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Shits about to go down in the salon.

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Pipeup · 17/07/2018 13:14

Im a customer.

Girl has come in with hair down to her bum.

Requested it's cut to the collar bone.

Stylist tied it in little pony fails and cut removed the bands and it's up her neck the girl hasn't seen it properly yet and it looks slightly longer in the front. They have taken her over to wash her hair.

Omg omg omg shes going to go mad! She's just returned from basin whilst I'm typing! That is not collorbone length they have fucking bobbed her!!

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PinkSparklyPussyCat · 17/07/2018 15:49

Stories like this are the reason I Facebook stalked my hairdresser until I found her new salon! I have curly hair and it didn't help when her replacement told me there's no difference between cutting straight hair and curly hair...

MipMipMip · 17/07/2018 15:52

What is the "can I talk to the manager haircut?

Ratonastick · 17/07/2018 15:53

I love the empathy and shared life experience on this thread. The poor girl. I am immediately taken back to the unexpected, unplanned, unasked for but incredibly short crop that features in my graduation photos. This is the sisterhood at its finest. We all KNOW what the look on her face means as we have all been there We all want the OP to step in as we know what that action would have meant to our younger selves. It’s not just hair, it’s about identity and how we present to the outside world. I love us, I really do.

witchofzog · 17/07/2018 15:55

Wolf there have been many posters stating they had a haircut they hadn't asked for when they were much younger and hadn't the experience or courage to speak up. I myself remember going to Toni and Guy when I was 19 for a ridiculously expensive cut and colour that I had saved up for ages for. The man who coloured my hair was ridiculously good looking and knew it as he spent most of the time looking at himself in the mirror. He got bleach on my new trousers and top and when I quietly told him he totally dismissed me and told me it would wash out and it was nothing. Like hell would I back down now I am older but I did then and could never wear those clothes again as they were ruined. Had another customer stood up for me I would have been grateful not patronised.

Many people find the hairdressers intimidating and having a fellow customer in your corner is a nice thing I think

Isawthelight · 17/07/2018 15:55

What is the "can I talk to the manager haircut?

If you've ever worked in retail, you would understand thisGrin.

It's the standard haircut for women who like to complain to management about trivial matters.

halfwitpicker · 17/07/2018 15:56

It must have been bad if they gave her free products

halfwitpicker · 17/07/2018 15:56

Totally off thread but how gorgeous is Joanna Lumley in that pic, wow

halfwitpicker · 17/07/2018 15:58

Same here, witchofzog.

I had bum length blonde hair when I was 18, asked for a trim and got a good 6 inches swiped off. I didn't even moan. I'd have fucking ranted and raved had it been now

AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen · 17/07/2018 16:02

Did they salvage the pony tail?? Could have donated it to the Little Princess Trust.

Aeroflotgirl · 17/07/2018 16:05

Oh god, I hate hairdressers like this, that just have selected memory, and do what they want, not listening to the client. Thank goodness I have had some fantastic mobile ones that listen and do exactly what you asked.

KittyLover91 · 17/07/2018 16:14

Oh bless her heart she took it so well! Id be in a right state

Dumbledoresgirl · 17/07/2018 16:14

I don't know how you all manage to get these over short haircuts. I am the complete opposite. I have been into a salon with waist length hair, asked for a bob and been told it would be too much of a change and been fobbed off with a collar bone length cut.

Now my hair is rarely longer than collar bone, and I go in and ask for a short bob (I really want a pixie cut but don't know what sort would suit me) and the hairdresser takes off about half an inch. Last time she said she would dry it and I could look at it then and if I wanted more off, I should say. Needless to say, she dried my hair and the next thing I know I am being ushered to the pay desk. I was never asked what I thought of the length. (it was too long, of course).

I think I am going to go to another salon when I can next summon up the energy to go through this rigmarole again.

HotSauceCommittee · 17/07/2018 16:14

I remember my nan taking me to her “Nan Salon” as a treat in the 80’s for a “Princess Di” cut as it was all the rage. They chopped of ten inches on my thick, wiry ginger hair and I looked like a right tuffy ginger nut. It was awful.

luckycat007 · 17/07/2018 16:14

I would have went absolutely apeshit if I'm being honest.

She'll go home and freak out more than likely, she's just enduring the oh fuck feeling at the moment. And trying to save face.

But at least it isn't permanent - like a tattoo. Now I've been there!!!

