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To wonder why it's so hard to find a decent hairdresser these days!

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EmeraldThief · 29/05/2015 15:37

One who will:

Listen to what I say and do what I want
Not act like they are dong me a favour by doing my hair
Had good people skills
Actually cut it properly!

That's a real problem these days. Cutting. They can't seem to cut my hair properly! I have thick wavy hair, and whilst I appreciate it might be a chore to cut and style when I'm paying for a service I expect to bloody well get it! And why are they so fucking obsessed with razor scissors these days? They make my hair flyaway!

For the past two years or so I've been going to a salon near me, after having a bad experience at a posh place in town. They are OK but the girl who does my hair always stops what she's dong to phone her husband, or go to the loo or whatever she feels like doing. Well today she spent the whole time she was doing my hair moaning that she was hungry and that she couldn't wait for her lunch, and it made me feel like I was imposing on her. There's no way I'd let any of the other stylists do hy hair, and the trainee who washed it today had long acrylic nail extensions and scratched my scalp to bits! Just why?!

She doesn't do a bad job of my hair, but she's not good either. I've had it coloured as well, and while the colour is nice she's not washed it off properly and when I got home Ive had to wipe my face and ears with a baby wipe to get rid of excess colour!

I don't know what to do. I just want to find a decent hairdresser! Why is it so fucking hard these days? And why are there so many people in the profession who are shit at it?

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ouryve · 30/05/2015 19:17

I have thick wavy hair, too. I have a guy cut mine, now. Really short with a little texture but not too much and the sort of shaping and movement that makes it look better when it gets rained on or it's a bit foggy, not worse. There's another guy at the salon that I go to when my regular guy's on holiday and I really can't wait another week. He cuts it nicely, but likes to leave more girly pointy bits at the side and not cut it in as close at the neck. After 2 weeks, I've got fluffy wings and duck tails (that'll be the wave).

BeaufortBelle · 30/05/2015 19:23

Crikey. I have a lovely hairdresser who I have had for ooh, about 14 years. She pours me wine as she does a half head quite perfectly. We are about to move away, I'm going to have to come back to her aren't I even if it means taking a half day at work.

ouryve · 30/05/2015 19:26

And I think this is why this guy does my hair so well. He has thick, wavy hair, too.

Even DS1 goes to him for a cut, now. £14, but worth every penny because he has ASD and is very defensive about having his head touched and previously would only let me near his hair.

LucilleBluth · 30/05/2015 19:36

You are so right op. I pay a fortune for highlights and a base colour, the last few times my hair has been yellowish, her response was yeah, just get some purple shampoo.....I need to find someone new.

southwest1 · 30/05/2015 19:39

I'm lucky, I found a great hairdresser and he's been cutting my hair since 1995, minus a few years I lived away from London. I trust him to do whatever he thinks will look best, I just say shorter or choppy and he does the rest. He was only £25 when I first went and now it's £70 but worth it.

thenightsky · 30/05/2015 19:51

After 35 years I have finally found the hairdresser from heaven. She works from home, cuts like a dream, never uses razor thingy and actually listens to what I want and looks at the pics I show her.

If anyone in the Lincoln area wants to know who she is, I'm happy to PM details.

AllKnickersNoFurCoat · 30/05/2015 20:54

yy to razoring! hate it. Despite advice to the contrary (they always want to layer it) I bought a thinning scissors from boots and sectioning off the front, top and sides of my hair I have gone through that back section where the hair is so thick, it makes my hair fall downwards in a slope away from my head. Like a triangle! I have managed to get rid of this effect with a thinning scissors. After years of deciding not to do this because when I mention it to a hairdresser they look at me like I don't understand the science!

Aeroflotgirl · 30/05/2015 22:42

Can I recommend my mobile lady, works in a trendy salon but also does mobile. Only charges £ 20 for cut and blow dry, she is fantastic. Will listen to what yiu want and do exactly as yiu ask, I mostly look a million dollars afterwards .

Aeroflotgirl · 30/05/2015 22:44

No razor sissors either. I'm in Milton Keynes if anybody is interested.

Koalafications · 30/05/2015 22:49

While she was cutting my hair she told me about losing her virginity when she was 15.

YY to this!

My old hairdresser did mobile hairdressing at her house. I'd only met her twice when she decided to reveal to me that she was slagging a minor celeb behind her DP's back (who was upstairs at the time!) and had been shagging him for months. Without even a hint of insight she said her DP was jealous of the friendship, I wonder why...

