i KNOW I am being unreasonable - kids at swanky hairdressers

[JackandDiane]

Luckily I don't have to go to my guy at the weekend, but popped in today to get conditioner and freaking hell it was like a bloody creche.

Why do women get kids hair done ( for mega bucks) and nice ADULT salons.

I know, i know, they pay the money etc but just go to the salon which is a bit shit instead please - or get the mobile woman

My last hairdresser was about 17 and absolutely hilarious, she was busy telling me that porn stars have their arseholes bleached. I was like

Botox man sounds a bit alarming. Does he just come round the chairs with his syringe?

I can't bear it either. I had to stop going to one hairdressers after a child played peppa pig on the ipad whilst another lady had a yapping dog with her. I did actually say it was annoying to the hairdresser who agreed but said they found it hard to tell customers.

My children go to the haidressers in the village - £20 for 3 hair cuts and that includes a £5 tip. She's fab with them.

My kids go to the same salon as I do. I have a wonderful hairdresser and she has been doing my hair for 15 years. Even though my kids are teens she still charges me kids rates. They can pop in after school on their way home and I just pay her next time I see her.

My cut costs £55 and kids £30.

She will not do kids on a Saturday though.

Dd's been a proper salon place since being about 4. Goes to same hairdressers now, at almost 14.

When she was much smaller we did take her elsewhere, cheaper places most of the time. But oh some of those cuts were shocking. We tried a few but in the end I gave up. She had same hairdresser for years til she left for maternity leave and didn't return to work after.

Mind she didn't need me to talk loudly to her. She just say and quietly talked to the hairdresser or looked at a magazine. I sat/sit and had mine done at same time or sat in waiting area and drank coffee and read.

Oh god, I took my poor dds to a salon specifically for DC. The 'stylists' did a dreadful job, I asked them to recut both but evenly without long bits straggling where they should be short (technical term!) - they both ended up with lopsided fringes as neither could cut anymore off without giving them a tache fringe.
£60 those 2 haircuts cost me
I now pay a little more and take them to the lady who does mine in a salon she has had built at home. She is lovely, chats to them and treats them like humans with opinions about what they want. We go whenever I bloody well want to take them. If she doesn't want my business she can say so.

I love going as she only has 2 chairs so when I go during the week, she gets my colour on and has someone in the meantime Just having a cut. I agree it would be horrible to sit and listen to noisy out of control children! I enjoy going for the opportunity of rest and relative quiet

You knew YWBU. You've had it confirmed. It's the weekend. KIds get their hair cut.

I was toying with the idea of talking
Dd to my salon for her first "proper" cut so clicked on this out of interest
I have to admit I'm laughing at your don't give a shit replies, brilliant!
And I have to admit I sympathise with what you're talking about
The fake voice of the perfect in public mummy , making sure everyone knows what wonderful treat they have lined up next for the special snowflake, all said in an irritating breathy tone
I may hormonal, I don't feel reasonable about anything just now

Ds goes to the barbers so it's £6 for his short back and sides cut. Dd hasn't been for a while (her hair is really long now) but has gone to the girl who does ladies hair at the barbers. Her haircut was about £14

Send them all out with a fringe like the guitarist from Slade! That'll sort them

It's a weekend. If people want their hair done in a quieter surrounding then they should go in lunch breaks, evenings or days off work.

I took my daughter when she was between 3-5 (before we stopped being able to justify the cost) because it was a special treat. She really loved the whole wash, dry, cut, style!

£60? Cheapskate.

I used to get my children's hair cut at my swanky salon. They loved the whole thing but mostly the sheer number of free Lotus biscuits they used to get fed by over indulgent staff. DS2 found it so relaxing he once fell asleep in the chair, aged about 10.

Now the boys are teens with, in DS1's case, high maintenance hair cuts they go off to the barbers for £8 a time.

I get you. I want to be able to eff and jeff with my stylist without worrying about little ears. Very few children come to where I get mine cut & it's an all female staff so the place usually sounds like a cross between a sailor's mess and a gynaecologist's office, with a little bit of Mumsnet-style AIBU chatter thrown in. 💇

One stylist once dried DDs hair into ringlets because she wanted curly hair. She was delighted and spent the rest of the day bouncing to make the curls bounce.

My swanky hairdresser down both my kids hair.

Why because it's a great salon, they are great with the kids and I would rather let them have my money then spend £3 at the barbers but have a fairly rubbish hair cut.

Shockingly they actually appreciate it.

kids in hairdressers make me lol though

last time a home ed mum came in with about 30 boys- only difference was their height

they all got the same tuppenny all off apart from one who was about 10

he had a cup of tea 'NO sugar, please, THENKyou' then asked for something really elaborate producing a picture out of a mag

the hairdresser really indulged him and everyone was all awwwwww

Oh but I purposely only every book into get my hair done mid week and never during the school holidays.

It's surly easy to avoid kids in salons.

I took my 2 to a kids only salon, it was shit worst hair cut my poor boy has ever had. Now he goes to the barbers after school.

"oh god this mum bleating on about how they were going for PIZZA after in an irritatingly kind and upbeat voice
I thought ' shut the fuck up' in an unkind and snidey way"

Because presumably kids being taken to restaurants also upsets you?

Effing and jeffing at the hairdressers?

Arpege

We blame it all on the champagne cheap red.

We have a very lovely kids only salon in a town local to me, they cut my dd's hair beautifully but I can't always get in there because they are good and popular.

However, if I chose to take my 2.5yo to a naice hairdressers then I will and quite frankly I don't give a rats that it isn't assisting your desire for gossip to spread around.

My kids go to the same place as me, they are expected to be very well behaved.

"Why should children's hair look shit"

Cos it fucking should. So you've got some shit to complain about in the terrible photos from your childhood.

If kids look like Gap kids I'm telling you they'll just find more serious issues like cocaine later because they didn't have page boy cuts, padded jumpers, batwing dresses and luminous socks to complain about.

Mark my words

Ah Laurie, the beauty of changing tastes is that what we think is a good haircut (and outfit) now will still look horrifyingly embarrassing to them when they're older.