AIBU to be angry my hairdresser took so long?

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I just need to vent. I'm just feeling really frustrated.

Went to get my hair cut this morning, It was a half head of highlights and a trim. My hair is fine and shoulder length, so definitely not a lot of it.

My appointment was at 11, the girl took until 12 to do a half head of foils, then said she'd leave it in 45 minutes and went to do her next client. Over an hour later she came to check on my foils, got the Saturday girl to wash it (another 5 minutes later) then I was sat for another 20 minutes before she came to do the cut. I asked her not to blow dry it as I said that my parking ticket was due to expire and left. At this point it was 2 o clock.

By this time I was so hungry and just angry that I had been sat without any attention for so long during the appointment. I have a young baby, so it's rare that I get out on my own to do appointments like this and the way I'm feeling now I don't want to ever get my hair cut again. I just feel like my whole day was ruined.

Am I being silly?!

most people can last 3 hours without a glass of water. you didn’t bring your phone?

I spend 4 hours at my hairdressers getting a balayage on my fine, thinning shoulder length hair. She does a good job and I enjoy the free coffee and cakes 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have very long thick hair and my highlights and cut can take about 4 hours. So 3 doesn’t seem unreasonable. Whenever I have an appointment around that time I either eat something decent before or take snacks. I can’t wait to get my hair cut and have a few hours to myself when my mum can watch my little one! I get it’s annoying having that they fit so many clients in and stuff but also, what else should a hairdresser be doing while waiting for your colour to develop? I appreciate some of what’s happened is annoying but I think you’re being a teensy bit unreasonable.

Maybe I’m projecting, but I think your mention of a young baby is significant here. I don’t think the wait was ideal but probably not horrifying. I suspect your need to be somewhere else (for whatever reason) was driving your response and emotion around this

I thought I was the only person who hated going to the hairdressers , no matter what I get I feel like I do a full shift with them it’s awful

I would say you might possibly have been hangry too, but I also think with young children you probably have to get back to child/expected to get to do something else after. I adore the hairdressers too but I get why it would get to you too, you build up the experience and then when it falls short (no tea handed to you etc), it falls flat, especially given the money!!!

I'm in and out in 65 minutes, highlights and lowlights foils, washed, cut and styled.

No time wasting in mine.

And I only pay £30

Find someone mobile or works out of their own home

YANBU, I had the exact same recently. I enjoyed the break from the baby for the first 90 mins, then around 2 hours I started to get a bit antsy that they were leaving me for ages and didn’t seem to be prioritising me at all, and by 2.5 hours I was getting pretty frantic as I realised I would end up being gone for more than 3 hours and needed to be back to breastfeed. I ended up leaving with wet hair and running home in tears. I had made it clear at the beginning I didn’t have all day as needed to get back for my baby so I was very unimpressed, I won’t be going back.

I can’t stand how ling a colour appointment takes. I think there is a huge gap in the market for quick turnaround hair salons, or a set up where you can at least take a laptop and work at the same time.

I get grumpy, it’s not ‘bliss’. Wish I enjoyed it. I just like the end result.

Currently have loads of regrowth and dreading having to go through the whole performance again, booking time off work etc.

I think it’s the lack of attention that’s annoying. Sure, the time for the treatment isn’t unreasonable but I’d like to be offered a coffee, magazines, anything I needed, while I was waiting. It’s poor customer service. I think I’d be annoyed too (and I have no problem spending 3 hours in that salon normally)

Sounds standard to me. And a relaxing break from kids/work etc.

And if I wanted a drink and it didn't arrive, I would politely ask again.

Most people with small children have mobile hairdressers for a reason. Salon hairdressers will fit in other clients in the time your highlights are developing, especially on a Saturday. This does mean lots of waiting around.

Sounds typical of a hair appointment to me but I get where you are coming from I hate going to the hairdresser, I never understand how people find it relaxing or enjoyable. It's hell but I like my hair a certain way so needs must.

The issue is that most salons are ramming appointments in and stylists are run ragged. My hairdresser told me she was docked wages as a client complained she didn't 'show her enough attention' even though she was expected to have 4 clients on the go at any given time. It is not a job I envy at all.

That’s a normal time frame for that service? Don’t understand this post at all.

I've been doing my own hair since lock down 1. After a few poor jobs, I can dye my hair beautifully. I checked a colour wheel online, and buy 2 colours to mix. My hair looks beautiful. If you're not sure, there is an online company I seen advertised on face book. They ask you questions and require a photograph of your hair. They mix your color and post it. I heard brilliant things about them.

thats why I get my colour done separately from my cut as it all takes soooo long when done together! But I think it does take time for the colour to develop so not necessarily the hairdresser’s fault. They should have given you tea & biscuits tho - I get a full teapot of tea even when I’m getting a haircut

My highlights and trim takes 3 to 4 hours. Perfectly normal. I have fine hair and it takes hairdressers much longer with fine hair as they are literally separating single stands of hair.

I hate the length of time that foils take, I would rather they just used the old cap method and get it done quicker (yes, I would pay extra to be quicker too)

I think when we go to a salon we all want a special experience Or to be pampered and made to feel like it’s a nice experience . You haven’t had this . I do t think it’s the time e the appointment took so much as you were ‘farmed out’ . I’d feel the same . I now have a module hairdresser for this very reason

This.

And I have a young baby.

I wasted years sat in hairdressers I now have a mobile hairdresser who is cheaper, flexible about booking appointments I give her the date and no matter what she fits me in.Most importantly she is rapid and I have a mane of thick hair.

Did you communicate your frustration at any point, or did you just sit there silently seething?

Get a mobile hairdresser. Cheaper and quicker

It takes as long as it takes.
This is exactly why I love my hair appointments. Read a book, take a drink and enjoy the time.

When I last went to get my hair cut - it was literally just that ... a cut. No colour. Nothing else at all. Just a cut. And she took 5 hours.... 5 hours. My partner was waiting outside in the car thinking it would be maximum an hour. It was a boiling hot day.
In the end I said to her I'm going to just have to go because it was taking so long. I was really fuming afterwards. I felt so wound up.