What is the dumbest thing a hairstylist...

[AFashionSlave]

How about this one - I remember it like it was yesterday.

These were her EXACT words:
"You need to sit still - this perm ain't been on long enough to get it straight. Ya know, it wouldn't burn so bad if you drank that Sprite like I told you to. That citrus stops the burning"

This was the first and the last time I ever got a relaxer from this woman. I was only 16 at the time, but I knew that this woman was stupid.

Who in the hell started the rumor that Sprite can stop relaxer burns?
Has anyone else ever heard of this?

 

[KAddy]

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How about this one - I remember it like it was yesterday.

These were her EXACT words:
"You need to sit still - this perm ain't been on long enough to get it straight. Ya know, it wouldn't burn so bad if you drank that Sprite like I told you to. That citrus stops the burning"

This was the first and the last time I ever got a relaxer from this woman. I was only 16 at the time, but I knew that this woman was stupid.

Who in the hell started the rumor that Sprite can stop relaxer burns?
Has anyone else ever heard of this?

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[lovelymissyoli]

One stylist (if that's what you want to call her) washed my hair (shampoo & conditioner) and the proceeded to put a relaxer on top of my wet hair...I had to let her know that you don't do stuff like that and requested another stylist to do my hair.

 

[Kalani]

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How about this one - I remember it like it was yesterday.

These were her EXACT words:
"You need to sit still - this perm ain't been on long enough to get it straight. Ya know, it wouldn't burn so bad if you drank that Sprite like I told you to. That citrus stops the burning"

This was the first and the last time I ever got a relaxer from this woman. I was only 16 at the time, but I knew that this woman was stupid.

Who in the hell started the rumor that Sprite can stop relaxer burns?
Has anyone else ever heard of this?

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HOLY COW! You have GOT to be kidding!!!

 

[IrisDaVirus]

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How about this one - I remember it like it was yesterday.

These were her EXACT words:
"You need to sit still - this perm ain't been on long enough to get it straight. Ya know, it wouldn't burn so bad if you drank that Sprite like I told you to. That citrus stops the burning"

This was the first and the last time I ever got a relaxer from this woman. I was only 16 at the time, but I knew that this woman was stupid.

Who in the hell started the rumor that Sprite can stop relaxer burns?
Has anyone else ever heard of this?

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[GoingBack]

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One stylist (if that's what you want to call her) washed my hair (shampoo & conditioner) and the proceeded to put a relaxer on top of my wet hair...I had to let her know that you don't do stuff like that and requested another stylist to do my hair.

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Okay, chick was trying to do you in or something cause she knew that wasn't right /images/graemlins/naughty.gif

 

[sassygirl125]

I also have had more than one stylist tell me that if they rinsed the relaxer out within 10 minutes my hair would still be natural. Eh? /images/graemlins/confused.gif Maybe they meant it would look like naturally curly hair...

 

[RUBY]

I had a so called stylist who when she was applying a relaxer to my hair looked at the ends of my hair and asked me if I had got it wet in the shower (even though my hair wasn't actually wet), I said yes and she proceeded to slap some relaxer on my ends and then on my whole head and then left me sitting in the chair for like 15-20 minutes. Now all the time I'm thinking hey your only supposed to retouch my regrowth. Maybe she subscribed to that getting the hair straighter school of thought but I never went back to her and soon after I got disillusioned with hairdressers altogether.
In fact I've never had a salon experience that I've fully enjoyed. I always felt uncomfortable in every salon I've been to and I can't wait to get out.
Also for some reason I find it hard to talk to stylists, I find them intimidating hence my experience of sitting in the chair knowing what shes doing to my hair is wrong yet still not saying anything.
But now I ain't gonna let any of them take me for a fool because while your at home crying over your hair they ain't paying you a seconds thought once you leave their salon.
Remember no one will care more about your hair than you!

 

[itismehmmkay]

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In fact I've never had a salon experience that I've fully enjoyed. I always felt uncomfortable in every salon I've been to and I can't wait to get out.
Also for some reason I find it hard to talk to stylists, I find them intimidating hence my experience of sitting in the chair knowing what shes doing to my hair is wrong yet still not saying anything.
But now I ain't gonna let any of them take me for a fool because while your at home crying over your hair they ain't paying you a seconds thought once you leave their salon.
Remember no one will care more about your hair than you!

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SAme here. /images/graemlins/nono.gif And I agree!

 

[sassygirl125]

I used to be intimidated. But the older I got, the more I got over it. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif Especially when I found out most of them didn't know diddly squat about hair care. My hair looked great when I left the salon. But I suffered the effects of their rough handling, haphazard chemical applications and heat happy styling techniques. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

I also hated how they insisted on using only two or three product lines. My hair hates Nexxus, Paul Mitchell and most Avlon/Affirm products. /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif

 

[Kalani]

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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."