Koalafications · 30/05/2015 22:50

I wish, aero MK is really quite far for me!

MakeItRain · 30/05/2015 22:52

I know it sounds obvious but have you asked friends/work colleagues/ acquaintances with lovely hair for a recommendation? Especially if they have similar hair to you. I've had my fair share of terrible hairdressers but have a lovely one now that a friend (with amazing hair) told me about

Koalafications · 30/05/2015 22:54

No, all my friends have shit hair MakeItRain

MakeItRain · 30/05/2015 23:04

Ah, shame

TotallyLovePauline · 30/05/2015 23:20

N/c so I don't out myself.

I used to have this problem.

I also have medium-long, thick, wavy hair that I quite like but have little interest in faffing about with. Salon visits used to be disappointing.

Then I found this wonderful woman in Bellenden (posh Peckham) who listens and does a beautiful cut.

(She also does magic with loads of brushes and a hairdryer which I can't replicate, but it doesn't matter because when I wash my hair a couple of days later the quality of the cut shines through.)

I'm sure she once told me she's a MNer so I hope she's reading this

hiddenhome · 30/05/2015 23:26

"Just back away with your straighteners girl.... If you don't what them inserting sideways up your backside, back off!"

Hair straighteners = helmet head

cece · 30/05/2015 23:41

I too have curly hair. My lovely mobile hairdresser who cuts my hair so it looks OK curly has moved 2 hours drive away. Last week I drove to her with 2 DC in tow to get our hair cut.

I shudder at the thought of having to find someone else who cuts as well as she does.

ProcrastinatorGeneral · 31/05/2015 00:30

I have a basic bobbed cut with no layers, deep blunt fringe at times and I refuse straighteners and finishing 'product' too. Younger stylists can't handle the simplicity and lack of permission to use the straighteners.

Haven't had a cut in a year for this reason :(

mommyof23kids · 31/05/2015 06:32

I'm fat and hairdressers are always trying to give me the fat mum haircut, helmet around the face and layered at the back. It looks so awful on me. So i grow it out and go somewhere else. The problem is they cut the layers starting at the back so the first cuts are done before you know what's happening. It's like they can't see past the person they think I am.

jay55 · 31/05/2015 06:49

I hate going to the hairdresser my hair curls more in the back than the front, more he shorter it is so layering the back is a nightmare as it springs up everywhere. Every time I try someone they talk about adding a layer I say no, I explain it always goes wrong.

They insist I say no and half the time they do it anyway and I end up not getting a haircut for a year while it grows out and I pluck up the courage to try again.

I'm not usually a walkover, I don't know any other service where the customers wishes are routinely ignored.

crazykat · 31/05/2015 06:49

I used to go years without getting my hair cut as it always looked awful, didn't help that I was a teen so couldn't afford to try really expensive places. It used to be thick and curly but since having kids has gone really thin.

Now I've got a great hairdresser that always makes my hair look amazing. She works from home and as she's dh's sister there's no chance of her moving away either.

hinkyhonk · 31/05/2015 07:33

Ooh I used to go to the place in Bellenden but moved away 3 yrs ago and have not had a good cut since. Highlights include the dude who ran out of time before his next appt and just didn't finish it off (I went back to demand he recut it but haven't been back since) and the dude who did brilliant colour but the cut was with those razor things then blow dried my hear in the most massive bouffant I've ever seen. I looked ridiculous and the cut is crap. Onto my fifth place and have an appt in a couple of weeks. Got a recommendation from two friends who use the same person so hope to god this one goes better

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EmeraldThief · 31/05/2015 11:12

Oh god yes, "finishing product". It just makes your hair look greasy after a few hours! What's wrong with a bit of good old fashioned hairspray to hold it in place.

Im dreading having to wash and dry this myself as I know it will go into a frizzy mess due to having been "razored" yet again!

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ProcrastinatorGeneral · 31/05/2015 11:21

I just coloured my own last night. Really do need the ends lopping off though.

To wonder why it's so hard to find a decent hairdresser these days!

Ketchuphidestheburntbits · 31/05/2015 11:33

For those pp with curly hair consider looking for an Afro Caribbean hairdresser or salon if you have one nearby. My lovely hairstylist is mixed race and is brilliant with my curly, frizzy hair as his hair is a similar texture to mine.

Procrastinator - I love that colour!

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