Britt4209
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I NEED TO VENT YALL!!!
I dont know if you guys remember me, but I posted this thread
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=417818&highlight=
about my hair journey and this month i would be removing my braids to check for my new length...well after 2 days of trying to remove the knots and tangles that the braids left me with, my hair was all diff lengths. longer in the front (almost apl) and the back was basically ripped to neck length....eventually i knew it would need to be evened out, so after contemplating where I would go to get this done, I found a "multicultural" salon in my neighborhood..I had always noticed the shop but never cared to go in, well I finally went in to find that the salon's owner was Cambodian and she was working on a white customer and there was another stylist who was black, was working on her black customer..so i asked about setting up an appointment and the black stylist said that she was filled w/appts and the owner decided to take me....i was a tiny bit hesitant to get my hair done by someone who was not black, but i let that slide because race doesn't matter when it comes to hair, its all about skill...in all honesty I gave this woman the benefit of the doubt because as the owner of a multiculatural salon, she should know how to do black hair right???
Well Fast Forward to the morning of the appointment...Ok yall, she had me waiting for her for over an hour, so the stylist that was there the day that i scheduled an appt called her to let her know that I had been waiting..Finally, she shows up and apologizes profusely and says that this had never happened before and that it would never happen again(ok..whatever) So she washes my hair and asks me if I am growing out my relaxer and told me that I should because I had "good" hair smh..it aint that good but ok..lol..Ok, so i get a deep conditioner and then its time to dry.. She drys my hair..I then tell her that i usually wear my hair straight/bouncy w/a side part..so she says "with a bump on the end" so i'm like "umm yea, i guess." So she begins to flat iron me, but at the same time it feels like she is adding alot of product to my hair...the end result was a HAM..sticky and stiff hair w/absolutely no movement..It reminded me of the press and curls i used to get back in the day when my mom would use grease, but nowadays all that product isn't necessary to acheive hair with that "swang" and she didn't even trim my hair evenly all the way around..
When she was done, I paid her(which i HATE that I did) $40 bucks which was reduced since she had been late..I had been in there for 4 hours just for a crappy "press and curl" and an even crappier trim job..As I was leaving, some white lady in the waiting room says "your hair looks nice" OMG why did she have to lie to me like that and I wish that the other sylists (who were both black) would have given me a heads up on this lady..the heads that they were doing looked absolutely great, while im sitting in there looking like a science project...As soon as I left the shop I broke down into tears, my new shorter length just made me break down even more and made me think about how long it would take for me to grow it all back..When i got home, my mom and bf tried to make me feel better, my mom asked me if i wanted her to call the shop to curse somebody out(aww how sweet?). I told her that it was okay, but I really wished that I had done that myself, minus the cursing part, but the shock of my hair was just too much to take in...
Sorry for the long post, but I just needed to let it all out..
Oh and i was way too traumatized to take any pics for you guys..but for an idea...
the red line is pretty much where my hair is now
I dont know if you guys remember me, but I posted this thread
http://www.longhaircareforum.com/showthread.php?t=417818&highlight=
about my hair journey and this month i would be removing my braids to check for my new length...well after 2 days of trying to remove the knots and tangles that the braids left me with, my hair was all diff lengths. longer in the front (almost apl) and the back was basically ripped to neck length....eventually i knew it would need to be evened out, so after contemplating where I would go to get this done, I found a "multicultural" salon in my neighborhood..I had always noticed the shop but never cared to go in, well I finally went in to find that the salon's owner was Cambodian and she was working on a white customer and there was another stylist who was black, was working on her black customer..so i asked about setting up an appointment and the black stylist said that she was filled w/appts and the owner decided to take me....i was a tiny bit hesitant to get my hair done by someone who was not black, but i let that slide because race doesn't matter when it comes to hair, its all about skill...in all honesty I gave this woman the benefit of the doubt because as the owner of a multiculatural salon, she should know how to do black hair right???
Well Fast Forward to the morning of the appointment...Ok yall, she had me waiting for her for over an hour, so the stylist that was there the day that i scheduled an appt called her to let her know that I had been waiting..Finally, she shows up and apologizes profusely and says that this had never happened before and that it would never happen again(ok..whatever) So she washes my hair and asks me if I am growing out my relaxer and told me that I should because I had "good" hair smh..it aint that good but ok..lol..Ok, so i get a deep conditioner and then its time to dry.. She drys my hair..I then tell her that i usually wear my hair straight/bouncy w/a side part..so she says "with a bump on the end" so i'm like "umm yea, i guess." So she begins to flat iron me, but at the same time it feels like she is adding alot of product to my hair...the end result was a HAM..sticky and stiff hair w/absolutely no movement..It reminded me of the press and curls i used to get back in the day when my mom would use grease, but nowadays all that product isn't necessary to acheive hair with that "swang" and she didn't even trim my hair evenly all the way around..
When she was done, I paid her(which i HATE that I did) $40 bucks which was reduced since she had been late..I had been in there for 4 hours just for a crappy "press and curl" and an even crappier trim job..As I was leaving, some white lady in the waiting room says "your hair looks nice" OMG why did she have to lie to me like that and I wish that the other sylists (who were both black) would have given me a heads up on this lady..the heads that they were doing looked absolutely great, while im sitting in there looking like a science project...As soon as I left the shop I broke down into tears, my new shorter length just made me break down even more and made me think about how long it would take for me to grow it all back..When i got home, my mom and bf tried to make me feel better, my mom asked me if i wanted her to call the shop to curse somebody out(aww how sweet?). I told her that it was okay, but I really wished that I had done that myself, minus the cursing part, but the shock of my hair was just too much to take in...
Sorry for the long post, but I just needed to let it all out..
Oh and i was way too traumatized to take any pics for you guys..but for an idea...
the red line is pretty much where my hair is now
I was silly enough to trust the stylist so much that I didn't even sit by a mirror because I'd heard how much she loves to see long hair and help people grow long hair and so didn't think she'd be scissor happy. And I'm sure your hair do wasn't as ugly as what I got in addition to the BC I didn't ask for 