TinklyLittleLaugh · 17/07/2018 16:15

I too had my waist length hair cut into a Purdey when I was 11. Haircut was fine but my wavy hair immediately decided it was now very curly. Not a good look.

And DD2 went for bayalage (which I think is when they paint the colour onto your hair, thus artistically picking strands out for a sun kissed surfie look) the day before her 18th birthday party. My usually excellent hairdresser did a shocking job, made all the more galling by the fact that DD2 had previously bayalaged DD1's hair herself and did an excellent job.

As soon as she got home I phoned up the manager and she redid for free.

triwarrior · 17/07/2018 16:20

I had a boband asked for a trim, and ended up looking like Joan of Arc. Three days before graduation! Even the mortarboard couldn’t save that one...

megletthesecond · 17/07/2018 16:20

My last haircut, November, was meant to be a trim. Hairdresser took 3 inches off my wavy hair which pinged it up to jawline Sad. I could hardly get it in a ponytail for a month.
Only just got it back to normal now. Sick of hairdressers who can't cut wavy and curly hair.

DaphneDiligaf · 17/07/2018 16:21

They put hair in bands when they cut it for donation, I really hope that's what's happening here. I am so nosey I would have said that to the girl too, she may have felt better then.

witchofzog · 17/07/2018 16:25

Halfwit It's true isn't it?. Standing up for yourself is definitely a life skill that develops with age

halfwitpicker · 17/07/2018 16:32

HotSauceCommittee Grin

LoveInTokyo · 17/07/2018 16:34

Oh god, some of these haircut stories are making me feel ill. This is the reason I travel hundreds of miles to get my hair cut.

When I was a student I went for a £5 cut and colour at the trainee academy. They told me my new colour would be "subtle auburn", like Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls. What I got was a bleached badger stripe through the middle of my mid brown hair which was then dyed phone box red. I had an interview for a highly competitive grad scheme the next day. I gulped, said, "I don't think that's quite subtle enough unfortunately" and made them dye it really dark over the top. Having practically black hair didn't suit me at all but it was better than the alternative.

I was then recommended another hairdresser who told me to wash my hair with Head and Shoulders twice a day for the next few weeks (it's really nasty, abrasive stuff that will strip out colour very quickly, apparently) and then come back in and he'd see what he could do. He did a gorgeous cut and colour, and I ended up going to him for about ten years, long after I'd moved to another part of the country.

When I finally needed to get my hair cut again and couldn't justify travelling all that way, the stress of trying to find someone new was ridiculous. Luckily I found someone in my parents' home town who was twice as expensive but thankfully has only done good cuts, so I guess I will stick with her now.

It's so stressful!

Spudlet · 17/07/2018 16:34

This is why I drive for 45 minutes to get to my hairdresser... becuase I've finally found one I can trust!

I had one once start wielding scissors around my head before we'd had any kind of discussion whatsoever about what I was after Shock - fortunately I stopped her before any was chopped off but she was definitely shaping up to start a slash and burn hairdressing experience. I reckon I'd have been in prime can I speak to the manager territory there.

Threewheeler1 · 17/07/2018 16:34

Ratonastick
You summed that up perfectly.
I've had some horrendously shit haircuts but nothing can beat a dirt cheap student haircut in a suburb of Birmingham, close to closing time where I was kicked out with the front half of my head done & told to come back the next day because the hairdresser was going out that night.
My housemates were wetting themselves & got as many people round as possible to witness my Mike Reid / Kurtis Steigers mullet. I've never felt so ugly or laughed so much about it.
Didn't go back the next day, couldn't face leaving the house like it so my housemates got the scissors out and did a really good job.
I cut my own hair now after one crap experience too many when the hairdresser cut some bizarre layers in and dried it to 500 times the normal volume.
Had a humiliating journey home on a windy day with massive eagle wings flapping on the side of my head and hands full with bags so couldn't stop the fucking things from swinging across my face. Probably could have flown home Grin

AcrossthePond55 · 17/07/2018 16:43

I've made sure my stylist has my phone number so if she ever leaves the current salon she can get hold of me. Actually, I have hers, too, just in case.

nancy75 · 17/07/2018 16:43

Poor girl, I’ve had so many hair disasters I feel her pain. I haven’t had my (very curly) hair cut for a year, the last time I did the hairdresser gave me a beautiful Kevin Keegan hairdo. I was going on holiday 2 days later & I was not happy! I did actually stand up for myself & refused to pay, the manager was called so I got a photo of Kevin himself up on my phone, once I showed them the similarities they didn’t really have room to argue with me.