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!!

I recall when, as a student, I had no money but needed my hair cutting. I went to a city centre salon where the trainees were given clients to practice on. I explained what I wanted, showed some photos and this lad trainee took a pair of scissors to one side of my head and scalped me to above the ear!!!. The supervisor came over, he looked horrified and slapped the trainee (it was the eighties!). The boss said that he would finish my hair but all he could do really was to match up the other side. I went back to my student house and all housemates were on the verge of laughing at me but saw the hurt in my eyes so kindly shut up and tried to reassure me. I was going to USA for the summer on a student exchange programme and I kept getting asked 'Gee, are you one of those punk rockers?' As my Dad says - the difference between a good hair cut and a bad one is about a fortnight. Or four months in my case.

OH NO! If only hair GREW AGAIN!

First world problems eh?

FFS! No-one died!

@YourVagesty

How the HELL would you not notice that an extra 10 inches of hair was being hacked off, and made into that putrid abomination (on page 10.)

Well done @chrisinthesun on gauging the tone of the thread so beautifully

@chrisinthesun

To make up for the theft...
of your sense of humour and lack of empathy

My hair is extremely thick and curly and I have regular disasters.... in particular my fringe. I end up looking like a cross between a goat and Baldrick every fucking time.

Scissor happy hairdressers, happened to me before & now I watch the, like a hawk.

So what happened????

Sorry I missed the middle part. Poor girl!

That is terrible. I feel sorry for the girl

ChrisinTheSun well I was 18 and I trusted her. Plus my eyesight is pretty rubbish and I had my glasses off. I felt that she was doing it all wrong but told myself not to worry.

Lesson learned!

I have curly hair and so always say a length a good 2 inches longer than I want it as it bounces up.
I lived in a small town and went to the hairdressers opposite my flat for a cut. It had a good reputation and wasn't cheap but completely fucked my hair and I looked like and electrocuted Dudley Moore (my lovely mother's description) I paid and tipped but went home and cried. I was so upset as had been very specific after having many a shit hair cut so wrote a letter and popped it through the door.
On the mo day morning the manager called and asked me to pop back and she'd look at it. She agreed it wasn't great and gave me loads of treatments and my money back. The problem was the salons window looked into my kitchen and it seemed every time I went into the kitchen she was giving me evils and was in the same bars as me on a Friday and Saturday night.

JS06 I’m can’t stop laughing at the, gee are you one of those punk rockers comments.
I remember when I was little my mums friend cut my hair. She hacked off loads of my fringe and I was left with a tiny monk like fringe, I looked like Baldrick. I remember running to the bottom of the garden and crying

A girl I was friendly with years ago went into her local salon with waist length hair in plaits, sat down and while she was saying she just wanted a trim the stylist cut off one of the plaits at jaw level. Apparently there was a horrified silence & then all hell broke loose. They gave her a re-style and perm and then expected her to pay. She was no shrinking violet despite her young age and she told them where to go. It was many years before she set foot in a hairdressing salon again.

Not the same but I once refused to pay for nails in a salon. I had a very specific design that I needed doing on a set of acrylic nails and took the picture in when making the appointment to make sure they were able to do it. Three people looked at it and said that it would be ok to do it but booked me a longer appointment.

When I went in the person doing my nails was huffing and puffing and kept on getting it wrong. Even using the wrong colours. When I pointed out that she had said the week before that she was able to do it and that was the reason for the longer appointment she completely denied ever saying it.

I asked to see the manager and was told that she wouldn't come and speak to me because it wasn't worth her time. I stood up and told her that her shit customer service wasn't worth my money and walked out.

I have only been to the hairdressers once in the past 46 years because of this very reason.

Mother used to scalp me every 6 weeks to make my hair thicker. It didn't work. And be grateful
After the screaming fit I had every 6 weeks she finally gave up when I was 12

I am like this EmmaPeel

Good on you OP. Probably made things a bit less awful for the girl.

My worst hair cut was a free one. I got a voucher from Herbal Essences several years ago and went to the salon that did the offer. I was there for a grand total of 30 minutes, 15 of those were just having my hair washed. The lady came to cut it, combed it all out straight down my back and then just cut across my hair where it lay. I have never had it cut like that. I had mid back length hair back then, its quite fine but there is a lot of it and it has a curl to it as well. I was so shocked, I thought that maybe she was going to layer it, but when she didn't and just dried it, I just left and went straight to my usual hairdressers and said help! They booked me in the next day to sort it out. She had cut it so it was at an angle across the back and much shorter on one side than the other.
The hairdresser closed down not long after that. Unsurprisingly.

I’d sooner leave my man than leave my hairdresser...

My hairdresser turned my blonde crop blue two days before my fathers funeral. I only wanted my roots doing.

When I was 17, I had waist length, naturally wavy, auburny, goldeny, reddy, brown hair, I'd never dyed it, never needed to, it was, and is now, that hair that bleaches in the sun, naturally and has highlights all of its own volition, beautiful hair, thick, lustrous, ross it over your shoulder, pay 100s for extensions to looks like type of hair, (clearly bitter) anyway, my granny's having her hair cut at home so I says to the woman, can you trim mine, yes she says, happy as fricking Larry, she's chatting to my Auntie as she's shipping away, snips a huge chunk out right above my ear, extending the length of her scissors, I'll sort it she says, don't worry she says, attached is the actual picture of me that was printed in our local paper for reasons that will out me, no exaggeration I mourned the loss of my hair for a good 6 months. I've been trying to grow it back ever since, I'm on 15 years and it's never gotten past my shoulders and it's so thin now. That hairdresser actually ruined my whole hair experience for ever!!! 😭
I've blacked my face out for obvious reasons. Cry with me mumsnet.

Waist length
Trim..
To that pic
Again I’m aghast what is wrong with people?!

Oh 2many I sooooo feel for you!

2Many - was the reason that you were in the paper the fact that a big black square landed on your face?

Zaphod
2Many do you a have similar pic before the hair incident?

I've tried to read through the whole post, but I've missed the bit where the OP intervened with the hairdresser. Can anyone tell me which page it's on? TIA.