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Yeah, what is up with that? For the price we pay you think they could afford to spare a little extra. That whole philosophy of "less is more" is such bologna when it comes to conditioner, at least with me! A hairdresser tried that putting a "tablespoon amount" crap on me and just a section of my hair sucked that stuff up like it disappeared in thin air! LOL! He was forced to use more.

 

[sassygirl125]

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People from blocks away could see me because of the shine that my hair had when the sun reflected off of it.

The funny thing is that everybody in the shop, including my mother loooved my hair. It was like the twilight zone


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[hOnii]

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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!!

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lol. i know!! i hate when my hairdresser combs my hair! they just dont care about how much they're ripping out, even if your hair is thin.

 

[plainj]

These are some pretty scary stories. My hair is jacked up now because of incompetent stylists. /images/graemlins/whip.gif I'm still looking for the answer to the question: What's wrong with these stylists? Why is it so hard to find a good caring stylist? They went to school for this craft. Shouldn't they know more about hair/hair care than the average person?
Well I know I'm officially done with anymore stylists. I bought my own relaxer and my own scissors for trimming. Did my own trim this weekend and it feels GOOD!!!!! /images/graemlins/clap.gif Why should I pay any more stylists to jack up my hair. I could do it myself for free. /images/graemlins/lachen70.gif But learning from this forum I know it could only get better

 

[MizAvalon]

Reading this makes me feel so sad. Luckily, I have a pretty decent stylist, but over the years, I've been the through the ringer with these dumb, incompetent stylists and also my own ignorance regarding haircare. I seriously don't understand how MOST, really ALMOST ALL black hair stylists are so incompetent? I mean, is it really THAT easy to get a hair license?

 

[melodee]

Just happened- she didn't base my scalp!!!

 

[geminilive]

Ladies, reading these stories makes me cringe, I am so happy that you all have found this board and for those that have yet to find the voice to tell these "stylist" /images/graemlins/confused.gif where to go I hope that your hair skills will sustain until you find one that you can communicate with.

 

[InsertCleverNameHere]

My worst experience was in the third grade it still makes me sad. I had midback hair and jheri curls had just sorta gone out of style and people were getting this thing called a leisure curl...which is sort of like a jheri curl except it's dry and not wet and you can go from curly to straight easy. I begged my mother to get one of these curls so I could be like the rest of the folks at my school. I was still wearing ponytails and other lil girls were wearing "grown up" styles. I envisioned this long pretty leisure curl. Well, my ma finally caved in and we went to a stylist so she could do it. She rodded my hair on large rods and put the perm solution in my head. Well she left for something and was supposed to be back in 15 minutes...just enough time to rinse myy hair. Well, this chick did not come back for an hour!!!!!! Me and my ma were sitting there getting nervous but we kept waiting. She finally came back and rinsed the solution. Then she cut my hair to shoulder length without permission!!!!!! I had that curly perm for about a month and I hated it because it was short and dry and *****. My hair broke off to neck length and I didn't regain length until high school, around 7 or 8 years later!!!!!!!

I'm a little scared of hairdressers because of that. However, I will give a stylist a chance if they have clients with nice hair and have nice hair themselves. The two stylists like this that I've had in my life (happened to be males also...but with great hair, lol) never did me wrong. Never go to a stylist with jacked up hair!!!!

 

[oglorious1]

Dirt makes your hair grow, so don't wash it but every so often...my aunt's words not mine...

 

[Covagirlm]

I went to a dominican stylist the other day after taking out a sew in weave.
First of all I had to walk her thru my emergencee treatment. Shes combing out my hair at the beginning and she asks me if I just took out dreads /images/graemlins/wallbash.gif.(Ummm Ms. Dominican stylist, Im pretty sure enough black girls come up in here for you to know that if I have 8 permed inches of hair I could have never just taken out dreads)
That is just dumb question/comment number one. Im 3 months post relaxer and its time for my blow out.. So she says you also need to try a better treatment next time(better than emergencee? /images/graemlins/ohwell.gif ). The best one was when she told me that I really need a relaxer and a deep conditioner. I'm sitting there thinking ummm isnt that an oxymoron??
A relaxer to kill my hair and a deep conditioner to make it halfway better? She also told me that I should NEVER go more than 4 weeks between relaxers or my hair would fall out. I'm mad that I knew more about hair than her. Anyway it took her FOREVER to blow out my hair and she was getting her attitude because my new growth is kinda wild. When she was done she had the NERVE to tell me how healthy my hair was and how great it looked. Of course my hair is healthy I go longer than 4 weeks btw relaxers.

 

[AngelicRose07]

haham i wouldve told her to think about my healthy pretty hair next time she told someone to get a relaxer at 4 weeks. lol

 

[Mochalolita]

I had just grown my hair out from a cut and it was a good 4 inches past bra-strap. I went to a hairdresser for a wash and blowdry, and I knew that I needed a trim. I specified 1/4 inch and felt this ***** cutting up near the top of my neck!!!! I jumped up, grabbed a mirror and saw a chunk of hair missing from the middle of my head and about 8 inches of hair laying on the ground. I almost felt bad for her...she ran to the back of the shop and refused to come out of the room until I left. I still wanna kick her arse!

