Not being offered drink in hairdressers

[CarmenWedmore]

Had hair done yesterday in local salon, there for nearly 2 hours. Wasn't offered a drink once. I've been offered tea/coffee before and I see it as all part of the 'pampering' experience you expect at a hairdressers. Should I have asked for one?? I felt embarrassed about it so didn't. But 2 bloody hours!! I still feel quite miffed about it.

I always get tea/coffee/juice/water, and on "special occasions" like Christmas they offer wine. I was there on the day of the royal wedding and there was cava and cake, and little tubs of strawberries and cream.

I've always been offered a drink.

Seriously... some of you go to salons that don't offer you a drink???

Yes. I go to get my hair done. If I thought I might need rehydration I would take my own drink. If I was offered a cup of tea I would be made up.

My pal who owns a salon offers tea or coffee on arrival and does processco in the summer and hot choc and Baileys at Christmas! Fab

Bet he charges over the odds though.

I'm usually offered a coffee when I'm in for a colour, no biscuit though. Which is fair enough as my hairdresser and I go to a Slimming club together. 😀😀

I don't usually get offered one, and can see the person next to be has a cup! I think it might be because I'm not having a colour/sitting still for a long time. When I am offered, it's just before the cutting part starts - couldn't drink it anyway. When I want it is while I'm sitting waiting for 15 mins for my appointment!

Bet he charges over the odds though.

Yes. I'd rather pay for a cheaper hair cut.

Which reminds me that I need one.

I've never not been offered a drink at a salon! Perhaps the junior was off the day you went in and they just didn't have the time to faff with drinks. Still off though.

Mine has a loo. You have to ask, but if im in there ages then i have to use the facilities! I feel bad asking them though..

Me too. I think I may be the only customer who asks to use the loo.
But now that I know where it is, I just up and go there without asking.
I have a psychological issue with needing a wee. At home, I can go without for hours. At the hairdressers I need to go every 10 mins.

Yes. I go to get my hair done.
Yes. I'd rather pay for a cheaper hair cut.

Get to the Turkish barber then. They'll cut your hair for £6 and you'll still get your hair done. We've had baklava once too.

And you'll still get a drink I mean

I pay 40 quid for a cut, colour and blow dry at my local village hairdresser.
I can pay almost triple that in the town centre.
But the people who work in the town centre have been trained by the woman who cuts my hair. Cos she teaches hairdressing at the hairdressing college in my town centre. So whoever cuts my hair in the town centre has been taught by her.
Not many people know that.

I went to a new salon Friday just for a consultation and was given a drink.....

I was having my colour done so I was sitting there for quite a while. Spoke to a friend who said the same hairdresser burnt her eyelashes with the straighteners

Always get offered a drink. I rarely take it as I don't really like hot drinks. They have started offering me a glass and ice for my self procured cold drink (ye also have water).

I have complex colour at the moment and seem to spend half my life in the hairdressers for hours at a time.

I'm now well acquainted with the loo and all the magazines on offer.

I can't remember not being offered a drink at any salon I've been to in the past 20yrs, and I'm not one for particularly expensive places! Part of the appeal is a nice coffee and a crappy magazine while th colour takes!

My current salon has just moved premises and it's lovely. They have a new top of the range coffee machine that does wonderful lattes and the hair wash chairs massage your back while the junior massages your head. I was offered coffee three times in the two hours I was there (I had two!). I pay £50 for cut, colour and blow dry.

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thank you, I have always blamed my hair

I once was so hung over they got a maccy d's for me.

I never want a drink at the hairdressers either. The only time I had one was when I had a posh posh hair cut (Nicholas clark). I asked for a Diet Coke, ice no lemon. Diet Coke turned up, lemon no ice, full to the brim in a glass. Glass on a DOILY on a saucer. Honestly. Tskkkkkk. If that's not super service I don't know what is. (Ha ha)

My salon charges £2.50 for drinks and snacks. It's one charge and in theory it covers 'unlimited' drinks (coffee, tea, wine, champagne, lager, coke etc) and cake, nuts, brownies, crisps, etc. I usually get through two/three glasses of wine, a diet coke and water when I'm there getting my colour done (2hrs) and munch constantly on cake, crisps and nuts. For £2.50, that's not bad. Often walk out pretty tipsy, but best part is reading magazines I wouldn't normally buy.

...and with all that drink I usually have to go to the toilet at least once during my visit. There are three there.

Definitely first world problems!

When do you actually get the chance to drink they bring you at the hairdressers though?? If you were thirsty yeah you should have asked for one, if you weren't than I can see the issue

OP was in hairdresser for 2 hrs which suggests she was having her colour done, not just a cut. You could be waiting 45 mins - 1hr for a colour to take, sitting there doing nothing.

When do you actually get the chance to drink they bring you at the hairdressers though??

While you're having your hair done