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To think my hair looks like shit? I've paid £350 for this..

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Lindsay28xxxx · 07/08/2017 17:18

Been home 5 mins from hairdressers.
Just got a weft in for £350 and don't know what I expected but this just isn't it...
Doesn't it look lank?
What do you think?

To think my hair looks like shit? I've paid £350 for this..
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Grilledaubergines · 07/08/2017 23:22

+Lindsay*

When I have mine done, he cuts across to rid the excess and then the razor cut my layers which gives it the shape (mine are synthetic as synthetic hair is much lighter than human hair and so better for your own hair/scalp).

It sounds as though they completely forgot the last stage of yours!

MsLexicon · 07/08/2017 23:27

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What you can have vagina hair? Ye gods

LorLorr2 · 07/08/2017 23:28

The colour is nice :) it looks like it was left without being finished though- definitely wants a trim and some curling wand magic. I'm obsessed with waves and loose curls at the moment, they make everyone's hair look good.

JessieDoops · 07/08/2017 23:54

I got really bad extensions this time last year... I also paid £350. I went home and cried, the colour didn't match and they were not blended into my own hair. I called the salon and she refused to give me a salon, stating that the hair is non refundable. I went into the salon and asked to see the policy where it stated hair was non refundable (it obviously didn't exist). I then showed her a photo of myself with £30 clip in extensions done myself and compared it to the £350 ones she had put in. So she offered to take the hair out for free, and I would be able to sell it on to make some money back. I laughed in her face, reminded her about her non existent policy and threatened her with the consumers right act (didn't have a clue what I was talking about) but it worked. She took them out and gave me a full refund. Good luck!

JessieDoops · 07/08/2017 23:55

Refused to give me a refund* not salon

Osirus · 08/08/2017 00:20

Glad & Sheldon I think it's just us

Nope, me too!

wavesandwellies · 08/08/2017 00:31

missionitspossible unfortunately yes it is. it absolutely blows my mind.

refunds aren't usually offered on hair extensions as once the hair has been bought and opened it cant be returned unless there is a manufacturing issue. most reputable salons/stylists will have disclaimers that should be signed before the fitting.

OP a proper cut and you'll look and feel like a million dollars!!

quickychangearound · 08/08/2017 00:40

The thing is that a head of real hair is SUPPOSED to taper and get finer towards the ends. It looks fake because natural hair just doesn't look like that.

Justaboy · 08/08/2017 00:59

three hundred and fifty sheets boggle boggle;!

ClamBakeSnake · 08/08/2017 01:04

Sorry for the derail... But a £600 hair appointment in Wigan?!

That made me laugh Grin

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 01:16

Going to preface this by saying I can't even dream of affording 350 pounds on hair

I wouldn't even if I could, unless I'd lost hair due to a medical condition or similar. I would be happy with this hair if it was a choice between this hair or no hair.

I pay £40 locally for a colour and a cut every 6 weeks whether it needs it or not. I have a few greys which I prefer to hide. Nobody really needs to pay more than that.

A friend of mine spends this amount on real hair wigs because she has alopecia and feels really rubbish about her appearance without them.

thepumpk1neater · 08/08/2017 01:21

Yes, it is supposed to taper I think. A friend of mine does those reroot things on old dolls. They look like this initially (I mentioned dolls earlier) very blunt, bottom heavy, before the styling and shaping.

Nobody answered my question about how long they last Sad so I looked it up. Is it really only 6-8 weeks Shock

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 01:28

A fool and their money are soon parted

Ain't that the truth. Not from Yorkshire are you?

ClamBakeSnake · 08/08/2017 01:31

I pay £40 locally.................Nobody really needs to pay more than that.

I pay more than £40. I'd need to see a photo of your hair before I'd trust your judgement on what is an acceptable amount of money to spend at the hairdressers.

Trustmeimadoggroomer17 · 08/08/2017 01:32

I dont live in Wigan, jus sayin.. There a really good one there though that does great lengths should try them op there meant to be great

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 01:46

Your hair should look its very best after any visit to the hair salon. So good that you shouldn't EVER be able to replicate it at home

Not sure about that. The point of a 'really' professional cut is that it falls into place and is easy to maintain at home. That's the point. That is what you pays lots of moneys for.

