healty hair and helping me grow it, not maintain the short hair syle I currently have.

In my search for a stylist I tried a new salon in brooklyn for a wash and style. I was 4-5 weeks post relaxer and I was trying to stretch another week or so in. Normally I would think a wash and style using a flat or cuing iron is $40-45 dollars . That is what I expected to pay. Unstead I walk out paying him $103 dollars. As soon as he saw me he insisted that I needed a relaxer now because my hair just wouldn't lay right with out it(that's bull) and then he insisted that I needed a trim for my ends. I told him i wanted to wait a week for the relaxer and he said about 4 weeks is enough time for a relaxer(bull again). He just kept, cutting and cutting. He was more interested in styling me then giving what I wanted which was to keep the length I had.

I am so sad because I have lost about an inch of growth because of this guy . I feel like a sucker, This stylist are real salesman, I feel like they just wanted to get the maximum amoutn of money out of me .

Girls please help me find a stylist in nyc. I need someone who can help me grow my hair out. Thanks. Kiwi

 

[aqualung]

Dunno NYC salons, but bumping for others who do.

So true. Black stylists are gonna see you comin' and want to transform you into a Halle clone.

Would you consider wearing braids for a while? No trims and you'd be shoulderlength by the end of the year.

Check out the posts by skegeesmb. She's grown her hair out nicely from a short cut.

 

[debyjay]

Re: New York Girls please help me, need a new salo

Megonw is right on! Braids will mos def help you to grow your hair. I live in Brooklyn also. I do have a salon/stylist suggestion for you, but I really think braids is the way to go. I got about 5 inches wearing braids for 6 months -- 2 months at a time.

Let us know how you feel about sporting braids.

 

[kiwiny]

Thank you for your input, no one else seems to be helping me. My scalp is too dry and too scaly for braids.

I had them in for a a month in October and was dying to get them out of my head.

This stylist applied a revlon relaxer on my hair and I told him 5 weeks before I used affirm. I don't know what to do now. Should I go back to affirm. Thanks again for your help.

Kiwi

 

[isis1913]

Yeah... most Black salons cost alot in Brooklyn that is why so many women go to the Dominican (plus you are in and out if you have a relaxer). I use to go to Time Salon when I had my hair relaxed very straight... Not sure their prices for wash and set. NYC is just expensive if you are from somewhere else...

I agree braids may allow it to grow longer and then you can go to a Dominican Salon. I know a GREAT one in Brooklyn when you are ready (Bonita's on Waverly between Lafayette and Greene in Clinton Hill).

 

[caralexis2005]

Isis! did you like Time Salon? Who did you frequent there?
I would really like to check them out.
Also, who do you frequent at Bonita's? what styles are they good at?
thanks

 

[asummertyme]

time salon is great!!!
but i suggest doing your own hair until u feel comfortable with your lenghth to fo to the dominican stylists....you can do it!! we can help, only u can baby ur hair and treat it the way it should be treated.

 

[kiwiny]

I really do not like Time salon. Yes, they do good hair but the attitudes in there stinks. I refuse to give them my money. About a year ago and half ago my hair was natural. I have thick 4a/4b hair. I wanted it pressed and they made it seem like it was too much work for them and they constantly commented on how thick it was. Is'nt thick hair good. Well I don't want to go nowhere where people are trying to make me feel like I have ugly hair. I have had many people say I have great hair and I think so too.