To want a bit of peace at the hairdresser?

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I’m at a new salon where my hairdresser has moved to and there’s a staff member yabbering and yabberiing.

Another is eating crisps.

Just shhhhh

I want some peace……

It’s a public workplace and they are always noisy - even with hairdryers.

Be glad your hairdresser doesn’t sing in your ear, like mine. Badly.

They are noisy places unfortunately.

I agree! It’s just a shock. The chewing on crisps and the loud chat among staff.

I think necessary noise and quiet chat between stylist and client is fine. inter staff banter is just not classy nor is it customer sensitive or professional

This is intolerable, I could not ever go back to this person

have a mobile hairdresser then.

I can't imagine being so miserable that I was upset about colleagues having a chat whilst working. A hair salon is not a place you go to find peace.

exactly I love the hustle and bustle. Strange thread.

Well I have to say that I have never gone to a hairs stylist where the staff members are sitting around gabbing and eating in the actual salon while a customer is being taken care of.
Lots of times I've been asked when I go in if I'd like a coffee, but no stylist is drinking one, it really isn't professional?
So in that respect I get what you mean OP.
However I wouldn't let it bother me, I'd just think that's the first time I've ever seen that!
I hope, since it was your first visit to this salon, that your haircut/style turned out well for you anyway!

I hate smalltalk so I don't go to the hairdresser very often. DD cuts my hair now and again.

I have yet to find a hairdresser that shuts up and lets me sit there in peace. I don't mind other chat and hairdryers, once the chat is not directed at me.

The hairdressers don’t eat or drink in the salon where I go, nor do they banter. It’s not particularly posh or upmarket either.

I do find it so noisy with the hairdryers and radio on. I’m starting to think I’m less tolerant of it all as I get older.

Maybe have a look for a new salon.

My favourite ever hairdresser was virtually silent. Wee chat at the beginning about what I wanted done then just got on with it. Some of the other stylists were chattier but whole salon was calm.

YABU. A hair salon is not a place where you will find peace. Try a mobile hairdresser or one who works from home. If you want to keep the same hairdresser but want some peace try another activity, massage at a spa maybe.

Yep I think yabu. It's just a fact that the hairdresser's is not the place to go for peace
I love it but I'm a nosy bastard and I enjoy listening in to other chairs conversations.

Have you actually said ‘I’m not going to chat today — I’m reading’?

Is there not a difference between normal noise you’d expect in a salon: hair dryers, phone ringing, hair washing, normal hair related chit chat; and this noise and behaviour: staff having loud non-work related gossip / banter, and staff eating in the salon?

I go to a fairly low key place and yes there’s chit chat and interaction but the staff are working, not gossiping and certainly not eating.

My hairdresser is really calm and quiet it’s this salon she’s trying, it just has a demented vibe and the space is small and the boss sits in the space talking to everyone coming and going. It’s just too manic.

I can take hair dryer noise and stylists talking to customers but I don’t want to hear anything else as it’s essentially quite a relaxing experience for me and always has been in countless salons over the years.

But I think I’ve always been to salons that are a bit more professional - they know you’re the customer and you want to feel a bit looked after and not in the middle of a pub conversation between giddy eating manic people.

I love how my hairdresser chats with me, other customers and the other staff. It’s such a friendly environment

I’m the opposite spend all day on my own til husband gets back so I love hearing their banter and feeling part of that but small talk with the stylist not so much especially like a recent one who insisted on telling views on ‘illegals’ etc - never been back to that salon

Do we go to the same salon? 😂 I know exactly what you mean. The one I go is a tiny little space with 2 stylists and they talk (shout) at each other the whole time, lots of loud 'banter'. There's no tea, coffee, head massage or polite chat! I stick with it because it's the cheapest salon around and they do a perfect job of my awkward hair but it is draining.