FemmedeJoi
New Member
This topic is hilarious
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I have to agree with everything. In addition, I'd add:
1) Stylists who are so peeved by bad clientele that they leave twenty-minute phone messages that "explain" what they will and won't have done. (Its like getting slapped before you even open your mouth.)
2) Stylists who refuse to answer questions about the styling but will mutter to themselves or their co-workers while working on your hair. (No, my hair is not that bad, its just thick! It takes time; that's why I'm here.)
3) Stylists who talk about their friends/SOs who are either in or fresh out of 'the joint'.
I have to agree with everything. In addition, I'd add:
1) Stylists who are so peeved by bad clientele that they leave twenty-minute phone messages that "explain" what they will and won't have done. (Its like getting slapped before you even open your mouth.)
2) Stylists who refuse to answer questions about the styling but will mutter to themselves or their co-workers while working on your hair. (No, my hair is not that bad, its just thick! It takes time; that's why I'm here.)
3) Stylists who talk about their friends/SOs who are either in or fresh out of 'the joint'.
Stylists who say I need a trim when I know my hair is even straight across, yet they still want to attack me with scissors..
I normally get a touchup after 8 - 10 weeks, and the last stylist that did my hair was like nnnooo you need to come in every 6wks and get a relaxer...uhuh yeah WHATEVER!!!
I normally get a touchup after 8 - 10 weeks, and the last stylist that did my hair was like nnnooo you need to come in every 6wks and get a relaxer...uhuh yeah WHATEVER!!!
i hate it:
-when i'm on time for my appointment, however have to wait for two other people that's still getting their hair done.
-when the person ahead of me decides to get spiral curls which takes my beautician forever to do because she uses a curling iron.
-when my beautician tries to get one of my stubborn hairs with a curling iron and ends up burning me.
-that she uses so much heat on my hair. (hood dryer, blowdryer, flat iron, and curling iron)
-when my beautician takes a phone call while realxing my hair. onetime some relaxer fell in my eye as a result of it.
-when i'm on time for my appointment, however have to wait for two other people that's still getting their hair done.
-when the person ahead of me decides to get spiral curls which takes my beautician forever to do because she uses a curling iron.
-when my beautician tries to get one of my stubborn hairs with a curling iron and ends up burning me.
-that she uses so much heat on my hair. (hood dryer, blowdryer, flat iron, and curling iron)
-when my beautician takes a phone call while realxing my hair. onetime some relaxer fell in my eye as a result of it.
rosie
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2. I hate when stylists cover the labels of the items they are using or use bottles that are unmarked! Oh no! If you are putting it in my hair, I have a right to know what it is!!
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Why the hell is it such a secret? Then when you try to ask them what it is, they act like they don't know or can't remember.
I also hate WAITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There isn't even a face here to express how muchI hate that!!!!!
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When I was in High school, Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
I never did understand why he was hiding it. And for that I never trusted him, completely. But he could hook up some hair.
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2. I hate when stylists cover the labels of the items they are using or use bottles that are unmarked! Oh no! If you are putting it in my hair, I have a right to know what it is!!
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Why the hell is it such a secret? Then when you try to ask them what it is, they act like they don't know or can't remember.
I also hate WAITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There isn't even a face here to express how muchI hate that!!!!!
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When I was in High school, Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
I never did understand why he was hiding it. And for that I never trusted him, completely. But he could hook up some hair.
kreeme
New Member
<font color="blue"> When I was in High school, Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
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Boy that really burns me the **** up
My old stylist use to do that and I just use to want to scream. I ask her what it is and she just says "deep conditioner." Well, hell...I figured that, but what's in it?!
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Boy that really burns me the **** up
sassygirl125
Professional PJ
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Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
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This bugs me, too. I guess they do this to ensure that you keep coming back for their "special" conditioner, set lotion, etc. What they fail to understand is that if people like the results, they will keep coming back! And why wouldn't they want the client to use the same products at home for maintenance?
