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To change my hairdresser after this?

167 replies

BulldogFart · 16/09/2017 07:52

Been using local hairdresser for about 3 years. It's a 10 minute walk from my house.

In the times I've been, they have persistently left hair dye all over my face and I've shown them pictures of the colour I want and the result is usually nothing like.

Yesterday I had an appointment for 11.30. I got there, got sat in the chair and showed them a picture of what I wanted (dark brown with caramel highlights). They said that was fine and they set to work. Throughout the appointment I got the feeling that they had squeezed me into an appointment that they didn't really have. One girl put the colour on, they got the apprentice to wash it off and dry it and then a different woman was set to cut it! I even heard them arguining in the back about who was cutting my hair. I ended up feeling quite unwanted there. Then one came out and asked if I actually wanted it cutting!! I didn't get the head massage I normally get, the trained hairdresser didn't even check the colour before asking the apprentice to wash it off, no toner got put on and the end result was just very dark brown hair with no highlights and dye all down the side of my face which won't come off (I'm going to look a twat for days!). I was then practically wrestled out of the chair without anyone even showing me the back of it (I ended up asking to see it!).

When I got home DH said he liked it but later shouted "Mona Lisa Hair Peach" at me.

AIBU to write this off as the nail in the coffin for this salon?

OP posts:
AtHomeDadGlos · 17/09/2017 11:47

Peach?!

You're a bit of a plum for going back there.

Cambionome · 17/09/2017 11:52

I am now just wetting myself at the thought of the op taking a picture of the Mona Lisa into the hairdresser's with her.

Still totally baffled by the peach bit... Confused

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 17/09/2017 11:53

Aargh. Has no one ever heard anyone use the exclamation "peach!" 😂

LonginesPrime · 17/09/2017 11:55

When I got home DH said he liked it but later shouted "Mona Lisa Hair Peach" at me.

Aside from the glory of the insult itself which I don't really get, what had me in stitches is the idea of a grown man saying, very genuinely 'wow, yes darling - your hair looks great'. Then later, while OP is just going about her business, he pops his head round the door to shout 'Mona Lisa Hair Peach!' and quickly runs away, sniggering.

steff13 · 17/09/2017 12:02

Then later, while OP is just going about her business, he pops his head round the door to shout 'Mona Lisa Hair Peach!' and quickly runs away, sniggering.

Oh my goodness, I love that visual.

I don't think the Mona Lisa'a hair is all that bad. It's certainly not peach.

verystressedmum · 17/09/2017 12:07

Do we know what the peach bit means yet Confused

Seriously, why on earth have you been going there for 3 years?

BulldogFart · 17/09/2017 12:09

Peach is my nickname

OP posts:
steff13 · 17/09/2017 12:11

Oh. So what he said was, "Mona Lisa hair, Peach." That makes slightly more sense. There's still really nothing wrong with the Mona Lisa's hair.

MumBod · 17/09/2017 12:22

I quite fancy a name change...

Shadow666 · 17/09/2017 13:11

Peach is my nickname

Well obviously we should have known that .

Doglikeafox · 17/09/2017 13:16

I recently had a similar experience at my hairdressers OP. I think it takes such a lot of trust to ask someone to cut your hair that we tend to stick with places we aren't really thrilled with because it's 'OK'.
I went a few weeks back and paid £70. I had to repeatedly remind the hairdresser to please take the weight out of the back like she usually does because she kept forgetting. A friend gave me a call whilst she was cutting my hair so I stopped watching the hairdresser and it wasn't until I'd got home that I realised she still hadn't taken any weight out! She also didn't put any layers in (despite me asking her to) like she usually does and the semi permanent hair colour has all washed out 3 weeks later when I did insist I wanted permanent and was cajoled into having a semi as it would 'last just as long'. I might as well have just thrown £70 in the bin.

Fluffypinkpyjamas · 17/09/2017 13:28

Why on earth would you go back after the first disaster? I think they don't want you as a client and are actively trying to get rid of you.

spermbrows · 17/09/2017 14:01

@LonginesPrime this is exactly what I was imagining.
God I've been in stitches 🤣🤣

Shadow666 · 17/09/2017 14:12

There's still really nothing wrong with the Mona Lisa's hair.

There really is though. It's very flat and lank.

Lovingit81 · 17/09/2017 17:37

Why in gods name have you stayed there for three years?? Name and shame them!

Smudge100 · 17/09/2017 18:04

If they have a FB page or review facility, leave a truthful summary of your experience. I would slso ask to see the manager and ask fir a refund for the highlights you didn't get.

TheNewKaren · 17/09/2017 18:05

Leave reviews on Salonspy, Google and any other review sites - very satisfying.

pollymere · 17/09/2017 18:21

Worried you've been giving them money! My hairdresser greets me with a smile and we sit down and discuss hair before it even gets washed. My dd is a child cut but she last got an asymmetric bob with subtle layering, beautifully blowdried and got given popcorn to eat the whole way through...

Spangles1963 · 17/09/2017 18:56

Another one here wondering why it's taken you 3 years to consider stopping going there!

silky1985 · 17/09/2017 19:39

change and washing up liquid on a cloth should get the dye off

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/09/2017 20:32

YANBU. Youre doing them the favor. Its not the other way around.
Take your money to somewhere that will be grateful for your custom.
I'm quite certain it's not the only salon on the planet.

Sweetpea55 · 17/09/2017 20:35

You must like having dye all over your face... You keep going back for more

Tiredtomybones · 17/09/2017 20:42

Baby wipe should remove the dye from your face, Peach.

FreshSet · 17/09/2017 20:58

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manicmij · 17/09/2017 21:24

Definitely would boycott.

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