What is a wet cut at the hairdresser?

[Lilyamna]

I’ve been silly and asked for a wet cut but realised I don’t know what that is! Am I supposed to turn up with wet hair? Or will I leave with wet hair? I feel so dumb!!

I always have a wet cut because it take ages to blow dry my hair. When I was younger I would leave the hairdressers with wet hair but recently its always been rough dried before I leave.

Omg is this really a aibu

@TellMeWhoTheVilliansAre

Yep, I never get a blow dry. I hate other people styling my hair.
I’ve had various hairdressers and at various salons over the years and they happily do a wet cut. It’s on the website of the place where I go to currently. High end salons may potentially prefer you don’t do this but it’s not been my experience in the average hairdressers.

Not sure what’s so surprising about this for some people!

They will wash your hair and then cut and style it for you.

A dry cut is when they spray water on your hair and cut it then blow dry and style.

A wet cut is a wet cut. They wet your hair and cut it.

A cut and blow dry is where they wash, cut and then dry and style it.

If you leave with wet hair they are very strange and very unqualified stylists

I have never in my life heard of someone walking out of a salon with wet hair unless there has been a fire drill.

Don't arrive with wet hair - they''ll have no idea of how curly it will go/texture, etc when its 'normal'.
I've always assumed that wet cut meant they wash it, and hadn't had anything else since I switched to a new salon last year - interesting to see how divided opinions are on what it might mean.
Current hairdresser starts off with it dry, sprays it as he goes, so ends up dampish - sometimes he finishes off with a diffuser; depends what I'm doing afterwards; but the salon works on the principle that you book the time slot for what you need doing.
For me, cutting and straying rather than working on it completely wet works well - easier for hairdresser to see how curly it is as he goes (and not be surprised when it shoots up three inches higher when the curls sort themselves out as it dries).

spraying not straying

I leave with wet hair. (It's funny how this seems to be shocking pps!) I never ever blow dry my hair as it would look horrific- it's curly and prone to frizz.

I arrive with dry hair, get it washed, and cut. Usually by the end of the cut it's half dry anyway.

I pay less and when back at home it dries as I like it. Win-win! Not 'strange' at all.

If you leave with wet hair they are very strange and very unqualified stylists

They really aren't.

I have never in my life heard of someone walking out of a salon with wet hair unless there has been a fire drill.

You have now!

I don't walk out with my hair dripping, it's towel dried so I can finish it at home using the products I like rather than what the salon uses. If they blow dried my curly hair it would not be a good advert for the salon!

@gerbo

Exactly!

Another one with curly, frizzy hair and a lifetime of walking out of salons either with wet hair or rough dried, depending on stylist preference.

I do sometimes have to remind the stylist that the reason I have a wet cut is because I don't want a blow dry, I want a style that looks good without one.

You’ve been daft, it’s very old fashioned, and my hairdresser hates it.
It’s madness as the stylist can’t see what your hair looks like finished.
False economy

And my mother does this, and she has a mobile hairdresser, who comes to her house !

I get a wet cut. I leave with wet hair because I have curly hair and although they could diffuse it I really do prefer to never use heat on my hair and air drying is fine. Weird to think people can’t comprehend that not every hair type needs blow dried, a wet cut is perfectly normal for some of us.

Sorry to say I read this too fast and saw something totally different 😦

In usual practice, they will wet the hair but not wash it, cut the hair whilst wet, rough dry it and not send you outside with wet hair (although it may not be bone dry). But obviously places differ. With women's hairdressers I would ALWAYS get them to blow dry it. Their technical cutting skills are not always as good (especially in cheaper places) but they will see any outlying hairs during the drying process, whereas in a barbers their cutting skills tend to be very good on wet hair (as they don't recheck it during the finishing off/drying process). It may not sit as well as a wet and dry cut but the shape will be the same, but often the edges are "softened" once it's dry.

I can’t believe there are people who are still denying people leave their hairdresser with non blow dried hair. I am not paying extra for a blow dry when I never blow dry my hair and I don’t like it. I use a curling cream and towel dry my curly hair. The product was recommended by my current hairdresser and she gives it a quick towel rub and puts on the product.

I know Schuyler it's funny isn't it!

A wet cut at my salon is wetting hair not washing and not dried, but at mine they will let you use their hairdryer and give it a quick dry yourself if you want.
I always have colour, cut and blowdry but a lot of people who just want a trim have wet cuts (and lots of kids).

I have never known anyone need to wet their hair themselves in advance. That would be weird!

A wet cut where I am is water sprayed from a bottle to wet your hair, cut and leave with wet hair. Very much cheaper than a wash, cut & blow dry.

Cut and blow dry - they dry your hair after washing and cutting it.

Dry cut - cutting hair unwashed.

Wet cut - washing hair then cutting it only.

Believe me, I've been a far worse advert for hairdressers when they've attempted to blow dry my curly hair. They always ruin it. I never use a hairdryer on it.

Team curly wet hair rules ✊.

I cut my own hair now but for years I used to get a wet cut, got hair washed, cut and then left without a blow dry.

A wet cut is when they don't dry it. I'm an exhairdresser.