I'm almost positive that I had a stylist who had "dummy" products in her station. For example, the bottle said "Lottabody Wrapn Tapn", but she would have something different inside.
I've used the Wrapn Tapn and it didn't smell like what she was spraying on my head. I think it was Infusium 23...
Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
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This bugs me, too. I guess they do this to ensure that you keep coming back for their "special" conditioner, set lotion, etc. What they fail to understand is that if people like the results, they will keep coming back! And why wouldn't they want the client to use the same products at home for maintenance?
I'm almost positive that I had a stylist who had "dummy" products in her station. For example, the bottle said "Lottabody Wrapn Tapn", but she would have something different inside.
Integrity
Active Member
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<font color="blue"> When I was in High school, Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
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Boy that really burns me the **** up
My old stylist use to do that and I just use to want to scream. I ask her what it is and she just says "deep conditioner." Well, hell...I figured that, but what's in it?!
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i brought this topic upthe other day and was told it is their trade secret they dont want to give away. i am thinking of it like this...would you get mad if you went into a restaurant, had the most wonderful meal and the chef refused to give you the recipe or even ingredients cos it was a family secret...maybe from generations???would you be mad at that? isnt this the same.
<font color="blue"> When I was in High school, Sonny, my beautician, used to take a bowl in stock room and mix up his "special conditioner" because he didn't want anyone to see what he put in it.
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Boy that really burns me the **** up
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i brought this topic upthe other day and was told it is their trade secret they dont want to give away. i am thinking of it like this...would you get mad if you went into a restaurant, had the most wonderful meal and the chef refused to give you the recipe or even ingredients cos it was a family secret...maybe from generations???would you be mad at that? isnt this the same.
butterscotch
New Member
I had a stylist that would have her friends come over and talk to her while she was doing my hair - it didn't matter what she was doing - touch-up, shampoo, wrap.....someone was ALWAYS standing there yapping their head off. That's mu biggest pet peeve of all.
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Guest
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LOL! I can relate to that, that's why I do my hair at home now except for my touch up. My stylist doesn't see me for 6 weeks! Ha!
I can't STAND ghetto hair shops. The shop I go to is in the mall. All ethnicities are welcome and $.50 is nowhere to be heard.
No loud gossiping and none of that other trifling drama that ghetto shops are prone to.
I can't STAND ghetto hair shops. The shop I go to is in the mall. All ethnicities are welcome and $.50 is nowhere to be heard.
No loud gossiping and none of that other trifling drama that ghetto shops are prone to.
kreeme
New Member
Pandora,
No it's not the same thing. If she is charging me and extra $10 for a deep conditioner...I wanna know what in the hell you are mixing in it? Is it cat piss?
dog spit?
or is it some 99 cent conditioner from the dollar store?
I just like to know these things especially when you are charging me an outrageous fee for it, then you come around the corner with some mixture in a plastic bowl
tell me something doggone it!
No it's not the same thing. If she is charging me and extra $10 for a deep conditioner...I wanna know what in the hell you are mixing in it? Is it cat piss?
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Guest
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It's a treat if you're non-black and a chore if you're black!
I agree with everything you guys have written. It's all very sad!
MY PEOPLE! They know we HAVE to come to the shop and get our hair done since God didn't bless many of us with "wash and go" hair and they exploit us and take us for granted!
FOUL!
I agree with everything you guys have written. It's all very sad!
MY PEOPLE! They know we HAVE to come to the shop and get our hair done since God didn't bless many of us with "wash and go" hair and they exploit us and take us for granted!
FOUL!
sassygirl125
Professional PJ
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would you get mad if you went into a restaurant, had the most wonderful meal and the chef refused to give you the recipe...
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You have a good point. I don't mind paying extra for a special meal because I don't eat out very often. But my hair has to look good every day. I know they have to make a living. And I'm the last person to begrudge someone a profit, but damn! I gotta eat, too.