Hugs,
Crys

 

[Missi]

my hairdresser lady: wrapped my hair and sat me under the dryer: then she took me out and comb out my hair: since it was still wet: she blowed my entire head: where the steam is blowin out of the blow dryer: then she trims my hair: and cuz my hair grows uneven she cutted it even when I just wanted a mm trim: then she used the "HOT OVEN" curlyin irons and I heard a sizzlin sound: oh the pain: this was the look on my face erplexed . I swear I never let her do that again. My hair smelled like hot curlers.

 

[Divalicious]

The dumbest thing a hairstylist has done to my hair was to put some sort of alcohol spray on my hair and then using a curling iron right after. Another thing was attempting to relax my hair and her fingernails made Coco's (from SWV) seem like little nails. And one other thing was relaxing my ENTIRE hair!

 

[ChocalateDiva]

I have a couple of stories...

The first is when I used to get a jeri curl, I didn't know it (I was only 14 at the time), but she NEVER conditioned my hair. My hair was long, almost to mid-back, aand ver thick. Well, one day, after she put the curl in and when I looked in the mirror and you could see though my hair!! I went home and cried my eyes out and never went bsck. When my cousin saw my hair, she offered to go up to the shop and beat her up for me, but my mom talked her out of it.

The second was when I went to this beauty college (a BIG NO-NO) to get my hair done. I had a relaxer at this time and my hair was almost bra-strap. I wanted a touch-up and a Pebbles cut (Like Pebbles the former singer). Well this chick burned my head and cut it up to just above my shoulders!! And it was shorter on one side! I was in a rush, so I went home, saw my hair and screamed!! I went back up there determined to give that broad a buttwhoopin'. Well, she saw me running up the street towards her, so she ran across the street and jumped on a bus to get away from me.

I am truly LMAO!!

 

[Covergirl5906]

these stories

I am leaning towards doing my hair myself from now on..aside from braids....this is ridiculous...I don't have to pay someone to mess my hair up

 

[gloomgeisha]

I once had a stylist with short broken off hair try to tell me that Mane and Tail "grew some hurr", but the only reason it didn't work for her was because she didn't want long hair. When I tried to question her about her logic, she begins to rant on about how she has a license and knows better than someone who doesn't.

She made a point of going on and on (rather loudly I might add) about how she didn't need "long hair", all the while trying to convince me to let her do something with my "nappy head."
When she bought Let's Jam and Marcel Irons, I knew our conversation was truly over.LOL!

 

[Lotus]

Had an event. When in for a press/flat iron and updo and stylist complained (and charge me more) for a press because my hair was 'long'. Long = between SL & APL *shudda left then*. She washed and put me under a dryer and I smell something moldish. I suspect it was the plastic hair bag cuz when i took it off and slung it to the floor I didnt smell it anymore. *sudda left*. She asks how long between relaxers. I say bout 1 year. Then she goes w/that that old good hair crap saying I could probably get away with perming once a year. *shudda left* She brings out some DAX to press. I'm like oh hell naw and had to go next door for an oil *sudda kept walking*. Press done, I'm pleased. It's light just like I like it. Now for the updo. My backs to the mirror and I feel something cold against my scalp. Why did this ***** put a hand full of gel in my newly straightened hair.

 

[MizAvalon]

I once had a stylist with short broken off hair try to tell me that Mane and Tail "grew some hurr", but the only reason it didn't work for her was because she didn't want long hair. When I tried to question her about her logic, she begins to rant on about how she has a license and knows better than someone who doesn't.

She made a point of going on and on (rather loudly I might add) about how she didn't need "long hair", all the while trying to convince me to let her do something with my "nappy head."
When she bought Let's Jam and Marcel Irons, I knew our conversation was truly over.LOL!

OK, this entire post has me scream-laughing over here.

Let's Jam?

 

[Precious_P]

I have a co-worker that is a hairstylist and she is always conter-acting everything I say about hair. For Example:

*I said " I wish I could find my favorite deep condition in a large tub so I don;t have to buy it so often. Her response "Why? you only need to apply conditioner to your scalp." My hair is a little past my shoulders

*Another co-worker asked me how I tie up my hair at night. I said" I always wear a satin scarf, bonnet or have a satin pillowcase to keep my hair from becoming dry. She said "You don't need that every night. And it doesn't have to be silk. Cotton is fine."

*According to her, anything that I say that is not in the book that she studied from cosmetology school is wrong"

*I made the mistake of allowing her to do my hair. I just wanted a simple french roll. She used 2 types of gel and a load of hairspray. I had to wash is out the next day.