Right or wrong? Mother can't pay stylist fees so stylist cuts child's braids

Is this story for real? Why would the mother allow the stylist to take pics after the stylist cut the braids? Why didn't the stylist confirm the price before beginning the service?

Telling clients the cost of a service upfront is the responsibility of the stylist not the client. Whenever I have had my hair done I was quoted a price upfront for the service they provided. Before they did anything that would change the price I was asked if I wanted them to proceed. If anyone ever changed a price on me and they didn't do anything more than what was orignally agreed upon, then, I would not pay anything above the intial price that was quoted.
 
Soooooo, even though the mom didn't have enough money, you still look like a fool destroying your time and effort, hours, everything.

Honestly, that child looked RELIEVED that it was cut out. It looked tight and uncomfortable.
 
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I just looked up the stylist, she's in Shreveport. I wonder if she's going to lose business, there are soooo many black stylists there.
 
Way to go lady! You are awesome for humiliating a little girl that had no part of her mother's inability to pay. Wow!
 
I feel like there's a backstory. Quite frankly, the responsibility lies with the mother for either not clarifying the price beforehand or for not being candid or being shady about her her finances. Like someone said, that style took hours and moma didn't suddenly realize that she didn't have the money. While I would have called the police and pressed charges for theft, I can't say that I totally disagree with the stylist either. People are always getting over because no one wants to say anything or someone wants "to be the bigger person."

I don't think the stylist should have posted the little girl's face.
 
The mother is at fault. This may seem harsh, but the child learned a valuable lesson. We can't always shield children from the realities of life. If the stylist would've let them go, what lesson does the child learn? The mother knew exactly what she was was doing and is teaching this same unacceptable behavior to her daughter. She's teaching her daughter to steal.
 
The lawyer in me is coming out. The stylist was *dead wrong* for what she did here. This is an easy case of tortious behavior.

The mother was also wrong. The stylist should have taken an alternate course of action and sued her for the $ in small claims court. Cutting the braids out was not only childish, it was unprofessional and illegal.
 
topnotch1010 said:
The mother is at fault. This may seem harsh, but the child learned a valuable lesson. We can't always shield children from the realities of life. If the stylist would've let them go, what lesson does the child learn? The mother knew exactly what she was was doing and is teaching this same unacceptable behavior to her daughter. She's teaching her daughter to steal.
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Im confused on how the daughter has anything to do with this?
 
mssoconfused said:
The lawyer in me is coming out. The stylist was *dead wrong* for what she did here. This is an easy case of tortious behavior.

The mother was also wrong. The stylist should have taken an alternate course of action and sued her for the $ in small claims court. Cutting the braids out was not only childish, it was unprofessional and illegal.
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Perhaps it was an extreme example of self help?
 
Well... I doubt she got her money in the end... What an idiot. And now she's being dragged through social media and I guarantee she loses clients because of her actions.

You can be mad at the mother, but what's the point of humiliating the child? She looks like an unprofessional person who bullies kids.

Say it was necessary, but she definitely has effed up her money. So in the end , she loses.

I also highly doubt the mother saw her cut the braids and take a photo of her child... Otherwise, we'd have heard about the assault lol.
 
It's really small but this is the stylist's response. People are so heartless.
 

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The stylist CONTINUES to be messy and acting irresponsibly. Drop the kid off with the cops and file that suit. Otherwise you're driving around with someone's child you don't know?!? Come on....we all watch the news. Geeezzz!
 
I'm trying to understand what I'm seeing. Mom tried to get over by getting her child a free braided hairstyle and the stylist decides to assault a kid with scissors as retaliation?

I just don't understand what this world is coming to where people are cosigning assaulting a child.
 
The mother is a mess, but messing up the child's hair would never have crossed my mind. I would have never worked with the mother after that though. smh

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So much drama and irresponsibility. First the client arrives late, then the child is not picked up from the appointment, then the stylist is told to drop off the child, but only a partial address is given, then the child is taken to her home, but no adults are present, meanwhile the mother doesn't return calls and then it seems that the child has her braids cut out of her head outside her home for the world to see.

IMO, both the stylist and the mother need to go do some serious re-evaluating of their character and maturity.

I can't help, but to wonder what was going through that little girls mind as her braids were being cut out. The fact that she presumably came out of her home & stood there allowing the stylist the cut her hair makes me think she no stranger to drama of this kind.

Bottom line is, had proper business practices been in place this debacle could have been avoided. I feel for they stylist for not getting paid, but what she did was inexcusable. She should have taken it as a loss and never dealt with those clients again. & the mother needs a swift kick in the rear. How dare she drop her kid anywhere & entrust a stranger with the responsibility of getting her home, then have the nerve to go ghost to avoid payment. Thank God all the kid lost were her extensions. Smh.
 