I don't want to be dependent on "Sonny's Secret Potion" and the price tag that goes along with it. Especially if it's just Queen Helene Cholesterol and olive oil. I wouldn't ditch the stylist completely. But if I knew what they used I could do the same at home and just go to them to be pampered once a twice a month.
would you get mad if you went into a restaurant, had the most wonderful meal and the chef refused to give you the recipe...
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You have a good point. I don't mind paying extra for a special meal because I don't eat out very often. But my hair has to look good every day. I know they have to make a living. And I'm the last person to begrudge someone a profit, but damn! I gotta eat, too.
rosie
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I don't want to be dependent on "Sonny's Secret Potion" and the price tag that goes along with it. Especially if it's just Queen Helene Cholesterol and olive oil.
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Sonny's Secret Potion, that's what he really called it. Too Funny!!!!!
I sent this post to my sister and mother, and they recognized Sonny's Secret Potion. My mom was like, "Do they go to Sonny's, too. How do they know about his secret formula??"
I don't want to be dependent on "Sonny's Secret Potion" and the price tag that goes along with it. Especially if it's just Queen Helene Cholesterol and olive oil.
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Sonny's Secret Potion, that's what he really called it. Too Funny!!!!!
I sent this post to my sister and mother, and they recognized Sonny's Secret Potion. My mom was like, "Do they go to Sonny's, too. How do they know about his secret formula??"
sassygirl125
Professional PJ
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My mom was like, "Do they go to Sonny's, too. How do they know about his secret formula??"
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I just made up a name! Too funny!
My mom was like, "Do they go to Sonny's, too. How do they know about his secret formula??"
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Re: Things You Hate That Beauticians Do
I hate when they post a sign that says "no children unless they are being serviced" BUT then the owner regularly brings her dog, who runs around the salon using hair curlers as pet toys and begging from you when you sit under the hair dryer and open a bag of chips. What's more, the dog is given water from the water cooler that the patrons use and the owner takes a break from doing your hair to take the dog outside for a leak. I love dogs but there are limits and at $85 for a touch up this is beyond the bounds of professionalism.
I hate when they post a sign that says "no children unless they are being serviced" BUT then the owner regularly brings her dog, who runs around the salon using hair curlers as pet toys and begging from you when you sit under the hair dryer and open a bag of chips. What's more, the dog is given water from the water cooler that the patrons use and the owner takes a break from doing your hair to take the dog outside for a leak. I love dogs but there are limits and at $85 for a touch up this is beyond the bounds of professionalism.
TransitioningK
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This was posted on the old board, so I won't take credit for it. I saved it 'cause it describes just about all my pet peeves:
YOU KNOW IT'S A BLACK HAIR SALON WHEN...
1. Your stylist accepts a 3 pc from Popeye's as her tips.
2. All the stylists walk around with house slippers on.
3. When your stylist takes a cigarette break, it's weed she smokes.
4. Your stylist is still there doing your hair even though she's supposed to be on bed rest.
5. Four people are booked for the same 1:00 apt.
6. Your stylist calls YOU at the salon talkin' bout "I overslept but I'm on my way! way"
7. When your stylist finally arrives you can see that she had been to the club the night before b/c she still has on her club clothes, and she still has the red "over 21" stamp on the back of her hand.
8. Every hairstyle, no matter what you're getting, requires that nasty brown gel.
9. There's always that one stylist in the back that you can't tell whether it's a girl or guy.
10. The STYLIST'S head looks a mess.
11. All the other sylists fake like someone else's client's hair looks good until they lease the shop and then it's "Girl, I KNOW Shameeka ain't let her walk outta here like dat!"
12. There's a receptionist's booth at the front of the shop but no one ever uses it b/c it's stocked with beauty supplies.
13. The Asian man from the carryout across the street comes in and personally takes food orders.
14. Some crackhead is always coming into the shop every five minutes.
15. You have to divide your tips 'bout four different ways cuz' one permed you, one shampooed you, one wrapped you and your stylist finished you up.
16. You get to the salon and your stylist isn't there, so you gotta page her. When she calls back, you gotta go pick her and her baby up.
