Details first. I'm a freelance hairdresser and my friend wanted to go from a dark red to light blonde as I did. She asked to lend £30 for the stuff until the next day but I told her I needed it back for definite as I have a wedding Friday. I told her the risks of damaging her hair with bleach and that as she has psoriasis on the back of her head it's not a good idea and could break the skin but she said she was going to do it anyway but she wanted me to get the back. As a friend I said I would do it and do it for free.
So she comes around and we strip her hair and then bleach. She tells me it burns and has to wash it off after five minutes so her hair is barely ginger. She then tells me to make it blonde and I explain with one bleaching gone I could only get her to strawberry blonde that night. All was fine. I bleached the ends again while being very careful with my tinting brush and then applied an ash blonde. She said she was happy with the colour and would now like a cut.
I cut very slowly and checked with her all the way and she told me it was great and she'd come back in a few days for me to apply a blonde over the top to make it lighter. I worked from 6pm to 1am for free and she left happy.
Yesterday. No text or no sign of money. She text at night saying she would drop it in today lunch time. I text at 3pm and she then text me saying as a friend I did a horrible job, she hates the colour, she hates the cut, her head is weeping and sore and now she has to buy lots of treatment, has to go get it cut short and can't dye for six weeks. She told me it's all my fault even though the risks were explained, she understood and told me she was happy when she left.
I offered to fix it but obviously she doesn't want that. She said she's keeping the £30 and 'we'll call it quits and i won't mention it to your other clients'.
AIBU to think she's an absolute tosser blaming me for this? Sure I should have had better judgement and said no but she is taking no blame for this at all and now she wants to keep the £30 she borrowed even though the wedding is tomorrow and now I can't even afford a drink.