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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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ColinsVeryJolly · 17/07/2018 16:45

When I was 14 I was allowed to get my hair cut at a fancy salon my friend used. Feeling al grown up going in myself I asked for a trim and feathered at the front. Loads of school friends had this style, how hard could it be? I too ended up looking like Pat Sharp.

My mum bless her felt so sorry for me, she took me to another salon who fixed it with a short funky style and my mum helped me dye it pink so I’d like it more even though she knew I could get in trouble at school.

Sparklesocks · 17/07/2018 16:52

Great thread OP!

Poor girl, we’ve all had a bad haircut at least once. I won a set of highlights from a home hairdresser at a community raffle when I was a teen. She came to my house and I asked for subtle blonde highlights. She got me all excited and said they would look amazing etc etc. She told me she was using foils she hadn’t tried before but they were really highly recommended..
You can see where this is going!! After the dyeing she didn’t dry it (a red flag!) and left pretty sharpish. When it tried..my god..my subtle highlights were huge blocks of piss-yellow across my head. It looked appalling! And of course being a teenager it was devastating and my life was over. I had to go to school the next day and my mum very kindly popped into boots to get me a home dye kit matching my natural colour to cover the monstrosity up!!
I can laugh about it now, but at the time I wanted to die..

KeepServingTheDrinks · 17/07/2018 16:54

Pipeup i think you've been a hero. You handled that perfectly. Well done Flowers and hope your hair looks fab.

ToadOfSadness · 17/07/2018 16:59

I stopped going to hairdressers after many awful perms, cuts and colours. Whenever I found a good one they would leave, and in Central London there are many to choose from. I once had a 'straight perm' which is apparently when it doesn't curl, just goes to frizz with straight bits mixed in, went somewhere else and had a really nice cut although not at all what I wanted as it was short enough to remove the frizz.

The final one was at Galvin, a fortune for a colour and re-style, I asked for blonde highlights and was given a ginger full colour, the re-style was a tiny bit snipped off the ends. I gave them one more chance, and specified that I did not want ginger hair again. I left the salon once more with the same look which was a non style and light ginger.

I cut and colour my own hair, have worked in a hair related industry in the past so know about colours and lived with a hairdresser so tried some unusual styles and colours for a few years, we met when I went to have a disaster corrected.

For anyone who wants to cut hair the same length all round/both sides, buy a Crea clip, it makes it a lot easier.

Jux · 17/07/2018 17:03

When I was young(ish) I decided I was now too old for long hair (?!) so my friend took me to a very exclusive and expensive salon to have it cut off. I went in and said I wanted it short. It was below the waist at that point. The girl who would cut it had a quick chat with me about what sort of short I wanted it and what sort of style, and satisfied with our chat we went to do something while my hair was washed. Everyone in the salon converged on me. The owner, the two other stylists, the receptionist, each saying "are you sure? Why don't we just cut if shoulder length? Get used to it that way and come back after a few weeks if you still want it short" No. I had thought about this for actually years and had no doubt. They persuaded me to wait while my friend's (longish) hair was trimmed, and tried to persuade me to have it done like hers. After some time, the stylist who was actually going to cut mine, whom I had talked to at first, just gave me a wink and cut a shank off. No going back then!

I loved it. She gave me one of the best cuts I'd ever had. Shame I couldn't afford to go back there.

My heart goes out to that girl. She may come to like having it shorter, but that's simply not the same.

hornbeam · 17/07/2018 17:05

Stylist was totally out of order IMO. I had a similar experience once, although my hair wasn't anything like as long as that. I didn't want a fringe.The stylist just got his scissors and chopped a load off before I could stop him. I was livid, refused to pay, and walked out.

When I took my dd1 to have her hair cut when she was about 11, it was long enough to sit on and she wanted it shoulder length. The stylist said no to cutting it that short in one go, and suggested that half-way would be better, she could always come back again in a couple of months if she decided that she wanted it shorter. Decent compromise, and a sensible solution, dd was happy with it the length the stylist did it, and said afterwards that she was glad she hadn't gone the whole hog straight away.

madeyemoodysmum · 17/07/2018 17:12

God this thread makes me so happy I live my hairdresser. She works from home and is amazing.

spiderlight · 17/07/2018 17:14

And this is why I haven't been to a hairdresser since 1988. Went in with waist-length hair, asked for a very light wavy/body perm, came out looking like the long-lost blonde member of the Jackson Five. I cried for days and my hair took years to recover. DH trims it for me at home now.