17. Your ears are ringing b/c 'loud music' is playing on your stylist's radio and she is singing along.
18. Somebody is making a chicken run and is taking orders from the stylists AND the clients.
19. They got strawberry, orange, AND grape in the coke machine, but no coke.
20. Your stylist stops doing your hair to go outside and talk to her baby daddy.
21. Your stylist got 10 Polaroid pictures from the club stuck around the mirror.
22. Your sylist holds a 15-minute phone conversation with somebody while she styles your hair.
23. The tape man is there selling bootleg tapes for $5.00.
24. The owner of the shop and one of the stylists get into a cussing match in fromt of the customers cause she made an appointment after5, knowning that she has to perform later on that night.
25. The stylists all talk about each other.
26. When they send Boo-Boo's baby girl to the 99-cent store to buy your $10 "deep conditioner".
27. When the stylist boyfriend comes in the shop with his boys and you are just hoping that they hurry up with your hair before there is a drive-by.
28. When for a finishing touch your stylist insist on sprinkling a little bit of glitter in your hair.
29.There are more kids in the shop then customers.
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This was posted on the old board, so I won't take credit for it. I saved it 'cause it describes just about all my pet peeves:
YOU KNOW IT'S A BLACK HAIR SALON WHEN...
1. Your stylist accepts a 3 pc from Popeye's as her tips.
2. All the stylists walk around with house slippers on.
3. When your stylist takes a cigarette break, it's weed she smokes.
4. Your stylist is still there doing your hair even though she's supposed to be on bed rest.
5. Four people are booked for the same 1:00 apt.
6. Your stylist calls YOU at the salon talkin' bout "I overslept but I'm on my way! way"
7. When your stylist finally arrives you can see that she had been to the club the night before b/c she still has on her club clothes, and she still has the red "over 21" stamp on the back of her hand.
8. Every hairstyle, no matter what you're getting, requires that nasty brown gel.
9. There's always that one stylist in the back that you can't tell whether it's a girl or guy.
10. The STYLIST'S head looks a mess.
11. All the other sylists fake like someone else's client's hair looks good until they lease the shop and then it's "Girl, I KNOW Shameeka ain't let her walk outta here like dat!"
12. There's a receptionist's booth at the front of the shop but no one ever uses it b/c it's stocked with beauty supplies.
13. The Asian man from the carryout across the street comes in and personally takes food orders.
14. Some crackhead is always coming into the shop every five minutes.
15. You have to divide your tips 'bout four different ways cuz' one permed you, one shampooed you, one wrapped you and your stylist finished you up.
16. You get to the salon and your stylist isn't there, so you gotta page her. When she calls back, you gotta go pick her and her baby up.
17. Your ears are ringing b/c 'loud music' is playing on your stylist's radio and she is singing along.
18. Somebody is making a chicken run and is taking orders from the stylists AND the clients.
19. They got strawberry, orange, AND grape in the coke machine, but no coke.
20. Your stylist stops doing your hair to go outside and talk to her baby daddy.
21. Your stylist got 10 Polaroid pictures from the club stuck around the mirror.
22. Your sylist holds a 15-minute phone conversation with somebody while she styles your hair.
23. The tape man is there selling bootleg tapes for $5.00.
24. The owner of the shop and one of the stylists get into a cussing match in fromt of the customers cause she made an appointment after5, knowning that she has to perform later on that night.
25. The stylists all talk about each other.
26. When they send Boo-Boo's baby girl to the 99-cent store to buy your $10 "deep conditioner".
27. When the stylist boyfriend comes in the shop with his boys and you are just hoping that they hurry up with your hair before there is a drive-by.
28. When for a finishing touch your stylist insist on sprinkling a little bit of glitter in your hair.
29.There are more kids in the shop then customers.
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ThursdayGirl
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I hate going for an appointment...and someone who came after me gets taken first
. That sucks!
ineedmoney
New Member
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i hate it:
-when i'm on time for my appointment, however have to wait for two other people that's still getting their hair done.
