Shits about to go down in the salon.

[Pipeup]

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!!

My DD20 recently went to a strange hairdresser and asked for her hair to be cut to 'shoulder-length'.

What she got was jaw length which bounces up to ear length as it's curly when it's so short.

Her witty boyfriend asked whether maybe the hairdresser misheard and thought she'd asked for 'Soldier-length'.

I have curly hair that can be very frizzy and I've refused to leave a salon before, but itself was nice but she started drying it with a diffuser when it was just damp and just waved diffuser around and scrunched with her hand. Had to ask her to soak it and show her how to do it properly.

All the people saying they don't like long hair, perhaps they mean when it is not well maintained? Long hair looks absolutely beautiful when it is well-kept & glossy, but when it hangs down to a tatty point like a rat's tail I have to resist the urge to whip out a pair of scissors and cut it off!

This is why I haven't been to the hairdresser for years. They cut my hair (waist length) so short I couldn't manage it and I only went to have the ends trimmed. Poor girl.

All I can say is, reading this thread makes me less bad about my teenage daughter's last haircut. She'd had it cut short and the hairdresser was really good about me watching with a view to being able to trim it in between cuts. My first attempt at trimming it I spoiled the shape of the front. Still looks ok, but not the style she'd had. I'm hoping to take her to get the recut over the summer some time and will reconsider what I trim in future!

I may have to take her younger brother for a proper haircut for his next school; I've been cutting his for years but it may need to end up shorter and tidier than I've got away with up to now!

I've been there after having a sh*t cut and said nothing. Too wimpy.
What a shame the hair that was cut wasn't saved for the cancer charity that accepts donated hair. 🙁

Ahhh, the Purdey and the Pageboy, happy childhood memories, not! Add nylon polo necks and gappy buck teeth, you've got my entire school photo collection.

My story. I'd been to a particular stylist for a few excellent crops in the early 90s, so in my early 20s. She left, I had her replacement, her very new replacement, who basically gave me a No. 3 AND cut my ear. Yes, of course, I paid, apologised, went home bleeding , cried, and never went back, just got DH to shave it for me until I was over the butch look some time later. It IS hard being British

A good stylist is worth tipping and following from salon to salon.

I’ve had my hair cut today. Hairdresser didn’t really take enough off, and even though I was thinking about this thread the whole time, I still couldn’t summon up the courage to ask for more off! I’m such a wimp.

my hair is wavy, it bounces. I ALWAYS tell my hairdressers to cut it longer than it needs to be because when my hair is dry it will shorten.

I had a fringe cut in a few years ago, I explicitly told the stylist to cut it LONG … I ended up with it an inch up my forehead >.<

I was not happy, at all. I refused to pay.

I hope she is donating all the hair to charity

**Sadly most hairdressers are paid minimum wage (something I only learned after I qualified and got my first salon job after my apprenticeship) It's the only trade you train 2-3 years for that pays minimum wage and it's hard work. I know hairdressers rely on tips to bump up their earnings, not that you actually get that much, but it all helps smile

Just wanted to say this isn't quite true. Nursery nurses are in the same boat! Generally earn minimum wage, maybe a little more, and don't get tips like hairdressers and lots of other people on low pay! Obviously caring for and educating babies and children isn't important at all 🙄

I’ve experienced a shit haircut 7 years ago and it’s never recovered.

Bits of my hair had snapped and some had fallen out due to cancer treatment. I managed to grow it to just below chin length but it had taken about 2 years for it to thicken and grow a bit.
I wanted it shaped a bit. Explained to the hairdresser about having cancer treatment and it had taken a few years for it to grow again etc. Plus I told her it was actually curly and although I had been having it straight I wanted to go back to having it curly.

After drying it she kept cutting into it and it looked horrific in the salon but I thought it was because it had been dried curly but no I had been scalped, some layers were a few cm.
I went to another hairdresser and they knew before I said the salons name it was them. They did what they could with what little I had left.

