What is the dumbest thing a hairstylist...

[willowviolet]

What is the dumbest thing a stylist has done to your hair? The dumbest thing I have had happen was a stylist had ordered ribs before applying my touch up. Well as the ribs were delivered girlfriend decided to go in the back and proceed to eat and talk on the phone. After about 15 minutes the nape of my neck started burning and I kindly got up out of the chair, walked myself over to the wash station and proceeded to rinse my relaxer out while seated. The shop manager walked by close to ten minutes later as I was still rinsing upside down and sideways in the chair. She screams out loud 'who has a client rinsing their own HAIR!!!!!! The stylist came strolling [not running, I mean stroooooolllling out, with the phone still in her hand, and has the nerve to say to me, WHY YOU PUT ME ON FRONT STREET?!!!

I was not trying to get anyone in trouble, but we all now it only takes 20 minutes to grow from growing hair to rubbing a stubbly scalp......

Willowviolet

 

[Dolce_Dawn]

I had a hairstylist put two people on my head -- one on each side-- and comb a relaxer through all the way to the ends so that it could be "straighter"! Not only did I feel ridiculous having these two girls jerk my head from side to side while combing, but I thought, "this can't be good for my hair!"

And I have a question... How come you can so into a salon, pick out a picture of how you want your hair to be styled from one of those picked over hair mags, heck, I've even held my hair in the direction I wanted my curls to go, and they NEVER and I mean NEVER get your style exactly like that???!!!! I've never understood that! I've NEVER had a stylist style my hair the way I wanted it in the pic/demonstration I gave them! It's incredible!

 

[sassygirl125]

There are too many to name! Some of my favorites are:

"1 TBS of conditioner is enough. I don't care how long or thick your hair is. If you need more coverage, just add some water to it." Translation: "I'm stingy with my products."

"______ will make your hair fall out." Translation: "I'm trying to scare you into buying all your hair products from me at a 200% markup."

"Your appt is for 10am." Translation: "I'll get to you whenever. Be prepared to sit in the salon until closing time."

 

[alliyah4eva203]

the second statement is funny.
i have thin fine 4a/b hair. i was 8 weeks post touchup and i was due for a retouch. so off i go to the salon. i had done everything correctly, e.g wrapping at night, scalp massgaes, going to the salon every 2 weeks for a treatment and rollerset. my hair was in pretty good condition.
anyway the name of the stylist who was doing my retouch is lorraine. she used desighner touch sensitive scalp relaxer. up until this point i am fine until she decidedes to add an INSANE amount of relaxer on my alreadyy thin hair. she was appying it like it was condittioner.
was she high - only god knows.
anyway not suprisingly my hair was over processed. it was actually stuck to my scalp. it looked puny and pityfull.
needless to say she is no longer my stylist.

 

[simplycee]

Well one of the dumbest thing a stylist TRIED to do to my hair was.....

My hair is very thick. When it is wet it holds water like a sponge. I asked the stylist to blow dry and curl (this was pre LHCF) my hair. I told her my hair holds water and that she should make small sections when drying so she could get it dry.

Of course she blew me off the minute she turned my chair around. She made 4 equal parts and started to dry. When she thought she was done she started testing out her curling iron.

I reached up and felt my scalp and said "my hair is not dry" she said "its a little damp but its dry enough to curl" I said "no thanks, put me in a pony tail". I paid her, minus the tip and walked out.

There is no way I was going to let her try to curl my damp hair. Thank God I found this forum. Now I let my current stylist do my touch ups but she wraps or roller sets for me and I leave with my hair wet so I can air dry. She never complains about that.

 

[patience]

The dumbest thing a stylist ever did to me was put a relaxer in my hair!!! I never wanted one and I hated it but my mother made me get it and since she was getting paid, she didn't object! I've hated relaxers since then and I'm now wearing what God gave me at birth proudly!!!

 

[rowandaP]

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Your appt is for 10am." Translation: "I'll get to you whenever. Be prepared to sit in the salon until closing time."

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[candibaby]

last august when i went to have my hair done for my sister's wedding, i asked to have it dyed, and that was when that scissor happy woman told me my hair was damaged (which was then at bra strap) then proceeded to DYE MY HAIR! How the

did she dye my hair when she "claimed" it was damaged?!!! I didn't really know anything about the health of my hair then, so that leads me to believe that: (A) my hair WAS damaged and she colored it to make it MORE damaged (B) my hair wasn't damaged and she just wanted to cut my hair because her daughter is bald and always wears tracks (which i never understood by the way... that girl never had hair so..).

 

[DigitalRain]

I had one stylist tell me how fragile and damaged my hair was before applying a relaxer. She did okay applying the relaxer,but when it came time for detangling, you would never have thought she just said my hair was "fragile" by the way she was manhandling my hair with that comb!!

 

[candibaby]

WOW you have some GORGEOUS hair DigitalRain!

