bellezanegra826
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Ok so I decided to try a dominican salon that I heard about on roundbrushhair.com. Everyone on the review site said they had such a positive experience with this person and that she was capable of working on all types of african-american hair texture. The only negative thing that was said was that she takes a long time to do rollerset. My hair is relaxed, so I felt that she would definitely be able to work with my hair. I had an appointment for 11:30am but when I arrived, I had to wait until after 12:00-12:20 for her to take me. When I got there she was rolling someone's hair and I know it took her atleast 20 minutes to do it. When she finally got to me, she had her assistant wash my hair instead of her, which is fine b/c a lot of salons do that. Well the assistant was washing my hair like she had never washed hair before and had to rinse it four times b/c she was only putting shampoo on my hair one section at a time. Originally, the rollerset and blowdry were supposed to cost $35 but the hairdresser said I needed a deep conditioning and that was going to be $10 more. I felt that was reasonable and agreed to the new charges. I was place under a dryer for awhile and then had to wait an additional 30 minutes for her to finish doing another person hair.
I was finally called in to get my hair rollerset and that is when the drama really began. She proceeds to detangle my hair with a fine tooth comb instead of a wider comb, so my hair was breaking a little bit. This is when she tells me that I have good hair but its really damaged and she needs to give me some deep layers, which would be $25 more. At this point, I'm starting to recognize a trend with this woman, as time goes by, my hair gets more and more damaged and is going to need more services for her to get me in the right direction. Then she starts to get angry and tells me that I am natural and have only about 3 inches of permed hair. In the real world, not the alternate universe in which this fool resides,I am relaxed and have about a 3/4-1 inch of new growth. So then this @*#*$*#* tells me that I should have told her I was natural b/c she has certain days that she does natural hair b/c it takes up more time and I wasn't respecting her time or the time of her other customers. Then she tells me that she is usually really fast with rollersets and can do a set in less than 10 minutes. Really?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Umm first of all, my hair is still relaxed at this point, I'm still not natural and I'm trying to figure out how my hair was making her roll EVERYONE'S hair in no less than 30 minutes. In regards to respect for time, why was I made to wait 30 minutes to get my hair washed if she has so much respect for time? She then tells me I need to get a texturizer b/c it is less damaging for the hair. So just for laughs, I ask her how much this is going to cost. She tells me that she needs to measure my hair and since I have about 4 inches of natural hair she would have to charge me for texurizing 4 inches of natural hair. At this point I remind her once again I AM NOT NATURAL, I HAVE A FREAKIN' PERM! Even if I had 4 inches of hair that looked like it was natural, the fact that it has been permed means that you cannot put any chemical you want to on it b/c it is going to react like permed hair. I asked the board before about mixing texturizers and relaxers and was told that those are two different processes and that would result in my hair breaking off if the two were overlapped. So fast forward about 2.5 hours to the point that she is finally taking out my rollers and blow drying my hair. She tells me that I really really need a cut b/c for some reason my hair that already has bluntly cut ends is really really damaged. Which means she really really needs to give me that $25 hair cut at this point. She then directs my attention to her bleach blonde bushy hair and tells me that even though her hair isn't long, its healthy b/c its all one length. I wasn't going to say anything about her hair but since she brought my attention to it, there is no way that a head of hair that resembles a bleached brillo pad can be healthy. Her hair wasn't exactly the picture of health, but I didn't say anything b/c I didn't want to let all of my emotions boil over and get me to the point that I would need to set up a website to raise money for my bail. So anyways she tells me that she's not putting out a good service meaning that if other people see my hair they aren't going to want to get their hair done from her b/c it looks so bad. (Mind you its silky and straight and I have gotten several compliments on it. I made sure I didn't let anyone know who did this to my hair though...you know since it looked so bad) When she finally finishes, she tells me that since she had to do so much work to my hair, the cost for her services would be $55. The services I received were a wash n set and blow dry. Not a perm, not an infusion of magic dust, a wash and freakin' set! So then she tells me that I need to set up an appointment for my texturizer, that she still hasn't given me a price for. I ask her again for a price, which she says with out looking at me $150! At this point, words of wisdom from the articulate soulja boy pop into my head...
her: so when are you going to come back for your $150 texturizer?
me: ya trick ya
her: and don't forget I need to cut like three to four inches off of your hair
me: ya trick ya.
her: and i feel that its fine for me to put texturizer over your hair that has already been relaxed b/c texturizers are gentle and your hair was under processed so I can pretend that it was never processed at all.
me: a boogalama boogalama
her: I'll see you in two weeks
me: yaya trick. get out my face. get out my face!!!!!!!!
so was it just me or was this a bad trip the the hairdresser? should i go back and get that $150 texturizer? hehe I'm open to your comments so if you think i'm wrong....please please show me the error of my ways!