7 years and its still not recovered from the haircut as it takes ages to grow due to the treatment and the kind of cancer I had. Now it’s just past my earlobes and I hate it.

Agree re hairdressers and all one length

The need to ‘soften’ is bloody annoying

Luckily my standard hairdresser knows now - I have same cut every time. Go st time she used those stupid thinning scissors to scrapes the ends, gnah

Then washers even if I say don’t massage they do, can’t stand it tempted to say I’ll do the washing part next time

I remember the worst hairstyle ever in my teens for the prom. Paid, cried in the car, washed it out. Paying is the worst part. Good you intervened

Years ago I had a bob and asked to have a short layered style for a change. Hairdresser wouldn't cut it too short explaining that it needed a half way cut first and if I was still sure at my next cut, she would cut it shorter. Apparently that is standard practice. Clearly not in your salon!

Having read done further threads I have learned my lesson with hairdressers. The theory of paying peanuts & getting monkeys rings true in this industry and I now pay a lot for the senior stylist and I have never been disappointed. Lesson learned.

Insist on the salon putting in extensions until the hair grows out to what she wanted? cooking dinner and haven't RTFT, will try and find out what happened.

One thing about hair - it'll always grow again.

This is why I have kept the same clients for the last 30 years !!!I cut exactly what they want off..have done lots of big chops like that, but always err on the cautious side she definitely shouldn’t pay !!

Going tomorrow! As the owner of frizzy curly wild hair, I have been on the receiving end of some truly heinous hair cuts! The Purdy (thanks to whoever mentioned that upthread and reminded me of that horror!!) was a particular low point (foisted upon me by my mum in a futile attempt to make it "more manageable!" )

I used to be scared of the hairdresser the way other people are scared of the dentist. I didn't get my hair cut for years, but when I got engaged to DH I realised I'd need to get my hair done for my wedding, so I needed to find a hairdresser. I tried a few before finding my lovely hairdresser. She has been cutting my hair now for 18 years! I pay a fortune for her now, as she is now senior stylist, and I have followed her around salons. She knows my hair, and I always feel great when I leave, a feeling I had never known, used to always leave the hairdresser fighting back tears. I joke she will still be doing m y hair when we are in our nineties!

liketoshop the salon I had went to is one of the top salons and I paid £60 for a cut and blow dry, that was 7 years ago. So paying top whack meant nothing.

And no hair will not always grown again !

About 6 weeks before my wedding I went for a root touch up of my usual ombré highlights. My usual stylist was dealing with an emergency (bride let down by hair dresser and make up artist) so I was passed over to the senior stylist.

Ombré highlights are basically foil highlights but the hair is back combed at the root so the bleach doesn’t leave a straight line when it’s applied about 3” or so from the root.

I ended up with my whole head bleached orange 1” from the root. It took 5 hours for them to fix it to an acceptable level and I walked out the salon 8 hours after I first got there!

Oh and I didn’t pay!

Poor lamb, it wlll scar her for life. It is bloody traumatic. I ran home screaming so not bowing out gracefully with mumbled thanks but properly sobbing as I ran out and for days.

Get the popcorn out.

I have natural Afro hair. Very long Afro hair. Throughout my early teens I resisted the urge to use chemical straighteners and due to tangling and shrinkage all I ever did was wear it up in a bun.
I desperately wanted something more grown up and maybe glamorous to show off my long hair. On impulse (and probably driven by jealously of my best friends ‘timotei’ hair...remember the blond in the advert?)
...anyway I moaned and begged my Mum for some money and off I popped to a black hair salon ( assuming they would understand) and asked for a wet look perm but was very clear “DO NOT CUT MY HAIR”.
Once the perm was done they insisted it needed to be trimmed to shape it...
I expected to walk out looking like Janet Jackson ( albeit with REAL hair)...
I walked out of that salon looking like Michael Jackson...I haven’t been to a hairdressers since and this was over 30 years ago!