 

[BrEE]

3-4 yrs ago i went to my mom's hair stylist thinking he would wash and lightly trim my hair. it was during the summer and i had soo much new growth. my hair would have been at least at bra strap had it been retouched.so he washes my hair then takes a blow dryer and a fine touch comb and starts ripping through my hair to detangle it. i was pissed. then the **** tells me my hair is damaged and needs to be trimmed cause thats the reason it gets all tangled up. and i'm thinking you just washed my hair piling it up on top of my head, you use no detangler then you go on to use a fine tooth comb and you wonder why it's tangled. so then he takes one of his hair books which has DRAWINGS and not even real model's hairs and shows me a DRAWING of a woman with thick, even hair and tells me thats how my hair SHOULD look. so he trims and trims and trims till it's shoulder length.i was 15-16 at the time so i didnt have any guts to say anything to him i just left, went home and started crying. i truly hated that man!! if i could do hings over i would cuss him the freak out!!!!!!

I HATE HAIR STYLISTS

 

[candibaby]

DRAWINGS?

 

[BrEE]

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DRAWINGS?

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YUP, i remember it like it was yesterday... it was a black and white drawing of a woman showing the back of her hair.the hair was in a blunt cut and was above bra strap. A DRAWING FOR CHRIST SAKES, THIS MAN SHOWED ME A DRAWINGGGGGGGGGGGGG. DANG,THIS BROUGHT BACK TOO MANY BAD MEMORIES. I WANNA GO HUNT HIM DOWN AND MAKE HIM PAY.

 

[candibaby]

LOL, i feel your pain though. my old scissor happy hair stylist lives RIGHT NEXT DOOR to me. That's why I started going to her in the first place. But now I cant walk out the door without her asking why I haven't been in there for the past 5 weeks.

 

[katie]

One stylist told me to come back in two weeks for a relaxer.I didn't know bettersince I was about 14 and I ended up with a huge bald patch in the middle of my head.The hair just fell off completely and gave my head a weird flat look

 

[kjames001]

Bree, I can relate. I dont know what is wrong with these dumb stylists. This lady, who a classmate swore could do hair did the exact same thing. This was a couple of months prior to findinc LHCF. I was pissed when I came home and had to deal with short flyaways. Come to think of it that was my last beauty shop visit

 

[Supergirl]

Willowviolet,

That stylist was so wrong. So many of our stylists are unprofessional and do things such as what your stylist did. I've even heard of a stylist going to play Bingo while the client was under the dryer.

 

[jaelje]

One time I was at a salon , and while I was under the my stylist LEFT. and did come back until almost a hour later . He told me he had to get some things ready because he was going out-of-town for the weekend. Then he had the nerve to say that I WAS HOLDING HIM UP!!!

 

[Supergirl]

I hope you FIRED him!

 

[Angelicus]

Well besides the Jodais experience, I had one stylist who just had it in for me: She decided that she was going to shave the hair right above my temples with clippers.

I'm sorry but I have to say this: what are they learning in cosmetology school?

 

[willowviolet]

Candibaby,

I can completely relate. It makes you wonder, if you think I have damage how about helping me find a solution. NOOOOOOOOOOO instead they have to talk to us like we are three, talk to the sister working the next booth about our hair and then have the audacity to mess up our hair further by applying things/chemicals,/color and scissors wrong.

Willow

 

[willowviolet]

Girl, You are really on to something. I mean really why place all the hair styling books and magazines all around the shop, on the seats, near the sink if you can not produce any and I mean any of the styles that I show you. Not all stylist are this cataract driven , but the last two I have been two couldn't cut, couldn't flat rion and Lord help them trying to apply a touch up. This is why I do EVERYTHING at home.

Willow

 

[willowviolet]

OOOHHHH GIRL I am feeling you on the warp speed watches some of the stylists wear. They tell you 9:00am Saturday, you think that you are going to get in and out and get on owith your day. Come Saturday afternoon, you are in a CROWDED shop with 20 other women, and you've been moved in and out of your stylists chair three times [due to overbooking].


Willow

 

[willowviolet]

Have you ever noticed that they are soooo generous with the relaxer[even though you want a touch up] and yet sooooo stingy with the neutralizer and deep conditioner,hhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Willow

 

[willowviolet]

Supergirl, you know that is beyond sad when you have such a gambling problem that you could care less about your client and your job, to just walk out of the salon. They need to have a public shredding of her license.

Willow

 

[willowviolet]

Jaelje,

If I could only reach through this screen right now and give him an open hand wrap in the mouth, whoooooo.


Willow

 

[willowviolet]

Anky,

They are learning how to be LATE< RUDE< ATTITUDISH[if that is a word]and very hungry every time we come in the shop.

Willow

 

[candibaby]

Willow Violet,

I feel you girl! Thats reason #2 why I'm not going to that scissor happy woman anymore. She never and I mean NEVER did my hair the way I wanted it. I'd say I wanted small flat twists and then I'd end up with these huge things in my head. I'd say do NOT make my hair BIG, and it'd look like a giant afro puff. She pulled the mother of all f-ups, before easter. I wanted an updo, this woman tried to do pincurls, and that mess looked like a giant TOWER, it was ugly and fuzzy, and I took it down the next day.