I was finally called in to get my hair rollerset and that is when the drama really began. She proceeds to detangle my hair with a fine tooth comb instead of a wider comb, so my hair was breaking a little bit. This is when she tells me that I have good hair but its really damaged and she needs to give me some deep layers, which would be $25 more. At this point, I'm starting to recognize a trend with this woman, as time goes by, my hair gets more and more damaged and is going to need more services for her to get me in the right direction. Then she starts to get angry and tells me that I am natural and have only about 3 inches of permed hair. In the real world, not the alternate universe in which this fool resides,I am relaxed and have about a 3/4-1 inch of new growth. So then this @*#*$*#* tells me that I should have told her I was natural b/c she has certain days that she does natural hair b/c it takes up more time and I wasn't respecting her time or the time of her other customers. Then she tells me that she is usually really fast with rollersets and can do a set in less than 10 minutes. Really?!?!?!?!?!?!?! Umm first of all, my hair is still relaxed at this point, I'm still not natural and I'm trying to figure out how my hair was making her roll EVERYONE'S hair in no less than 30 minutes. In regards to respect for time, why was I made to wait 30 minutes to get my hair washed if she has so much respect for time? She then tells me I need to get a texturizer b/c it is less damaging for the hair. So just for laughs, I ask her how much this is going to cost. She tells me that she needs to measure my hair and since I have about 4 inches of natural hair she would have to charge me for texurizing 4 inches of natural hair. At this point I remind her once again I AM NOT NATURAL, I HAVE A FREAKIN' PERM! Even if I had 4 inches of hair that looked like it was natural, the fact that it has been permed means that you cannot put any chemical you want to on it b/c it is going to react like permed hair. I asked the board before about mixing texturizers and relaxers and was told that those are two different processes and that would result in my hair breaking off if the two were overlapped. So fast forward about 2.5 hours to the point that she is finally taking out my rollers and blow drying my hair. She tells me that I really really need a cut b/c for some reason my hair that already has bluntly cut ends is really really damaged. Which means she really really needs to give me that $25 hair cut at this point. She then directs my attention to her bleach blonde bushy hair and tells me that even though her hair isn't long, its healthy b/c its all one length. I wasn't going to say anything about her hair but since she brought my attention to it, there is no way that a head of hair that resembles a bleached brillo pad can be healthy. Her hair wasn't exactly the picture of health, but I didn't say anything b/c I didn't want to let all of my emotions boil over and get me to the point that I would need to set up a website to raise money for my bail. So anyways she tells me that she's not putting out a good service meaning that if other people see my hair they aren't going to want to get their hair done from her b/c it looks so bad. (Mind you its silky and straight and I have gotten several compliments on it. I made sure I didn't let anyone know who did this to my hair though...you know since it looked so bad) When she finally finishes, she tells me that since she had to do so much work to my hair, the cost for her services would be $55. The services I received were a wash n set and blow dry. Not a perm, not an infusion of magic dust, a wash and freakin' set! So then she tells me that I need to set up an appointment for my texturizer, that she still hasn't given me a price for. I ask her again for a price, which she says with out looking at me $150! At this point, words of wisdom from the articulate soulja boy pop into my head...
her: so when are you going to come back for your $150 texturizer?
me: ya trick ya
her: and don't forget I need to cut like three to four inches off of your hair
me: ya trick ya.
her: and i feel that its fine for me to put texturizer over your hair that has already been relaxed b/c texturizers are gentle and your hair was under processed so I can pretend that it was never processed at all.
me: a boogalama boogalama
her: I'll see you in two weeks
me: yaya trick. get out my face. get out my face!!!!!!!!
so was it just me or was this a bad trip the the hairdresser? should i go back and get that $150 texturizer? hehe I'm open to your comments so if you think i'm wrong....please please show me the error of my ways!
Ain't no way she would be getting any of my time and money no mo.
erplexed
Those people know less than you do. It sounds like you need to interview these people before you let them touch your hair. I used to go to Egyptian salons, here in Chicago. They got you in and out very quickly. But I was just another number to them. I realized that they knew very little about our hair. Other than the fact that they just assume that we all want relaxed straight hair. When I asked for a texurizer to lossen the curl, that fool fully relaxed my head. 
I'm gla you decided to not put yourself in a situation that could have costed you a night in the slammer.