I don't necessarily have a problem w/her cutting the braids, but it just seems like she went "Edward Scissorhands" on the little girl,
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which I feel was abusive. Also, posting the child's face on the internet = not cool. She should've filed a police report for Theft of Services and had the police handle it.
 
She was enraged. She had hours for those feelings to build up. She should have just called the police when the mother didn't show up to get her child.




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SuchaLady said:
It's really small but this is the stylist's response. People are so heartless.
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So that probably explains why Collins received tons of backlash. But she explains how she did the child’s hair while the mother ran her errands. Collins texted the mother when the little girl’s hair was almost done, and the mother replied that she would be there in 20 minutes. She never showed up.

Yup, that looks suspect.

Two hours later, the mother said she had a flat tire, and so Collins drove the little girl home based on the directions from the mother.

“This my grandma house,” the little girl says. “My mama stay down the street.”

In the meantime, mom didn’t answer her phone. Collins then drove the little girl to her real house, but she goes in only to return to say that only her brothers are home.


“She finally answers and sounds unsure as to how I’m going to get my money,” Collins says. “So then we come up with the decision that she will bring it to my house, so I leave. Then I realize I think she’s trying to play me, so I turn around and head back to her house.”

Collins calls and texts the mother a few more times that she’d just wait. But then she summons the child back outside and cuts the braids out.

“I cut the braids out and went on about my business,” she writes. “At the end of the day, I spent 9 hours away from my kids for nothing. Y’all wasn’t in my shoes or in my position. I have to take care of my three babies and I will do what I have to do to let it be known that I don’t play when it comes to my job or supporting my family.”
 
This reads like a Dave Chappelle skit, When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong, the hair salon edition.

I get it, the mother tried to get over. But seriously! Why humiliate a child. :perplexed CPS and the police would have handled it.

1QTPie said:
She was enraged. She had hours for those feelings to build up. She should have just called the police when the mother didn't show up to get her child.




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via clutchmag:


So that probably explains why Collins received tons of backlash. But she explains how she did the child’s hair while the mother ran her errands. Collins texted the mother when the little girl’s hair was almost done, and the mother replied that she would be there in 20 minutes. She never showed up.

Yup, that looks suspect.

Two hours later, the mother said she had a flat tire, and so Collins drove the little girl home based on the directions from the mother.

“This my grandma house,” the little girl says. “My mama stay down the street.”

In the meantime, mom didn’t answer her phone. Collins then drove the little girl to her real house, but she goes in only to return to say that only her brothers are home.


“She finally answers and sounds unsure as to how I’m going to get my money,” Collins says. “So then we come up with the decision that she will bring it to my house, so I leave. Then I realize I think she’s trying to play me, so I turn around and head back to her house.”

Collins calls and texts the mother a few more times that she’d just wait. But then she summons the child back outside and cuts the braids out.

“I cut the braids out and went on about my business,” she writes. “At the end of the day, I spent 9 hours away from my kids for nothing. Y’all wasn’t in my shoes or in my position. I have to take care of my three babies and I will do what I have to do to let it be known that I don’t play when it comes to my job or supporting my family.”
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Froreal3 said:
The mother is a mess, but messing up the child's hair would never have crossed my mind. I would have never worked with the mother after that though. smh

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Exactly this...it wouldn't even occur to me to take her out. :nono:
 
I don't have a problem with the stylist "taking back her services" by taking the braids out, but could she not have just taken them out instead of cutting them out and leaving the child's head a mess? That was just uncalled for. :ohwell:
 
Again wrong on both sides. It's not that the mother couldn't pay! She didn't pay and had no plans to pay! And basically stole services on purpose, abandoned the child and left her child to be humiliated by an angry stylist.

The stylist would have not cut out the braids IF the mother was present or at least picked up her own child! I wouldn't trust anyone with my child like that. Yes the stylist was wrong but a good mother would NEVER put their child in this situation.
 
FelaShrine said:
Im confused on how the daughter has anything to do with this?
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She doesn't have anything to do with it directly. The issue is that letting a child see their mother cheat someone and get away with it teaches the child that it's OK. I don't agree with chopping the kids hair, but I surely would have taken the braids down and returned it to the original state.

To all the people who were saying that they'd step in - that would imply you were actually around. The mother dodged the stylist for the entire day!! Who does that? :ohwell:
 
Reposting My Thoughts from OT:

I don't believe for one moment that Mama had a flat tire! You ladies wanted the stylist to be a baby sitter and transportation for Mama, on top of the style (For Free). :nono:

What type of mother/woman would knowingly put their baby girl in that precarious situation? :perplexed

Mama was trying to get over!
 
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