 

[Lovely901Lady]

# 1) I was wearing microbraids with human hair. Supposedly, when you use human hair, the braids can be soaked and the extensions slide out. The girl that braided my hair could do it with no problems then she would shampoo, deep condition and I would have my hair rebraided the same day. It literally only took her about 30 minutes to take out a head full of microbraids. Anyway, one time in particular, I wanted to get my hair styled after getting the braids taken out because I had a function to go to and I knew that I had a lot of growth from wearing the braids for about 6 months so I called my hairdresser to see about getting a "tentative" appointment because I was going to take my own braids out and, since I didn't know how to soak them out, thought it might take me half of forever to get those tiny things out of my head. He told me that HE knew how to soak them out and he would only charge me $25. My time is worth more than that so I was like "cool". First of all, it took him about 2 - 2 1/2 hours and he literally pulled my hair out. I could hear my hair tearing and when I asked him about it, he insisted that I was not losing any of my hair. A couple of times, I even picked up a few braids that fell in my lap and inspected the base and saw what I know was my hair and a few had the white bulb attached. When I showed him, he was like "you had the braids in for 2 months, you should have some shedding". Anyway, while I was sitting there, other stylists would walk by and shake their heads. A couple even came up and looked at my hair and walked away whispering. By the time he was finished, my scalp was so sore. He blow-dried my hair THEN HE BASED MY SCALP AND APPLIED A RELAXER!!!! I had this Woman of the Year ceremony or something to go to where my aunt was one of the recipients and I was to be one of the people to stand up and say a few things about my aunt. I wanted to look nice but, normally, I would have jumped up and ran out looking like the hot mess I truly was. My scalp burned so bad. He, of course, had to cut my hair to compensate for the rip job that he gave me. By the time I left the shop, I had been there for 6 1/2 hours, with 2 inches of hair all over my head and spots wear my hair was stuck to my scalp from the oozing and pussing of the scalp burns. When I went in there, I had even shoulder-length hair with about 6 inches of new growth so, relaxed, it was surely below shoulder length. I paid him by check, didn't tip, and after I got home and had my good, gut-wrenching cry, I called him and told him that I was not happy, he was not going to get the opportunity to "fix" anything and that I was putting a stop payment on the check. I never went back (of course) and my hair has never been the same again. When I went back to get my hair-braided, the braider looked at my hair and I started to cry all over again and she cried with me. That was about 3 1/2 years ago and I am just now getting my hair back on the road to the health and fullness that it once had.

# 2) After that ordeal, I wore braids until I grew my hair back out to chin-length ten I beganto look for another stylist. With the exception of the last two inches, my hair was all-natural. One of my coworkers would gorgeous hair recommended a stylist that her stylist used to work with (she didn't want me to go to her stylist and I've met several of her clients and they all have gorgeous, shiny, black-Dudley rinse- hair). Anyway, she said that she had watched the other stylist and most of her clients had long hair and they all had healthy hair, from what she could tell. I went to her for a little over a year, faithfully every two weeks. I never gained any length. She was constently "trimming" off whatever progress I made. I'm not going to complain about the way I would make a 5 o'clock appointment and not get into the chair until 7:30 (once, she even told me that I could have gone home and cooked dinner and she would have called me when she was ready). I found out why people that had not been in the shop when I got there, could come in and go straight to the chair while I continued to wait. The problem came when I decided that I wanted to try some highlights. She relaxed my hair and put in the highlights. Two weeks later, I told her that I had been having a lot of breakage. She told me that my HAIR WAS DRY AND TOO DAMAGED FOR THE HIGHLIGHTS. First of all, if it was so damaged, WHY DID SHE PUT THE HIGHLIGHTS IN? And, second, she was the one that had been doing my hair for over a year. I did whatever it was she told me to do for my hair (bought the satin pillowcase and silk scarf and whatever products she recommended). I went for over a year and my hair stayed at chin-length when she knew I was trying to grow it out. If it wasn't growing, I wouldn't have needed a relaxer every 6 weeks and I thought the scarf and the pillowcase were so I wouldn't need so many trims but she trimmed it with every relaxer! Needless to say, my hair continued to break off. I didn't know a tenth of what I know now and I had no idea of how to at least slow down the breakage, even if I couldn't have stopped it. After about 6 months, I had about 3-4 inches of new growth and finally found a stylist that seemed to know what she was diong and she ended up cutting most of the damaged part off (my decision - she was trying to be gentle about it and one day I just told her to get rid of it).

Sorry this is so long, but this thread brought back some painful salon memories for me. It's all been very difficult.

 

[Teshila]

I am so sorry to hear that you had to go through this! Wow, my eyes started to tear up just thinking of how you must have felt! Stay strong. I am glad you found your way here. You are definitely in the right hands.