Since I've been going to the salon most of my life, I can relate to some of the scenarios/comments that these members have experienced. However, I had to restrain myself from laughing hysterically at the office.
My former stylist Katherine has a serious attitude problem. She’s older than my parents. Anyway, she would wash and deep condition my hair. I guess after a few years, she felt that I should learn how to detangle it myself. She would have me detangle my own hair, and I’m paying her full price! Then she would put the wet towel--that she just finished using to pat dry my hair after it was washed—on my shoulders instead of using a clean dry towel. My blouse or sweater would be damp after I left the salon. I finally asked her for a dry towel; she got the message. While she was pressing and hot curling my hair, she would smoke over me and would argue with the other stylists from time to time. After three years with her, I eventually left because I felt that I would give male stylists a try. They are my best ones til this day.
I always make an appointment before I come in and while I’m waiting for my former hair stylist Yvonne to finish her current customer, she would start on customers who walked in 30 minutes after I arrived. Maybe they were running late, but I felt that she should have at least told me or washed and deep conditioned my hair by putting me under the dryer, and then worked on them. Anyway, I noticed this a few times, and I walked right on out and she never saw me again.
Another former stylist went out to get something to eat, and I walked away from the dryer to the mirror to examine the conditioner she put in my hair. It was very watery, not a rich thick conditioner at all. When she arrived, I asked her what kind of conditioner she put in my hair. She said: “It’s a water-based conditioner.” It looked like water and a thin layer of something white mixed it. I didn’t want anything cheap in my hair. I remained calm. After she finished my hair, that was the last time she saw me in her salon. About a year later, she saw me on the bus stop while she was getting into her car, and she had a mad stare on her face. I just ignored her.
Another stylist would not listen to me when it came to trimming my hair even though he initialized the subject. He always cut my hair every three months. After years of doing this, he said: “When I cut my other customers hair, their hair won’t grow back; but when I cut yours’, your hair always grows back.” Now I understand why he felt that he needed to cut instead of trim every three months, but it did look good. Sometimes he took off too much, according to my friends and coworkers. One day, he cut my hair quite short that I couldn’t even roll the back of it! My sister was shocked!!! Nevertheless, I always received compliments on the style and others wanted to go to him. They didn’t go to him regularly, though.
One of my other stylists thinks just because I have long hair, and I’m sitting under the dryer that he can take two walk in customers with short hair and work on their heads non-stop after my dryer automatically turns off. Instead of rinsing the deep conditioner out, finishing my hair, he keeps working on theirs as if I don’t exist. Then they leave the salon, not knowing that I’m his customer. I let it slide the first time; but the second time, I blasted him for doing this! The next time, he asked if he could work on this other customer’s hair, while I was under the dryer. I gave him permission, because I was focusing on my homework. It didn’t take him long, but I just made up my mind that I need to learn how to do my own hair. When I have the time, I do my own hair, but still he’s fabulous!
In fact, some of my friends who go to the hair salon have shared some of their experiences with me that are identical to the comments mentioned in this thread.
This is really hilarious, indeed.
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