For £350 my hairdresser would pop round every morning for a month to titivate it into position. Oh how the other half live Grin

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 02:21

Am I the only one a bit taken aback by this thread? Never mind the cost, why would anyone want to wear someone else's hair?

BetsyMOO

Like you, I am aghast and lost for words. Russian women sell their whole head of hair for £20 in order to feed their family. Women in the UK and US pay upwards of £300 to have that hair woven into their own so that they can 'look good'!?

I can understand women who have lost hair due to cancer treatment or other medical conditions trying to normalise their appearance. I'd do it too, probably, (but maybe not, I know a couple of women who just wear colourful headgear to ring the changes - turbans etc - I think that's the way I'd go) but to have some random poor unfortunate person's real hair woven into mine just for cosmetic reasons is at best tasteless, and at worst encouraging the market for this dehumanising practise.

I find it extremely distasteful, but maybe that's just me.
And I'm not even a vegetarian.

thepumpk1neater · 08/08/2017 02:41

It's very unsettling, the article about hair selling is worth a read. The women get just a tiny portion of the money the hair is sold for. Children's hair too. In the programme I watched it was a young girl, possibly teenager who was selling her hair.

I also read that your own hair can be damaged by the fixings and bindings of the extensions, and they're only temporary obviously.

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 03:02

Betsy many reasons for real or synthetic extensions. Some are to thicken the hair. Unfortunately not everyone is blessed with luscious locks

What happened to making the most of what you've got?

Why is everybody so dissatisfied with themselves nowadays?
Why does today's society put so much pressure on young people to conform to intolerably high expectations.?

Why does everybody want fatter lips, thicker or longer or different hair, daft black eyebrows, fake nails, fake eyelashes, fake white teeth and fake tans.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, to see oursel as others see us.

To people only 10 years your senior it just looks really daft and juvenile.

What is wrong with just being you? Unadorned, unchanged, untattoed,
un-botoxed, un-fake-tanned. What is wrong with that?

If you are a young person buying into all this shit then you have my sympathy. It must be a bloody hard and expensive growing up experience. Mine was cheap and easy in comparison.

Have confidence in yourself and your own convictions..Don't blindly follow your peers. And please don't have your eyebrows done. It always looks cringingly immature.

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 03:31

I pay more than £40. I'd need to see a photo of your hair before I'd trust your judgement on what is an acceptable amount of money to spend at the hairdressers

I would never expect anybody to trust my judgement sight unseen. I wouldn't even recommend my hairdresser to anybody else.She's not the best. But I've paid three times as much at a city centre hairdresser and come out with a worse cut. A worse result, and I'd never go back there ever again. I had a really good hairdresser some years ago and nobody has ever matched up since.
My point is that just because it's a very expensive town centre salon doesn't mean you will get a superior experience. And you might pay three times as much for it. The local salon staff have been taught hairdressing by the same person who taught the town centre hairdressers, and she happens to be my ex hairdresser who was the best one I ever had. She has moved on to teach hairdressing at our local college.

I'm lucky. I'm getting on in years but I have good thick amenable hair which is easy to style. But my old hairdresser did it a lot better.

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 03:36

I meant to say, in the first line of my post 'she's not the best'

Tinselcandle · 08/08/2017 04:12

Anyway, it's not your hair is it? It's somebody else's hair, who sold it because she was hard up.

SpartacusSaiman · 08/08/2017 05:17

none of the staff are hairdressers just trained in extensions. It might have looked better if a hairdresser cut it.

This is why you have a problem. you paid for fitting and styling by someone who isnt a hair dresser. Just do extension.

Shr had tied the end. Not trimmed them.

Why didnt you go a proper salon?

Genghi · 08/08/2017 05:41

@Tinselcandle - I take it you don't wear makeup or bras or tummy control pants, seeing as you're judging OP so harshly? If you do then shut the fuck up. I am probably 10 years older than OP and have worn extensions - my clip on ones that I put on myself look better than this hack job. OP needs to get a refund/go to trading standards, not get judged for wanting extensions in the first place!

AdalindSchade · 08/08/2017 05:43

Really long hair always looks lank though unless it is styled nicely.
To me the pictures look pretty natural but it's obviously lacking in style. Since styling only lasts a couple of days I don't think you've missed out on much. Try washing and styling it and see how it is.

Extensions with real hair are very morally questionable.