BitOutOfPractice · 17/07/2018 17:15

@Threewheeler1 your student haircut reminded me of my lovely dad and one of his perennial jokes. When I ever had a haircut as a kid he would say "nice haircut, when are they finishing it off?" Grin

derxa · 17/07/2018 17:34

I hate very long hair.

Aeroflotgirl · 17/07/2018 17:56

Oh is that you, YourVagesty love it, absolutely love it, I want my hair like that. I have short hair anyway, as my hair is superfine and does not grow much.

CheshireChat · 17/07/2018 18:00

derxa well, no one is going to make you grow your hair at gunpoint so it's fine...

I love it and really don't want anyone hacking a chunk off.

Honeyroar · 17/07/2018 18:09

Ive had long (bra strap length usually) hair on and off most of my life. Whenever I've gone from long to shoulder length Ive always had a "gulp, what have I done" moment, often gone home and shed a tear. However it grows, mine grows really quickly, it often ends up long before I know it. It would easily grow from jawline to collarbone in two months. My hairdresser laughs at how quick it grows.

RachelfromFriends · 17/07/2018 18:11

The poor cow.

I once asked for Cameron Diaz from the mask cut when it was massive in the cinema. Long with lots of little feathers round the face.

Half way through she mentions she hasn't seen it but knows what I mean Confused she gave me a 70s rocket mullet with massive chunky layers sticking up behind this thick fringe. I was mortified took ages to grow enough to scrape back.

Threewheeler1 · 17/07/2018 18:33

BitOutOfPractice
Love it! So appropriate in my case too Grin
Still can't believe I just quietly left & walked home! Can still see the faces of my friends when I came through the front door...

Threewheeler1 · 17/07/2018 18:39

Just want to say I love this thread.
Out of adversity and all that...

Roomba · 17/07/2018 19:05

This is why I trim my own (almost waist length) hair. Too many experiences where I've asked for just an inch off and come out with it ten inches shorter, with layers I expressly declined.

And I couldn't give a shiny shite if anyone else 'hates' my long hair. It's my hair, not theirs. I wouldn't pass comment on anyone else's!

dustarr73 · 17/07/2018 20:53

@Threewheeler1 Grin

LeighaJ · 17/07/2018 21:02

Stuff like this is why I don't trust most stylists. Haven't found one I really liked since I moved too far away from the one I went to for years.

She kindly gave me the exact recipe of my hair colour before I left and I mix the 3 colours myself and apply using professional tools and the techniques I observed her using.

MIL has trimmed my hair twice but I didn't like the way she did it last time so I'm going to look elsewhere.

TooManyPaws · 17/07/2018 21:20

Why do people sneeringly say how they hate long hair etc as though we deserve to have it cut off? Some hair trauma in your past? Jealousy? Its long cultural association with female sexuality?

Guess what, sourpusses, no one is forcing you to grow yours so just let us be with our long hair.

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Pipeup · 17/07/2018 21:26

My stylist is great and my hair looks fab in my opinion worth every penny I just dont see how standards are so different stylist to stylist in the same salon! Poor girl I really hope she went home painted her face (I always have to do this to truly decide if I like a new hair do) and instead of feeling sad loved it instead! To be fair this girl could of had a Mohawk and she would of still looked beautiful she was very very pretty and not in a had a punch up with her make up bag kind of way but just very naturally pretty.

I got scalped pretty much 2 months before my wedding.. I was mega pissed I started crying there and then and refused to pay.

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Wdigin2this · 17/07/2018 21:42

Why would anyone say, I hate very long hair????

TooManyPaws · 17/07/2018 21:44

I was lucky enough to grow up with a mother who was a hairdresser. She trained before "all these layers and so on" but she could certainly cut straight and she taught me to know my own hair. It's fine but there's a helluva lot of it; it isn't wavy or curly but has what she called a 'bend'. Any kind of styling, straight or curls, drops out within the hour and all sorts of weird bits stick out when it's short or layered. I remember having a pageboy cut as a young teenager and the ends resolutely refused to turn in the same direction. I either have to have it as short as Annie Lennox or grow it long enough for the weight to deal with it. It's now past my waist and I haven't had a nightmare bad hair day since I grew it. Two years ago I went to a hairdresser and she took six inches off for a trim so since then I've used Mum's scissors to tidy the ends and do my fringe. I was upset enough about that cut; I'd be devastated if it had been cut short - years of bad hair days ahead.

mineofuselessinformation · 17/07/2018 21:49

This is exactly why I didn't return to a hairdresser in my town. They cut my fringe so short I looked like Willy Wonka. Never again.

SteamTrainsRealAleandOpenFires · 17/07/2018 22:01

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

She is still gorgeous.