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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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Fattygettingthin · 17/07/2018 13:58

I once had a pixie cut and the hair dresser apologised for the amount of hair he'd taken off. It was about 3 inches on the top, the day before I went on holiday I cried, didn't pay and rocked hats for 2 weeks!

scramblesontoast · 17/07/2018 13:58

My bum length hair and I are patiently waiting for an update. Together. Forever. (Until I get to the age where I will become Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada) Grin

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Pipeup · 17/07/2018 13:59

The deed is done. I looked to my side and acted surprised but not horrified and i said oh you've decided to go shorter it looked a bit longer when it was wet. The Stylist glared at me and the girl said no it is a bit shorter then i was expecting another senior stylist heard and went over to ask if everything was okay and the girl just explained her hair is a bit shorter then she was expecting they have offered her a discount and some free products. She seemed happy enough Even my stylist agreed that though the cut looked good it wasn't what she asked for she also heard the girl ask for collarbone lengh. She came over to me after she paid and both my stylist and hers were by the till and she said that she doesn't love it but it will grow. I feel sorry for her but I guess that's the right attitude. I would of had a tantrum!

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Lightbulbdrain · 17/07/2018 13:59

Twice this has happened to me. I always grow long, get fed up and go short. Usually a pixie cut.
The last time I went the bloody hairdresser was having a confab with her mate about who deserved the bloody slimmer of the week certificate at SW more and literally scalped me meaning she had to cut it shorter to sort it out, think number 3 length mens haircut. She was fuming when I didn't want to pay.

A few weeks before someone messed my teens up and she was devastated!

EvenThoughYouDidCHEAT · 17/07/2018 13:59

The problem is, saying something only works if you're 100% sure she doesn't like it. Otherwise it could end up looking like you think it looks bad and then you're just going to make things worse.

What if she's on the fence and just in shock because of the major change, and then some stranger suddenly starts ranting at the stylist about how she shouldn't have to pay? Eek.

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 17/07/2018 14:00

This is why I hate going to the hairdresser!

Join the club. It's so expensive and I never seem to get exactly what I want and then am pathetically British and don't say anything properly afterwards.

Andro · 17/07/2018 14:00

A hairdresser once told me that it's "difficult" to cut hair all one length...

It leaves them nowhere to hide, even if they manage to hide any imperfections with the blowdry their client will find them out as soon as they wash their hair at home.

AtomicGlitterBomb · 17/07/2018 14:00

My bum length hair and I are patiently waiting for an update.

Me too.

DontCallMeCharlotte · 17/07/2018 14:01

If I were a hairdresser I wouldn't expect to be asked for a collarbone length cut, I would expect to be asked for shoulder length.

Possibly therefore, I would not hear "collarbone". I would hear "collar"...

Which is why I work in financial services.

Breakfastbunny · 17/07/2018 14:01

Following and marking

Ariclock · 17/07/2018 14:01

We'll done for saying something op Star

thecatsthecats · 17/07/2018 14:02

I almost kicked off at my know-it-all hairdresser a couple of years ago.

I showed her a picture of the cut I wanted. She ummed and ahhed and said, "are you sure that's how short you want?". I said yes.

She continues to cut my hair off a millimetre at a time saying, "Is this what you want?"

Yes. Cut more of my fucking hair off lke I showed you.

Then she insists, 'I'll put the layers in now, and see how you like it." I reply that there's no point as I want it shorter, so the layers would be the wrong length. She does it anyway. It's too long (I, unlike this girl, did want a bob). I make her cut it shorter, removing the layers on one side entirely in the process.

It looks just about passable and I want to punch her. I leave, don't tip, and vow never to return. A week later I attack it with scissors and effect a massive improvement.

The stupidest thing? THE PHOTOS I GAVE HER WERE OF ME! When I get a good haircut, I get photos from all angles. I showed her exactly how I wanted to look (and I looked great Wink), and she still thought she knew better.

Ariclock · 17/07/2018 14:02

'Well'

gallicgirl · 17/07/2018 14:02

I can believe that Andro.

I have very straight hair and used to have it cut in a bob. A stylist once failed to cut it the same level all the way around because she was too busy chatting to her mate. I went back a couple of days later when I was sure it wasn't my imagination and got the manager to fix it.

Can't make hair grow though, can you?

OlennasWimple · 17/07/2018 14:02

Oh, good intervention OP, well done

OftenHangry · 17/07/2018 14:03

Good for her. As long as she feels ok and was treated appropriately after the mess up.
And good for you saying something!

AtomicGlitterBomb · 17/07/2018 14:03

Well done Pipeup you probably helped give her the confidence to complain.

AlleyG · 17/07/2018 14:05

Well done, OP. You know that woman will remember you fondly forever now Smile

Storm4star · 17/07/2018 14:05

Well done OP. I'm another who just goes home and cries, hence why I rarely venture into a hairdressers now. Glad she's feeling ok about it.

Aridane · 17/07/2018 14:07

Place marking

diddl · 17/07/2018 14:08

"A hairdresser once told me that it's "difficult" to cut hair all one length..."

How so?

I manage it for my daughter!

Why do they always want to do layers or graduated bloody bobs?

TeeBee · 17/07/2018 14:09

Well done OP. I'm glad you helped her find her voice. She'll go home happier now. The fact that the stylist glared at you speaks volumes!

AlisonWunderland · 17/07/2018 14:10

I spent ages growing my short pixie hair with the aim of having a short Bob.
The worst bit was growing the in between bit around my ears.

Went to usual stylist (who was used to it being short) and reminded him that I was growing it out. Said several times "NOT short over the ears" complete with hand signals to jaw line.

MIL rang - twice-and in the 10 seconds it took to get her off the phone, he had cut it to the top of my ears!
I had taken me 6 months to grow that bit!

Suffice it to say, I didn't pay for that cut.
Or the next one

Bombardier25966 · 17/07/2018 14:10

So no shit went down.

That was exciting.

itssquidstella · 17/07/2018 14:11

When I was at university I went to a cheap hair salon in Headington (where students were not the usual clientele). I had short hair already and asked for, essentially, a long, choppy pixie cut.

The woman gave me the photo below. I complained, but the only way it could be salvaged was to take off all the length all over. I went to my summer ball with a one inch crop. And I paid for it!

Shits about to go down in the salon.