-when the person ahead of me decides to get spiral curls which takes my beautician forever to do because she uses a curling iron.
-when my beautician tries to get one of my stubborn hairs with a curling iron and ends up burning me.
-that she uses so much heat on my hair. (hood dryer, blowdryer, flat iron, and curling iron)
-when my beautician takes a phone call while realxing my hair. onetime some relaxer fell in my eye as a result of it.
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i get that much heat put on my hair when i get it pressed!
that sounds like overkill
i hate it:
-when i'm on time for my appointment, however have to wait for two other people that's still getting their hair done.
-when the person ahead of me decides to get spiral curls which takes my beautician forever to do because she uses a curling iron.
-when my beautician tries to get one of my stubborn hairs with a curling iron and ends up burning me.
-that she uses so much heat on my hair. (hood dryer, blowdryer, flat iron, and curling iron)
-when my beautician takes a phone call while realxing my hair. onetime some relaxer fell in my eye as a result of it.
[/ QUOTE ] now i might be dumb but aren't you suppose to get a relaxer so that you don' have to got through all that.
Mahalialee4
New Member
Yeah, and it is still my main pet peeve
Bonjour.
Mahalialee4
New Member
"the ski jump syndrome!!! :; Another is trying to hang on to 3 square inches of relaxed hair in the midst of a circle of dry stiff beady beads..."Ladies, let it go....you can start over.....and my favorite: hair that is totally nappy for about 5 inches, broke off, and a kitchen that is rockin'and then Korea's best supersilky phony pony perched high and hanging down to the butt. Ladies, make a choice...(I know, I'm bad...
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hair dressers with superlong nails trying to smooth a relaxer on some poor head!!!!!with some attitude!!!! telling them they need to get their relaxers on time to avoid hair breakage!!!!
Bonjour.
kreeme
New Member
Yeah, I hate that mess too. I went into the beauty supply store this morning, well they have a salon in the back. While I was walking in I saw a lady in front of me with blonde hair and a black pony tail. I was like, what in the hell?!
Then I noticed she went to the back of the salon and put her stuff down in her station. I'm like, I know good and well she ain't about to do somebody's hair looking like that! Mmmhh...mmmhh.mmmhh
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nicole
Guest
Well I had an appt. yesterday, my first time getting a flat iron since january and I was excited cuz my hair had grown significantly and I couldnt wait to see it straightened. Well my hairdresser had the nerve to have SIX people there at one time and she "trimmed at least 1 1/2 to 2" off my hair without telling me she was going toooo!!!! I dont care if I needed it you dont cut that much motherf-kg hair off my head without saying anything! she usually is good about trims I dont know what she was going through. I feel so vain but I damn near cried!
caralexis2005
New Member
I hate when...
-they dont want to use a leavein or charge extra for it
-they dont want to detangle before using a finetooth comb
-they scratch your scalp with the brush end or comb end while applying a relaxer (hello! that will lead to burning)
-they want to comb my hair or yank through the naps before a touchup!!!
and of course scissor happiness is a no-no
-they dont want to use a leavein or charge extra for it
-they dont want to detangle before using a finetooth comb
-they scratch your scalp with the brush end or comb end while applying a relaxer (hello! that will lead to burning)
-they want to comb my hair or yank through the naps before a touchup!!!
and of course scissor happiness is a no-no
ElizaBlue
Well-Known Member
Oh my God you are soooooo right. I was breaking and balding, so I went to the internet. Now my hair is on my shoulders and every time I go to the salon they ask what I am doing, as soon as I say anything about a hair club on the internet I get...you better stay off that or you will be bald headed. It just cracks me up.
ElizaBlue
Well-Known Member
This is too too funny. I hear you I hear you. I even got up once to take a peek in the back to see what the hell she was mixing up and that heifer shut the door on me. I got my grip and rolled up outta there. Hell for all I know she could have been killing something and putting the feet on my hair. That's what I get for going out of town trying to get my hair done in the hood.
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